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It was Adobe Flex 3 for Dummies. Niche book on a tech topic that flamed out after a few years. If you've never written a book I'd still probably recommend doing it once. But don't expect to make any money, besides whatever advance you get. But it's still damn cool to be able to say you wrote a book.
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Hello, I am an argentinian and the reason why I dont like DemocracyOS is because it just adds another middleman. I am sick and tired of representative democracy. It is a hoax and an illusion that we must get rid of as soon as possible. Adding another layer of abstraction between voters and politicians just adds to the noise of this already abandoned channel of communication.

I want to vote on the laws myself and ask politicians for advice and briefs of the projects, not the other way round.

Cheers
.net cross-platform is called Mono: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/supported-platfo...
Spoken like a true city dweller. Like other have alluded to, farmers think in terms of years. Ever hear the expression "the best time to plant a fruit tree was 5 years ago". I wonder where that came from.
> I wouldn't be so quick to assume that ISPs in the US won't go above and beyond the "call of duty" now, or in the near future.

An exception to a new non-blocking rule is not the same thing as a new rule requiring blocking. Particularly, in the absence of the new rules, there was no prohibition on ISPs blocking content (lawful or unlawful), and anything done with the excuse of blocking unlawful content (e.g., blocking all BitTorrent traffic) which also blocked lawful content was allowed. But now, even if blocking unlawful content is the excuse, if a policy blocks lawful content, there will be a basis for challenging it. This increases the legal risk to ISPs of policies for which they might deploy the excuse of "blocking unlawful content" beyond what the legal risk was (practically zero) before the Order was adopted.

So, I'd say it decreases the risk of ISPs trying to appease anyone, government or otherwise, blocking.
>be careful... you might find yourself quitting your job and living out of a van in Colorado to climb every day...

That sounds terrible, why would anyone do such a thing?

Brb, quitting job, buying van.
Come on, Google. Do you have no QA whatsoever?

Seriously, Adam (at Google). You need to maintain some smart people who continue to monitor what your products are actually doing in production in the real world. People who can and do go beyond thinking and acting as insiders. User advocates.

It's not glamourous work. But it's necessary.

I can assert, through my use of a competitor's product, that I actively check that their WhoisGuard is actually in place and renewed for each of my relevant registrations. I find it difficult to imagine there's not a smart Googler, using your services for their own private endeavours, doing the same. Or are no Googler's privately using your registration services?

Trust, but verify.

P.S. I'll add that this is not the first time I've encountered, as an end user, a significant security concern with Google products. The previous one was fixed. And as an end-user, it was immediately obvious to me what the problem was. Though it took a bit of arguing. To be brief, in the real world, users share computers. That should not include cached access to private cloud documents. Try selling that to e.g. the government (who is a customer).
I don't know that this is the case. I feel like there just isn't anything that can replace consistently being in the same room with someone.
I'm assuming the alternative that the grandparent is against is forced sharing, ie., regulation which would keep the situation from reaching that state where there is zero water next year. I don't think anyone supports CA doing nothing and to keep using water at the current rate.
We lost representation this year, but the Pirate Party was never a political party in Argentina. They didn't even run for elections once. So please...
But by forcing out people who cannot afford the water you are driving out essentially only lower-class people which is unrealistic. More problematically, these are specifically people for whom moving is more difficult since they lack the financial resources which makes moving possible.
Sleeping on ondol room seems to be like sleeping in sauna, except you are lying down comfortably on a think blanket...
Wheat and other grains, because of how water intensive they are to grow, are considered an international water trading market.

Agricultural subsidies are common and significant, especially in rich developed nations. This is for various reasons, but it does have some significant knockdown effects such as exasperating third world poverty. There are numerous complaints brought to the UN, the WTO, by various poor nations but they are generally ignored or swept under the rug.
Maybe so the initial impressions of an incomplete API won't make others think that it isn't a platform worth developing for? I really don't know the answer, but I could see it from a "brand image" perspective. You don't want people spouting all over the internet how much v0.0.01-alpha of your API is absolutely terrible and turning other developers off to your platform in the future.
I would rather see agriculture move immediately than water to literally run out.
Almonds are a very water-intensive crop. We grow a huge amount of almonds here in California. (Most of them are exported.) See http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30052290 for one writeup.

Now, they're also a very lucrative crop, so not growing almonds would certainly affect the state's economy. But...
1) You're right, we got the SSL certificate ready and we'll be deploying it ASAP.

2) Good point, will look into that.

3) Will put the PDF as you suggested.

Thanks!
I've climbed for about 12 years, and never could understand this perspective until recently. There are plenty of climbs that I now have 100% confidence that I will not fall on, in which case the feat of falling just doesn't exist in the way you might expect. The Sierras are a great place to develop this confidence on technically easy but unbelievably exposed terrain.
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Thanks for the feedback Melt! Really appreciate the positive criticism.

Just as a note if you want to follow the dicussion, the HN moderators asked me to repost at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9198724

Thanks again.
If you read the article, the National Bank of Greece is not the one that harassed the author/their employer, the unnamed "second bank" did.
Ok, sure. But not the exclamation point!
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Well it says,"Show HN: A concise Javascript tutorial for beginners"
This is an opinion article, but the situation is without a doubt fact. However, next year I feel the only impact on me will be produce cost. Everything in this article tells me this is mostly an agricultural issue. What is rationing going to do when farms are pumping 2/3 of our ground water? It just buys more time for the inevitable unless someone finds a solution.
The Buenos Aires Legislature never agreed to install an SSL. We are doing it. Feel free to contribute to the code.
Indeed. I just finished two books[1] by authors who were at one time the best in the world at their sports, and they are virtually unheard of. There's amazing athletic talent in the world that is hardly ever recognized.

[1] Eat and Run by Scott Jurek and Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox. Two very amazing endurance athletes.
The title is very misleading. The content of the article doesn't support the title at all..
Maybe stop growing rice in a desert? Let gasp other parts of the country or double gasp world sell food to Americans?
Sure, put down Atlas Shrugged, but pick up any economics textbook, or Google some statistics about water usage in California. I absolutely do want water's price to reflect the realities in California. It would not screw the poor and middle class, and it would solve the shortage.
This exchange, if legitimate, seems to strongly indicate that this service is not automated. Either that or huge strides forward have been made in chatterbots...
> Center of the Universe

There is a very real problem across many creative mediums these days (big budget movies in particular) that the stakes have been constantly raised to the point where there's very little room for smaller, personal stories. It's either the total destruction of life as we know it, or it doesn't get made. I think it's fatiguing for the audience, and always having enormous stakes makes it boring and pedestrian.

Most of the games that I mentioned do fall into this trap in one way or another, but there are still some exceptions. Red Dead Redemption is a good example. You aren't trying to save the world, you just one to do this one little thing and then get back to your family... except it keeps dragging on and on.
Almost everywhere in the US, almost every ISP faces at least 4 (and often more) alternative ways to get on the internet.

Compared to Google or Apple, Comcast has a smaller market cap and smaller profit margins – and profit margins are a more reliable indicator of market power than eyeballing whether the competition looks "meaningful".
Not saving enough.
As a Greek, I find that rather unlikely, not only is this sort of censorship rare, but the government is too inefficient to get something done this quickly (or at all) even if they wanted to. I'm fairly sure this is just heavy load.

EDIT: Yeah, it's back up.
Isn't all software potentially unwanted?
I remember I was incredibly excited about the release; it was some years after QFG IV, right? But I didn't feel it was quite as good as I or (especially) II. Still, even the weaker III and IV had such intellectual variety and even wonderful emotional range...Humor to pathos, and everywhere in between.
I'm talking eMLC. I don't see many SLCs on the market anymore.
Specifically, one almond takes about one gallon of water to produce.
Do you know how much energy is required to evaporate the amounts of water necessary for urban consumption?
But 12 is evenly divisible in thirds and quarters. Actually pretty useful for a bunch of things. Really it's just too bad we have 10 fingers instead of 12.
How realistic is it to move certain crops, such as fruit and nut trees that may take decades to grow to maturity?

A few weeks ago I did a 200km bike ride of Mount Hamilton and one of the things I saw along the way was a "nursery" that specializes in very large fairly mature trees in massive planters ready to be moved by truck (Calaveras Rd (Rt 84) just south of 680). The biggest trees had large wooden planters ~5 ft high and as with as an 18 wheeler.

Given how valuable certain trees are and the time cost of waiting for them to grow to fruit and nut bearing age, it must make sense at some point to give loans to dig up orchards and move them to better locations.

Assuming such a plan is botanically viable, my main concern is that the price shock for water takes too longer for it to make financial sense until it is too late to make the decision to move any trees worth being moved.
Almost everywhere in the US, almost every ISP faces at least 4 (and often more) alternative ways to get on the internet. How is that a "monopoly"?

Compared to Google or Apple, Comcast has a smaller market cap and smaller profit margins – and profit margins are a more reliable indicator of market power than eyeballing whether the competition looks "meaningful".
It wasn't simply a matter of disrespectful law, but of the risks posed to both her and her informants.

PJ also refused on principle (AFAIU) to use PGP or other encryption on the basis that those made her (and her informants) more likely to be surveilled. I don't agree with her reasoning on this point.

Still, it's a tremendous loss.
Supply and demand curves are part of the problem, though. People have talked about almonds a lot in these comments. We're growing tons of almonds because the demand for almonds is very high. They're one of the most lucrative crops you can grow. The long-term effects, as we are seeing, are bad -- but we're not making decisions on long-term effects, we're making decisions based on immediate demand needs.

This is the product of two things. First, short-sightedness. But second, and more rationally, if you need money now to keep your farm going, you cannot afford to worry about ten years down the line. It's not just irrational behavior.
The idea is to make that middleman (the representative) committed to the people. We cannot go against the Constitution, if you like that approach there are other political alternatives you might want to consider.
This is fascinating, didn't know there was such a rich history behind zero.
Yes it's an issue of price, but in a market that doesn't function very well. Water, ironically, is not very "liquid" in the economic sense.

Over time, people will have to pay more for their produce. Some farms will shut down and some crops will stop being grown. If the price of water goes high enough, then desalination or new pipelines from wetter areas will start to make sense.
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The Midwest would make a good alternative place to grow. It won't be as prone to droughts and will have a longer growing season due to climate change.

Either that or giving farmers a subsidy for growing crops that require less water. Our huge Almond industry is a giant water-guzzler.
Probably for exactly the same reason you specified, "especially in comparison to the american one". Most court activity anywhere is banal and "completely fine", which never gets reported on.
Well, the fact that the whole effort to set up general net neutrality rules at the FCC started when their ruling against Comcast's BitTorrent blocking was struck down by the courts as outside of their case-by-case power without generally-applicable rules, I suspect the answer is that that would be a perfect example of what the present Commission, at least, would not find to be a reasonable effort to address unlawful content.
Wow, that one's super niche haha!! Sure, I'm self-publishing. Just glad to say I'm an author and hoping to make a little bit of cash too, we'll see.
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> Why are those people more important than those that happen to be born elsewhere?

I can answer that one for you. Why should he as an American care about and for the future of youth in other countries? It is natural for us as humans to first take care of our own family/neighbours/country men. As mean as it sounds you cannot build a better future for your children if instead of taking care of things that will help them you take care of things that will help others' children.

Its not a hard concept to grasp really. And for Americans the future of American youth is ABSOLUTELY unquestionably more important the future of the youth elsewhere in the world. You know I had this exact conversation with an Easter European friend of mine who wants to have an easier time to move to the US, but at the same time he got upset when I proposed that his country should take in African immigrants in droves.

> Why should people now not have the same rights they did?
Different times. Its very childish to expect the world be the way you want it to be and to throw a tantrum about it.

Americans pay taxes in America and they build the country. Their ancestors did the same. Their alligence was and is to the US - it is their home. Do tell me what the artificially driving down of wages has in store for them? How does benefit the US?
>so either give them a pull request or STFU

Most people have neither the time nor inclination to fix problems with the language they use. If I buy a power saw and it turns out to be a POS, I just won't buy that brand again.
Oh handy! Hadn't come across that before. Thanks.
So write two long paragraphs. At some point there's simply not going to be any water. What then? Wouldn't it be better to do something before we reach that point?
The problem is, this turns places that already have severe unemployment issues into 2008-era catastrophy. The entire central valley is based off of farming.
other, more water rich parts of the country

My main question is: What are these other water rich part of the country that aren't already fully exploited for agriculture? Are there maps published somewhere that tell people where they can move to to establish farms elsewhere?
Spanish as well, I believe "via con dios": go with God.
I agree with you. We've outsourced citizenship and thinking for a long time. It's a long road ahead the one to reverse this.
To an extent, it's a feedback problem. Global warming causes drought, which means insufficient rainfall, which means more irrigation from reservoirs, so reservoir use does go up. Meanwhile, it also means less replenishment of reservoirs, so they don't recover.
Instead of an oil pipline, why not a water pipeline?
They should build a giant desalination plant somewhere between LA and SF like Santa Maria area which can supply LA, SF and Las Vegas through a pipeline. Each city should try and clean and recycle as much water as possible and the pipelines could keep them topped up
Love this! Lately, I have been suffering from Impostor Syndrome and there are times I felt like I am doing everything wrong and I even started to question my empathy. Anyway, great article!
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The subject article is about scrolling on mobile though. Almost nobody uses IE on mobile devices.
The commands are pushd and popd, and they're bash (and zsh, and most sane shell) builtins. Pushd to get to a new directory, popd to go back to the last one on the stack.
What if the person never had an outlet for self-esteem and found it skydiving? I know many people in that boat--myself included. You may think it's a hedonistic copout, but a bunch of people living in vans built a skydiving discipline that formed the basis of this business: https://www.iflyworld.com/ which now allows millions of people to experience skydiving without the risk.

Some people have different things that get them out of bed. I like hipster coffee shops, but that wasn't what motivated me to try to excel at my job.
It's even worse than that.

I believe before he was living in the Ecuadorian embassy, he offered to cooperate with the investigation in the UK. Swede could have sent investigators to interview him in person. The UK police would have assisted. They could have gone further with their investigation, without extradition.

The worst part of this is Australia's role. Where are they in protecting their citizen? Can you imagine an American journalist (wikileaks is journalism) pissing off the German Government, then being subjected to these insane attempts at extradition without the US stepping in?

Australia need to arrange safe passage for Assange to Australia and guarantee him his legal rights.
The US is a net food exporter by a large margin.
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I blame golf.

Really. I learned to play on an OIL course. They mixed oil and sand to create a fairway and we carried around a piece of astroturf to place under the ball (see http://www.panoramio.com/photo/22230833). A grass course in a desert (ie most every course in california) is a totally unnecessary waste of water.

When they stop spending water on golf, THEN we can talk about rationing water for household use.

(Fyi, the airbase that picture was THE airbase for the first gulf war. The f117s would land there at night. Seeing a black triangle open white landing gear on approach was like something out of the x-files.)
make up your mind, are we or are we not a party? if we are not, as you got tired if claiming then it's not illegal.
Water is already priced based on the type and quantity of usage. The more you use, the more it costs. You can raise prices for farms without "screw[ing] all the poor and middle class."

If you raise farm water prices, you will find that water-intensive crops will be less profitable (even with raised prices) and farms will switch to crops which use less water.

Rationing may have the same effect, or it may instead have the effect of fewer crops being produced and prices going up.
Almond Trees at maturity seem to be small enough to be movable to new locations (12-33 ft high, 12 in trunk)
Right. I wasn't necessarily contrasting the primary parting phrases in various languages, but showing the similarities of many with equivalent varients in others.
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>>Again, Morrowind is the third game.

Yes, but until Morrowind, not much was established about that part of the Elder Scrolls world. It was, for all intents and purposes, an almost-blank slate and was created basically from scratch.

I agree with your characterization of the Mass Effect series. And don't get me wrong, I like all three games, and am looking forward to the fourth. I was just explaining why they fall short on the narrative front, and that the "they don't make games like they used to" complaint the grandparent mentioned is quite valid.
While true, it's also surprisingly like that- basically, the Sierra Nevadas have been blocking the weather that gave the rest of the country severe flooding last year.
I think simply phasing out water subsidies would be a huge win. I've read a fair number of reports suggesting that, while not great, the situation would be considerably improved if farmers had an incentive to invest in more efficient irrigation techniques or switch to more drought-tolerant crops. The catch is that it costs money and that's risky if you're the first one in the industry doing it – if the government announced that, say, the current subsidies would be reduced 10% a year starting in couple years that'd send a message to everyone that it's safe to take out loans because all of your competitors are going to have to do the same thing.
My understanding is that California is so ideal for agriculture because of its climate (with the water scarcity being the big liability, the can we've been kicking down the road for decades). Other states, either individually or collectively, do not have the year-round, Mediterranean, relatively predictable climate to take on the load that California would drop. This includes not only total square acreage of arable, mild farmland, but also a bevy of specific crops that cannot be grown reliably in other states. (There are certainly wetter states, but they have seasonal extremes that make X, Y, Z crops very challenging.)

When it comes to agriculture, California is in the rare position of being a jack of all trades and master of most. That is, until the water runs out. Then it starts to look more like the mild, but semiarid desert it was before we engineered it to run on various, unsustainable water sources.

That being said, the subsidies have certainly placed us in a predicament -- a wildly unstable dependency -- that will be extremely tough to unwind. Something has got to change on that front, and quickly.