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If water wasn't an input cost for all farmers, then the price of nut wouldn't have gone up in the first place. As I said, there must be some farmers who face increases in costs, and there must be some farmers whose costs increase enough that they produce less. Otherwise, prices would not have gone up in the first place.
Nothing with trump lmao
Why? Because they do well enough as it is. And any possible offshoots getting out of that niche and threatening humans were wiped out.

Evolution is not about the future. It has no goal. It’s a thing that has happened.
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$230 for DC23.
Founder of netlify and BitBalloon here.

We are working on an editing interface for static websites that can compete with the ease of use and flexibility of wordpress. Our alpha users love it and this is an open source project.

We've been working in this space for quite a while, and are extremely excited about the potential for static web-tech.

We started out with simple drag and drop deploys at BitBalloon (you don't even need to zip your site first, just drag a folder unto BitBalloon.com).

Later we launched our premium solution called netlify that's by far the most feature rich on the market (continuous deployment, form processing, API proxying, redirects, rewrite rules, SSL, etc, etc) and offers the best performance you'll get today.

It's spot on that the really big deal will be solving the CMS need, without making developers give up on all the advantages of static site generators.

Some of our larger clients are using netlify + roots/middleman/metalsmith/etc + Contentful/Prismic/etc to build large CMS drives sites that are built up front and hosted directly on our CDN, but this is still a bit too advances a setup for the millions and millions of normal CMS driven sites out there.

Our solution is building a completely open-source CMS that works with all common static site generators. It's in private beta right now, but getting real close to opening up the repo to the public. It’s completely free of any lock-in, and you can take it and host it anywhere with ease.

Happy to send an invite to anyone here. Just ping me at matt@netlify.com

Some feedback to the product of this thread:

Love the initiative.

Drag and drop uploads are nice, but unless you handle CDN configuration and cache invalidation, it doesn't seem like a big step up from just FTPing files to an S3 bucket.

Otherwise you might risk mainly appealing to beginners or people looking for a cheap way to publish a personal website, and those can't pay much. With a monthly price of $1/site, the life-time value of a client will be very low, so you will barely be able to spend anything on customer acquisition. One.com, GoDaddy or S3 can offer extremely low prices because they have huge scale, but as a tiny startup, you have no way of reaching the amount of users you would need to get on board with a model like that. Especially since this is way more technical than Wix/Weebly/SquareSpace,etc, while not really offering real value to professional developers or agencies.

If you want to build in the static hosting space, you should start by figuring out if there's something you could offer beyond what the existing players like netlify, BitBalloon, CloudCannon, Divshot, etc, already have, and make sure you're not just trying to compete on price.

My 5 cents written in 5 minutes :) Good Luck!
I saw the interstitial example. It looks slick. I think Bre.ad was for influencers, too. Do you know what didn't work for them and what you are doing differently? Are people able to make enough for you to take a cut or fee?
My dog can do this. Sadly he was tied to a tree for years before I got him, which is probably how he figured it out. I'll walk him and on extremely rare occasions he will accidentally wrap around a pole or something, and when he realizes he doesn't have any slack, he immediately unwraps himself. I also say "on extremely rare occasions" because somehow he figured out that if there's a tree/pole ahead, he should stay between myself and the tree/pole to avoid ever wrapping around it to begin with. The only times he will go on the wrong side is if he's preoccupied with a smell or something, and even then, he never actually fully wraps around it, as he almost always realizes he should immediately go the other way.

He was never formally trained to do this. :)
Seems unlikely to me, but of course this is all pure conjecture. If human history is any lesson, we've only been able to increase our levels of technology because of positive feedback loops facilitated by our ability to communicate. Could you build a better $technology without the relevant domain knowledge, passed down to you through human language? I seriously doubt it. Instead of making incremental improvements, you'd have to come up with the entire concept from scratch.

Edit: Individuals may be smart with or without language. I believe that to be an open question. But technology is the domain of culture, and communication between individuals (diffusion and reuse of ideas, especially) becomes a lot more important.
Likely! Thanks. But I can't find a reference for that either :)
I was a little stunned when I first came across it - and it got my brain to churning.

I've since then been able to use DropBox to syndicate oil&gas drilling waste processing equipment configurations from a small set of folders on my desktop. And I've been able to hook up a national chain's franchise's digital in-store displays to a content manager's workstation at an ad agency in New York. You can do quite a few nifty things with it.

And I've taken us off the topic of your demonstration. Sorry! :-)
Fertile ground indeed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...
Paywall.
Morphdom – fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (without the virtual part)
It would be nice if graphics cards / VM bioses extended text video modes (perhaps new VESA modes) to supported unicode, preferrably utf32 to make buffer offsets easy to compute. Sure it means more fonts and not every codepoint can squeeze into a few pixels, but most additional codepoints will be good enough and better than seeing garbage on the screen.
RE 2. I agree with your sentiment, but I think GP didn't intend to imply we're supposed to want progress, only that when you have two competing species, the one that progresses faster will outcompete the other one. Life forms aren't fitness maximizers, they're adaptation executors - they do stuff because they like doing stuff, not because they recognize evolutionary fitness as important.
I think that although the commented above used `as`, he meant it as pseudocode and not C#, especially since C# is rarely used for low-level or perfomance-critical stuff where you would use int8 instead of int16 for optimization (in my experience).
Yes. Shoot me an email if you're interested in setting it up (Brian at LinkPlugapp.com)
I was going to reply, but what you said :P
.. I think it's great that initiatives like this are taken, but of course a market fit is important if you want to make a dent.
Not only that, at the first power loss you would lose all your data. I wouldn't boot anything critical straight to RAM! It's just not the kind of guarantees we're used to.

If it were all in a sealed package that 'guarantees' the RAM will never power down, at a very low firmware level, that is a different matter.
In the case of this specific paper from this specific conference, you're in a lot of luck. USENIX put out the full proceedings as a giant PDF, an ePub, and a Mobi ([1]).

If you want to reflow arbitrary pdfs, then you should check out k2pdfopt ([2]). It's how I read academic papers on my Kindle. It does lots of tricks to slice out a useful format from pdfs of many different formats and make them pretty solid on a different screen size.

[1]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...

[2]: http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/
You might be able to track this down using public data.
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Or the even stricter RFC3339 date format, which is ISO8601 without the dumb bits: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt
Nut costs are up, because nut trees are thirsty. Everyone knows this, so consumers accept that nut prices go up

That doesn't make sense. Consumers have no reason to care why prices change. Do you really think that when there is a drought, consumers increase the amount of nuts that they consume at a given price, because they find the price reasonable due to the drought?

It's a mistake to rely on simple supply-and-demand to analyse this situation because laws of supply and demand are generally considered in an atmosphere of perfect competition, and ceteris parabus - all other factors being held equal other than the water cost, in this case.

It's a bigger mistake to assume consumers behave in ways that make no sense, in order to justify someone else's verbal argument (which made no reference to why consumers would act a certain way, and probably didn't even consider the issue).
>metric countries still use non-metric terms for some cases, eg, "inches in a screen"

This is an example of American influence. Decade ago it was in centimetres.

For example, in this 2004 Siemens commercial for Russia CX65's screen size is 13 square centimetres:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZaY_f6U8Mo
It's not a solution- it's saying that what the OP characterized as a problem is a feature, not a bug. I don't know if I agree (maybe, maybe not, maybe "it depends"), but that's the answer to your question.
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I think CAN maps better to layer 1. You can and do blindly trust messaging at layer 1. In any piece of engineering there exists an abstraction level below which there is no security. Software people are prone to forget this because everything they do is virtual. But it's not turtles all the way down, there is no such thing as a secure transistor.
It doesn't happen in a vaccuum. There is game theory at work here.

Farmers and ranchers don't just use muni water sources. Yes, water is common when you look at the water table, but muni water districts tend to use reservoirs and farmers must use water rights (which are built into the California Constitution, BTW).

Nut farmers may be in a position to use more water (I doubt all of them are), but that doesn't mean that all California farmers are able to do the same. California rice farmers, for example, (farming rice in an arid near-desert should almost be a crime) have been netting more money by leasing their water rights than working their crops for years now.[1]

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_26181042/high-bidding-...
> Here's a town, Cambria, where building a pipeline to the ocean was stopped by environmental nazi's

Is that what was said? I don't think it was. Unless you want to just assume the Coastal Commission and "other regulatory bodies" are "environmental nazi's [sic]". The laws and/or regulations causing problems here may or may not be originally linked to environmental efforts, but either way, blanket sentiments that regulation is bad, or good, don't really help and just add to the rhetoric noise that detracts from people getting the useful information needed to institute change, whther that be small scale and local, large scale and federal, or somewhere in-between.

There are of course many instances where regulations have become too complex and rigid and actually are detrimental to the public or environment, even if that's what they were meant to protect, but there are also many cases where the lack of regulation causes severe problems. Noting the cases that affecting you or that you've been exposed to and extrapolating a pattern exposing a problem with regulation or lack of regulation as a whole for the nation is rarely useful.
You had me up until "morning coffee brewed matter-of-factly with recycled water." HELL NO.
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Here's a town, Cambria, where building a pipeline to the ocean was stopped by environmental nazi's.

How do you expect to get taken seriously when you use such hateful terms against your opponents? The problem here seems to be bureaucratic inflexibility that's unresponsive to unique local conditions (even though the general principle might be a sound one), not jackbooted thugs brutalizing anyone who suggests desalination might be more sustainable than well-digging.

The problem here is the unresponsive nature of governance when there are jurisdictional conflicts. Why do you feel the need to treat it as a personal moral conflict when there's no evidence that that's what's going on? It doesn't seem to me that you're interested in addressing the actual problem, just in using it as a means to demonize other people with whom you disagree.
From what I've read, the brain partially 'compartmentalizes' it's communications at regular intervals, and dreaming is what happens when this process finishes: the different compartments start communicating, synthesizing multiple independent thought processes into a cohesive whole. (Which would explain why they can be seemingly random and also relevant of recent events.)
Many years ago, during a stupid-er time in my life, I stayed up three nights in a row.

I was working on a robotics paper to present at a conference. My first. It was a massive project and things had fallen behind schedule. With just three days left until I was supposed to be on a plane I had no choice but to work on the thing continuously and get it done.

It was a solid three days of writing code and building/testing boards. I got done and packed with a couple of hours to spare before having to go to the airport. For some reason I could not sleep on the flight from Los Angeles to Seattle.

Once I got to the room at the hotel I pretty much collapsed on the bed. My talk was scheduled for the next morning. I figured I could sleep a solid 12 hours and have a couple to get ready for the talk/presentation.

Somewhere in the middle of the night I woke up. I have no clue how long I slept up to that point. I had lost all sense of time. I went to the bathroom. And that's when the nightmare started.

I washed my face and almost immediately my ears started to buzz. It was something like a 1kHz sine wave. It started at a low level and got louder and louder. Scary.

At a certain point, my field of vision started to turn milky white. The tone got louder and all I could see was a bright white light engulfing my entire field of view.

I was blind and deaf and in the worst possible circumstances I could imagine.

I have no clue how long it all lasted. It felt like somewhere around 15 minutes. It could have been just thirty seconds but I had no sense of time and I was freaking out. All I could do was sit on the bathroom floor, hold on to something and think through the worst possible scenarios.

After what I guess was about fifteen minutes my vision started to slowly come back and the tone started to fade away. That must have taken another 5 to 15 minutes. I was drenched in sweat and scared like I had never been in my life. I've never done drugs or alcohol. I imagined this had to be like a grade-A drug addict overdose experience, or worst.

All I could do was go back to sleep after that. I was exhausted.

The next day I asked to have my talk re-scheduled and went to see a doctor. He told me I was an idiot and lucky not to have ended-up in the ER with brain damage.

That was the last time I worked on anything overnight.

I know tech companies have a culture of working long hours to get things done. Be sure you are not killing yourself to crank out another 100 lines of meaningless code. The world can wait. And if your VC's don't understand you'd like to live a long an healthy life, well, fuck them.
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I suppose that could happen, is there any particular reason to think it is?

>Even if we assume that the price increase must be supply driven...

That doesn't matter to me, I was arguing against a specific mechanism. I never said there was no reason that more acreage might be used. I said that the reasoning of the poster was wrong.

depending on elasticity, this could conceivably even increase the total revenue of almonds sold

It really couldn't. If you are, as you say, assuming prices are driven by supply and demand, and there are no demand shocks, then total revenue must go down. That is econ 101.
> many members of the Bush administration ordered torture and medical experimentation on human beings

The way you phrased this made me curious, so I looked it up. I don't know if it was your intention, but the way you phrased it made it sound like they were preforming medical procedures, possibly heinous medical procedures. In fact, the experiments were collecting data[0]:

"...and crossed the line into human experimentation by collecting and analyzing data that were then used to refine harsh interrogation techniques, including sleep deprivation and waterboarding..."

Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with it, but I had visions of people having limbs attached to them, superhuman drugs injected into them, and death left and right, like some kind of V for Vendetta shit. This does not seem to be the case.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917950/
I mean something simple, such as just using the usb itself or through social engineering to take data. If you can manage to load malware onto the computer, you can probably steal the data in a much easier way.

It's also much more efficient given the communication rate in the article is on the order of just bits/s. Of course, if you're looking for a steady stream of data over time, then this is probably the optimal solution.
don't forget the timing - because of the drought the supply may have been hit (even if only in futures market at wholesale stage), thus price increase - thus planting more trees today to catch what seems to be great profit tomorrow. Anyway, i only mentioned what i heard on NPR. Another commenter found and posted the link to it.
Doesn't help you much if you don't live in Europe. I have a 2015 audi that doesn't require the key to be inserted.
Their first project looks nice[1]. Hopefully, they'll do similar things in the future.

That list of staff does worry me, though. All of their Twitter streams are filled with counterproductive outrage. To give one example that's related to HN: After Y Combinator posted about diversity[2], @_danilo misconstrued Sam Altman's words to a cynical caricature[3]. Later, @_danilo got in a flamewar with Sam Altman[4].

It'll be great if GitHub can get these people to spend less time being angry and more time working toward productive ends.

1. https://github.com/blog/2037-github-is-a-proud-connecthome-p...

2. http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups

3. https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/492764323874222081

4. https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/492840606054363136
Use CentOS7 with systemd. I have much less problems and annoyances with CentOS on my own servers. They are _small_ (large problems are always addressed fast) but their number is huge. I know solution for every problem I face on Ubuntu, because I started to use Linux in 1998, but they are already _fixed_ in CentOS. Working on Ubuntu I feel like I returned back in time for few years.
Fundamentally Rust just doesn't define things well enough to be able to answer the "this is what it compiles to" issue.

There's some things like `Option<&T>` which we guarantee but really it's a lot of "man, if the compiler was smart enough...". Even then, a stray annotation can wall LLVM and kill any chances of perf (e.g. if the function is not a candidate for cross-crate inlining).
In the UK too traditionally, although that’s changing (by convention).
Maybe some species are faster than other in realizing it, or psychologically more prone to take action rather than wait for help passively.

Quite often 'intelligence' is linked in desire to try things. Mice can get stuck when deprived of some confidence inducing hormones while the confident group will keep trying.
Ah yes, this gets at an interesting side note, which is the difference between epistemic and aleatory uncertainty. QM uncertainty is aleatory, while issues of measurement precision are epistemic. The distinction being that epistemic errors can be reduced with better tools and with an ideal measurement device are eliminated, whereas aleatory uncertainties are always present even with a perfect tool.

Assuming QM's predictions are valid, we will never ever be able to to improve our measurement beyond the point where errors from the uncertainty principle dominate. Our current definition of the meter is pretty close to this limit, so personally I don't expect the meter is going to be redefined any time soon because we're already near the sort of scales where the idea of "distance" starts to get kind of fuzzy.
The program sounds like a very targeted, but also very invasive, ban on alcohol.

> Sobriety experienced not only a 12% drop in repeat drunken-driving arrests but also a 9% drop in domestic-violence arrests.

An interesting fact to consider when people talk about how substance abuse bans create "victimless crimes."
More pushups and more skills could mean more offspring.
Very excited to see this - I had a chance to see their early product, and was impressed by its flexibility and their approach to making it secure.
"pure propaganda/fluff pieces"

if you don't see how this matches either description fair dues to you.
> "...in direct violation of the country's constitution..."

I'm too lazy to try and verify this myself. You seem to have information on how to verify this. Can you point me in at least a vague general direction so I can read up more on it?
Just don't make any mistakes? Was that a joke?

There are many reasons a process can die that are outside of its control, including signals from outside the process, handled (but uncorrectable) memory errors, and the OOM killer (on Linux). Besides that, it seems like a major design shortcoming if fatal errors in any particular program (however critical and however simple that program may be) can be unrecoverable for the whole system.

It's definitely possible to solve this problem rigorously and completely, though I don't know of a way to do it without support from the kernel. On illumos systems, the service restarter ("svc.startd") provides a complex restart policy for user-defined services. I believe the restarter itself is restarted blindly by init, and init is restarted blindly by the kernel. If the kernel dies, the whole system is rebooted. In this way, if any software component in the chain of restarters fails, the system still converges to the correct state.
It's amazing what you'll find does and doesn't constitute torture when you're paying people to write the definitions for you.
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among my peer group, uber/lyft have done more to curb drunk driving than anything else. in fact i'm going to go ahead and say it's probably the only thing that has had any real impact, since nobody i know has ever gotten a DUI and i've seen some really risky shit go down.

scare tactics and huge fines (associated with pullovers and checkpoints which are super low probability events) just don't work, that's for sure. i know of people who literally drove drunk for YEARS until uber came along, then stopped entirely.