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The problem is less capturing the gas profitably as it is shipping it. Natural gas can be transported in pipes or multi-modally as liquefied natural gas (LNG). LNG liquefaction/gasification terminals, however, are , politically volatile multi-billion dollar, multi-year [1] fixed investments.

Localisation is an un-solved problem - natural gas trades at 3.48 USD/MMBtu in the U.S [2]. Japan is importing LNG at 16.49 USD/MMBtu [3] - that's nearly five times the American price.

North Dakota presently lacks the pipeline capacity to export even its crude - lorries are commissioned to truck the stuff to refineries. As mentioned, you can't truck gas. So it's a choice between (a) releasing it into the atmosphere directly, (b) flaring it into the atmosphere, or, (c) delaying American crude production until a natural gas pipeline can be constructed. B is less environmentally harmful than A. C is economically a bad decision (time value of money/resources).

[1] http://www.freeportlng.com/Liquefaction_FAQs.asp#howlong

[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/

[3] http://ycharts.com/indicators/japan_liquefied_natural_gas_im...
> There is no innate right to wall off a chunk of human heritage and claim ownership, even though lobbying power and money have distorted the balance of power substantially.

That I agree with, along with our problems with the public domain and copyright reform. I just don't like the reasoning couched in language about how much benefit a particular party has obtained.

E.g. we might decide that copyright period of, say, a year is hurtful and should be extended because overall (or on average) not enough benefit is obtained overall for those with copyright protection, causing an overall hurtful effect to society. But we wouldn't base that decision just on party A or B.

I understand you may simply have been using a specific example to speak for the general principle though, and if that's the case I apologize for jumping on your argument like that.
I'm fast approaching 50 and I moved here last year. I wouldn't consider living anywhere else. Even though I owned a condo in Florida and was paying about 1/4 as much on my mortgage as I now do for rent, it was completely dead there. I'd rather live where there's actually something to do.
(He's joking, it's wonderful. This is the decades-old Seattle joke, "It's so miserable here, please stay away.")
Why is it double the price of the other chromebooks 0_o?
People still watched TV when you were growing up.
State INCOME tax.
Do you have any links to reports of "complete civil unrest" happening as a result of proposing to address the homelessness issue?
Record warmth resulted in the earliest spring flowering in the U.S. in 150 years
I expect that the utility of this drops as more people use it - if a bunch of people get a notification about a cheap flight, and there are only two seats at that price, most people are going to be unhappy.
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Great article. I have spent a fair amount of time playing with ClojureScript, read "ClojureScript: Up and Running" and a lot of tutorial material on the web, and used it a bit in a customer project.

That said, ClojureScript has not really clicked for me yet, but this article and the pointer to dommy is getting me closer to adopting ClojureScript.

I use Clojure + Compojure (and still Noir) + Hiccup for just about all of my web app development. Love Hiccup. Having (mostly) Hiccup on the client side with dommy looks very cool.
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I don't understand why anyone would advocate for autocommit. It's a horrible feature that leads to broken data.
i love kayak.com/explore lets you think "where can i go for X$"?
This is the v1 of our SDK, we launched Name That Jam! with a beta version a few months back. Would love to hear any feedback you have about bugs, improvements or feature requests. Feel free to contact me directly (ashu@makegameswith.us)
The EC2 API itself is experiencing some trouble in US East-1. So the console as well as the CLI and anything that depends on the API, like boto, is going to be flaky.
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
It's character building! If tinkering was merely hard instead of forbidden, it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying.
10 of the last 15 years were the hottest since 1880. 2012 was the 9th hottest.
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How about San Leandro? I see some condos there for under $200k and it seems to be convenient for BART.
Not the person you asked, but I am always consistently surprised at the success of survey monkey. I was a paying customer for two years though, mostly for reasons of replicibility. Many, many, social scientists use it, even though it doesn't really support useful things like randomisation to entirely different surveys.

The interface is nice, and they appear to have sewn up the marketing world, so well done to them. I still want to build a much better version, but I'm not sure if there's a market for it.
Yeah. I read it. Given the constraint, premise, and assumptions, what Stross says makes sense. It's model that's limited in scope.

I'm not being religious. Satisfaction and contentedness is something you can go verify for yourself by observing yourself.

It is entirely possible for an individual to fulfill existential needs even with the horrors of 30% child mortality rate, but most people can't or don't do that. Technology serves as a great support for this, but it will never actually fulfill those existential needs.

It's my hope that microfab technologies will free up people's time so that they can really look into existential needs.
Getting a 500 error when trying to redirect back from twitter.
Well the timeout can be handled in java too

Result result = future.get(5, TimeUnit.Second);
if (result == null)
// do something if timed out
else
// do something with result

My original question was phrased badly though, and what I meant to ask was: is the underlying implementation faster? Since Golang is designed as a systems language, is the channel/gorouting system a lot more performant than the Executor/future method of Java?

EDIT: I see what newobj is talking about now:

With the Java method, the 'task queue' in this case is very rigid and would be hard to add futures from multiple locations, while the goroutine method allows easy access to add new messages to the channel from anywhere.

You could probably emulate the goroutine method using a synchronized queue or similar, but the goroutine version handles it automatically.
"six months in a low security setting."

That one word, "setting," puts her squarely in bullshitter territory. The obvious and honest word is "prison". But that's too dark a color for the painting she's holding up for us.
The ThinkPad chiclet keyboard is superior to the classic in almost all ways. It has an identical feel, a larger effective hit target for each key, is thinner, doesn't gather cruft under the keys, and can't have the keys accidentally popped off. Don't judge the new keyboards based on the bizarre flat keycaps that every other chiclet keyboard seems to use.

The most obvious loss in the new keyboards is the switch to a 6-row layout. And I can see why people with large laptops would complain about that. But especially on a 11-incher any extra space for a touchpad is really welcome. The x120e touchpad is already hilariously small. It'd be a complete joke if you reduced the depth by a further 1-1.5cm.
I cannot download it, if you can, please make it for the iOS 5 also.
> better weather (if you prefer hot to cold)

You are the first person I've ever heard claim this. :) I found Austin's humid 90 degree summers rather unpleasant.
Well, given that I aced the interview (plenty of evidence besides the job offer I got within 24 hours of it and some of it I probably shouldn't know but I do), I should have been a wonderful fit then, no?

Tell ya what, how about trying one of those infallible(tm) A/B tests where half the incoming people get the Hogwarts hat and the other half get to meet their team upfront before accepting a job? Do this for a year. Now one year after that measure which set of employees is happier/present/more successful.
I bought it and after a quick view of it seems to be a good catch! I am a beginner to Django and before this I have read the "The Definitive guide to Django"
I not clear on how incarceration is reasonable punishment for someone convicted of a non-violent crime and who is not a physical danger to anyone.
I've done some own small projects based on django. Read the turorial, read alot of best practises on the tubes and a lot of trial and error. I did just buy this out of curiosity and for $12 and after reading the book for about a hour now, I think this is a great summary of best practise with explanations _why_ something is considered best practise.

Haven't read more than 50 pages yet but I like it. Great job!
First, the government spent all that money for their own purposes. The design and construction of commercial Nuclear Power Plants has been on the user since day one. also, NPPs have been paying into a fund to handle Spent Nuclear Fuel. There is plenty of money to handle it, except that government can spend way more on anything than any rational person can imagine.

The fed gov has spent ~$16B on "renewable energy" recently. With 1/10th that money, LFTRs could have been coming off the assembly line at 100MW/day by now. And those plants could be eliminating that SNF as we speak.
Wow, this was definitely inspiring. They stuck through it even as they weren't making a lot. They were happy to get just 10-20 users.

It made me feel very proud of what our own startup has achieved relative to other startups. We just hit a million users, we have revenues, etc. I made a post about it at http://qbix.com/blog . I know it sounds like self promotion but I genuinely was happy to see that we have been able to pull it off despite not being accepted into YC or anything like that. So far all the funding has come from friends and family, but I can definitely relate to what these guys were going through ... we are at a point where we need to raise our next round of funding, because we still haven't reached our break even point and our burn rate still exceeds our revenues.

I can tell you from experience, when you pick a problem you really are passionate about solving, then you have a reason to work on your startup every day, and a reason to continue it even when things are looking tough.

Everything those guys are saying ... about prioritizing paying the people who are working for you, all is exactly what we've been going through, and are still facing. So great job guys! Really inspiring for us to see that they've made it.
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> The exception was given because the water cannot get into the aquifer.

Now that is circular reasoning. In 10 years, we'll really know how well everything holds up.

> They had to get the exception according to current law

Except that isn't true. They only needed the exception if they didn't want to follow the rules set up by the EPA.
The partial index tip is great for that kind of problem (you need a fast query for a subset of your data).
If I can't figure out even the most fundamental technical information about your platform from the splash page (or even where to go to find it), I'm going to assume you are marketing something for people who aren't technically literate enough to care about it.
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The root cause is that Oregon is tiny.

You're not giving CA enough credit.
The BeagleBoard was a $150 board the Pandaboard $180, the "Chumby" was hackable at around $150 but not HD video.

The price was important. It is below the 'impulse' buy price for gainfully employed engineers. Most embedded systems are $200+ have complex setups, usually a costly IDE setup. They presented a pretty step learning curve, and even though valuable the challenge is the cost risk.

If you see a mousetrap that costs 1/10th your current mousetrap many folks are inclined to at least try it :-)
For domestic flights, I filter out all airlines that depart from Denver except for four. Not the best interface for me either.
Move to Sydney instead.

Seriously.
Curious if any Hacker News readers use these types of metrics for their own customer analytics and tracking. Any thoughts?
The Community Edition (free) of IntellJ with the Clojure plugin will help you here: I get immediate error highlighting when editing Hiccup code in my Clojure view files - recommended!

A little off topic, but I have been using Emacs to edit Lisp code since the early 1980s, but IMHO IntellJ with the Clojure plugin is a bit more efficient for writing and reading code.
I don't think Goodwill even takes them anymore, they just end up paying to send them to the dump in the end. Their value has actually gone negative.
I've implemented similar systems twice before (social media at frid.ge - YC S'10, b2b adtech at ADstruc) and think that if you are doing onsite messaging, reply-by-email should be a core part of your messaging implementation. Users, especially non-technical ones, have an expectation that you can reply to any email (set the reply-to on your outgoing message to a mailbox you monitor if you want a cheap test). Depending on your product, reply-by-email can give you a fairly competent mobile experience on the cheap.

Highly recommend mailgun for this, since the routes + email cleaning (removing signatures, replies, etc.) makes this super simple to implement. At frid.ge we used sendgrid (mailgun didn't exist at the time) and spent a lot of time dealing with problems that mailgun has already solved (at least better than we ever did - stripping signatures without destroying the message body is very difficult).
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This is true. I've been buying $87 21" 1080p monitors with HDMI. That's pretty cost effective for a dashboard.
It's perfectly possible this "riddle" did its job perfectly well, by determining you weren't a good fit for them, and all it did cost them was a single email.

I would have done it, because it seems fun. And solving it proves that you know how to find libraries to do external stuff (reading/writing gifs. Knowing how to use basic ImageMagick or equivalent is a useful skill), and that you can solve some algorithmic task, or at least have an interest in it (no idea how hard reversing game of life is, or if this specific problem is bruteforcable, but if they ask it, I guess there's a solution).
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Nope, it is one of the main reasons why Thorium is not that great in typical solid fuel reactors. Lots of experience there. Processing the fuel to extract and use the U233 is rather a bothersome thing to do.
Shake is often used for undo, which may be a nice feature in keeping with the minimal feel -- you could even have an extra long shake prompt the user to see if they would like to clear all.
Makes sense, I am slacking as I forgot to check the status page. Man, some days.

Thanks for the reminder and help.
I am really glad to see all the adoption and recognition that Postgres is receiving nowadays, there was a time when all you could hear about was MySQL (or maybe this is just my perception). It seems to me that it has picked up even more after the Oracle takeover of MySQL, but it could also be that their feature set has reached a pretty mature point, or maybe a combination of both.
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I believe the implication is that the environmental impact of building natural gas pipelines criss-crossing the U.S. so we don't have to see flares in North Dakota may outweigh the marginal impact of the CO2.
There was a mix-up between academia and the publishers, with academia's financial issues used to bolster the case against sharing this data. But in actual fact the academic institutions pay the publishers and those publishers are very wealthy.

On another note, why is there only one 'kind' of copyright? Why do the same rules that apply to work written for profit apply to work written for scientific edification? Some differentiation there would go a long way towards solving these problems.
OTOH, the politics of OK suck, and so do the alcohol laws.
I'd be curious to hear what you're not liking about it.
If you're not young, able, and heterosexual, technology can easily be the difference between isolation and connection.
Show HN: We've Collected Millions of Atmospheric Data Points from Android Phones
Aaron was indeed unusually vulnerable. This vulnerability does not excuse the prosecutorial overreach which triggered his suicide. This overreach would merely have been devastating and life-altering to a normal person, but for Aaron, it pushed him over the edge.

Consider a hypothetical example. I'm not sure if this ever really happened in the Civil Rights movement (or if it did, that it was reported), but you can imagine that a black man, on the brink of death, was refused care at a "white only" hospital. He dies on the way to the "negro hospital". The public, faced with this stark story, see the deep injustice of it, and clamor for segregation to end and for the resignation of the hospital personnel responsible for the man's death.
The success of the Pi is really a textbook example of why you want good marketing, product management and strategic pricing plus a bit of timing/luck.

TI have had the Beagleboard since 2008 with a Cortex-A8, ARMv7 vs the PI's ARMv6 ARM11.

Nominally the Beagleboard was and is still is pretty successful, but the price tag was double the Raspberry Pi (or more in the past).

However, obviously the Raspberry Pi is wildly more successful at least in terms of popularity even though it is well behind the curve technically in the ARM SoC world.

The problem with the Beagleboard is that it was trying to undercut the EVM/development-board market. This is the world where ARM SoC vendors would sell boards with their SoC on it, sometimes as a reference design in order to ultimately get volume business in the mobile/embedded space. These boards typically cost in the range of 1k to 4k, the rationale behind the market price was that these boards were niche products in low volume and the customers didn't mind buying a few of these before developing their own proto-board with the chosen SoC vendor.

The Pi is pretty low spec, but clearly by hitting a great price point with slightly behind the curve but still capable tech they've won the low end market and a lot of mindshare. Of course whether that turns in to profit for Broadcom is a different matter... but who knows.
Honest question: do you actually know what fascist means? If so, do you not understand that it is vastly different than "leftist" or "socialist"?
TX has had massive shortfalls in the last two biennial budgets. As big as CA's annual one:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/04/us-usa-deficits-st...

So imagine an already very low service state having to cut budgets even more. Am sure that will work out well for the kids long-term. The State is tossing welfare/health/service issues down to the counties now, so expect your property taxes to skyrocket in the next decade. Some counties will be rich, and most will be poor.

Not happy to with keeping MLK or Jefferson out of K-12 history textbooks, the governor and his lackies are going after those pointy-head elitists at UT.

Expect the next short-fall to be ~$30B. You're going to pay one way or another.
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Is this really true though? To get raw materials to use a maker to build something you'll probably have to depend on global supply chains, esp. since most goods will require multiple kinds of material to complete.

> The Maker Revolution is about being able to provide for your needs without depending on a global supply chain.

> It's about the kind of material freedom you might have if your neighborhood hardware store, or even your household fab in the garage can make all the goods for your basic needs, and then some.

This is definitely the case, as most of what maker robots are creating now fit this category. With good enough tech, hardware stores, Wal-Mart, and other sellers of mass produced, low complexity items will go out of business, or at least be more much niche then they are now.
Ah, a personal attack against the organization whom hosts the article and yet complete avoidance of any consideration of the points made in the article, so refreshing. </sarcasm>
But now you're living in TX? Despite Austin being an enclave of politically progressive views, you're still surrounded by well armed pickup truck driving rednecks on their way to the Dairy Queen in 110" heat?

Paying the SF "tax" is worth every penny in my opinion.
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Uh, I use Emmet every day, and it certainly does have that feature. Perhaps your expansion hot key is different.
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FWIW the exact same reasoning was used with the Personal Computer which was "Gee its not like non-engineers really need a computer so there really isn't much of a market for one." Seriously, that is what folks believed. And the folks making machines out of Z80's, 8080's, and 6800's really cleaned up for a while.

If you've noticed, we're making fewer and fewer general purpose computers (the trendy call it the 'post pc era') and once again the learning curve is steep and intimidating. Look how many Arduinos sold for $35, now you offer the same thing but it runs Linux at the same price point?

So at the very least they should have guesstimated that they could sell as many there were Arduino's sold. That would have gotten them to > 1M.
When you're from the cold Europe like me, the weather in SF is good !
I lived there for a while and I loved it.
What about transportation?
That there's "no problem with breaking" the CFAA is the last conclusion anyone will draw from this tragedy.
Anonymous wrote the Declaration of Independence too, apparently.
My school had a guest network that would allow people to use it for a few hours, but after that would force them to jump through some sort of registration hoops to get permanent access. Spoofing their MAC addresses seemed to be the easier alternative.
Hmm...I guess my memory isn't so keen. Maybe I was thinking of another system. It was called 'cherry' something but it was under but closer to $100. But I see your point.

Incidentally that 1/10th cost is one of the reasons I want to get into designing hardware so if you have pointers on that, it'd be helpful. :)
You may even have a spare adapter buried in your closet like I did. More and more graphics cards are coming with HDMI -> DVI-D adapters, you see.
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It is not that I don't like it, I just tend to be a little slow in adopting new stuff into my set of almost always used tools.
Thank you for the insight. It will be helpful in my (I hope) upcoming negotiations.
Any guesses on how payments will work?
I think this is an interesting question.

It gets to the heart of the tech-entrepreneur dichotomy
quite well. My initial thought was well, yes, take three months off and he could easily do a decent app - but the opportunity cost would be enormous

But this just assumes there is a single coding based dimension (the Blub dimension?) - in reality Jobs stopped coding in Objective-C a long long time ago, and started coding in vision/people/organisations - a much more difficult programming environment and one that gets really really hard to scale.

I can barely program in this language on 6 or more cores. Jobs managed it at 100,000 cores.

So my answer is no he could not write an iOS app - but he could write really good applications in HomoSapien (Enterprise Version) - and there is hardly anyone who can get that to even compile.
Just to confirm you mean the makegameswith.us/sdk page and not the makegameswith.us home page?