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Programmers do not yet know enough about IPv6, nor do they have the drive to learn about it.

Which is why this is solved inside existing frameworks so programmers don't need to meddle with it.

Want a socket to "www.google.com"? Sure have it. Is that IPv4 or IPv6? You don't know, and you shouldn't have to care.

Just like Unicode, this should already be a solved problem in mature frameworks.
As seen on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1cu4ck/ridiculous_d...
A very moving article, I almost cried.
Yea well, those silly stupid San Franciscans with their disregard for market forces and the natural unstoppable march of property rights will soon be pushed out of their city and the culture they created will be gone and the capitalist homogenization of another city will be complete. Just like god intended.
>wtf!!

A bit of civility would help.
Actually, the exact opposite of what you said is the solution. Allow stronger property rights. Allow developers to build up using simple real estate economics - for residential and commercial projects. Rent control is the quickest way to turn one of America's best cities into vast slum.

I'm a commercial real estate appraiser. Real estate already has very low margins (10% - 20% for strong operations) - how do you expect the property owner to maintain the property (expenses, taxes, mortgage) and make enough of a profit to consider holding onto said property? Let's turn that around - you presumably like your job. Now, take a 40% pay cut - can you still afford to keep your job?
It was announced two months ago. Would you trust it enough to use it in production in the next two to five years?
This was posted two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503256

I'm hoping this is a breakdown in comms between team members rather than deliberate spamming of the same question.
Launch video (terrible camera work at launch. Also intermittent video feed in final minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3L7crGudVU
Why does Orbital Sciences get $1.9 billion for 8 missions but SpaceX $1.6 billion for 12 missions?

They both had previous experience building rockets (Orbital had Taurus/Minotaur families with launches over two decades while SpaceX had little experience with only the Falcon 1) so it seems strange for there to be such a large discrepancy. That's $133 million per mission including Dragon/Falcon 9 development vs $237.5 million per mission including Cygnus/Antares development, more than $100 million extra PER MISSION!!
I graduated 20 years ago and I still occasionally have that same dream.
Second that. Google maps are surprisingly bad in a number of first-world countries like France or Israel; OpenStreetMap are very very detailed. I don't think Bing maps would be better than either of those.
Unified CPU and GPU memory is an awesome concept that game developers in particular love (but not just them). We'll see if unified memory in both the next-gen consoles will spur something interesting in PCs. I'm not holding my breath though, since Intel have no interesting GPU story.
Sorry, I accidentally downvoted this comment instead of upvoting it.
I doubt this kind of research will ever have an impact on the pro right/choice debate. If babies were to be find to be in a mental state similar to an unconscious adult, what would that actually mean? Most people treat unconscious adult as they would with an conscious one.
Thanks for the suggestion. Tried them all. Amitryptyline made me suicidal (turns out that is a very common side-effect, and really unwelcome for someone who is in extreme pain). Gabapentin (and pre-gabalin) had no effect, but at least did not cause mental disturbance the way that Amitryptyline and Duloxetine did. The last one they tried me on was Venlaflaxine - I didn't notice any pain reduction, but I just got insomnia from it.

It's been a bad 5 to 10 years. My opinion is that "pain syndrome" was almost certainly not my problem. My pains were all skeletal/joint pains, except for pains that would suddenly appear in my left hand or right calf, even when doing nothing. Those latter two I could explain as being neuropathic, but after being in so much pain from my back, coccyx, hips and shoulder, I think my pain registration system was out of whack. And I wouldn't be surprised to discover that all the different "pain killers" I was taking were in fact contributing to further problems.

Currently I am just on morphine, but must tie myself to the bed at night to stop myself turning over in my sleep. If I lie on my sides, the pain will build (even through morphine) until it wakes me up. By that stage turning on my back will not reduce the pain and I cannot get back to sleep. Taking a sulphur supplement (NAC, or MSM) seems to be as effective as morphine (neither alone or together is really satisfactory though).

What has been so appalling in my case, has been the difficult of getting doctors to look at the individual problems properly in early stages (so a dearth of scans/treatments), until it got to the point where they were saying "you have pain syndrome". Most of the treatments that have had any success are those that I have insisted they do even when they have said they won't work. Some major treatments I have had to insist they don't do (cutting nerves??).

I'm finally getting a scan this week on my hips, after asking for this for almost 2 years. Hopefully it will show what I expect it to show, and they can treat it with steroids.
sorry, i was just overwhelmed at this. I expected a bit more intelligence on HN. I apologize for the language!
Thank you. In some extent, these patents are the best things left for an engineer.
"Orthodox" and "Jews" don't form a combination. The Jewish religion is "Judaism", whereas the term "orthodox" in religion can refer (as far as I know) only to the Eastern branch of Christianity, and _it_does_not_include_ Jews.
"The World of Homosexuals"

What's that one about?
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Yeah, and "less" and "fewer" mean the same thing, too. Language evolves, man!
Why is it using a solid second stage? What are the advantages beyond weight? It isn´t more risky if you have to compensate for some kind of 1st stage under or over burn?
The story mentions cognitive decline after major surgery, which is definitely a concern and not sure how much it's really discussed. My mother had a noticeable change in "brightness" after a knee replacement, and within 18 months was diagnosed with ALS. I'm not sure we can blame the surgery but I think the neurological side-effects of deep anesthesia particularly in older patients is something that requires a serious weight of risks/benefits. This was not something that was discussed by any of her doctors, at the time.
Not really relevant for hashes, but Go also has native implementation of selected ciphers (eg. AES). Are those implementations constant-time? If not then they are vulnerable to timing attacks. People have put a lot effort into making OpenSSL ciphers constant-time. This effort was pushed by people working at Google. This guy works at Google and regularly posts about crypto stuff they are working on: http://www.imperialviolet.org/.
What Do Kids Really Learn From Education Tech?
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Obama must tread warily (on immigration reform) after Boston
Consciousness and self-consciousness are two different things, I think. A baby in the womb of their mother will hear and learn to recognize mother's voice. That's a good sign of consciousness.

The physicalist view on consciousness tends to put everything we do on the basis of 'mechanic' impuse-reaction phenomena in our brain. But, so far, in no way explains very much of what living organisms do, I mean those that show conscious interaction with the environment, animals and humans alike.
It's 22nm finfet. The finfet is equivalent to a 0.5/1 generation advantage in power or speed.
"orthodox" simply means conforming to established doctrine, often with an indication on hard line conservatism. You can use orthodox to refer to any especially conservative group in any religion. It is very common to talk about orthodox Jews, Catholics and Muslims. In the context of Judaism it's generally used to means Haredi Judaism, but can sometimes include other conservative groups. The phrase The Orthodox Church does refer to the eastern branch of Christianity, but beyond that there is certain amount of ambiguity in the term.
> If an adult dog is smarter than a newborn, why the disparity in legal protection?

Because, like it or not, us humans rule the world, so we get to make the rules. And we chose to protect our kind better than others.
It is a pity. I didn't manage to try it out but Kera really stood out in terms of design.
The blog you link to belongs to Adam Langley who works on Go's crypto stuff (he's user agl here). Go has a rather nice crypto/subtle package that contains constant-time implementations of primitives.

http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/subtle/
That's why I said "_why-like proportions". It will be unexpected and shocking. I know its a bold prediction, but this kind of whimsical genius seems like a most unstable isotope.
I think that's why doctors recommended my grand mother to only have a knee replacement with local anaesthetic. It was interesting hearing her talk about her experience of the operation...
Mindblowing...
We need to kill all India-niggers, for one thing.

God says...

19:20 And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy
wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the
asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of
the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and
beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man,
saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may
know him.

19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and
said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly;
seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I
will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth
good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.

19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his
concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and
abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to
spring, they let her go.

----

God talks to you, you write an operating system, you are a rocket scientist. India nigger doctor sterilizes you and makes you impotent, harass and talk patronizing.

God is just mother fuckers--retards.

Mother fuckers think God is super ego or some shit. Can't understand God.

Plaent of the fucken Apes, all-round.

God says...
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Oh, of course. In addition to strong rent controls we need better central planning of the real estate economy.

Very good ideas, comrade.
“Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere”
"This has led to an oppressive level of mandates, fees, permits, taxes, licenses, and neighborhood activist oversight to be imposed on all businesses"

If you follow http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/ you get a pretty good view of some of the regulatory obstacles.
Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're saying is wrong. I understand your point about physics engines perhaps being the wrong tool here, and I can see that. But the main focus was on how the standard tooling for UI animations is incapable of modelling movement with dynamic "distances" (I put distances in quotes because you could be transitioning colour, height, scale or any other attribute of the object).
Real designers nurture
Similar experience here. I believe, if the mother is breast-feeding, then she inevitably has more bonding time with the baby and they will establish a deeper relationship then with the father. Playing around during swaddling is then the only chance in the first months, where the father can have "quality time" with his baby.
I tend to agree walkthroughs seem like band-aids. Can you justify your position against them more concretely? (more than just a "feeling")?
What did the Go team change to do this? Compiler optimizations or code changes? SIMD instructions?
This would be rather annoying for me as I cannot wink with my right eye (only my left, apparently not uncommon[0]). I suppose blinking would do the trick though.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wink#Physiological_ability
The Great Computing Prodigy Died of Cardiac Attack.
Ooops, sorry, make that per year. I've got the plan with 10GiB storage, many (unlimited?) aliases, etc. The tech. support is very impressive too.
That was my bad. I accidentally doubleposted a comment, and deleted one of the clones.
AMD64 and 386 assembly implementations. My blog post links to the actual changes.
Obvious double(?) bluff: the kind of people who really do this stuff would have access to better ascii art.
> 1000-2000 grand

O_o
And that's 100% alright for many things. But important infrastructure like email and contacts? I'm not so sure any more.
FSF is an ideal. The ideal that all software is open source so that it's more secure and has all the other benefits of open source.

FSF is not about open source or security:
https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software

Also, calling something/someone "childish" is not a good way to make your point.
Revisiting A/B Testing: What Are the Things You Can A/B Test?
The new Fastmail webmail interface is actually massively on-par with Gmail. It's very slick and I'd encourage everyone to give it a(nother) go.
This is wrong. The "feel" of an animated interface is an entirely creative/artistic/subjective thing, and its overall success is down to the sensitivity of the animator, not the underlying mechanism. There's always going to be a place for both time and speed based simple animations, as well as animations based off easing equations, physics engines and everything in between. We use whatever feels and looks right for the job at hand. To say that we'll achieve better results by stopping using duration/easing equations and only using speed is overly simplistic and, I'm sorry to say, rather naive.
Monads are a pretty general encapsulation/sequencing abstraction being useful for more than just IO handling in pure languages. Although to be fair, they are starting to show up in more mainstream languages (ie Clojure)
Inspirational Flat UI Design Websites
Chrome on Windows is a real problem for webfonts and one that I'm astonished hasn't been addressed yet.

How is Firefox on Windows (especially XP) now? It's a while since I've checked.
Online ticketing company Eventbrite raises $60m, puts off its IPO
Well no, they aren't in the "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" context. You can decline without falling.
Apple and Volkswagen team up on iBeetle, but it's no iCar
The Future of Real-Time Social Media Integration at Events
Event organizers already use social media to promote their events, concerts or conferences before and after the event. But those post are often generic and lack of true user engagement. What they neglect is leveraging the on-site experience of the audience into the digital sphere by providing a convenient way of sharing with their friends. Smart organizers turn their attendees into brand advocates to achieve a real impact on social media channels like Facebook.
Bitcoin 101: Five Things You Must Know About Bitcoins
I'm British ...

That should be explanation enough.
My understanding is that all three of these algorithms MD5, SHA1, and RC4 are inherently difficult to parallelize. The result cannot be computed by splitting the input, processing the pieces separately, and then combining the results. So they would not get the benefit of using "goroutines" rather than threads, a benefit which is important to the performance of many Go programs.
Yes, it would have cost me more time. Would be great to have though. :)
Totally understand. The arrows are really tiny.
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Hah, yeah, I put less thought in the second set of exercises. All my exercises are honestly just examples, since anyone can create their own! :-)
Indirectly, it does makes AMD CPUs and GPUs more attractive to PC gamers:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-future-proo...
One of the Hottest Hardware Startup this Year? Instabeat Raises $11K in 5 Days
Instabeat sure looks like a great product. Is this what swimmers have been waiting for? I for one can't wait to get mine.
Would love some critical remarks to help us make our service better. Thanks in advance.
Thanks! The instant gratification was indeed an important part of the design, as it hugely helps the motivation. (Think I've seen studies to that effect, but can't remember exactly.)

My biggest problem with these "visual programming languages" is that they don't scale well to "real-world programming". There's also a pedagogical discussion on whether they are effective for learning, but I don't want to get involved in that. ;-) In practice I've seen though that most children/students don't have a problem writing actual code.
Then why do we abort so many more babies than dogs ?

While foetuses obviously don't have optical processing (you know, no eyes and all), the brain actually "boots up" on the 18th day after conception. So just before/just after a woman will start to suspect she's pregnant, there's an brain actively processing information in her womb. If we took that as the standard, you know, that'd be more conservative than any religious grouping even asks for.

(the reason for this is that a human foetus "is not human". Our DNA is only human in that it contains a set of instructions that will transform an ape foetus into a human foetus. But the ape foetus isn't grown from scratch either, it's grown from some four legged animal. Basically the first recognizable animal you start out as is a bilobite (which is extinct, it's essentially a hollow ball of cells), grow into a trilobite (a 2-part ball of cells), grow into something that looks a lot like a tadpole, grow into ... and a tadpole requires a functioning brain, and so a human foetus at that development stage has a functioning brain)

The point is we don't protect life at all. We protect ways to make the life of the decision makers (which are nearly all adult humans) easier/more enjoyable. Kids, dogs and abortion are merely parts of that, as is freely killing dogs, intelligent or otherwise. Really the reason we don't kill kids is because humans would rebel. You can try to explain the problem, like stating that a kid, even a small one represents a massive investment of time, money, sweat, and (I'm sure any mother will be glad to remind you) inconvenience and pain, and I'm sure that's a rather good explanation. But in the end it comes down to adult, mostly male, humans vetoing it. We support abortion because it's a way to vastly limit that investment and get rid of both "the product" and the investment (and, frankly, because without abortion anything remotely resembling today's nightlife would be completely out of the question).

So really "us humans" don't rule the world. Too bad, not really. A small number of adult, mostly but not all male humans rule the world.
This place is apparently close to the center of SF:

http://goo.gl/maps/zwBes

It's really amazing how underdeveloped the area is. It looks like a 50-year-old farm town.
Ask HN: How to find a marketer?
I see a lot of posts on HN about how a non-technical marketer or domain expert should go about finding a programmer to help them build a product. I'm in the reverse situation. I've built what I think is a solid niche product, but I need help developing a promotion strategy to get the word out to my target market.

My product is an iOS app called Pro Golf Scout. It provides results, stats, player performance trends, and detailed player comparisons for the PGA and European tours. It's targeted at fantasy golfers, sports bettors, sports journalists/bloggers, and other serious fans.

Due to its focus and the value I believe it can provide to people in this niche, I've priced it relatively high at $4.99. So far sales have been lackluster, hovering around 1-3 per day after 3 weeks. Given that so far my promotion efforts have fallen mostly flat, it means the majority of these sales have come from either organic app store traffic or word of mouth.

My strategy so far has consisted of emailing bloggers in the space to try to get them to review the app and trying to participate in relevant forums/discussions, but this hasn't gotten me much response or attention.

I've also done some targeted facebook mobile advertising, but I haven't seen a reasonable ROI. My click through rates are decent (2-3%), but install rates are extremely low (1% at most).

I don't have a lot of cash to spend, but I do have a small budget for advertising if I can find an approach that's +EV, and I'm willing to share a significant portion of revenues with a partner (either an individual or organization) who can help. I don't think this app is going to make millions, but I do believe that it's a solid app that offers good value to a decent-sized niche and that there's a good potential revenue stream there if it can get enough exposure to get the ball rolling.

So, any thoughts on how to find marketing help?
My experience is the opposite and I use both services regularly. At least one fairly recent event corroborates this [1].

1: http://gigaom.com/2012/12/25/christmas-eve-aws-outage-stings...
Private Spaceflight Finally Takes Off (and Has Competition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism
Sage (sagemath.org) provides symbolic computing as well as numerical computing. Symbolic computing makes it easier to explain the equations behind the bottom-line results or diagrams and make that mathematical procedure open to computer-assisted experimentation. Sage is built on top of IPython. It is freely available both for download and as a web application (sagenb.org).
I recall Watterson also battled with the newspaper industry over how his strips looked, especially with the use of colour in the Sunday strips. I believe he felt somewhat constrained by the format and you can see him stretching the format's boundaries in the Calvin & Hobbes strips, especially the Sunday ones.

I used to wonder why he never moved to doing comic "books" where he had more room to breathe. I've since come to believe that creative work benefits from some kind of constraint - a boundary to push against.
Do You Have the Right to Remain Silent?
Karel the Robot has definitely inspired the robot interface!
It's a very interesting notion, that we'll never get to test unfortunately.

Without the artificially propped-up AMD perhaps the market would have served up a far superior competitor than a half-the-time mediocre AMD that is now on life support.

ARM is tremendous evidence that the market can produce competition to beat Intel. I think the ARM model is kind of like how Windows & Android both managed to beat Apple in market share, in regards to the business model (ARM being distributed amongst numerous competitors, advancing the market faster than it would with a solo supplier).

It's also worth considering that it nearly always takes a new epoch / inflection / radical shift in markets to dislodge industry standards (and that as a consequence AMD may never have stood a real chance). Which is also why ARM now has a chance to rock Intel.

I'm not aware of too many standards that have been killed off in tech without a big shift in the underlying technology segment in question.
At some point city planners should ask themselves how many billions of dollars of higher rents per year the benefits of a flat city skyline are worth to its residents (and how to fairly balance the interests of property owners and renters).
Rupert Murdoch Takes up Transcendental Meditation, the Hot New Creed Among CEOs
I kinda like the ascii, reminds of 9 pin dot matrix printers :)