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Poachers are similarly mind boggling. Instead of leaving a viable population to harvest more animal parts ... they hunt down every last animal then move on to other animals.

Poaching makes sense to the poacher.

Take a guy I might or might not be related to. When he was growing up his family was dirt-poor and rural. Taking game out of season meant the difference between eating and starvation.

Hard on the deer, if you have a lot of people like that, granted. But laws and conservation and 'think about next year' don't mean much when your family needs to eat today.
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> It boggles the mind why the car companies lobbied to keep whale hunting when their numbers were already so low. They wanted a few more years of automatic transmission working at then-current levels, and then what? The same mass transmission failures that happened, only without anymore whales left.

Tragedy of the commons.
/64 is almost as bad and will lead to IPv6 NATing. What if you want multiple subnets (for example, a separate guest network, which some high-end consumer access points already tout as a selling point)? You don't want to sub-divide your /64 because then stateless auto configuration won't work. You could bridge multiple subnets with the same /64 prefix and use a layer 2 firewall (ebtables in Linux), but that's ugly. NAT is the only other option.

That said, Comcast did leave open the possibility for shorter prefixes, possibly as early as 2012, and they have already received quite a thrashing on their IPv6 beta tester forums for using /64 prefixes. So they might eventually do the right thing. I'm optimistic :-).
It's a lot easier to herd and harvest buffalo than to hunt them down.

Also lets one see them for what they really are: just a big shaggy cow.
This is truly the big problem with Spotify. They're completely at the mercy of the big labels/distributors, who aren't receiving enough money for Spotify to matter to them that much. Whereas Spotify completely cannot afford for labels to pull their music.

The problem is beyond sheer numbers of subscribers as well, Spotify needs people to listen to less, so that the money generated per song play increases and makes them a more attractive distribution medium. Radio stations do this by having DJ's talk lots between songs and varying the popularity of the songs they play, so they don't play too many new and expensive songs. The only tool Spotify has to alter the revenue per song play is changing the subscription price.
Ah, very cool - thanks!
Hunch is like my divorced neighbor who couldn't work it out, so now they're giving up and short selling the house and bringing down the values for everyone.
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Saw that but it hasn't been updated in over a year. Also didn't look like there was a quick way to export saved stories as XML.
Yes, the use on medical tubing made me wonder what the effects would be if the liquid in that tube came into contact with the sugru then was applied intravenously. Would it break down with liquids? Would it carry it into the body? The FDA may have something to say about that use, and there _has_ to be something sanctioned by the doctors that _is_ approved for this use case.
My daughters love the Sesame Street iPad translation of "The Monster at the End of this Book". Generally we read paper books to them, but they enjoy the interactive Grover story, too. I don't see any moral or development issues. Everything in moderation.
My trigonometry is lacking, but here's a challenge: Try and get some of the classic 808 noises out of wolfram alpha.
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Thought about that, but using Requests + PyQuery was what made this project a joy to work with in the first place :)

I'm planning on just writing cookie data to a file and using that if available.
Nice catch, I missed the implications on that one, but you're right - seems like a potential legal nightmare in that particular case.
I know myself, and I'm usually quite disciplined. If I have to ask, I'm burnt out. Are you normally disciplined? If so, then if you have to ask, you probably are burnt out.

Rest isn't enough to deal with burn-out. Something needs to change: work habits may need to change (for example, maintain separation of work of home), change the project you're working on, start another hobby, make an effort to be more social, etc. If you take a week or two off, then come back to the same ol' thing, you'll be in the same place.
How does this relate to / compare with Teredo?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teredo_tunneling
Yes you can. People want a change too, now and then.

Anyways if you make it a communal affair everybody is going to like participating in it. People are inherently team players to the extent that we die or go mad alone.

I was in a team that was terribly overworked and there was shitloads of stuff needed to be done, which nobody did - since it wasn't anyone's job.

Here's what we did - everybody got a slice of work nobody wanted to do. A chore if you will. The system used to assign chores was simple - the guy complaining about some shit not being done, got to be the chief of this "department". He would set the standard, keep track of what is going on, report to the rest of the team and enforce the rules that we agreed upon collectively. We also collectively created a penalty system.

This the made certain that the shit that needed to be done, got done. The shit that didn't need to get done, didn't get done. Everybody got to participate in organization and got some hands on experience with how sausages get done, this is pretty important in engineering environments since a lot of people haven't really been in charge of anything in their lives.
Can you name some companies which were using its API? Their developer site doesn't take any names.
> If the singalling protocols would allow for something like 'hi - my client $foo wants to talk to your client $bar. Please direct your response to me' and the other end would then send the packets with 'this is a packet from my client $bar to your client $foo - as you told me, I'm sending it to you'

That's called routing, and routers are perfectly able to do that already, much better than some possibly whacky custom application level implementation. By your reasoning, there's no reason not to have HTTP proxies everywhere.

> I don't have to concern myself with configuring a firewall in order to ensure that it doesn't turn into an involuntary fax machine for example

This has to be the most ludicrous example I keep hearing again and again. I don't see what's different from the end-user point of view between "my gateway does NAT" vs "my gateway refuses unrelated incoming packets". Seriously, take your random Airport Extreme and it's one freaking checkbox in the IPv6 tab (which should and will, in the forecoming wide availability case, be on by default, just like current NAT).

Can we stop conflating NAT with the no-incoming filtering rule already, please? Let's look at the "hello, world" of Linux NATs example:

/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT

First line is NAT and protects you from nothing by itself. It only happens that usually, the WAN side can't access the LAN side because LAN is on a non-wide routable IP range so packets may simply not be routed. And guess what, second and third line which do filtering, do not require NAT, and are perfectly available features on IPv6.
Text mining is one of my specialties and I have had similar ideas for a business. One thing that has stopped me is the awesome (and free for about 50K API calls a day) Open Calais service that does entity extraction and identifies some relationships between entities in input text.

For document clustering there are many good open source tools that people and companies can use. The commercial Ling Pipe product does a good job at sentiment analysis.

Obtaining, scrubbing, and generally curating the data is a pain point that users of this system may still need to worry about.

I wish this new business good luck, but there are definitely some real problems to work around. Perhaps we should go into business together :-)
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NASA is about to launch a 1 ton rover on mars and even if the mission in a compleat failure they have already sent enough stuff to the Mars that we know a lot about the planet's geology, history, chemistry, and have a fairly high resolution imaging of the entire surface. The only meaningful step after this is a self sustaining colony on Mars that can exist without supply's from earth. Everything else IMO is just showmanship.

PS: Yea I know a solid manufacturing base plus 5+ million people might seem like several steps away, but until that happens we don't have meaningful levels of redundancy, just an outpost that would take a while to die off. (bad vacation) http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2010/10/22/demotivati...
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"but look, even they are doing it"-thing.

I'm pretty sure the US is copying China in this regard. Governments look up to other governments with economic power.

Until a huge public outcry will happen, governments are going to do everything they can to control the Internet in every way possible. To make matters worse, these changes are implemented gradually and the negative effects such legislation will have on the public will start being obvious 5 to 10 years from now, when the inertia will be too great for anything to be done about it. I mean, even the Patriot Act is still active, so what chances does something like SOPA has to be retracted if passed? Especially since it is portrayed like those damn pirates are stealing your jobs.

See the old boiling frog anecdote.

I'm gradually losing faith in humanity - these days it's as if for every step forward, there are 2 steps backwards.
The disk performance problem may be because all the file accesses effectively flush the disk cache, rather than just the number of seeks. Other than that, couldn't agree with you more (and that's why I don't use Windows machines these days unless there's no other option).
Tragedy of the unregulated commons.
my insurance is considerably lower than if I was buying it in the US

How did you come up with this conclusion? In US I paid a little more than a half of what you paying (~$800/year) when I did not have any driving history. I am paying ~$800/year for two cars/two drivers now.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.

I think the online ML class (Stanford?) is helping to pump up interest in the laycrowd.
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> "Yes, I am, but only because I have money. Before I was just weird"

Not sure about the history of this woman but I am sure that she didn't inherit the money, she made it.
That's one scary aspect of music services such as Spotify. They twist our listening behavior with selective offerings.
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Truly a fantastic individual. I felt privileged to see him one last time when he spoke at my CMU commencement.
I got most of these right away, but could you expand on what you mean by "high throughput imaging (chemo/bioinformatics)"?
I expect we'll see a similar process with using animals for food. As our scientific knowledge increases, and as our needs increase, synthetic meats will become more and more attractive, eventually leaving us all meat-eaters who do not harvest animals.

Complex systems remind me of a theater set up for a complex play. Hundreds of ropes hang down from the ceiling. Somebody is always pleading us with us to pull rope A to make B happen.

Very rarely does pulling rope A actually make B happen (and nothing else) But we still like thinking things are simple like that.
Don't forget that Hunch's system is real-time (this is very hard), and is more than just scalable collaborative filtering for items of the same kind. They can ingest a Twitter or Facebook profile, infer your "taste profile", and start recommending things instantly; "things" meaning books, films, music, events, places etc etc.
+1

I ordered some sugru a year ago, but apparently the shipment got lost in the post. I replied to the order confirmation mail pointing up the delay, and shortly afterwards I got a mail from Jane herself telling they would ship a replacement.
They find giant squid beaks inside sperm whale stomachs too.
He's basically using URI shortcuts, check this out: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2011/11/11/how-to-create-custom...
Sad how there's no discussion of the economy that enables stuff like this to happen. "Why were people so cruel and evil?" is a stupid question; it's not about cruelty or being "evil". It's about money. Don't expect people to be moral in this economic system. Morality is a weakness in a capitalist society, and you'll go out of business if you bring morality into a competitive business ecosystem. This is why we need to change the rules of our economic system, if you care about morality.

Moreover, sure P. S. Landis "saved the whales", but he didn't do it to save the whales, he did it to generate an enormous amount of profit for Mobile Oil, and was paid for it handsomely.
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I think for a lot of people Business school tends to serve the same as a startup incubator serves for small companies. You do not go to business school because you cannot learn it unless you go, you attend so you can learn it in a controlled environment without making too many mistakes along the way.

In many ways this is similar to incubator programs for these companies, lots of these companies were going to succeed or fail whether or not they went through these programs, others were probably on the cusp without it and with it they will flourish because of the impact of being around bright people with good ideas and lots of feedback.

Business school helps lots of people. But it is not for everyone. Some will benefit more than others because they need structure. Those types of people likely will not be the ones running a company some day. If you need structure being an entrepreneur simply put, probably is not for you. It's a scary ride full of ups and downs, twists and turns and lots of bumps along the way, but it can be one of the most rewarding things you'll ever do if you stick with it.

There is a lot to be said for those people who go through business school then go on to become great business people and entrepreneurs ... first of all they have patience and vision. They are usually working toward a goal and they have carefully planned out how to reach it. Sometimes those plans work and other times they do not, but either way in most of those cases those were the people who were already destined to become great.

To be an entrepreneur is in your blood ... for the people who have started a company and one day said to themselves "Why would I ever work for anyone other than myself" they know exactly what I am talking about. You have to be able to be stubborn enough to know when to not give up but realistic enough to know when to cut your losses and move another direction.

The only difference between a successful business man and a failing one is time ... the more time you put into something the more likely you are to succeed. Being wise helps, being conservative with spending is even better, but being willing to go without is what truly makes good business people great, while they do not teach that in business school if you read about the great entrepreneurs of all time that is one thing they almost all have in common, and that, is one thing that can never be either learned nor taught.
The problem is that if you're not confident enough to get these systems working yourself, you're probably not going to be confident enough in your business to pay by the sip for someone else's api.
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From the computer yes. But with smart phone usage growing and every music player having wifi now, the idea could work good enough that many people no longer notice. Until of course their music license is revoked.
My wife has an MBA from a top university so I can speak to this from some experience.

I think an MBA still provides value for those looking to take established startups and turn them into viable, Fortune 500 businesses. These are the folks that become the "adult supervision" during the later stages of a company as it approaches that mid-market sweet spot and starts trying to become a large cap public company. There are areas around finance, operations, and strategy where the MBA still provides a lot of value.

You can certainly learn those things on the job if you decide to stay at a startup beyond the early stages. But it carries a bit more risk and mistakes can be a lot more costly.

I don't think most of the crowd here is all that interested in working at companies during these later stages, hence the strong anti-MBA sentiment you see in a lot of HN posts.

The biggest problem, I think, is that there are now too many folks with MBAs that are skilled only for the later stages of the company. These folks often lack the raw talent needed to succeed in the early stages and get a company off the ground.
Protocol-wise, I always recommend IAX2 over SIP whenever possible. You can get phones, analog adapters and gateways in the iax variety, although the "serious business" (enterprise) manufacturers still sell SIP-only devices.
Patrick - Thank you I hadn't heard of price discrimination before. So I can internalize this by giving only one price point I'm forcing those in the market with other peoples money (above my price point) into the lowest tier plan or to take their business where a plan matches their intended use more? And those below my price point to just go elsewhere. My goal / thought was to reduce complexity at the purchase point so in the example of appointment reminder everyone signs up at the personal level and then at the next screen before payment are offered addons like "Record Custom Reminders" and more "Appointments per month" but I can see how I would be introducing more complexity then I'd be removing.
As an American Citizen, that is a terrible shame. I can honestly say that three fourths of the most talented engineers I have worked with are not citizens.
Is this the first step towards a GCC that would have all the features of Clojure? That would be incredibly useful to me for one - I love Clojure but just cannot make any sense of what the JVM tells me when I screw up.
This sounds like a talent acquisition.

I would agree, and it's a damn good talent acquisition. Hunch's team is made almost exclusively of engineers who (a) went to some of the best CS programs in the world (CMU, MIT, Stanford), and (b) really really really know their shit (just have a 5-minute convo with one of them).

Here in NY, Hunch had a reputation for opportunistic hiring. They had lots of funding and an incredible core team, so they'd only hire engineers that astounded them. That's a great way to set yourself up for a talent acquisition.
Ok, think about the endgame.

What happens when you Win. I mean you're working on a project/business right. So heres the key question.

What was the person embarking on the journey after, what were her ambitions and aspirations. And should you manage to get there, what is next. Will there even be a next step for this new person. Or has the goal consumed the person?

One of the most important lessons I have learned from Nejc Zaplotnik, who was at the time of his death tied with Reinhold Messner in Alpinism.

"The Path is the Goal. There is nothing more important in life than the Path. Goals are mere means, since once you reach a peak its never over, you take a look around and pick a new Goal. Therefore Goals are meaningless. The only thing that matters is the Path."

So if the pain you are enduring is a vital part of your path, then it is actually good. But if this pain is not the path - then get hell out now. Don't loose the sight of your path by looking at the goal.
Just sit in on a discussion of the business case of a new technology. "This is where the future is, we need to be where consumers/customers are, everything must be digital." So they spend $3m on a new "social" or "cloud" platform, then say "oh yeah, we don't have the budget for security monitoring or personnel to cover this platform. Roll it out anyway."
> It's far too easy to say "give the customers what they want. Your model is antiquated, catch up!" That isn't solving a problem.

I think the gaming industry is good proof that this DOES work. Steam (and Gabe Newell) basically came out to say that making it super easy and convenient for customers basically made it easier to purchase from Steam rather than pirate. (Myself included.)

The consumer end, especially for media like music or gaming, is probably the most important for business considerations, in my opinion.
I cannot begin to imagine the intensive research that went into this infographic, and props to Randall for the work.

But for the life of me, navigating this thing in tile form is beyond me.
That may be the quickest a site has ever sold me on something ... I'd never heard of it before this, and just ordered a pack to Thailand, and the shipping was only £1.91 to Thailand. Now that's awesome.
Teredo is a way of getting IPv6 if your ISP doesn't provide it. IPv6 NAT translates between outside IPv6 addresses and inside IPv6 addresses.
Without looking at the code to see what's going on, I'm wondering if this patch is actually about IPv6 NAPT, ie. protocol translation between IPv4 and IPv6. If it's really NAT, like IPv4 NAT, then has there been an RFC on this? I can't seem to find it.
Perhaps if they designed it so that when a single joint on a single booster failed it didn't explode they might have had a better image
It's the invented script from the Cthulhu mythos by the gothic horror writer HP Lovecraft. Cthulhu slept at the bottom of the sea, before being awakened by man or something. I don't know, I haven't read it. That's what the big scary monster thing to the left of the script is.

It's a big part of geek culture, it made its way into D&D, and via that into everything else.
"It's a great pity that education hasn't actually changed a bit in the intervening time. Computers are pretty much just used for teaching computers, as electronic typewriters and libraries, and to cut down on admin. They really are not used as learning aids, as 'simulated learning environments' or anything similar."

I have to disagree with that. In my wife's second grade class the kids have electronic voting controls at their desk and a giant touch screen hangs on the front "chalk" board where kids can interact with various group learning applications.
Oh, finally!

I recently saw that android phones have shortcuts for important/frequently-used settings e.g. wifi, hotspot. at the top of notification screen, so you can just drag the screen down and quickly make the changes. In iPhone if you have to switch on or off your cellular data, you have to go through 3-4 screens.

edit: ok, it has limited but important set of shortcuts which does not include cellular data
I had never heard about anything like the programme described in that article. That's bizarre.
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I'm surprised they haven't pushed for sites like Ultimate Guitar to be shut down. I can pick up my guitar and play any song I want without buying it! I mean, guitars even come with an "analog hole" built right in!