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I wish there was some way to change prices to alter demand. Maybe a "task force of thought leaders" can crack open an Econ 101 textbook and look at the supply and demand curve on the first page.

Sorry for the sarcasm, I'm just disappointed in the "reach for regulation first" approach to dealing with shortages.
Sorry for being so outdated, but what is this "Magic"?
I think this is the part of the experience that I never really realized...

There's no such thing as just going out and soloing a brand new spot, is there? THAT's the kind of risk I have always pictured when hearing about free climbing... and that just doesn't happen?

Total perspective change. Thanks!
I enjoyed reading it, but Hyperion struck me as having a great many fantasy elements. It has both time travel and FTL (both of which are nonsense given current physics, there is no reasoned framework to explain them in). Also, symbiotic life extension technology.

I also crankily believe that unobtanium is also a fantasy element (sorry Larry, scrith too), so maybe I shouldn't bother having the conversation. But why is a magic wand 'a stupid plot device', but an inexplicable technology is 'a reasoned exploration'?

Or is that not what hard sci fi means? Because fantasy often focuses on the social implications of magic, which is at least a similar sort of activity as imagining how big you can make something if you can adjust the laws of physics.
I understand where this concern comes from. But what I'm unable to reconcile is if a life form can get more "advanced" or even survive long without knowing co-operation and in general being more civilized - Live and let live? Or to point the question inward, let's say humans continue(d) their indiscriminate slaughter of fellow humans and animals around us would we still survive long enough?
Note that this is a claim put forward by Assange's defense team. For what that's worth.
Big fail: it doesn't simulate air transports. This is the essential element in modern diseases transmission.
We make a math web app / mobile app that teachers use in school. We regularly get customer support requests about icons missing from their desktops, their computers misbehaving, the network going down.
I'm probably older than the average age here, but 2007 certainly seems a long time ago to me. Especially in technology. No iPhones, no Android, no tablets (that anybody used, anyway), no always-on high-speed internet everywhere, no multi-core CPUs (ok, we had some two-cores), no Twitter (yes, it was going then, but who was using it?). No music streaming.

Seems like a simpler age.
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Agreed. A # TODO: or # FIXME: lives in the code for all to see. I use ticketing & project management tools as well (Pivotal, Trello, others), but these tools are more useful for "X needs implemented and has measurable priority or Y needs fixed ASAP".

Things that we know need to be addressed, but the priority level is "when we have time" are better served living in the code. They tend to get lost in project management and ticketing systems, whereas they live until the code dies if they are in the code.
I've seen complaints that it has a big environmental impact too.
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Yea, I hope PCI DSS clarifies this matter soon.
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About HALF of produce consumed in US comes central part of California. Exact ratio depends on the type of crop though. And it takes a LOT of water for all the crop.

So it's not really the green lawns or swimming pools.
If I were building a desalination plant I'd put the generator on site - why waste money on transmission losses?

Natural gas generators are clean enough that I don't think it would be a big problem putting one by the ocean.
Ahh, ok they hinted at that in the article but for some reason it didn't click in my head. I wonder if the farmers will just move to neighboring states (not that it's easy to pick up and move a farm....) losing farms in California would be a huge loss:

> California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list [1] goes on and on). [0]

[0] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2...

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/files/2agovstat10_web-1.pdf
It's shocking that a place like Whole Foods is too bourgeois for a person who eats candy bars before they get to the checkout.
That's a pretty bad title. Could mean anything. How about taking the first phrase in the article "GitHub's Game Off is Back". Maybe add an exclamation point.

It's a cool thing to build games for the browser and I'd like to see it get more HN attention.
Use this script:

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
If they had USB installers instead of CDs I'd buy them and actually use them as well.
Why are self created memes so crap, use a decent font dam it
Are there any other examples of really rubbish memes out there? please share the worst offenders.
Do you have stats to back up the premise that more developers (or those that would use features like this) are on non-Windows platforms? Windows still has roughly 90% of the total desktop + laptop market. I find it hard to believe it doesn't still have a majority of such developers.

GNU/Linux is ~2% of the market.
You're right, if people can't afford water to drink, they're clearly not valuable enough to live. If a farm can't afford water for crops, the crops weren't profitable enough to grow anyway. And if the rest of the nation can't afford food since some foods will be scarce without California farms, they should just be more productive. No need for regulation!
Watch out. As elaborated before, junk food is absolutely not "cheaper and less nutritious food".

It's "cheaper and harmful" food.

There are a few interesting documentaries, most notably "A place at the table".
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Obviously this is not about one provider of such easily affordable computing power.

Sure, the servers are more efficient than they used to be, and as stated elsewhere yes, because they are shared they are more efficiently used than machines which are not shared.

"they're actually cheap, both in terms of energy and resources."

... well I disagree with this: they are cheap to us because we don't pay adequately for them: not for the energy, the labor and not for the rare earth elements f.e. All of which quite conveniently is actually payed for in just very few regions of the world: by the people there.

Sure "the market" came up with this prices but the same market simply ignores certain kinds of costs, which are not visible to us. One name for those is: externalities. One of those is the "total energy budget" needed to build and dispose such a machine and the power needed when running the quite often ineffective apps. I'd add a whole bunch of political / sociological costs to that.

And yes, I know that the real "power benefits" of optimizing code just don't add up into a significant number today. I think this is due to the externalities we don't pay for. I can imagine a world where it would be economically justifiable to pressure for effective code. Today only the very big fish actually feel the need to make some of their code effective. The others just consumer what is already prepared for them: the machines already running at the centers.

As of the impact of the switch: I did NOT calculate. So you are technically right (probably ;) and only as far as you chose (maybe not consciously) the boundaries of your model ;)

When a few years ago the power consumption of data-centers appeared in the world wide energy consumption overviews, I guess "we" knew, yes they are a big deal.

Cheers
Which in turn means US will have to do with about 50% less vegetable/crop to consume.
Is this a scale issue or a frequency of co-location issue? e.g., What is the minimum number of people that must be collocated for an "office" to thrive? What is the minimum frequency that people must be together for them to collaboratively thrive?
Which would still be absolutely catastrophic considering how much of US (and world, for that matter) supplies of produce come from CA.
Not wanting people to depend on an unfinished version of the API makes sense, but an NDA as the mechanism for accomplishing this goal seems really strange. The idea that Amazon would be "bound" by API docs shared by early participants but will not be bound by the same API docs if early participants don't share them is weird.
I don't think this will work for the lion's share of the water consumption, irrigation - way to expensive to be able to sell the harvest at competitive prices.
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Please don't post comments like this, even when another comment is annoying.
That reads like it was written by a clueless reactionary. Draining reservoirs didn't cause the drought. It caused the water supply to dry up sooner in the midst of a drought.

> Then they alleged that global warming, not their own foolish policies, had caused the current crisis.

One of the most brain-dead sentences I've ever read. No one is claiming that global warming is responsible for the reservoirs being depleted. They are claiming that global warming is responsible for the fact that the reservoirs have not been replenished by rain and snow melt. It is a subtle, but extremely important difference.
Coming from a software engineer paradigm I find stuff like this really interesting. I think the worlds of biology and software should move closer together. Learning the basics about genetics and complexity theory in animals has made me consider how infantile our software is compared to existing natural systems.
I don't particular disagree, but I also don't think Apple is going after either "billionaires" or "watch collectors". Not that they would turn away sales from either category, but the Apple Watch Edition seems to be pointed at those that use Apple products already but also happen to have a boatload of cash. I guess I am saying that I see the target market as celebrities.
Here's what it looked like: https://archive.today/d7yxb/image
Wouldn't changing the price agriculturists pays for water be exactly the kind of regulation you're deriding?

Though perhaps you are referring to the price of something else?
You can desal with excess renewables that would normally be curtailed (wind, for example), also similar to how the aluminum industry in Iceland is there to use their cheap geothermal power.
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I absolutely agree with you. It's been pretty well known for a while that creative work is best performed in a single location.

I would argue that a lot of engineering work can be done by remote teams; but defining your product, your market, your business model... all those need to be done by a team in the same location because remote working stifles creativity. All those interruptions that destroy productivity in an office are also great when you're working on a creative task - by looping a coworker into my creative process to help vet my ideas, the work product I produce as a whole is better. Inspiration strikes at all times, so it's nice to be able to just drop in on someone and discuss a topic.

Many companies reach a point where creativity isn't as important as execution; and at that point I think remote teams are appropriate. OP discovered the hard way that when you're in the ideation stage, it's hard to have a meeting of the minds unless those minds are in the same room. Again, I don't think it's about remote teams being inherently good or bad as much as they aren't appropriate in every situation.
Are you serious? You want WATER to have its price raised to reflect the realities in California? All that would do is screw all the poor and middle class people and it would do nothing to solve the shortage.

Put down Atlas Shrugged for a minute and look at reality. The whole state of California has always been on water welfare, and if it weren't life there would be untenable for anyone who wasn't extremely wealthy.

If you really think "OK, so what? People can move." You are totally detached from reality. That's not what would happen. There would be riots.
Agreed, hubris is not a virtue.

Merriam-Webster - hubris - "a great or foolish amount of pride or confidence"

It's just a synonym used for arrogance and smugness. Humbleness is a virtue.
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Just ban almonds. Problem solved.
Yahoo: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/the-upcoming-usb-c-cable-is-about...
Until new farms capitalize on the opportunity to capture the market in places where there's an abundance of water.
I don't think 90% percent people are using IE
I wonder whether anybody would install IE on Mac OS or GNU/Linux if it would be available. I do not think so.
> Compare this to Mass Effect, where you literally save the entire galaxy from ultra-powerful robots who literally want to wipe out all life. Okay, fine. But the series does so little setting development that you end up caring more about destroying the bad guys than understanding and learning about the galaxy you are trying to save.

I disagree. First of all, you work your way to saving the galaxy through first two games. There is a lot of setting development, hidden in Codex entries, dialogues and things you overhear when you slow down for a moment and start walking around people. Especially in the first two games, the universe seems not to care much about you, or humanity at all - everybody has their own business to mind, and humanity as a race seem to be a minor and annoying nuance in the galactic community. Also, the story is quite deep in many ways, if you spend time to immerse yourself in it.

I can't relate ME to Baldur's Gate, as I haven't played the latter yet. But ME was the deepest and most complex world I have seen in a computer game so far.

BTW. Since there's ME4 coming up and the most important event of that universe has been already concluded, I wonder what the storyline be there. I don't think they can develop anything else than a "one strand in a massive tapestry" this time.
The last mammoths died out just 3600 years agobut they should have survived
This could be a boon for middle eastern water companies (Israel has some geniuses in this space) for selling into California.

There are a few tactics for tackling this problem (disclaimer: I didn't read the article)
- Reduction of waste (leaks, more efficient plumbing, rationing)
- Desalination (only useful along the coast)
- Deep wells
- water extraction from the air
- water recycling
- what else?
That is going to be one expensive web browser.
True, but real estate by the ocean seems like it would be at a premium.
Possibly. I'm not in the IT department, so I'm not sure. If the proxy is Blue Coat, the error page shows no such indication.
It makes more sense to farm in places that have reliable sources of water. I don't see why we need to subsidize California's crops, especially when we have so much great soil wasted on corn. Farming, in general, in the US is fairly messed up. Perhaps this crisis will lead to a fix. Maintaining the status quo and pretending everything is okay via regulation and political corruption is what got us here. Lets not continue that.
Maybe we should get our almonds from somewhere else?

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

Maybe California wouldn't have such a problem if they didn't plant crops that required so much water?
Is this an issue of price? Charging more for water? Or is outright rationing without doing any price hikes the only viable option?
Which could take years.
So it looks like there is suddenly water everywhere in the solar system...except for California.
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He is not locked, he can certainly transfer his domain any time.
> We need better scroll APIs for sure, but in DOM JavaScript API not in CSS

If it's in CSS, the browser can fundamentally optimize it better. DOM APIs have to run on the JS thread ("main thread") and contend with GC pauses, image decoding (in some browsers), layout (in all mainstream browsers), painting (in most browsers) and so forth. However, if it's in CSS, it can be proxied out to the compositor thread, which runs very little. This makes a huge difference in responsiveness.
That's why more Americans need to take at least a month off between jobs, no?
Firefox is shipping the standardized features without prefixes:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945584
I see this more as a technology issue - no one has sufficiently solved the "remote creativity" problem of allowing people to communicate as seamlessly as they can in a room with a whiteboard. (Or someone has, and I don't know about it, and StatusPage doesn't either)
I don't think the price will be near what would be needed to make desalination profitable without subsidies, though. The state could choose to maintain current usage and pay whatever it takes to maintain it, but it'd be at a huge loss. The main user of California water is agriculture, and desalinating water just to use it to grow rice is a good way to burn money.
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All valid but the caveat 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'. The line between what is science fiction and what is fantasy in a future setting can be very thin.
The first argument is specious, because the government could just pay for drinking water for people who can't afford it, like they do for food. Drinking water is a small percentage of the overall usage anyway.

As for your other points, yes. Allowing farmers to use a common resource for free effectively subsidizes them. It'd make a lot more sense for everyone to grow those crops in places like Florida instead of in the middle of the desert.
It would only work if the courts think it should work. Contrary to popular belief legal 'hacks' can work, but there is no guarantee.
Think about how our current (200 year old) representative democracy scales: you have only 500 people for a population of 300 million. Power certainly needs to be a little bit more decentralized.

Wikipedia is a great example of how bottom-up approach works better in practice than in theory.
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Keep in mind, for a human mission, you want to minimize time, rather than deltaV. Gravity assists will take a lot of time, as you spend a lot of time waiting for the encounter.

Furthermore, that chart is likely computed via a direct Hohmann transfer, which is one of the most efficient transfer maneuvers available. It also will take a lot longer.

For practical human travel to destinations farther way, you need to perform the so called "star wars maneuver", which is going essentially from A to B in a more or less straight line, which will cost a LOT of delta V.
What's far more interesting is that that will result in massive numbers of unemployed non-citizen farm workers right after Obama grants them work permits by executive order.

And that's going to happen right before the 2016 presidential election.
It's not as though the drought just stops at the border of California, so that probably won't be practical.
The definitive history of water development in California is this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-...

It's almost thirty years old now, but the history is just as relevant, and the warnings issued similarly prescient.
I wish Amazon had a "This looks fake" button above each review. I would click it multiple times per week.

Most fake reviews are easy to spot. The simple test:

Could this review have been written about any other book in this category without changing a word?

I see fake reviews all the time for Kindle books written by indie authors. A mark of quality in a book is when there appear to be no 5 star fake reviews, but several written by real people, even if there are only 3 or 4 reviews.

Some fake reviews are harder to spot, though. For example, I suspect this account, which has been around for many years, is more than one person (perhaps a PR firm) hand writing unique reviews for each one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A130YN8T37O833

All reviews are either 1 star or 5 star. There is content specific information but all stuff you can get from tech specs or descriptions - no sense the person actually used the product except generic intro paragraphs.

I think there is also fake voting on really good reviews. The review that I felt was the best review I ever wrote was downvoted more than any other review I've written. I don't really know if the downvoting was fake - maybe it wasn't helpful because I delved into too much technical detail:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R14QK0B7HRE5L8

However, most of the glowingly favorable reviews for this book have unanimous thumbs up, and the first 3 are written by "A Customer" which I'm guessing means the account of the reviewer has been terminated.
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Nobody was implying it does. The parent referred to Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and developers using those platforms, with the premise being that IE needs to be cross-platform because so many more developers are using non-Windows platforms.
This page is rather out of date since the release of the VideoCore IV documentation and open source driver work for it. I would consider it an order of magnitude more open than the Echo.
I think he's referring to this: http://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-s...

Their Senior Director of Business Development, Roberto Galoppini, said this in the comments to the link above:

"Developers opt in and are compensated, they are in control both of the installer behavior and of what sort of secondary offerings will be presented to their user base. Moreover they are not asked to integrate their application with a third parties' piece of code, and maintaining a bundled and unbundled version is trivial for them.

End-users are provided with a transparent installer behavior, all programs are malware-free and honestly described. All uninstall procedures are extensively tested, both for open source applications and third parties' offerings."
That's a great argument for moving farms, but that would take years. It won't prevent a shortage in the next year.
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Yeah. Worse, if RC4 being enabled was the only problem, it would be bad, but somewhat reasonable, as RC4 only recently became known to be weak. But POODLE? FREAK? TSL1.0? All the other crap? Absolutely incredible.
There is plenty of drinking water, this is an agricultural issue.
Get real. Where is there that has the same amount of arable land and infrastructure and semi-skilled labor to just ramp up to where California is now?