skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The droughts in Austin, and Texas, are far longer running than 1.5 years. Welcome to Austin, water shouldn't be a reason you think it is a mistake to live here.

There is a City of Austin Drought Contingency Plan:
http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Water/C...

Not Austin, but you can read an article on central Texas rainfall patterns done in Mason county on a ranch from 1950-2012
http://doublehelixranch.com/FlyGapRainTrends.html

Read about the "Record Drought" when the rain stopped in 1947
http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/current-drought-pal...

I hear the elder in south Texas talk about how everything was green and they had various fruit trees when they were younger, all that is down there now is dust and mesquite.

Edit: The Lower Colorado River Authority has a Drought Update as of March 2015
http://www.lcra.org/water/water-supply/drought-update/Docume...
Why use this and not, say, OpenVPN?
I hope I don't put oil in the fire, but OS X is more close to any Linux ( since it's unix based ) than Windows is going to be, which makes a great difference for any developer.

I can benefit all available *nix tools in it's native state ( not run by cygwin ).

I doubt there is statistics for this, but in my mind OS X is the most popular OS that people are doing web-development on.

Although I like what Microsoft are doing lately with TypeScript and many more additions to open source community, it is really hard for me to imagine a switch.
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I also want to add one more thing, 'farmers' as a category is not your salt of the earth, homespun family anymore. Most crops being grown are actually produced by large multinational conglomerates, the fact that people picture the downtrodden poor of the dust bowl whenever someone uses the word farmer is a triumph of marketing.
The parent comment made me curious about it. How far the numbers slide toward Mac / Linux when it comes to developers vs general usage (I think they obviously slide quite a bit, but how much). I can't seem to find very sound, up to date numbers on what platforms developers work on. I wouldn't be surprised if Mac and Linux each have four times the developer share that they do of general usage share on those same platforms (desktop / laptop).
"Some way to change prices" is regulation.
https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openvpn.html works all the time... but im on a shitty connection so openvpn itself is not a bottleneck.
That being said, www.eurobank.gr is just a redirect to http. The actual banking uses https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=https://ebank...
Many of the water-greedy crops being grown in California with their water subsidies are hardly important for the country. Almonds are not a staple crop; they are not necessary for our society and should not be valued highly enough to justify the Californian water used to grow them.

If it is a matter of farmers needing almonds to remain profitable enough to grow more important foods, then we would be better served by giving them free money, rather than cheap water for almonds.
I loved the idea of Hot Pepper Gaming (the YouTube channel that inspired the talk), and I think it’s funny, so I wanted to try it myself. I had a ton of fun doing it.
That's also available as a video documentary. Stunning history, the looming drought was inevitable.

TL;DR/DW - the only reason CA has a vibrant agricultural component is because enormous amounts of water are being taken from other states and used very inefficiently. There's a hard limit on what can be redirected, and increasing demand around those sources to keep what's being taken.

Sometimes a supply-and-demand curve has a brick wall: when demand outstrips supply, cost goes from dirt-cheap to incredibly expensive fast. This is often derided as "price gouging", but is a natural consequence of basic needs being supplied cheaply vs insufficiently. CA artificially increasing its water supply faces exactly that: natural growth of demand will slam into lack of sufficient supply, and those with the funds to purchase from the supply at near-any price will suddenly destroy the market for those enjoying necessities at barely-affordable prices.
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My first experience of vim was trying to fix my xorg.conf from a tty. I figured out how to save the file, but couldn't exit. In the end I hard-rebooted :$
Show HN: TestTrack – An open source defect/vulnerability tracker
> Also, the normal distribution part is plainly unjustified. The scientific consensus

That's a dumb thing to say.

"Scientific consensus"? Really?

I suppose the first time a person chants "scientific consensus" everyone down to the last person is supposed to instantaneously change their minds and accept it, right?

The truth of the matter is that some people are slower to accept such truths than others. This doesn't mean that they're unwilling to accept them forever, but maybe it takes them a few weeks/months/years to arrive at the same conclusion as the rest. There's no reason to punish them or "tax" them for this.

Even if you could somehow determine that they never will accept it (rather than just being slow), those people are still necessary to keep the consensus honest. Without them, there won't be any criticism left, and then it just becomes a game for jackasses to try to get people to chant "scientific consensus" enough that everyone else must accept it instantly or be punished for not doing so.

What you're talking about isn't "consensus" at all, it's groupthink.

And it's pretty fucking sad that you've confused one for the other.
Great idea, this will both fix the water problem and disrupt the startup industry!
As an aside, bank websites don't necessarily fall in-scope for PCI.

I worked for a small credit union, and we were beholden to our state auditors, FFIEC guidance, and the like -- but PCI simply wasn't a thing we worried about.
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[SAP] Cloud Infrastructure #2: Enterprise grade storage in the cloud
Ironically, that web page doesn't render properly in IE.

(The right side of the article text is overlaid by the "Current Projects" sidebar.)
And is this drought not also taking years? It think it's reasonable to expect the farm markets to capitalistically take advantage of California's decline, even if it does take years.
No one cares, how do you know the twitter person did not copy from somewhere else without giving credit?
awesome idea guys and very timely as I just started to look to how hack together an ecommerce back end for an app we have in the works. will be giving it a try this weekend!
For whom are you designing your app? The half of millenials who "score below the minimum standard of literacy proficiency"? The millenials "dead last for numeracy among the study's 22 developed countries"?

The 56% of millenials who failed at "problem-solving in technology-rich environments", last among the 22 countries? And what is this test they fail?

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/sample_pstre.asp

* In this item, respondents must access and evaluate information in the context of a simulated job search. As shown in the item directions, located on the left side of the screen, respondents must find one or more sites that do not require users to register or pay a fee. It gets even harder: ... one of the websites, as shown in Figure 2, meets the specified criteria, but the relevant information about fees and registration is not on the opening page.

* In this second item, respondents need to select a set of files to download onto a portable music player. As shown in Figure 4, the item requires respondents to select files meeting specified criteria in terms of genre (jazz and rock) and file size (maximum of 20 MB).

Much more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/02/u...

But surely America’s brightest were on top?

Nope. U.S. millennials with master’s degrees and doctorates did better than their peers in only three countries / Top-scoring U.S. millennials -- the 90th percentile on the PIAAC test -- were at the bottom internationally, ranking higher only than their peers in Spain
Primarily Ubuntu, I'm not sure if this worked on my laptop when I was using Arch a couple years ago... I'd estimate the behavior has been around since 2008-2009.

I've found the option[1], but it's not in my alias list.

Edit: Changelog says Version 1.20 (2008-04-14) introduced the --auto-compress option

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html#a...
Regarding California agriculture, and specifically growing the produce and vegetable crops that California supplies the rest of the country. An excellent model for urban agriculture, Growing Power of Milwaukee and Chicago, provides such vegetables grown in city greenhouses (lettuce, tomatoes, greens, etc.). They do it year-round in Chicago. Some of the heat comes from compost, worm bins, fish tanks. There are several offshoot businesses (e.g. Eco City Farm here in DC) replicating their model. Growing Power offers training several times a year. So hopefully other places - urban brownfields - will take up some of the agriculture production from California in view of the water problem.
Burning gasoline produces water (yes, it does).

Not suitable for drinking but maybe it could be reclaimed to water crops.

Alternately it would be nice if there was a leap in desalination technology where it would take a tenth of the power.
I'm almost certain that's the reason why Apple ported Safari to Windows. I doubt that they were actually trying to take market share from IE or Firefox, I think they just wanted to give Windows-based web developers an easy way to test their websites in WebKit. Now that Webkit is all but ubiquitous, Safari on Windows is no longer necessary.
Two very basic tips for vi:

You can use slash(/) and question mark(?) to search for text (forward and backward) in vi. It's useful to know these, because they also work with less(1).

If you are Windows user and used to press Ctrl+S to save the file and you accidentally do that in Vi, your terminal would get stuck. But you can use Ctrl+Q to unfreeze it.
When I was a student programmer, my boss came over to my desk to introduce my new project. He then fired up a terminal, ssh'd into the box where I would find the data. He then presented me the data by doing all kinds of bash magic. I was fairly impressed each time. I used some time just trying to make sense of what he did and how.

It's insanely useful.
>GNU/Linux is ~2% of the market.

but Android/Linux is ~50%, and Windows/IE on a phone is 2%.
This has some amazing potential this year- Unity 5 free, Unreal 4 free, Source 2 just released. I've been playing with a FTL-like prototype in Unity for the past couple weeks, it's been surprisingly easy. It's a brilliant time to be a game developer.

Also, fork me! https://github.com/JerkyTreats/SpaceshipPrototype
It is hard to tell if you are trolling, a California farmer, or just being plain obtuse.

tl;dr - NO. It would not make a difference.

Google your question. The answer is below for you.

Source: KCET article. February 10, 2014.

California's water budget is skewed heavily toward agriculture. The conventional estimate is that 80 percent of the water used in California flows into the state's multi-billion-dollar agricultural sector.
Because it is during this interview that the prosecutor makes it official what you are or are not accused of. If this was made over telephone to a foreign country, odds are that what is now a suspect would not come to the questioning. That's why you are required to be present in person.

A better question would be why the prosecutor didn't conduct this interview during the week the stayed in Sweden after the accusations were officially in the media?

The anwer to that is probably that the justice system can be inflexible and slow moving at times. (I hesitate to take stronger words in my mouth, but those may be true as well.)

Ludicrous or not, all justice systems have their reasons why they work in a certain way.
Url changed from https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150311/16383930293/to-ab..., which points to this.
Agriculture is responsible for around 80% of California's water usage, so even if every person in the state vanished and the farming was done entirely by robots things wouldn't change much.
> Where are they in protecting their citizen?

Australia fails to do anything when their citizens are killed for a bit of cannabis, about as blatantly disproportionate as a government could possibly get. They're in a perfect position to economically encourage Indonesia to be reasonable, and they would have the backing of a fair bit of the western world. And yet they don't do anything.

Why would you think they would do anything when it's less politically expedient?
Helping Achieve a Pareto Improving Pricing Approach and Reducing Delivery Costs
I've been hoping for things like this to start appearing.

The difficulty with getting these things going is getting enough of a user base to prime the pump. Before major arbitration decisions can be made, people need to start off arbitrating little things. Like being a referee for a small game tournament with friends.

There's a lot of poor grammar, for instance:

"Mining in Dcoin is not usual familiar mining we got used to with other cryptocurrency."

I'm having trouble parsing that sentence and can't tell if you mean mining is similar to other currencies or different.

Plenty more grammar mistakes... (you should get an English editor and make sure to get an arbiter with high dcoin reputation to protect your transaction:) ).

Also, it is always nice to have localized websites...us americans aren't used to seeing decimals reversed with thousand separators, for instance: "0,0004%"
Apple Watch and how good design is honest
> Too much focus on preparing people for careers in Engineering? Or preparing them for more abstract concepts like Analysis and Analytic Geometry?

Yes. Computer Science curricula tend to focus overmuch on preparing students to work as software engineers, and Mathematics curricula tend to focus overmuch on analysis (to the point that once you get past Calc 1+2+3, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Mathematical Analysis/Epsilon-Delta Calculus-with-proofs, and Real Analysis, things like Algebra and Topology are senior-year electives).
Developers beware Google makes a grab for .dev gTLD
> Golf courses account for probably not more than 0.5% of all human water usage in California annually.

Great! That's half percent point gain of a life-constraining resource at the cost of a little non-essential entertainment for a small minority of people.

It's the same when you are trying to make a tight budget. First you cut off all the stupid impulse purchases. Then you figure out how much of each useful expense you are able to sacrifice. And only then you decide if you can or cannot afford one single hedonic purchase per month to keep up the morale.
Like muaddirac, I, too, think there's a lack of tools for solving the problem. I've been a remote worker for ten years or so. A couple of years ago, a colleague and I decided to just run a continuous all-day video conferencing session with dedicated screens and speakers. It was really great for hashing out random ideas as we thought of them, getting in some "water cooler" talk, joking about who's doorbell is ringing, and even having some beers together after a long day at work. It wasn't perfect (Google Hangouts kept wanting to kick us out every two hours, for instance), but gave me optimism that good tools could go a long way towards solving the problem. (One of these days, maybe I'll get around to putting together my own WebRTC telepresence solution.)

In any case, let me be the first to welcome you to Denver! There's no other place that I'd rather work non-remote. ;)
I hate this kind of fake gonzo writing. It's like Vice, but with all of the banality of the tech bubble.
Yes... Destroying an entire industry in a country is a win win...
Even those interested are going to suffer with making a choice between all the various watches and straps.

It's just rather absurd that on the premium "watch edition" apple watch, apple is charging around $7k just for the watch edition with the best strap.

What I find a bit funny is the $350 apple watch is the most feature rich watch. It may be aluminum but it is water resistant which makes it more useful than the more expensive alternatives.
Because if you interfere with a country's embassy, they kick all your diplomats out.
"but I think you see what I'm driving at."

Hah.
Interestingly, Amazon can mine a great deal of the reviewers' histories to determine fake reviews. For example, a longtime customer of Amazon would get a higher "trustworthy" score for reviews than one who signed up 2 weeks ago.
As a complete a side do you have any "Focused Value" investing books you would recommend.

I think you were probably being down voted for being overly technical though yes.
My most used bash command is probably "sudo !!", which runs the previous command with "sudo" prepended.

The book "Unix Power Tools" showed me that higher-level programming languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc) are not needed to accomplish most administrative tasks. Awk is incredibly useful (but also very confusing, imo).
Chrome differs substantially from Safari in rendering though.
the small trees are also a sign that that area was clear cut for lumber and replanted.
This is probably misunderstanding the demographic, but why does he suggest using nano over vim?
Great resource. Thanks for sharing
> Very interesting, because we teach dental hygienists that flossing + brushing is vital, while powered toothbrushes are for those with dexterity issues (children, elderly, or otherwise).

For what it's worth, every dentist/hygienist I've ever had has told me that electric toothbrushes are better.
How to deploy docker containers without connecting to server?
Easy. Now it's possible with Last.Backend.

First of all you need to design application structure with special visual interface like Visio but more powerful and more pretty. And you have done.

Then select servers for deploy and click button to start it.

You can see a short video about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO0sGz8qN7I

http://lastbackend.com
1. I like tab-completion, but I can't personally stand bash's completion feature. Be aware of differences.

2. If you want to save your command without running it... comment it out with a '#'. Bang, it's in your history.
It's less about skill and more about culture, knowledge, and the valuation of wisdom/knowledge within that culture.

but, yeah, I've seen some awful non-web code. :)
I don't see why the title shouldn't just be specific about what gift he offered.
No.

http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/where-we-...

> The drought has changed all that. Now, management plans are being looked at with care as California nears a 2020 deadline to cut the state's overall water use by 20 percent. [which would move us close to sustainability]

> About 14 percent is poured into bathtubs, toilets, and washing machines or sprayed over residential lawns.

We'd need a residential population of -30% of California's current population.
vi move commands works a lot of places in the UNIX world.
Nice, if you have any questions or need any help just let us know!
The happiness section about being around people is just one of the points and doesn't even really apply to the whole team. Though I can see it appears to be the main point because it is the longest in length.

The main reason is really that we feel like we'd be more productive if we were together more often.
The Net Party got 1.2% of the votes in 2013.

The Pirate Party never got more than 20 affiliates so they where never able to run.
> But look at your average MMO and note how they generally lack on the story side of things.

And the game side of things.
Valve's Steam Controller is still missing something
Sometimes I wonder "who is buying this stuff." Then I jump to "too bad, as a male, there is such a smaller market for me to sell to." Then finally I return to "who is buying this stuff."
Climbing is exciting if you're fit - and you confirm you've been to the gym. I'm still muscular at 32 but I'm 5kg more than at 26 and it's much less fun. Every pound is one pound too much in climbing, and with experience you'll notice that climbing is frustrating for people with any bit of fat on their body.
You just turned it into the Rube Goldberg version of Home Automation. Hahahaha.
The market will decide and it will be more profitable to sell American almonds in the American market.
Google wants to win the .Dev TLD, and after they do that, they're going to keep .Dev completely to themselves, not letting anyone else buy a .Dev domain.
Easy Linux setup for front end development with setup.sh script(earlier stage)
It probably wouldn't. Desalinization leaves a lot of salty brine to be disposed of.
Great point.

When people talk about California's water problems they make it sound as if there isn't an easy solution, but there is. The real core of this entire issue is not the methods but more the cost, it is ultimately a conversation about saving money NOT about some finite limitation on water in real terms.

California could solve this issue with a pen stroke, it just might hurt their farmers, which is really what all the concern is about. If water doubled or more in price (which is realistic), that is expensive for farmers who need a ton of the stuff for their crops. So will supermarkets pay 30% more or will they look abroad?

I actually think even with a higher water bill, it will still be cheaper for US retailers to buy US produce. Shipping that stuff by ocean isn't exactly cheap with the price of oil. I think where it would hurt US farms is their exports to Europe in particular, Europe is in a geographical position to buy from either the east or west, both by ocean. So if US/California crops go up in cost they might just buy them from someone else.

But let us not pretend that either shipping water in from other states OR just distilling water isn't an option for California, because it is. It just might hurt farmers and make them less internationally competitive.
The way I see it water consumption for household and business uses that are not farms should be on a per person basis, going up exponentially at each strata of consumption.

This would not be unlike how the desirable island of Fernando de Naronha controls limits tourism, while still keeping it accessible. IIRC, every day you are on the island you pay a fee, but each day you stay the fee increases until it gets so expensive that even the rich feel it. The island is limited to 420 tourists at a time.

http://www.ilhadenoronha.com.br/ailha/taxadepreservacao_em_n...

Likewise, for water a person might pay a nominal rate per gallon for the first 40 gallons in a day, then the price doubles for the next 40, then doubles for the next 40, etc, etc. until it's literally unaffordable by even the rich.

This would also have the nice side effect of limiting yard size, which would curb urban sprawl.
Even when I was bad at work/life balance when I first started working from home... I still saved an hour-and-a-half each and every day by not having to commute or iron clothes or make my lunch.
Food security is the reason governments stick their noses in an otherwise free market.
Producers in wetter areas can't create a farm, plant crops (especially trees like almonds), and harvest in one year.
I can't understand how it would make sense to brush before rather than after meals. What's the logic behind that?

This is doubly so if the meal is sugary. By not brushing afterward, you're just letting bacteria process all that sugar and produce plaque and acid.
Godoc is down
I loved the QFG series. I recall that multiplayer was supposed to be in QFG 5, but looking at the wikipedia article it looks like that was cut. I'm sure that the multiplayer feature was responsible for some amount of delay there.
Precedents are important in Swedish law too, but they don't at all play the central role they do in Anglo-Saxon / Commonwealth law. Swedish law is, not surprising, closer to German / Central European in that sense. There's a whole tree of Wikipedia articles available for those easily amused by these things.