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I see peak oil differently. Peak oil/energy really is meaningless as an absolute. The only thing that really can matter is peak supply relative to demand, because this is what forces prices up and market changes. Oil hit this peak decades ago and is continuing to crunch slowly. Coal is likely to hit this peak soon, primarily because the cost of extraction is going up compared to yields. This means relative shrinking in supply regardless of what is in the ground.

What this means to me is that energy prices, which have been supply constrained since the mid-1970's are going to continue to go up by fits and starts, and occasionally go down but it's a ratchet overall. This does have huge ramifications all across the economy. It won't be a drastic end like many of the peakers predict but a very slow crunch.

In other words, the current economic troubles will continue by fits and starts more or less since they have since oil stopped being a demand-constrained commodity. I think you can trace most of the economic problems in recent decades to instability and supply constraints regarding energy. This has also helped fraud along, as in the case of Enron.

The more we can do without oil, the more we can do. But energy return on investment is an important problem to solve and it isn't clear we have sufficient solutions available.
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IF you are the author you are free to license your work under as many licenses as you want, and not bound by the GPL at all - you inherently have that right.

The rest - agreed.
I've been pretty happy with MyLifeOrganized. And while not officially supported, the author does try to make sure it runs well in wine.
I think they were doing fine until they got joined up with Intel. Drove the nice Maemo stuff to the ditch with the failed attempt to merge it with Moblin (-> Meego).

Intel and Microsoft... good partners - but only with each other :)
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From BP Oil:

"World proved natural gas reserves at end-2011 were sufficient to meet 63.6 years of production"

That's at current rates. If we were to switch to an exclusively natural gas infrastructure, this number would of course drop sharply. Natural gas is an appealing alternative, but there just isn't enough of it. And before anyone whips out the old "they'll just find more" canard - not really. The primary reserves of natural gas we're tapping now have been known about for a long, long time, and there are few new discoveries in the pipeline. A similar situation exists with Petroleum.
Was the iOS youtube app built by Google or Apple?
For some reason I'm lead to believe that the youtube app was built by Apple using the Youtube Api because it feels very Apple like and unlike many of Googles other apps.

And mainly because it sucks, I reckon this is the best thing that could happen Apple dropping the youtube app maybe finally we can get a decent app.

Cheers
Then you're right to stay off SO:

"All contributions are licensed under Creative Commons and this site is collaboratively edited, like Wikipedia. If you see something that needs improvement, click edit and help us make it so!
[..]
If you are not comfortable with the idea of your contributions being collaboratively edited by other trusted users, this may not be the site for you"

http://stackoverflow.com/faq#editing
It feels kind of verbose some times but with a good IDE like IntelliJ it's really not that bad. Hopefully Kotlin will take off on Android and eliminate a lot of the verbosity.

Obj-C on iOS isn't much better really though.
> Their platform [...] has a tiny user base

A platform. That does not even exist yet. Has a tiny user base.

We have a genius here.
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The cloud sync is just too little, too late for them. iCloud and the Reminders app on Mountain Lion covers 99% of the iOS/Mac cloud-sync'd task management needs now. They definitely took far too long to release v2.
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The sensor is black and white. This lets them collect the most accurate information about how much light hits each part of the sensor. To take a color image they put a color filter in front of the lens, then they can recolor the black and white image according to the color of the filter. If they take multiple pictures with different filters, they can reconstruct a color image. http://areo.info/mer/
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Is it at all legal for Amazon to selectively disable it's services for no real reason? I'm surprised that it looks like this.
I have the exact same habit and have been criticized for that by anyone reading my screen at the same time
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I worked in the same building as Tom Duff when I was at Pixar and once told him how chuffed I was to be working with the inventor of Duff's Device himself.

He told me he hoped that in the end he'd be remembered for all the other work he did and not his "device".
Putting your server outside the US does not put you outside of US law. The legal system takes a pretty dim view of "clever hacks" like that, actually.
Don't forget to add the even more ambitious Elon Musk into your list... SpaceX and Tesla.
Here is the thing that tech writers seem to forget... You don't need to be Facebook or Twitter to be successful, especially if you have paying customers.

People will pay for hosting. Look at Wordpress. Wordpress is a nice free platform, but plenty of companies make great money hosting Wordpress for paying customers.

Why wouldn't people pay for their own hosted twitter like service? If App.net can pull that off, then there is probably a business there. It isn't maybe a billion dollar a year business, but with a small team 7 or 8 figures a year is nothing to sneeze at.
I really liked the article - it was very coherent and easy to follow.

BTW, is there a full-res movie of the descent? I've only seen the 'thumbnails' stitched together of the heat-shield and the parachute.
Ugh.

I hate the "bros" that inhabit many startup companies these days.
If that's true, the "College thing he doesn't miss:" detail is also highly misleading, since it too implies they used to be in college.
I can access the full article on WSJ [1]. I don't have a WSJ subscription.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044351710457757...
Your definition of Peak Oil is not the accepted definition. Peak Oil literally refers to the production curve of a single - or set of - oil fields, and the point at which their production is maximized, and then declines sharply thereafter. Supply and demand are secondary considerations until demand destruction is so far gone that no one wants oil anymore. Until then, the questions are, have we arrived at the peak yet, and if so, how fast do we end up falling down the decline curve?
Enforced rudeness is weird.
> GPLv2 is an anti-collaborative license

I see quite the contrary.

Any license that allows you to release your derived work as a proprietary and closed-source decreases the amount of collaboration because now nobody else can collaborate on your proprietary fork. One of the reasons for, say, IBM not to give part of AIX to FreeBSD, is that they fear, justifiably, HP may take their collaboration and incorporate it into HP-UX, giving it an advantage over IBM's proprietary product. If IBM incorporates some übercool part of AIX into Linux, HP cannot use that to benefit HP-UX. Fear of becoming an organ donor is lessened because the receiver can't run away with your liver.
How is the last part any different? The server still renders HTML with a JS block requesting your view data (via JSON) and then the JS code (using Angular) renders it.
It is sometimes useful, but there is almost always a better way; the real virtue of duff's device is that it can sometimes give "good enough" performance while maintaining (relative) simplicity.
In the 80s and 90s, the community toying with systems including gaining access to it referred to themselves as hackers. Those who broke ciphers and copyright protection were crackers, and those who hacked voice telecommunications systems were phreakers.

It's only outside of the community, in the media, that I first discovered that the term 'cracker' was used to refer to hackers gaining unauthorized access to computer systems instead of, well, crackers.
That it hasn't yet released doesn't mean we don't know what we're looking at in terms of a market. 60,000 committed users is a spectacularly tiny user base.

I'd bet money (and am in fact betting my own time, which isn't entirely dissimilar) that the userbase of modern Android devices--say, from as far back as the Nexus One phone to the current Nexus 7 tablet--is so much bigger that if even one in twenty users care about games it's a more viable market.
Some of the images, and the one I used for my comparison, are from the Mastcam, I believe.

The MAHLI is the only visible light camera that hasn't been used at this point.
The keyboard buttons I used for Command-Space look pretty black.
"I think one of the issues with the thesis that oil prices will lead to a drop in globalization is that it's actually quite fuel-efficient to ship goods."

Manufacturing them, on the other hand....
Supposedly a pick pocket places a sign (or locates near one). People seeing a warning check their pockets for their wallets/valuables thus showing the pick-pockets where to find the valuables.
But were not talking about ourside the US were talking about the US, and unfortuinitly it is political. Sticking our heads in the sand and pretending that roughly half the population won't disregard everything your working on to get two bullet points off your list is just stupid.

Also this idea that science is underpinned by evolution and cliement science is laughable. I guess chemestry and physics don't count ?
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For iOS, a sane obj-C binding to Qt4 will be the first thing I wish.
> notifications for when we release new features

The real reason. This should be explained on the site.
I guess op's not really paying attention any more, but there's a relevant discussion on slashdot today:

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/12/08/08/2135246/ask-slashdot-...

I can heartily recommend most of the stuff in the 4+ comments: Ursula Le Guin, Lem, Strugatsky, Kurt Vonnegut... and of course Alfred Bester, especially "The Stars my Destination", proto cyberpunk.
Phew, things move awful slow in the world! I remember when this broke (in like, 2005?). It was HUGE news on Slashdot - many of the comments were along the lines of "This fud will be killed, and SCO will be dead in months.". And here we are, 7 YEARS later!
It looks great - very nicely designed, and I immediately understand the benefit. However, that landing page could do a better job having a call to action visible right away. I don't see anything until I scroll to the very bottom, and even then it's just a link to check out pricing.

Also, I don't see any information regarding how it actually integrates with my site (ie. how do users actually submit a ticket?)
It is - and I am thankful that OmniFocus lets me sync via Bonjour or custom DAV. I just set up the latter and it syncs way faster than the OmniSyncServer ever did while I used it. (I am in Germany and so is my DAV server.)
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Oh verily. It's more a mental condition on my part I think ... I was just about to check the link and then #bam# ...
Do people actually click the Spotlight icon? Why click to open a keyboard search facility?

I had to look to see there really was a Spotlight icon.
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Question: You've just won a trip to some interesting far off place (Australia, Italy, Peru, Alaska… whatever). Do you go out the day before you leave, and buy the latest $2,000 DSLR so you can get the best possible photos?

Practically anyone who is more than a point and shoot photographer, even a very amateur one will tell you that is complete insanity. There are too many things that could fail. You might not be comfortable with the camera in all lighting situations. It could have some defect in the lens that you won't have time to get replaced. You could find out the LCD preview is darker than what you're really shooting, and everything is over-exposed. The number of things that can go wrong just because it's an unknown quantity are huge.

On a trip like that, you take your trusty camera that you've shot thousands of photos with and know inside and out, even if that means that some of your photos won't be the absolute highest resolution money can buy.
Uhm, who cares? Whatever the link is, you will have to pay the same price anyway and the commission would end up in Amazon's pockets.

Exactamundo. A link on HN is either valuable content or it isn't... whether or not the submitter is profiting from it via a referral code is pretty much orthogonal to that, and is pretty much irrelevant. It's a silly thing to bitch about.
Kind of a derail, but would you care to share the rationale behind the 60/20/20 macro ratio?
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Thanks for pointing that out. Some other users have mentioned it showing up more times than necessary. We're taking a look.
This reminds me how lucky I am to be relatively successful as an adult. I could easily have spent time in juvenile detention for something stupid, and who knows how that would have turned out.

I suspect a lot of people on this board did the same (illegal) stuff as kids... We're lucky that we had the good luck to grow into productive adults. I like to think society is also lucky that it let us grow into productive adults.
Indeed. The only one that has a mild prayer is nuclear, and even that has a number of serious problems.
I don't want to defend Dotcom, but what I believe was over the top was the procedure for arresting him - some other posters have made what I believe is a valid analogy, in that the US law enforcement agencies have not proceeded in the same way against Enron's CEO for example - another person found guilty of insider trading and fraud, just like Dotcom. Or Bernie Madoff.

Both did arguably more hand than Dotcom, yet neither had an armed raid against them. In Madoff's case, the assets seizure was handled way more carefully.
Perhaps not as inexperienced, but Ouya is also a much harder project.
But I bet Amazon was not aware of what he was doing at the time. Amazon has made it quite clear that they do not support sites such as LendInk.
My high school rascalry:

This was from 1993 to 1996, on MS-DOS 486 machines in the computer lab. I had found a program on some local BBS that could resize a hard disk partition. So on a few of the machines, I shrank C: by a few dozen megabytes and created my own D: drive and copied games into it.

How to hide that D drive? With Norton DiskEdit, I figured out how to manipulate the partition table manually, setting the partition type to a null value so that DOS wouldn't see it. Next I figured out how to read and write that disk sector in assembly language. Soon I had a command-line executable that would hide or unhide my private partition with a single command. Best of all, DOS would only read the partition table on boot. So I could boot with my partition enabled, then hide it, and play games knowing that any reboot would render the partition hidden again.

The last thing I needed to cover up was the missing space on the C drive, which could be revealed by the DIR command. So I wrote a memory-resident program (assembly again) that constantly scanned for the string of "bytes free" in video memory, and patched in a larger value.

Okay, now the MEM command might reveal the existence of my TSR. So I named my program as VSAFE, which was the name of a memory-resident antivirus program on each of these machines. I had my program output the same text as the real VSAFE did on startup, and overwrote the real VSAFE executable with my own.

So I had a pretty well concealed partition, that would have required some heavy duty skills to find and remove. "format c:" would not affect it, and even FDISK would just show the space as empty, not a partition. Never got caught for any of it; the computer lab supervisor and other students knew I was up to something but never found any of the hidden stuff.

Man, I could have had a career as a malware author...
Incredible! Hopefully Microsoft submits its pointer events to W3C.
"Only half a decade ago it looked as though the world might have only 50 or 60 years-worth of gas. Now shale and other unconventional as well as new conventional gas finds have increased that period to 200 years or more, by some estimates."

http://www.economist.com/node/21558432
"why is the oil form of energy so important"

Because it meets several requirements for an economy of global scale, not the least of which are extremely high energy density and ease of transport.

"I do wonder why we're not switching from oil to natural gas a lot faster though."

A combination of market forces and the fact that our entire infrastructure is geared towards petroleum - not the sort of thing you can replace with any ease or quickness.
I'm curious if your team had experience with "traditional" frameworks such as Rails, Django, etc., and decided to use Angular.js because of certain advantages? It appears that this can be easily done with Rails or Django.
Also its easier to trade in bitcoins via Dwolla & Mt.Gox.

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This is why I think Ouya won't succeed even if it ships. In terms of game design, most games on Android are based entirely on touch input or sensor input (e.g. accelerometer), not game pad input. How many games can realistically use both control schemes effectively? I think it will turn out to be much more like how devs design around keyboard vs. gamepad for games that are both on consoles and PC, one will be preferred over another.

More fundamentally, many apps and games on the Android market don't support the extra large screen category that Google TV uses and therefore won't install. Of apps and games that do install, many do not test for a 10' experience. We've seen that with tablets it took quite some time and a lot of hardware sales to get devs interested in making tablet layouts, so I'm not sure that the base of people interested in Ouya will be enough to have devs even look at the TV experience.
> Shaving cream will cost you about the same either way, so it's not a factor.

It is the main factor. The prime reason wet-shaving works so well is the preparation (hot towel, lather), not the razor.

I'm writing from my own experience.
I use OmniFocus and not Things, but if you are serious about GTD and put your life in the hands of an app, $50 is absolutely nothing. OmniFocus could be $50 a month and be worth it most of the time. (I do a lot of traveling, freelancing and I am rather scatterbrained to begin with.)
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This has happened to me, I was looking for an answer, and found a blatantly wrong old answer (as some breaking changes in the toolkit had been made).

What I didn't have was an answer to provide, and so I moved on.

I'm not sure the tools given are effective enough for this problem.
Also, Think Of The Children! I'd say "disseminating terror and thus securing funding" is the actual goal. (Terror, terrorism, same thing, right?)
Anyone have any guess why Amazon pulled the plug? There must be a reason beyond "Amazon has decided against “boarding fresh crowdfunding accounts at this time”" - just pulling the plug on an entire category of products willy-nilly is a terrible image for a cloud service provider to project.
Of course, once you stop seeing this is as crazy, you are doomed to mediocre results.
"by some estimates."

Who's estimates? I notice the article doesn't mention. Personally, I tend to stick to estimates from the likes of BP and Exxon, since I figure they know what they're talking about.
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Thank you for responding. One of the things I hate about HN is that discussions sometimes fall of the cliff as soon as a story leaves the front page.

I think I was getting hung up on how the contribution would harm the contributor and overlooking the "no return on investment" mindset.
YES! Zynga shall burns tonight!

On a serious note, I am glad that our entertainment future won't be afflicted with "The Curse of the Cow Clicker" and we will just get back to making genuine games.
To generalize from this very good point - perhaps a future iteration should include a fully-blinged-out "Advanced" settings menu that lets you add constraints for a wide variety of dietary restrictions, including micronutrient requirements, food allergies, and various modes of vegetarianism.
We require multiple worlds of resources for the human population to live at what we presently deem a good quality of life. For some reason we assume this means collapsing our living standards down to the third world. More reasonable, I believe, is acknowledging that there are an infinite supply of worlds.
People who support NASA and it's projects are the reason why you should make room for good cameras. Even scientists are people and would be motivated by good pictures. Having a sense of how it is on Mars is whole point of this and good pictures provide that.

Also arguments about how it would be hard to add good camera, simply is not true. I agree about uplink and understand.
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Not yet. Only 20 or so of the full frames of the descent have been downloaded so far. Will probably be a day or more before they are all down.

You can see the frames that are down here:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=0
Ha!

>I don't have anything that I'm willing to share.

That's a great phrase than can truthfully mean both:

"I have stuff that I'm not willing to share."
and
"I don't got nothing."
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Same for Things, according to their Things Cloud page:

http://culturedcode.com/things/cloud/

I would be surprised/shocked if any To Do app did not yet use HTTPS.
I thought that one of the things that led to the discovery of radiation was an accidental exposure of photographic film by x-rays.
We've been experimenting with CTA flows. With a simple email form at the top, people signed but were non responsive when we reached out for feedback. The current flow gets us a lot less signups, but those who do signup are interested and motivated.

And good point about integration, it's not very clear from the site. For what it's worth, users send email to support@yourdomain.com which you forward to an address we provide at signup.
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As someone already noted: use Chrome Profiles to isolate accounts from each other.

If you're using multilogin, you're sending cookies for multiple sessions on each request. How can you blame the server for thinking you might want results for both?
Awesome support at CultureCode!

If this problem ouccurs for you, try this:
1. Download a fresh Things.app from http://culturedcode.com/things/
2. Replace your current one
3. Enjoy

Should have tried that myself - but was to scared it would destroy my db. :-)
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I'll add to the chorus of voices requesting the ability to add a price constraint.