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That's somewhat true. Prices rose tremendously across all rare earth metals, and they fallen back notably for some light metals.[1][2] That said, they remain high for heavy rare earth elements (HREEs), where China still dominates production.[3] (Mountain Pass is predominately a light rare earth element-producing mine).

Bottom line: The rare earth story only partially supports your point. That said, the lead time for a new mine is 5+ years, and solar manufacturing lead times may be much lower (and thus barriers to entry also lower).

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/business/global/prices-of-...
[2] http://www.metal-pages.com/metalprices/cerium/
[3] http://www.metal-pages.com/metalprices/terbium/
Have you played with a Fire?

Amazon totally forked Android and ripped out all of the google bits, all of the default UI and made it into their own OS.

It's Android in that it will run Android apps but that's it.

In all other ways, Amazon's Android is competing with Google's Android, which is one of the reasons Amazon don't describe it as an Android tablet unless they are talking to developers.

It's actually a really interesting strategy, although from an Open Source perspective it's always a shame when companies fork successful projects for their own goals.
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True. But surely they could charge a minimal subscription fee (say $2,000 a year) that kicks in above a certain usage threshold . Hopefully many companies that use the Facebook platform would find it worth $2,000/yr to save their developers' time and morale.
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I'm a current student and I've slowly put together a number of websites - class projects, personal projects, contract work, etc. What is the best way to display these for prospective employers? I see many of you have personal websites, what other things have you all done?

Edit: I was wondering much more basic things. For example, what mediums do you even use for a portfolio? Github? Can you just forward them a list of URLs?
Don't forgetting that there were touch devices prior to it, but those needed a stylus. Of course you could touch the screen for response, but those were not designed for such use.

Jobs success was in understanding that the first thing you needed to do to make tablets popular was to throw out the stylus.
> I found their profile page more interesting: http://grabass.ecquire.com/NerdAlert They sound crazy, fun, and crazy smart.

I can attest that all of these facts are true. Tal and Paul are great guys - I've had the pleasure of getting to know them over the past 4 months as my cohort mates in GrowLab.
So being able to mimic nuanced mannerisms on reddit is now a marketable social media skill...
I really do have to agree. I got a Kindle Fire and I love it. I haven't really noticed any "terrible" aspects. It's not perfect but my experience has been good far more often than it has been bad.
He probably just meant "flamebait."
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What I find impressively Optimistic is that not only is there significant info on board about Humans (anatomy and such), there is a complete record of how to find us.

This reflects the belief that any Interstellar intelligence that encounters it will be benign or at least not aggressive enough to come looking for us or even worse tries to take us out with a remote hit for reasons unfathomable to us.

This is probably the Cosmic version of the belief "People are basically Good".
So, just what IS the problem with Windows Phone?
I'm sure there are PR flaks that would list that as a skill.

It's not a million miles away from startups and tech companies encouraging their most personable employees to hang out on HN and other places to help increase the profile of said company.
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I can't speak for him, but I never use Facebook auth to prevent scumbags from getting a bunch of info about me including a list of my friends with no questions asked.
Let's see where this goes! Should be interesting what we can do about ideas in the next couple of hours.
Isn't online poker a "contest"?
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a) What questions would you ask?
b) Why do you trust Facebook and not another site with that information?
c) What do you define as a 'scumbag'?
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I just went through a job search a couple of months ago. The big thing to remember is everybody has like a ten second attention span. So you really need to limit what you say. Make sure the B items in your portfolio aren't stealing attention from the A items.
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If your business is growing too fast for you to have time for anything else, that might be a good reason to take a break from college.

If you're doing badly in your classes, that might be a good reason to revisit your study habits.
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Yes, this is finally happening. The fact that states like Nevada and California are pushing for intra-state legislation will probably make the federal government scurry to pass a bill (likely HR2366, which everyone speculated would pass by Thanksgiving of this year). While sites like PartyPoker could hypothetically start allowing Americans to play right now, they aren't going to ruin their chance to tap into the market without getting formal licenses, whether that happens at a state or federal level.

The brick and mortar casinos will be the first candidates to get licenses to run real money sites regardless, and guys like myself will have to pull some strings to get our little platforms into the market. But hey, there's always the Zynga poker business model (sell X play chips for $Y; no prizes for winning aside from being able to play in "high stakes" play money games) to tide us over until then.

The first decade of the twenty-first century was the "wild west" of online poker. A number of times I've had my bankrolls on various sites disappear as they shut down and run with the money- similar to getting robbed at gunpoint in a high stakes showdown in the days of the Texas road gamblers, or Mississippi riverboat poker games. We're headed for a safe, regulated form of the American pastime, and although it will likely be taxed viciously, there is a very good chance that we'll see another poker boom like that started when Chris Moneymaker won the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker.
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> Would people really say Oh screw it, I'll just stay with GoDAddy?

Yes, actually they would. Or more likely, they intend to, only have small time slices and take weeks or months longer to leave.

Aggregated across millions of subscribers, and this adds up to big $$$, some of which can pay a high-priced spokesmodel to defray a large amount of the downsides.
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There's actually a plan to replace syslog with something that's easier to create tools for.

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1IC9yOXj7j6cdLLxWEBA...
You might be surprised by how much the current generation of twenty- and thirty-somethings looks like the baby boomers politically by the time they reach that age. Getting married, getting older, and having children tends to change one's political opinions in predictable ways, and this is one of them.
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Your statement on prostitution is completely false, or at best very outdated. While it's a tangent to the main discussion, I feel obligated to correct it for the purpose of other people reading the comments.

The vast majority of prostitutes in the USA and similar countries are choosing the occupation of their own free will because it pays far better than alternatives. And a large fraction are now entirely independent, with no pimp or other structure involved. The "prostitutes are sex slaves" line is a myth propagated by organizations who would like you to believe this.
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I like that the idea is easy to understand, but there is not enough information available on the site to answer many of the questions going through my mind as I think "Do I want to pay $100 for this?" By saying "can reduce ambient noise by up to 30db" that's just not selling the product enough.

I'm thinking to myself: will this muffle my headphones? what does an apple/bose/etc headset with your silicone attachment look like? Are some of these universal (can an apple one be used for another earpiece as well?) Will it look fashionable? Noticeable? People already have in-ear headphones (though they may fall out), but how does this method compare in quality?

There are just many of these questions that you need to address before you can expect people to throw a Benjamin at you. More pictures of "exactly what this will look like" would be helpful.

I'm not sure if you've considered a return policy. I understand this is quite a custom job, but having a good return policy may definitely ease people's payment tensions as well. Hard to decide.

Best of luck.
Sometime last fall, Facebook blew away their entire developer wiki. A month or two afterwards was my first experience seriously engaging their platform since early 2008, and many of the tutorials and search results out there on the web still pointed to the smoking remains of the wiki -- which hadn't actually been 404'd, they just lead to Bing searches roughly topically related to what had been there before.

As best I could discover, the rationale was apparently concern over two sets of docs -- their own official docs and a community maintained one.

It's less clear what made them decide a half-assed official effort would be a better plan than combining whatever clearly limited internal resources they were throwing at the problem with a world of developers that is, despite persistent stories of abuse, apparently still interested in working with them.

If nothing else, curating and augmenting a community-led effort would have radiated a considerably smaller degree of contempt for the effort already put into it.

I kindof suspected at the time that decision tells you most of what you need to know about how much FB cares about the experience developers are generally having with their platform, and I have to say, I haven't seen much to convince me otherwise.
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Most of my reading is done in bed or on my couch, neither of which has great reading light. The LCD is perfect for this.

Maybe it's the years I've spent in front of a computer, but staring at a screen in the dark doesn't bother me at all. Maybe I'll regret it someday.
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The "beserker equilibrium" hypothesis is a fun thought experiment, but it seems unlikely to me. Robin Hanson did a particularly good job writing about this here:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/12/berserker-breakout.htm...
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You could easily make a small unix filter that takes the json logs in, and spits out strings with "%date : %short_message" from them - enabling you to use them just like all of your other one-line-per-entry unixy plain logs.

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There is no reason to have two sets of logs. JSON is human readable (with effort), and of course you can make a very small filter that will make it even moreso if you don't want to adapt at all.

Machine-readable logs are a win. JSON is very close to providing the holy grail, machine _and_ human readable.
I wrestled with the idea of not posting the OP for a minute but I figured that it should have a spot on HN because it was of user experience interest and also sheds a little more light on the effects that stirring a beehive can have.

Biz decisions that begin on shaky policies affect many. Start ups are seeing once again the mess that quickly forms from taking a bad stand and then mishandling the aftermath.

The Namecheap response was careful and not added to the original blog perhaps in an effort to stop the tit for tat responses. It was relegated to a comment.

I appologize if I was adding to the drama but then again a little drama is sometimes interesting even for HN readers.
namecheap appears to be blurring the line of "stopping sopa" and "boycotting godaddy".

You can choose to boycott a single company based on the lines of disagreeing with their core values, that's great to do! Show them you're pissed for their support of a bill you dislike, but this is not enough to stop SOPA.

Writing your representative helps stop SOPA, being involved helps stop SOPA, bringing yourself up to speed with the bill's progress will help. I hope that no one feels their action to address this matter stops with just transferring domains.
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not to mention, godaddy was almost defiantly public in their support for the bill
I think the question is really twofold as Java in the enterprise and Java for the general hacker have very different use cases.

The enterprise space is where java still lives and breathes, and in that area I don't see play making any immediate headway. Spring and JSF will probably remain top candidates. I wouldn't clump JSF with struts just yet, with the release of JEE6 and JSF2 it has gained new traction. I'm no fan though and would love to see Spring dominate.

In the personal hacker space Play is great, but grails is pretty awesome too.

As for the next few years, I think it really depends on how Java 8 is implemented. I think the JDK has a healthy future, but If java remains a part of it will depend on a healthy implementation of closures
The http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g... link you mention needs extra attention. I just moved my final domain from godaddy to namecheap last night. I didn't have this tutorial at the time, but this is the process I used and it worked flawless. I started the process about midnight...took less than an hour of fiddling around in total...this morning, the transfer is complete and safely in namecheap's hands ;)

The reason I want people to read Jeff's article is because a year ago I did about 35 xfers from godaddy and it was not as easy as it is today. Now, I would almost call the process "painless".
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I expected you to include something about why you were looking for something "Debian-like" due to Debian not being an option. My answer to your question, is of course, Debian!
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You keep mentioning the price. The price is not an excuse to ship a crappy product.

The iPod Touch starts at $200 and it's a great product.
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FWIW, this was the post that made me move my domains out from godaddy. Seems like it shows clearly that Godaddy's product is not high quality rather than just their company's stand on SOPA.

I don't generally feel that I can sanely make all of my product decisions based on the political/moral/etc positions of the companies involved. Not that I wouldn't love to, but it just doesn't seem manageable.
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I'll mention this to the community and see if these files can get a longer-lasting distribution mechanism.
The UIGEA no longer applies to internet poker because internet poker is no longer unlawful (the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act).
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GoDaddy stories has been flooding Hacker News and technology.reddit.com for quite a while now. I don't think this will be their last PR move.
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If he had been good, he wouldn't have linked to tvtropes in the first place ;).
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I think tablets before the iPad would have taken whatever they could get, but they couldn't make it in any market. Apple had to wait for many planets to align before they could make their move:

- It wasn't until the web that any new consumer computing platform was viable whatsoever.

- Even then, the new platform had to start as a phone, so people had an excuse to buy it (well, I need a phone anyway...) and so the carriers could subsidize it.

- All the technology needed to be there, and cheap: a responsive multitouch sensor, a GPU for smooth interface animation, a backlit color screen, gigs of solid state storage, hardware video codecs, batteries that last for days, durable glass/metal enclosure, and probably all sorts of little things that we don't even notice.

My point is that the iPad's success wasn't about being first. It was essentially about being last.
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You are right. There are other companies working on the same problems as Elon Musk. However, what really impresses me about him is that he invested all the cash he made off of PayPal into the companies he's working on now. He could have stopped after PayPal, but he didn't.
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Maybe my tastes have just changed, but the quality of the discussion in that AMA is far worse than i remember them being. About half the root questions, and maybe 10% of the followup threads are decent. Maybe it's just because GoDaddy is a hot topic on reddit right now, and so drags out those without much to say, but it's sad to see.
Has anyone looked at How to Design Programs? http://www.htdp.org/

It seems to steer away from PL details and focus more on how to design programs and think about programming.
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Just as the WP entry says, I experience it just after lying down to sleep. Probably happens 10 or 20 times a year. A loud banging, crashing, or tearing sound occurs in my head. My heart rate goes through the roof immediately, but it's not scary at all. It's very odd. :D
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Now, obviously the author is engaging in hyperbole, and doesn't really think people should sacrifice "whatever it takes." But that just goes toward my point. We know it's unnecessary to say it to prove we're serious, so why don't we stop using it and replace it with real-life language based on commitment, intelligence, trust, and hard work?
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