skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are things that could be done both for residential use and commercial use that could reduce how much water is needed without causing a catastrophe.

Many years ago, as a kid, I read an article about experiments in the Middle East to create a small basin for individual plants (like trees) that would be the right size for holding rainwater and keeping it hydrated without risking root-rot.

Think about how a shower is slightly slanted such that all the water goes to a drain in the corner. Instead of a drain in the corner, you have a plant in that corner. The basin is just a depression in the soil, with mounded up slow walls made from soil.

In the residential sector, you can google "earth ships" for ideas about things currently available that would put less stress on California's water supplies.
Bringing the Power of Postgres to Node.js
Ask HN: Is this 62-year-old Hoover sized project California's drought solution?
I learned about this a while back, so I figured I'd ask the analytical hive mind of HN, with it's teardowns of "Hyperloops" etc, to share their opinions on it's viability.
I'm working completely remote [1] for 2 years now.

Wouldn't want to miss it again.

I have two kids, 2 and 1 years old, and the office was the far noisier environment. Constant nagging, "Can you just for a moment" interruptions and people playing foosball (or whatever you call the tables on which you can waste a lot of time shouting and kicking hard plastic around) in the next room... Not for me.

Home does have its challenges, certainly. But for me it's the far better trade.

Now, communication and tools: I prefer less. We're a Windows/MS shop, so it's Office 365 (worst. thing. ever. [2]) and Lync (sad..) for us. I'd prefer mail, in a decent way, and a reasonable chat (IRC would work fine, but HipChat et al might work just as well). I have a corporate phone, that is with me all the time. People _can_ reach me - in theory - 24/7 with that.

That's enough. I have no need in this job for sketches on a virtual whiteboard. I couldn't care less about conferences (aka discussions with > 4-5 participants). Phone's fine, mail is for persistence and tracking, git is for source code and .. that works pretty well.

Sad to hear that it didn't work our for StatusPage.io, but I'm convinced that this model can work perfectly fine.

1: Remote as in 'Less than a single digit number of days in the office per year', although the distance to the Real Office™ is manageable at about 90-100km one way, same country.

2: WSDL files? Can't open those in OWA for example, because everything that looks like XML is obviously 'scary'. OWA 'protects' you and according to our IT Office 365 doesn't allow you to fix that. WSDL is just one example of gazillion, I should by now create a template for the "Sorry, dear customer. Our mail server is batshit crazy and acting up. Can you zip that stuff/share it in other ways?" mails I send regularly. Your company/coworker uses s/mime? Forget about using OWA, it will either throw around scary warnings or .. just refuse to open the message completely.
thanks for the references! I like that many people are doing such things. After looking at the chairs paper, it seems like they render images given pose,shape,view etc (supervised setting). However, in our model, there is a twist as it is trained either completely unsupervised or biased to separate those variables (but it is never given the true values of those parameters ... just raw data).
Like the scene in Home Alone where the kid puts cardboard cutouts on a model train set, to make the burglars think there's a party happening at the house. :)

Edit: I guess that scene was more elaborate than I remembered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHOuoJmcozk#t=2m13s
It's well known that the metric solar panels failed to deploy. The imperial solar panels opened successfully, but that did not generate enough electricity to keep going.
California's demand for water at current prices greatly exceeds supply. Continuing to farm at current rates will deplete water reserves within a year. That's why I mean by rare.
If you didn't know you can put ssh configurations (hosts, ports, keys, etc) in ~/.ssh/config. You can use it in scp like 'scp prod:path/to/file path/to/destination'. Not sure if there's a pro/con to mapping an alias.
An unexpected tool has helped tremendously for our teams in terms of remote work: Mumble (http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page).

Mumble is a cross platform, open source VoIP application. Often used for gaming in a group (like Teamspeak or Ventrilo). It has the idea of channels (rooms, offices, etc) is very high quality, low latency and low bandwidth installed on your companies servers in minutes, always encrypted... and clients are available for linux, windows, os-x, android, ios, etc.

So you can have channels like "Bob's Office", "Working on XYZ problem", etc. People can come into these channels to speak to you and can leave them. It feels a bit like an office environment, I can pop into Jay's office, talk to him about an issue, and go back to my office. I recommend people setup Push To Talk, which really helps create a silent non-annoying environment. Basically, me and another developer can be working on an issue, but maybe not actively talking, but in the same channel -- and there is blissful silence... I don't hear the fan, the cat, the fact that his wife came into talk to him for a minute, etc.

When I start my work-day -- I start it by logging into the mumble server (or more accurately, moving myself out the AFK channel) -- and when I end it, I move myself back into the AFK channel. This is a realtime communication system, async work still happens... well, everywhere else.

It is easy to be on all day as an "in-office" experience... when I am eating lunch, I create a "eating lunch" channel under AFK and put myself there.... We find it works so much better than video chat (or really anything else), is far more casual (like an office) and far more fluid... it is like having an open door policy. Sometimes I might be in a channel that says "Debugging Race Issue Go Away" -- but it technically doesn't keep anyone out, it is a request.

Using mumble day to day basically changed the experience from mediocre to great for us. We still use everything else, but mumble is our real time core, and slack is our async core.
Could somebody explain the down votes?
Time is not fixed, change is rapid. Over the 21st century the countries that will contribute greatest to the cumulative greenhouse emissions over that period are those which are today in the "developing" world. CO2 emissions from Asia already vastly outstrip those from the USA, for example. If every single G7 country stopped producing CO2 completely tomorrow that would provide a comparatively minor change to the estimated total global CO2 emissions for the 21st century.

Many people believe as you do, that the problem is primarily with the rich, developed nations of the world, that they are big, ugly polluters who are making the world worse for all of the poor folks in the world and if they'd just accept a different scope for their lifestyle it would be possible to clean up this whole mess. That's a gross misunderstanding of the issue. The crux of the problem is that over the next few decades literally billions of people will climb out of poverty as the developing world becomes developed, and they will do so largely via industry powered by fossil fuels. They will become healthier, more well-fed, more productive, and wealthier almost in lock-step with their increase in energy, energy produced at the cost of CO2 emissions. Make no mistake, there is a tremendous amount of good that will come of this, billions of lives will be vastly improved and there will be new opportunities for artistic expression and cultural exchange which have not existed yet. But currently we know of no way to enable that transition to the developed world without such a heavy reliance on fossil fuels.
How Authy cripples my two-factor authentication experience
It makes its way back to the dock, but the model I own doesn't start again as soon as it's charged.
Xinh's Tech Blog: Storm vs. Spark Streaming: Side-By-side Comparison
You've got some good points there, bu not everyone is a freedom fighter or overly concerned about their privacy up to that level.
Some people just don't want to be snooped on by your casual script kiddie while on public wifi.
Yeah and I have no moral responsibility to support them.

There might be more gold on the ocean floor than all the gold we have ever mined, but we will never get that gold because its too uneconomical for us to get.

Same goes here, the 5th of the market is a non-consumer market for us. Those days are gone where every computer with a browser was a potential consumer.

At this point we have to ask the question, if you are still using IE, what business assumptions can we make about you, and are you really worth the cost spent to go after you?
"The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage", not "the difference between a poison and a medicine."

Medicines all have a "therapeutic index", however narrow it may be. Poisons may not — and often don't.
> The fact is that these sorts of issues are just as prevalent with the media, with the educational establishment, and so on, we just generally haven't been as cognizant of them.

What is the basis of this fact? Yes, there is bias everywhere, but it's not at all binary, 0 or 100% bias. Everyone has violence in them, but they won't all kill you.
Holy crap, had no idea it was Haxe. That is a great success story (and fun game).
Nautilus launches Prime
Yes! Came here to suggest that. Charging the monitor is an issue I didn't think about.
"history is written by winners" modern media, especially Internet, is changing into "who writes the history wins"
Justin Kan, Cofounder of Twitch AMA
The Midwest grows enough crops to feed the whole country if some major disaster or famine happened.
Point out what's not true, downvoters. The press here in Italy widely reported rumors of payments being made for hostage releases.
Amazon will in fact ban you if you have too many returns, or so I understand.
In order to approximately learn a "real" graphics engine with support for basic physics, just feed-forward computation might not be sufficient. A more natural way to learn graphics/physics might be to learn the temporal structure more explicitly. On the other hand, it might also be interesting to just add temporal convolution-deconvolution structure in the existing model. This is work in progress though.
FreeBSD: Using Autofs(5) to Mount Removable Media
And arguably logging everything that goes over a VPN doesn't increase the value of ads for someone that's already using you for search and email. What gain would there be there?

> Arguably, that operating system is open source, and at the least, decently vetted

The one provided pre-installed by Samsung and Verizon. Right.

> If you disable spyware like Google Play Services, it's likely to be reasonably safe.

Ah, so we're going with the "well it feels safer" school of computer security.
Heh, it looks like a game. Gauntlet or something. Strange model to deliberately capture the office layout even.

It looks so much like a game of "Cluedo" I'd be tempted to try a murder to see how it worked. "It was Thad, in Patrick's office, with the pistol"
Einstein's most famous equation
You can get the best of both with the Kubernetes Mesos framework, but they are fundamentally different beasts.

Mesos is a lot lower level than Kubernetes and makes you think of services and not hosts. Kubernetes still likes to make you think of hosts. They are both excellent, but different technologies.
Web archive link, with pictures: http://web.archive.org/web/20130220094600/http://www.christi...
>> "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?

I'm not sure how to take your statement. It clearly is not true of many sources. Some sources have proven expertise (something Wikipedia effectively never has), some have a proven track record of reliability.

Reliability isn't binary, either 100% or nothing (or random). Analogously, all people lie to some degree but clearly some I trust and some I do not.
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>It avoids most genre cliches, apart from the very ending maybe.

Yeah, by being fully made of those. [SPOILER ALERT]

* lack of crew psychological cross-matching

* some ludicrously exoggerated hydrazine drama

* chloroplast-equipped organisms in the environment which ambient light spectrum is slightly inclined towards gamma radiation (not to mention the meat-packed space vessel itself, brightly shined up by very same light)

* _one_ central computer with sole purpose to be heroically repaired on the _outer_ shell of the vessel (you see, no EVA - no drama)

* (mentioned ending) transferring at least tens of gigabytes from Europe to Earth in a matter of seconds (via that special hero-driven central computer) despite being unable to establish uplink for past several months already due to the broken trasmitter (of course, unreserved)

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Well, I understand that this is just a movie, but look, why not to put it in agreement with some common sense?
Trusting "verified purchase" reviews is a pretty easy way to allow a lot of fake reviews. On a 99c ebook your royalty is 35%, that means a verified fake review only costs you 65c.
Yeah... being there, I'm like... Wait... about what we were talking??
Everything is blocked for me at airports... Unless I pay a stupid amount of money per hour. Of course they would dare blocking Google (and anyone else) servers.
So you're saying that drug laws are responsible for making him put a hit on someone?
Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs his liver, new book reveals
Ask HN: Would you work with KPCB now after the Ellen Pao case?
Yes but why are they doing it in the first place? When the whole point of firefox is its customizability and 'non-proprietary' nature over chrome. I don't understand.
...aaand it's fixed. Was a stupid recent spelling mistake.
California agricultural statistics:
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

California's top-ten valued commodities for 2013 are:

Milk — $7.6 billion

Almonds — $5.8 billion

Grapes — $5.6 billion

Cattle, Calves — $3.05 billion

Strawberries — $2.2 billion

Walnuts — $1.8 billion

Lettuce — $1.7 billion

Hay — $1.6 billion

Tomatoes — $1.2 billion

Nursery plants— $1.2 billion
Facebook acquires and shutters shopping search engine TheFind
They're called aqueducts, and California has quite a few, typically sending water from northern california/the Sierras to Los Angeles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Aqueduct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct
There are two nice bullet points in the actionable part of this article. I wish they had been mentioned earlier because I feel many will not make it all the way through.
Gaffer on Games – Snapshots and Interpolation
Assange obviously stayed in the UK because he had excellent legal support, the linguistic ability to understand what was going on, the ability to continue his professional work, and access to a legal system that should not have granted extradition. How is this baffling?

More generally, the "weakness in [your] reasoning" is partly the arrogance to imagine that you understand Assange's legal options better than his lawyers did. But it is also partly the logical fallacy of ad hominem rhetoric, since you accuse him of hypocrisy and then use that accusation to try to discredit concerns of his that very clearly have nothing to do with questions of personal character.

As other commenters on this thread have mentioned, and as minimal research will confirm, Sweden has a long history of illegal rendition. Its handling of this case is extremely unorthodox, politically motivated, and shows a fairly clear attempt to maneuver Assange into indefinite detention through a legal process that even the UK High Court commented on as being unreasonable.
In theory there's a procedure you can go through and get permission for a proper clinical study.

In practice it's nearly impossible to get the approvals you need.
To some extent, this is how the vintage format is intended to be played. The format is all about being able to play with your power and other "broken cards". The fact that each deck starts of with 3-5 pieces of power is kind of a given. That being said, I think that is more of a problem with your local meta.

For example mana drain has been on the decline because it is a slowish and hard to cast card (relative to the format) so it is relegated to ~3of in hard control decks, if that.

Actually, UR delver and monastery mentor strategies as well as Fish decks are very popular in vintage ATM. These decks deviate significantly from "play all the best cards Grixis control" lists.

I myself play White Trash because my meta happens to be very weak to turn 1 uncounterable Thalias, and I can play between 0 and 2 pieces of power
I think it's because you're coming from a position of insufficient cynicism.

Are you torrenting, or planning terrorist acts, or whatever else, on your mobile connection? You're crazy. I would never do anything I'd want to hide from the government on my phone; it's already got that mysterious baseband coprocessor running god-knows-what with direct DMA access to main memory. Adding a VPN pipe directly to the manufacturer doesn't make me any more potentially-spied-on than I already was, since the ISP already, effectively, had arbitrary code execution and their own backchannel.

Security professionals don't avoid smartphones altogether, of course; they just use them only as conveniences for "unclassified" day-to-day operations.
We can still grow crops in California without water subsidies. In places where water is more expensive, like Israel, farmers invest more in water-saving technology in their farms. And probably grow less water-intensive crops like rice.
How does pair programming work over chat? I feel like pair programming relies on you both looking at the same code + talking things through while one of you is actually coding. It seems like having to switch over to a chat client to communicate would decrease productivity a lot.
Who would win in a longevity contest between a Tardigrade and a Rotifer?
It's interesting that the big law firms like DLA Piper[0] who backed him pro bono and conducted "extensive due diligence" on his claims walked away without even much of a tarnished reputation.

[0] Facebook are suing them. http://abovethelaw.com/2014/10/lawsuit-of-the-day-facebook-s...
Farmers are not the only consumers of water, but they consume approximately 80% of it. We are nowhere near running out of drinking water.
I think one of the problem in the Swartz case is that the sentences from multiple felonies add up; otherwise there was no way to arrive at such a ridiculus penalty for a copyright violation. In many countries this is not possible, eg. in Austria you will get no more than the maximum sentence even if you are convicted of multiple felonies.
I never claimed this as a moral thing. Apologies if it felt that way.

Though, I will say you have not asked that last question. At least not in a meaningful. Otherwise, you would not be dominated by the larger fish in the ocean that do go after these customers.
Selfie Psycho: Paramedic Fired for Taking Pictures with Dying Patients
> Do you expect to encounter any bugs at all - outside your own code - in Java, Objective C etc when you do your native UIs?

No, but I'd wager that I would spend more time re-writing the app for each native language than I would finding the inconsistencies in Haxe. (And either way, each platform has its own nuances that you have to know whether or not you use Haxe.) For the record, you'd have the same issues with solutions like Xamarin. The whole thing is a trade-off, and I have a (well-supported) hypothesis that the benefits of a (semi-)shared codebase is worth the cost of learning these nuances and inconsistencies.
This is correct. I was doing well in my career before the book, but it really took off after the book. However, I was already co-author of one book before that, and I blog prolifically, so that skews this.

The way it works is simple. Publishers hope to sell about 5,000 or so copies of your typical tech book. That's enough to keep the publisher going, but not enough to really make money for them. The publisher keeps those "filler" books going to keep up street cred and hopes to sometimes land the "killer" book that makes them a nice profit.

I can't share the sales info for my book, but let's just say that I think the book is doing better than one might expect for its category.

If you want to write a tech book, you want to go with O'Reillly. My advance was much larger than what O'Reilly would offer, but they sell more tech books in the long run. However, O'Reilly's Perl book section is saturated and they generally don't take new authors.

What I did to reposition my book was a strategy I wish more tech books would take: I focused on jobs. Instead of teaching every esoteric niche of a language (though I covered it well), I focused very heavily on skills that employers look for. I've been doing this for a long, long time and am very familiar with employer needs, so I was well-positioned to do this. That has led to my book doing better than expected: here's what you need for a job!

I now have a successful Perl consulting firm (http://www.allaroundtheworld.fr/) and that book, while I can't prove it helped, definitely didn't hurt.

Oh, and my publisher has spoken to an Amazon rep and a contact I have in Amazon tells me that they're aware of the situation and are looking into it. I don't have much hope, but who knows?
Wasn't this called Cobol on Cogs before? Or is that another joke framework?
That or having your web browsing data mined by your home ISP.
Okay, let me be more clear: I don't expect the NSA to care much about me. I'm a Canadian citizen. I would rather my phone automatically suggest to me a VPN that ends up piping all my data to a country that doesn't have specific reason to be interested in me, than that I route my data in-the-clear over networks that are operated by governments who do have reason to care about me (because I'm one of their citizens and their laws apply to me, and they might want to figure out if I'm breaking them, etc.)

Android phones are sold globally, remember. There are much worse places to "moor your ship", data-wise, than the US. If this VPN circumvents Chinese Internet censorship, for example, then it's a win by sheer numbers, whatever it does to US domestic citizens.
Parent is saying that some legitimate medical treatments can still have serious negative consequences if the dosage is wrong, no doubt implying that cannabis should remain in the medical arsenal.
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