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> They came up with a viable plan to make this happen.

That is a curiously positive take on it. The wikipedia page you cite notes numerous extraordinary consequences to this plan that call into question its viability, to put it mildly. They include widespread destruction to wilderness areas, the relocation of >100K people, and six nuclear power plants worth of electricity to pump water over the Rockies. It has not been seriously considered since the 1970s awakening to environmental destruction of large scale dam building.
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Safer perhaps, but it would take a really big panel a really long time to give you even a few miles
Go watch TV. Or play a computer game.
Currently MongoDB is outperformed by Postgres

I hate hearing absolutist dogma like this. Some things are faster in Postgres, some things are faster in Mongo. We are migrating our analytics db from Mongo to PG but we hit a wall because SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT x)) performs abysmally in Postgres. Mongo's aggregation framework is an immature PITA but it performs this little trick well enough that we're pretty much stuck keeping Mongo around unless we want to use MSSQL or Oracle or something else with a better (and much more expensive) query planner.

We still love (and prefer) Postgres but it is not a pareto improvement. There are always tradeoffs, and this kind of fanboyism just speaks to inexperience.
Yes, I developed the API.
Can the co-founder be a non tech co-founder?
This section from an essay I read recently [1] might be relavent here

>In the 1960s, feminists faced social ridicule, media approbation and violent hostility. Now, mirroring the incremental changes seen in technology, social progress all too often finds itself down the blind alleyways of political correctness. Student bodies used to be hotbeds of dissent, even revolution; today’s hyper-conformist youth is more interested in the policing of language and stifling debate when it counters the prevailing wisdom. Forty years ago a burgeoning media allowed dissent to flower. Today’s very different social media seems, despite democratic appearances, to be enforcing a climate of timidity and encouraging groupthink.

So we are conditioned by the social media to encourage groupthink, and so, we are conditioned to hate "trolls", when their behaviors threatens breaking groupthink.

I see this manifested here in HN in discussions involving Tesla/SpaceX. In those threads, if you are in a position where you are going against the rabid enthusiasm, moderators will step in with a ban threat, if you are even slightly combative or go out of the line. But the other side is given a lot more slack, when it comes to silencing dissenting opinion..

[1] https://aeon.co/essays/has-progress-in-science-and-technolog...
Given the example of Twitter I'd say that the answer to the second question is yes. They rewrote the Ruby (not Rails) backend and continued serving tweets. Did they have theirs hairs on fire? Maybe, but I don't think you're never in hurry when you rewrite parts of a popular service.

About question number one: no idea, but you can add more machines and scale horizontally. Then you might ask if you want more efficient code between the web server and the database. You can optimize up to C. Finally, Twitter is still using Rails for the front end AFAIK, so it shouldn't be so bad.
Temecula is not a desert, nor inhospitable for people...
Wow. “We basically said, ‘We strive to be safe in every way to the consumer, and this is exactly what we do, and we welcome dialog’”

Sounds like they are playing with fire (sorry). I sincerely hope that the laws are in place to send the principals to jail if they cause an injury.
Honestly, all the ideas explained in this article have been richly used in China. The excitement and extensive usage of groups with nearly all of your classmates, colleagues, families, random meetups and occasional affairs.
You probably will find it noisy when you have to manage tens of groups and hundreds of users in each group. Then, the app is not only for tight connections but weak connections in business and personal interests.
This is what happened with WeChat 2 years ago.
Ask yourself questions about it. Write them down + answers. what do you get from it? etc.

Read books instead of internet articles.
Try to get an outdoor activity you like.
Set a time schedule in which you allow yourself to use internet.
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for about $57,000 American you can get 370kwh centrifugal energy storage from Beacon Power excluding inverter, with a design life of 100 years bearing service every 20 years.

that's about $154/kwh and 100 year life.
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The fact that it's niche means they ought to be able to charge more. If it were yet another Hulu clone, they'd either need to compete heavily on price or try to out-content everyone else.
I always cringe when someone says 'software writing itself'.
Looks to me more like software constructing a query, much like an SQL query. Not sure that is a 'computer science breakthrough'
Still, the whole thing is pretty neat.
Do the pigs have beards and skinny jeans on?

Perhaps ear piercings with giant holes?

Hipster hogs.
yeah but it totally falls down if you have any friends w/o iphones!

are there any imessage clients for android? apple should just make an official one, and make it good. no immediate benefit, but long term it's always valuable to own the platform, and it's (amazingly) still ripe for the taking in the u.s.

side note: it's amazing how shitty the native fb messenger and google hangout apps are for iphone.
To be fair, they aren't an encryption service or something. They INSERT INTO visitor_count. So far as "inspiring confidence" needs to go for such a thing, I wouldn't write them off just yet.
Killing everything with position:absolute would work pretty good. Would take away annoying top/bottom bars too, and actually let me use my screen real estate for content instead of quick links to social sharing.
Reminds me of ReiserFS's original goals.

https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Future_Vision
> Not exactly straightforward to download Google Fonts

Hah, wonder why that is.
That page is really missing a description who is maintaining it (who is the team, how big is it, where is it located?), especially if it is marketed as a commercial offer. I don't think anybody will download binaries from some unknown individual and build a commercial product on top of it. In Germany you could even get sued for a page like this.
Plan and structure more of your day. Put better things to do on your calendar, things you like such as hobbies or social events as well as "productive" tasks. Give yourself a generous amount of time to do things in, more than you expect to use. If it doesn't become a habit and you just waste all the time, figure out why. You aren't a robot and you have to make a life that works well with your natural feelings, so don't expect to become someone else just because you constructed a schedule that says so.

Edit: and don't make decisions "when you feel like it", then you fall off schedule. Plan a lot in advance and then try to stick to how you planned the day.
If you just want to have nicer webfonts without the 'phoning home to Google' issue try Brick webfonts at http://brick.im/.

If the goal is to get rid of all third-party dependencies you can still use the Brick repository on GitHub to download the better looking fonts and self-serve them, just as you are now with the Google served ones.

The only 'gotcha' I found with using Brick is that NoScript users won't see the fonts and won't see the Brick URL in the menu for whitelisting. They will need to inspect the page and learn that they must manually add brick.im. Not exactly user-friendly but then again NoScript breaks lots of things and users are used to it.
Because the politicians could care less about water usage, it's about control and money
I know, right? I keep reading about almonds and strawberries and whatnot. I'm all for conserving the water, but if all 40 million of us humans here would get wiped out and replaced by farmer robots, the water usage would not go down by much.
I think if your database is down you've typically got bigger problems than your analytics.
Now I see. Thanks for the explanation. this is pretty neat then. Seems like a great learning tool
> Have you read the environmental impact - just the summary on the wikipedia article is fucking horrific.

I did read the article thank you, and I understood when I posted it there would be multiple comments highlighting the environmental issues. I could have chosen not to write a comment about NAWAPA, and nobody would have cared, but I simply wish for people to know this project exists. I have no intention of arguing with you or any of the other posters on this.

I think it's important to understand that we've known the American Southwest has had water problems since the 1800s, had a solution to fully resolve them, but for various reasons chose not to.
AMD GPUs have consistenly had higher compute performance than Nvidia. The Fury X, for example, consistently outperforms the Titan X for half the price.[1] That's why AMD has completely dominated the bitcoin / cryptohashing scene: money is involved, so people are willing to spend time optimizing for different hardware.

Nvidia captured this market using typical vendor lock-in tactics: they didn't support OpenCL 1.2 until many years after it was released, and they still don't support OpenCL 2.0+.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/9390/the-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-...
Also, section 9.6.5 advocates MAC-then-encrypt over encrypt-then-MAC - presumably the flaws in this approach have only become apparent since the book was published.

An interesting historical document though.
The funny thing is that Washington's handwriting is far more legible to me (a European) than my own great-grandfather's - even though great-grandpa had an extremely neat and regular handwriting.

I guess US handwriting styles won out at some point - or maybe it was the German-inspired handwriting that lost out.
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The developer experience looks interesting, looks like some kind of flow based, quite restricted coding environment? Getting that ecosystem and incentives for devs right will be the key to their success.

I've been using Amazon Alexa for a month and really struggling to find 3rd party apps or "skills" for it that I would want to use. Also, namespace pollution quickly becomes an issue when you start having thousands of apps that you didn't install but are there to use.

I think Google will dominate the voice assistant space soon as they have so many crucial services already there.

Good to have competition though!
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This is not a good field for companies with the mantra of 'move fast and break things'.

Seriously though, the attitude with the companies here is pretty awful, and seems to be an unfortunate trend with certain types of startups. Do whatever you like, and hope you get big enough to withstand being sued, regardless of legality.
There's really no common patterns of just plain JavaScript files being ignored (to some extend, other cases are mostly covered by the `node` file).
Its shocking that the "eurofag" crowd don't seem to get this aspect of the Bosnian conflict: Europe was definitely involved. European troops got there first.
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The future: all the unclaimed oceans will be claimed by countries
China has started the trend in the South China Sea. The made an island where there was none before. Claimed it as China's sovereign land, built military bases on it and claimed the 200 mile exclusion zone and made it into a no-fly zone.

Thus this is the first of many.

Wherever a country can create an island it will do so and claim it as sovereign land.

The next 20 years will be an "island rush" as countries stake out the worlds oceans as their own, build man made islands and militarize them.
> so far nothing is better than relational model

my favorite quote:
"the relational model is rooted depth in the set theory and math is hard to fool"

it was on a post on how all NoSQL are ending up having to reinvent having, group and join clauses on their API because that's what apps do with data
Relevant part:

> Operators: Operators are the building blocks of workflows. Conceptually, you can think of an operator like a function within a program. In FBLearner Flow, operators are the smallest unit of execution and run on a single machine.

> Channels: Channels represent inputs and outputs, which flow between operators within a workflow. All channels are typed using a custom type system that we have defined.

I think this is related to the thoughts in the following essay: https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/

When you think about it. What do NNs fundamentally do (once trained)? Map inputs to outputs, right? So they behave like functions. In type theory functions are intensional and we explicitly construct them. With NNs we have our ML algorithm and construct them based on training data and feedback. With regular functions we have explicitly constructed A -> B. Let's represent NNs as A ~> B. Let's represent channels as A||B. Say we have two operators: E ~> F and G ~> H then to join them,

So E ~> F||G ~> H we'd have to construct a channel F||G.

At least this is how I imagine they mean things! Corrections from FB most welcome!
That's an unattainable high acceptance bar. A more reasonable one would be to have mass adoption of self driving cars as soon as self driving cars cause less accidents than human drivers.
I heard it was because some of his students rebelled against the government, took over and ended up acting as tyrants for a certain amount of time. So he kind of got the blame for their actions, as the one who 'inspired' them.
+1 but about REST and the websockets: I'd keep using REST to query data and send data (and get a response). I'd use a websocket only for those cases where I should poll the server for updates. Reimplementing most of the semantic of HTTP into a websocket looks weird. Basically it would be tunneling HTTP into the websocket, which is already an upgrade of a HTTP connection.

Exceptions: I won't POST to a chat, even if there is nothing so wrong with that. Rationale: I'm already using that websocket for receiving messages, but only the messages for that chat.
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When I had an MRI on my knee in 2009, my out of pocket expense was $1500. A few hundred dollars seems cheap to me. Just the doctor visit to get the MRI ordered cost me $200.
Alright, when would I want to use this? It reads like I would use it for a high-performance and safe network daemon of some kind. So basically it could be used as the lowest layer of, for instance, an IRC server?
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Eggs will also not get salmonella if their natural protective coating is not washed away as per regulations in the US (vs Europe.) In fact, American eggs would be illegal in most European countries and vice versa - American eggs must be washed and refrigerated, whereas washing European eggs is prohibited.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why...
As I posted elsewhere [1], I have no intention of debating with you or other posters here about the merits of the project. I'm simply letting people know the project exists, and is feasible from an engineering standpoint. If someone finds my comment intellectually gratifying, then I consider it a success.

Something worth mentioning though is that right now China is building its own version of the NAWAPA called the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (Nánshuǐ Běidiào Gōngchéng) [2]. This would divert water from the wet regions in the south to the dry regions in the north. They've built the largest dams in the world and hundreds of miles of aqueduct to make this happen. They've also relocated hundreds of thousands people too. In my opinion, this is one of the largest engineering projects on the planet.

NAWPA is very similar to the Chinese project, except on a larger scale.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11665546

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...
1) Agreed, in fact I believe YC requires incorporation in Delaware. So it is probably important to distinguish between early-stage/growth-stage startups and companies that are profitable or have exited to IPO. Dropbox is a good example... I assume it was a Delaware company, until it became an Irish company. In fact, its probably a similar story with Apple, Microsoft, and many, many more...

2) Again, yes, this would apply to companies not making profits which are primarily early stage and growth-stage (although, even massive companies like Amazon can be "growth-stage" as long as they re-invest all their profits). But I think you are missing the purpose of this post, which is not to argue that most startups are avoiding taxes... but which YC ones that shouldn't be are? If the eventual life cycle for successful YC/VC backed companies IS to dodge taxes, wtf?

3) The $800 franchise tax is substantial when multiplied by the 2.2+ million taxable business in California... but not when compared to $59.9 Billion Apple, just Apple is currently estimated to owe in US taxes? Here's a fun little article show the crux of the conflict - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/05/apple-tax...

I don't think JUST corporations should take a haircut... investors and capital funds are going to have to as well since it is their demand for returns that pressure companies that want to "do good" into becoming tax dodgers. It's a cultural problem as well as a structural one. The point, again, is when is YC (and the investors and individuals who make up YC) going to start making a change? I'm a fan of YC, and the companies they invest in... but in this I see a blindspot, albeit one that is shared by most of the global business community.
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The Water Knife:
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which repeatedly mentions the book Cadillac Desert (which my dad has been trying to get me to read for 15+ years, dads are smart).
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> I think it's important to understand that we've known the American Southwest has had water problems since the 1800s, had a solution to full resolve them, but for various reasons chose not to.

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, that's like saying that I've understood that my Maserati payment is too much for me to afford and I've known that since the day I bought it and the solution proposed by my financial adviser was to crash it into a fuel depot at 150kph, but for various reasons I chose not to.

You can't just say "hey, we knew this would happen but our failure to sacrifice thousands of square kilometers of land, a whole lot of natural habitats, the livelihoods of the same number of people who live in Spokane, oh and the little thing of almost completely destroying a major fish species that is relied on by humans and animals alike...that's on us" and call it a day. Well, I suppose you can, but that's rather disingenuous of you for any future people who find this thread.
How about re-purposing old (underutilized?) oil pipelines from PacNorthWest...? Seems more plausible to change out the working fluids on an existing pipeline than building an aqueduct...?
Noone else noticed the slight dissonance of reading something like this on an academic journal? Knowing nothing of the context here, it certainly sounds like an interesting story
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Oh my dear... That's so pointless...
It's like judging your intelect depending on the amount you dump every day.
Well, booking hotels their way has always been easy. Just open the website, see the first three search results and book one which 'looks' the best in photo (assuming you have all the money of the world). In reality, it's not that easy, there are so many parameters to consider which they haven't. Price, smoking preference, number and size of beds, cleanliness, wi-fi and its availability and speed, other amenities, parking and so much more you have to consider before deciding to get into a hotel. This personal assistant doesn't seem to do any of that. The problem is, I don't even know how can we automate or predict that because these are very personal preferences and change with each trip.
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"Build tool complexity" seems less reaching
Surely for the duration it exists it has identical value, assuming it looks identical? What could be the difference, I wonder?
While it's common to use things like genre, year, musical characteristics, etc, social dimensions may be at least as valuable. Exanples are artists performeing at the same show, collaborating on a project, maintaining personal friendships, signing to the same record label, moving to another group, etc. Most of the music I've found and enjoyed were through these types of connections.
I think Spotify's "Discover Weekly" playlists get pretty close to this. I really, really look forward to each week's new playlist. I listen to a wide range of genres, and completely agree with you that most discovery tools try to pigeon hole you into one or two. Spotify seems to pick up on other associations. I wonder how much neural net stuff they're doing with their big data.
MRI like a lot of other med tech is very heavily patented. The core tech has long since expired but any of the cutting edge work will probably have patents around it. I do believe that an MRI startup has a chance to disrupt but it may be more of an innovation in application, or accessibility than in pure technology.
If I had a dollar for every time a customer finally confessed that they actually wanted a different feature but thought it would be too expensive...

Nothing like blowing $40,000 on a $1000 feature.
Engineers are going to break down the problem into many subsystems and test the heck out of them.

Maybe the system can still be globally optimized, though, as long as individual subsystems are still verifiably correctly trained. i.e. lane detection, pedestrian detection could share some of the same convolutional layers and still be tested separately.

My personal prediction is that all of this 2D convolutional network stuff will be extended to 3D within a few years. The front-end will do a full 3D scene reconstruction from first principles, and then some sort of 3D features will be learned on ~that data.
Well even if the environmental concerns were invalid and their alarmists appeased, it still doesnt seem like a good idea, when the problem can be solved simply by properly aligning incentives so that people don't privately benefit from overusing water, and aren't stuck in "use it or lose it"-type situations where they can blow $100 worth of water for free to keep the $5 worth of crops.

It can be done without unilaterally voiding water rights: just coordinate a way pay them to waive the drawing rights they'd normally have (such that it doesn't simply go to someone else with similarly skewed incentives). See David Zetland's "all-in auctions". Then, farmers would quit drawing so much for marginal crops, total usage would taper off, and aquifers would replenish. Infrastructure cost: $0.

$100 billion is a steep price to pay to refuse to recognize relevant scarcities.