skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems to have been rumbling on for some time now - at least for the past five years or so. ... It's not like it's been an overnight thing.

To say the least! This particular rumble ("we're out!") may be new-ish in the last few years, but the general rumble ("we'll run out!") has been going on a lot longer, and the transition is pretty much the opposite of an overnight thing. I learned about how IPv6 was imminently needed and right around the corner when I took a networks class in college. In 1996. Tanenbaum's book (from four editions ago!) includes ten pages on IPv6 that could appear in a book published today nearly unchanged.
Won't regular electromagnet work the same way, just constantly use energy?

EDIT: ok, nevermind, it won't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earnshaw%27s_theorem
From what I understand (which admittedly is not all that much) implementing so called carrier-grade NAT would be almost as expensive as transitioning to IPv6 would be. And even private ranges are finite, which afaik was one cause for Comcasts applaudably early transition to IPv6
We had a white christmas in Australia... in July! ;-)
IPv6 is just like the transition to Python 3: it'll happen... eventually. But the only people with an incentive to put the hard work in are people who are genuinely enthusiastic about the transition. Everyone else is sticking it in the too-hard basket.
Doug Natelson at Nanoscale Views is a physicist who works with nano stuff, and I expected him to comment[1] on this. Basically he said it looks interesting but isn't really proof. Which fits with my viewpoint, where I discount anything reported in Technology Review or that starts with "MIT/Harvard Scientists". When it's real, it'll be in Nature.

[1] http://nanoscale.blogspot.com/2012/09/room-temperature-super...
I tend to do that naturally, but in an effort to get more experiences in life, I try to always go for something new.

"New is always better. True Story" - Barney Stinson

(the quotes logic is utter bs, but still relevant)
It's probably a challenge on par with creating a warning sign for nuclear waste that will make sense 10,000 years in the future (http://www.salon.com/2002/05/10/yucca_mountain/).
IOS 6 vs Android 4.1(+Google Apps) feature comparison
I found more of them at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/879414/suggestions-for-a-...
I definitely see this myself. When waiting for my Linux box to respond to a mouse movement or my Windows laptop to wake back up, I think back to my Apple ][ where it was never possible to enter data faster than the computer can handle it.

Right now there are 257 tasks running on my Ubuntu box. I don't recognize half of them.

It feels we are slipping backwards.
No, but I’m not outraged (if grumbly) if I get one every time a cop sees me speeding.
It costs us $30,000 to $100,000 to replace a camera.

What?!
At those sort of prices, Big Brother will be Bankrupt Brother before 2012 becomes 1984.
How do these cameras work? If it is wireless, i'm sure someone could discretely hide a jammer near them?
First there's a good set of flexible layout controls to build ui that'll position / size elements to the available screen real estate. So you can build screens that position elements fairly well on different resolutions.

Second you can make multiple versions of these layouts that'll swap in given some device parameters. So if the flexible layouts didn't suit your need you could make (for example) one for tablets, one for phones. You can do the same for bitmaps so you can have different versions of each for different DPIs.

For bitmap aspect ratio issues there are also 9patch bitmaps which specify which portions of the image can be stretched and which can't. That works pretty well for small adjustments and background images.
Here is the link to the full 5 page article. It's worth every minute.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-13/elon-musk-th...
Yes, I was thinking it'd be fun to be able to switch Emacs into that mode at times. No doubt it'd drive you crazy if you used it too long though...
Great post, always love to hear about the little cool things startups do to differentiate their product/service and help people love them.

Fist pumps, t-shirts are wicked... I guess the moustache works :)
Imagine you have a web startup and as soon as people visiting your website start coming with reasonably large data sets, your website becomes noticeably sluggish.

And then a competitor pops up and they are dealing with the same sized data blazingly fast, instantly from the user's perspective.

And you look into it and they are using the same technology stack you are using.

It's at that point that you might start to care about the difference between a linked list and a hash table.
Is it so difficult to understant? I offer you a content which was paid by advertiser. You pay by watching these adverts. If you block my adverts it is like you sneaked to the cinema without bying a ticket.
You do not like adverts on my site, ok fine, just do not read/watch my content. Or as another option, just pay me directly the same money I would get from adverts. It is a small amount anyway, and you and I will be happy
While it is unlikely that there is actual cash-per-tweak in handset look and feel, Samsung got a lot of business with Verizon by providing an iClone-ish Android product. So even when the carrier isn't getting paid to place an app, the carrier controls the channel (in the US), subsidizes the handset, and dictates what the OEM puts on their phone.
I think I've seen an Emacs video using the same "fake old retro" scanline look but I'm not sure how it was made. Could have been postprocessed on the whole video too.

Does anyone know how this effect was achieved?
They could win in the court of public opinion if they yell loud enough. This is politics nothing else.

Could you imagine the headlines/press if the judge levies a fine of even $100mil+?

Here are some for fun:

"Twitter forced to consider termination of 300 employees after partisan Judge <name> levies $300million fine because of Twitter's refusal to destroy the public's trust."

"Twitter CEO <name> asks the Obama Administration why, in light of severe employment and a depressed economy, it's willing to force a shinning example of American innovation and job growth into bankruptcy. The Romney camp responds by accusing President Obama of flip-flopping on his campaign stance of being 'for a free and open internet'"

... and so on and so forth.
Sprint seems to have it together on this one.
They wouldn't have to fix the whole thing.
They could carve out /16 blocks, one at a time and give them back, starting with the ones that are currently not in use.
Six Months Without a Cellphone
In my conversations, the vast majority of the folks who are going to have to deploy CGN, also have already running programs to deploy IPv6. It's just that they don't necessarily advertise them, and also that these things take years - the access is by far the hardest part of the internet to transition.

At my $employer, a couple of bright interns this summer made this: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/ - which aggregates the stats from various places and allows to get a more rounded view. Besides for the access part (EDIT: which, as I said, just takes some time), the situation is not bad at all!

EDIT: And, kudos to dualstacking your gear! :-)
"Round 3: Android Beam vs. Shared Photo Stream"
That point is a little bit odd. I would say Photo Stream is more similar to (privately) sharing your Google+ Albums or sharing from the Android Gallery through the share intent.

Android Beam is a very different beast.
The biggest drawback for Sprint is their abysmal LTE coverage. They bet too early on with WiMAX and lost out on the LTE train. It's going to be a good long while before they're caught up there.
For a while (they've changed clients a few times but it still might work) the last fallback of LogMeIn remote desktop software was a gif of your desktop in an image map. It was surprisingly usable!
Looks like there's no competition here - Verizon is dominant. Even when it comes to price, they're not much more expensive, and actually cheaper if you've got 3+ members on a family plan.
YELLERS WANTED
Thanks.

I've seen custom contextmenus generated on pages[0] that override the built-in context menu but for some reason I've yet to come across a page[1] that adds to the existing context menu until today.

[0] replacing example: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/menu/tablecontextmen...

[1] appending example: https://bug617528.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=554...
A cross-browser framework-independent responsive images loader
What the heck? If you want an /8 you're probably SOL anyway.
On demand SWAG: Print and ship SWAG to your users on demand.
What change to due process would you recommend in this case?

The prosecution, as is their right, asked the judge to issue a subpoena to Twitter for the information. The judge agreed, and issued it.

I don't see how due process was not followed at all. If this was a civil case, nobody would have batted an eye at Twitter releasing the information to the plantiff or defendant.

EDIT: I'm not sure that the digital due process changes, if they were enacted exactly as the group suggests, would have changed this outcome.

All that Google, et al, are asking for is clarification to the rules and standards. That would not have stopped a prosecutor from requesting the subpoena, nor would it have stopped the judge from granting it.
An act of God will not help MS in the mobile or tablet market.
It's an opinion that Apple tried to convince us that it had stolen a 16:9 display from the gods? I grant that there's some subjectivity there, but it's not an opinion. Either Apple tried to convince us of that, or they didn't.

As for the new features, the author didn't say the single-chip radio was the most significant new feature. The author said it would be hard to find any other new features. Now, I think he's trying to say that you'd have a hard time finding iPhone 5 features that don't already exist on other smartphones, in which case I believe that's accurate. But it's very easy to read it as saying you'd have a hard time finding new features on the 5 that weren't in the 4S, which is obviously wrong.

The letterboxing is misleading and I think I can make the case that it's outright false. First, it says that all 700,000 apps in the App Store will be letterboxed. This is simply false, as at least some third-party apps will be available in 16:9 on launch day. It goes on to say that Apple has been "very quiet" on the question of what happens if you try to use a 16:9 app on a 3:2 device, and whether developers will have to maintain multiple versions. that's simply wrong: the natural way of developing apps will be to use a flexible layout that supports both aspect ratios, developers won't need multiple versions, and it's not difficult to discover this information.
The most accurate comparison might be with Microsoft's "Signature" line of PCs sold at Microsoft stores. They carry OEM branding, but no craplets or OEM mods.

Instead of trying to build a Nexus brand, it might be more effective for Google to emulate the Signature program.
What kind of risk/liability does these "employees" generally take? Like washing someone's unlocked car, is the employee liable for any damages or the company? If I'm do carpenting work distributed from TaskRabbit and hurt myself so badly I get disabled, do TaskRabbit have insurance for me? What is the standard for this? One reason why buying services is expensive is that the service provider takes risk and needs to insure their workers, I very much doubt that these TaskRabbit-type companies do that... Or am I wrong?
One month without a physical wallet - just wallet apps.
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2...

I dunno...
Nice service for anyone starting a business
Posting from our own 18.n.0.0/16 Class B subnet right now. There's a few thousand available IPs for each person who lives here.
BT / Esat were trialling IPv6 as early as 2005 and giving native allocations around that time also
I don't buy that. I agree it doesn't have to be that good, but you still have to execute on basics... which is what the post is trying to highlight.
Anyone uses silkjs?
I am using this for my projects, anyone else is using this?
Amazing how a couple of words in a headline can affect the discussion on the article. Read it as "Good analysis of Apple's iPhone 5 website marketing." Yes, they would have still sold out on day one if they'd had a page with just a "Buy Now" button, an "Under Construction" gif, and a "Netscape Now!" badge, but these marketing pages will be up for a year or so.
That's awesome. I'm going to have to use that tool more often. :)
You are right that it is part of business calculation, in the same way as every supermarket assumes that certain percentage of customers will steal something. But does it justify stealing?
Thank you for the highly detailed comment!
FWIW, Warby Parker was not the first web-based retailer to undercut traditional eyewear sales, nor are they the cheapest. They do seem to have the best PR, though.
Thought i'd add my story, just started my first 'grown-up' programming job as well recently, three months ago.

I manage my company's internal management software, it allows the sales, support, development, testing, HR and contracts departments to operate as a 'paperless office'.

The first week, one of the first tasks I was given was to spend some time developing a simple plugin that displayed all the employees. From that, I had to research how the Entity Framework data models map to the object models within the software, how these models C/R/U/D and then how the 'snap-in' (the software uses a plugin based system, allowing different plugins to be updated specifically over updating the entire client) works with the host 'shell',

Although, I disagree with #1. If you're only doing the bare minimum, you're digging a hole in this massive system that'll come back to bite you.
To make sure Contracts can send quotations to our customers, I had to learn how the quotation price will change if we're discounting a regular customer, and if we're doing that, do we keep the units of sale from the last quotation?

That's only one 'snap-in' of the system, replicate that over the other departments, and you understand how everything clicks, and you can write better software.

(Sorry for the long read, thought i'd post my tale!)
It would seem that the 11-pin Samsung variant would have enough pins available for all of Apple's backwards compatibility needs. I too wish they'd gone in this direction instead.
Thanks for understanding the point of the post is to educate folks on how they could learn from best practices. They still had to execute on their marketing. If you compare their landing pages to the Samsung, Microsoft, or Nokia ones... it's no comparison.
Why? To waste time?
You can write it off in the end user agreement for the runners, right?
Easy Fix For Software Patents Found In US Patent Act
Pedestrian Mania
Forgive me, but it's not entirely clear to me exactly what you're saying. I've never had a great sarcasm detector, and I cant tell what of your comment is intended as criticism, and what is intended as contribution.

Would you mind being clearer? In particular, if you think the Forbes article is content-free, perhaps you could provide a better one.

Thanks.
Not sure if you can get that specific effect, but Cathode for Mac has lots of options:

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
For iPhone 5, it may be cheaper to jump carriers than upgrade
No. We are using AC because it is much easier to convert voltages with AC (by using a transformer) than with DC. Generator can't give very high voltage, it is in the range of a few kilovolts, but that voltage can't be efficiently transported over long distances due to heat losses (yes avoidable with superconductivity), and super high (100s of kilovolts) voltage can't be used by consumers, so when delivered, it has to be driven down to 100s of volts (in a few stages).

Superconductivity will change all of that (maybe in a 100 years or so since existing power infrastructure is worth hundreds of billions if not trillions and is a pain to replace).
Your reply is like : i am and I will steal from your shop, if you do not like it - close your store
Not for complex presentations.
I'm thinking that, as far as getting any of the apps in the app store, there would be a whole other level of certification involved.

As for one-off apps that wreak havoc, I think within the next couple of years we will be entering the age of dirt-cheap wideband tx/rx software defined radio kits, so we'll have to deal with that anyway!
1977: A year of Beginnings
There's a good bit of design documentation here: http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/master/design/

And hopefully this will change forms in the coming months to something more modern / up to date.

There's also some stuff here: http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/master/manual/wiki/

MPS allows for precise rather than conservative GC. It supports doing copying collectors (see poolamc in the design docs for example).

It has some pretty nice telemetry and event logging as well.

Overall, I really like MPS and it is pretty powerful. It is a nicely structured library. It is more work to use than Boehm, but it does more than Boehm.
Only a $40 fine... that's a bargain! It does make it seem silly that people would respond by recking the cameras. I wonder if it's more a case that some people will vandalise anything they can.

(Here in Australia we pay at least $200 for a speeding fine).
Python and Ruby are very similar. Here are some of the differences that I see:

Python's design and community encourages a more object oriented style. Ruby encourages a more functional style.

Python lacks some support for closures and inline functions. Ruby has good support for both.

Python has libraries for almost everything. Ruby's libraries are more web focused. It also has libraries in other areas, but not as much as Python.

Ruby is a little more flexible, which leads to some of the DSL's and metaprogramming that seem to be common in the Ruby community.

Ruby has more syntax than Python. Ruby has a few ways to do things, while Python tries to stick to one way.

Both are good. It might help to skim through a tutorial for each first, and see which one you like better. Between Python and Ruby, I think it mostly comes down to taste.
The distinction between wisdom and knowledge is good. Personally, I don't even see the point of SW engineering in college; it's too much wisdom & experience based.

Also - I use the computer science conceptual framework every day. I lacked it - and badly - when I was a self-taught teenager soaking up as much online as I could.
Anyone know if VZW will let you use something other than the "Share Everything" plans with the iPhone 5?

I'd like to switch (they're the only ones with LTE coverage in my city) but probably half of my calling is to/from/in Canada.
Um, you're kidding, right? Of course the students are going to claim the exam wasn't fair; why would you believe them? (On reading the article linked to, the few specific exam questions that were described didn't seem to me to be unrelated to the course.)

Also, even if the exam was "unrelated to the lectures", tough luck; they are paying a lot for a degree, on the understanding that the school makes the rules. If the school is being unfair, the correct response is not to cheat; it's to stop placing so much weight on a degree that really doesn't mean much.

Finally, your suggested analogy between frivolous patents and a supposedely unfair exam is nonsense. The correct analogy would be between a business that ignores a patent because it is convinced the patent is unfounded and would not stand up to a court challenge, and an employer that ignores a C in Government from Harvard (for a job applicant who took the hit on an unfair exam rather than cheat) because it knows Harvard's grades are no longer an accurate reflection of a person's job potential.
Truth about needing the net connection anyway; I was reaching on that one. I guess I could add a remote staging server to my setup, which is a non-issue, and I'd still push to the git master repo from my local repo.

So you have it set so one key combo from your editor saves the file you're working on, copies it to the appropriate location on the staging server automatically, and refreshes the page in the browser? That doesn't sound so bad actually; maybe I need to rethink my VM plan for Windows web dev, which turns out to be very timely for me.

[Oh, I see, you don't even keep a local copy; you edit the remote copy directly. I wonder if the Github client for Windows can watch a remote dir.]
That's a bit odd. Normally the edit box is grayed out.

I have even seen, in some cases, these pictorial keyboards coming up with scrambled key arrangements.

Bit annoying for real users. But way harder for scripties.
You guys commenting seem to hate or be frustrated about online marketing.
As someone who has run a company for a decade, there are several meaningful inflection points:

* Becoming cash flow positive (aka Lift) is wonderful and stress relieving.

* Becoming profitable enough to start hiring lots of people and building a team culture marks a sea change in how you must think about your company and how you spend your time.

* Switching from growing to shrinking (albeit still profitable) changes the company culture, as everyone now feels like they're rats on a sinking ship. It's amazing how much people react to directional changes over absolute amounts (i.e., a company with $100K in annual revenue that doubled from last year is more positive than one with $20M that shrank by 20%).
Mozilla is building an open apps platform not a "Mozilla platform"
Are superconductors also really good at transmitting heat? (I read that in a Niven book, I don't know if it's true).

If they are there would be a lot of applications on that front as well.
I guess you are not using a mobile or credit cards and when you go to the local shop, you cover you face wit a mask
It's even better when you realize you don't have to get the full unlimited plan and can save $30 by getting the 450 plan.
If there was ever a case for the Mods editing a post title it is this. The linked to article makes no claims about this page being the reason it sold out in an hour. But people are less likely to click on a link titled "iPhone 5 – Learn marketing from todays most popular landing page".
Nauseous has at least two meanings, one of which is causing nausea. The other is being inclined to vomit.
Love it.. nothing replaces or beats amazing personality that resonates with fans and leaves an impression. Kudos to Lyft for putting themselves out there. You might put off one or two people, but you'll gain many more raving fans that will spread your message and tell your story.
They have to measure vehicle speed accurately and in such a way that will stand up to scrutiny in court. So not just your run of the mill consumer type camera. I like your joke nonetheless. :)
Like any startup idea, there will be objections. Shipping mattresses is expensive, people want to lie on them first, mattresses require research and development spending to develop, a mattress purchase only happens once a decade, etc. All these objections might be right, but they all sound surmountable.

They might be surmountable, but that doesn't make this a better opportunity than a lot of the other opportunities out there, especially for a startup. The costs involved with disrupting the mattress industry as a manufacturer AND retailer are better left to a larger company. Like IKEA, as the article itself pointed out.