skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Californian livestock (including cattle, chickens, etc.) uses approximately 9% of the nation's 2.14 billion gallon/day water on all livestock.[1] This equates to roughly 73 billion gallons per year. The report is a decade old, so I'll round that up to 100 billions of gallons used, per year, on meat products in California.

California almond farmers use 1.1 trillions of gallons per year.[2]

So yes, if anyone is to blame, it is definitely the almond farmers, as they use more than 10 times the amount of water than all meat farmers combined.

[1] https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wulv.html
[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30052290
> Every user and organization on GitHub.com with Git LFS enabled will begin with 1 GB of free file storage and a monthly bandwidth quota of 1 GB.

A GB doesn't get you very far if you are working with raw audio and video.

Does it make sense to think about storing virtual machines images (.vmdk) in git on GitHub with LFS?
I have just tried on Windows Phone and I can say it is great indeed.
It's fairly obvious that more beef is consumed in the world than almonds. Thus, 80% of the world's almonds doesn't necessarily consume more water than the much smaller percent of the world's beef produced in California. If anything, it argues that beef shouldn't be produced in California since there are other producers of beef that can pick up the slack whereas there isn't likely to be (an)other producer(s) of almonds that can handle the world's demand if California were to cease production of almonds.
On the theme of the impact of animal agriculture, here's a much deeper exploration of those impacts and a dizzying list of statistics and sources: http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
Employees don't want that. The terms of the current relationship are centered around the employee's desire for continuity and stability.

Most employees do not want to be tied down to the company in a binding fixed-term commitment; how much worse would things be if people weren't free to pursue other employment whenever they wanted? How much more abuse would employees suffer if they didn't have the option of walking out and finding comparable employment at any time?

Most employees want benefits and perks that would be very difficult to provide in the context of independent agency, like medical insurance. In professional circumstances that are based on procuring such agents, there's usually a union, co-op, axis, or league that furnishes the benefits the worker desires. Read this page [1] about the stability NBA players lacked prior to unionization.

The grass is always greener. Perhaps an employee's raw salary would be higher if a free agency model was used, though I personally doubt it would be, but most of the terms of this game are defined by the employee, not the employer.

A world where every employee is an independent agent with his/her own contract is a much, much different world than we have now and would take a long time to analyze with any depth or completion. It's not that there aren't ways to make it work, but the standard employment relationship exists because it's the employment arrangement most conducive to the type of lifestyle the average person wants to have.

[1] http://nbpa.com/about-nbpa/
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Got it, and for the other part? I'm just wondering what makes this entirely different from github assuming that the authors don't remove the project or delete their account. I think I'm just unclear on what value you are adding and for current projects why I would use your repositories over the actually package developer.

I'm genuinely interested in this as a service, as I have ran into issues where packaged have API breaking changes that I'm not aware of until we pull code on the production server when we're ready to launch, but I'm just not sure if I'm clear on the intentions.
Jude is a part-time comedian. :) He was just kidding.
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>Everyone did. Developers he stole from stole it from someone else

Except perhaps the dev with the initial idea?
Stealing someone else's idea might be widespread, but it doesn't make it right.
Have some almonds.
Yeah, git-annex is very interested in having a special remote for everything and anything. And if someone creates 4 shell commands, I could have a demo working in half an hour. The commands would be:

lfs-get SHA256 > file
lfs-store SHA256 < file
lfs-remove SHA256 (optional)
lfs-check SHA256 # exit 0 or 1, or some special code if github is not available

Presumably the right way would be to use their http api, but these 4 commands seem generally useful to have anyway.
Maybe a social engineer who wanted to lower worldwide water consumption would. But a social engineer who wanted to deal with California's drought would want to cope with almonds.
I think it's a segment worth having... I took down my home servers last year, one of which was an 8-core AMD (FX-8350) that I put into my aging HTPC case... the power usage was pretty high, so I started shutting it off when not using it.

I just got in a Gigabyte Brix Core i3-5010U, which is supposed to sit around 15W of power (around 1/8-1/10th of the amd), with similar single-core performance and roughly 40% multicore... I do browsing and watching a lot of 1080p video on it. With the i3 I can just leave it on... if I could get similar performance (real-world usage) with 1/3 of that power, I might have been willing to pay another $150 for it. Another issue is when the fans kick in... I want quiet and good enough performance.

The same is true of laptop use for most people as well... honestly, other than only having a single USB3 port, I think the new macbook is a good (if a bit overpriced) fit.
I really wish they could actually admit wrongdoing in the lawsuits, I suggest with an apology letter.
Bee colony collapse and other bee death has been getting attention. Bees are shipped in to the almond groves in California. There's some suspicion that almond farmers use nicotinoids which harm bees; and that transporting bees leaves them more vulnerable to parasite.

So, that's one reason why almond farming is seeing more scrutiny recently.
Bad code can be written in any language.
Ubuntu's maintainers can check the MD5SUM file on ftp.pcp.io:

ftp://ftp.pcp.io/projects/pcp/download/MD5SUM

The project seems to be hosted by Red Hat these days.
Gruber explicitly discusses this in the piece, see the bit about 'Apple seemingly tries to enter markets at, or just after, that tipping point'.
You said it doesn't produce that much. That is untrue.
I didn't downvote either of you, but I didn't respond to either of your comments because they miss the point of mine. Yes, Samsung's been making phones forever. They have not been making smartphones forever. The iPhone was a fundamentally different product category from what phone manufacturers were doing before, requiring that competitors scrap a lot of what they were doing before [1]. And Samsung had a big leg-up in entering that product category by virtue of making many of the screens and chips used in the iPhone.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/building-android-a-40...
Yes, you can. That's one other advantage over git-annex (albeit slight).

The documentation lays out the workflow: https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-large-file-stor...

As does the website: https://git-lfs.github.com/ (see: "Getting Started")
Ruefully commenting on a story I also flagged, but: chicken takes less water per pound than almonds. Depending on which source you believe, so does pork.

A pound of beef is about half as calorically dense as a pound of almonds, but a half gallon of almond milk also takes a whole pound of almonds, so you have to take into consideration the different ways they're eaten.
That isn't strange. From the linked page:

>But this technique works only so long as the containing function (hack, in this example) does not exit.
I think designers and marketers still aspire to work at Apple.
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I use cVim on Chrome for all of my work computers, and DWB[0] on my personal (Linux) computer. DWB is the best in-browser Vim experience I've had, and quite light on resources in my experience.

[0]http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/
Not the kind where a board of wangbangers sit in their castle surrounded by scantily-clad ice sculptures and give toasts "to female misery," believe it or not.
Yea, I want a Mac version of The Old New Thing.
Snapchat is quietly building a research team to do deep learning
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From how I read it, it sounds like a little of yes and no... it's similar to git's way but I am not sure if they are really going to keep versions of all of the old large files... I guess if they are going to be fully reverse compatible like being able to go backwards in git you have to...
Hey! Just wanted to give you a quick update on this. We had been in the process of completing a full third-party audit to ensure Safe Harbor compliance. This has been completed, and our status has been update on export.gov:

https://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=27566
Has the probability of this increased, decreased or stayed the same though?
thanks. yes, there are several signups on each property per month. nothing major of course, but it's something.
It wouldn't, and it would suck fuel like crazy. Fans aren't optimal for low speed thrust.. turbojets even less so :) 2 fans would be much better than 1 jet.
How sure are you about the gallons/pound stats you're working from? I'm getting wildly different numbers from different sources; I wonder if they're playing with different definitions of "pound" --- for instance, by substituting "beef cuts commonly used for hamburgers" for "beef".

(Beef is indisputably inefficient, of course).

Slightly later

I'm finding it pretty difficult to come up with a credible number for (say) pork. It's easy to find estimates of gallons/lb of pork, but the kcal of different preparations of meat vary wildly, and the gallons/lb may represent all those different cuts (so you'd need % breakdown of all the parts/kcal per animal), or worse, the gal/lb numbers could just based on some representative cut from the animal.
Makes sense. I've been recommending Dropwizard for years for similar reasons.
hustling/hustling hacking/hacking are examples of an energy vector dotted with a moral compass. When the dot product between the energy direction and the 'good' direction is positive you get improvement in "good" when its negative you get improvement in "bad" :-)
I think this is what you wanted?
https://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.0/#/phta4e5a733f

Edit: actually it doesn't mention editing map data in the list of editable things. That's good feedback for http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Everyone complains about the monolithic library "file," but it's actually a directory you can explore if you want; it's just disguised as a file by Finder. Right-click and select "Show Package Contents" to view it in the Finder, and then your photos are all nicely organized in the Masters folder.
>Is it because you assumed it was a dad? Me too. :(

Yeah, god we're such shitlords, aren't we? Time to go give myself some lashings at my home built shrine to Ellen Pao.

Seriously though, this is entering the realm of stupidity. You made an assumption based on your own experiences (that the vast majority of computer programmers and enthusiasts are male) and one that is backed up by data - the vast majority of computer programmers and enthusiasts are male.

Coupled with that assumption is the many other various "I'm teaching my kid to program" blogs and similar that pop up here from time to time that to date, as far as I recall, have all been written by men. A story about a programmer is highly likely to be male. A story about a programmer regarding their son wanting to learn programming and them teaching them is likely to be a male teaching a male.

When women are showing the same level of interest in computers, in programming, in computer science, etc. as their male counterparts and are blogging, developing, taking part in the community at the same level, then it may be questionable to automatically assume it must be a man teaching his kid to program.

You are as sexist in your assumptions here as you are in your transphobia in automatically assuming the son is "cisgendered".

C'mon now, let's take a large step back from this nonsense.
I feel like he missed a big opportunity here to say, "iQuit".
Just sayin'.
It helps to clarify what will happen. GET requests should never alter the data in the backend, wheras PUT, POST and DELETE would.
From The Verge review, that feature actually sounds a bit painful to use.
"Familiar", eh? To me it's still "that weird new hipchat competitor people keep talking about", but it's still something operating at a couple of degrees' remove: I've never used it or met anyone who uses it or heard of any reason to use it, and the one time I went to the website it wasn't clear that there was any way for random people to sign up for it. I'm curious why you see it as the established standard - isn't it basically brand new?
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The actual water embodied in the exported almond is trivial. A bunch of water is lost in evaporation, but I don't know how that evaporation compares between these various food items, I got the impression that a ton of water is dumped on the almond trees at some critical moments, so I'd presume most goes back into the ground? Some water may be unsuitable for reuse even if it doesn't evaporate.
If mankind could come up with Math and Physics, it's more likely than mankind made up God too. The modern monotheist God isn't that old ,roughly 3000 years. "History" itself is between 10,000 and 20,000 year old. Gods come and go as men do and undo them.
No, they have values alright. They may not be what you think they should be, or what I think they should be, but.
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I do, I've had my Pebble watch for over a year, before that I had an "InPulse" watch.
Apple is pretty good at taming technological complexity. The functionality the parent's suggesting could be incorporated into Airport and/or MacOS. Going further, even DynDNS-type services could be something that Apple offers. None of this is to say that there's any economic incentive for them to do it, or that the feature/service would have mass adoption, just that Apple could do it, if they wanted to.

On a long enough curve, nearly every user becomes a "power user," and if you look back, a lot of stuff that was once strictly "advanced configuration," becomes simplified, or eventually just abstracted away and the domain of mere IT mortals. Apple and others could play a role here.
Now you can be part of McLaren's design team with online configurator
I haven't automated my testing process enough yet, and I feel terrible about it. Going to prioritize this now that the project is public. For shame, I know.
It will be very interesting if it was without any time delays. I currently use gmail delay hack "Undo Send", that allows something similar. It always delays my email couple of minutes and displays an option to undo the sent email.

Anyway, nice idea!
There is not a water-gallon's worth of hydrogren inside each almond.
It cannot find UNLV or University of Nevada Las Vegas?
Not sure if you'll see this, but this thread inspired me to send an email to 80K, which I've known about for a while. I'm planning to become a 50+% donator in the next couple of years.
This was probably one of the most misunderstood stories of recent memory.

Anyone who has built a company of scale knows what Mark was dealing with: An employee who was given an outsized grant that far exceeded the contributions of the employee. Grants last 4 years, and sometimes you make grants with the expectation that an employee will grow into their grant.

Typically you have two choices in this scenario: Fire the employee, or suck it up. He invented a third, re-negotiate the options package.

It's really not as horrible as it was made out to be.

I know I'm going to get voted way down for this, but until you've been in those shoes, it's really hard not understand why he did this instead of firing the people... which is what usually happens when this situation comes up.
This will be interesting to see how many people use a stand-alone web client for messaging rather than just facebook.com I wonder if they'll also tear this out from the core facebook website
I suspect Apple have somehow framed the product for reviewers so the alternatives in the market don't come to mind, even if the reviewers don't realise that they're ignoring them.

As one example, they could've picked recipients who they know haven't previously worn a smart watch.
I remember reading an article about eMachines' turnaround. It said they put their customer support and product development teams together and tried to take every customer problem and turn it, wherever possible, into a product improvement to eliminate the given problem.

They gave this concept a lot of credit for turning themselves around from being a bottom of the barrel PC vendor to becoming a retail powerhouse in the early 2000s, before they were acquired by Gateway.

This isn't what I originally read, but there's an interesting publication here on the subject: http://www.pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2004/eMachines.pdf
And also getting zero uptake from non-tech people.
Agreed on most of your points... PowerShell is by far the most powerful shell I've ever worked with on any platform... that said, I don't like it. It's very verbose.

As a JS guy, these days most of my scripts run via node/iojs and are as platform agnostic as possible. More and more I know it only needs to run in linux, or is guiding dockerization. Even then, bash scripts tend to be easier to reason about.
You only hear the negative stories because of Apple's culture of secrecy. Writing publicly about the company is a big no-no.
At least in my social media feeds, a lot more than half the discussion regarding this issue is focused on almonds, while meat consumption is getting closer to 10%.
Sure, I'll take a look at it tomorrow
That's what rockets basically do today, use multiple stages optimized for the area they're operating in.

The issue with rockets is that they have to use a certain amount of energy to go up, and they have to carry their own fuel which adds weight and means it need to consume even more energy and so on. For certain values of gravity and type of fuel, this becomes hard, to impractical, to impossible.
you could also add a seat for when you get tired of standing, and maybe a steering mechanism as well, and a cowling to cut down on wind resistance.

I think this idea could disrupt the powered snowboard industry.
Even in Kiel, 260k people, we had some areas where the price of houses over the past 10 years almost doubled – and I’m talking of suburbs, not even high rise areas.
Yeah, I've seen it, although I haven't used it or looked too closely at it recently.

When Be did the focus shift, we were in the midst of the next major revision of the desktop OS (which consequently was never released). Part of that was an overhaul of the user interface, which looked more sleek and modern, and was themable. The squarish tabs were replaced with a slightly inset title bar area with rounded edges. I don't know if any screenshots of that have survived.

There were many other things that we were exploring and talking about at the time, like putting transparency and animations in the interface, but the hardware at the time wasn't up to the task yet (there weren't real GPUs with shaders like we have today; the best acceleration we could get were opaque bit-blits, which weren't supported on all cards). Had Be been able to stick around longer, the interface would have been much different.

So, personally, I don't really get cloning the original interface. A lot has happened in UI world the 20+ years since BeOS was originally written. I guess I'm not that sentimental.

That said the work the Haiku team has done is impressive. It's a cool project and I don't want to sound critical of it.
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Much larger in scale, alfalfa is also exported, often to Asia. "The water used to irrigate just alfalfa and hay — 7 trillion gallons per year — exceeds the irrigation needs of all the vegetables, berries, and fruit orchards combined." (Center for Science in the Public Interest; http://www.cspinet.org/EatingGreen/pdf/arguments4.pdf)
I think by OP he confusingly meant the person in the article, not the post at the top of the thread. Support hero's would be an ironic concept in relation to that.
Because they are going to charge for LFS, I suspect. Just as they don't support private repos for free, either.
I fully agree, I had written one and eventually ended up using it in a parallel programming class to modify it into a parallel program. It was a lot of fun and the wow factor was definitely there. Since then I've ported it to java when I learned the language. Added features now and then over the years when I wanted to try something new.
How long to you meditate for daily?
now there's a punchline if I've ever seen one. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish in 3... 2... 1...
The only problems would be stuff like the bridges over the Kiel Canal (and the canal itself), and other smaller projects like that.
The number for beef is in the OP article...
All Linux distributions consist primarily of third-party code.

I don't know what you mean by "arbitrary", though. It makes no sense in context, and is notably at odds with your earlier use of the word "curated". Nobody ships random code. That wouldn't be curated, nor would it be useful.
Agreed... I generally wind up with git extensions everywhere which includes most of the gnu tools including ssh. The only down side is that ssh via windows command shell, even in conemu doesn't do ansi/drawing properly... never really investigated as I just try to avoid it all.
It is 3000-5000 gallons of water per a pound of beef. A cow weighs probably a ton.
Something about the numbers seems fishy. According to the source in the OP, California spends 47% of water on livestock and 9% on almonds. Perhaps you are counting only water that livestock drink, whereas the original was including the agricultural water for feed.
Might be interesting to set up some sort of system for pairing young healthy aspiring programmers with older more experienced programmers that have lost the use of their hands (or eyes, etc) such that the younger programmer could learn from the more experienced but disabled programmer while helping them get stuff done.
Your numbers don't add up. Rounding up to 3 billion gallons/day comes out to just under 1.1 trillion gallons per year. I know you pulled those numbers directly from the links you provided, but clearly one (or both) of them is erronous.
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Well, it depends. I mean, generally, you want to give flexibility to your users. Maybe I _do_ want to stack allocate an ExpensiveStruct for some reason. You can always Box the struct to have it on the heap.