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I'd like to know just how many tons of rare earths we have to import from China to run wind farms.

And why couldn't solar panels be developed without them?

Why not put a few tens or hundreds of billions (a tiny fraction compared to TARP or how much the US spends on the military) in to research in to these technologies to make them less dependent on rare earths?

But, as for the availability of rare earths outside China:

"As China slashes exports of rare earth elements, U.S. mine digs for more"

"Molycorp Inc., which owns the open mine, plans to dig out about 40,000 tons of dirt a year by 2014, up 1,200% from the current rate of about 3,000 tons.

The Colorado company is boosting production to meet an insatiable global appetite for rare earth elements..

The mine, about 16 miles from the Nevada border, has one of the world's largest deposits of rare earth elements outside Asia..

The company is spending more than $500 million to modernize and rebuild the 2,200-acre facility. The project is expected to create hundreds of permanent jobs and eventually produce rare earths at cheaper rates than mines in China."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rare-earth-20110220,0,...

also:

"China's monopoly of the supply of strategic "rare earth" minerals will end when the Australian mining corporation Lynas brings a massive new refining plant in Malaysia into operation later this year...

The company has invested about $230 million in a refinery covering about 20 hectares which in September is due to start processing about 11,000 tonnes of rare earth oxide a year."

http://www.vancouversun.com/China+lose+monopoly+rare+earth+m...
For this specific task, I think the shortest Perl, as I've mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2326372 is just

$,="\n"; print 1..1000
And the dragon is Grisù: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gris%C3%B9_(serie_animata)

Both are Italian cartoons created by the Pagot brothers. Probably they have some fans among Samsung engineers :)
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7000 microsieverts/year is what we are talking about.

Still, that's 175 plane rides from ontario to vancouver.
It's an interesting point. I think MS's courting of kinect hackers signifies that they haven't quite figured out what it's for yet. They know they're sitting on an awesome piece of hardware, and damned if they know what to make of it. Right now it's Wii++ and they know it could be so much more, but they don't know what. They're looking for inspiration from those who really do see its potential.

Really, this is a microcosm of MS in the Ballmer era. They still have incredible engineering talent, but they have no vision.
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I don't actually but the 4-bit micro mentioned below sounds cool.

I am currently working on an atmega project and have hopes of bringing such a "self-hosted" programming environment to the device, which I'll post to HN when I get it working.
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Yeah, that's what I meant, I was just being imprecise. Another form of it is that it appeals to one's sense of fairness, as well as a government's sense of duty to promoting a healthy economy, that a company that invests a huge amount of money on an uncertain bet shouldn't be allowed to be undercut easily.

What I was saying is that the initial formulation and vetting of the chemical is the hard part, so that's the part that should be protected, not the relatively trivial manufacturing component.
At this rate, an average person would still be under 1/7th the ALI for a worker in a field of radiation, assuming rate was held for a year (limit is 50 mSv, or 50000 uSv
Mine couldn't have been the only school at which tau was already taken when messing around with time and the f. transform?
While this is an interesting article, the title is a little misleading.

The use of that particular technology could be used to warn people of a problem, but only after the initial fact. This would be useful to warn people of a tsunami or a nuclear disaster, however this technology would not warn people that an earthquake was coming....that would be the holy grail of earthquake warning systems.
This actually is a socialist suggestion. I do not like government handouts.

What I would support is tax credit: if you feel like doing a startup, under some rules, the government could give you a $100k tax credit.

Giving away $100k for people to put businesses into the ground doesn't seem smart to me. Otoh, each business is supposed to make money and if you don't become profitable, might as well shut down.
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What about the profits? Shipping, stocking and moving around physical books has got to be more expensive than marking up racks of computers and bandwidth.
I dunno, I'm rather fond of people forcing pie into my hands on Pi Day...
Seems to make sense to me. "Library audio/visual." If you're preparing to use libav/libavcodec and expect it to be user-friendly this is the least of your problems.
I don't know. I thought they appreciated it when I gave it.
It was directed by Taito Kawata from a company called Cocoa. There were three of us in Pakistan to shoot this.
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Yes, would definitely be interesting to find out how they maintain the quality and release so often. Would be a good data point to see if they use any of the agile processes and any tweaks they have done to make it work for them.
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Best quote:

"The last big tsunami scare in Hawaii turned out to be mere inches. But it's not news unless you show the worst case scenario. So all night long, the news showed coverage of the tsunami destroying Japan. We waited for our turn, able to visualize the worst case scenario in creepy detail. "
Seconded.

I first tried Rackspace Cloud, who would send me frequent marketing-style e-mails with stock photos of intelligent-looking office employees, ask me to participate in raffles, and other nonsense that I would quickly filter.

I much prefer seeing new feature announcements from AWS in my inbox! (And on HN.)
any clues if broadcast / multicast will be allowed on my private subnets? The article makes no claims one way or another...
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If you want it, go get it. Don't expect to master programming easily. Surely if you want to do something, and have been successful in the industry for 12 years, you can achieve it. Don't have the aptitude/analytical skills? Obtain them. It's all about motivation. It's your life, make of it what you will.
I'm almost more OK with that than the VLC people. It's not that I have anything against VLC, but they recently did an AMA on Reddit and it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. The primary thing the VLC team gets credit for is being able to play pretty much anything you throw at it, but that's the product of a lot of DSP work that me and mostly a ton of other people a lot more talented than me did. If VLC came out and said "we make graphics frontends and command line options" that would be one thing, but there was a trend to accept the praise without coming out and saying that they weren't responsible for most of the work. It was especially frustrating for me because I actually dislike a lot of the UI/UX decisions that VLC made, which was their primary contribution to the media player.

I understand it when unscrupulous people rip off FFmpeg, but I had hoped there would be more honor among fellow OSS developers.
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Interestingly, it's a word by word translation of the English phrase so it doesn't make any sense in Russian. I don't know if those reverse engineers would have guessed what it meant.
Quoted:
"I couldn't help but wonder while reading this comment--have you ever experienced any sort of discrimination or are you a member of any minority group (person of color, gay, non-christian, etc.)?"

You specifically asked if I experienced discrimination or was a minority. I answered accurately.

So I need to "stop to consider" if VC's are mostly bad apples based on a few anecdotes on a site that caters to women, but national DOJ statistics are doubtful? Are you serious?

Perhaps you're right, I'm missing the point, what exactly are you trying to say?
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They keep on talking about how advanced japanese nuclear reactors are. But they simply aren't. None of the western type nuclear reactors in service are anything like well designed. and I'm pro-nuclear.

They rely on active safety - systems have to be working in order to keep the system safe, and from meltdown. Rather than passive systems - where you have to work to keep the reaction going. Designs like pebble bed reactors and liquid thorium/salt have been proven to be reliable. Rip the top off a PBR reactor and it just cools down.
Sure, it's just a story of basic human decency, the kind we see in all sorts of crises.

But stories are a big way that cultural values are transmitted and reinforced. The latter is important.
I take it you didn't read the link I posted, or you'd have noticed that the mine that released all that radioactive crap was owned by Molycorp Inc. Yes, the same one you're talking about.

Wind can't do base load power, either. Maybe someone will work that out by, I don't know, storing the energy in a flywheel or something. But they haven't done so yet. It's also dependent on our solar energy budget (as is solar, obviously). Conservation of energy is a pain, but no one knows how to violate it yet.
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Notice the TSA's rationalization for harassment -- he must have been sent in by terrorists to get them to reduce or interfere with their security measures. Of course the thought that he is a brave citizen protesting the abrogation of one of our basic rights doesn't occur to them. Don't get me started on how absolutely moronic and inefficient it is to treat every like a terrorist. Their goal is not to stop terrorists, it is the normalization of a police state.
I like that about Klose :-)

I disagree about Barton - which language consistently repeats past mistakes and is liable to stab you in the eye?
Actually at that level chronic radiation a positive. Long term research on a large group of people in Taiwan living in somewhat radioactive buildings showed significantly lower cancer rates than the populace a whole.

http://toshuo.com/2009/chronic-low-level-radiation-good-for-...
Reposting piguy314's [dead] reply:

It's instructive that we've already engineered ways of preventing the problems TEPCO is experiencing at their Fukushima. Many newer reactor designs have a passive residual heat removal system that removes decay heat even without electrical power to run cooling pumps.

http://www.ap1000.westinghousenuclear.com/ap1000_psrs_pccs.h...
They're probably following the same strategy they used in retail: undercut everyone and go for long-term market share domination.

I'd bet they're still significantly in the red every year. Eventually they'll get big enough to start skimming a few points of profit off the top. Margins will always be low because that's a huge part of their strategy.
Interesting. Not hacker news, though.
Agency says stored nuclear fuel burned in Japan
You probably meant "i.e.". "e.g." means "for example".
Actually had a similar idea a few years back and did a bunch of research. Two big things came up:
1) The tension is making guys look good without "taking the thought out of thoughtfulness." 2) How many new and unique suggestions are you really going to be able to give? After ten or so, they start to get stale or obvious.

Btw, re the counter you can fake the number just to see if it works/test something.
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Android sells ... a lot. That's what's better. One would assume that if it sells well, then it must be good enough to compete with other modern mobile platforms.
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Be constant. Have a daily program. Ask others. AND TURN OFF THE INTERNET (or any other distraction source) while you are working.
Yeah, "the next-generation Web" of the previous generations. There's no support for:

— HTML5 forms. More precisely, <input>s with types of "search", "tel", "url", "email", "datetime" (even more, anything of /^date.*/), "number", "range", "color"; <select>, <datalist>, <progress> and <meter> elements. Also no support for :valid, :invalid, :optional and :required selectors.

— "placeholder" (!), "autofocus", "autocomplete" and "multiple" attributes.

— HTML5 history API (let's all enjoy the hashbang kludges)

— HTML5 drag and drop

— HTML5 app cache

— Microdata

— IndexedDB

— FileReader and FileWriter APIs

— WebSockets

— WebGL

— Web Workers

(Source: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/ie/115460/#comment_3739820 [in Russian]. The list contains only features that are supported by at least one browser.)
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It's a superb name for an audio/video library.
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When you talk about the richest country in the world, are you referring to Qatar or Luxembourg?

According to the IMF and CIA World Factbook, Qatar has the highest GDP (PPP) per capita. According to the World Bank, it's Luxembourg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
Thanks for the great pointer; totally forgot about this project :D
These numbers are still very very small.

I'm sitting in Tokyo right now working away on my codebase. No need to get worked up over nothing and so far it is nothing. A lot of my friends (mostly foreigners in Tokyo) are getting on trains out to Kyoto or Osaka. I think that's fine; maybe it's better to be safe than sorry. Maybe it's the cynical New Yorker in me but I feel like I've seen too many of these scares before. Sometimes you just have to turn off the TV/Twitter/whatever and get back to work.

Who knows, maybe in a few hours or days I'll be heading out too. I think it's unlikely. Right now, I don't think there's a need .
Real costs associated with building out a datacenter are significant. I'd be surprised if building and operating a warehouse comes anywhere near the cost of building and operating a datacenter.
You've got things like generators, HVAC, PDUs, electrical engineering, network equipment, non-H2O fire suppression systems (not to mention the cost of the racks, systems and power itself) that make a datacenter a pretty hefty investment.

Even if you amortize the cost, it's amazingly expensive.
Exactly. People who make fortunes off these markets are selling.

Only half of them are selling; you can't sell unless you can find someone who'll buy at the price you want ;)
Aha the author. I enjoyed your article, but I might be biased as I love football and I quite like C!
I don't know why the caption says 7x

From the table in 2003 male/female incarcerated: 1,316,495/92,785
I disagree. It has not been shown overwhelmingly to be safe. It has not been shown as something that can be safe.
I can't begin to tell you how much happy I am by the fact that IE9 has been released and I don't freaking care, it doesn't affect my work at all and I don't have to support it or even look at it anymore.

I'm sorry for my fellow devs that still have to mantain Internet Explorer, I hope you can at least share my happiness vicariously.
You answered accurately but choose to answer only one part. And to that I still say " that's interesting."

"Have you stopped to consider it may be way more than a few in this instance?" Key words there in this instance. I asked you to consider that in the context of what we're talking about there can be more than a few VCs that are bad apples.

And in regards to DOJ stats, again, it's about context. I mentioned their methodology citing specific examples putting the numbers in context. You in turn don't reply to that instead you respond to my general statement at the end? And then act as if there is something wrong with my argument? What's the point of this if you don't address any of my substantive points and go for the easy quick shots. If you can't offer responses that are actually based on the substance of my comments why even bother responding? You don't have to answer. I was interested in a discourse, but this has devolved in to something that is not that. Have a nice night.
"Don't try to catch a falling knife" is an important phrase to remember at a time like this.
But BP sells oil. That is inherently profitable.
So how do I expect to travel 30 miles to work again? Bike my way there?
Why is TeX still used? What are some good, modern alternatives?
Well, OK... C is ugly. That doesn't hinder that it is also beautiful.

I did C for ten years, on and off. I stopped. C is an old love where the break up wasn't bad, it was just me that changed.

I realised what I really liked -- to get shit done! That is, to take an idea or a specification and make it exist in the "real" world. That implies the importance of speed, so I can get to the next idea. C just isn't for maximising speed of development, unless for really low level stuff.

Sometimes, I mourn a bit for what could have been.
I watched the whole thing. I think that most people would be shocked by the things Shuren and Latta said, if only they had heard them.

Thanks for posting this!
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Plenty of programming related topics bore me. I couldn't read a Java, SAP, Oracle XYZ tutorial without snoozing.

Maybe you just haven't found a topic that resonates with you. It's perfectly possible that includes all programming related stuff, but it could also be that you haven't found the right thing.

People often discover something that inspires them. Try a big variety of things. Maybe you will find embedded hardware hacking to be interesting or whatever.

I wouldn't try to force yourself into liking something that you don't like. Life is too short to do things you're not passionate about.

Maybe you should even change careers if there's already something else you're passionate about. Maybe programming could become a hobby.
Yesterday I heard somebody who was responsible for a nuclear power plant in Europe speak on the radio (in Europe too). He said they were prepared for a malfunctioning valve, power outage etc. (predictable events) but they weren't actually prepared for the case that everything happens at once.
Nah, neither, I was using raw GDP. Those countries don't have politico-economic systems which funnel large chunks of their populations into either incarceration or the military. Forbes list also seems appropriate for the discussion given the 'very rich' theme going on.

Care to dig up those rates/expenditures per capita?
No. Just write a human-accessible post on your company blog. No one likes to read a press release. Not users and certainly not the press.
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You don't have to, you just need to find a market with better users (or go into the mobile sphere, where there are really only two browsers).

Or give up on the idea that everybody has to see you page in exactly the same way - as long as it works and isn't totally broken, who cares?
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Most programming (maybe 90% or more, depending on what you're doing) is boring.

The exciting stuff comes when you're learning, debugging, or architecting. (Dealing with other people's horrible code, the build process, deployment, etc., can also be "exciting," but they aren't sexy.) When there's nothing challenging you and everything's just running smoothly, it's just really straightforward, simple stuff that will put you to sleep, and the downfall of a lot of programmers is to try to make it more exciting than necessary(amazing new architectures, savage optimization, burying everything in tests/types/patterns blindly).

So the key to learning, I think, is not just to "start small and work your way up," but to try to make the small projects exciting, and gradually build up to the big and boring ones, but always striving for some occasional challenges along the way.

I did bits of programming, off and on, from an early age, but did not have a major breakthrough until college, and still did not consider myself a "programmer" until fairly recently. The breakthrough came from getting a good formal treatment of CS topics(particularly data structures) in a lecture setting. I needed that to see the possibilities.
Just found this article which claims "No radiation peril foreseen for California"

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I keep hearing this but when you compare the same machine you get on Slicehost or linode with the Amazon prices, Amazon ends up being the most expensive.

I use Amazon because of it's convenience and brand name, but I've always seen it as having a decent premium.
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Historically, markets overreact to bad news.

It depends on how bad the news really is, e.g. how damaged Japan's infrastructure actually is, as a whole. You need to judge this with facts, not on what other investors do, efficient market hypothesis notwithstanding.

FWIW, I don't know enough of the facts to make a decision. I do have a feeling that the Japanese people will rebound vigorously, as they did after WWII.
Gee, thanks for the downvote. Why don't you come on over to Tokyo and we can have a chat about it.
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