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> If the addresses are sequential

They aren't normally so. The bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address will typically be either based on an ethernet address or random; see RFC 4291 section 2.5.1.
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True, but the background required for it... math & science, that was historically a "man's skill"(sexism). Women went to school for things related to home-making, if they went to school at all.

That's why this story has an impact: http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2012/03/29/a-womans-story.ht...

EDIT: Wow, this story fell off the frontpage fast...
Honestly, I think I could cope. That sounds easily preferable to the path we are on today.

However it is certain that putting the brakes on the rampant disregard for privacy does not have to result in such a pleasant extreme. "Banning unauthorized biographies" is many steps removed from "the public loses their trust in centralized social networks"
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Ask HN: Forum software similar to the style of HN posts/comments?
I want to start a discussion board and was wondering if there was something I could use with threaded comments, and other features.

I'm more of a front-end dev and don't have enough experience to build something like this on my own.

Anyone want to lend me a hand?
Pictures are a subcategory of information generally. It would be really awkward not to be able to talk about your friends (online or otherwise) without their explicit permission. And what about strangers? Criticism and news of all kinds would violate such a more, and I don't see how that could be a good thing. You can imagine a world in which people demand that the Wikipedia page about them being taken down, and simple politeness militates that it is.

I suppose you could make a special case for photos, but I don't really see anything that specifically commends it relative to other information about you.
I know, Levitt and Donohue made the corrections, and then made even more "corrections", until they got back their original results (or as close as they could get).

That's how it often goes when researches are accused of scientific misconduct (not to accuse LD, just noting). One famous example was Potti & Nevins at Duke. There were several back-and-forth "Comments" published to counter the questions Baggerly & Coombes were raising. PN repeatedly addressed the issues, each time releasing another "corrected" supplementary data set. Eventually the journals stopped publishing the BC critiques, PN seemingly convinced the reviewers that BC were just being pedantic about inconsequential statistical subtleties. It only came to a head because Duke was proceeding with human clinical trials based on that research.

To this day Potti still claims that he can address all the issues BN raised and correct them, and that his research was valid.
That's a bit of an extreme stance, may I ask what motivates the desire to have absolutely no photos of you?
Quit my job to make this iPad app
I use Soundcloud and Grooveshark, right? Well I had to swap between apps all the time to listen to my songs and it was annoying.

This app makes use of the APIs from these services to stream music, all within the one app.

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Sorry, I didn't go as far as I could. Let me try again: it becomes a crime to think about or discuss someone who has asked not to be thought about or discussed. There. That's pretty much the worst I can think of.

I hope you'll be OK, because it is almost inconceivable to me that the future will be more private with the progress of technology and miniaturization, and given how much people seem to care about it now.
FWIW, you can tell Facebook that you don't want posts you're tagged in to appear on your timeline (Settings > Timeline & Tagging)
I didn't really connect with this piece until the end.

>Remind yourself, that you are not that thing. This will help you to see the other person’s point of view, instead of lashing out irrationally.

I'm pretty sure the entire reason I went to art school was to learn how to do this. I disagree with the post's description of 'who/what you are' but this point holds.
I didn't take it as an insult: just a misubderstanding.

FWIW, I have loved PayPal. They actively improve things, tend to be easy to deal with, actually fix bugs you report (although not immediately, but it does happen), and I have an account manager who actually gets things done when I need stuff done. Even before I was large enough to warrant a personalized person (I currently do like 6-7 million a year via PayPal), I always found talking to their customer support simple. Frankly, I think most of the issues dealing with them are because people don't understand the payment processing business much and end up using PayPal's service for things that you shouldn't (preorders being a big one, which includes small conferences) and then freak out rather than attempting to work something out with PayPal (like, I got my account locked once: somehow I got it fixed in a couple hours).
You sound like you're snarkily disagreeing with d23, yet the core of your disagreement is based on something that he/she didn't say. No one is saying criticism is bad; obviously if anyone had a default position of never expressing criticism or disagreement, nothing would ever improve, right? But there is absolutely a personality type that thrives on thinking of one's self as being smarter than everyone else, and constantly trying to prove that via relentless negativity or contrarianism. If you rely on such people for insight, you will generally end up being less informed than if you hadn't listened to them at all, because their views are based on boosting their own ego by trying to appear smarter than everyone else rather than from an intellectually honest attempt to get at the truth.

At least, that's how I interpreted the comment you were responding to. Maybe you've never met people like that; if so, you're lucky.

The one good quality such people might have is as a continual Devil's Advocate, in the sense that by disagreeing with all conventional wisdom they might make you take a second look at your own beliefs. But I really feel like it's everyone's responsibility to be their own Devil's Advocate; relying on other people to fill that role isn't constructive.

I guess what I'm really getting at is that there's no shortage of negativity or contrariness out there, and contrariness without insight is no better than agreement without insight. In fact, it can easily lead you astray if you're not careful.
Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar
This is why Android users can’t have nice things
I run News360, which is a popular news aggregator, and TPM pulled their full-text feed from us as well.

I think the issue here is that aggregators are trying to own the reading experience without replacing the monetary value of traffic to TPM's site, which is what's really bugging Josh, not losing direct relationship with the reader. He's fine with Google News, and he's fine with a truncated RSS feed being consumed in News360, or Flipboard or wherever as long as the main story has to be read on talkingpointsmemo.com.

This makes sense to me, and I think it's a very common problem across all content creators except the top-tier publishers who can actually make ad deals to sell inventory inside the aggregator (see TechCrunch/AOL's experience described here - http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/23/flipboards-mike-mccue-confi...). But looking at the mobile version of any article on talkingpointsmemo.com I have to question how effectively they're monetizing that traffic right now - it seems like it's all a bunch of network banner ads that I can't imagine anyone ever tapping on except by accident.

I think with the right native mobile experience, TPM can get a much larger value from a mobile reader, and if someone can provide an aggregator that delivers that to everyone, not just the top brands, it should be a no-brainer to jump on board. And I think we as an industry are pretty close to figuring out how this can work (we @News360 are certainly working very hard on this specific problem).
"At the time, I was working for a “closed” company. One, in fact, that practiced stacked ranking, and prohibited contributing work back to open source projects."

Sounds like a certain company occasionally known as "The Beast of Redmond."
Which is why you get a fixed-rate loan...
Any benefit in using ServiceStack over ASP.NET WebAPI, still?
Took the first code, am excited to try it out.

Why go iPad first?
Jeff Bezos' biological father didn't even know Bezos existed until last year
People didn't write computer code in IDEs back then, or even directly in text editors really.
That was Paul Allen, if I remember correctly.
It sounds like you're saying "Electric motors are less dependent on gearing because torque goes up as shaft RPM drops, so you still get 700W of usable power at the output shaft regardless."

If that's what you're saying, you're making several false assumptions and your statement is incorrect (because electric motors DO have a medium high RPM range where they are much more efficient than when near stall). Although it is true that (for some but not all types) of motors the stall torque is very high, that uptick in torque does not and cannot rise high/fast enough to balance the loss of work output caused by choosing a gearing that results in a slow motor shaft RPM. Recall that work is force over distance. A completely stalled motor is doing no work yet consuming prodigious amounts of power (which all goes to waste heat). In order to produce "700W of mechanical power into the gear train", a motor in a stall or very near stall would have to produce infinite torque, which is clearly impossible. Furthermore even if you consider, not a stalled motor shaft, but one turning below optimal RPM, you don't always get twice the torque when you halve the speed, you get maybe a fraction of that. So there's still a power/efficiency curve. Finally, a motor that is turning at an RPM significantly slower than its optimal rate is usually drawing much more power than it will for the same input voltage if running at higher RPM, so looking just at motor RPM vs torque at the shaft as a measure of output power ignores the important fact that you're putting a lot more electrical energy into the motor to get that output.

The only way in which your comment makes any sense would be to talk only about torque and say that for most types of motors, if the motor has enough torque to turn the drivetrain at operating RPM then it will almost certain have enough torque to start the drivetrain from a dead stop. So the motor doesn't necessarily need changeable gear ratios in order to get going if you ignore or amortize the energy wasted getting up to most efficient operating speed.
Aegean Airlines wins EU approval to buy Olympic Air
The shutdown is proof of democracy working.
I used these pens almost exclusively for two years on my first ship. In a terrestrial environment, these pens are easily outperformed by many, many other pens. The high viscosity ink is under pressure, so it is always being expressed. Any imperfection in the ball that finds itself at the edge of the ball-barrel interface will leave you, in a matter of hours, and sometimes while writing, with a big ball of black goo on the ball, sometimes on your fingers, frequently on the paper.

They tend to gunk up and frequently blow out.

If you are going to space, get a few before you go. Otherwise, I highly recommend the Pilot G-2, specifically the 0.7 mm Navy-Blue (available in dozens when ordering directly from Pilot).

The G-7 is ubiquitous and writes fast. It's not ideal for all surfaces, but 99.9% of the time, it's the best answer.
That's a dismissive attitude. I think the love shown to C# is example enough that there may be more to the results than hipster-ism. C# is great, and the vast majority of Java programmers are aware of that. I mean, holy shit - no lambadas? Lack of reified types? The Java ecosystem is amazing (build tools, libraries, the JVM, IDE's), but the language itself is depressingly stagnant and unpleasant to work with in comparison to similarly-placed languages.
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> It would be really awkward not to be able to talk about your friends (online or otherwise) without their explicit permission.

Would this concept of ownership of information be particularly stronger than our existing concept of ownership of creative works? If I tell a friend a story then I and he consider myself to be the "owner" of that story, but I certainly don't tend to mind if he retells the story as his own in a noncommercial context, so long as I am not present. However if he gets my story published, then I am going to be rather upset.

If a friend wants to talk about me with other people at a bar, that is fine I guess. If he writes a book about me, I would absolutely consider that a considerable breach of trust. I have no problem with being on the receiving end of this notion of privacy.
I had to implement this last month for a client. I found this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader

Linked in that article is this:

https://mdn.mozillademos.org/files/3699/crossbrowser_image_p...

That takes care of most IE. I think it goes down to 7. I know it does 8 and 9 for sure.
Good question!

Well, part of it was selfishness. We wanted to make a visualizer and the iPhone is not a good platform for that.

Secondly, I had experience with XCode and OpenGL and Cocoa.

As a bonus, we figured that there were more iOS tablets and less piracy, but we could be wrong on that one. :)
Andrew Wylie Interview: Literary Agent Makes Millions Off Highbrow
>Instead of accommodating for it's users it wants its users to accommodate for Facebook.

No, they are absolutely accommodating for their users -- and their users are advertisers. That is THE problem. Facebook Inc's #1 priority is making money (like all for-profit enterprises), and therefore their #1 priority is to make advertisers happy.
You're confusing -ist and -ism.

Men are better drivers = Sexist

Men are better drivers, so let's not hire women = Sexism
You could fill your profile with misinformation, so the pictures are connected to not-you?
Hardly anyone admits to watching online porn
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forking
threads
BSD sockets
routing
firewalls, understanding the different styles and the advantages thereof
Basic knowledge of network and systems security
Able to manage hardware provisioning, networking architecture
Comfortable working with vendors both in a collaborative and a dependency context.
Capable of drawing up documentation on architecture
Ruby/Python/Perl application development experience is preferred
Chef 10.0+ experience
A provable RFC-comfortable understanding of the following protocols and services that provide them:
HTTP
DNS
SMTP
TCP and UDP
Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 Experience
Must be able to be on an on-call rotation of varying lengths and periods of time
Debunking the False Security of Cardless ATMs
> What is happening in the Western world (rise of inequality due to skills being prized higher owing to technological change) is very different to what happened in Russia.

Is this really the source of inequality in the Western world? Technological change leading to different desired skills seems like something that's been around long before our current inequality troubles. In any event, I thought average wage in the US hasn't risen since the 70s, before the information age. I would guess it's more a combination of several factors, perhaps the college no-college gap, changes in the finance world, and political changes.
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I've had lots of stuff go wrong with Amazon orders, and they have always made it right, even when it was at a punitive cost to them.

Paypal, there are so many stories of them screwing customers, I don't even know where to start.
Healthcare.gov interfaces with so many internal systems, and was subcontracted to so many parties (including big players like Experian who are exceedingly private about their software), that you couldn't untangle the hairball.

If my experience with CMS and other goverment (F, S & L) is any guide, you'd have to have extensive documentation about their particular applications running on everything from Oracle to DB2 to VSAM tables, taking input from ONC RPC calls, ZMODEM file uploads, CORBA requests, and TTY emulators. Not exactly something that you can just jump in and work on.

Beyond that, even if h/c.gov was, say, thrown up on GitHub, you couldn't just tweak some files and issue a pull request; everything has to go through FISMA audits, which make your traditional waterfall change request look like updating a blog post.
Makes sense, thanks.

I use iTunes Match and have quite a bit of music on my computer and my phone, so it doesn't often occur to me to listen on my iPad. However, when I do, I exclusively stream, so this might actually be the perfect fit for me. Will let you know when I try it out.
Don't worry about me jamesaguilar, I'm good at coping.

I really can't say that I am bothered at the notion of somebody owning the information about themselves. If I write a story, I own that currently and other people cannot use that story without my permission. I'm just not seeing ownership of my life story as a particularly more bothersome concept.

Hell, throw a bone to historians and keep a concept of public domain after a period of time. I don't get to own other sorts of data forever, so that is fine.
Don't forget Kickstarter's obsession with pens.
I'm pretty sure it was Bill Gates (although Paul Allen could of too). I thought the source was a Chaos Manor column back in the day.
How did you manage not to lose it? Not losing things is worth a million dollars in my book.
Also please let me know how long it takes to open when you load.... We have an issue with large library parse times... If you get a blank screen for more than a few seconds please time it and let me know how long it takes. We need to put this initial loading/library prep into a new thread.
I can see that there's visible hate for Perl.

As a disclaimer, I'm not much of a Perl programmer, though I intend on sharpening my skills with it after I'm done with a few other projects.

It appears that it's been trendy to hate Perl for a while now, with the often repeated argument that it looks like line noise.

Yet I've seen plenty of people praise APL for its obscure design, even though it is the definitive unreadable language. To the uninitiated at least, but that's the point. I haven't used it, but I don't hate it, and I think it deserves praise for being a non-Von Neumann language.

The thing is, Perl is pretty much the hacker's language. TMTOWTDI, although allowing for inconsistency, also makes it a highly flexible tool and allows for people to hack together code, be it prototyping or for real use, fairly quickly and to their own preferences. With first-class regexes it's also invaluable for text processing and sysadmin tasks for which a shell script becomes tedious.

The CPAN is also exhaustive and has solutions for so many tasks, making Perl a very tempting language for scripting and general problem solving.

Ultimately, Perl is a tool and it serves a very good purpose. It has the potential for abuse and its philosophy is based on individuality and being able to take several approaches, but that's what makes it beautiful.

Letting go of the line noise mentality and getting to know the language better helps.
Yes, they do. A lot of people manage their lives via Facebook. It is scary and amazing at the same time.
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Also I've generally found it's easier to develop starting with a blank directory tree (no code), than to inherit a legacy codebase, have to make the sometimes grueling time/energy/focus/trial-and-error investment needed to come up to speed on it, understanding-wise, at the fine-grained level of detail you need to code confidently, then, figure out how to make a positive change that doesn't make some other thing worse. (And it's harder if no automated tests or documented manual test plan.) I call it OPC for Other People's Code. One of the anti-patterns of software engineering. It's distinct from NIH (Not Invented Here), which is another anti-pattern.
Pi is definitely a crowd pleaser. Many a time have I captivated fellow friends with it. Say it fast though.
The reincarnation of a ColdFusion developer
As someone who wants to expand my backend-engineering experience, should I focus on one programming language at a time? Data on the poll shows that Python has a high like to dislike ratio than some of the other languages listed. What makes it good? What makes it better than similarly-acheivable languages like PHP and Ruby? Should I maybe dabble in PHP/Ruby to have an understanding of it? Really, my main question is - Which language will benefit me more? I know it can depend on what field I'm working in, and what my use of the language will be, but from a general standpoint, which would be the smarter choice?
Lenovo IdeaPad A10 Specifications:

10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen

Resolution: 1366 x 768 pixels

RAM: 1GB / 2GB based on storage

Processor: Quad-core Rockchip RK3188 processor, 1.6 GHz

OS: Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

Storage: 16GB / 32GB versions, expandable with MicroSD card

(I'd like to see an Android laptop that takes itself seriously, with proper storage, screen, etc)
Only because it was the first thing that popped into my head, you can use async file IO in Java 7+ with the AsynchronousFileChannel class[1]

Currently digging through Google to see if I can find how those async calls are implemented on Linux/Windows to see if you can expect similar speedups in performance as Yoshinori saw in this article.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nio/javadoc/java/nio/channe...
Austin is OK. San Antonio is better. Definitely move there.
Nobody ever suggested it does.