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I like to remind you that we, as mere lowly humans, require food grown on a farm to survive a lot more so than we need software or music. If we collapse our agricultural backbone and just willy-nilly decide to depend upon a foreign nation for food, then be prepared to fight a lot more "oil wars" (except for human fuel and not just car fuel).

Furthermore, we'd be putting our trust into the governments and politicians of foreign nations. And, quite honestly, despite all the shit we see about our politicians being corrupt, cheating on their wives, embezzling thousands of dollars a year, letting the rich get away with billions in tax loopholes, being stupid in congress, being radical not-born-in-murica communists, etc., at least keep in mind we at least see them in all their human imperfections (and sometimes less-than-human vices), whereas we have absolutely no idea what the hell goes on behind the closed doors and smokescreens at a foreign government. Politics and power is inherently a very difficult game of balancing flexible compromises and hardline stoicism, not a place for cults of personalities and naive idealism.

As for me, I'd much rather trust the politician who is getting publicly crucified for having told a racist joke 10 years ago, flirted a little too much with some girl not his wife, is a closest homosexual, tweeted something dumb like "#killasians lolwat", or committed some other sensationalist-media-breaking-news-but-realistically-inconsequential-to-his-character "sin" than the perfect politician who has never commit any sin and who no one dares to speak ill against (e.g. today's chairman Xi).
They're more of a email alert metaservice, I think. Though WishBin gives you price updates and whatnot, they're secondary ideas.

WishBin is wishlist service first, data-piping service second.
Hitbox (devs of indie game Dustforce) wrote a really good article about their numbers: http://hitboxteam.com/dustforce-sales-figures
Why did you go back to eating sugar?

Dropping the low carb thing I can understand. I do low carb paleo on and off as my fiscal and lifestyle circumstances dictate... but I keep my sugar intake low regardless.
Rare things?
Not scientific, but I don't think I've ever been to a "tech" event and seen more than 25% Windows machines (granted, I'm not a .NET developer). Windows has 90% of the market, but what percentage of the developer (especially web developer) market does it have? And within that market, what percentage of the Windows users are working on what amount of legacy apps or apps that can't use new browser features because they must support older versions of IE ( like "enterprise" stuff)? Those are the important numbers.
> I really hope the bank gets a lot of bad publicity out of this.

It's a Greek bank. They couldn't care less about 'bad publicity' nowadays.
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There seems to be a significant distinction between staples and "food supply" and the high-value specialty fruits/vegetables grown in the central valley.

The US will never need to rely on other nations for their corn, rice, wheat, apples, barley, etc. But if the choice is between destroying our own land and infrastructure or relying on other countries for our kiwis, artichokes, avocados and almonds, then I might actually be okay with eating Mexican avocados (and I think the Mexican farmers might appreciate that too).
Please excuse my ignorance in that area, but what is happening to water after it had been "used" for landscaping? Does it disappear from local ecosystem, like water that went into sewer, or does it stay locally and come back as fog/rain/dew/etc?
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Let me just say that Yelp's classification system is complete crap. Until a user starts actively using Yelp, their reviews get filtered out, which excludes most people who only post a review because they loved a certain business. Sometimes, five star reviews will vanish after months of being up, all because of a change in the algorithm. And the Yelp business team is extremely unresponsive when there is a clearly illegitimate review that needs to be removed, or really when there is any concern whatsoever.

This may not be the best place to bash Yelp, but if you're reading this, please don't pay Yelp for their exorbitantly-priced business service. It is absolute garbage.
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Look at the Hammond Novachord in the 1930s if you want to have your mind blown. And of course Western Electric. Both those companies achieved scale far beyond what most people can imagine today.
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I'm not a huge fan of remote teams for a number of reasons, but I've had some success with https://precursorapp.com/ as a quick collaborative whiteboard. I'd like to be able to use it inside Google Hangouts and have the whole session/artifacts recorded, which would cover a lot of the knowledge-spreading I miss.

It doesn't do anything for the camaraderie/happiness/emotional aspects mentioned in the article though.
Fwiw, there was definitely music streaming. Internet-streaming royalties were even a political issue as far back as the late '90s, when the DMCA contained a controversial internet-only royalty structure different from traditional radio. Post-dot-com-crash, there was then a renewed burst of launches and acquisitions in the mid-2000s. One of the bigger streaming services of the era was Last.fm, founded in 2002, and acquired by CBS for ~$300m in 2007.
"once you did that the sunny climate made it ideal for a lot of crops."

By this the Sahara or Arabian peninsula are some of the best farmland on the planet. I mean, all you have to do is bring in the key ingredient of life.

This is not a new problem for California. It's been ignored for so long because it used to be cheap. It was always stupid to farm in a desert, it doesn't matter how cheap it used to be to bring water in.

It turns out, large parts of California are arid for a reason, and the reason isn't recent climate change. But we as a species can't think past right now. California was populated when we didn't think we were ruled by nature anymore and our new found genius would meld nature to bend to our will. It's biting us in the ass now.
How much money have you raised so far? And how much money are planning to raise at this round?

Sounds like an angel investment would be a better fit.
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The drought is going to start pinching farms in one year. This thread is about whether the California government should start rationing water now.
It's not just UNIX, hey. I come across a lot of programmers that have no idea how to browse the basic command line in windows. I.e. They have no concept of relative paths, browsing through folders, command parameters. It's all incomprehensible "mumbo jumbo" for them.

Which is fine, not everyone has been exposed to it. Eventually, by the fifth time I have to tell them how to move one folder up (Cd ..), I realize that something is very, very wrong.
React, Angular 1, Angular 2, or Ember?
Backstory: I'm in a startup with a new SaaS offering. I'm proficient in javascript and used in chronological order over the past 5 years: jquery, backbone, then angularjs for the majority of my projects where I needed a rich frontend (mainly admin consoles for apis). While evaluating the state of javascipt in the past few months for our frontend, I was able to quickly implement a large portion of our console using react (with the fluxxor flux implementation) and it really clicked with me. The component abstraction just makes sense to me, and I was using it right away versus angular's directives which I found myself ignoring at times to get things done.

Fast forward a few months and we are in due diligence mode for an acquisition. I need to list technologies we are using. I've been trying to follow the react license issues and I just can't figure out if its dangerous or not to use or if it will negatively affect the acquisition (links to previous HN discussions at the bottom). I'm the only guy in the company who knows whats going on in the frontend world, so I figured I'd ask here.

So my options as I see them:

1) Use reactjs, which already has a very functional/demoable console and accept the risk?

2) Use angularjs 1, which I'm familiar with but doesn't have the performance of react, feels difficult once the application becomes large, and is essentially end of lifed anyway?

3) Use angularjs 2 ...

4) I haven't mentioned emberjs because I'm not familiar with it, but would be open to suggestion here.

It really boils down to the ambiguity of the license and the discussion around it. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have asked the question!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9111849

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The question is why anyone relies on Wikipedia.

Because it's an incredible resource. It's unfortunate that there isn't an embrace of it in schools so that we can teach kids from an early age how to use it properly.

For instance, don't use it as a primary source. Evaluate the "talk" pages and history. Consider the controversiality of the subject.
Other convenient sources of information are typically no less riddled with propaganda. If you had no idea who Eric Garner was, where else would you begin your investigation?

That's a serious question; if there is a better alternative I'd like to know about it.
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Bash scripts are great if they're yours. My current project has ~20 large bash scripts that do all sorts of different things. They were all written by people who haven't worked on the project for two years. Anyone who needs to make changes there spends far too long trying to figure out what's going on. The scripts could have been written in the same language as the project, and it wouldn't take a whole day to make changes to them.

I think they wrote in Bash to avoid the interpreter startup time. But the scripts are run very infrequently and most of them start/stop long-running services.

That being said, getting a bash script to do the right thing is very satisfying!
In an e-mail to eNom's google-clients-specific support address dated 6/18/13, I informed them that I wished to transfer a domain away from them, and I said:

"PS. The reason I am transferring is because I signed up for whois protection yet my whois info has not been protected. From what I can find on the internet, this is a common problem with Google Apps, Google will not respond to support requests for free domains, and the only way I can fix it is by taking control myself. :("

Now two years later this problem is "discovered" by someone else and Google is treating it as a security disclosure? Hey Google, maybe you should have listened to the people all over your own fucking support forums that have been complaining about this for years?
If I can shamelessly plug my project: we're trying to solve the "whiteboard simulator" part of the picture by focusing on the essentials and getting out of your way.

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Vice is doing some great comprehensive reporting on climate change. Their recent episode on HBO about the Arctic ice melting was fascinating.

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h92Ath_2XA
If all he needed to do was to show some movement of the tracker, he could have just duct-taped it to a Roomba. He'd get much more realistic motion with much less effort.
The question is why anyone relies on Wikipedia.

What would you suggest as an alternative?
I agree that's really interesting. But it would be better to normalize to serving size. It doesn't seem fair to compare one almond or one grape to a whole head of broccoli.
This is really what I was trying to get at. I used to work for a company that made a web app that needed to run on Windows and IE (it was very "enterprise").

The developers were virtually 100% Mac and Linux users. I don't think there was a single developer who actually used IE for anything other than testing features before code was merged. We definitely were not going to use IE-specific features, no matter how cool they were, because almost no one could actually run IE except in a crappy VM.
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It's obviously folly to rely on the text of Wikipedia entries, which, aside from being liable to contain any arbitrary content at any time that you happen to read them, are hotbeds of plagiarism. But it's an excellent source of references and a convenient repository of public domain or CC images. Also, articles on technical subjects tend to be useful, aside from the plagiarism problem.
est docs in chinese. Sounds cool, but doesn't understand anything.
We have oil pipelines stretching thousands of miles... why don't we create a water pipeline, sending fresh water to the southwest? I've never really understood why this wasn't an obvious thing started 80+ years ago. We created roadways, and a fairly complex electricity grid... water transfer has been a critical thing forever, and something we haven't really addressed on a national level.

Not only that, but hydrogen as fuel stores would be a very realistic scenario if water wasn't so scarce in locations where solar/wind is so ideal.
> The Challenge

> Take an existing game or game jam entry on GitHub, fork it and do something awesome with it.

> Take a look at the following resources to see if there's one you'd be intersted in forking....

> Once you've found a game repository, fork it...

> Make sure your code is pushed to the default branch of your forked repository...

And, on the submission form, talking about your Readme file:

> Mention the Game Off, what changes you made, who was on your team, what technologies you used, throw in a screenshot, etc.

I dunno, all that seems pretty explicit to me.
I wasn't suggesting subsidies; I was suggesting doing nothing, letting farmers absorb the risk, and presumably pass it on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
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How do you typically go to e.g. beginning/end of line; via insert or normal mode and which key combinations do you prefer?
Always been using ctrl+a and ctrl+e in emacs mode myself . . .
Why is this even a criminal case? Could a civil court not just chuck out the idiotic claim on the lower 'balance of probabilities' test?
We're completely remote as well and have a very similar approach to hiring and on-boarding. It's definitely tougher to find the right candidates but it's a fun challenge for sure!
Not related to water per se, but I've lived in Austin for over 6 years now, and can confidently say it was a mistake to move here for me.

Where do you go when you want to get out of town? Big Bend? New Orleans? Sure, 8 hours later... And beyond that, what? So much cultural desolation, for hundreds of miles. May as well be in a moon colony.

Texas, where dreams go to die.

Of course, these are my personal feelings, so downvote away. If you moved here because it's cheap, like most people do, like I did from the Bay area, you'll find a cheap existence, as in, you get what you pay for.
> The question is why anyone relies on Wikipedia

There have been numerous studies[1][2][3][4][5][6] which have consistently shown Wikipedia as a reliable source of information. Nobody is suggesting it's 100% accurate, but it's accurate enough that it shouldn't be dismissed as unreliable.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm

[2] http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essa...

[3] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[4] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=978177

[5] http://www.pcauthority.com.au/Feature/93908,wikipedia-uncove...

[6] http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/wikipedia-vs-ency...
it overlooks a significant externality: the destruction of the environment as rivers are pumped dry and (albeit, artificial) reservoirs run dry

Not sure I understand. The rivers would run dry because of no rain, not because we're taking water from them. Remember all this water we're using for irrigation was just ending up in the ocean anyways.
The same mega corporations that run agriculture in the U.S. also run most agriculture throughout the world.
It might be annoying that this happens today but bear in mind that MS brought this onto itself by ignoring everyone but Windows users for year after year. Our way or the highway.

Now that they have finally repented they will still need to reap what they have sown. At least that seems to be a valid principle elsewhere. :-)

(Note that I say this as someone who is currently very close to be a fanboy of "new Microsoft")
Thanks! You've proved my point exactly; it's very easy for it to get ridiculous to try and tax non-monetary gifts.
Sometimes review abuse is more subtle than the example in the article given.

I found a recently published technical book on Amazon, which had a couple dozen five star reviews. I read a few of them, and it seemed great. The author's biography said he worked at X, a very well-known software company. I bought a paperback copy, read it, and was disappointed. The book wasn't terrible, but it wasn't written very well, and did not contain the technical depth that it appeared it would on the reviews. The book turned out to be self-published, and the technical editor was the author's boss at X. The other editors were the author's family members.

I went back and looked at the reviews, and found that many of the five-star reviewers worked at X, or if I couldn't figure out their employer, they happened to be located in the same metro area as X's headquarters. One of the Amazon reviewers is even mentioned in the acknowledgements of the book.

I think all the reviewers had good intentions to help their friend and colleague, but I think it's still misleading, as you cannot expect a someone to give an impartial public review on their colleague's work.

All in all, the book was not total junk, but perhaps should have been a 3/5 star book instead of 5/5.
> 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.

Rolex datejust and explorer are both pretty classy without being oversized. But yeah, the oversizing of watches has gotten a bit silly (this is across all brands, not just rolex).
That is ridiculous. Why even bother?
Wikipedia itself isn't bad. The issue is that as a result of its structure and Wikimedia's various overlapping efforts, a lot of people simply don't recall that encyclopedias aren't meant to be a universal resource for detailed research (but rather introductory), and worse they don't tend to follow references or citations.

Resources for obtaining special-purpose knowledge have just about been washed up in favor of skimming Wikipedia's generalities, which may foster incomplete or incorrect understanding of complex topics, in turn leading to memes that people regurgitate in other contexts.

In this way Wikipedia has the potential of becoming Minitrue. I've pondered on the implications of systemically planting subtle factual distortions in tens of thousands of articles over periods of time, but since you hear about some edit war or pompous bureaucrat imposing their agenda every other day, it might already be happening in a less dramatic fashion.
I think that's the point though... Wikipedia at least attempts to solve the byzantine general problem by allowing anyone to edit/review articles... I doubt the same could be said for Encyclopedia Britannica (which I suspect had more than just a little pro-British propaganda in it when it was published). At least with Wikipedia there is some transparency into the editorial process.

By the way, get your shit together NYPD. Use a VPN next time you fascist dinosaurs.
I originally really loved this stuff, and I still like to find it here and there - it's great for nonslip stuff to put your phone on in the car, for instance, or for cases.

But for the actual device, give me some kind of durable semi-natural material if possible. Finished metal, wood, even stone have many excellent qualities and I'm willing to pay extra for them.
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SO, in his line of business, what would be the 'good thing to do, when someone blackmail your whole customer base ? Sue ?
Sadly, due to the prohibition, hitmen and violence are the only way for people like Ulbricht to deal with such issues.
Yeah, I'm unsure about this point too. Is it mandatory to be a fork of someone else's repo?
Writings of domain experts who are not anonymous. Newspapers with good reputations.
Water is allocated via water rights. Not sure the specifics, but I would guess the gov't has water priorities and wouldn't let SF go dry just to keep the farms going.
I used to love reading tech books. Now I am writing a book of my own, and there are SO many incentives to churn out a low-quality book.

As an author, you make very little: maybe 5% of the cover price. So money is not an incentive. You are either writing because a. it looks good on your resume, or b. you really care about this topic and feel like this book should already exist.

Books are sold based on number of pages, not quality of content. The publishers know that if your book has 100 more pages, they can tack on another $5 - $10 to the price. So there's heavy incentive to produce a lot of content.

Readers don't want to buy multiple books: they want the one book that will cover all of their needs. So they will buy mostly based on the table of contents.

So if you want to optimize for your own monetary gain, the best book you can write is one that is big, and has an impressive table of contents, but took very little time to write. So we end up with books that have a very poor signal to noise ratio. For example: my book has code samples in Python. A couple of readers have asked me to write an appendix that shows them how to set up Python on their computer, play with the REPL, etc. I think this is totally useless. They can google and get up-to-date information, and the appendix will be out of date soon. But it is very easy for me to write and would pages to the book.

So as an author, the best job you can do is pump out a bunch of fluff and then pay for reviews on amazon. It is really frustrating to see, but that's how the incentives are set up here.