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Oil is fungible. As long as the product is sold into the market, it doesn't matter who is purchasing/selling it. So, if Canada were to switch it's contracts to China, then the people who were previously selling to China, would then sell to the US.

The only possible concern would be an embargo, in which countries _refused_ to sell to the US at any price. That would be problematic - but it isn't related to Peak Oil and could occur at any time (and, in fact, has in the past) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
You'd think Facebook of all companies could afford to sacrifice "cheap".
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Two things:

1. I kinda thought I was, then I left for a one month road trip with limited connectivity. When I did have connectivity, I checked email, local news, and HN, and that was it. I had no urge to keep up with anything else. It was kinda nice.

2. In his _Technological Society_, Jacques Ellul writes the following: "We are constrained to be 'engaged,' as the existentialists say, with technique." Though this was written over 40 years ago, it very much describes our current information age.
A perfect use for youtubedoubler! (I prefer to mute the one on the left)

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu...
Not exactly, We have been hearing for A decade that global peak oil was coming. The original Peak Oil Theory reference a peak in US oil production which we hit somewhere around the 1970's - just as was predicted. (I guess you are hoping if we ignore the problem long enough maybe it will go away?)
If China pays more for the barrels then so be it. It all comes down to who can pay more for it, because they are getting the most value from it.
It works for me. Thanks.
People should be stopped when a particular instruction is given to violate the rights of a specific person.

"People belonging to group <x> are terrible. They are snotty and we should shun them." Statements like these are usually vile examples of collectivism/racism. However, they do not call for the specific violation of another person's rights, and for that reason, must be regarded as protected speech, no matter how much you and I may disagree with them. Remember that the right to advocate a boycott is protected by this same principle.

"John Doe is a member of <x>. It would be no bad thing if someone were to kill him, burn his house down, etc." Statements like these are not (and must not be) regarded as protected speech. They specifically incite people to violent behavior that violates the rights of a specific individual.

or:

"Jack and Jill live at 123 Gumdrop Lane, The North Pole, 12345. Their home phone number is (123) 456-7890. This is not a threat, but I think they are in great danger of something bad happening to them, because they have offended the Great Prophet." This statement, when posted on a web forum, is a specific call to action. Its poster should be prosecuted.

To look at things this way is to do so objectively. The problem with the idea of a "hate crime" is that it criminalizes thought, which is a dangerous power for the government to have. Instead, we must fight actual threats, when someone makes them.

All of us have the right to think whatever we want, to advocate for any position we want, as long as we don't call for the violation of a specific person's rights to life, to property, and to speech using property they own or are allowed to use voluntarily.

One last bit: groups do not have special rights, e.g., ones not possessed by the individuals that make up the group. There is no right to not be offended by a statement that someone makes, and it doesn't matter if you're a group of one or a billion.
The first thing that should be shown in any Trigonometry class, done in Canvas
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I have an almost identical setup. Great stuff to work with. I just switched to iTerm for the exact same reasons too.
I don't know about "feeling bad" as I have discovered certain kinds of humor I like using that almost guarantees a downvote, even if my comment was valid. I pretty much learned to embrace the downvoting when I post something like that, because I'd rather say my piece than not. Still, it'd be nice to be able to undo a downvote.
I find them something of an endearing quirk. They're like an inside joke for me, now that I've read a lot of reprog posts.
There are lots of folks out there who have managed to do exactly that. They're called consultants, gurus, etc. It's not as simple as just learning stuff, teaching it, and getting paid, but if you love doing those things it's certainly a way to make a living at it.

Among the keys to pulling this off includes finding information that people are motivated to pay you to teach them. Unfortunately, most of the obvious things that pass this test are pretty well-covered by slimy folks that can outsell most of us (how to make money in real estate, how to pick folks up at the bar, etc.).

But anything you know that other people know that they want to know can be made to work. To get started, you have to start proving that you're an expert at what you want to be paid to teach. Start making high-quality contributions on forums that discuss what you want to teach. Attend conferences. (Self-)publish a book.

You'll have to act like everyone knows you're an expert even in the early days before everyone knows. But eventually you'll get there if you're patient, smart, and just the right amount of self-aggrandizing.
I was referring to what I read here: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/29/apple_reinvent... but let me know what you think.
Your last point is what makes a market. If the oil is worth more to the Chinese than it is to American oil companies, the Saudis ought to sell it to them; whether you're Saudi, Chinese or American, capitalism works the same.
cf. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/steve-jobs-porn/
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You're not using multicast IP, are you? I've heard (a while ago) that this doesn't work at all on EC2, e.g. their routers don't support or have limited support for IGMP. If you had a protocol that mixed unicast and multicast then that may explain why some nodes aren't visible.
JavaScript really doesn't seem appropriate for large software. Much of the features (like, for example, prototype inheritance) makes for small code but at the cost of some complexity. Even trying to ensure some measure of public/private data requires a lot of boilerplate code.

Probably adding the necessary features to JavaScript to make it more appropriate for these tasks would ruin it for the things it's really very good at.
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That was a fun movie. I was a teenager, a hacker, and was blown away to see my secret society hit the big screen. A friend of mine actually had an Imsai 8080 (David Lightman's computer), so I recognized it immediately. One thing that bothers me in this article: Ally Sheedy's eye-rolling at us in that sidebar. Listen, Ally, no one even knows your name anymore -- and we hackers rule the world. Bite me.
I don't know if you are trolling or just extremely happy to be alive, with possible assistance from certain chemicals (not something I condemn in all cases). However, please try to be coherent.

>irremediably tainted by the vileness of Bernie Madoff.

???
I was thinking the same thing when the author was hypothesizing about carbon credits being a secret scheme to prepare us for peak oil; if our government really was preparing us for this and really had our best interests at heart there's many other things they would be doing. Telling us, for one. ("Keep things secret so people don't panic" applies to acute crises, not gradual crises perceivable decades in advance. If indeed it applies at all.)
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I read it as the author implying that not going after as many markets as possible is an unforced error.
Dare I ask if this will work in any version of IE?
"Cautiousness" has been the prevailing investor sentiment over the past 9 months, and it hasn't worked.
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And [Verizon's] data traffic just jumped 20%, even without the Apple phone.

To put that in perspective, mobile data traffic on AT&T's network has increased 5000 percent over the last three years. In 2009, which presumably this article references for Verizon, AT&T was up 200%.

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20091118/time-to-cut-att-...
I've decided to start flagging all posts with headlines that promote social fear.

A nice side effect: they're usually written by ignorant people for ignorant people and aren't worth reading.
Very cool uses of HTML5 Canvas. Love Torus "Cylindrical Tetris"
There is a detailed description of the mechanism used in Yahoo! Answers in chapter 10 of the book. You can read the draft text here: http://buildingreputation.com/doku.php?id=chapter_10

BTW, everyone keeps assuming that reputation is all about karma. It's not. We cover that in chapter 1 (and over and over again in the rest...)

Cheers,

Randy Farmer, co-author Building Web Reputation Systems
On top of that I'll take django templates too, I don't see why it should be too specific. In the end we have html fragments to do with as we please.

After using it I'll say it does what it says it would and does it well. It's nice and interactive and while it would make a nice local app, It's hardly suitable for a cli utility.
Warning to other clickers: It pegged a core and made browser (FF3.6) pretty unresponsive.

Nifty none the less.
Not complaining about the downvotes per se, but perhaps some kind of explanation of disagreement with what I've said? It seems pretty straight forward to me, perhaps I'm missing something that elicited the downvotes/disagreements?
I was responding to the concerns of someone who was upset at accidentally downvoting a comment. I suggested two solutions, one which would restore karma, and one which would explain the downvote. Obviously not intended for SOP. One could use either solution, both, or neither.
The whole film is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/andiback#g/u select "date added" and start at the bottom. Great film.

Nerd scene is funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNiiBrEHBWA
Yes, he also hates "Women with nails" (Nails don't work on the thumbkeypad that iphone uses).
Apple fatigue? The ipod mania has lasted almost 10 years... my sister wants to upgrade her ipod nano to an ipod touch because her nano "feels" old. I have a feeling the ipod will still have a good share of the mp3 music player market for at least the next 10 years or so.
I like Curry and Dvorak, but -- as the other replier says -- Curry is quite ignorant and Dvorak isn't far behind. Neither seem to understand the concept of fair-minded evaluation. Everything is a conspiracy by some evil faction, usually the Bilderbergers or the CFR or somesuch. H1N1 was manufactured, according to Curry, to generate profits for vaccine makers. Seriously?
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You mistake effect for cause. I internalized that mental model because that UI paradigm improved usability. To clarify, the improvement in usability stems from being able to not clutter my task bar with long-lived apps that I'm not actively switching back and forth from (like music players and contact lists of IMs). In the absence of statistics supporting your case, I'm assuming it's the same for most other people who use that feature. As for new users, no one stays new forever, and it seems counter-productive to abandon increased functionality because it might confuse what will by definition always be a minority segment of users (or because some group of designers thinks so).
"1 year of experience, repeated 7 times" is not the same thing as "7 years experience" in my book, and from the heat his original post generated, it's not clear that everyone agrees.
There are reasons to be cautious about Apple, but not in this list. Most of the OP's concerns boil down to a perception that Apple has been 'too' successful, and it's due for a failure.

On the one hand, Apple's valuation is extremely high. On the other, their products are selling like gangbusters and the iPhone in particular has nowhere to go but up. The current emphasis on software and interfaces gives Apple a substantial advantage over the legacy players like Nokia and RIM; as the iPod showed, it's not a trivial advantage to overcome.
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I just realized I'm an information addict today while reading The 4 hour workweek.

I think I'm going to start by moving my mail icon away from my iphone homescreen, and setting up a few push reminders to ask whether I am focusing on what I want to do and not wasting time.
The blogger notes that Market Street seemed wider than it does today. I disagree; it really looks about the same. Keep in mind that the sidewalk is much larger now than it appears to be in 1906.
this said, i've realized that these days I spend more time reading entrepreneurship HN/mixergy/kalzumeus/etc. than checking any local/us news anymore.
The blog says the street seems wider in the 1908 film. I think that's a combination of a lack of street trees and curbs, and shorter buildings in the background.

I wonder why the car doesn't stop for passengers. You can see several waiting. One even waves at the driver. My thought is that either the car was stopping and the video was edited, or it was a special run for the benefit of the camera.

A few more observations:

* While there are many fewer pedestrians in the 2005 video, there are more bicycles. And the bicycles actually have adults on them (not sure about the guy in the cape though).

* The streetcar seems to move much faster in 2005, covering considerably more ground in less time.

* While 2005 looks much more orderly, automobiles are still erratically darting out in front of the streetcar. Some things don't change I guess..
First, processing.js and Raphaël, now Three. Man, js is definitely getting all the love these days :-)
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They're supposed to be making an announcement at the I/O conference next month.
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I agree with your argument.However having read nearly all his posts I see a guy who is ambitious, doesn't hesitate to tell you his weaknesses, talks about how he would go beyond his means to keep great talent within his companies, gives smart/honest feedback about companies that he may not even be affiliated with, etc...

Sometimes people say stuff they don't necessarily mean 100% and before they know it they have already hit publish (And Google caches fast). For Mark, this is the first time I saw such a comment from him. So I am not going to hold it against him. I cannot say the same about Jason.
I only consume Hacker News via a summarizing service which gives only "top" Hacker News links. I skim my FriendFeed when I don't have time to read in depth, and don't have a problem _not_ clicking on things. I keep my FriendFeed relatively spartan; if a blog, feed, or tweetstream doesn't provide at least 50% interesting posts, I don't follow it. HN is the only linkroll / news site I follow. At the day job, I set my email client to download new mail only once every hour, so the "you've got mail" systray icon won't distract me too often. If it's important enough, someone will show up in person to ask whether I received the email they sent. Only a small set of people ever phone me with any regularity, and I like it that way.
while we're posting dupes of classic norvig pages, why not http://norvig.com/21-days.html
These reasons are pretty weak. For example:

#3. The Share Price

Apple still has a P/E ratio of only 22. Meanwhile, Amazon's is 70. If Apple traded at that P/E ratio, the share price would be $940, instead of $270.

Whose investors should really be worried?
I would like to see more iPod innovation.
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The computer programming error did not have an impact on this tragedy, … But it's something we needed to fix, there's no question about it.
The projection thing has been fueled by all the literature that was produced during wars, that is the entire human history. What to say about books or TV shows created during the cold war?

War is idiotic. Bringing war through incommensurably immense voids is nonsense. The only reason we can't see it is that we're used to rationalize the sad fact that we are too primitive to stop it.
Yeah, shit breaks all of the time with Facebook. The growth of my app (and many others) was ruined when Facebook removed profile boxes: http://skitch.com/kadavy/nputh/through-a-friend
They're producing something. But from what I've seen, it's just not that blue plane change that he's talking about in the above talk -- which is what he set out to do with the grant.
Did it strike anyone else that in all likelihood, every single person in the video is dead now, even the kids? I didn't even know they had video in 1906...
I used to ride my bike to work on Market Street, and to me this video seems unusually serene. If it was filmed during rush hour, which I don't think this was, your conclusion about it being less chaotic might be different...or maybe things just seem much more intense from a bicycle perspective.
For all the positives of JavaScript, I still prefer Python. There are a lot of similarities, but I give Python higher marks in a few areas. The first one that jumps out immediately is the lack of requiring "var" in Python variable declarations. What I'd like to see instead I think is Python built-in to every major browser as a default language. And/or make it super easy for users to install runtime plugins for Python, Ruby, etc. that way we're not limited to a particular language in the browser client.
Who tests the testers?

According to Wikipedia, XP is the most widely used OS and SP3 shipped two years ago.

It's pretty unforgivable not to test against this configuration, although as I read it XP SP3 most likely slipped through the cracks (and who knows what else) when they changed their testing setup rather than their deliberately just not testing against it at all.

For a product where testing is so critical and there are so many configurations to test, it would make sense to automate the confirmation of the full test suite rather than depending on eyeballs. That's the sort of thing computers are good at, after all.
...which would be wrong. If going after another market makes you mediocre in the market you're already winning in, you should say no. A physical keyboard adds bulk and weight to the device that make it a lot less attractive to consumers.
The nature of the weapon is such that when deployed, treaties won't matter much after that. Before that, it is hard to check what each satellite has on-board.

Also, EMP waves are not designed to kill people, so I am not sure what they classification as far as any treaties are concerned.

The level to which our infrastructure is vulnerable to EMP has dramatically increased since the 60s. That means, there is a much larger incentives to deploy such weapons now.
I've done a fair amount of hiring, and I would definitely take a slightly less talented employee that has some staying power over a superstar who won't be around in a year.

The product knowledge that walks out the door with a short-term employee is just devastating. Of course, as an employer, we have a responsibility to create an environment conducive to retention (pay well, keep the projects varied and interesting, go easy on the death marches)... but there are certain folks who simply can't stay put no matter how well they're treated. They're just not worth the investment.
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On the other hand MWI super-advocate David Deutsch says: "An engaging, non-technical exploration of what the new theory of quantum information and computation tells us about life, the universe, and everything."
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This appears to be the correct direct link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main64...
Is it just me or these are all terrible points the guy made? WSJ, fire that guy!
Surprisingly, this allows sending SMS to all operators in Brazil, and just tested on mine. I wonder, how they did it? Did they have to contact each operator and make a deal, or I'm missing something?
Impressive looking demo, looks to be for-pay. All the best to their team!
In the investment domain, cash is shorthand for T-bills, money markets accounts, insured bank deposits. I wasn't referring to actual banknotes. If the banking system fails entirely, banknotes will be equally worthless as accounts.
It's been said before and it will be said again: It's impressive how JavaScript has gone all grown-up on us and what people are creating with it. This is really nifty, a lot of work has gone into it and they have obviously paid attention to detail. Small things like trees not appearing out of nowhere, but with a visual feedback in the form of bouncing when they land and such. I like small touches like that.

The last punch-line of the video with "but does it scale?" did not really impress me, though. I see roughly 30 clients and to be honest, sending off new position of your avatar and a chat of some 60 bytes + headers a couple of times per second does not say anything about scaling. Even if you pass over tiles and map to the clients on-demand.

A lot of work goes into the server in a game like this (more than most people think) due to the fact that you want the server to make all the decisions and calculations of what is going on in the world (to know state and to prevent cheating). Add to that verification of all data to see if what you just received from a client is reasonable.

I have always had a huge interest in multiplayer roleplaying games (massive or not), it goes back to before I started playing MUDs in the beginning/mid 90's. One thing these guys might want to investigate to use for the server-side code is a project called DGD (Dworkin's Generic Driver). It was originally written for MUDs, but its capabilities stretch way beyond that since a server really only serve bits and bytes (graphics not needed). It was always open-source but under a rather restrictive "not for commercial use" license, and there were few companies that could afford buying it. (edit: But it is since a few months back FOSS (AFL)).

The project: http://dgd-osr.sourceforge.net/

I'd love to see this project being used for something like this and I have been tempted beyond belief to start something like this myself.

I am not affiliated with the project in any way except that I've been writing LPC on and off for some 15 years. The project is not very good at selling itself, but rest assured that the codebase is very stable.
In 2006, Motorola traded at a P/E of only about 12, despite huge and rapidly growing profits from its wildly successful RAZR phones. They were nearly as dominant in the cell phone market as Apple is today. Between 2003-2007, Motorola sold roughly 110 million RAZRs, compared with the 50 million iPhones that Apple has sold to date.

Then Apple came out with the iPhone, which was light years better than the RAZR. And further models of the RAZR continued to disappoint.

The Motorola stock that you bought at a P/E of 12 in 2006 has lost nearly 75% of its value today. Motorola runs at a loss now (well, technically they've turned a thin profit in recent quarters, after losing more money in 2008 than they earned in 2006). Its P/E is negative.

Beware P/E ratios. Earnings can head south very quickly, particularly if they're based on one breakthrough tech product.
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All these "weaknesses" can be turned around to be strengths. Much of this is why Apple is successful.
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