skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
6. Coming from an insanely rich family and affording to fund expensive toys.
Web Development (LAMP):
Sublime Text - Safari/Chrome - Git

iOS/OS X Development:
Xcode - Git
"The problems is, you don't know which articles or statements you can depend on unless you have expertise in that area."

How is that not true of most sources?

EDIT:s/any/most/
Successful Investing: Seeing through bullshit that companies produce to see the truth behind what they are actually doing.

Teaching: Seeing through bullshit produced by a bunch of kids/parents/administrators every day.

Makes sense.
" Some avocado farmers can no longer compete with avocado farmers in wetter areas of the US or Mexico"

And therein lies a thorny political issue. Generally speaking, when this sort of shift starts happening, farmers and agribusiness lobby the government (state and/or federal) for tariffs and subsidies, in order to protect their price competitiveness against foreign or out-of-state producers. This is a vicious cycle, and we need to find the political will to stop it when it comes. Which leads to further issues: can a governor of California get elected who is seen as hostile to Californian agriculture? Possibly, but oh man, would he or she be in for a fierce battle. Central CA is a very powerful voting bloc, and farm lobbies are very powerful at the state level and in D.C.
Thanks for the correction. That makes sense; I'm also glad they don't let him off just because he's famous and adored, he's actively being pursued.
It's not Bob I'm worried about, it's the NSA prompting Bob's ISP to watch for my MAC to connect to any of their customer's routers.
It certainly skews the cause of those numbers, but not the end result, which is that a huge number of people still use IE.
Thanks for letting me know! Will fix.
Reviews are sorted, by default, by how helpful they are rated.
Fresh water isn't particularly rare. I don't understand what the point of your question is.
I remember going to the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. They had an amazing exhibit on the development of mechanical computers from automated looms and the origin of punch cards which were used in automated stitching machines. They had a model of the Z1. I have never encounter another presentation of the development of technology that made progress seem so orderly and inevitable (obviously massive hindsight bias).

The Z1 was absolutely incredible and it really drove home the point that switches are switches, regardless of whether they are implemented as a transistor or a metal lever.
Hey look, it's an informationless comment in response to what may be an interesting find!

If you're worried about a Google VPN provided by the Google Operating System you run, I think you may have your knee-jerk circuits prioritizing incorrectly.
Some of the really productive people I know fall into either or both of two camps: 1) ruthlessly focused (often with understanding, supporting spouses who accept that they will enjoy only a small portion of their partner's time) and/or 2) sleep freaks who need only a few hours a night.

A friend of mine is the latter: We have about the same drive, intellect, and motivation, as far as I can tell from working together, from long talks over beer, etc. But he needs about 4 hours a night, I need 8-9. That gives him several extra days a week, compared to me. Even if he only takes advantage of "one day", that still puts him 20+% ahead of me.

I also know several people in camp #1, some of whom are on second or third spouses, very few of whom are still with original partners.

There is a third camp, the rarest of them all: Focused but balanced. They get a normal amount of sleep, switch from rest to work mode and back again immediately, and when in work mode are focused and productive the whole time. They are the ones I try to emulate, at least to some extent.
Israel has built its first four desalination plants in the last 10 years. They now provide 40% of the country's potable water. The newest plant (Sorek) is the world's largest, producing over half a million cubic meters a day at a cost of $0.68 per cubic meter.

Edits:

I'm unable to find data on Israel's net import of calories. I suspect it's substantial, but 85% of their agricultural water supply is treated urban wastewater.

I'm part of a family of four living near Berkeley, CA. We'd need 50" of rain a year to be self-sufficient on our 4000 ft^2 property, which is about twice what we get. I have no problem commandeering runoff from some place in the Sierras. But it'll have to be 8,000 ft^2, because what hits this lot (and every other lot in the neighborhood) goes straight into the bay.
Thanks for this very useful tool! It became an essential part of online meetings with my team -- it's been working great for us. We love the simplicity. For me it's missing only a single feature: ability to draw basic shapes like lines, rectangles or squares.

Thanks again!
The Coffee Shop itself? Low.
Other people in the coffee shop? High

Airport itself? Low
Other people in the airport? High

It's not necessarily the place itself, but anywhere there's open (or easy to get) WiFi, the chance of nefarious users increases dramatically.
What about Rudolf Von Hacklheber?
I always thought that technical book writing wasn't about making money directly, but for up selling in other areas.

I.e. improving your resume, looking prestigious to potential consulting clients, or landing paid speaking gigs.
>automatically

If they don't provide an easy and apparent way to turn that off, this is the word that always sets off alarm bells in my head.
Would be interesting to read about the weirdest jobs these taskrabbiters had taken, but would not be surprised if there is already a subreddit for that.
Making people feel bad about the environment has a very small effect, and only a privileged minority that can afford to care will change their habits.

If you instead make the environmentally better choices cheaper, everyone will change their habits.
Sure. Here is the main index:

https://gitorious.org/bsnes/bsnes/source/1a7bc6bb8767d6464e3...

The platform abstraction layers are wgl.cpp, cgl.cpp and glx.cpp

Go inside the opengl/ subfolder to find all the platform-agnostic OpenGL code. opengl/surface.hpp gets particularly fun using matrix multiplication to compute model view / projection / texture coordinates by hand (which you need to do for the new GL3 / no-fixed-function-pipeline stuff.) Also has lots of required internal allocations.

In my own case, I allow user-defined additional shader passes, and that adds to the code a bit. But note that another thing about GL3 is that you do actually have to create and execute at least one vertex + one fragment shader.

GL2's FFP, while still difficult, was a whole lot easier. The driver did a lot of the work you have to do manually if you want to follow GL3.2-core/GL ES/etc.
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Worse yet, the latest versions of IE don't even work on all the "supported" versions of windows. Its no wonder that its lost a lot of market share. Microsoft has basically told its users "upgrade to the latest windows, or use another browser".

Its a really dumb move, because the percentage of people who upgrade windows to get a newer IE is probably close to 0%. Worse yet, it encourages people to use a competitors product, so when they do eventually upgrade its likely those users will install chrome/firefox/etc and continue to use it.
The article has only an image of the Z4 in Munich.
I find the reconstruction of the Z1, which is in museum in Berlin, much more interesting.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article[1]:

Construction of the Z1 was privately financed. Zuse got money from his
parents, his sister Lieselotte, some students of the fraternity AV Motiv
(cf. Helmut Schreyer) and Kurt Pannke (a calculating machines manufacturer
in Berlin) to do so.

Zuse constructed the Z1 in his parents' apartment; in fact, he was allowed
to use the bathroom for his construction. In 1936, Zuse quit his job in
airplane construction in order to build the Z1.

Zuse used thin metal sheets to construct his machine. There were no relays
in it. The only electrical unit was an electric motor to give the clock
frequency of 1 Hz (cycle per second) to the machine.

The machine was never very reliable in operation due to the precise
synchronization required to avoid undue stresses on the mechanical parts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_%28computer%29
For those without showdead, lepidoptera[noobtor] wrote:

> 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?

He was interviewed during this period, and the transcript of the police interview was leaked onto the internet: http://pastebin.com/HAc6HjVn

After the interview the allegations were dropped, but then the prosecutor reopened them. And he didn't stay there just for a week after that. He stayed there over a month, and only left after having been given permission to leave by the prosecutor.

It's all in this court document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/80912442/Agreed-Facts-Assange-Case
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The basics are very basic physics that have been known for a long time, so we know what green-house gases do with a planet. Where it gets harder are the details - climate is complex and we find new influences every day.

Here is another carbon sink, oh, and here is a source, and apparently heating this spot in the stratosphere causes a change in circulation which influences the biosphere, and there is a volcanic eruption shielding some solar input, oh, and looks like it is also destroying ozone, oh, and that albedo change there has a slightly bigger influence than thought, and can I get more computing power for better grid resolution?

So, details are hard. What do we know?

- We do measure an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases.

- These gases are absorbing light of long thermal wavelength, and are clear to short solar wavelengths --> thus a first order feedback would a higher ground temperature.

- And yes, the amount is big enough to make a difference.

What do we have to find out is how all the higher order feedback mechanisms work, such as atmospheric water content, circulation, uptake in sinks and emission from sources, albedo, .... but you can be sure there will be change since the system is not in a stable position. How that change will look like is hard to say, but we're working on it. Don't be too harsh, it's a hard problem.
Also if they've had it their for a long time you could get some historical verification of it via archive.org.
Don't question the Google Surveillence Machine. You'll rile up the Google Apologists.
Arguably, that operating system is open source, and at the least, decently vetted. If you disable spyware like Google Play Services, it's likely to be reasonably safe. On the other hand, routing data through Google's servers is a distinctly different proposition.
Heh also came to say the same thing. On reddit it would have obviously happened asap but I thought maybe there's less snarky humor on HN. Guess we couldn't resist this one though.
What if using google's service for your vpn would actually make it easier for them to get the data _you are trying to hide_ than compared to not involving GOOGLE as your _vpn service_ at all.

Honestly, how are everyone's alarms not going off right now? Google fiber, alright, at least I get fucking 1 gbps. Google VPN?? A VPN?? Keep Google/<substitute-3-letter-agency-of-the-day> in charge of what you use to hide your illegal torrents?? Genius.
I know. :( I make a comment, and it gets a bunch of upvotes, and then the Google fans roll in, and downvote it back into oblivion.
How does Google benefit from being a VPN server? Obviously they get to track web usage patterns for analytics and reinforcing their search algorithm. But what the other thing a VPN does is hide that same information from the tunneled through networks. And who else is pushing for the use of public wifi? AT&T and Comcast. But neither of them are in the advertising business so don't have a reason to be collecting the same information that Google makes their money off of. But what Comcast and AT&T do make their money off of is providing telecommunication service. How would AT&T feel about their public wifi being used for, say, handling VOIP calls to T-Mobile telephone customers? Or Google telephone customers.

Net neutrality promises that AT&T won't be able to discriminate VOIP but Google doesn't trust them. This VPN is a hedge so they won't have their traffic interfered with when they compete directly with the traditional telecom providers.
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I can't keep track of what's been debunked anymore.
I visited that exhibit in Berlin too. There was two or three Zuse computers on display as well as a bunch of other early European computers. It was a very nice exhibit.

It was particularly enlightening to see the various technologies being used, today all computers are made of silicon chips, but the exhibit had electro-mechanical, electro magnetic (memory), vacuum tube and solid state computers on display.

I don't know if it is a touring exhibit or is it still in Berlin, but I recommend anyone to visit that.
Cipher comes from the same root as Zero (sifr), making it a doublet word.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30774/origin-of-z...
And you think the NSA is having a particular difficult time monitoring what routes through Google servers?
I am a developer like you, but I feel that it is my moral responsibility to let an employer feel the pain of bad code.

When customers start to leave because they hate the way things work, that's when the business bow downs to a refactor.
OP here. It was 4-5 years ago and feels like an eternity. You're right though, "a few" would make more sense! Corrected :)
Someone created a site called https-watch, to list banks, government sites etc. that aren't using HTTPS properly but should be.

It has a built-in 'tweet to this entity' link, similar to what this guy did by himself.

Perhaps someone can open a Greek sub-section on the site, with links to these banks.

https://httpswatch.com/global
I imagine an EU regulation will force it to happen in laptops within a few years, as it has with smartphones.
All perfect solutions have already been implemented.

Everything else is a tradeoff.
I don't do that many UIs at all, so I wouldn't know about that. Even so...

These languages are certainly more mature than Haxe, but I do still expect to find some bugs in their standard libraries (in performance or security).

And when you factor in third-party libraries, the answer is always "yes you do expect to encounter bugs" independent of the language. For me, programming is in great part reading and fixing other people's code, and I still think most of them are much more skilled than me.
7 is with the instanceof pattern. You add an if statement at the beginning of the function. If "this" is global you return a new object.
Xbox Live for Windows 10 will come at no cost for online multiplayers
One solution to producing water is desalination. You can effectively get unlimited amount of water, but you pay for it in energy. A quick Google search finds that there's a desalination plant under construction in Carlsbad, California.
This is incredibly perceptive and true. It is odd to see how many people are trying to make the web do odd things like running applications in browsers. The constant testing that put people off writing cross-platform applications all those years ago is now multiplied significantly with all the testing they need to do on different browsers under different OSes, or even the same browsers but different versions on the same OSes. It's daft.
Would you have any links or references elaborating on brainstorming being a hindrance toward finding ideas or solutions? I'm interested in learning about this.
Not sure I believe the animals are getting most of it in California but either way that's something that can be easily moved out of state. Almonds can't.
The best way to complain about an HN title is to suggest a better one. "Better" here means more accurate and neutral. Even when a title is baity, we can't always think of a better one, so community suggestions help a lot here.
And for how long will apple continue to make the battery? If any part of the electronics will die, and it will it's game over for that watch.

If you have a mechanical movement then there are replacement parts for watches made over 150 years ago still being made.

With the potted mess of consumer electronics these days GL fixing it in 5 years from now. 10K for a paper weight.

On another note Apple just increased it's loan scheme in the UK to 8K GBP which is the price for the entry gold model.

So now with 48 easy payments and 15% interest you can own yourself a real peace of wannabe richness.
I can't help but think that teachers are less risk averse investors than private sector workers due to knowledge that their pension plan will take care of them in retirement, thus their investment decisions today will have less of an impact on their future. The fact that they hold less in cash seems to support the notion that they are less risk averse, at least.
> Encyclopedia Britannica (which I suspect had more than just a little pro-British propaganda when it was published).

I don't see any basis in your statement in your post or in reality. AFAIK Britannica has been owned by Americans for over a century. It's propagandists include Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Lord Kelvin, T.E. Lawrence, Douglas McArthur, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, etc.

Would you rather read Einstein's article on Space-Time or the one by random members of the public?
For context: the NYPD has 51,000 employees. It's likely that most of them have access to some kind of NYPD-operated Internet connection.
Perhaps Amazon should have two categories of reviews, one category has only reviews by verified purchasers, people who have bought the book from Amazon, and the second is all the rest. If there's a huge discrepancy between the verified reviews and non-verified, then it's obvious that something fishy is up.
Dan Holmsand is the man behind Reagent. I believe Dimitri maintains the overall Reagent Project? Still getting to know who's who :)
What about:

Work remote.

Get all the company together to a trip to Hawaii each year.

I'm sure this can build camaraderie and morale, and I hope someone gives it a try.
Billionaire tech execs should also invest in training themselves instead of preaching about the low cost of false negatives right before they say they can't find people. But at least they make fair offers and invest in peoples' career (class action non poaching lawsuit may have helped.) I will note that some of them do have some programs for this already as well, Zuckerberg gave a lot to Newark and others have some programs.
80 percent of the developed water supply in California is used by agriculture. About 6 percent is industrial and commercial. That leaves 7 percent residential landscaping, and 7 percent residential non-landscaping (showers, washing machines, etc.). Source: http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/where-we-...

Even if residential landscaping or non-landscaping water usage dropped by a quarter immediately, which seems rather unlikely, that's close to a rounding error compared to the amount of water to turn our near-desert into an agricultural breadbasket. Put another way, more water is used for almond farming alone in California than all residential landscaping or residential non-landscaping: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

The drought is real, but I would take op-eds like these more seriously if they acknowledged the above figures. And the fact that some cities like Sacramento still don't have everyone on metered water -- flat rate! -- and meters won't be fully installed until after 2025. Source: http://portal.cityofsacramento.org/%20Utilities/Conservation...
"why are three books in front of me in the Perl category about Swift, HTML, and PHP?>"

The other thing I notice is the titles are Kindle. Why are dead-tree products, arguably a more liberal format, mixed with a e-book products that are proprietary and closed?
if water in bottles expires in a few years i can't even imagine how bad this unpackaged water will have turned. this is totaly outragous
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Sweet! The weirdest part of this is that the "front" is on the edges of the video, so the seam is in your way if you look forward. It would feel more natural if the seam were in back. Also on a non-supported browser like Firefox, you can see the whole video at once, distorted, and the view is to the back instead of the front.
Possibly both are valid reasons.

The gender of the person might not change the gender of the noun that refers to it (I'd suppose the noun's gender is actually fixed.) But, possessive pronouns might not care about the gender of the noun in cases where a person is the referent and the person's gender is known. It seems (intuitively, and as a grammarian you should be innately used to discarding your intuition since it's often going to be irrelevant) if the gender of the person is known, it should take the correct gender of personal pronouns. But it might be more important that the word for prosecutor in the sentence actually has an (innate) feminine gender?

That's why you should be confused, same as I am.

If I had to guess, prosecutor is a noun that is either masculine or feminine depending on the gender of the referent, but if I had to second-guess, I'd say that's in fact probably wrong and nouns always have concrete genders of their own. Hopefully someone knows and comes along to tell us both, I'm curious now.
To be fair, the guy was trying to steal half of Facebook. That's a huuuuge amount of money. Plus the falsifying legal documents to do it.

But yeah, 40 years is a long time. It's hard to make comparisons between sentences in the US because everything has an absurdly long prison sentence tied to it. :\
It's like that on the Android App Store as well - a ton of one-star reviews with no reason.
It ends up being the most fault-tolerant way of navigating to a site. In the address bar, a typo will either not resolve (which takes several seconds) or it will resolve to a site designed to funnel traffic from the misspelling.

Also, you general don't need to type as many characters into the search bar to get to the site as you do if you use the whole URL.

All in all, typing the site into the search and clicking make quite a bit of sense from the usability standpoint.
As a biased omnivore, it would probably be a bit more useful to compare the calorie content of 1 lb of beef vs 1 lb of vegetables. I understand the point you're getting at but the bias might be a little bit too strong there.
"But by forcing out people who cannot afford the water you are driving out essentially only lower-class people which is unrealistic."

Remember, we're already talking about an "unrealistic" situation. In real life, the price of water is orders of magnitude away from pricing people out of being able to drink. You should expect a world where that is not true to be substantially different from this one, and uncritically examined shortcuts used to think about morality, such as simplified "class warfare" narratives with dubious applicability even to the world as it stands today, may need to be reconsidered. (In either direction, after all; what is today a minor problem could in this world be a "start the revolution!" crisis. Hard to tell; we're a long ways away from this and there's many paths from here to there.)

What's the alternative? Force these people to stay in this place where the water is too expensive to drink? How is that any better than moving to somewhere where it isn't? (How did we get to that point in the first place? After all the meta-point here is that the whole conversation is completely disconnected from reality and was showboating to start with.)