skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does seem a bit anti-climactic. "We're out! We only have a /10 remaining, and we'll only be handing out /24 - /22 allocations!". Which does seem an awful lot like "flowing freely" (I'd be happy with just a personal /27 myself) until you put it in context with those early non-aggregable /24 allocations in 192/8 being generally viewed as a mistake for router memory, and the subsequent move to only give out portable allocations to larger service providers.

IMHO all of the IPv4 exhaustion articles are basically scaremongering attempting drive adoption ahead of the real pressing need. Which isn't the worst goal, as it encourages people to become familiar (have YOU setup a tunnel from he.net, sixxs, or with 6to4/miredo and started playing around?). But I suspect we'll be hearing variations on the same "we're out! (but not really out)" story for the next 5 years at least.

But besides a larger address space, v6 doesn't really give new features (besides plausible deniability of what constitutes a host address) and just adds to packet overhead. So the only compelling reason will be the ever growing number of endpoints that are v6 only, and behind NAT (from businesses who decide that providing v4 addresses to new customers by default is too expensive). Other businesses wanting to better serve/track those customers (avoiding NAT64 etc) will then finally have a real reason to treat IPv6 as a first class concern.
When you have to put in a loop that crashes your users' browsers to stop them from "abusing" your free service -- perhaps you are doing something wrong.

Besides, what if somebody doesn't know his traffic is going to increase? It's not exactly something you can always predict. Just crash everyone's browser -- that'll show 'em!
Seriously… that's the first thing I searched.
Well they announced it cautiously back in 2006, popular science ran an article on it. They've done some press mainly with EE magazines since then.

This technology has been in R&D for nearly a decade. I figure it pretty mature.
Unfortunately, on past history, if the bank hadn't been so cooperative, they'd probably be charged with a crime. Demonstrating security vulnerabilities is risky business these days.
Elon Musk is building a World Simulator in the SpaceX lobby
Articles like this confuse me. Why would you ever <need> to setup in a cloud environment that has no pros (only cons) in being there?

You wouldn't.
1oz Gold coin on APMEX is $1367,
Right, they half-tried it. This item is telling them to go all in on it.
Various forms of naming hierarchies and tag databases are more natural for humans, though, than a numbered array.
Bias, Negativity, Sentiment and Review Signal
Well, every new web feature will only work on new enough browsers. That was true for HTML5 video, for new HTML5 input tags, ES5 stuff in JS, etc.

The difference though compared to plugins, is that

1. Plugins must be installed by the user.

2. Plugins are binary and usually do not exist for all OSes/browsers (e.g., no more Flash for linux, Silverlight never worked on linux, etc.)

3. Plugins are nonstandard, created and controlled by a single corporation, typically not open source, etc.
BlackBerry 10 has a similar implementation but allows you to choose if you want to enable that feature. When using the app, if it needs a permission you didn't grant, I believe it will prompt you again giving you the option to ignore it (at least that's how I last remember it..)
Thanks for the info Jeff! No, I wasn't aware of this.
My travel documentation is incredibly fragmented between direct emails to family, photos on my phone, dslr photos, blog posts, tweets, facebook posts/albums, etc...

I like the idea of Maptia for aggregating all that into one place, but because of uploading everything everywhere for so long, I really want a solution on my own server and attached to my own domain.
> I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices [of copyright attorneys and trade industry groups] suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Well, you wouldn't have to save files. You could just use a data structure in main memory because it's non-volatile. But how would you share data between programs when there's no disk? And you could execute binaries directly from storage without "loading" them into memory first. But you'd have to keep an original copy somewhere in case it modifies itself as it runs.
I've seen human AOL users that were worse in the 90s...
TIL! I haven't banked in the states in about 9 years, so I'm horribly out of touch.
Well I just snagged a 3 letter co.com so that was nice, santa doesn't have the pockets for a 2 letter .com unfortunately
> Most applications written in the past 50 years have been taught to wait for data, assuming that the memory systems feeding the main computers chips are slow.

... and they'd still have to wait for data, knowing that modern apps love pulling data from the network.
Date picker is broken on home page. I can't select any date from the picker. The results are not very informative. Risk the price will go up doesn't tell me the time frame. Moreover your claim that you predict airfares is misleading since what you do predict is probabilities of airfare rising or falling.
They probably meant ADB (Apple Desktop Bus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus
I hope that my public disclosure of all these ideas will, at some point in the future, ruin a patent lawyer's day.
Example of non-ecc memory corruption and effect:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.illumos.zfs/1779
One very insightful person Daly is.
> It's telling Apple to stop even thinking about hardware and to try to become Microsoft circa 1997.

Ironic that Microsoft is now trying to become like Apple circa 2014. Then there is Google who has commoditized software in favor of services.
In US many ISPs are too lazy to move to IPv6.
There are some definite advantages; the thermal resistence from components to mineral oil is something like 4x lower than to air. However, you need to be careful as I've seen mineral oil travel up cables and over the top of the aquarium (was the worst with IDE cables, I expect it would be bad with these fancy nylon or fabric wrapped cables you see today as well).
Android no longer reveals app permission changes in automatic updates
I think the important thing is clarity of what you're getting (and how to compare) - not specifically detailing parts. I still don't understand how this isn't industry standard. The process of buying a computer (non-Mac) these days is still as confusing as it's ever been without doing hours of research.

For instance, how do I compare two PCs:

A: Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz and NVIDIA Geforce GT 620
B: FX-Series Eight-Core FX-8350 4 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce GTX760

Even when you clarify some of the parts, it's frustrating. What Apple does well (and frankly Dell and some other companies within their own ecosystems) is to add a bit more clarity even if it's still a bit opaque (iPhone 5 > iPhone 4, and the fact that all mac parts are relatively similar, just with stair-stepped upgrades).
Ask HN: Why isn't there any web based UAT  software?
I have to lead a business team through UAT for an ecommerce storefront. I'm probably going to use some word and excel templates, which isn't very ideal for keeping track of aggregate progress and detailed issues that are found. A quick search on the web doesn't show any SASS tools to help this process...am I missing something, or is this a niche market that is not being served?
"I just need a quick conceptual diagram for my paper." ...10 hours elapse.

I love that TikZ lets you embed graphics right in your document without external dependencies on PDF figures, but I've never been able to build anything non-trivial without quite a lot of effort.

If the OmniGraffle people are listening, I've been buying your product every release since I think about 2003 or 2004. I would love to see clean, approximate TiKZ export (where possible with simple geometries) with janky, verbose PGF as a fallback option when an exact complicated reproduction is required.
It's probably implemented in COBOL.
Hahaha. The solution described works if you have t=6. Try having t>>25.

The perfect use case for stacked area charts (but not pinned to 100%) is when there are many categories, but one is very predominant, and you're interested in (a) the sum of all quantities and (b) the participation of the principal category.

Example: a country is mainly reliant on hydropower for domestic electricity; there are years where it doesn't need any other source (it's still cheapest....). So we want to track (1) the evolution of domestic consumption and (2) the share of hydropower (3) which years it hasn't been enough.
Would you pay $50 for Tinder Profile advice?
Indeed. See http://fish2.com/ipmi/river.pdf
Gee, I got U.S. quarters ($0.25) as a kid.
I'm not making any point about her. It's just that I wrote in another comment that I was using XMonad and not KDE any more.
Well, yeah, that's the point. In 1997, "being Apple" meant "going out of business". So it was absolutely telling them to stop being Apple so they could live to see 1998. It didn't pan out that way, but no one could have anticipated that at the time and it's kind of miraculous that they made it through that period with the essentials of the company intact.
Software grows to match the hardware. If storage goes up 100x, data will grow to accommodate.

Some things won't grow, to be sure. Anything text-based, for example. But movies, music, pictures... would probably all explode in fidelity and thus size.
I know a lot of top engineers here and non of them would ever consider leaving before retirement or becoming rich.

And in both cases they would not start working for a startup in Berlin or any other place.

If they leave then for southern france, a cow ranch in the mid-west or Bali.
XY-pic is also useful for drawing graphs, commutative diagrams, etc. With enough twisting, it could probably be used to create UML diagrams.
It's a game engine that relies on HTML5 elements for rendering, audio and scripting. I don't find that misleading :)
I think it's extremely likely that humans are going to have a very hard time in the near future coming to terms with the fact that we are what are "in" our brains, and that our brains are basically just biological computers whose inputs, outputs, and how it converts the two, are very much a part of the natural universe and can be explained. And once we can explain it, we'll be able to predict it and thereby control it.

I know what you're asking and the point you're trying to make, and I totally agree that it's an interesting problem. Perhaps one method is that non-humans will get rights when they evolve to the point to create their own rights and the means with which to stop other things from trampling on the rights they have assigned themselves.
In general, they're very different movies, but both of them share the striking fact that you don't hear a single bit of spoken dialogue until ~15+ minutes into the movie.
We'll think about media in a completely different way when this happens.
You'd need the network connectivity anyway just to stay 'in sync'. But in off-line mode life would be a lot easier.
It would be nice if it was tolerant of misspelling (e.g. "mozarella") and also handled commas as a tokenizer. (I typed in "tomato, mozarella, basil" before realizing I had to hit enter after each ingredient.)

Also, adding ingredients to the list (hitting enter) is dog slow on my machine.
You can implement merge sort in place too:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22....

Looks like the algo is more complicated, but surely implementable. In most modern architectures, the key for performance is how one exploits the caching behavior. Quicksort is very cache friendly, as well as the common implementation of merge sort. Not so for heapsort.
You are correct sir. People who prefer OS X to KDE will prefer OS X to KDE, and people who prefer KDE to OS X will prefer KDE to OS X. Funny how it works out that way. :)
No, I like both gcc and clang, and thus mingw. Still, we would like to be portable to as many modern, often-used compilers as we can.

Also anecdotally, I wrote a software renderer a few months ago that ran almost 50% faster when compiled with MSVC 2013 than with MingW 64 (gcc 4.8), all optimizations enabled. This might not be true for other types of programs though.
All of Wikipedia (English) already fits on a smartphone with a 64GB SD card.
As an outsider to scaling issues, what strikes me about SoundCloud's struggles with shedding their Rails past is how similar their problems sound to Twitter's problems. Granted, a microblogging service has a different set of concerns than an audio delivery service, but the pain is the same.

Going out on a limb, perhaps this similarity contributes to the reasoning for the Twitter/SoundCloud acquisition rumors: more exciting problems for Twitter engineers to solve now that they've tamed their own beast? Or to put the theory in a business light, Twitter engineering leadership may have confidence they can architect SoundCloud better than the SoundCloud team has done.
Yes but those sessions can all share a single source port, assuming they are all to different destination IPs/ports. (TCP session identity is determined by both the source and destination ports and IPs.)

IIRC most web browsers do not open more than 2-4 simultaneous connections to a given server. So an allocation of ports an order of magnitude larger than that should suffice for a typical home user.

(Not that I'm advocating such crazy NATing!)
Flynn Container Independence
Cost of living in Uruguay is higher than in Argentina at the moment, mostly due to rent being close to twice as much.

I pay U$ 700 in rent+expenses and it's not uncommon in a "good" neighbourhood (I was paying close to U$ 1000 before, including very high apartment expenses, in one of the better neighbourhoods called Punta Carretas, think Palermo, before I had to downsize).

If you own your own home, living becomes much cheaper, but I don't :( and they're incredibly expensive right now (the housing bubble never burst here, though it has slowed down).

Food is more expensive here as well, but not as much as housing.

I pay U$ 700 for food and going out for 2 people (We do eat takeaway and go out a lot, so it's definitely not normal. But I get paid U$ 300 in meal vouchers which suck).

So I have U$ 400 for the rest (including gas, insurance, medicine, any extra expenses...), so I basically can't save (I could if I cut down on the eating and going out part).

"Real" salaries are higher I think, so it makes up for a bit of the difference between Uruguay and Argentina.

But still, I'll never be able to afford a house unless the housing bubble bursts or I start working abroad.

I'm including social security and healthcare in the "taxes" part (that's why I said take home pay could be 60%), I get deducted 17.5% of my nominal salary for social security, 20% for taxes, and 5% for healthcare. To make it worse, I actually get paid a part of the remainder in "meal vouchers" called Tickets Alimentación.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal_voucher
WebGL won!
This is very true.

Reading Tufte carefully, one realizes that (a) he's read more Derrida than he's willing to admit (there are entire unattributed quotations, probably by accident) and (b) great charting is an art form, perilously predicated on someone being both quantitatively educated and visually gifted.

There is no silver bullet but the table, and even then, Simpson's paradox is always ready to bite you.
> This technology has been in R&D for nearly a decade. I figure it pretty mature.

Funny, I read that the exact opposite way. If it was mature we'd be seeing products.
Don't have much of an opinion, as the frontpage, and the demo itself, are broken on Opera 12.
Which ISPs? Most of the large ones already support it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_deployment#United_States
Why Cantor’s loss is especially bad news for big business
I would guess that most contemporary philosophers do not fall into this traps but naturally they get no attention.

Why?

Journalists/ Interested parties ask philosopher about the mind/body problem, the matter of truth, god.... and if 9 out 10 answer that there is no real problem just misconceptions then the journalist will go to the 10th one who will get air time.
Fortunately, the author appears to be German.
The query language can work like Google and Windows search (mind the optional advanced query syntax). It's all about adding an advantaged query system to the filesystem driver, the files in the filesystem would be stored in the same was as today.

The benefit: users and application developers could access files in various ways. (A directory tree is so limited and outdated. See my other comment about SharePoint what is already possible and successful, just at an higher level - intranet website)
Grouper Loses Another Co-Founder
Startups can't throw a billion dollars and a decade at a MVP. This is not an argument against startups.
cleverref is great but I gave up on it after finding how often it's incompatible with journal/conference .sty files
What's with the Node JS architecture that makes it not suitable for compute-heavy tasks?

I'm developing an MMO server in Node JS. So this is welcome in for example Vector calculations.

The reason I choose JS is that I can write "dumbed down" code, that just anyone with JS experience can manage.

Hopefully, JS will be just as fast as optimized C++ in the near future ... First you will ignore it, then laughs at it ...
Who is derGeruhn, account that 40,000 Tweetdeck users involuntarily retweeted?
They also suggest dumping Newton, etc., which is what Jobs actually did.
My company currently is facing the task of breaking up the monolith. Not going to be fun. Glad that others had this problem as well and solved it in manageable ways. Thanks for sharing.
Which means in only 14 trials, there's a greater than 90% chance of passing the test. (Again, assuming the contestant is indistinguishable from the judges.)
What playing rugby can teach you about startups...
Not only that but it has the potential to change our entire model of computing, and simplify it tremendously. The unification of storage and computing.
At some point I started writing my own templates rather than packages. There are LaTeX packages for almost everything imaginable, but it's always been annoying to get a new document up quickly.

So now I have my template repository (https://github.com/x3ro/x3-latex) which has a very basic init script, which I call like this:

x3-init x3-paper some/folder/

And it creates a complete skeleton for the document, including a tiny build script that transforms the main text body written in markdown to LaTeX (because who really wants to write LaTeX lists and stuff, right?).

My point is that I find such a list of "essential LaTeX packages" quite pointless, especially if it's only ten or so of them. It's like writing a post on the "10 best parts of a motorcycle" or something. There are thousands of awesome packages out there, and creating a repertoire and putting everything together takes time. I'd welcome it if somebody came up with a really nice template repository style thing for LaTeX, though.

PS: My favorite LaTeX package is definitely minted (http://stackoverflow.com/a/1985330/124257) for syntax highlighting.
They're competing ideas from different industry-folk. There's a ton of contradiction in the article, and that was kind of the point.
This is compounded by the fact that it says "recipes with X and Y", when it is searching for "X or Y".
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This is why you need to root your phone, for taking control of your permissions. I'm okay with running these things, but only once they're 'secured' within the ecosystem.

First off, Permissions Manager. Only let applications YOU designate, have access to permissions. Hint: nothing really needs to know where you are.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.infolife....

Secondly: Install a firewall. No-root firewalls are NOT a valid substitute, given that they need to be (re)activated every reboot. By default don't give things internet access, it's even logical, and user friendly.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtschohl.a...

Thirdly, learn about your data. It's your data, and should only be sent to hosts you're okay with.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode...

Finally, blacklist hosts based on #3. Even if an application needs to hit the outside world, there's no reason that it needs to contact all hosts.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.treb.hosts

This doesn't mean that you should have trust, or even faith in these measures. But it makes things significantly more tolerable. You still have a tracking device in your pocket - but at least you have more control over it.
Consider that (unless the absolute value varies by more than an order of magnitude) you can see relative values very easily on an absolute graph, but you can never see absolute values on a percentage graph. It would be interesting to know, for example if the loser is still growing due to getting a smaller portion of an increasing market.
>Martin Fink, the chief technology officer and head of HP Labs, who is expected to unveil HP’s plans at a conference Wednesday.
54. never happened. They simple stopped selling laser printers.

72. never happened. Apple instead championed USB.
Verizon and Optimum for example don't have IPv6 support so far.

Note that your link says something about trials / tests and so on. Many did that, yes, but not all of them actually deployed IPv6 in result.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a memristor is, as I was, HP has an easy-to-understand analogy on its FAQ page about memristors:

"A common analogy for a resistor is a pipe that carries water. The water itself is analogous to electrical charge, the pressure at the input of the pipe is similar to voltage, and the rate of flow of the water through the pipe is like electrical current. Just as with an electrical resistor, the flow of water through the pipe is faster if the pipe is shorter and/or it has a larger diameter. An analogy for a memristor is an interesting kind of pipe that expands or shrinks when water flows through it. If water flows through the pipe in one direction, the diameter of the pipe increases, thus enabling the water to flow faster. If water flows through the pipe in the opposite direction, the diameter of the pipe decreases, thus slowing down the flow of water. If the water pressure is turned off, the pipe will retain it most recent diameter until the water is turned back on. Thus, the pipe does not store water like a bucket (or a capacitor) – it remembers how much water flowed through it."

Source: http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2008/apr-jun/memristor_faq.html
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The origins of Slender Man
Also broken in IE9
This was a Wired magazine classic. They should have run a “101 Ways to Save Microsoft” sequel before the Ballmer retirement.
Logstash and Kibana3 via Docker
"I just need a quick 1 page report of my work." ...10 hours elapse using LaTeX rather than word. :)

TikZ is not different that LaTeX in general. It has a hard learning curve, but you gain long term on reuse, structure, versioning.

Also slides in Beamer are a mess at the beginning, but maintaining/sharing/co-working... I personally think it's way easier than with ppt.
It is science, it is just bad science being practiced by inexperienced folks with nobody double-checking their works including their equipment.