skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Bay Area, things don't seem that bad. However, I drove from LA to SF and holy wow. Everything along I5 is just a dustbowl. Farms are empty with big signs saying that there are no jobs because there is no water.

However, its hard not to blame the farmers themselves. We consistently hear that it takes a gallon of water for a single Almond, yet here we are and farmers aren't looking for new crops that use less water, it's simply "give us more water" as if this is realistic...
The question is why anyone relies on Wikipedia. As the first draft of history in many cases, and the only draft for vast portion of the public that relies on it, it's an obvious target for propaganda (both organized and ad hoc).

Anyone who has tried to edit a page that's politically contentious, or that anyone cares about, knows that what's written depends almost completely on who has the most time and patience.

It's an easy, obvious means of manipulation by those who have the resources to do it.
That's interesting you mention rice farmers in TX because in Sacramento rice farmers are getting paid to sell not rice but water to Los Angeles.

Evidently many of these folks will probably end up making more $$ selling water than rice

See: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drough...
Feasible for human drinking but I assume not farming (citation required). Which goes along with the story of "People in cali are not going to die of thirst, but a lot of farmers might go bankrupt"
I don't think it's that easy. My book on Amazon currently has one 5-star review that's just one word and two 5-star reviews with two words each. I am the author and the publisher, and I know for a fact that these reviews are not fake. But they probably come across as fake. I think that there some people who just want to share their opinion of a book without making an effort to write a good review.

Personally, I'd prefer to have only reviews backed up with an explanation. If a book is good, tell me why. If it isn't good, I'd like to know why you think it isn't. That's the only way to make the next edition better.
That list includes Priceline, Orbitz and American Airlines. Hard to believe.

Is there a browser plugin that could report on SSL health in real-time, when visiting a site?
One other reason: they just aren't afraid to fail. I know a lot of people that want to do things, and do try, but immediately feel overwhelmed by the impossibility of it all. The most prolific creators I know realize failure is a pretty uneventful outcome: you just move on to some other interesting thing.
Well, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/science/space/suddenly-it-...
Yep, the drought should be thought of more as a return to normalcy for California. We have been living under an incredibly wet period of California the past 100 or so years. We were wrong to think that was the norm.

Climate change will impact things but climate change is not the cause of Californias problems. All this has happened before and all that jazz.
You're all talking about the bank's response - but I actually think his employer's reaction was worse.

Threatening to fire him for a tweet from a personal account? What Kafkaesque bullshit is this? Frankly, I'd be taking them to a tribunal - and I'm an employer. The idea of pulling that kind of shit on anyone fills me with disgust.
That is reasonable. Some people who would use that info (not lawsuits) are not, unfortunately.
I used to subscribe to planet Mozilla. I remember blog posts talking about user convertion of paid advertisement on Google and they concluded it was a good deal. Other blog posts have discussed lawsuits in Germany against Firefox impersonators.

It is not a new policy.

When reading planet Mozilla I rarely notice who writes what and it's been a long time since I subscribed anyway, so I can't get you source, but those are my 5 cents for what it is worth.
Desalination used to be expensive. In the last 4-5 years ultrafiltration (UF) membrane technology for the pre-treatment process plus double pass reverse osmosis process to produce potable water has resulted in costs dropping to around $500/acre foot, ($0.50/m^3 or 1000 liters).

Completely reasonable for coastal cities, if we could be certain they were needed.
Those were incremental improvements over a bad design. I recall that Linus specifically said that when he looked at CVS it was inferior to emailing tarballs and patches. Having worked with CVS for 3 years, and then SVN for 5 years before trying git, I am inclined to agree. Those systems were easy enough to start with, but I never felt that I grokked them even after years of use. Their quirks did not make logical sense, they were just implications of nonsensical internals.

It's possible that git also is fundamentally flawed in a way that some genius will reveal down the line, but I'm just sticking my neck out my neck like so many futurists before me and say that I don't see it as likely.
It's almost like the web was never designed as an application platform and it's performing like a document presentation system with applications shoehorned into it.
Absolutely. We can learn much more about life in our universe by exploring Europa, Enceladus and Titan. All can be explored for much less than a Mars mission.
I've got 15 more if jnthn's run out :)
Let me also add explicitly that I think GitHub is more likely to be killed (or at least marginalized) than git.
I don't know what you mean by "feasible". Saudi Arabia neither has the population (28mil vs 38mil) of California nor the Farming needs (I don't have numbers on Saudi farms but i'll guess its somewhere near zero).

There are a number of desalination plants along the coast of California and a few more scheduled to be built. However they're very expensive to build and to operate and their yield isn't where it should be.

Supplying 50% of Cali's water via desalination is not at all feasible
Amusing. It does, however, kick over to a proper layout when the width is narrower. I had originally read this article on my Windows Phone and it rendered just fine. It also renders fine in desktop IE if you make the window narrow.
They just freaking do it. And it is not about quantity over quality. There are a lot of people who pretend they are busy and do not have time but in reality they are just postponing, procrastinating or killing their time by over investing in shipped goods with no direct benefit or simply wasting time.

If you are reading this and could be using this time for something more productive I suggest to close the tab. It doesn't matter what is written above or underneath this comment. At this point you are not shipping things and killing time. "But this comment thread is important!". No it's not. Close the tab. Right now. You can thank me later.
I just read that "Tardigrades (water bears) are so tough, they can SURVIVE outer space" and they need WATER from decade to decade to survive and they also live on earth for 500 million years.
Then I read "Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System".

So wouldn't be fun to have a probe (on Philae for example) called "Bearfinder"? Shouldn't our friends live (sleep) in worst case scenario (if earth would be their birthplace) on the moon, mars, or comet 67P. Or best scenario rather everywhere?
I believe the most recent theory is that the drought cycle is normal but the severity of the drought is influenced by climate change.
GP is suggesting that farming move to where the water is. By cutting subsidies, farmers or farm operators have less incentive to operate in regions suffering from droughts and more incentive to operate in a fiscally and ecologically sound manner.
This. What it really means is that we won't be able to grow crops in the desert which is the central valley region. And that means that prices for foods will go up, and we'll not be able to use the corn belt for just corn, or conversely growing something other than corn there will be more profitable.

It really is too bad we couldn't build a water pipeline of some scale to help folks like Boston out with their excess snow.
We just added godoc integration to Sourcegraph, so you can use that for now! Godoc + tooltips + jump-to-def + usage examples.

See this, for example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/mux/.godoc
If you have a critical bone in your body, prepare for a love/hate relationship. It is so good and yet so bad in various ways. I wrote a few unpublished games with 2.0 and NME back when (e.g. mzzl).
Security should not be the defining feature of your service
If we ever manage to actually run out of fresh water or power on a planet that has an incoming 89 peta-watts and is mostly ocean, then if there is a galactic civilisation, we will enjoy brief celebrity as the latest species to win whatever passes for a Darwin Award.
I don't know where the confusion is coming from in this thread. I'm not sure if I should keep clarifying or not at this point.

The parent is talking about developers, and arguing that IE's biggest problem is that it's not cross-platform, and that it needs to be on Mac OS and GNU/Linux because far more developers use those now vs Windows.

My question is: is that true, that IE's biggest problem is the need to be on Mac OS and Linux (emphasis that we're not talking about iOS and Android); and is it true that far more developers (and particularly those relevant to this) are on non-Windows platforms now vs on Windows.
> They are claiming that global warming is responsible for the fact that the reservoirs have not been replenished by rain and snow melt.

Even Mother Jones and NOAA disagree with you:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/new-study-cal...
It's interesting you mentioned that. I'm backpacking around Europe right now (doing the whole digital nomad thing) and every Australian I've met has had zero sympathy for those guys who got caught in Indonesia. Could it be that the political pressure simply isn't there? It's also entirely possible that widespread opinion is much more diverse than the sunset of the population I've met while in Europe.
Nexus 6 runs on full quad-core after Android 5.1 update
Is the code available somewhere ? I'd love to see the one related to fantasy sports
Growing water intensive crops like rice in California, which it grows a good deal of, is just stupid. That is an industry which needs to die. I'd argue the same for almonds, which are basically a water intensive cash crop.
Nokia kind of tried something similar with Vertu. Offering basically the same $500 Nokia phone for $5000 - $15000, by just making the case out of more and more expensive material. Vertu seems to have been reasonably successful, but probably not a level Apple would be happy with.

The big difference is that while Nokia actively tried to hide the fact the Vertu was basically just a Nokia phone in a more expensive shell, Apple is making no secret of the fact.
The 2011 drought destroyed the Austin water reserves. Check the lake level in 2010/2011 vs where we are today[0]. For those that don't know, in 2011 we had record temperatures and little water which led to a few wild fires. The Bastrop wildfire [1] burned 34,000 acres of land destroying 1650 homes. There was also a smaller fire (160 acres) in west Austin in the Steiner Ranch development destroying 25 homes. Temperature wise, Austin had 90 days with temperatures >= 100 degrees that summer.

The area hasn't recouped its loss in water from that drought yet, and it will likely take a very long time for that to happen. Also, the Lower Colorado River Authority is the one that dictates where the water ends up, so they try to balance it for everyone that uses this supply (which is why Lake Travis is still so low).

For fun, Lake Travis had a island that would appear in the middle sometimes depending on water levels, called "Sometimes Island". Since the drought, it's been jokingly renamed "Sometimes Peninsula"[2].

[0] http://travis.uslakes.info/Level.asp

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastrop_County_Complex_fire

[2] http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/no-boat-needed-to-g...
If you cut back on sugar a lot, that almost surely is the most major factor in the change. Sugar is amazingly bad for your teeth, and many sugary beverages (like soda) are also naturally acidic, which leads to erosion of enamel.

That said, you're right to have some skepticism about heavily marketed tooth pastes. For instance, I have four veneers and my dentist recommended against using any "whitening" toothpastes, because they're naturally abrasive against your teeth and can very slowly damage them over time. I just use Sensodyne and follow-up with a non-alcoholic flouride mouthwash, and I've had no dental issues since, even with a sugary diet. But I brush/rinse three times a day.
They would have to post a job and allow citizens to apply to the 100k job. If the job posting is requesting requisites that would be expected for a 150k job, then this would be fraud. If the company is lying about the job requisites in order to be at the 100k market rate, this would also be fraud. Proving it, is difficult which is why everyone abuses the system.
I used to write trading software - had test FIX accounts on live cbot, cme, xetra, Liffe, lme, etc.

Decided to see if I could still log in to any of them about a year ago. Still could on half of them. I left that gig a decade ago.

Oh, and a few of them have no trade limits or risk management.

Boggle.
Safari still uses WebKit, but Chrome has been using a WebKit fork called Blink since version 28.
How so? If I build something that doesn't conform to specifications, what does it matter if it happened to be unit conversions? They could have skipped a decimal point and not noticed, because they didn't conform to the specification. More importantly it never got checked or tested or simulated further on up the chain to catch the issue.

Look at the Araine 5. Unit conversions had nothing to do with a computer saying "gimbal an engine 90 degrees".

I'm sorry but this canard of two units being the problem is missing the entire point.

Its an engineering issue and management failure. Just like the space shuttle O rings before them, space is hard. Distilling things down to "america should have used metric cause reasons" is trying to pass off complex problems with bite sized quotes. The only issue is it is wrong.
Or is that not what hard sci fi means?

OK, I removed the adjective "hard". I'm not sure what I was thinking, using such a nebulous term. If you ask nine people the difference between "hard" and "soft" scifi, you'll get ten answers. And the vast excluded middle threatens to dwarf the two complementary categories anyway. I meant merely to differentiate those examples of scifi that go beyond "then they pressed the warp drive button and warped across the galaxy", to consider how humans might travel very fast. In the perhaps poorly chosen example of the Hyperion sequels (if any category would fit them, it's probably "kitchen sink"), bodies were reconstructed by a cruciform "symbiont" that restored recent snapshots. I imagine that instead, whatever cellular processes tardigrades exhibit might be somehow induced in humans.
Robinhood, the no-fee trading app backed by Snoop Dogg and Marc Andreessen
> I can benefit all available nix tools in it's native state ( not run by cygwin )

Like you say, it's incredibly difficult to pull any solid numbers for this - Github isn't even close to representative, web server hosting is skewed by domain parking, pretty much any statistic you can come up with to support any side, at least that I can think of, is going to have major problems.

But Windows-based developers have an entirely different workflow that completely obviates the need for Linux tools. Sometimes the workflow is different enough so you genuinely don't need it - the average ASP.NET developer probably doesn't have any need for them. Sometimes the developer just doesn't know any better - and you see that kind on all systems. Sometimes they've developed a PowerShell proficiency or something that lets them use analogous tools in an analogous ways. But this just isn't an argument. It's effectively saying, "well, if you do web development like I do, you need *nix." Well, of course! :) For most of them, it would be equally unimaginable to switch. I think there's very few like me, who have actively done and enjoyed both professionally.

There are, of course, exceptions: I think we can all agree that almost all ASP.NET developers are on Windows and almost all Ruby developers are on OS X or maybe Linux. Most of the amateurs are certainly on Windows - I don't mean that in a disparaging way, I just mean the people just starting out and putting together very simple, possibly static webpages, or playing around with whatever their CMS has set up for them. Then you have all the enterprisey web development, likely mostly internal sites, with somewhat less of a skew, but still probably majority Windows. For the professional, public-facing sort of stuff, I expect its a lot closer to 50/50. Of course, just like you say, it's very hard to demonstrate anything and anecdote-by-anecdote and gut-feeling doesn't really say much.
Not too dissimilar for the modules in my Arrick [1] synthesizer, except op-amps :-). I got to play a nice model 15 at USC when I took the Electronic Music class there.

[1] http://synthesizers.com
Except when it's inconsistent with its environment in the first place. All the government subsidies in the world can't make water be where it isn't.
I've been using haxe/openfl in production for 1.5 years and wouldn't really recommend it. Originally cross-platform code was a really good idea very few people had or executed well and haxe's warts were forgivable, today that's a capability many languages have without the hassle. I think the only unique value left in Haxe is outputting Flash.
So you're going to use the money to sue the insurance company. People sue them all the time, and it doesn't change their business practices. Those people could use more money, too. So what makes you and your case different from them and theirs?

Insurance 2.0, crowdfunded payouts... You talk about a lot of things that you think will happen, or hope will happen. Now tell me how you're going to MAKE it happen.

You're going to start an insurance 2.0 company. You're going to start a crowd funding nonprofit foundation for people spurned by their insurance. Tell me how this is a donation, rather than a handout.
Michigan (lower peninsula)? Seems to have a lot of undeveloped (forested) land. But I haven't done any actual research so may be badly wrong.

Also if CA agriculture becomes less productive & more expensive then many other parts of the country now become more competitive for agriculture (not cheaper - just worth putting into production)
I hear you on this one. The lack of commute definitely saves some time.
Where? I'm talking about more than a plot of land. Farmers also need all the institutional support features in agricultural regions that help moving their crops from farm to table.
Take a look at Prismatic's om-tools(1).

It adds a defcomponent macro that removes a lot of boilerplate.

1)https://github.com/Prismatic/om-tools
I can't speak for most places, but New Hampshire is almost all new-growth forest. If you roam the woods you'll find miles of ancient stone walls demarking the edges of long-gone farms. Of course, there's not much LAND in New Hampshire so it definitely can't take on California's role (even disregarding all the other problems), but I wanted to give an example of abandoned farmland.
In the mid 90's, before Linux had gained any traction in corporate environments, IE was available for some flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX. In the Solaris shop I was working at the time, I remember we had a great laughs at the slogan they were using: "Bringing the internet to Unix". I don't believe it was particularly popular and it dissapeared quietly a few years later:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
I thought electric bicycles were limited to 250W by a (stupid) european law... or maybe you need a driving licence, licence plates and insurance for these?
I must be cursed.

I spend my time between San Francisco and Sao Paulo(Brazil). Although Brazil has natural resources, Sao Paulo has been experiencing a severe drought for several months. Many residents only have water between 7am-1pm and it doesn't seem to get any better. Actually, regulators have been trying to come up with water rationing and limit its usage to two days a week.

I hope CA doesn't have to go through the same thing.

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/02/no-one-is-quite-sure-...
good read. I've never thought that I (or my customers) have a graph problem in almost 14 years working as a freelance developer. But nowadays everything seems to be connected and needs to be modeled as a graph.
Presumably simplicity? OpenVPN is fairly complex and does a great job, but its power is clearly exposed to users, who may not need most of it.
Announcing Rocket and App Container 0.4.1
There are actually a lot of smaller companies making craft sodas that are of a superior quality to the mainstream brands. They typically use cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, and come in a wider variety of flavors. Plain cola gets boring fast. I much prefer cream sodas and birch or root beers. Here are some examples:

http://maineroot.com/ (uses fair trade organic sugar)
https://www.boylanbottling.com/
http://reedsinc.com/

Personally, I never drink Coke, Pepsi or Dr Pepper products any more. A large part of the cost of those products is relentless marketing, shareholder dividends, and large corporate salaries. They no longer seem to care about delivering a quality product. How can they sell something called ginger ale if it doesn't actually have any ginger? For variety and depth of flavor any money I spend on soda is spent on craft soda.
There's a related issue of perennial, tree, and more orchard-like agriculture rather than seasonal crops. These farmers cannot reduce their water consumption without suffering massive losses - they're price insensitive on water to a large extent, and their choices are irrigate or go bankrupt.

IIRC, avocado trees are a big culprit for California's future commitment to consuming water for agricultural purposes.
The idea that "freedom of speech" only applies to government actions is common, but nonsensical. Constitutional protection of that freedom only applies to the government, but that doesn't mean another entity taking the same actions isn't also abridging your freedom of speech, even in the US — it's just that the Bill of Rights was focused on limiting the government's power, not any other entity's, so it only prevents the government from abridging your freedom of speech.
Didn't Vertu also come with concierge service?
It was, part of it. RC4 had a CVE score below 4 (which many interpreted as an issue they could argue around, i.e. "we need to support Windows XP!"), but BEAST had a score above 4 (auto-fail). And what was the (horrible!) recommendation people got when asking how to mitigate BEAST but still let Windows XP connect? That's right: RC4.

That excuse has gone, on two counts. RC4's now thoroughly toast, and Windows XP's unsupported - and now finds itself without any secure ciphers at all.

It's zmap time…
Presumably 'I want a VPN, I don't need 90% of what OpenVPN offers, and I don't want to spend a huge amount of time figuring out how to OpenVPN quickly and easily.'
I don't understand why people even bother registering domains that contain trademarks.
"It's not smarts or talent."

I wouldn't be so sure...
The underlying problem is that the scarcity of water is not being taken account into what farmers pay for it.

That underlying discrepancy distorts the market and prevents Ricardo's comparative advantage from being done.
How competitive is NH with a region like California weather-wise? I would imagine that the growing season is much shorter in NH, making it way less attractive. Farming in New England is either specific to the climate or exists mainly because that's where many Europeans first colonized America. Just because farming made economic sense there 50-100 years ago, doesn't mean that it makes economic sense there today.