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The purpose of the European Arrest Warrant is to "arrest and transfer" a suspect for criminal prosecution. It shouldn't be issued just for "an investigation".

So yes unless the Swedish prosecutor wants to open herself up to charges of abuse of power then at this point she will have to prosecute Assange.
I believe recent scientific studies have said the California drought is not caused by climate change.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/12/new-study-cal...
We are definitely exploring different voting systems. Thanks!
The drought in California has nothing to do with climate change.

> If drinking water or water to grow plants runs out

If anything climate change will make more water not less. (Higher temperatures mean more evaporation.) The water would just be in a different location, not that there would be less of it.
Yeah video chatting is great. I totally see where you're coming from around office interruptions as well. My hope is that we can mitigate those while still having the ability to pair together when we want to. I also think we might not be the best personality types for remote working but who knows.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Interestingly, Nordea, which gets an A- in Sweden, still gives an F for their front page in Finland. So it looks that even if the same bank operates with the same brandname, the security level may be quite different.

Their internet banking front page domain name has a different environment which gets a B, but most people go to it via the front page that is still vulnerable to POODLE and what not.
How this gets dealt with will be very telling for the larger environmental disaster the world is facing due to prices not reflecting their true costs.
Exactly my thoughts, so you don't have to look hard in order to understand why nobody cares. Not even the author really cares.
I'm regularly using IE for testing with VirtualBox and images from Microsoft's official site [1]. Though I doubt there is a possibility to do the other way around with Safari on Windows.

[1] http://modern.ie/
Having asked this of a few friends who are MTG league judges: a lot of players feel a sort of "fiscal sympathy" for Wizards. They like the game, and want its continuing development to be incentivized, so they want to pay for cards rather than "pirating" them. Or rather, they want to act in such a way that cards still have value. It's similar to Bitcoin, in a way—nobody who holds the stuff is going around suggesting people should build their own private virtual economies instead.
I find it interesting that typically we commend ourselves for being a nation of immigrants (all in the past of course) and consistently resist current immigration. I feel like we might be more tolerant as a species if we did away with all of these nationalistic tendencies.
Not only in Hacker News, but otherwise agreed with you.
I'm in the process of learning Haxe. I hope it becomes more popular since you can have macros, static type-checking and a shared code-base with one language. You can have all these things with Javascript but not at the same time (that I know of).

Here's a port of the jQuery TodoMVC for anyone wanting a quick example of what a web-target would look like.
https://github.com/explorigin/todomvc-haxe
It doesn't look like anyone knows, but the author has mentioned it's NOT the National Bank of Greece.
>was rated for 73TBW

they ALL are, every single SSD has this magical pulled out of the ass ~70TB number. And dont expect it to go up any time soon, every new generation of flash has fewer write cycles, this cancels out any gains you might have from greater capacity.
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Agriculture uses the vast majority of water but most farmers pay very little, sometimes nothing, and sometimes they 'own' water rights which can be very valuable and often worth more than any of the land they farm upon.

Farmers have been overdrawing from rivers and groundwater for decades and the US government has been very slow to respond. Promises of 'smart meters' or 'water markets' are often delayed with time tables being pushed further and further back. Meanwhile the government also hands out large subsidies to grow a wide variety of crops, most recently the federal government has encouraged corn for biofuel, more corn is being grown for biofuel than is being used for livestock (and effects of carbon usage for biofuel is likely 0 or even negative once you take in effect it's entire life cycle). Typically ever pound of beef takes 7 pounds of corn, pork is 5 to 1, poultry is around 3 to 1. Again, we grow more corn for biofuel than we do for livestock because of government subsidies.

If anyone spends anytime at all on this issue they quickly learn that farmers are a powerful lobby, that the agricultural bill is essentially a large handout to a small, tiny, group of people. One reason this occurs is because every state gets two senators, and many middle states are essentially empty but for farmers and their communities.

Government has been mismanaging water usage for decades in the US and yet the first thing people suggest is for the government to come in and fix the problems they created, the amount of cognitive dissonance this takes is staggering.
Hate to be that guy but do you have a source for this? That's pretty incredible and I'd want to read more.

nevermind: the parent article pretty much covers it
If you look at a map you'll see that there are large mountains and long distances between where the (fresh) water is and California's Central Valley.
" A recent Field Poll showed that 94% of Californians surveyed believe that the drought is serious, and that one-third support mandatory rationing."

There is a major problem, and damn if I'm going to make any personal sacrifice to help solve it.
"I've spent the majority of my life surrounded by other people. I grew up with two brothers, played sports as kid, had a good amount of friends while going through school, have always had a pretty active social life, and lived with three friends in college."

Does the entire staff of statuspage.io feel this way? Sounds like this is more of a personal issue for the author of this post. There's nothing wrong with admitting working remote didn't work for you. Maybe the title should be "Reasons working remotely is difficult for me."
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The article actually reads like this one individual got tired of working remotely (see "HAPPINESS SUFFERS (FOR SOME)") and then reverse-justified why it wasn't working so it didn't seem like that was the core of why he wanted to stop.

I'd be interested to see how many other of the team are unhappy, and more to the point how many are perfectly happy with the current situation.
Irrigation of lawns is a tiny percentage. Agriculture is definitely elastic! If water prices go up, they just plant less.

Then people in other places grow food instead. It's a slow change, but it's certainly elastic.
So, as an intellectual exercise, if the Los Angeles and San Francisco metroplexes simply vanished, would there be enough water?
Most of the water is used by agriculture. You can take all the 2 minute showers you want, changing how the megafarms use all that water would have the most impact.

Of course, there's this idea that the farms are the historical yeoman-type, so it's rare to see solutions involving agriculture dicussed.

http://californiawaterblog.com/2011/05/05/water%E2%80%94who-...

> When you examine water use within the interconnected network of California that feeds farms and cities, use is roughly 52 percent agricultural, 14 percent urban and 33 percent environmental.
It would be very interesting to see the stats for OS taken from say github user agent here. I'm guessing OSX and Linux are somewhat better represented than in general. But then getting clear stats on development machine for smartphone apps in general seems pretty tough.
"not helpful" and "looks fake" are not the same. A review can be not helpful for many reasons, including:

* one or more incorrect facts

* goes on and on about one minor point while ignoring major stuff

* too brief

* reveals spoiler without a warning

Etc.
One major motivation for hiding whois information is so that the internet scum brigades don't send a SWAT team to your address with a malicious 911 call. But this is mostly an issue for individuals, not businesses - so in the case of a sole proprietor, you do have a pretty good motivation to hide your mailing address and phone number even if you're doing business.

Sadly this is the reality for individuals these days, until society catches up with technology - having your mailing address and phone number out and publicly accessible is actually quite dangerous.
The best mnemonic I've encountered for remembering those flags is visualizing Arnold Schwarzenegger yelling them: "eXtract Ze File!!!"
For what uses should I prefer this over plain old OpenVPN?
We use FAR more water than oil. A pipe large enough for oil would not even come close for water.
Solution: Crash an icy comet into California. Bonus points for aiming it at the Bay Area to clear the way for new development.
I'm looking into potentially using Haxe as a way to share code between iOS and Android. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anybody has made a good, open source Objective-C/Swift target for it yet. (There is a Swift target here[0] but it hasn't been committed to since October 8 and doesn't seem production-ready by any means.) I would contribute one myself but I have no experience with OCaml, and don't currently have time to learn it.

I like the idea of this approach way more than the one that projects like Xamarin take (build a common runtime on top of each platform) because you don't incur any runtime overhead, and debugging would (in theory) be much easier because you can just debug the native language instead of needing to understand the extra VM layer on top. As a bonus, with Haxe you can also target the web, which you can't do with Xamarin/RoboVM/RubyMotion/etc.

Has anyone tried anything like this (not necessarily with Haxe) and had success with it?

[0]: https://github.com/ralcr/swift-target

Edit: Wording and clarification, added bit about targeting web.
I think this is the weakest part of his argument:

> Thus, "dangerous and unusual" weapons are historically excluded from the scope of the right [to bear arms], but this exception, by the Court's own words, is indeed limited to weapons that are not only "unusual" but also "dangerous." Moreover, because all weapons are “dangerous” to some degree, the reference to “dangerous … weapons” must mean weapons that are more dangerous than the norm — logically meaning weapons that are unusually dangerous.

I don't think that "dangerous and unusual" is the same as "unusually dangerous".
There are a few interesting optimization algorithms, metaheuristic algorithms, which often use animal behavior and signaling as a basis.

Seeing posts like this inspires me to pursue some pheromone research I used to do and translate that into an algorithm.
I like that you mention the disadvantage that "employees struggle with work-life balance." This is often overlooked when considering the feasibility of remote working.

The ability to manage work-life balance when working remotely is a very rare ability, and one that takes practice to develop. The same ability is required of startup founders. Those who can define structure for themselves, even without external instruction, and then execute within that structure, will always succeed before those who cannot.

Because this ability is so rare, and necessarily present in startup founders, we can logically assume that a higher percentage of startup founders have the ability than the percentage of others who do. Or, at least we can assume that startup founders are the most well-practiced in this ability to execute within their own structure.

This means many of (not all!) the people who are best at managing work-life balance (a requirement for a productive remote employee), are already founding startups. So the best remote employees are selected out of the hiring pool if they decide to found startups instead. This leaves you with a plethora of less-competent potential remote employees, who are not as skilled at managing their own work-life balance as the best of them.

A risk when hiring a remote team is that you recruit too many employees who cannot properly manage their own work-life balance, and therefore suffer productivity losses. I would imagine the effect compounds as you hire more employees sharing this weakness.
Lets hope that the new RC4 attacks that will hit the news in a few weeks will help also.
Depends on the process. Is usually extremely energy intensive, but there are some interesting developments happening.

Direct contact membrane distillation - http://www.usbr.gov/research/AWT/reportpdfs/report134.pdf

Seawater greenhouse - http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com/process.html
The sad truth is that the net outcome of this drought will probably hurt those in less developed countries more than Americans.

Californians will not go thirsty or not be able to take showers; there's enough water for municipal supplies.

Agriculture will, however, take a hit. While the valley produces a huge amount of produce, it is still a small part of the overall California economy.

Prices will go up for vegetables which will need to be produced elsewhere. Americans won't really notice. SV will keep on humming. But in other places the prices for food will go up.

Remember the 2007-8 food price crisis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_world_food_pric...

Most Americans don't.
Does anyone have any good intel on nuclear powered desalination plants. I know desalinated water is about the most expensive around but for keeping the population with enough drinking and washing water.

The agricultural impact is huge and requires more water than the people do. But, I wonder if desalination would help supply water to the populous.
IE on Mac was a completely different beast to IE on Windows; it had separate rendering[1] and Javascript engines. There was an IE for Unix[2] which shared the Trident engine, but it never got significant traction.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman_%28layout_engine%29
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX
You know, I considered putting this on my (currently non-existant) personal blog for this exact reason. I talked to several of them and they agree in varying degrees.

That is just one point out of several though so I thought it was fine to add here.
FWIW I think the time spent arguing over which method is fastest is probably greater than the time savings either way. I'm just surprised, I hadn't seen more experienced computer users with that usage pattern before. Some of what you're saying makes perfect sense.

I have a bit of a reluctance over sending unnecessary network traffic to Google (not really privacy-related in this case), but that's just a personal idiosyncracy.
Hm, what OS? They didn't in the past. You needed to use 'tar -zxvf' for gunzip and 'tar -jxvf' for bzip2 IIRC. I still use it today to wrap files and move them on my server. On the server I use 'lzma' as default compression for archiving files (sql schemas, conf files, etc.)
I came here to post this exact post. Bravo. And sad face (I live in LA)
According to this [1], irrigation—which includes both golf courses and agriculture—accounts for 60.7% of California's water consumption. According this [2], golf courses account for 1%.

It's impossible to make progress without having facts.

[1]: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/water_use/
[2]: http://www.golfdigest.com/blogs/the-loop/2014/04/california-...
> [...] losing farms in California would be a huge loss:

CA produce is not evenly geographically distributed. Production in the coastal ranges is less affected by the drought (compared to the Central Valley), but coastal production is skewed towards fruits and vegetables.

Central Valley production is skewed towards Alfalfa (most of which is exported to China) and Almonds. Both of those are extremely water-intensive to produce and contribute almost no calories to the average American diet (and even less to the poor).

So, cutting off water to Central Valley farmers will have a smaller effect than most predict.
Where's the fun in that? Excellent satire. Is this project up on Angel list yet?
Desalination is also currently energy intensive. It is suitable for living needs, like having drinkable water, but would absolutely crush any margins when it comes to growing food.
I disagree with that because I think they are only situationally congruent and you don't necessarily need contempt for the rules to foster an entrepreneurial spirit. If the rules are burdensome without very good justification for existing (which is definitely possible) I think the two can be congruent, but I don't support making our rules burdensome without good justification for the sole purpose of breeding contempt for the rules/ an entrepreneurial spirit.
> I'm unsure if we can safely assume that California's recent drought troubles are the cause of climate change,

Literally no one has argued that California's recent drought troubles are the cause of climate change. (The result of, OTOH...)

> and not the fact that California really is a giant desert.

The Central Valley is a giant desert, but California's water problems aren't because the Central Valley is a giant desert, its because the water received by the rest of California have been far below the historical norms for several years.

Now, consuming lots of water -- e.g., by shipping lots of water from other places to the desert for agriculture -- makes California more sensitive to droughts than it otherwise would be, to be sure.
Which was not at all what adventured was saying.

They were responding to glesica's assertion that the reason nobody cares about IE is that it isn't cross-platform. To counter this assertion, adventured said that 90% of the desktop/laptop market uses Windows, so it seems unreasonable that the majority of people would not have access to IE as a reason for not using it.

Adventured was not suggesting that 90% of people are using IE; they were suggesting the exact opposite and asking why that is, because glesica's reasoning seems intuitively flawed.
Yeah.

I have no doubt that developers are a much larger proportion of Linux users (approaching 100%) than they are of Windows users. I suspect that may also be true for OS X users. But there's simply a huge, huge number of Windows users and consequently, a huge, huge number of Windows-based developers. Not necessarily bound up in the Microsoft ecosystem (.NET and the like), but developing on Windows.

But HNers, who are bound up with a tight-knit community that consists mostly of open source software, Github etc., quite naturally assume that they are representative. (Sidenote: Git and Github also have minority version-control market share. I would not be surprised if the biggest version control out there was no version control at all.)

In reality, I would be shocked if Linux/OS X-primary developers constituted more than one-third of total developers. Unfortunately, accurate statistics are hard to come by.
Sure, here's some mainstream reporting of it

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/wheres-califo...

And here's the original research.

http://www.waterfootprint.org/Reports/Report47-WaterFootprin...
Off topic a bit, but is there a review/rating system that isn't gamable (sp?) like this?
That's a good point and it's understandable if it's a cause for concern, but there's not much we can do about it as far as I know since we write the results directly in your spreadsheets; and the add-on, once installed, is present in all your spreadsheets. We need your email address in order to manage your credits and verify your credit purchases through Google Wallet.

Most other add-ons require the same permissions, so I think the permission titles could use a bit of clarification.

All that said, this is something to have in mind and improve for sure.
I made no claim that it was a huge contributor. I use it as an example of needless waste. Only once we are willing to deal with the truly frivolous uses of water (golf, fountains etc) can we hope to deal with more utilitarian uses.

And I totally dismiss logic dictating that we must only deal with the largest and most contentious contributors to a problem before all others. That is only a delay tactic.
Is it due to the amount of power required? Any sources? (Not that I don't believe you, I'm just curious).
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IntelliJ, pro edition. Sublime Text for drafts (when I don't want to create a file in my project, for all my notes and snippets).

Chrome developer tools, git, Atlassian Stash and Confluence.
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There's no point in playing whack-a-mole with the hired reviewers, they should be punishing the book publishers who are paying for this.
Honestly we should probably start building desalination facilities statewide so that we can begin to supplant the natural supply. The one being built in San Diego is a few months away from coming online and it will be providing 33% of the city's water supply iirc.

I know people have talked about it in the past, but usually the response is "but they are an eye sore if I go to the beach." Well, what would you rather do? die of starvation and dehydration or have a desalination plant near your beach?
I'm curious which places these are and why such areas were abandoned for farmland in the first place.
Almonds get something of a bad rap because they are moderately water-intensive (1 gallon per almond) but they are also highly profitable. So it makes sense to grow them. Rice is frequently grown using the water that is released for wildlife, so it is also reasonable to keep growing. The real problem is the forage crops (alfalfa hay) that are water-intensive and cheap. Price water competitively and your problem will be solved overnight. Naturally, the farmers using the water can't allow this to happen.
Then we let them suffer. What's the problem here?
Yes but a "normal" worker can easily change jobs. With H1-B it is very difficult and expensive to change jobs so they have to either leave the country or suck it up.
Yeah, I've gotten some negative feedback from people when my site gets posted to techy sites about it not being mobile friendly.

Though it is on my agenda to work on, I have moved it down the list because most people who browse my site are professional office designers and architects who have explained that they browse at work on desktops and laptops.
It's not just him. "Many" means "a large number" not "it feels like it has been awhile because of the pace of change." Zynga has not been around "many" years, by definition. Even worse, that project was actually completed some time in 2011. I think we can agree that 3-4 years is not "many".

But the worst part of that sentence is the change in tense. ;)
Apparently the reference to "forking" and "dongles" could be considered sexual, if you squint enough. Never mind that it was a private conversation and Richards wasn't a part of it - she needed to get her outrage quota for the day so she photographed the jokers and tweeted it to tens of thousands of people with her martyrdom narrative appended.
You can design to work on IE without designing to optimize for IE. As long as IE remains a single-platform browser, its standards extensions will remain a mostly-ignored niche.
The Eastern US is awash in water and has a ton of underutilized, fallow land that is already cleared. The workers can migrate as they already do. We can rebuild our greenhouse industry to get winter vegetables.
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