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I'm sorry you feel that way. As a Forbes developer, I can tell you we are trying to make the site as usable as possible. If you have any specific feedback I can pass along drop me an email at buley.reports at gmail
I understand that. I'm just saying that people generally don't have that kind of utility function unless there are special circumstances (such as a disease). In fact most people's utility functions are sub-linear.
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Fun little tool. Have you thought about letting users select a location on a map and then generating a code to send out? Could be used to make interesting Geo-games amongst friends or have a code that reveals a location of a secret party!

This could be used for businesses to embed in their site, and when they send out advertisements with a code, users would have to log on to their site and get the secret location.
Prior to quitting my day job, I was propositioned by an Englishman living in my town to improve his website, which he had hand-coded in PHP. There are several million owners of vintage Japanese cars in the world, there are several thousand places locally you can find a carburetor for a '82 Camry (I have no clue if that actually makes sense -- work with me here), and there is precisely one man in town who can match up "Customer in England with '82 Camry" and "72 year old owner of used auto store in central Japan."

Which is a long way of saying that I have exactly one data point for the profit margin of a particular niche auto parts business. Suffice it to say that -- after you deduct shipping, duties, and cost of goods -- it is still higher than mine, and all I do for order fulfillment is a SQL call. (Quote: "If they don't like my prices, then they can either learn to speak Japanese or sod off.")
Well I could give anecdotal accounts about the precarious nature of life on "sink estates". Precarious means that you have no savings, if you're working there is perpetual job uncertainty but in most cases in these areas there is what's known as "generational unemployment". The chances of becoming the victim of crime are high and loan sharks/black marketeers/organised crime is endemic with little or no effective policing.

Of course there are many areas of the UK which are not poor and have a very high standard of living by international standards, so it's certainly not true that everyone lives like this.
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I know nil about the subject space, but that seems like a great domain name!
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If I recall, Netflix already colocates their servers with ISPs in advantageous nodes all over the US, and we still have that count against our bandwidth usage while the providers services are still granted free passage...
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The "Why" behind my startup Bizen
Very simple, almost no moving parts, working well.

I just found the URL strange. Is this temporary?
That's what I'd say too. It's nice to have a fall guy.
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Now it's up to the registries. From a nearby thread on NANOG, the forecasted exhaustion dates of the individual registries: http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4-rir-pools.jpg
Enough with the fear mongering headlines already. Yes, IANA allocated the last 5 /8's to the regional registries. IPv4 is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Why would anyone be blocked?
It's clear that search engine use user 'feedback' to improve their search results.

But if
"Bing even sent Google synthetic and organic search terms, to analyze and make use of the results",
I would suggest they add 'powered by Google' to their search result page.

Further, I don't think it makes a difference if Bing is querying Google directly or using opt-in users to do so. In any case, their copying search results efforts from Google.
It will take a long time if it will ever happen. ISP's can still assign the old IP's they already have while they roll out new modems with IPV6 addresses.
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> We're sorry. Your browser does not allow
> us to retrieve your current location.

Well, I guess that was inevitable for me. On all three of the browsers I use. It seems like a fun little tool, but I can't play. 8-(

Anyone care to publish here the codes it generates for them?
This is similar to my weekend project http://mobileply.com although I currently have sequential IDs not codes. I'm soon going to implement unique codes like this. Mobileply would actually do real time tracking too.

We could never find a way to make money from this type of app. It always seemed that the use case only would come up a few times a year and people would never remember your service over others. What were you planning on doing with this?
The new The-M-Project Location&Maps Wrapper, snazzy and simple
People have been beating the same "IPv4's time is running out" drum since the late 90's apparently
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Ah, but RDF in and of itself isn't any more interoperable than XML or JSON.

True, but XML and JSON are both fantastically useful technologies despite that lack of interoperability.

So when is RDF actually useful? If I have hierarchical data structures, I strongly prefer JSON. If I have structured documents, I like XML. But if I have a graph, something like RDF n-triples or Turtle is a reasonable way to serialize it.
Nope – in the US at least, you don't even need to scratch the cards. Some stores have scanners that can tell whether the card is a winner or not and pay out if it is.
Actually the systems which will allow to target the "heat exchanger" are not that easy to build and only recently we have seen big lasers mounted on planes which can barely hit a rocket. So it's not that easy

I never said it would be trivial. There are two big differences, though. 1) The laser-launch craft wants to be hit. We can mount retro-reflectors on it, and it can transmit back helpful data. 2) The laser is going to be stationary, and the vehicle is going to be traveling on a known track.

and anyway it will be weapon technology.

This makes it much more likely that it will get funded and developed.
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Looks like no one is using insurance at all to cover risks?
I have a feeling that if a first-time ceo purposed the game-points system he'd be laughed out of the room and that he's not ready to play with the big boys. If you have experience you could throw your weight around and make it work, but I'm unsure about a rookie doing that.

I really like his last section about framing the relationship and making it deliver value.
Stop pretending this is some ridiculous amount of bandwidth people are attempting to burn through. 25GB is about a dozen TV shows on Netflix and a couple decent sized game on Steam over the course of an entire month.

Plus, if the ISPs really want usage based pricing, then they should do that instead of this arbitrary download cap stuff that is nothing about usage based pricing.
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Transmitting your location by phone? "nearfeed.com, code 05-93-37" is a lot less error prone then spelling out addresses.

Seems kinda limited, though.
I wanted nearcode ... but someone already had that. Plus the idea of the noun "near-code" seemed to confuse people.

I'll keep it up on the URL since it doesn't cost me much to run this thing.
Some discussion about this 3 days ago on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2160446
This reminds me of that 'troll math' post some time back. There was a square of edge length 1, but the corners were bent such that the total length(4) around the shape would stay the same. And then to infinity the corners were raggedly bent to keep the length around the shape the same while trying to say that as the bending went to infinity, the square actually became a circle, and that the circle's circumference was 4.

Logic when dealing with infinity is quite odd to deal with.
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The advert/geo-game idea seems cool! Thank you.
not quite; there are issues with whether those clients can talk to the rest of the net not yet on ipv6 [like, 90% of it or something]).

What appears to be happening is that people are just now seriously beginning to ask the questions about ipv6. We're seeing stuff like incredible performance penalties, poor routing and a complete lack of 6to4 (and back) support anywhere.

There's a long long slog to go and we're just getting started.
You don't have to use all of that stuff though. "Stuff" layers on progressively to add functionality.
Thanks for the feedback so far. I'm often in a situation where I need to tell someone where I am in a strange location (moved to a new city - coordinating with friends). This involves finding a street sign (which aren't always visible). Geolocation solves that part of the problem. I imagine that speaking a sequence of three codes over a phone is relatively easy. I wish I could make it a single 2-digit number or perhaps two, but then it won't scale to too many users simultaneously :(
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Thanks for considering us.
It's not only EU membership what counts, there is a lot of other Europe-wide agreements or even bi-literal agreements between US and Norway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association
Well, there's a transfinite implicit in the series of exponentiations -- we have aleph-0 exponentiations, don't we? And if we knock off that first one, we've got (aleph-0 minus 1) exponentiations.

(NB: I don't understand your use of the term "convergence" -- must be either something I've forgotten in the third of a century since I studied maths, or something above the level I reached. (Sub A-level.) (See also: Dunning-Kruger effect.))
Sorry about the bug with the single quotes. Will fix this the next time I get a chance to update the code on my server.
No, that bit works. If 2=x^x^x^x^x^... then we can raise x to the power of both sides, giving

x^2=x^(x^x^x^x^...)

But the RHS is equal to x^x^x^x^... and hence equal to 2. Thus x^2=2.
It racks up page views and saves them from actually writing any compelling content. And it also means they're driving people away from their site as fast as possible.
A data point to back this up: after reading high quality articles presented in a good fashion I have actually typed in and gone to http://www.theatlantic.com/. This was a good article presented as if it was on aol.
Wait, account passwords were visible?

Was this a case of account passwords being sent to Twitter Support by users - 'hey, I can't login, my password is bigclown' - or does Twitter Support have a way to access the user's actual password?

If it's the latter, that's a time bomb waiting to go off.
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No available addresses, or not compatible with many places?
That's sort of me explaining why; the next hill probably has NUKULAR and OMGRadiation!!1! written all over it. We're trying to jump to the next one after that, if indeed it even exists, because of our "nuclear" phobia.
The interesting part of the story is not that they refused to fund the company. It's that they refused, and expected the CEO to continue to work at it.

If that signal truly meant there would be no follow on round, why would you expect the CEO to not throw in the towel as well? I've neve been in that situation - anyone out there who's been there care to comment on what it's like to face the world after your lead investors bail?
In layman terms, infinity can't be a number, and neither can something times infinity. The problem is that infinity isn't really a number at all.
Where has the profit from the past 10 years been going? They should have been improving capacity all along knowing this explosion of bandwidth would come.
Sure, everything you can do using RDF you could conceivably do using a different suite of technologies... but my point - if there is a broad point to make here - is that you'd wind up recreating a lot of the "stuff" that is part of the RDF ecosystem anyway, to achieve the same end.

Now maybe it's possible that someone could start from scratch and build up a system that is both much simpler does the same things... if so, fine, point me to it when it becomes available.
I think John Rockefeller said it best: "I'd rather turn my business associates my friends than my friends into business associates."
I think it is selection bias. The American mythology, as evidenced by the lack of social programs in comparison to other similar countries, is that hard work is everything. Americans work more hours, take less vacation, and receive fewer benefits from their government than their European counterparts. Germans, for example, are near the bottom of the list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Differences_among_...

The foreign friends you have are in the US because they are hard workers, they are not hard workers because they are foreign.
if I understand this model, he has to get a certain number of orders (say 100) before he can actually print. the price of each shirt depends on a bulk amount and if he doesn't hit that, he can't ship the shirts. for these shirts I'd suspect it costs about $10 each (silkscreen printing), plus whatever shipping and handling. maybe $3-$4 profit each shirt x 100 = $300-$400
Nothing happens immediately --- the regional authorities still have some free space left, although some are planning to get more stingy. (The discussion here --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion --- is at least a starting point for the curious. FWIW, the first that's likely to really run out is APNIC, for the Asia/Pacific region, within the next three to six months; the RIRs for Europe and North America expect to run out in maybe a year or so, and those for Africa and Latin America expect a couple of years' left of run room.)

Once congestion hits (a few months to a year), I think ISPs natting ipv4 clients, or demanding a premium price from anyone who wants a routable address, is likely to happen somewhat more quickly than ipv6 to the home. But that's based on no inside information...
Infinitely small values (infinitesimals) can be quite useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_analysis
Summarize in as few as pages possible - the less clicks needed the better. Not sure how well that works with the management since they are probably interested more in pageviews than anything else, but it would be a start. Second, the information in this "article" was factual, not pictorial, so why was it in a slideshow? The pictures are second to the numbers - they certainly aid in telling the story, but they aren't THE story.
Who is pretending anything? What a trollish comment.

Yes, 25GB is an absurdly low cap. Most providers have a basic plan that provides 60GB, with a usually quite inexpensive way to dramatically increase the cap. People keep quoting the $2.50/GB bit which is just shockingly ignorant -- if you know that you'll use more (which not everyone will. The casual user will not and Avg Facebook and Email User has no reason to subsidize the "everything through my internet connection" guy), it's more like $0.12/GB.

This whole discussion is a perfect example of how people can embrace positions wholeheartedly just because they selfishly want them to be true.
> HN is fairly anti-reddit

I don't get that impression here at all, quite often you'll see Reddit articles on HN linked back to Reddit. I agree HN is more industry focused and professional and Reddit a lot more laid back but still can be professional at times.

HN and Reddit are similar but also quite different, I go to both and sometimes even digg (I know!) and whatever else I can find, I don't get this mentality that you're only allowed get to choose one social news website to view.
Great links, thanks a lot. Now I'm not so sure I'd want to have my office there, looks a bit creepy.
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Best tweet of the morning: "I came here to kick ass and assign IPv4 addresses. And I'm all out of IPv4 addresses."
"copying" and "making use of" are not the same thing.

Again, I don't see why it's an issue for Bing to analyze and make use of the behavior of Bing toolbar users that opted in.

So what if their Google search behavior holds good weight as a metric?
Former. Also App developers posting their API keys and Consumer Secret keys. So, theoretically, this would allow a malicious person to control all the authorized accounts with that app (and these were big name apps). Autotweeting, DMing, access private messages, etc.
Google shows only 50 pages out of about 300 and provides several links to buy that book, including to Microsoft Press.

So that 'excellent point' only shows that Google even promotes products of its competitor. I don't think it says anything about Google "ignoring" copyright. Heck, you could even look into that book at Amazon for free: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0735622841

Along your reasoning, every library or friend that shows you a book is ignoring copyright.
I don't know that I'm particularly eloquent, but if you say so.

I'm at work at the $DAYJOB right now, so I can't really do anything with this right now. But for what it's worth, one of the areas I'm working with is something called SKOS. http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
Get used to 192.168.x.x y'all.
100% agree. There is no way I'd join with my boss on Facebook. Linked In sure but facebook is for friends (and family apparently)
Dear Hacker News Canadians:

Please continue to write your MPs. This is far from over, and we need to keep on top of it. We can't stop now that it looks like it will be overturned, because Bell will fight back. I urge every one of you to write a letter to your MP (or another one if you already have).

If we show any slowing in activity against Bell et al, they will just swoop in and come up with something just as bad.
Yes and no. Your point is true, but not entirely relevant, becuase infinite sums, infinite products, and infinite process can (sometimes) be shown to have definite and consistent meanings and interpretations.

The infinite tower of exponentiation is not (of itself) the problem.
I can't wait till everybody has an IPv6 modem/router. No more of this NAT hole punching or long polling crap for pushing notifications.
Taking a job across the street means taking up another profession. This is the whole point: due to the economies of scale, taking a job across the street means literally restarting your career if you are "lucky" enough to find one and almost your entire life if you are less "in luck". A comparable job would be in another state, or even continent. Hence forced mobility.

It is all about making sure cogwheels are replaceable by ensuring they are actually replaced on schedule.
Usage-Based Billing in Canada has been canceled.

"Ottawa to reverse CRTC Internet billing decision"
http://www.tested.com/news/how-canadas-usage-base-internet-b...
I work for a small MSP in the Midwest. I do some network administration, some help desk, and some coding. The basic jack-of-all-trades, master of none type of position. The position was intended to be filled by someone with relatively low experience, i.e. recent college grad. (I had 5 years of development and IT Admin experience)

When I was going through the hiring process, I got a list of questions that were specifically related to the kind of work I would do.

"My e-mail doesn't work, how do I fix it?"

"How would you write a script to check for number of a given event log events?"

"Write a simple SQL statement to get this data out of this table."

I was apparently the only candidate who even assumed that I was on the phone with someone whose email didn't work. That was largely what got me the job.

Now, granted, this is only an anecdotal piece of evidence about one job in the Midwest. But the larger lesson that can be applied, I think, is the same one that Jean brings out in the article.

The most effective technical interview is one that tests what the candidate will be doing. So, if you're developing Android apps, asking the candidate to develop an app is probably pretty effective. If you are looking for a software engineer, ask them to engineer. A java pop quiz has little worth.
If it were a big enough issue you'd just get recalled by your constituents and then you've got to justify it to try to get re-elected.
Why should Google show other evidence? The evidence they have provided is enough for me to be suspicious: How could Bing possibly come up with the same odd spell correction without copying from Google?

Yes, it could be a side effect of some machine learning algorithm. But Bing never explained that, which would have been very easy if it was the case.
I tried LastPass but the use of password offline and for non-web based applications was not working for me. The tools were awkward and difficult to use.

Went back to using KeePassX (http://www.keepassx.org) with Dropbox sync.

The biggest thing I learned: Putting passwords into LastPass was super easy and well thought out. Getting passwords out of LastPass was 'sub-optimal'.
It isn't running out. It is out.

I edited out over and replaced it with depleted to satisfy the concern about the headline, but I didn't even like doing that. The cavalier attitude that "nothing is really wrong, keep doing what we're doing" has been an extensive contributor to the problematic situation we're in right now.

People have been beating the drum, as you say, because this day was foreseen more than a decade ago. IPv6 has been in use for far longer than a decade. It was anticipated that we'd be most of the way through the transition by now, but we're not, partially due to "nothing's wrong" attitudes.

Edit: By it in the first sentence, I meant IPv4's time (and was responding to the parent's usage of time running out). I don't mean IPv4 addresses have been exhausted, as I'm quite aware they're not. However, IPv4 has reached the end of its usefulness, is the underlying root of my meaning.
"I do NOT want my employer actively trying to become my friend."

Exactly, and a variation on that is on the front page here today (VCs Are Not Your Friends). You might be on friendly terms you your employer, but it's primarily a business relationship.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2174722
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