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Man that page looks fraudulent. Doesn't even mention what kind of "VPN" is used other than it is supposedly "open". So, what client can I use? Which devices or operating systems does it support?
Not even the FAQ addresses any of it.

And with all that one is expected to trust ones key to that site? (the way the page is setup I guess the target audience can not even be expected to know what a "key" is, or why they would even need to trust that site even if they did use it)

At the very bottom, in the fine-print, there is a link to a blog post. Great. Start with that! Move the whole page to the bottom of the blog post. "But that will hurt adoptability". GREAT! No one in the in their right mind should be "securing their internets with some cloud thing that some dude recommended" in under 30 seconds anyway.

This is only encouraging people being gullible which is kind of ironic since the aim seems to be to help people not trusting public wifi.
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It's a bit weird what's qualified as a browser based game now a days. For me it's still CGI/Perl/PHP and maybe some JS. :P
You barely see those kind of games any more. Now it's mainly plugins and it makes me a bit sad. Why does it Need to run in the browser? What's the point with the browser if you are gonna use plugins anyway? Why not make a "native" game instead!?
No, I'm actually asking the question since Wikipedia's quote is "In an average year, about 40% of California's water is used for agricultural purposes". Which makes me wonder about how far down California is that it is now 80%?
I think they probably mean trad climber. I guess sport climbing is technically free climbing, but a lot of people mentally equate free with trad.
That is not a very satisfying answer for people hoping for America's demise.
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Did the second (bad behaving) bank get named?
I guess they could limit reviewing to accounts that have spent a decent chunk of cash and aggressively ban accounts that write fake reviews.
They'll have enough salt to last forever!
Would it really reveal the existence of fake reviews? How many people are unaware of them? Sure non tech-savvy people maybe, but those people are aging rapidly. Amazon needs to get ahead of this problem, because if the end result is that their rankings are shit, that will be much much worse for them in the long run.
I think that based on a sample of my HN comments I should be given free membership.
Not long now. I think that will mostly depend on whether they give the issues a name and a logo! <g> (Seriously though, that does seems to get people off their arses!)

You might want to get ready to change passwords for sites that have used RC4 in the past. Or, despite as much warning as anyone can give, are inexplicably still using it.
And I totally dismiss logic dictating that we must only deal with the largest and most contentious contributors to a problem before all others. That is only a delay tactic.

If I have a limited budget and am trying to reduce water use in California, pissing off a load of rich executives, judges and lawyers who can prove, in court, that their contribution to the problem is negligible, would not be my first move.

edit - and fountains? Are you the reincarnation of John Calvin?
You are absolutely right. There was a lot of manipulation that went on with the food pyramid, but a lot of studies in the last 5 years have shown that the relationship that we once thought existed (red meat=bad) is false. There are also well validated studies showing that the nutrition science that has been taught for the last few decades about our relationship with sugar, fat, food in general, and how cholesterol affects our bodies is wrong.

Dr. Peter Attia's "The Eating Academy" (http://eatingacademy.com/) is a great place to learn more about what we are finding out about how certain foods actually affect out bodies.
Acre-feet? Can someone translate this into furlong-leagues? Or preferably, y'know, an SI fluid measure like litres?
To nitpick, Java's JIT compiler compiles Java bytecodes to machine code, but I know that javac does to the type of optimization that you are describing. There are plenty of scenarios though where it can't/won't do that optimization ... and if you are using the binary version of a library compiled without that optimization I'm pretty sure you're out of luck, especially if the method you're calling is not JIT'd.

I'm not really trying to knock any particular language or runtime here, the point I was trying to make is that nearly every language I've used has quirks that encourage convenience over optimization, and that just because you're coding in language foo, it doesn't mean you're off the hook when it comes to being intentional about the choice between them.
Good point.
How can we be sure this is secure enough to use?
OpenVPN is widely used, so the thought is any issue with it would be more likely to be found.
Well to be sure we were going down that route. Then Reagan got elected. Take that what you will.
This is part of what is needed. Water rights in California are as old as the state and extremely convoluted. Those with the older water rights have a practically guaranteed supply and generally irrigate in remarkably wasteful ways. Breaking the old water rights and increasing the price of water would push farmers to move to Israeli style computer controlled drip irrigation rather than current methods of just spraying tons of water over the field. Gov Brown was talking about bring that technology over and pushing it hard into farming...
I actually do not agree with you that a Rolex necessarily looks better than an Apple Watch Edition. To me, most Rolex watches just look like massive hunks of metal. Seriously, the size and weight of some of these watches is really ridiculous to me.

Also, mechanical watches do not last centuries without being serviced repeatedly every ~5 years. Servicing a high-end mechanical watch can easily cost many hundreds, if not more.

Many mechanical watches are also not automatic, which means you do indeed have to "charge" them every day (hand-wind them). For instance, Nomos is my personal favorite watch brand of all time, and while they have a mixture of manual and automatic watches, their highest-end offerings (about $20k) are all manual.

Finally, you mentioned TAG, and one of their best known watches is square: the Monaco.
I think the easiest solution would be just to allow H1-B visa holders change jobs or quit easily. Currently if you want to quit you only have 1 month to find a job which is nearly impossible because you have to transfer the H1-B visa which is the same as applying for a NEW H1-B (only difference is that it does not count towards the yearly cap.)
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I forget where I got this from, but this is how I remember it:

tar -xzf # eXtract Ze Files!

EDIT: I missed chadzawistowski's similar comment below
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Wow--thanks! The "How Thirsty Is Your Food" infographic from the first link is really incredible. Definitely makes me think differently about eating handfuls of almonds, or a huge amount of broc with dinner.
That's not at all what I'm saying. You're twisting my words to fit your own agenda...

What I'm saying is they were drunk and horny and wanted sex - both parties, consensual (from the way the media portrayed it.) Not rape. It wasn't until after the fact that she backtracked and changed her mind and decided that she retroactively didn't want sex after all and cried rape.

That's like me going back to a partner and saying, yeah, I know we had sex last night, but I'm regretting it now because I heard you had sex with my room mate, so I'm going to report you for rape. Which is exactly how it was portrayed.

Making a shitty decision to have sex with someone while under the influence of alcohol is entirely different than getting shit-face drunk (or drugged) and getting raped. These are two entirely different scenarios. The first is what I'm getting at - bad decision to have (consensual) sex, regretting it after the fact; the second is what you're getting at - getting too drunk to be in charge of your own destiny and unable to fend yourself off from someone you don't want sex with - this is rape and is inexcusable. In the scenario you're presenting, I'm entirely in agreement with you, but that's not the scenario as I perceived it, nor as I presented it. As the media presented it, I didn't see any real victim. I saw someone that played the victim card only as a result of coercion. The way her testimony was portrayed, I'm not even convinced that she felt she was a victim, she was a willing participant and only seemed to be going along with the rape allegation as part of some outside coercion or pressure. I genuinely read it like she had some affection for him and that she was sexually into him.

My point regarding the getting drunk and driving a dangerous piece of equipment is about legal culpability with regards to the ability to make decisions while under the influence of alcohol - not victim blaming. It's not about the indirect consequences of her decisions. It's about making a decision to participate in sex while under the influence of alcohol. In the legal sense this is no different than making a decision to drive a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. If you're legally considered to have the mental capacity to make decisions in one scenario, you're legally considered to have the mental capacity to make decisions in the other.

If someone decides to have sex with someone while under the influence of alcohol, they can't use the legal excuse they were drunk. In exactly the same way as you can't get into a car accident and claim legal immunity because you were were drunk. In other words, you cannot be deemed legally able to make a decision in one scenario but not the other because you're drunk.

If it was rape and indeed it was non-consensual on her part, then her being drunk is irrelevant, just as it would be irrelevant what she was wearing. Rape is rape. But this was not portrayed as rape.
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You're right - any trees or vines are an issue when it comes to drought management. When you lose a tree or vine, it can take multiple years to get back to productive levels. It's very different when you're planting seasonal crops and can choose to skip a season.
Since I don't know the factors involved and you do, I must then ask how to reconcile this with the fact that the first version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking was released in 1997. My smartphone is definitely more powerful than even a top-of-the-line 1997 desktop PC.

Now, I am sure Dragon V1 would be quite underwhelming to my modern notions of how computers should work. But I would even say my smartphone is better than a middle-of-the-road PC from 2010. It's better than my PS2, and even my PS2 had a few games that had speech interface (some Navy Seals game, it worked pretty well).

What factors are at play? Is it the noise cancellation? Seems like a stationary device in a home has the ideal chance to create a reusable noise cancellation profile.
they probably also know how to get people to help them. If you have x more hours in the day it makes it that much easier to ship.
California's water reserves can't sustain the ridiculously wasteful agriculture that Californian farmers have been growing for decades, and a huge amount of California's water use is going towards agriculture to grow almonds, rice, and grapes in the desert.

Those crops are going to have to come from somewhere else pretty soon regardless.
Seems a good time to post this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world...

It a TED talk about reversing desertification with farming practices. Not applicable to every crop, but here you go.
Neat!
But I ran into a few issues.
1) Facebook login does not work, I used Twitter
2) The first time I clicked the Wish bookmarklet on an Amazon product, it just froze, had to do a it a multiple times
That said, I can see it using regularly, definitely better than placing items in 'Save for Later' list on Amazon
Edit - I am currently a camelcamelcamel user, I love the price tracking on that, do you have any plans on adding that feature
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Have you done this? I'd be interested in details.
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Even if we accept that argument, which I think is a little far-fetched given the countries that would need to get on board for a hypothetical food embargo against the US to be effective, there's no national security implications to almonds and there are good substitutes for rice and cotton.

In a real pinch the agricultural production dedicated to ethanol can be redirected to food, and perhaps most importantly even a small shift in the meat/plant balance towards plants creates a huge calorie surplus.

In short, food security looks more like a post hoc rationalization than a good justification for our terrible policy landscape when it comes to agriculture.
I'd also add that they know how to recover from failure.

For example, I'm learning to program, and I can move pretty quickly on things, as long as I'm getting enough information to make the next step. To me, failure with feedback is awesome! But every so often, I hit a problem and don't even know how to analyze the available information to move past the error, and I tend to get bogged down at that point.

For the more experienced programmers out there, I wish there were a Stack Overflow for troubleshooting specific problems, not as a reference for future people, but as (a) a way for novice learners to help get 'unbogged' and (b) slightly more experienced, but still junior developers to review other learners' code and help them debug (which is in and of itself, as much, and sometimes more of, a learning experience than actually coding something in the first place).
Indeed they are but I'm not sure how the refutes what snitko said.
That's a simplification that's so far stretched it doesn't make sense.

The UK has also extradited people under terrorist laws, just like the Swedish case you keep referring to. Sweden also has a history of protecting deserters from the US army, from the Vietnam era onwards.

But neither of this matters, because the whole theory doesn't make sense. If Assange was sent to Sweden for questioning, the very same international agreements that got him sent there would only allow him to be sent back to the UK, nowhere else.
You could have a reputation system where vote weight is gained for correct identification of upvoted bogus reviews. Then your spammers are forced to fight each other in order to upvote their own spam. Start everyones voting weight at zero until they've spent $x.
Mozilla's EULA also prevents commercial distribution of Firefox binaries, which seems a little unusual to me.
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I upvoted the GP. I had the same puzzlement.

> "Hey, you're a clueless _guy_ and I'm a _girl_. You have questions about girls, and I am obviously qualified to answer them because I am also a girl..."

That doesn't follow (that you need a girl to answer, or that any girl is qualified), and in fact is insulting.
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Ok, so you've addressed one point out of three. And do you think all the farmers are just going to pack up and move?
Well, given that their problem is an excess of sunshine, solar powered desalination plants strike me as excellent insurance against these conditions.
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There's been some more discussion and developments on this recently:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/haxelang/KhrRlizYwX8

I think the focus is going to be on generating objective c, rather than swift. Although, that's the entire extent of my understanding.
> Couching this in difficulties on the developers part is not a long term viable complaint.

Maybe if IE was the only browser available on Windows, but it isn't.

"Developers, developers, developers, developers." - Steve Ballmer
That graphic makes the front end developer look like a complete slacker, haha:

http://i.imgur.com/9Ehs00S.jpg
Just to bring the analogy back to tech... when, if ever, do you think you'll feel the same way about Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc. regarding "relentless market, shareholder dividends, and large corporate salaries"? How do we get the equivalent of "variety and depth of flavor" when products and services converge towards mediocrity (or disregard for end user privacy, or any other complaint du jour)? (Note: I do not know if any or all of the corporate cruft complaints apply to the tech companies mentioned.)

I agree with you, in that spending money on quality products is "voting with your wallet," and overall, a good idea.
The person you are responding to doesn't say anything about Chrome. WebKit can be built on Windows and Linux and there are browsers that use WebKit that support Windows and Linux.
That one is all over the net though. You can even view the original patent:

http://www.google.com/patents/US3475623
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Judging by the number of protest signs (Water = Jobs, etc) I see every time I go through the Central Valley, and the increasing acreage that seems to be returning to desert conditions, this seems to have been happening for a while.
I think it's less this:

REMOTE DOESN'T WORK FOR GENERALISTS

and more this:

Some people just aren't wired for working remotely.

Nothing to beat yourself up over. And in my view not something that needs to apply to the full team - I've done a lot of work with a company where you get to choose whether you want to work remotely or not. Once every three months the whole company meets up for a couple of days and in between occasionally people will choose to meet up for a day to kick a project off or wind it up. Some people work full time in an office together. I think it works brilliantly letting people have the choice from a developer's perspective, although I can think of a few project managers that perhaps didn't get it.
Cool. Great to have an alternative.

Also, godoc is back up now.
what languages have a platform comparable to OpenFL?
Good thing the largest tech companies don't collude to lower wages... /s
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I'm not sure I would agree with you there. I suspect these movies are far more movie than comic book, and that the target audience is far more moviegoer than comic book fan. If anything, I think being a big comic book fan could actually be a detriment for such a filmmaker, as they would have to resist doing things that work for comic books/comic book fans but don't really work for movies/moviegoers. But more likely, if it is a good filmmaker, whether they like comic books will have little or no impact on whether they can make a good film, even if it is based on a comic book. The mediums are just too different.
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Ewww. I couldn't see the tweets or screenshots because of the HN DDoS.
I definitely missed the re-interview.

However the full quote is:

> Sofia also said that, when she was half asleep on her side, she had been aroused from slumber to feel that Assange was inside her.

Which is quite different from a plain "half asleep", especially with the rest of the sentence: "aroused from slumber to feel that Assange was inside her".

Even in its best light, assuming "half asleep", this begs the question of whether someone in that state can consent to sex (under the Swedish legislation), and/or whether a reasonable person could believe that there was consent.

I'd say no... but I will grant that this sort of question is why judges and juries are necessary.
I think the value of Haxe comes from being able to use one language across platforms, not anything specific to the language itself.

Could you speak to the specific "warts" you found while using it? I'm genuinely curious.
Yep. See:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400082
Actual spam filtering is as good as I could ask for on gmail. Maybe a few per month get through to my inbox, and I can't complain about that at all. I am also not at all worried about parsing x+y to ditch y. The real spam filter works really well, and despite public knowledge of '+', it's very uncommonly used.

My email address isn't Fort Knox. Email I don't want just doesn't get past the spam filters; even at peak spam a few years back when I was getting 4000+ illicit messages a month. Complex schemes aren't going to benefit me any because despite publicly posting my email as above, I just don't have a problem with unwanted messages.
Almonds use 10% of the state's water supply. The irony is that almonds and apricots have been grown in the Santa Clara valley and surrounding areas without irrigration until tech booms led to orchards being pulled out and replaced with office complexes.
So, is it required that you start with an existing project? It seems to me that the only requirement explicitly listed is that it needs to be playable in a browser.
The first thing I do on any bash terminal is `set -o vi`. This changes the default keybindings from emacs-like to vi-like. I find it to be a huge booster to my speed in navigating the command line.

edit: Actually, something cool I learned recently is that if you put the line "set editing-mode vi" in your ~/.inputrc then vi-like editing keys are available in any program that uses readline. This includes bash and the python repl. Presumably, a bunch of other repls and interactive command lines too.
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Although I would not consider myself an expert, I know it is far more complicated than you appear to think it is. It is not just the climate, as previously mentioned, or the access to fresh water sources, it is also the fertility and durability of the topsoil. There are significant tradeoffs regarding the productivity and soil durability that lead to depletion or pollution because our demand is far beyond sustainable supply.

Ultimately, it comes down to the fact that the human population is far too large and puts far too many demands and strains on nature for anything like sustainability.

So, someone may bring up large scale hydroponics, especially of genetically modified produce, but that is really just another can being kicked down the road, because no matter how many tricks you come up with and how hard you push the pendulum, it will eventually come swinging back with a vengeance, especially the farther it is pushed out of its range.
I don't find it at all surprising, however. Amazon can't even manage a half-decent search across the products they carry. I have this feeling that somewhere in Amazon, it has been decreed that the search and the rankings and everything else must be filtered through the same system that generates recommendations. You search for "4TB hard drive" and the 8th search result is a 3TB drive. Their site skips over much more relevant items apparently because the items are more strongly 'related' in terms of purchase history or browsing history or something. I expect exactly that kind of system is what is being gamed in these circumstances.

When it comes to reviews, the correct answer is that every user should have their tastes profiled and compared against the tastes of other users, with only users whose tastes in other areas counting strongly. I could easily imagine that this sort of thing might be difficult for Amazon to implement, though, depending on their infrastructure.