skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The break even price is estimated at current pumping rate vs gross profit; but Saudi Arabia can relatively easily increase their pumping rate. The cash cost for the Saudis per barrel is sub $5. So they can up their production rate to handle the difference; they are incentivised to do so if they truly believe that their reserves will become a stranded asset.

In contrast after running and royalties cash costs in the US are up towards $30/bbl and Canadian oil sands towards $40/bbl. But, the size of wells using these technologies are smaller. And, those wells cost more to discover, and tap. This means US / Canadian oil is more affected by marginal cost, both in terms of price flexibility and liquidity (both cash and oil).

And the biggest threat, in the medium term, to oil prices is some of the range of alternative energy sources. Solar costs are coming down quite rapidly. Wind is coming down but more slowly (a chunk of this is in real rather than nominal terms; depending on currency). And nuclear in time will probably come down if increasing investment leads to predicted efficiency gains.

Oil isn't going to disappear overnight, but it does have a bordering on existential threat in the medium term. The only largely protected part of this market I can see here is large scale transportation, i.e. sea and air transport.
Nobody is forcing you to use it.
Do you think the existing video standards can be compressed? Or the existing image standards?
> As dies get bigger, there's no law of nature saying that CPU power must be concentrated far from memory.

Actually, there is. The main reason why the L1 cache is so small, is that a larger cache would take more cycles to access. The L2 cache is allowed to have a higher latency, so the electrical signals have more time to propagate through a physically larger area.

3D stacked dies alleviate this problem, and the trend goes towards putting several dies side-by-side in a single package (a chip), enabling lower latencies, higher throughput, and less power consumption.
Under the 4th, the government has proposed and the courts have accepted a mendacious definition of reasonable.

Under the 5th, due process basically means you have a right to a hearing where you can present evidence, examine witnesses, have counsel if you desire, etc and have the reasoning for the decision written down. It doesn't require that the rules being applied be fair.

Under the 6th, nobody is being accused of a crime, otherwise it'd be a criminal forfeiture.

Under the 8th, civil forfeitures aren't fines or punishments.

The courts are far too deferential to the government. Unfortunately, presidents tend to appoint and the senate tends to confirm judges who will ignore all but the most egregious violations of the constitution when given laughable but marginally plausible arguments as to why the constitution is not in fact being violated.
Maybe if the compiler is very simple. But I have said:

"""
How make a REPL, a debugger, how implement pattern matching, type checking, if a interpreter can be fast enough, if possible to avoid to do a whole VM for it, etc...
"""

REPL, debugger, no-VM and other stuff look easier with interpreters than compilers.

However, I will be happy to be wrong: I wanna the simplest way to get where I want to.

Currently: Working with F#, wanna REPL, debugger, AGDTs, pattern-matching, go-like concurrency, iterators, semi-functional...

Where I hit a big block is how do interop with a interpreter (ie: Call .NET methods) and that look easier with a compiler...
TeddyBoard vs. Raspberry Pi
And with REPL and debugger requirements it is even easier to implement a compiler than an interpreter.

Pattern matching must be compiled anyway, even if the rest is interpreted, same for the static typing.
Well let's be clear.

1. What he said was true about nodding donkeys. OPEC countries are starting to use EOR, but most of their fields do not require it. Some countries like Saudi Arablia do have heavy oil and they are starting to invest in these areas, but that does not invalidate the authors point - that the U.S./Canada can help with that shift.

2. re: fracking being new. almost all reporting calls fracking "new", but they really are referring to the new form of fracking where it's done horizontally through shale. It's a minor misconception that can be forgiven considering the intent is really "new fracking technology".

Edit: here's a good video showing horizontal fracking -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O0kmskvJFt0
This is pretty cool, but nitpick: asynchronicity != concurrency. Workers are the only way to do concurrency in JavaScript at this time, and none of the example code is demonstrating anything involving Workers.
Kotlin 1.0 Beta 4 is Out
> Aren't OPEC essentially trying to starve out the competition (shale, fracking, solar, wind, etc.)?

My understanding is that OPEC has largely been a tragedy of the commons. The members all gain by limiting sale volume, but each member has an incentive to cheat and overproduce their quota. Historically, Saudi Arabia has underproduced to make up for the cheating and to hold the price line, but it sounds like they got fed up with doing that, and decided to show the other OPEC countries what life without OPEC would be like.

In regards to the competitors you mentions, you really have to split them into two groups: auto fuel and electric power generation.

OPEC really has no effect on electric power generation, mostly because no one burns oil for electricity. The main hydrocarbons people burn are coal and natural gas, and they're already really cheap.

It may be that Saudi Arabia wants to harm the shale-oil businesses, particularly the debt financed ones. I don't really know much about the business, but the thing to remember is that even if a business goes bust - its asses don't disappear. They get bought up by someone else. The high prices may discourage discovery work. The effect on currently producing wells is more difficult to predict.
She/her.
I'm not sure anyone here said that everyone should be married with kids.
I've got an LG Urbane which I charge every morning while I'm showering and getting ready. It's on my wrist overnight for sleep tracking and the morning alarm. I can agree with your judgement on alarms, but my experience of an OLED-based watch differs from what you seem to expect :).
> A likely development will be to put the RAM memory on the same chip as the CPU (or at least in the same housing) in order to decrease the distances for data transmission.

I've been waiting for this for 5 years, I don't know why it hasn't happened already.

- Optimized clock speeds, layouts, improved connectivity (i.e. increased number of RAM channels)

-- Reduced latency

-- Increased bandwidth

- Would there even be a need for an MMU?

-- CPUs wouldn't need to work with a variety of RAM types

-- i.e. Less complexity, fewer points of failure

The only cons:

- RAM size would not be configurable

Meanwhile, for better or worse, the majority of consumers can't re-configure their own RAM (Laptops/Smartphones), or on a desktop they don't know how. Businesses would either buy beefy hardware that suited their constraints or spend money on custom configurations. So this con only really effects hobbyists.
Super interesting stuff - when do you think we'll be able to look at the "ready" version?
The ratio of criminals is probably about the same in law enforcement and the general population.
Stanford also confers more degrees in social sciences and "interdisciplinary studies" (i.e. degrees in having graduated from Stanford) than in engineering and computer science, and has done for some years now. I don't doubt you can obtain an excellent education in those fields at Stanford, but it's been a long time since that was what Stanford was for.
> The EFF has a list. Only one law firm, Farney Daniels, has sent more than three demand letters.

OK...so as you say, on the EFF website they have a sample of 50 or 60 of these types of letters. Only one law firm sent more than three of the letters in this small sample they exhibit.

So? What's your point? God knows how many dozens or hundreds or thousands of patent troll letters were sent out for patent #7986426 alone ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-wan... ).

The letters told random companies (the article in the link I posted mentions just ones that were in Atlanta) that they had to pay up to the tune of $1000 a head for a license if the company had employees that scanned documents to e-mail. Not $1000 a company, $1000 a head at a company. One of the companies figured out that the patent trolls had probably just mass-mailed every company on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's yearly "Atlanta's Best Workplaces" list.
I strongly suspect this is a gendered issue. The author is a woman. I am a woman. I have watched men be helpful to someone and have it come back to them as a professional connection. When I do the same thing, I seem to mostly get one of three responses: 1) romantic interest 2) the expectation that I should be helpful for free because, I guess, I am supposed to care about everyone in a motherly way (and most of the world seems to ascribe to an abusive Giving Tree mental model of motherhood) or 3) people stop speaking to me (I have opinions about some of the reasons for that, but this is not the place for that).

What I never seem able to establish is a "I scratch your back, you scratch my back" expectation of tit for tat professionally. The thoughts expressed in this article may not apply so much if you are male. Male helpfulness seems to be received differently in the business world than female helpfulness. For women reading this article, my opinion is that she makes some useful points, but it is probably incomplete without analyzing the role that gender plays here, which the article does not do.
What do you mean by hand engineered? Is a part-of-speech tagger trained on a manually annotated corpus hand engineered? If not, then which "stacks" are hand-engineered and still popular today?
Indeed, and it's a good illustration of a flaw in the HN comment ranking algorithm: this "critical piece of context" is at the bottom -- and likely will stay there -- because it's the child of a heavily downvoted comment.
I still use stars in the night sky for navigation once in a while. As another comment noted, in many settled places in the United States there are so many outdoor electric lights that it is hard to get a good view of the night sky, but some of the brightest stars are visible even where I live, where yard lights abound. (My bigger problem with viewing the sky is cloud cover at many times of the year.) I live at the 45th parallel of north latitude, so the pole star (Polaris), which I can easily find from the pointer stars on the Big Dipper[1], provides a convenient guide to which way is north, at a halfway-up angle from the horizon. In winter, the seasonal constellation Orion[2] is very distinctive, and depending on the exact date in the season and the time of the day is a reasonably good guide to which way is south.

I once used Orion to navigate my way across an unfamiliar town when I took the wrong bus to an evening appointment and found out that the last bus stop on the line still left me with a two-mile walk to where I needed to go. These days I usually drive to evening appointments in the winter, but the stars are still a good guide which way I am driving on twisting exurban roads. Winter is better for seeing stars here both because the hours of darkness are longer and because the air is drier in winter (especially on cold nights) and there is less cloud cover hiding the stars from seeing.

[1] http://www.fortworthastro.com/beginner2.html

[2] http://www.space.com/16659-constellation-orion.html
Get this to the frontpage- China passes controversial counter-terrorism law
"Let them do that then"

Do you really mean that? Forget about drugs. (All drugs are already legal in this hypothetical scenario.)

Let your imagination soar. Think of all the other things the cartels could control.
Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk: A Thrilling, New Space Race
The article is referring to these diasporas forming 'global commercial networks', so I think your interpretation is slightly off. Interesting article. Gujarati's are also responsible for some of the finest 'Indian' cuisine around too!
Concurrency is the property that two or more tasks may be interleaved, instead of requiring one task to complete before another begins. Thus async I/O would only be distinguishable from sync I/O if there were concurrency, i.e., another task can run while the first task is waiting for the completion of that async I/O.

What you're talking about is parallelism, which is the property that more than one task may execute at the same time. That is what Web Workers achieve.
The article is calling for a "sell low" strategy [0]. The author is mistaking low oil prices as from lack of demand. This is part of the story, but a small part. The major factor is high supply, mainly from Saudi Arabia [1]. The motive is not entirely clear. Most think its a fight for market share, with Saudi hoping Russia, Venezuela, US fracking, Canadian oil sands, or other middle east players blinking before the Saudi's.

They are probably right, that other players have high expenses, less cash on hand, and will have to fold first. Certainly US shale is hurting, and practically no new oil sand projects are starting in Canada. In fact, this probably signals a good time to buy new assets, for companies prepare for this.

What I think Saudi/ OPEC is missing from the equation is that market share is not something that can be won long-term. US shale may have to cut back this year, but I think the time scale to turn production back on is about one year once prices return. Oil sands are a longer-term investment, but this also means that low prices don't cut production - the expensive investment has already been made.

Another major thing the article is missing from the equation is the demand side. Decrease in demand at the moment has come from efficiency investments that were economically driven by high oil prices. People bought smaller cars, took fewer road trips, and invested in home insulation. With oil prices lower, many of these things become less economical. Demand will increase, prices will go up.

[0] - http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/crude-oil-brent.aspx?timeframe...
[1] - http://uk.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-has-no-plans-to-c...
Chefs are compensated for their time (unless maybe you're the head chef), but they are also not compensated for their intellectual property, which is the point. Maybe a better example is copying a dress (if you imagine outsourced manufacturing).

"How exactly is a software developer/musician/artist supposed to be compensated for their time/labor without copyright and the ability to determine the terms of the sale?"

There are plenty of creative people who sell their time, just like chefs. Of course plenty of companies today don't even sell software, but essentially services.

"There is significant up-front time and expense involved with any type of creative work"

Yes, but this is to some extent a different issue than copyright itself. I'm not even arguing for the removal of copyright (I'm personally for stronger authors rights with drastic reduction in terms), just that copyright is mainly rights to artistic, rather than utilitarian or scientific, things i.e. doesn't have a whole lot to do with labor.

This should be even more apparent today with cloud distribution, where software can't be resold.
Me? Personally? I don't own a phone. But of all the people I know that do, they go over their limit on Facebook, Twitter, etc etc.

I want my server to check each few seconds for changes in the current page file, and if it needs updating, then it changes the page in the browser; the browser I create as the client side. I'd use a good hashing algorithm for my data. To send to remote servers; for the client.

I can make a plugin for YouTube if need-be. I don't have a programming degree and this will be difficult then, though. The server would have to be automated, mostly. I have no problem thinking my way through a complex solution. I just don't have the coding experience necessary. I would hire someone.

Users would access the internet in their browser through the proxy, as I said. I could use my site's SSL (expensive I know) to have a trusted website. It would only be for the browser though. All other programs would do their own approach. But all websites would be through my program.
Get this to the frontpage! :

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-security-idUSKBN0UA0...
The English were known as a "nation of shopkeepers"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_shopkeepers
We're talking about a lot more than just MP3s here, so you're not doing yourself any favors by restricting the argument to just popular culture. Copyright covers any type of creative work, and is going to become more and more important as the world switches from work that is primarily dominated by physical labor to one where one's creative work is how they are compensated. Software developers can't keep popping out new versions of software every week, and authors can't write an entire book each week, so there is an economic requirement that they be able to amortize the costs of their labor. The only way to do that is to allow the developer to dictate the terms of the sale and artificially restrict access to only those that agree to the terms. Perhaps Kickstarter or others will change this and we won't need copyright anymore, but right now it doesn't just protect the rights of large distributors, but also the rights of millions of independent creators that rely on such laws to ensure that they are compensated for their work, and to prevent bigger, more established players, from stealing their work.
Skype Founder's Self-Driving Grocery Delivery Robot Rides on the Sidewalk
I dunno; between USB, HDMI, Bluetooth, CAN-bus, DisplayPort, PCI Express, SATA, GSM/CDMA/HSPA/LTE, etc. etc. (none of which are IEEE organized) I don't think Wifi is that unique. In particular the various cellular network technologies face many of the same challenges as Wifi and have not had major security fails (crypto implementation errors) like Wifi has had several times.
The most irritating aspect of creative writing is that one constantly needs to find synonyms for things that one already has a perfect word for, but which cannot be used out of fear for sounding repetitive. If this tool can solve that, it is already a huge win.

> Some of this work was supported by DARPA

I wonder how the DoD would put such a tool to use :)
I would not bet on the cartels and existing drug dealers to continue to control the trade after it was legal. I would bet on big retail corporations like Amazon, and existing big chemical and agricultural corporations like Archer Daniels, et al
But there were so many elections and advisory votes... For instance, the tunnel was approved in an August, 2011 vote:

https://ballotpedia.org/Seattle_Viaduct_Tunnel_Replacement_Q...

http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/elections/201108/resPag...
Qatar did have a gas to aircraft fuel conversion process, but not really cost effective.
1) 2-4 Unicorns die

2) VR successful on a small scale, no successful AR products

3) 2016 is the year of drones

4) Marijuana startups heavily funded

5) More JS frameworks come in and out of vogue

5) Neither native apps nor web are going anywhere

6) YC's average founder age increases to slightly over 30

7) Apple releases a tablet/laptop hybrid which flops

8) Property values decline in the Valley yet relentlessly surge in SF
Look at the kidnapping industry in Mexico, for example.

They could also expand into controlling the building trades, the railroads and highways, the flow of oil, etc.
That the business is in decline is the bone of contention here. The author doesn't present evidence that the market for oil is in decline. He suggests as much referring to projections of long term low oil prices but ignores realities. Low prices can be fixed on the supply side as well as demand.

I don't believe there is compelling evidence to suggest clean energy is making substantive inroads against oil. Short term analysis seems to suggest oil consumption will increase[1]. Past actuals suggest renewable energy as a percent of total energy had declined over the last 50 years[2].

At the moment OPEC are essentially overproducing and are telegraphing that they will cut supply in the future[3] as they expect prices to rise. This is a vote of confidence for higher prices and economic growth in the future which is hardly a reason to start selling off reserves now.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/report/global_oil.cfm
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Unit...
[3] http://www.wsj.com/articles/opec-report-suggests-oil-price-r...
I did not know that. I always assumed the Romanizations mapped over one-to-one.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but: it seems like the sort of thing an awareness campaign could solve, no? a) It can't just be me. b) There's no good argument against it. Not for a formal publication.
The reason this will never happen in the way you're imagining it, is yields. 16 GB of ram is just too much die area.

In a small way, this has already happened, though. The intel Iris Pro has 1.5 GB of basically 4th level cache, shared between the GPU and the CPU.

I could see memory on the package, though, which might generate some of the benefits you're looking for.
I don't get it.
How do you handle authentication to the db without exposing credentials on the client ?
Please. They're already in Mexico's government.
1) Deliver espresso shots for $1 in <20 minutes by strapping a small espresso machine to your bike and having people order through text message. I made a website just for kicks, but never actually going to do anything. oneshots.squarespace.com

2) Uber for fixing people's computers/laptops. Plenty of us are good with computers and could easily fix most problems, while 90% of people can't.
Huge numbers of US oil companies are filing for bankruptcy right now, and many are not profitable even at zero debt. I am not sure where your "most are succeeding" figure comes from.
I got it from kernelconcepts as tokenizerrr said. They seem to have a newer version of the card now which does 4096, so I might have to buy another. Mine only does 2048
2015: The Year of Pixel Dailies
Why do you think search advertising margins are going down?

Margins went up YoY in Q3 2015:
https://investor.google.com/earnings/2015/Q3_google_earnings...
Perhaps that was the results of their analysis, I don't know. I used to have a 27 mile commute in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area, so even the 53-mile range might not have been sufficient.

Every extra 10 miles you add to the range will make the vehicle that much more useful for a wider category of drivers (in terms of staying in electric mode and avoiding burning gasoline). At some point perhaps they see it as diminishing returns, except that really when it comes to electric vehicles, the more range the better.
>Removes a provision that prohibits a patent from being deemed invalid based on novelty, prior art, or nonobvious subject matter solely because a defense is raised or established based on prior commercial use.

This looks kinda troubling. I'm no lawyer, but it looks like this section makes it impossible to declare a patent dispute invalid due to innovation, i.e., you can be sued for infringement if you make a better mousetrap, even though you have demonstrably improved the design.
1. 19th century well implies at most a few hundred feet depths. There just aren't spots left on earth where such a well would still yield meaningful amounts of oil.

2. Principal driver behind those horizontal wells is money. Those wells cost 2-3x more to complete. Horizontal tech has advanced, but in the end that advancement has been dollar driven. Expensive oil made it economical.
Per pound per mile, I'm sure it is. But most packages get driven way farther than they need to be, since one truck is out all day dropping off packages. Per pound per delivery, I'd bet the truck loses.