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I've seen people who are great at short emails... but I've also seen a lot of miscommunication when people shoot fragments back and forth. It's a fine line between concise and useless.
Every device can have it's own address, so you don't really need it as much.
"some female developer"?
I sometimes end emails/IM questions with "Yes/No?"
Great company that I'm happy to learn about. But, ugh. I hate the explainer video, both in execution and the idea of an explainer video for car rental.

I like the idea of new forms of car rental (although I am pretty happy with Hertz President's Circle if you get Prestige vehicles as upgrades; basically I get a Mercedes GL450 or Infiniti G37 for ~$50-75/day).

The site should convey this simply in text and maybe static graphics. The video adds nothing. I hate the music.

A4s are proper rental cards, though -- it's my own car, so I'd love having the same car every time. Sometimes it's fun to learn about a new car on a trip, but if I get in at 2am, figuring out how to handle a new car with light switches/etc. in stupid places, with inconsistent performance, etc., kind of sucks. (the first time I tried to freeway merge a gutless Toyota Echo after being used to my A4 was...unpleasant).
These articles keep escalating and escalating. I figure we'll have a "Thomas Menino is literally worse than Hitler" by Tuesday at the latest.

(Thomas Menino called for the shutdown)
I've really been wanting to do these for a few months now. I've just got to get through finals this week before I can start!
There's some low cost alternatives in the USA too for other types of surgery.

http://www.surgerycenterok.com/

They even have the integrity to list prices publicly.

It's because they are brave doctors working outside of the government healthcare racket.

http://www.surgerycenterok.com/pricing.php
There were numerous explosive devices thrown about by the suspects. They were disposed of properly. The suspect was forced to stay within a confined area. Police were able to respond within minutes of the suspect being spotted. We don't know how long he was inside the boat and where he was hiding previously. It may have been the case that the boat was searched but when the suspect was not inside.

I would not have let my kids outside and I would not have gone outside either if I had been in the area. It's just not my thing to go out and have to be on the look out for explosive devices or suspects. I want the police to do that for me. That's what I pay taxes for.

Nor would I have wanted anyone to be on the train while this guy is on the loose.

These people just love to overreact.

Also, the whole point of having a private home is that you get to let in anyone you want, this includes law enforcement. If I want them to come in and check my house and yard really fast, that's my decision to make. If I don't want them to, then they need a warrant. This is the whole point of the fourth amendment.
Sure, but if the ISPs number-one goal is putting a stranglehold on your personal freedoms, is there anything actually stopping them from using NAT on IPv6 if they wanted to?

If they are truly draconian cabals of evil, I don't expect "well, you don't need it as much" would stop them.
I love the idea of sharing knowledge and insights for the benefit of the community. I think it's sad to put money in the equation. Upvotes are a nice and simple way to say "thanks, you've been valuable to me", more so than a tip that will be way below the value most of the times anyway.
Not to mention, the article was written in 2011.
Sure, but there's not really much reason too (IPv6 still has private/non-routable addresses, so you might want to). NAT on IPv4 is used somewhat like a firewall - because there's nothing to configure - whereas with IPv6 the address space is large enough that there's (almost) no reason to use NAT (that I find convincing), and if a firewall is still desired, that can be run independability (for example, ip6tables).

Edit: To respond to your other comment, no, there's nothing stopping ISPs from inflicting NAT on IPv6 too, other than the consumer asking "why am I behind NAT when there is no shortage of addresses?".
Under what situation would a short reply not be acceptable?

Seems to me that VSRE/VSRO telegraphs what should be known anyway. I don't like it.
While certainly concerning, I think the OP is proving the opposite pole. The fact that solutions are continually evolving globally to solve the IPv4 address space issue, and pretty seamlessly too, speaks volumes to how amazing the internet and it's associated technology stack truly is.

IMO, the main issue with IPv6 is it's overall complexity compared to IPv4. While it's end goal is laudable, I agree with another comment in that there may have been a better halfway solution (IPv4.1) which could have eased the transition.

I say this knowing full well that the problem is very complex and the people working on it brilliant which makes me believe that there may have been no other way.
Semil Shah Interviews Greylock's David Sze
Well, that is highly contestable. $150k is not a big deal for an extremely small fraction of people(<0.1%?). And with almost similar success rates, I find it hard to believe why anyone would pay that much money for very little more. The returns diminish really quickly.

Also, you don't bribe people in the hospitals mentioned in the article.
The original paper doesn't make any claims about causation at all, does it? I haven't read every single word, but the Abstract certainly doesn't say that. The closest the paper says is that high debt and low growth are "associated."
In some ways this is worse because it will give time to implement half-measures like ISP-level NAT rather than forcing the adoption of a proper solution like v6. Over time, the price of an IP address will rise and end users will effectively be paying an artificial scarcity tax just to get connected without realizing that there is absolutely no reason for a shortage to exist.
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The User is Drunk
How about a friendly footer: “Short, one or two word replies are not only ok, they are much appreciated!”
Does risking 8 years in federal prison to defend a senior citizen activist exercising his first amendment right to pamphlet on a public sidewalk from us marshals using a video camera count?
An entire city cowering in fear of an incompetent 19 year old isn't what I would call sound judgement and solidarity. Giving up because they have no courage or sense of what it is to live in a free state, yeah that's what I'd call it.

http://georgedonnelly.com/libertarian/boston-police-state-fa...

"If you allow an angsty teenager with a pressure cooker to frighten you into abandoning your daily routine and cowering in your home as if it were a prison, then you desperately need to re-evaluate your posture towards life. Reclaim your self-respect, Boston."

"When a dozen paramilitary cops with fully automatic battle rifles backed by a guy on a humvee turret and snipers come to my house, the words ‘voluntary’ and ‘cooperation’ have no place. I would be a fool to resist. They have guns to my head and the heads of anyone with me. It’s now too late to resist. I don’t blame anyone for cooperating. I blame them for cheering their oppressors."

"Boston was turned into a police state for a day. It was an experiment. It failed miserably. The governments in operation there rallied all of the military might at their disposal with a near-complete suspension of liberty and they failed to find the man they were looking for – until they lifted their siege."

"The bottom line is that the man on the street, the civilian, the regular joe, is a more effective agent for public safety than any hopped-up government employee with body armor, night vision, full-auto rifles and flash-bangs. Just like with Flight 93, the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber, it was the regular folks who played the key role in neutralizing a suspected terrorist – not the cops or the TSA. That should be a sobering fact for any law enforcement cheerleader."

Is this house search voluntary? What about the people pulled out by heavily armed soldiers at gun point? What was their crime? Can you tell me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LrbsUVSVl8

Did this guy have a right to film soldiers on the street outside his own home? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A5vfyFyptQ

Is that what you think living in a free country looks like? Or is it what living in a totalitarian police state looks like?
> The proper reaction to a criminal...is to boldly (but tactically) proceed forward against him until he is neutralized.

This sentence contains no meaningful information.

The author spends his whole time describing how horrible the police presence was without actually describing what should have been done differently.
These types of sensationalist political articles are why I stopped reading reddit. They are a small minority here, and I hope it doesn't go much further past this.

Also, as a Boston resident, thank you to the police for what you did on Friday. You were acting on the will of society, not imposing a "police state" on it.
>>>I have an idea for a social media app that will help people explore truth together more effectively

I don't even know what that means to begin with.
BOSTON BOMB ALEX JONES talks Proof Boston False Flag sez lez
Absolutely.

It is your right to stay inside and protect your family. It is your right to have the protection of the police.

However, it is not your right to tell all of us other citizens what to do. Nor should it be the government's. However, it apparently is.

I'm glad they caught the suspects. I do not agree even a tiny bit with the failed attempt that occurred before they caught the final suspect.
Sounds like someone was just waiting for an excuse to dust off the ol' "jack-booted thugs" routine. One person's "cowering in fear" might be another's "staying the hell out of the way". The rest read so much like a canned response, I don't feel a need take apart the points (and I'm kind of sorry I bothered to read it).
I love this. I'm also extremely fond of EOM (short for End Of Message. An email with a short subject and no body).

Often I send EOMs to imply a VSRE. For example, "Grill tonight? Have burgers. Off work @ 6. EOM"

Very interested in learning others.
Could you rephrase this to make it a bit easier to understand?
Google is doing things the CIA cannot do
I think the problem for me comes in when you start talking about what you want for other people. Doesn't each individual have the capacity and the responsibility to make his or her own decision?
For people just now tuning in:

CipherCloud claims to be doing some really fancy encryption where they transparently encrypt data as it's pushed to the cloud. You're on a corporate LAN, when you visit Trello you see perfectly normal cards, you can edit them, search them, etc. But if a Trello admin snoops on the database, everything is encrypted with a key Trello doesn't know. In other words, your browser sees plaintext, the server sees client-side encrypted text, and all this works even though neither your browser nor the server has any support for this, all through the magic of one of CipherText's magic boxes sitting on your LAN. Magic, right?

A little too much magic. When you think about it logically, there's no good way to have encryption like that, and for the search feature (for example) to work! And if you dig through CipherCloud's presentations, documentation, marketing copy, and talk to them at tradeshows, the same thing becomes clear: They've mangled the encryption algorithm so badly that it is literally no better than XORing the data.

CipherCloud claims that every bit of documentation, every screenshot they've posted on their website, and the things they've said at tradeshows - all of that - is wrong, and that the product they actually are selling somehow does magic things in some method completely unrelated to the way they have claimed the product works up until now. And in addition they used DMCA takedowns to prevent people referencing those totally-not-accurate screenshots on their website.

...sounds legit to me!

TL;DR: Run away. Screaming.
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There's this one person I know well, a chatty extroverted business guy, not a socially awkward engineer, who always has extremely short, curt emails. He comes off in his emails as kind of a dick because of this, and now whenever I meet him in real life I find him annoying (when previously I wasn't annoyed at him).
The author doesn't actually have any better ideas from what I can tell. Snippets of "action items/takeaways":

Become more resilient. Build more prosperity

Oh, ok. I wasn't really doing those things before, because I don't actually like prosperity or resiliency, but I'll hop to it now.

My main takeaway is that the author has a major axe to grind with the police.
Sensational in what way? Martial law is the very definition of police state; that part is not sensational. Is it sensational because you agree with the deployment of martial law and the author does not?
Add "Sent from my iPhone/Android Phone/etc" as the signature for all of your emails, not just your mobile ones. With it, a short reply is socially acceptable, and you are able to give brief answers.
How do the police normally catch fugitives? What is so different about this guy that required such a radically different response. Even an FBI historian in WashPo admitted that shutting down a US city was unprecedented.
If you have a 3% gross margin and a million a year in revenue, you don't have enough money to hire even a single full time employee. Who is going to handle the new requirement to integrate 50 different software packages this bill requires the states make available to compute sales tax at purchase time, to fill out 50 sales tax forms every quarter/year, to cut and keep track of 50 checks...

A $1M/year seller could easily spend their entire year's profit just paying someone to keep track of which of the states have opted in to the new programs this bill will create, research the sales tax laws and forms in those states, research their software/APIs, build the integrations, etc.

If a federal sales tax law simply meant cutting one check and sending one spreadsheet to some authority that then divvies out the payments to the appropriate governments, that'd be something else. I don't think that's been proposed.
A fuckin men.

For anyone who doesn't know you can click on the Flag button on an article to report it to the moderators and if you don't see the button you don't have enough karma yet.

Flagged.
Uh... the fact that this arrangement is less shitty than $OTHER_INDUSTRY really has no relevance to my point. Seed and angel economics mirror VC economics. This arrangement sucks for seed/angel investors as well.
I like the general idea . . . but I'd rather have the articles formatted for viewing on multiple devices with in your app rather than a pdf.
shutting down a US city was unprecedented

That doesn't mean it was wrong. It means it wasn't tried before. A lot of things haven't been done before- probably just as many good, as bad.

un·prec·e·dent·ed: (Adjective) Never done or known before
>>>It may have been the case that the boat was searched but when the suspect was not inside.

Just a POI: The owner recounted that the cover had been lashed down and his son saw it was flapping in the wind when he went outside (after "being allowed to"). Had it been searched, I doubt the cover would have remained on it.
Not to mention, that sort of lockdown was only in the immediate area of where the psychopath was located. I left the house multiple times during the day and there were plenty of people walking and driving around without the police bothering them.

It amazes me that people like this can sit back and play critic when it's not happening to them. If a violent murderer were in his backyard, I wonder if the OP would actually respect the people who would put their lives on the line to defend him.
This seems a far more obvious way to code the extensible case:

def fizzbuzz(max)
(1..max).each do |n|
labels = []

labels << "fizz" if n % 3 == 0
labels << "buzz" if n % 5 == 0
labels << "bazz" if n % 7 == 0

puts labels.empty? ? n : labels.join
end
end

fizzbuzz(105)
Find a company doing something similar and try to get a job there (Obvious Corp may be doing something similar, but I can't even find contact info, much less get hired. But they seem like great people.)

C'mon, man - you can do better than that:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Obvious+Corp

Second result:

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/obvious

Twitter	@ObviousCorp
Phone	415-285-4255
164 South Park Street
San Francisco, CA, 94107

Whois reveals yet more.
That kind of laying down for these kinds of measures just makes it that much easier to pull off next time.

While the article isn't something you'd find in the comparatively-sanitized pages of the New York Times (or similar papers), it makes important points. We need to ask ourselves if this is the kind of action we want to see in our towns and cities the next time a violent individual is on the loose. I sure hope not.
Indian Astrology is quite a lucrative field. Almost every other person in India believes in it, including wealthy businessmen who are interested in everything from calculating the right time to start a new venture to the most numerologically lucky name for themselves.

On the other hand, most mathematicians end up as school teacher in India, especially if you are only good at arithmetic (which I believe was the case, based on her feats and books). Being a school dropout, she would have faced huge barriers in any Indian academic institution to conduct research in Mathematics.

So, you are right, in the absence of a mentor there were not many options left for Shakuntala Devi. Mathematical calculations are heavily applied in Indian astrology and now computers are used for this purpose. Hence, Astrology would have been an interesting diversion for her.
I also really like Source Code Pro, my favourite coding font.
I think the economic points are the most simply persuasive. Two things concretely led to the capture of the suspect:

Once the lockdown was lifted, "a neighbor reported that a bloody man was hiding in his boat."

Then, "a hostage negotiator talked to him for about 25 minutes and talked him into climbing out of the boat,” according to one law enforcement official."

Both are hilariously inexpensive compared to all the things that did not lead to the capture of this kid. In fact, most of the armed police actions just resulted in bombs and dead police officers.

I want to find out: Who is this hostage negotiator? Why can't we pay him a huge bonus for all the money he would have saved Boston? If the police weren't so dim, maybe they would have tried negotiating with a 19 year old boy in the first place.

Or maybe everyone is just an irrational jihaddist nowadays, in spite of the evidence, and we should roll humvees up Dexter and look through people's garbage.
Hacker News is not a site to discuss topics like this.

I don't want to see Hacker News turned into Reddit-lite with political bullshit, armchair economics, social outrage of the day, current events, or science'y articles that have little to do with the spirit of the site.

I come here for technical, positive or cool articles - not to see shit about a "police state.". If I wanted that type of discussion I would go somewhere else.
"One day". It will be a gradual process - it has to be - because anyone stupid enough to try and cash-out mass USD in bulk will not get there money's worth back in it.

But more importantly, is there any real sign that that time is soon? Global financial crisis...and the world's investors are literally paying the US to take their money with the current returns on US treasuries.

But it's hardly the USD "collapsing" - it's a gradual process over time, which crucially doesn't effect the buying power of individuals over meaningful timespans to them (decades, not days - unlike BTC).

And, probably more importantly, whatever replacement reserve currency comes to the fore (and what would it be, exactly?), it won't be something like BTC.
Yes, and each individual, by living in society, has agreed to communalize that responsibility with law enforcement.

That being the point.
I guess I assumed it would be handled through ebay's payment system. If not, I could see how that would be a pain. Still, that's only 50 checks a year. Doesn't seem that difficult.
Or to excuse absentee fathers, and the striking disparities in unpaid work between the sexes, globally?
Heh. All variables cannot be factored in until all variables have ended.
I left a hill-climbing solver running overnight and found quite a few solutions, including a couple that can be made to stay inside the square: http://imgur.com/a/Wd2dS
How Much Should We Trust Economics?
This is not an internet thing. We humans are very bad at pre-empting issues like this and doing something about it ahead of time. Especially when it needs money spending.

Here in the UK, for example, we know we have an energy crisis looming. We know we need to build more power stations. We have known this for over 20 years. We have the technology, money and skills, but only this year has one single new power station been signed off on.

Motor sport... knew neck injury was a common way to die or be crippled. They had the HANS device which would save a vast majority of lives, but people refused to use it. Not so much money, but attitude. Then a few drivers died who could have been saved, and there was a mass push to adopt the HANS device.

Same sort of thing with Islamic terrorists. We knew of the threat, but did little to stop it until the catastrophe of 9/11.

Look at AIDS. No one did much until the numbers got scary.

What we do is wait and wait until there is a catastrophic failure, then panic the known solution in to place, while blaming every one in sight. Of course then mistakes happen because its a rush job.

In short, this is perfectly normal.

I suspect that we wont get IP6 properly until the internet feels and looks broken. When the average punter is inconvenienced on mass is when IP6 will properly roll out. In this case, it must be very expensive to blanket upgrade, and prices will have to rise to cover it. But, the people paying those higher prices wont see immediate benefit, in effect they will be expected to invest up front while IP6 is rolled out. Or, for once, will it be different?

I have a suggestion. ISPs could offer a deal where the customer can pay more, but later on get IP6 upgrades for free, or something beneficial in return for the investment. Let that increased cost actually be a small private investment in one's ISP.
NNTR: 'no need to reply' is another common abbreviation.

Pro-tip: Use them as TextExpander snippets to avoid getting another message asking you to clarify what EOM/NNTR means as only a subset of people are familiar with & use these abbreviations.
Like what?

People keep suggesting we could've somehow gone half-way, but it's an illogical proposition.

Router ASICs are keyed for IPv4 - that is the only thing they will ever do. Change anything about IPv4, and you have to replace all the routers (heavy duty ones, which do the heavy lifting of the internet).

There is no half-way solution to this problem that is somehow "easier" then existing transition mechanisms.