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What are the inputs into this manufacturing process? The $100/bbl figure is meaningless, unless we know what the specific inputs are and how stable their prices and availability are. Energy of some sort is obviously a major input, and it's unlikely that oil will spike without having a similar effect on the overall energy market.

So the fact that oil could be manufactured from coal at $100/barrel now doesn't mean that we'll be able to do so when we need it most.
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Agree.

Having used both the Sony Reader and the Kindle and finally the iPad to read books, I'd have to say that the iPad is superior to both. I can't speak for those who have their own experiences so I'm just relating mine like Cody.

I also think it will only be a matter of time before a company comes up with a screen protector that will address the 'glare' and and reflection issues. I've personally never had to deal with them and I've used the iPad both in direct sunlight and under a bright lightsource. Just a matter of angling it another way.
New Mac Pro would be nice... /tapping fingers while waiting...
Developers who want to use the same markup today across different browsers rely on plug-ins.

I'm honestly not sure what they mean by this, either the writer has not expressed his thoughts clearly or there is a severe issue here.

Developers who want to use the same markup across different browsers rely on standards. Each browser supports a sub-set of the complete HTML, JS & CSS standards and the technologies that developers use is, for the most part, the lowest common denominator of that subset for the browsers they are targeting.

Plugins come into their own when you are trying to do something that falls outside the capabilities of the lowest common denominator (Silverlight & Flash being good examples), but they should not be relied upon for the 'bread & butter' of the web, HTML & CSS.
Sometimes, I wonder what a religion would be like with rapid-fire talks anyone could speak at, poster sessions, and critique for every presenter.

Science?

EDIT: Figured I should explain myself lest I get voted down for being snarky. In science, to me at least, a lot seems to be taken on faith. There are many stories of a wrong result being published and scientists later not publishing their own research because it didn't agree with that wrong result. Combine that with the fact that a scientist with lots of published history accumulates more and more credibility and, from the outside, it starts to look like a religion with a self-correcting facility.
In my opinion, the ipad excels when you're reading anything more complex than a linear novel.

I used to own a DX, & I'm sure you can find posts of me praising it... until I got an ipad. The DX is just barely big enough to read arxiv pdfs, so I'm sure the kindle2 is much too small. More importantly, e-ink refresh rate is so slow it's a pain just switching books, or even flipping around a reference book. Then the kindle has a very bad music player & browser, & can't play video. I keep trying to tell people the ipad backlight is a complete non-issue because you can darken it http://imgur.com/h5NEi.jpg . The reflection is a bit of an issue, but you can definately work around it given the other advantages.
You probably intended this at least half tongue-in-cheek,but I imagine this study opens a door to scientific verification of determining what constitutes religous experience, and some very non-religous themed things may qualify for some people.
The headline you've given it makes this sound like they are sharing the info of individual users.

"The service doesn’t say which sections of which specific books a reader has highlighted..."
Not a great idea to find development of an OS you don't control and that can (and will) be used by your competitors.

By buying Palm, HP gets:

- immunity from Apple lawsuits (through MAD)

- a decent patent portfolio on the mobile space

- a decent OS comparable to Apple's

- a reasonable stick with which to coerce Microsoft

Not a bad deal, IMHO
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Ask HN: Anyone out there using web.py or bottle?
We're looking into this for a project. We want to stay in python but don't want/need all the extras a full blown framework like Django/Turbogears provides.

We really only need something with fast url routing/mapping that stays out of the way.

Web.py and Bottle (http://bottle.paws.de/) seem to fit the bill. Anyone out there have any experience with either? Any other frameworks we might look into?
There's a difference between buying futures (which may or may not pay off) and reliably predicting the price of oil.

Also: Southwest buys fuel futures to hedge its exposure, which is different from speculation. People hedge because they don't know what the price will do, and want to be OK regardless of price movements.
Nice. The Palm Ares project (the web-based IDE for doing WebOS development) is also using Bespin.

http://ares.palm.com/Ares/about.html

It's actually a really cool project.
Sounds like the computer is badly infested with viruses, or your employer has mouse tracking enabled ;).
written by an olympic hopeful marathoner - 2:32:59 best marathon time - wow! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera_Moody
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2779/Schjoedt%20et%20al%2C%202010.pd...
Jerf and sp332: Correct, I strongly disapprove of the way public schools function. You correctly interpreted my opinion.
> My biggest fear was of people reading the blog and yawn moving on

yawn

Edit: Aren't posts like these a dime a dozen? I mean, writing about something controversial and submitting posts to social networking sites isn't exactly groundbreaking advice. How does this get to the front page?
A lot of math is related to computer science, and thus would be perfectly suitable for Hacker News (but obviously in less concentration).

How about splitting HN into categories, while still having a main page that displays articles from all categories? It'll never happen, but we can always ask.
I think the ~6 icons was to demonstrate the color scheme (red/green/blue/black) described later in the article.
I really enjoy having a backyard garden. Although it doesn't produce much in the way of food value -- if I'm lucky, I'll get some potatoes, onions, zucchini and corn this year -- I find working in it a few minutes at a time to be stress-relieving and therapeutic, and it's nice to look out the window and see green things growing.

I hope this is a trend that continues for lots of families, actually.

On an unrelated note, I got a kick out of seeing that his revenues jumped "to $54,000" last year. That was my business's second-year gross, and I didn't think it was all that noteworthy.
Thanks for clarifying, seregine. You're correct that a successful vulnerability scan is not conclusive evidence of compliance with the PCI DSS. It's one of the many components of meeting compliance with the PCI DSS. Many requirements are taken into consideration as part of any individual organization's compliance with the PCI DSS.

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an industry standard for anyone who stores, processes or transmits cardholder data (think: credit card numbers). The standard itself covers 12 key requirements for protecting cardholder data with many sub-requirements under each section.

All organizations that store, process, or transmit cardholder data are required to be compliant with the PCI DSS. Based on certain elements, primarily including transaction volume, will determine an organizations "level". Every level is required to comply with the same requirements, but each level may have a different requirement to validate their compliance. Typically, larger organizations are required to have an onsite audit conducted and smaller organizations are able to self-assess.
I am both fascinated and confused by the virtual goods market. I got heavily into Eve Online for a while, where considerable argument goes on about whether purchase of goods with real money (via fungible time credits) undermines or complements the skill element of what is basically a resource management game.

Many other purchases on social rather than highly competitive game platforms, like Second Life and its derivatives, seem to be pure status displays. I know there's a real-world precedent for such in things like Potlatch and other religious ceremonies involving material sacrifice, but I am not sure whether this behavior is adaptive in either economic or social terms. It's been the subject of considerable speculation among academic economists and sociologists, albeit without any firm conclusions that I'm aware of.

$100 billion...wow.
Do you happen to know roughly how many pounds of produce you get out of every 100 square feet?
The second comment on that page is the first thing I thought of.

Sensational headline, obvious results. Nothing much to see here, folks...
Because then you get sites that say "to view this free porn, just install our custom codec", and of course the codec is malware.
The most important thing when taking on something new is to start. Even if you only get the basics over a few days, hopefully that can get you far enough down the trail to boost your motivation to learn more.

The "X in Y Days" pattern is just one of many that can pull in interested, but not significantly motivated, readers. The books, then, should be judged on their abilities to give their readers a good kick in the butt ;-)

Instead of solely teaching syntax and methods, these rapid learning books should devote a lot to teaching people "how to learn" and what routes to take to learn the specific language better.
The NDC number seems to be a very "broad" number, (they seem to be recalling ALL of the outstanding products in these lines) as opposed to recalling some lots from some factories. That's probably good from a safety perspective, but unfortunate in terms of hassle (I'll probably be throwing away a lot of unaffected product).

All of my kids' medicines were affected (9 bottles, 4 different kinds), and a friend found the same.

The official site of the recall: http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/

The form to fill out if you'd like your money back:
https://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/c...

I filled it out yesterday, and haven't heard a response yet. That's unfortunate, since they could at least have an auto-responder acknowledging receipt.
Hasn't seemed to hit the stock price.
Though I haven't looked into it very deeply, I saved this to my evernote account a while ago, and I believe it my be what you're looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Financial_Exchange
The iPhone PDF reading experience is actually better than many 6 or 9 inch eInk devices.
According to that very page, the crack epidemic is over.

Are drugs really the source of most crime? Kinda doubt that.
http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html
Awesome CSS3 Buttons with cool effects like in flash.
If you believe that, it's impossible to have a discussion.
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why asking questions like "what is consciousness"/"why does consciousness exist" doesn't make sense ? it seem like many questions being asked in evolutionary biology/biology/neurology.
I'm afraid you're comparing apples and oranges. The more analogous situation is laypeople reading scientific articles like this one. I imagine the same phenomenon would be observed.

Physicists at lectures are more analogous to other religious scholars (like from other sects). You'd find a lot more skepticism there than in religious lay-people who probably aren't very educated in theology.
Every new codec has had lower fees than the previous generation; by 2015 we should have H.265 which will probably have free streaming as a teaser. Maybe H.264 will be forced to keep its fees lower than the switching cost to H.265.
Neat result, and neat marketing for a neat game - I like this genre. also impressive was the QR code on the homepage - I just installed it by pointing my phone at my monitor. Woah.
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsS...

20 cents per user at most.
I'd gladly use such a keyboard with my MacBook Pro, when it's sitting on my desk. Right now I'm typing on a standard Mac keyboard in my lap, and have to reach up to use the MBP trackpad.
I like the idea but I already know about wufoo.com and askyourtargetmarket.com so you'd have to beat them somehow in order to be interesting to me.
"Energy of some sort is obviously a major input,..."

Unless, of course, the chemical process that converts coal to oil is exothermic, which is not impossible in principle. In this case, the energy conversion efficiency would be less than one, but it still might cost less than changing the oil-based infrastructure so that it consumes coal directly.
My most common iPad uses to date:

- read my RSS feeds and Bloomberg News with my coffee and breakfast, just like I read the newspaper. I never did this with a laptop (too large, too vulnerable) and it's nice to start the day with all my news in one spot. (I also make my scrabble moves during breakfast now.)

- taking notes while in meetings / at a conference. Again, I never liked using laptops for notes because they create a physical barrier between me and the other people in the room. I didn't love paper because I didn't get a digital copy of it, unless I used my logitech pen and special paper, and it was annoying to write with and had mediocre battery life.

- auxiliary information. I now use it in lieu of printing recipes, and I use it constantly while watching sports (there's a great F1 timing and scoring app, and I love having some basic live sports data available while watching sports.)

- 'just in case' laptop. I've taken to bringing it with me in situations where I don't think I need a laptop, but where I could conceivably need better electronic communication / internet / etc than is provided by a blackberry / iphone / etc.

- 'keep the kid occupied' pad. my daughter has some quasi-educational games installed on it, and I have a few videos on it for her. Good for emergency entertainment.

Things it sucks at:

- being a full laptop. It's too small. I haven't tried using a keyboard with it, but I'm also not tempted to do so.
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Sounds almost exactly like Reddit.
Taking failure off the table out of excessive concern for hurting fragile feelings does everyone a disservice

There's more at stake than students' hurt feelings. Your anecdotes aside, statistics show that retaining students is expensive and largely ineffective [1].

What's most dangerous to me is the idea that without the threat of failure there is no incentive to learn.

That's a viewpoint that deserves scrutiny.

It's narrow-minded and serves mostly to blame the student. It also closes the door to examination of alternative ways to best serve the section of the student body most likely to be considered for social promotion.

The other side of the spectrum is standardized testing, which places the blame on teachers and encourages them to narrow their focus to material that will be on the test.

And it's all built around proving that students can fill in the right circles on a standardized test, such that even the successful ones aren't guaranteed to be able to do practical things (e.g. CS majors that can't write a program).

The bottom line is that we are not really teaching. More importantly, we are not teaching kids how to learn, which is the key to motivated students.

[1] http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/99-06.pdf
The numbers on iBooks are cooked. When you download the free app, there is a free download available, Winnie the Pooh, prominently featured. This means they can count 1 download of a book for every free download of iBooks. The fact that there are probably only 500,000 books sold so far does not bode well for the iBooks store.

In my anecdotal experience, the selection is very limited in the iBooks store. I found much wider selection using Kindle, and the Kindle app is pretty nice. The only drawback to using the Kindle app is that it uses Safari to do all of your purchasing, but you're still able to purchase a book in Safari and download it immediately in the Kindle App. Books that cost $9.99 in the iBooks store were $5.99-7.99 on Kindle.

For now, I'm a happy Kindle customer, since all of my library transferred over to my iPad, but if Apple does manage to increase the selection and lower the prices, I might consider shopping there.
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The Bespin API is still pre-release. Changes are usually improvements, but sometimes stuff breaks. Fortunately Mozilla is pretty good about documentation, so https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/docs/embedding/index.html should stay up-to-date.
The problem with your theory is that many banks kept the riskiest tranches of loans for themselves while selling the safer tranches to others. They would only have done this if they believed the underlying mortgages were still good.

Actually, that doesn't necessarily create any problems for Phil's point of view. That tranche of highly risky loans had to be kept by the banks - it was because this high risk stuff had been taken out of the pool that the rest of the pool looked so appealing to investors. However, the calculations to determine what percentage of loans needs to be in the high-risk tranche was very difficult to evaluate, especially if you were the investor seeking to buy the "safe" tranches, and not the bank that had originally sold the loan.
You might be right but that doesn't count the 50 or 60 books I've read on my iPod and I can transfer to the iPad without purchasing anything or downloading anything.

It is to early to estimate how much the iPad will be used for reading based on the number of downloads. Too short a period of time to gather meaningful data.
I suppose I'm in the believer category, and boy does my mind wander when I hear prayer. And during sermons, and pretty much when anybody is speaking. Sometimes I wish I could focus on what somebody else is saying, but usually it's only in the narrow context of somebody speaking directly to me. How do normal people manage it? If somebody was praying TO ME, maybe I could focus better.
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Relaxing this rule a bit, you could code in a RAII fashion. That way, the users of properly written objects won't manage the memory themselves.

Which is exactly my point: between the standard library and smart pointers, many projects will never have to touch any details of memory management.

The implementation of those, however, still have to. A prime example is the STL.

Of course. But you only need one standard library, and many projects can use it. Don't forget your original claim, which I quoted in my previous post: "Many projects don't need to worry about some low levels aspect of the design (if at all)." It's absolutely true that many sizable projects written in modern C++ never have to consider the low-level details of things like memory management, since those details have been pushed into the libraries they use.

Plus, I'm not sure RAII all the way down is "properly written". See, such logic is quite copy-prone, affecting the code's efficiency.

There are ways to mitigate that impact, if it becomes a performance issue, but it rarely does.

Or you could use smart pointers. They mitigate the need for manual memory management, and allow sharing. But even then, you might want to (manually) pay attention to loops in the pointing chains.

That's only a problem for self-referential data structures, of which there are few not already implemented for you in the standard library.
We don’t make software our homes, but we spend 7 - 8 hours a day there
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZo1Jjfshw#t=1m13s
I'm not sure if it is generally, but he does use it for finance.
Humans aren't designed to run that far. But if you start running before you can walk, I'd say your body could adapt pretty well.
IIRC H.264 decode + AAC decode is less than $2. Linux users still wouldn't pay it, though. Fluendo charges significantly more, but they also have pretty low volume.

Also, every ATI or NVIDIA graphics card should already have a licensed decoder in it.
It's really easy. Just download the embedded drop-in package from http://bespin.mozillalabs.com . They also have a build tool that lets you customize the plugins in your embedded build.

Apparently they had a major rewrite recently so many of the awesome old plugins (collaboration, timemachine etc) don't work properly anymore.

I played with it for a little and couldn't even get the commandline to work, but your mileage may vary.

Embedding just the editor is really easy though.
Yeah, I left Java out of my argument because I agree with you 100%. I think Scheme or Ruby would be much better.
Thought about ignoring the haters, but figured I'd just say this: Submitting your own articles to a site dedicated to sharing articles is not spam. I use Hacker News (and other SM sites) to discover new sites, just as other people can discover mine.

And for those who think it's easy to get 50K visits on a blog in the first month (and who've actually done it, as opposed to just talk) then congrats to you, seriously.
but they don't care about what happens before that point in the pipeline.

They most certainly do. The difference is in their point of control. Console makers exercise far more control over who is allowed to develop for their platform, and that control extends to who is allowed to develop middleware. They may or may not have restrictions on programming languages, but they do more generally exercise a degree of control over the tools you're allowed to use. It's difficult to know exactly what is and isn't allowed, as it's all under NDA, but there are certainly some shared motives.

The Xbox 360™ Tools and Middleware Program licenses professional developers of games software tools and games middleware applications to obtain full Xbox 360 Development Kits and to distribute Xbox 360 code to approved Xbox 360 developers and publishers. -- http://www.xbox.com/en-US/dev/tools.htm

3rd Party Tools, QA/Testing, and Localization companies can also apply for Authorized Status using the same Application. You will need to select the appropriate category from the drop-down box in the Application. -- http://www.warioworld.com/apply/

Under this license program, licensees will be entitled to 1) access to development environment and technical information of "PLAYSTATION®3" which is the same as development environment and technical information that licensed game title developers have access to, 2) develop tools and/or middleware to be used in the game title development for "PLAYSTATION®3", and 3) directly provide licensed game title developers with such tools and/or middleware. -- http://www.tmstation.scei.co.jp/ps3/info_e.html
ffmpeg2theora is easy. http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
Great! I just bookmarked you. (Do you mind adding a favicon to the site?)
Dick Cheney returns to political power as an American Hitler laying waste to sovereignty in the Middle East!

Very imaginative. But not very likely.

I think peak cheap oil is likely within the next decade. What a person thinks happens after that says more about the person than it does the future.