skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tough question. 2-3 years...maybe longer.

An awful lot of production capacity has to be sweep out of the North American market (production is actually still going UP!!!).

A lot of small to mid-size operating companies will need to go bankrupt...they're the ones keeping production volumes high. They need the cash to cover interest on the bank notes taken out to drill and frack those wells.

The other wildcard is how quickly Iran can ramp up production. That might be 5-7 years given that their technology base is circa 1979 and will need to be upgraded. But it might happen in as little as 2 years...which would continue to dump crude oil on the world markets.

If Congress would repeal the Carter-era export ban on crude oil, that would go a long way towards re-balancing the North American markets, but that seems to be a low-probability event.

So it could take a while, but eventually it will...it ALWAYS does!
^ Spotted the guy who doesn't save for retirement.
Stop talking about how downvotes should be used.

It's tedious, and wrong.

You aren't just getting downvotes from people who disagree with you (if that's why you're getting downvotes); you are failing to gain upvotes from anyone who either agrees with you or thinks your downvotes are unfair.

People downvote to disagree - and there's nothing in any site faqs or guidelines to say this is wrong - but those votes are balanced by people upvoting unfairly downvoted posts.
No. I'm not convinced unusually high IQ leads to greater happiness, and what I care about for my children is happiness. In a literal sense, they're probably already too smart for their own good.
OECD uses a consistent definition of poverty across countries: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/factbook-2010-en/11/02/02... (it's defined as % of population below half the median income).
USO https://www.google.com/finance?cid=705740
Yeah, I don't get this either. It's a weird kind of American exceptionalism, except in reverse: we can't have good broadband on a national level like in Finland, because America! a strong social welfare system won't work here like it does in Scandinavia, because America! People won't adapt to biking, because America!

Yeah, we're bigger and more diverse, but so what? It's like people give up on solving problems, and use that as an excuse, without even trying.

When I think of the conservatism that's really hurting us, it's not Fox News or any of those right-wing nitwits, it's otherwise-smart people putting out this attitude of "we can't do anything, because America!"
I really liked TMNT as a kid, though. It's a very hard and frustrating game, but I wouldn't call it one of the worst NES games ever made.
DIY overhead spaceship control panel for PC
Vieux – The framework-agnostic, forward-thinking UI architecture
The assumption would go along the lines of: less time worrying about getting eaten equals more time to contemplate one's own existence.
Maybe this downturn isn't actually a huge deal? Wait until the quarterly service sector numbers next come out and see if they follow suit.
> Lower oil prices seem to be driving the major US indices lower lately.

Potentially, because the oil companies are components of the major indices?

Or, potentially, because the oil prices aren't dragging down the US indices, oil prices and US indices are both down because of supply/demand factors which reflect expectations of slowdowns in various markets, and increased uncertainty in the energy sector, both of which are immediate, if not durable, negatives for investors.
Why should HN only be reserved for "official" publications?
I totally agree. I was just in LA for the summer and coming from Ft. Lauderdale where the HOV lane is free to enter and exit, the entrance and exit system in LA made no sense to me. I also had to quickly get out of the HOV lane when it suddenly switched to the FasTrak and I didn't know what that was.

In Ft. Lauderdale we have an HOV lane that you can enter whenever you want and exit whenever you want. Granted, we don't have near as much traffic as LA has, but at least in this system traffic keeps moving forward as people move in and out of the HOV lane. We also have an express lane that you pay for and exit at the end of 595, the equivalent of the 110 to our suburbs. The express lane there has really reduced traffic. When I'm running late, I pay $.50 and fly across, and otherwise I can still go faster than before.
The title seems skeezy today, but it was written in the 1920's and probably didn't come across that way. It helps to say it in your head in an old time-y documentary voice.
How to Win at Fantasy Football Without Knowing Anything
> this works in 2015? I'm pretty sure I remember people trying this and website owners deploying countermeasures in the '90s.

Oh yes, it works. It works wonders. It can very often quadruple the d/l rate.
> Using another language gives you another set of problems

No, you have those problems in C too. Using another language gives you the problems you had before and takes away the memory safety problems.
He's been posting updates from this blog on HackerNews for the past week or so. It's well worth reading the previous posts to get up to speed.
A huge world war, and then the survivors become farmers until the heat death of the universe
>Scheme is actually used quite a few places

Don't leave us hanging, I'm sure lots of people would like to know of Scheme success stories besides Jak and Daxter.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispInJakAndDaxter
Roughly the same in NH. Maine and Massachusetts are higher, due to higher taxes, but we're talking nickels and dimes.
Perhaps not commonly available, but they most definitely exist.
I don't see why. There's nothing wrong with being black, unless you're saying there is. Statistically they're a more disadvantaged group because of obvious generational challenges other ethnicities inflicted. Most people are aware of this, and using the term 'white' for the corollary is simple information encoding.
We have the concepts of negligence and recklessness, which often constitute offences of varying severity. I don't know anything about the specifics of fraud.
> When I think of the conservatism that's really hurting us, it's not Fox News or any of those right-wing nitwits, it's otherwise-smart people putting out this attitude of "we can't do anything, because America!"

I've quite often heard the "because America!" lines you refer to -- in response to the specific issues you mention -- used by Fox News and similar right-wing outlets. So, I'm not sure the two things you contrast here as sources of the issue are actually mutually exclusive alternatives, rather than closely related facets of the same thing.
I developed mostly in Objective-C and even WebScript [1], the Java transition was hard but I stuck with WO and EOF until the early 2000s. It was my first stage as a working developer, so it will always have a special spot even if it's URLs make me cringe nowadays.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Leg...
Why is there an export ban on crude oil?
So, forgive me for being naive, but I am left wondering... why do this at all? Is there a demand for this stuff?
As much as I love Rust, I think it's a bit early to be using it in heavy production.
Yep, it's really too bad all of these form builders out there invent their own DSL instead of using the JSON Schema standard.
I think I was Poe's Law'd by his last paragraph
https://golang.org/doc/faq#map_keys

"Map lookup requires an equality operator, which slices do not implement. They don't implement equality because equality is not well defined on such types; there are multiple considerations involving shallow vs. deep comparison, pointer vs. value comparison, how to deal with recursive types, and so on. We may revisit this issue—and implementing equality for slices will not invalidate any existing programs—but without a clear idea of what equality of slices should mean, it was simpler to leave it out for now.

In Go 1, unlike prior releases, equality is defined for structs and arrays, so such types can be used as map keys. Slices still do not have a definition of equality, though."
I think high IQ means a potential for greater happiness, not necessarily increased chances of achieving baseline happiness.
The tagline is a little sensationalistic. The FBI Office of Public Affairs isn't part of the intelligence community.
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My firewall can stop them talking to the Internet. I often use VirtualBox to run new downloads in isolation, sometimes with a VPN running as well.

And who installs apps on their PC anymore, maybe after your initial setup? The point is you install apps you know and trust. I don't think notepad++ is uploading my photo library somewhere.

And there's a word for PC apps that do the wrong thing: (ad/mal/crap)ware. It's one of the reasons I do as much online in a webbrowser as possible - its a hellla lot more secure than downloading and installing stuff all the time.
depends, how well are they putting their talents to use? Are they challenging themselves every day? Or do they not have energy to? Or are they lazy and don't give a damn?

Regardless, I still seek to show love and smile and courtesy when interacting with them, because they're human. That doesn't mean I have to spend time with them as serious friends.

Salt and light...
FREE SPEECH IN AN AGE OF IDENTITY POLITICS
not sure why you were downvoted. I thought the same thing.
No, they wanted low IQ individuals who would believe that rot about being the master race, and do what they were told.

But the problem isn't just with the Nazis. The problem is with Nietzsche. The Ubermensch is superior to other humans, and can re-define morality as he (or she) sees fit. That will almost always work out badly for the other humans...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099957
I agree with you... However, where do you (or your parents, I guess) live where you have a 2-car garage but not enough space to park a car on the street in front of your house? (snow isn't a real excuse, plenty of people in snowy places don't park their cars in garages)
This is based on a press release about an article that hasn't even passed peer review yet, itself about a small-n animal study that hasn't been replicated. Meanwhile, in peer-reviewed human research, there have been massive genome-wide association studies (GWASes) in which tens of thousands of human genomes have been scanned for behavioral traits of interest, including IQ, it has been found that NO single-gene variant has a strong effect on IQ. That is none. There simply isn't any common gene variant in humankind that has a large effect on IQ, and there aren't even any rare variants of large enough effect to show up in lineage studies or in GWASes or in any other human genetics investigation on the topic of IQ.

Meanwhile, human investigations of identical twins brought up in separate households, including a striking recent case in Colombia of two pairs of twins in which one twin from each pair ended up with the other twin's family to be brought up,[1] continue to show that identical (monozygotic) twins tend to resemble each other more than siblings typically do, even if raised apart, but also can differ from each other in a variety of ways, including in IQ, and especially in IQ if they are not brought up in the same household. Environment always matters in human development, for every trait. That's called the Third Law of Behavior Genetics.[2]

After edit: Here is a link[3] to a description of the Morris Water Maze test, which this press release says was used in the study trumpeted to the press here. I'd like to see how the variance in performance of their study mice compares to mice used in previous studies with the water maze as a criterion variable of mouse intelligence, as there have been many, many studies like that.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/magazine/the-mixed-up-brot...

[2] http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/9/5/160.abstract

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/24/4/304.full

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895266/
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Prices haven't dropped elsewhere like they should, you know that.
> When I think of the conservatism that's really hurting us, it's not Fox News or any of those right-wing nitwits, it's otherwise-smart people putting out this attitude of "we can't do anything, because America!"

Ironically, it was the wide-eyed liberal optimists of their day that inflicted suburbia on us. Disrupting how we built cities to that point was supposed to make everything better.
Municipal ordinance - parking between midnight and 5am by permit only, only n nights per year per resident. Not sure how common this is for suburbia, but I gather it's not hugely unusual.
It all depends on your time scale...

http://i.imgur.com/uFfZM9p.png
http://i.imgur.com/UCtgDhz.png
http://i.imgur.com/BnFwxlL.png
http://i.imgur.com/WVi72n4.png

that said, i have zero faith in wallstreet, our economy, or our government.
That's kinda the whole point. There is nothing for refineries to gain by reducing the price of gas because...nobody is going to sell gas at a lower price and take over the market because...the EPA does not allow one to build refineries.

Free markets y'all.
The 70s oil embargo
the best thing about non-clickbait articles is I don't need to read further than the title
Well, to be fair to the author Übermensch is a term coined by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra.

While it was coopted by the Nazis, the meaning as conveyed by Nazis was very different from how Nietzsche used it.

The Nazis felt that they were the Übermensch. It wasn't something to achieve or become. They also thought of it in racial terms, whereas Nietzsche's formulation couldn't be further from something as shallow as race.

Nietzsche was also a staunch and very vocal critic of National Socialism and anti-semitism.

To be critical of the OP, though, he does seem to refer to the concept of Übermensch as meaning "superior man" which is closer to the shallow interpretation of the Nazis rather than the way that Nietzsche used it. He clearly intended it as meaning "intensely human" or "over man" where 'over' is a spacial pun on life's position with reference to death. And presented it as a contrast to Christians who are obsessed with what happens after we stop being human in the after life.

Anyway, as an admirer of Nietzsche's writings I felt compelled to add context as Übermensch is not Nazi terminology and I would hope that's not how he intended its use.
What bothers me about lazy science communication is that it assumes the reader is dumb. It assumes that the reader won't desire to know the inefficient details, or the context, or why the scientist chose one approach over another. It assumes that I'm incapable of coming to my own conclusions.

Sure, PDE4B-inhibited mice might be less scared than cats, and sure, even if it's p-hacking I'll let that statement fly. But you know what other ways you can get mice to be less scared of cats? Brain parasites. Sleep deprivation. Probably meth or something like that. Or, I'm sure there's other genes that knock out fear. But they probably also knock out teeth.

The point is that if the goal of the outreach is understanding, it doesn't provide the tools for the context of that understanding. A link to the paper is one such tool. Infographics, video interviews, lab protocols, primary observations, and source code are all valuable tools that help achieve this goal.
I know! Let's drill in the arctic and ruin that too

at $40 it will certainly be worth all that lack of profit

(this is exactly what shell is trying to do right now with Obama's permission)
I second this.

On our backend we have a main service in Python and a few micro-services in Node. All of the JSON data flying between these services has JSON Schema definitions.

We've built some express.js and wsgi middleware so that for a given route you can specify "Requests to this endpoint should follow schema {} responses from this endpoint should follow schema {}." Our middleware then validates all requests and responses against these schema. This works really well for us.
This was open-sourced a while back. Looks like they hollowed out the repo though. Is that bad etiquette?

https://github.com/hackpad/hackpad
Thanks for asking. The idea is not mine, but the idea of the founders of the site, in different words. As Hacker News says in its welcome letter to new participants, "Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."[1] Submitting press releases rather than peer-reviewed publications or journalism about peer-reviewed publications violates the first rule directly and generally leads to comment threads that violate the second rule.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
"After mid-2014, the lion’s share of the decline in oil prices has been caused by negative oil-specific demand shocks and, to a lesser extent, by negative aggregate demand shocks. In contrast, the role of the oil supply (understood as the current physical availability of crude oil) has been small."

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/es/article/1034...
Cartels are always unstable. It's why they seek forcible enforcement methods.
I've set up several hundred storage servers with XFS (up to 250 TB per FS) in the past 15 years. There were sour times, 10 years ago or more, but in recent times it's been rock solid and beat the crap out of other FS.
Notice that XFS always hated crappy hardware, because it pushes it to the limits.
> you don't want a car outside of a garage in snow

Why not? It works fine, and there are few places in the US cold enough to even require a block heater, let alone actually endangering the engine. Just have to brush it off sometimes, but it's hardly a dealbreaker. I lived almost 20 years in Alaska and never had a garage that we used for cars.
at our current rate of debt growth (obv required by the exponential interest rate function applied to the creation of our debt backed currency), how long can we continue our exponentially-mandated growth?

e.g. <6nm lithography is a problem
You could say the same about ext4. It was fixed.
Wow, that's a hassle. Okay, I guess snow is a valid excuse then, haha.
"Brainwave" by Poul Anderson
$ ping6 www.iafrikan.com
unknown host
The pans you linked to do have a Teflon coating. Look at the fourth bullet point under "Features," where it says it uses DuPont Autograph. Autograph is a product within the Teflon line.
That's just journalism being journalism. Plus, it was harder to see what could replace a significant fraction of oil before solar and battery prices dropped so much, and uncertainty and lack-of-planning is worth some worry.
You are ignoring the key premise here. I am not saying that loans, bonds or debt are universally and unconditionally a bad idea. Please re-read what I wrote. I think it is very clear, no need to repeat myself.
The downvotes on this post are a shame. I don't think every post should have to be defended for its relevance (especially since the explicit mission of the site is to gather news of possible interest to hackers, not just hacking news), but it seems like a reasonable question to what the submitter thinks an interested non-expert should direct his or her attention.
This presentation is rather hard to understand without the text/speech that goes along with it. I don't suppose there is a video of the presentation?
Was wondering about the impact of lifting US Oil exports and ran across some interesting research:

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/up...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-approves-limited-crude-oil-t...
From what I understand, they weren't really pushing to become an Apache project (Tinkerpop did, though). That said, I thought activity was pretty much dead also until I took a look at the 0.9 branch: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/tree/titan09
If I ever am forced to use git I'm hoping I can do this. Does it work well? I'm being forced to use svn right now at work and hgsubversion is a little rough around the edges.
> The USA can't export crude (by law)

That's not entirely true; by law, there are all kinds of special permissions (with different rules depending on what oil -- both by origin and type -- you are exporting, to whom, and whether or not the export of crude is matched by an in-exchange import of crude [usually, of a different grade, otherwise this wouldn't make any sense]) required to export crude, but its not quite banned.
Not just Russia but every single nation that has a major part of their economy in oil production: Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Canada, etc.

Although to be fair, Northern Europeans manage their oil extremely well. Their 'rainy day' fund is now in the trillions.

http://graphics.wsj.com/oil-producers-break-even-prices/
What about using something like Notational Velocity / nvAlt (which will keep your notes on Dropbox, and has mobile clients available too)?
I can only confirm this via a throwaway for lots of reasons, but this is correct.

Note: I am not Alex.
What life would look if we said no to work-life balance
Interesting notion. I am inherently skeptical, because, like many I imagine (and as the article actually discusses), I am squarely in one of the text editor camps (which shall remain nameless to avoid anyone thinking I'm intending on a flamewar).

I am certainly open to the notion of alternative forms of interaction with code, but too often I see this take on the form of an IDE with “designer-like” capacities (this is not to say that IDEs are bad, just not what I am personally interested in) or the more simple interfaces used to teach kids to code (again, not a bad thing, just not what I want to use as my daily driver).

As others have said, it would have been great if they had open-sourced the code or offered a public instance so it could be vetted (even from an early perspective). And while I will do my best to keep an open mind, the macros available in other text editors seem like they may very well be capable of handling some of the functionality demonstrated in the article without much issue.
Well I'd say the worst that can happen is an extension that compromises security of the browser to the point that malicious people can take control of your online accounts such as email, bank accounts, source code on github, etc.

That can happen intentionally but more often unintentionally. For example as you need to communicate between JS living in chrome (not the browser) and the webpage, it's easy to open a hole by mistake. Then someone could build a website to inject code to your browser and pretty much take control of your machine.

Yes Mozilla reviews the add-ons, but they are so many of them that they can't take the time to do a bullet-proof review. They only check for a few basic rules.
Depends how much these financial misstatements end up costing them. Plenty of successful startups base their business on breaking the law, to a lesser or greater extent.
Really, congestion pricing would be a vanishingly small increase to the cost of commuting, given the already-existing costs in terms of money and lost time that goes along with doing it (by car, at least.)

Edit: good read: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...
I’m not willfully connecting my machine to the facebook.com domain.
I completely disagree with the premise. The more I learn the less clever my code is. Coming up with a simple, straight forward solution is what shows true skill. Not cleverness -- not what people usually mean by "clever" code anyway.
One way is to use the self-replicating, solar-powered, biotech carbon sequestration product known informally as "trees."
I totally understand the symptoms that lead to a rule like that but ain't that throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Or conversely, peer-reviewed pubs can still be muddy bathwater.
Colin actually commented a couple days ago that he finally hired a minion.
This immediately makes me think of "secret of nimh" - loved this movie when I was growing up.