skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given their current estimates, it looks like this will keep going for at least another decade and a half. It has had a affect on attendance at some of the community colleges in the western part of the state as young folks with homes in the area get paid extremely good wages with little time to spend it.

It does have an effect on other parts of the region. Road construction projects that needs lots of trucks to haul rock / dirt take longer because most drivers are hauling oil / equipment in Western ND. Welders are getting bumps in pay to keep them from going with some welders being recruited from Canada. Many of the towns along the highways have bypasses paved to lessen the problems of so many trucks. A lot of the lights at night are trucks snaking down the highways. Traffic is Twin Cities rush hour 24x7 and no hotels are available.

The state is socking the money away and a lot of the mayors are pretty smart about how they are expanding their towns.

Food trucks are a fact of life as well as man camps and RV parks. If I had the cash I would have put up a capsule hotel in the area with a Walgreens-type place, lockboxes, and laundry.

Like anything there are problems with adding so many people and I am a little worried since this winter looks to be a cold one by local standards (-21°F to -40°F at night or -29.4°C to -40°C without windchill). It hurts a bit to have anti-fracking movies funded by Abu Dhabi Media hit the big screens[1]. It probably doesn't jive with some people's core belief that "the USA cannot be energy self sufficient".

Delta bought a refinery and is looking at getting crude from ND[2].

// posted from ND

1) http://economy.money.cnn.com/2012/10/01/matt-damon-fracking/

2) http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/uk-refinery-operat...
Ruby is not a "broken" langage. I use it and like it.

But yes those are WTF things, and you have to know what they are. I remember that upon encountering it I couldn't wrap my head around throw/catch and raise/rescue. "Surely it can't that bad" I told myself. It was.

The same goes for the so-called "module system". Spitting on java is very hip, but its module system is way better than Ruby is.

And to the other commenter, yes those are mistakes. Calling them mistakes does not imply that the langage is beyond hope or unusable.
I read a lease agreement a year or so ago and don't remember if it prohibited civil action if the water supply on the property is contaminated or destroyed. Even if it did, I'm not sure if such a clause would even hold up in court.

The people who really lose out in the whole situation are the home owners who own small parcels of land for just their homes. They are still living in a rural area, relying on well water, but aren't getting any substantial oil money. If their water supplies are contaminated, they're entirely reliant on the legal system for saving their investment in their home. At least the people with leases are probably getting enough money to move elsewhere if the water supply is damaged.
For me the link redirects to the front page of the Chrome Web Store, so I guess that's what's happening to you, too. But by entering "secure shell" in the search box I can view the screenshots, description and reviews of the app being discussed. Firefox 18 on Linux.
Or, from another point of view, an attacker has to bypass Linux and OpenSSH security in one case or bypass Linux, OpenSSH and Chrome security mechanisms in the other case..

It's an oversimplification
Assumptions assumptions new poster. Several cities in the US get significant percentage of power from renewables thanks to the power of local politics.
Show me someone who likes filling out time sheets, wants inflexible working hours, loves bureaucracy, and respects authority more than ideas. I don't know anyone like that, so I must only know geeks.
No one is history has ever built a pipeline before doing the drilling. It cost money and you need to the drilling to justify the pipeline both economically and regulatory. Your trash analogy does not fit the situation.
Even that has some security utility because it can enable SSL certificate pinning and prevent phishing. I don't know if they're using it that way, but it makes it possible.
"Gas" as in natural gas is completely different from what we Americans call "gas" and the rest of the world calls "petrol".

You are confusing the two.
Blogger’s request jolts lawmakers into ‘emergency’ mode
2013 Trends in Data as a Service and Cloud Computing
Internet isn't all USA. Of course SOPA and PIPA made a lot of noise during the days, but I don't think declaring January 18th Internet Freedom Day is fair.
The examples were extremely helpful for me actually. Thanks Stephane! Looking forward to the next release to make reading/writing BSON easier. Reckon we could steal some of the awesome JSON macros stuff from Play for simple cases?
Lock Screen Drawer Prototype on iOS
True, but nytimes has proven they have some HTML5 chops (http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...), and JavaScript-based chess viewers are readily available (http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/). Considering the recent Java scare, I think it's reasonable to be mildly surprised by them using applets. I'm starting to be surprised even when I see Flash these days, much less applets.
Pollard has been transformed by opportunistic Israeli politicians into some kind of Israeli patriot. He's not. He did it for the money, selling secrets not only to Israel but to Pakistan (!) and South Africa as well.
Free isn't going to happen, but there are a lot of plans from gas stations to have natural gas pumps.
I have found the earlier model, the MK802/MK803 to be unreliable. I've gone through two of them already and have opted not to buy a third. The first one quit working, the second one the wifi quit working and other strangeness.
Designer · Flowplayer
A petition has been created for more oversight.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justify-legality-k...
It's early days so really appreciate the feedback. Perhaps we need a 'bespoke' talk to us option for bigger than Sumo. Also fees are monthly.
Yep, we need to work on mobile support - thanks for the heads up
"Before, we operated only a handful of storage nodes
located in expensive premium data centers.
Now, thanks to encryption, we can connect a large
number of hosting partners around the world
without worrying about privacy breaches."

Was privacy really ever their main concern ?
Java Practice Assignment - The Anagram - What's your most efficient algorithm?
"use it directly to get food or sex as life progresses."

That would make great scifi!
Can you point to one case where "new drilling technology destroys aquifers and other parts of the land" in regards to fracking?
Six months in a minimum security jail seems perfectly reasonable to me for repeatedly breaking the law and in no way some sort of "overreach" or "witch hunt". Her job was to find a settlement acceptable to both parties.
A pledge to buy something can be converted into money. In traditional industries it's quite common to get bank loans against accounts receivable and/or outstanding purchase orders.

Without a history of delivering product, a bank won't give you a loan against pledges (aka PO's), but there certainly should be lots of people who would give you a loan or buy equity.

If you can say to a VC "I've got a million dollars worth of orders, I need $500K to build them", you've got a much stronger story when talking to VC's than most do.
" Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge. At no time did this office ever seek – or ever tell Mr. Swartz’s attorneys that it intended to seek – maximum penalties under the law."

I'm guessing this is a very carefully worded statement.
Canadian government loses hard drive with student loan data on 583000
Currently struggling to handle the traffic from Hacker News - please bear with us people
I've been wondering about this. What exactly does the "READ PHONE STATUS AND IDENTITY" permission entail, and why do developers need it?

What exactly am I giving them access to when I allow it?
If I pay to remove adds from my phone, will they be removed from my tablet and all future installs?
Standard Model of Cocktail Physics
Article here http://www.physicsdavid.net/2012/11/standard-model-of-cocktail-physics/
Interface Concepts for Modern eCommerce Web Design
With Lenovo's entry, Chromebooks are gaining popularity fast
YouTube's growing pains - what the ad platform needs to fix
Remote working boosts creative productivity
LinkedIn Labs - Visualize your LinkedIn network
Palo Alto and Mountain View are farther away than you think

Hm, when I visited it felt like a pretty quick journey - no more than 30 minutes via Caltrain. Perhaps it was just excitement though!
It's the selection process that is annoying. I want to see the plugin working on a simple demo page, especially if it is doing something visual.
>Attacking a single prosecutor who was doing her job and obeying the law won't change anything.

That's definitely wrong.

Prosecutors go after crimes like this in a public way partly to deter others. The theory is that if they make a clear example of one transgressor, it will scare others into line.

If that theory is good enough for hackers, who aren't particularly good at responding to social pressure, I'm sure it's good enough for career federal employees, who are notoriously risk averse. And the government will certainly fire people who have attracted sufficient negative media attention; Shirley Sherrod is a clear example.

I'm with you on fixing the other injustices as well, but that's no reason not to go for a win with Ortiz. Indeed, getting a win here means you'll have a bunch of people feeling victorious who can be motivated to move to something bigger.
Awesome.

Great that you have sound! Reminds me of that mind-bending NASA booster rocket video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aCOyOvOw5c
Your comment is correct, but it is incomplete and avoids the real issue with "actually changing things".

"Actually changing things" may involve "criticizing congress" but I expect it to be rather more complicated. I think that all of the players in this case should have exercised discretion. The fact that so many people (including the citizens of America) allowed this situation to occur is the tragedy.

I think that the Aaron Swartz tragedy is not an example of an acute failure in America's legal system that we can blame on any specific element: the prosecutor, the congress that passed the law, or the court system that allowed this legal case to proceed as long as it did. I think the legal case is an example of a complete breakdown of America's legal system. In America we have 3 general wings of government that all have a hand in the legal system:

Legislative (e.g. Congress) that writes the laws.

Executive (e.g. prosecutor) that prosecutes potential violations of the laws

Judicial (e.g. the court and judge) that decides whether potential violations of the law are actual violations

I think we can justifiably criticize Ortiz and congress and the judge and Aaron and The American People for their roles in this mess, and I expect that all of them will need to improve before the situation does.

All of the players had opportunities to exercise good judgement and they all failed when presented these opportunities.
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) - How the United States Economy Really Works
In Powerbook era, the connector on the PSU cable had no stress reliever. As a result, the cable often broke (I went through three of them, until I got third party PSU with proper cable).

The thing is, that if you claim warranty on Apple product in Europe, they will take it and you have to wait until mothership ships replacement part. The guy the OP mentions might not turn in the whole computer, but what good it makes when your battery is empty and you don't have another PSU.

In related experience, I once had harddrive failure in Powerbook. I had to wait for three weeks, until replacement came, if I wanted to have it serviced under warranty. Or outright buy the replacement part and pay for the service.

Of course, I'm no longer Apple customer.
This is probably a tangent, but can we use a better word than "manage"? I honestly think the vocabulary continues to inform our expectations of the job that needs doing here, and I'd suggest that in cases like groups of talented engineers the needs isn't one of authority or "management". Something closer to "facilitator" is a more appropriate description of the real need.
These comments always remind me of this http://xkcd.com/603/

People have been complaining that Reddit was taking over years ago and will continue to. Strangely while people posting cat pictures is downvoted for not being productive conversation comments like this get upvoted when it contributes just as much. Heck its even in the guideline:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

Although I know you have been around for more then a year.
...and we're back :-)
While Android is light (it ought to be, its a Mobile OS). It is NOT a desktop replacement. Google themselves promote ChromeOS over Android.

Retro-fitting Android onto desktop devices isn't the solution, there are many lightweight linux distributions if you want an actual desktop OS.

Animated desktops atleast to me are a gimmick, and the reason other linux distros haven't been able to optimize their graphics is because of the desktop parts and unreliable drivers (Nvidia & AMD), now most of these micro-PCs use mobile parts (ARM Cortex processors, PowerVR graphics cores.) which have readily available open-source drivers or OS-optimized proprietary blobs.
Say Anything Open Records Request Sets Off Emergency Legislation In The ND House
Typical lawyer talk. These people are good with words and can talk their way out.
Had they gone to trial, however, he was likely facing 7 years, according to another article on the front page: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
> She and others inflicted mental torture on him until he couldn't bear to live any longer.

That is an idiotic thing to say, and it only raises doubt about all of your other statements.

Aaron was chronically depressed for years. People who are chronically depressed tend to kill themselves, or at least try to. Their external circumstances are rarely the cause of their suicide. It's up to you to prove that this lawsuit caused him to commit suicide, and he wouldn't have otherwise.

For example, why did David Foster Wallace kill himself? He was at the top of his career, critically acclaimed author, had a loving partner, and yet he still took his own life.
Haha nice. So you already started working on it? How many signups you got? :)
Good, then, because early investors will be more willing to take a chance and give money to a start up since there is a clear path to getting that money back.

Also, that means that there is a lot more opportunity for your start up since public companies are saddled with this lack of innovation and all the principals who have left now that they "have made their nut."
...and will be duly ignored. But wasn't that Death Star response funny? Har Har.
I think the raw numbers speak for themselves.

The amount of gas being flared in North Dakota is about 150 million cubic feet per day [0], worth (at $3.95/thousand cubic feet, at the wellhead [1]) $220 million per year.

The amount of oil being sold is 728,000 barrels per day [2], at $95/barrel, worth $25.3 billion (B) per year.

For the oil producers, this flaring is a financial rounding error (<1%). I think it's credible that $200M/year of gas, distributed over hundreds of oil wells, can be unprofitable to recover.

In various metrics: the natural gas flared / oil produced is

* 0.9% of the value ($$$)

* 3.7% of the raw energy (Joules)

* 2.6% of the raw carbon (-> CO2)

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/business/energy-environmen...

[1] http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_pri_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm

[2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732429660457817...
One of my favorite things about Python 3 is that the grammar actually got smaller: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/grammar.html

It's only three lines, but still.
I didn't even notice there was a hidden message triggered by the mouseover.....
I remember that once this practice was discouraged by many usability recommendations!
Perhaps computercraft would be a better gateway drug then?
You're assuming things about the nature of the equilibrium that I don't think you can assume.

I'm assuming that the "payoff matrix" for the two-person interaction has the same general form as the Prisoner's Dilemma matrix does, yes, which means that the Nash equilibrium, which is mutual defection, is also the outcome with the lowest aggregate payoff summed over both players. Is that what you're referring to? If so, I agree that this is an assumption, but I don't think it's a very extravagant one.
this is inane
It might be worthwhile to just require flaring sites to have local storage and dispensing equipment for say two days worth of gas, and only when that was full could they flare it off. Nearly-free is a powerful motivator for innovation.
> Was privacy really ever their main concern ?

I expect it will be with the authorities breathing so hard down their necks, and the questionable legality of the files users will likely upload.
Thanks for the thought, Scott.

Regardless of the specific verbiage, you're right - our messaging needs work. To you, what is the most compelling value of Yog? That's ultimately what I want our tagline to deliver on.
Falling Up: Darpa to Launch Just-in-Time Payloads From Bottom of Sea
Yep. The purchase is tied to your Google account.
It is. The two joined dots just east of the mountains are Edmonton and Calgary.
Why Programmers Work at Night
It's an optional filter. People can ask to have it turned off. It's a voluntary filter that the companies chose to implement before government forced filtering on them.

It's baffling to me to see this described as censorship. The content is still there. People can still get the content, they just need to say that they want to get the content. Sometimes they need to prove their age. (In the UK we have some legally mandated minimum ages; when a cinema says '15' it means you're not allowed in if you're under 15.)

As I've said, there's a problem with the filter being opt-out rather than opt-in; and there's a problem with the filter being too broad and blocking things that it shouldn't.
> * If you shadow ban someone, they will just re-register.*

An ideal shadow-ban makes it difficult to realize you're shadow-banned.
I think the collective HN IQ has dropped by about 40 points this week with all of these moronic statements.

She should get fired for doing exactly what she was put in to office to do? IE: Follow the federal sentencing guidelines like she should? In no way was there ever going to be some 30 year sentence. Six months maximum is not over reach.
It doesn't really matter what he was expecting. If he knew he shouldn't do it then he should not have done it. And unless he had been living under a rock for the past decade, he should have expected a bit more than MIT leaving a post-it on his laptop asking him to stop. Come on... we all know that these types of actions have become more common and more public and therefore more heavily litigated. For him to expect anything less than police and lawyers would have been really naive boarding on stupid.
Building a Custom Icon Font for the Web
There are hardware incubators. Lemnos Labs is the one I can think of off-hand.
Yeah, the thing that would prevent me from buying that "book" is the limited RAM. It is easy to expand storage, but only having .5GB on-board RAM is not ideal, especially for something that is going to be a desktop replacement.
It's around 38minutes if you catch the 'bullet' train. I think the regular train is a little over an hour, although this doesn't include the time to actually get to the train station.
Kaleidoscope 2.0 - Compare Text, Images and Folders
>"Powered by Instra"

What does Instra provide exactly ? I used them for domains but I don't really know if they also provide some good hosting infrastructure.
A system like that prevents browsing contents if you don't know what you're looking for, but it doesn't prevent asking questions like "Do you have a copy of this file?", or enforcing a blacklist based on file contents.
Sounds like a storyboard artist who worked on the Ice Age movies.

Or a concept artist who's done work for Disney, Konami, and Warner Brothers.

Humanizing technology must go further than simply a name and a voice.
> especially in a relatively fragile and cash-strapped field like academia.

Academia does not publish articles. Publishers do and they are anything but cash strapped, check out Elsevier for instance.
Wait, don't you need some dummies to manage those people? Better offer some hookers and blow as well. If you need warm bodies that like beer and pot, college hiring season is starting.
Why SurveyMonkey is holding off on an IPO
How did you engage them? Do you know someone? When I got rejected I just got a form with a few characters to explain why I wasn't violating the rules (they did not say which rule I was violating).
After using Google Maps on iOS with its soothing friendly speaker, I wouldn't mind a new voice actor for Siri. It's downright painful compared to GMaps'.
I think there is certainly value in outside voices. Journalists and bloggers play that role now. I guess the issue I have is that any given district could get suddenly swamped by outsiders. Why not have it be the case that constituents would bring that voice in by linking to their post?

One idea that I have some sympathy toward is making the representatives responsible for moderating the fora as they see fit. They would then be judged at the ballot box if they pissed everyone off...or they would really skillful at creating false consensus.
Off topic: Why are their slides so unusable on iPad!? I can't swipe to the next slide without skipping that and 3 others.
I thought it was pretty clear with the hand mouse cursor to the bottom right.
Global Mobile Ad Revenue to Reach $11.4 Billion This Year
Yeah - it always takes longer to get to and from the station too. Sometimes it's hard to justify whether it is worth it! Personally I use ZipCar when I need to head down there now (which to be honest is rarely).
I tend to agree with you, as most folks would. But perhaps this approach is being driven by the "Chrome as Operating System" approach and the Chromebook.

Google is a big enough company that the thought process is being driven the by internal needs and wants, not necessarily by what the rest of the universe is doing.
The race/war aspect - that I don't give in/up before my friend does.
I was looking at my startup's GitHub punch chart and I noticed that the quiet period for us is around 5am - 11am, and our busiest period is 12am - 4am.

It makes me wonder if larger companies should try to optimize for these times for their developers, such as not requiring them to come into work until after lunch.
Here's a video of the talk from Google I/O 2012:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
The whole Mega.com is in-your-face thing Kim is doing with authorities.

The real bone with megaupload was, authorities held megaupload responsible for what it hosted - and Megaupload could not deny what they had on their servers (copyrighted stuff) - so the responsibility and liability lied with megaupload and caused its downfall.

With mega.com - the game is, mega.com will claim we don't know what is on our servers (since its encrypted at browser) so we can't be held liable for it - and this will stick!

I read somewhere comment that - its doesn't matter how strong the encryption is for mega.com users - all mega.com need it as a shield from legal troubles.

Clever!