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I'm not cynical. It only seems cynical if you believe those things to be true.

We do not have much official government propaganda in the US simply b/c we don't need it -- the private firms deliver a mix of stories designed to make the reader feel like life is pretty good while feeling informed, justified ire about this and that.
I've wondered if this is Saudi Arabia acknowledging that oil will be a dying market and trying to cash out now.

Saudi's cornered the oil market, but their percentage of the market slips every time someone starts pumping more oil.

If the Saudi's think that falling demand and increasing supply in the US will occur, they may just resort to taking a large portion of the market instead of trying to keep the price high.
Or, the market is not behaving rationally at the moment. ;)
Not really. The Cessna had no parachute, and the statistics seem to imply that most pilots ditch successfully. See e.g. http://www.equipped.org/ditchingmyths.htm

If anything, it's surviving in the water that is difficult, especially in cold waters.
Fixed costs =/= capital costs.

Fixed costs are the reoccurring costs that arise regardless of production. You can build a plant with free money, but you still have fixed costs.
I'm not cheering this behavior on. I'm just saying that it is significant.
> We can stave off global warming by fracking the everloving fuck out out of America and using natural gas for electricity and for automobiles.

I'd rather live in a warming world than one poisoned by all of the crap that goes into fracking.
Package management in OpenBSD is as good or better than any other distro I've used.

Upgrades are: boot bsd.rd, upgrade. Then run sysmerge, and pkg_add -u
I didn't know StaticGen...

Ty :)
I've not seen the movie (yet) but reading the description on the blog was enlightening for me.

I don't fit into Western Society at all - I couldn't care less for consumerism, sports, mass media, smartphones, etc. etc. and I've always thought it's because I can see the truth behind stuff, where other people just see the glitter on the surface covering up the ugly truth.

Now I know I've just been wearing a pair of these sunglasses my whole life.
Works, because Google is a DRM vendor (WideVine).

You can't make a web browser that plays Netflix without signing contract with one of the DRM vendors that Netflix supports, or rolling your own DRM and convincing Netflix (and distributors that pull their strings) to adopt it.

For example if you compile Chromium from source it won't work (at best Netflix will send you encrypted blobs that you won't know how to decrypt and there is no public spec for it anywhere).

From video publisher's perspective it's locked-up as well. To have your own video DRM-protected with the same tech as Netflix you'd have to get a license from Google (for Chrome WideVine DRM support), Apple (for Safari FairPlay) and Microsoft (for IE PlayReady DRM).

Netflix's playback without "without plugins" is achieved not by removing plugins and having open standards, but merely by convincing browser vendors to bundle closed DRM code with their browsers. Technically it's more like Chrome shipping bundled Flash, but fortunately nobody calls that a "HTML5 native Flash without plugins!"
Anyone cares to explain how the 'alarm' works? The website doesn't say much.
Flying from the mainland to Hawaii you require a large margin due to wind uncertainty. Between Kauai and Oahu, not so much...

Edit: This story is about someone flying from Hawaii to California where the flight ended up taking 4 hours longer than expected due to unexpected headwind. Luckily for him, he was in an airplane with extremely long range and had planned to fly directly to Oshkosh, WI! http://www.ez.org/t/cp34-p3
There used to be many. I haven't encountered one in a while, however.
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If NZ educations costs are the same as Aus education costs, I'd estimate "reasonable savings" at about $100,000.

20k per year education, because it won't be subsidised by the government, 7.5k per year as minimal living costs, and that's really minimal.
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So there's 2 billion hours watched per month, but a few billion "view" events per day? So let's round and say 100B view events a month, so 50 events per hour viewed? I wonder if this is because people preview a ton of stuff they don't watch, or are they recording pauses, or ... ?
It's the community aspect of it.

Not gaming, but I reckon I've wasted hundreds of hours on Reddit.

That little 'new message' indication would drive me back to the site over and over again.

It got so bad that it pretty much derailed my startup. I would use it as a refuge when trouble loomed. Can't close that new deal? Scared to call that client? Paralyzed by fear because you can't ship the product in time? Don't worry, discuss this damn thing on Reddit and pretend that your opinion actually matters in the world.

I've blocked Reddit on my computer now. Haven't been to the site in months. I've never been more productive.

In contrast, I used to play Age of Empires 2 a LOT as a kid, but I had a terrible internet connection which meant I couldn't play online.

My addiction to AoE, thus, was nowhere near as bad as my addiction to Reddit. Without that social feedback, I could escape pretty easily.
Outside of most Cirrus aircraft, they're not standard. They work pretty well on light and ultralight (single engine) aircraft.

Think of the extraordinary size and weight a chute or series of chutes would be for a short haul 737-sized aircraft. The cost of lugging those around across a fleet would be absolutely prohibitive. There's also little reason for this type of safety mechanism for such passenger jets. Commercial twin or quad engine planes are extraordinarily safe, and offer many more redundancies than a tiny single engine plane.
A testament to our jaded modern times: I tried to skip ahead in the first video, because you know, 4 minutes was too long for me to spend watching an airplane parachute down out of the sky and into the Pacific Ocean. Get to the action, amirite? Then when I skipped ahead, the video got stuck. I tried a few more times, then gave up and went on to the next story. Because you know, it's just a plane falling out of the sky straight into the swirling ocean...caught on video.
No.

I am talking about thing that you zoom into YouTube video and it shrinks.

Virtual desktop feature is nice, although not related.

By the way, I was talking about YouTube being broken, not Safari. Haven't seen such behaviour with any other HTML5 player other than YouTube.
I'm looking for an apartment now!
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This is tricky because PubNub recently added some data storage capabilities, and Pusher and fanout might follow suit. Also, being able to get a feed on queries might ultimately make services like Pusher unnecessary in many traditional situations, but this isn't immediately obvious. We'll find out soon how this develops!
Thanks for the reference schoen this is why I love HN. I sometimes have difficulty organizing thoughts into neatly categorized theories like this, best I can usually do is realize i'm sure somebody has thought about this before and explained better than I can.
That's the logo for Apache Cassandra https://cassandra.apache.org/ which is a highly available, fault-tolerant database designed for write intensive workloads.

The NSA probably uses it.
I think that the OpenBSD team has more than definitively shown that C isn't a problem, programmers' attitudes is the problem. While I disagree with them on the premise of upgrade early and often, I do agree with them on active reviews, active documentation, and enforcing code hygiene, which prevents the sort of problems that proponents of other languages harp on about when talking about C.
The voyage from Spain to England's quite short. For a voyage from South America to Australia across the Pacific, you'd need a few ships purely to carry supplies, plus you'd have to account for a fair amount of losses of ships and men due to bad weather, disease etc.
I wonder if this is intentional? As in, if they can delay a user an average of X minutes per viewing session, they save? Or perhaps more realistically, have they determined that the terrible recommendations do work for some metric?

It's not like they can be blind to the problem, right? Or perhaps they are lacking content for people like us?
I should clarify one thing: because debit interchange is primarily a fixed fee ($0.21), Square's percentage-only rate actually hurts them on debit transactions below $10. They lose money. Of course there's a correspondingly large margin on higher-value debit transactions for the same reason.

Also worth noting that Square Cash uses debit, so they're actually losing >$0.21 every time you send money with it.

Stripe definitely has a large gross margin in all cases. Even AmEx. However, one thing to bear in mind with both these guys is that the easier they make it to sign up and process payments with them, the easier it is for criminals to run fraudulent transactions through them, which they ultimately eat.
I don't disagree with your points at all.

It is interesting that the market demands this kind of news. I guess it's not surprising that since so much policy is predicated on American Exceptionalism, that the daily paper need only retell that story again and again so that we can all feel comfortable that we have the first-world lives that we deserve.

As long as others have it worse, we are doing well. I guess it's similar to the public hunger for embarrassing stories about celebrities, the stuff on Jerry Springer, etc. Most people don't realize that those stories they are reading in the NYT about womens' rights in the 3rd world are the same kind of indulgence.
If that's the case, it would be more effective to settle on something cheaper, let's say program '100mbit/s to every home' and cover larger area faster. I also think that it has something to do with making major ISPs less aggressive, but there's probably something else, why Google needs 1 Gb/s
You could probably get a poor's man version of this by setting up materialized views, a trigger on those views, and then write code in the trigger that pushes updates onto a queueing system. It wouldn't be quite as convenient, but would probably accomplish what you want in many situations.
Yes but the commenter was arguing specifically for this method being applied in real life. While my opinion is that the research is very interesting but that's unlikely.
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I had my gallbladder removed in 2009, and was lucky in that at the time I had what is still the best insurance I've ever had. The sticker price of the procedure was approximately $50k (ER visit + admission + emergency surgery the following morning), of which I paid less than 1%. But the amount I did pay was split between the hospital (at least two separate bills), the surgeon (who was a contractor for the hospital and billed separately), and my insurance (who paid something in full but two months later decided I actually owed them $20 for it). This is not counting the $100 ER copay which was refunded to me 90 days after I was admitted (ER copays are typically waived if you're actually admitted to the hospital for non-US folks).

I was barely out of college at the time so had my parents look over everything and it was as far as we could tell correct. But still a mountain of paperwork, and I did miss a legitimate bill and end up paying a $30 late fee on a < $100 bill, which was frustrating.

So yeah. A mess, basically :)
Cables co's have been doing that across the country because of DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades and recouping spectrum by digitizing all their channels.

Docsis 3.1 will come out in the next year and you'll see really high rate plans, but I bet they will charge a lot.
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Neat! This is definitely a step forward -- and thanks for the shout-out to our (that is, Sun's and Joyent's) prior work here. Tempted to also incorporate this into agghist and aggpack, the new DTrace actions I added for this kind of functionality.[1] Anyway, good stuff -- it's always good to see new visualizations of system behavior!

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2013/11/10/agghist-aggzoom-and-a...
So, you would refer to this action being tax-free, but that the owners of the new subsidiary will still owe cap gains from Yahoo's basis if the subsidiary ever sells the Alibaba stake? I don't really consider that to be a tax-free.

Buffett does find creative ways to aviod taxes, but they usually involve the company he owns stock in buying that stock from him in a tax-free exchange. In that case, Buffett exchanged his $3bn worth of P&G stock for $3bn worth of a stake in Duracell. That had allowed him to re-establish his tax basis at the value of Duracel, and avoid cap gains on what he had made on buying P&G earlier.
Think they could have had more fun experimenting with image indexing. Say you Google a nice location, for example: Edinburgh, Scotland. On that SERP there is two locations for images, the 5th and the knowledge box to the right has a map and image.

The first image in the 5th position image area is Wikipedia (hard to beat that), but the last three are local blogs and Flickr (easier to beat). The very last image is the same image used in the knowledge box which sits nicely in eye line with the 1st position SERP link.

After a quick bit of detective work I've found that in Google Images, Pinterest link back to their page but are not the image source.

Type into Images search: site:pinterest.com intitle:Edinburgh, Scotland

Back to the Edinburgh, Scotland SERP and looking at those images in the 5th position we can see that all images are both the page and source.

We can use the Flickr image that's third in the 5th position image area as grounds to warrant even a small experiment to test if the theory is correct. The theory being that if Pinterest was the page and source could they see a benefit from it reflected in their organic search traffic.

What Pinterest lack is content, which they stated in the post. What they don't lack is images and titles.
All of OPEC has been falling for the marketshare scramble for much of the last 30 years, this is a key reason why their ability to maintain pricing power has diminished.

Whenever the price of oil falls below OPEC's established floor, Saudi Arabia (in theory) will be the OPEC member to cut their output. Historically Saudi Arabia has served as the world's swing producer. Each OPEC member had a specific quota they were allowed to produce with Saudi Arabia increasing and decreasing supply to maintain their target price.

The problem is, as OPEC as a whole has lost marketshare to new reserves elsewhere in the world, individual OPEC members began to ignore their quota and go for marketshare, producing as much as they could. This was largely driven by local politics in the individual nations, since increased marketshare would deliver a short-term cash infusion.

The Saudis are now tired of this. With US supplies now on the market, they've abandoned their role as the world's swing producer, leaving that task to America. America's producers are more market-sensitive, since they don't have sovereign reserves to fall back on, and more readily cut supply as projects become uneconomical in the face of falling prices. The great American oil boom of the past ten years has dramatically reshaped the power dynamics of the oil industry.

So the Saudis have joined the rest of OPEC in the quest for marketshare, allowing the price of crude to enter a free-fall. They can outlast most of the rest of OPEC with their currency reserves so they're using this moment to slap the rest of them in the face for decades of defying OPEC policy.

Oil isn't a dying market, conventional oil is a dying market.
This is a commitment that inspires cooperation. The quantified self community needs gadgets like these, but also open platforms that encourages tinkering.

I just purchased a Luna Developer Pack[1].

[1]http://lunasleep.com/extras/
I am not familiar with Visa application process, only from the hiring perspective. I am sure most of my advice is generic and will apply in many locations.

- Any time we open a position there are a large number of applicants who have recently emigrated, often without a Visa and hence are looking for sponsorship (this is possible). Standing out of the crowd is important.

- Ensure your english is up to scratch - spoke and written. (Triple check CVs for grammar etc).

- Introductions go a long way, so technology networking meetings are your friend. Meetup.com is helpful, at least in Auckland.

- Direct sponsorship by an employer is possible. However this would be difficult for a standard developer role - if you can sell yourself as a niche expert this would be beneficial.
Is a fair point. But I think that we keep far less data on these devices than you ever did on a computer. Certainly not in the size of the data, but more in the types. Preference and general settings data has basically erased on these.
This made the rounds this AM on the Oculus reddit sub.

The demo is currently 404'ing if you try to download, developer posted that he's bug-fixing and updating tomorrow. (1) but of course a redditor posted a mirror (2)

And if you want to be truly stunned and still have an Oculus DK1 check out his first demo: https://share.oculus.com/app/redframe-environment-demo

Even with the DK1 screen door it's damn near photorealistic.

(1) http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147851

(2) https://mega.co.nz/#!nIJSmT6K!BRKQBDb0uB9V9Xbtz13c_3QZjokq_3...
The industry refers to it as "prospecting for oil on the floor of the stock exchange." Moments like this will cause a lot of oil companies to become financially untenable as their market value falls below the long-term value of their assets (land leases, booked reserves, etc). Solvent competitors will buy them up as an alternative to starting new capital-intensive projects of their own.
> Great community support, corporate standard, lots of documentation, no one ever got fired...

Is this a bad thing?
> Access to the Internet is increasingly viewed as a right and/or an essential service. Access to overpriced handbags, not so much.

Clothes are seen as essentials in Western society. Luxury brands, not so much. Yet access to internet and access to cutting-edge broadband are treated similarly by regulators in the U.S. That's the asymmetry.
I've recently switched to Opera. It's ludicrous in my mind because it's Opera and I'm an older guy... history... but now it's webkit and it's essentially a polished version of webkit without the guest crapware of chrome. It has ublock too.
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Here are the headlines on washingtonpost.com[0].
They sure do look like they're making blindly xenophobic, nationalistic claims to bolster my faith in the government /s :
Obama scraps bid to raise taxes on ‘529’ plans
How one family went from no debt
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*Why the snow forecast for New York City was so bad, and what should be done

"US institution beyond reproach" You don't read many newspaper articles, do you? Ever hear of this thing called 'Watergate'?

[0]http://www.washingtonpost.com/ as it was on 1/27/2015 @ 6:00PM UTC-7
Or it's an insurance scam because the owner needed some cash. A staged accident in the middle of an ocean is a nice way to pull that off.
The e-commerce site I worked with had the best relevance with the word "USD" since it was on every page. But you're not supposed to just repeat a word tons of times to get high relevance on a keyword, right?
> paint/refresh bugs while scrolling,

Good to know I'm not the only one. I've become used to scrubbing the pointer up and down over the list of podcasts until the part I'm looking at is legible, and plugging my iPod in twice to get it to show up. But IMO iTunes is actually one of the less-bad recent Apple software screw-ups. At least it doesn't have enormous memory leaks, like Safari and Keynote, which regularly beachball my poor laptop with "only" 4GB of RAM long enough to go make a cup of coffee.
It is very hard to separate the noise from the information related to climate change. Even the popular media houses are reporting everything in a very biased fashion.

True that the Saudis have a personal interest in being climate change skeptic but that does not make their arguments any less relevant.
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I didn't know you can "hack" something by buying a product.
Heh, yep, that's pretty perfect
Mac OS X 10.10.2 released with fixes for wi-fi issues
I think you might be confusing whether the DRM will be effective at stopping copying with whether many users will adopt DRM-restricted tools and platforms.
When I find myself getting addicted to a game now, I look for a way to cheat and rapidly progress to the end. The illusion dispelled, I only have to waste one hour of my life. Bonus: reverse engineering skills.

Edit: But also, I never bother with MMOs because they're tedious to begin with. It's multiplayer FPS games that are the real trouble spot.
UE4 is tons of fun indeed. Blueprints are surprisingly powerful.
I believe you also suffer from square-cube effects. Take a light airplane with a parachute, and scale up all the linear dimensions by a factor of two. You now have something with four times the drag (drag is proportional to cross section) but eight times the weight (weight is proportional to volume). That means your terminal velocity increases by 40% (proportional to the square root of mass/area). In short, if you take a system designed for a SR-22 and just scale it up for a 737, the jet would descend much faster under the canopy, probably to a degree that it would no longer be safe. The parachute would have to be proportionally much larger still.

And as you say, they wouldn't add much safety because there isn't much more to be had. I can only think of two large jet crashes offhand that would have potentially benefitted (the DC-10 that crashed in Sioux City, and that Japanese 747 where the tail fell off) and that's from a period of decades.
When I first saw Another World, the animation was so incredible (for the time) that I figured it was one of those newfangled CD-ROM games. Then I bought a copy and was shocked that the whole thing fit on a single 1.2MB floppy -- most graphics-heavy games (like Wing Commander) shipped on several floppies before CD-ROM became prevalent.

I always wondered about the tiny executable, too. I think I just figured that it was a stub that loaded an overlay from the big data file. Guess I was wrong!
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This exists: https://github.com/omniti-labs/pg_amqp
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Sorry I meant to say that the metric I called fixed costs is actually fixed and capital costs.

Fixed costs alone are ~$0.002/kWh...
Yet they can't seem to figure out that where I am in several movies is after the credits have started, and no, I don't want my homepage to recommend I "keep watching".
It's only difficult to separate the noise from the information if you only get your information from the news. If you go straight to the experts then the picture becomes quite clear.
"Accountants Don’t Use Erasers" I was about to say 'scientist too' but they do use chalkboard erasers... only when cons cells aren't reachable anymore though.
I don't know about the coast guard, but rescuing people in need is part of standard maritime law. The SOLAS (International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea) Convention contains "... an obligation for all vessels' masters to offer assistance to those in distress".
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Is there a chance that a site as large as Pinterest might have their search rankings dominated by some hand picked value rather than the many other factors that might affect a typical site?