skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an embarrassing failure of economic reasoning.

IPv4 addresses are a scare resource. Acknowledging that, and allowing them to be traded at a price that reflects their value, is the surest way to get them out of the hands of those who are wasting them in the way tptacek and the article describe and into the hands of those who will do something more productive with them. Pricing IPv4 addresses would hasten adoption of IPv6 by providing a financial incentive to switch from IPv4 to IPv6 to those who can do so most easily (i.e., cheaply).

In other words, if you want to "get around this mess", stop allocating scarce and valuable IPv4 addresses as if they have no value.
Thanks for that! I would put this on the list of suggestions =)
... and often the specialised hw doesn't go far enough. ie- i2c and spi hw that doesn't have enough buffering to be left on its own. Either we babysit the interface or we can leave it to do its own thing until we get an interrupt for completion. Do a halfway job on the hw and we revert to the babysit case. Not bitter, just ranting.
Can someone explain the business logic behind reducing the cost per phone on a shared plan?
Corporate Philanthropy and Employee Engagement
Sigrok [1] plans to support your LogicPort but doesn't yet. Help them out instead of buying a Saleae.

[1]:http://sigrok.org/wiki/Supported_hardware#Logic_analyzers
Imagine how much of an advantage it'd be to only enforce a 1 year contract. That'd be a huge differentiator, as it would allow you to upgrade your iPhone on it's yearly release. I'm sure that would cause a massive switch in carriers for Apple fans.
What do you mean by parameter? If you mean hyperparameters, that's pretty standard, it's a hyperparameter search followed by training. Randomized hyperparameter search is actually pretty state of the art though (as opposed to a grid search, for example): http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume13/bergstra12a/bergst...
Not relevant for people who switch phone in two years, but AT&T's phone unlocking at the end of the contract or with account charges taken care of, is pretty neat.
This is a huge point. A single uninsured mistake with an expensive car could potentially wipe out carwashing earnings for months. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4492619)
Not unless "a local copy" counts? YMMV.
They also have by far the best customer experience. Their website is fantastic and fulfillment is lightning-fast, neither of which can be said about the competitors that I've tried (framesdirect.com, zennioptical.com, glasses.com, 39dollarglasses). It's not just PR.

Unfortunately, their range of styles is still very narrow, which is presumably dependent on their manufacturing capabilities.
When I see “lern2code” stuff like this, I always hear Elton John’s “Circle of Life” in my head.

1.“Our crappy developers aren’t worth what we pay them and coding is a commodity…let’s fire/outsource them all”
2. ”Only nerds and people who really love computers should learn how to code.”
3.“OMG! Those nerds are making so much money!! Everyone should learn to code and get rich!!!”

1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 1 --> 2 ...
It's better than being unemployed.
Wall Street Inferno: Occult tactics at Burning Man
Thanks !
what do you mean normalize the height, like make it adapt to the height of the screenshot? Like pinterest or something?
Halfway decent is better than completely unstyled mess of Times New Roman because the dev doesn't give a shit about design. Bootstrap can be considered the start of a website (hence the name) and you can style Bootstrap to not look like Bootstrap very quickly. As long as these snippets respect global styles like font, colors, etc. then this is a good resource.
Thats the default option on store.apple.com. I jumped from AT&T to VZW, and they put you on the Share Everything with no other option
I believe you can also store energy in a super conducting loop (the current just keeps going around forever.)

So maybe we'd get a new type of battery if we have room temp superconductors. I haven't been able to find any power density figures on such a device though, so I'm not sure if it would be an improvement over Lion batteries. Anyone know?
Amazon & the Decorated Shed
Excuse my ignorance, I haven't even heard about Warby Parker until this article. How long have they been around (my quick Google searches have failed me)?

I have heard of ClearlyContacts.ca (I am Canadian), is Warby Parker comparable?
Looks like it's a precise GC, not a conservative GC like Boehm. That means that your language has to provide a list of roots manually, while Boehm discovers them automatically. The downside is that Boehm can misidentify pointers (and it also has to jump through extra hoops to achieve incremental and generational collection, while in MPS it should be more straightforward).
I'd think a better model for disruption would be Priceline. Name a price and let local mattress stores supply it.

My Luxotica/Ray Bans were made in Italy and (on sale) aren't any more expensive than the Chinese made Warby Parker sunglasses.
On my Macbook pro:
Mail is horribly slow with my 5gb of Gmail. And searching in Mail is even slower and worse, unreliable.

I have had better luck with Sparrow, but even that has its bouts (its slows down all of a sudden and then comes back, which makes me suspect its doing some background compaction/garbage collection).

Even though I am no longer a huge fan of the Gmail web interface, it still works the fastest.
Extended Paul Irish's DOM-based Routing for CoffeeScript
Or just do it yourself. It's worth it
This is a fairly outdated meme by now. Just that the enthusiasts are loud about it. Everyone else does not rush tell the world about their plans - it takes on average about 3 years to get everything in place, so this is a pretty good head-start against the competition :-)
Just like many things on sites like HN and Reddit the title is link bait. That title doesn't make everyone click on the link.

Nobody on earth was just browsing the Apple website, unaware of the iPhone 5 announcement, and was then convinced by this webpage that they should buy the iPhone5. There was a talk given that was covered everywhere.
What about prepaid?

I'm dying to find out if, say, Cricket or Virgin's iPhone5 plans will be any better - I'm willing to buy up front.
That's not necessarily true. There is little difference between WiMAX and LTE on all of the hard parts: antenna configuration, transceivers, and amplifiers. Even the modulation scheme is the same: OFDM. Sprint started installing firmware-upgradable base stations a little while ago and I strongly suspect that the process for converting from WiMAX to LTE is governed by staff time limitations than outright technical debt.
I'm not sure about the US legal situation but here in Sweden there is so much legislation to protect workers that a TaskRabbit kind of service becomes hard to achieve.
Successful rocket flight to 100k ft AGL and recovery for Carmack Prize
Not that it matters much, but Apple didn't actually have to redefine a CSS pixel. They foresaw this when writing the CSS specification:

If the pixel density of the output device is very
different from that of a typical computer display,
the user agent should rescale pixel values. It is
recommended that the reference pixel be the visual
angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density
of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's
length.
Not that it matters much, but Apple didn't actually have to redefine a CSS pixel. They foresaw this when writing the spec:

If the pixel density of the output device is very different from that of a typical computer display, the user agent should rescale pixel values. It is recommended that the reference pixel be the visual angle of one pixel on a device with a pixel density of 96dpi and a distance from the reader of an arm's length.
It's both a precise and conservative GC, depending on what you declare to it, and which pool classes you use. In commercial deployment and in Open Dylan it's a mostly-copying GC (i.e. a mixture of both) see http://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/m.html#mostly-copyi...
Apple being sold out is not great, it's a failure of their supply chain. If Apple could, they would never be sold out (but they also would want to never have any stock). They want to make money after all. They certainly do not need to appease investors by lying about the demand they are getting.

(Though I maybe should add that the iPhone being initially sold out might be an inevitable failure of the supply chain. It’s not like you can switch production on just like that and churn out new phones at full speed. There is some ramp-up. Add to that some pent-up demand, and iPhones being sold out quickly might be inevitable – though that does at least indicate that the new phone likely is no dud, beyond that there isn’t much information in that.)
The transition has sort of already happened. Most software stacks support IPv6 now, and many server hosting companies are giving out IPv6 addresses like candy. (I think I have a /48 or something for jrock.us. That's 2 to the 48th IPv4 Internets! I have a lot of computers, but not that many.)

All that's left are the clients, and the way I see that transition happening is in the low-cost sector. Sort of like an AOL where you won't have IPv4, so you'll have to access everything through a proxy except IPv6 sites. Eventually businesses will want to cater to this demographic and the stragglers will flip the IPv6 switch. With nobody on IPv4, it won't be a premium value-add anymore, and that era will be a distant memory of the past like BBSes are now.

Right now the IPv4 situation is not bad enough to make widespread IPv6 support critical to one's economic viability yet. Being able to see the animated turtle on kame.net isn't quite enough of an incentive, but the incentives will slowly shift.

(I see the same transition away from fossil fuels. Right now, an investment in alternative energies is pure speculation: it may pay off someday, but we don't know when that day is. When we've run out, though, the payoff will be clear: you will get infinite money the second you figure out some way to give humanity energy. This will encourage more investment than some nebulous LEED certification will. Tax credits are nice, but not as nice as cash.)
Uncover iOS 6's Hidden Walking Directions
I love WAMP - what problems are you having?
Windows 8: The Boldest, Biggest Redesign In Microsoft’s History
Interesting. I can see Quora having that long tail of useful traffic, even if the community collapses.
Why you can't change the shipping address for your new iPhone 5
I never took any take-home exams when I was at MIT (1983-1988). Most of the in-class exams I took there, though, were open-book, open-notes, etc., so making them take-home would not have been too much of a change. (Someone upthread commented that a good take-home exam is much more difficult because the professor can assume you have access to all reference materials. That fits my experience with the open-book, open-notes MIT exams.)
That's a great idea! I'll talk to our team about us possibly taking that on next.
Especially for those of us with grandfathered SERO accounts :)
Everyone tests different titles. It's part of marketing.

I'll freely admit to:

1. Writing a best practices post on a timely subject to grab more attention. "How to create a good landing page" wouldn't do nearly as well.

2. Testing headlines to see what drives the most clicks. Although this one was my first try on Hacker News.

I'll bet over the next 6 months Apple changes the headlines on their landing pages as well.
Can you point to an example where the legal system was changed so easily through protests, and say why that applies here?

It took fifty years of a well executed and persistent legal strategy to go from Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education. Plessy lost the test case and had to pay the fine. The equivalent here is to pay $1B in fines.

I'm not saying that fear of terrorism or other boogeymen is as entrenched as racism was in 1896, but if it was that easy to change, we wouldn't have the TSA and all this other nonsense. We wouldn't be instituting policies that erode privacy, the same way the UK has been over the past couple of decades. I remember when I was a kid, and people talked about the stuff happening in the UK as if it was on the moon. Now that's normal. I would love it if that changed, if someone would put in the sort of effort the NAACP did from 1909 to 1954. But, I don't expect twitter to risk bankruptcy doing it.

Even if the founders are completely selfless and willing to throw away their fortunes, they'd probably feel that they have a responsibility to their employees to not run the company into the ground to prove a political point. I wouldn't be surprised if it's not even possible to do it, given twitter's legal obligations. The VCs might be able to step in and get management removed if they start burning money on political causes. And, if they're going to do that, why shouldn't they just donate it to starving children in Africa? Because it's not their money, not in that sense. It's one thing for Bill Gates to take the money he's made off of MS stock and spend it on causes he supports. It's an entirely different thing for the CEO of a company to use company funds to support the same causes.

I should point out that, at least the NAACP managed to accomplish something, which doesn't always happen. I have radical leftist friends. They go to protests, get beaten up by the police despite protesting peacefully, and are often charged with crimes, so that it will look like they're just trying to get out of something if they complain about the police. It's been happening for decades, and nothing has changed. It's possible to make a stand, and for no one to care.

The alternate headline, call it the fox news headline, if you like, goes something like this

Twitter CEO refuses to pay fine yet again, company is held in contempt again. Twitter's complete disregard for the legal system comes on the heels of . . .
Or just buy the Google version.
Kansas considers removing Obama from ballot
a company with $100K in annual revenue that doubled from last year is more positive than one with $20M that shrank by 20%

I would expect that more than a predisposition to react to directional changes over absolute amounts, such a reaction would be due to individuals within the organization being concerned with their own personal fate. Being one out of two or three in a company with annual revenue of $100k that's doubling every year puts you personally in a very good position. Being one of 250 in a $20M organization that is shrinking by 20% annually...not so much.
When I bought my last mattress, it was a relatively painless experience, and the cost was incredibly reasonable (considering a rough estimate of what the manufacture labor might have cost).

What kind of mattresses are people buying, and what sort of retailers are they going to, where this seems like an immensely extortionist industry?
If a Verizon account has been in good standing for at least 60 days, supposedly they'll unlock your device: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-57361283-266/will-verizon-...
The only time you should use a "creative" interface is when absolutely no other standard interface pattern is available. Otherwise you're throwing away a great deal of learned behaviour in your users and forcing them to consciously hunt for what they want instead of relying on common patterns.
I learned everything I know from the streets.

Read the Hacker Ethic. As long as one is curious the information is there. Set theory? Probability? Algebraic lattices and convergent data structures? Monotonic functions? Cache registers and word alignment on some rare architecture you've never encountered before? Need to know how to write a compiler? I've learned some of this stuff and more on Usenet, web forums, IRC chats, books; from github, bitbucket, CPAN, PyPI, quicklisp; and by going to conferences, meetups, and even on the job. Academia is not the bastion of Computer Science fundamentals.

As long as one is curious and has the intellectual tenacity to be critical then there's nothing that the ivory tower can offer that isn't available on the web, at your local library, and right on your damn computer.

We don't live in the dark ages. Why do so many Computer Science people insist that only they know the true knowledge?
I became a task rabbit almost three weeks ago. I have bid on at least thirty jobs. I have spent a total of 5 hours checking the site for jobs. I have not been assigned one task. I have applied for several graphic design gigs. Most people want a logo designed for thirty to fifty dollars. Some people want ebooks created from word documents for under a hundred dollars. The hard labor tasks is where the money is. Those jobs depend on bidding low and fast.

It is an interesting place. There are many companies that use TaskRabbit as their recruiting agency. They post jobs that require to sign up on their websites.

Overall, I have to stop wasting my time on it. I intern(unpaid) at a startup that was planning on using TaskRabbit as delivery service. I thought it would be good (could be fun) income.

edit: this is from my experience in Chicago
That's amazing, I thought only some tards here in greece spoke about the Argentina's way, the way of dignity, pride etc...

In which country are you?
I am excited to see this on HN, anyone working on this from non-drug or even drug standpoint?
Share everything is the only current option.

If you're going to Canada a lot, your best option would be the AT&T iPhone as the Verizon iPhone won't support Canadian LTE bands.
My ISP (Andrews&Arnold, UK) offer IPv6, so I have a /48 and (since I bought a new modem recently) all my machines are now natively IPv6 with no tunnelling involved. (A&A also support tunnelling if your modem/router is IPv4 only.)
It's really neat seeing examples of how companies get word of mouth and marketing in novel ways. You don't need huge marketing budgets to raise awareness - just need to leave people with a smile.
Compare http://www.favicon.cc/ for ordinary small .ico's.
> Are there any consumer ISPs that do offer customers a block of IPv6 addresses for use, rather than (or as well as) a single IPv4 address?

Comcast, at least in some parts of the country (e.g. SF's East Bay). You don't even have to ask them. One day I noticed my router was being advertised an IPv6 route. I switched on DHCPv6 and got an IPv6 address, as well as a /64 prefix for the rest of my network.

Unfortunately /64 is all you can get for now, which isn't really sufficient, but they've promised to delegate shorter prefixes in the future.
I'd agree. But the fact remains that there was a discrepancy where one group was left without any protection.

> No set of beliefs should be so sacrosanct that the government must act to shield their fragile believers' minds from the criticism of others.

Let's not forget that 3,500 people died (and 47,000 were injured) during "the Troubles" which had sectarian religious aspects. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles)
Apple.com's nowhere on the first page of Google results for iphone 5
It sounds like the user had removed the tweets from his account to hide them from public viewing. (I might be wrong here, not the point)

But, is there some law or other reason that Twitter would continue to store tweets that have been removed by its users?
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Sorry. I was referring to Writespace. For some reason, it requires a sign-in, but another extension that is similar doesn't. So, I was wondering if this is author-specified or what.
I was tired of my mother always calling me for help with her laptop, so I bought her an iPad with 3G for Christmas. After two phone calls to get her into the swing of things, she's never called me for tech support again. She updates it when it tells her to, she uses it to navigate when she goes into town with her neighbour, she uses it to place orders for supplies when someone comes into her store to make a custom order. It's pretty great, all in all, and she's never once called me for help in two years.
Plus he doesn't know what "ameliorate" means.
If they accept "tough luck" they're not going to go much beyond minimum wage. It's a dog-eat-dog world.

> business that ignores a patent because it is convinced the patent is unfounded and would not stand up to a court challenge

Same thing here. The students may be convinced the cheating charge would not stand up to a court challenge, hence they threaten to sue.

> 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)

The applicant wouldn't get that far. The resume would be filtered out by software before the interview. The applicant would lose the job to the cheater. It's a dog-eat-dog world.
Yeah we're not really a drop-in malloc replacement like Boehm, though we could have some glue which deploys the MPS like that. Take a look at the Scheme example to see how the MPS integrates at present http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/version/1.110/example/...
Looks like AT&T is still the only option for simultaneous voice+data, though, due to antenna limitations: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/still-no-simultaneous-v...
What is it like to work at startup? - My answer
This is a ridiculously-poor example. The Columbine shooting didn't involve a planted bomb, and there wasn't a phone call in advance. The boys just showed up to school shooting.
Unfortunately LTE-based devices on Sprint still won't be backwards compatible with the converted WiMAX towers as they only output in 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz bands. The iPhone 5 specifically maxes out at a 2.1GHz band.
It's Newtonian. People have no appreciation for how far you have come (position) or how fast you are going (speed), but they are extremely sensitive to acceleration. VCs especially so.
In fact Quora ranks pretty high in Alexa for what I believe is a relatively small user base. They must have a significant number of lurkers and decent SEO.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quora.com
Incentive to move multiple devices to a single plan. Reduces attrition.
No one has mentioned these specific use cases yet...

1) live charts and graphs of server loads

2) interactive maps (instead of loading new images, just append)

3) I'm also thinking of some kind of captcha, where the user waits for the server to show a certain image and then can submit a comment and the server would know which submits were valid based on timestamp... or something.

4) weather, temperature, stocks

5) collaborative drawing applet? (would still require ajax though)
Ok, so we only use AC because it lets us use more efficient voltages. I think we understand each other.
I wasn't clear: I'm not bothered by the headline, just by the comments being entirely dominated by discussion about it. Not that I'm helping. :) Thanks for the article!
Liberati says the cameras aren't a case of Big Brother nor a cash grab, police are simply trying to keep the public safe from reckless drivers.

Ha ha, very funny! If that were the case, for red light cameras at least, then they would just increase the length of the yellow light. That's cheaper than a camera, for sure, and has been proven empirically.

As far as speeding cameras, I might buy it except that in Denver they only show up in swanky neighborhoods that have a high-traffic street through them. Like on 1st Ave in front of the Denver Country Club. Or University by the gated "Polo Club" neighborhood. Never seen one on S. Federal, or Santa Fe Boulevard.

on the whole, I don't believe that an honest citizen can treat pronouncements about traffic cams with anything other than utter suspicion.
I really like the design of the scrolling. Most sites that do this do a terrible job, but this one is very nice, the image transitions are sweet, and the railroad imagery coupled with the way the bars of content roll by creates a bit of synergy in my head.

But I don't know what your site is about. At all.
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