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There are limits to the governor's powers here. Much of the agricultural water comes from "rights" or easements attached to specific land. Ownership of farm X comes with the right to water from river Y. This is the "free" water often mentioned in news reports. Any reduction in these rights is viewed as a legal "taking" or condemnation of a property right by the state. Lawsuits for compensation will result. And they will likely win. That is why the order avoids mention of agricultural uses.
You can select a random subset very easily at the layer-3/4 level. It's really not that different from just adding a host behind a layer-4 load balancer.

...and actually it doesn't have to be completely random. You could select specific IP addresses to intercept.
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I think if you expand a low-rise city you end up with Washington DC or LA, meaning debilitating traffic. The density is not high enough to support mass transit effectively, but it's too high for effective roads.
I'm not intending to put you, your enthusiasm, or the people behind Modules down: I've been hearing that story since C++11 was still called C++0x (this might be an exaggeration) but I don't see anything happening in terms of standardization. And as long as modules are not standardized they are not going to see widespread adoption in C++ and certainly not in the open source community.

Because I like to walk down the memory lane I've looked at my HN comments regarding modules. Here is one from exactly one year ago [1], 855 days ago [2], 1100 days ago.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491149
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4836499
[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613636
Setting up a windows 8 pc is wonderfully simple. Theres an option to reset to defaults, and the default driver discovery is quite good. Windows 8 has picked up display drivers, wifi drivers and pretty much everything else that I care about in every laptop and desktop pc I've tried. I haven't tried Linux recently (about two years ago) but when I did I had major headaches with a Broadcom wireless driver, and a Bluetooth chip, that both worked flawlessly on windows 8.

Installing "common" software is a doddle too, wth Ninite. You get Firefox, vlc, Dropbox, spotify, Skype (now in windows updates though) notepad++, up to date Java and .net run times, pdf reader etc etc. I set up the installer once about 3 years ago and the same one still works, with a one click update.
I don't know any popular app (Facebook, Spotify, Deezer, Play Music, Gmail, Pocket, ...) that uses such an hybrid framework.
All the major apps have teams dedicated to each platform. They might share some code with a shared c++ library or J2objc (or a similar solution) but never a write-once ship everywhere app.

So that would only allow them to gain the low popularity/quality app. That's not really a win.
I think you're confusing the TPP for the TTIP?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

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

Both appear to be utterly toxic.
Yep.

More specifically: if you just hash a bunch of arbitrary strings that aren't specially-constructed for the purpose of colliding, then collisions are basically random, and extremely improbable. But you can fairly easily generate two files, differing only in a small number of bits, with the same MD5 hash by taking advantage of the structure of the algorithm.

Examples here: http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/
A more damning criticism of OSM licensing is that it's incomprehensible. Let's say you want to create something based on OSM data. Do you have to make your creation available under the ODbl? You can subscribe to the legal talk list if you want to see a parade of people trying to figure out how it works.

More practical is to just armchair-lawyer the terms and just hope that nobody gets upset with you.
(This issue hits politics, and below I give an illumination of why conservatives and liberals should both be concerned. But please note I'm not taking any position other than that people should learn more about the Federal Reserve.)

One of the "reforms" that was enacted in response to the 2008 crisis was to give the Federal Reserve regulatory powers. They now get to decide whether banks are "viable" or not and if they are not viable, can force them to merge with candidates of the federal reserves choosing.

This might sound reasonable to you, if you focus on the "Federal" part of the name and that makes you think of the Federal Reserve as an agency of the federal government (like the DEA or FCC)... but the reality is that the Federal Reserve is a commercial, for profit, bank owned by major banks. (The ownership is kept secret but the owners of the "too big to fail" banks are highly correlated with ownership in the fed.)

Thus you have a bank which has way too much power to begin with -- it literally profits by issuing US government debt-- able to force mergers of smaller, potentially competitive banks, with its owners.

This means that the owners of Morgan Stanley can force banks that might be competitive with Morgan Stanley into Morgan Stanley on terms that are good for Morgan Stanley, via the hand-wave of having the "Federal Reserve" decide that the target bank is "in danger".

I'm not giving you conspiracy theory, this is the literal facts of how the Federal Reserve was set up and is run. For an authoritative account of the history of the Federal Reserve read "The Creature from Jekyll Island".

Liberals are often very concerned about the corruption of government institutions or misuse of government power by corporations-- this is a far more relevant and dangerous example than most others of this action.

Conservatives are often very concerned about the undermining of the sovereignty of the country and the federal government, and here we have a major group that has massive control over the federal government (it is the Federal Reserve that enables deficit spending). Since conservatives oppose deficit spending, this institution is a key enabler of the massive government debt they are concerned about.

Everyone with a passing interest in finance and economics should really read this book. The Creature from Jekyll Island is wonderfully written and not too dry. (Lots of historical anecdotes and since they are from within the last 100 years they are pretty relatable.)
Is there any word on intent to support extensions, or implement tab sandboxing?
"ButtDrops™" Oh yes, I definitely don't regret installing this extension.
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It'll be interesting to see if MS can stand strong on no backwards-compatibility. It seems like every time they release something new, by the time it's out of beta it's got tons of compatibility baggage added.
Ah, I don't enjoy them either, but let them have fun. This is probably more for their employees morale than for the customers.
Gentoo systems refused to accept the backdoored source code because the SHA1 hash no longer matched - that's how the backdoor was discovered in the first place.
Thanks for the compliment! JChris started the Open Source page and I did some more clean up on it recently. I'd like to do more there soon.

By the way, on the source, it was never intended "dumping" style but just a bunch of stuff that had been slowly wired together. Yeah, we use repo and gerrit quite a bit. Check out review.couchbase.org sometime.
>Imagine high land taxes in the middle of the desert.

Can't build something more profitable then the land taxes? Then sell it, or give it back to the state.
The costs of environmental problems are disproportionately borne by the poorest as well.
Unless the road was built in a tunnel in the first place, there are structural issues as well. You can't just put some concrete structure over the top of a road and have it support multiple stories of building on top of it. Plus, streets work better as open-air outdoor spaces, especially for pedestrians.
That's a more complicated issue than a simple 'he lied to Congress'. What he said to in front of Congress was flat out wrong - no one's disputing that. Did he lie? That would require an intent to mislead the committee, which would be a difficult thing to do since everyone on the committee had previously been briefed on it. In fact, he corrected his testimony to Sen. Wyden's staffers several days later when he realized the mistake according to the ODNI General Counsel[1]. He couldn't correct himself publicly because the information is classified.

This calls into question why Sen. Wyden asked Clapper to begin with. It's illegal for Clapper to disclose classified information publicly, but as a sitting senator, Wyden would have immunity for anything brought to the Senate floor. If Sen. Wyden thought it was an issue that should have been brought forward publicly to the constituents that he represents (which he apparently did, since he asked the question in a public forum), he should have done it himself instead of trying to get Clapper to take the fall for him.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/opinion/testimony-of-the-n...
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//"Math checks out" is a questionable approach to understanding science.

Very much agree. By this standard, one could put "1+1=2" as an appendix to every article you ever write and then defend them as having valid math, regardless of the content of the rest of the paper.

I find this most surprising coming from Taleb, because I thought that one of his principal arguments in the world of finance was that rigourous mathematical models are of limited use in understanding complicated real world systems. Maybe I've misunderstood him, but he seems to have changed his tune.
You don't even need to live in the future to have a very high density. Paris proper has a density of 50000/sqmi yet has simply and literally banned high rise buildings. There are 2 districts with a number of these (although low by manhattan standards, culminating at 100m) but they are relics of the 70s and none has been built since then.

What is probably the greatest advantage of very dense cities is that you can have a really great public transportation network. While the farther suburbs cruelly lack transportation, Paris proper is tightly covered, with the great majority of residents having less than 500m to walk to get to the subway (and some lines have stops every 200m).

In these conditions a post-car society truly is possible and we're slowly but steadily getting there, with streets being closed to cars one by one, and parking spots being removed by the hundreds month after month.
I don't know that Manhattan, either in the geographic sense or real estate broker sense, is a great unit of measure for urban planning / comparison purposes.

There are parts of even Manhattan south of 14th street that have longer commutes to Wall Street than parts of Brooklyn or Jersey City.

Yes, Manhattan doesn't contain very many high density lower-middle-class immigrant neighborhoods anymore, but NYC still very much does. I'm not sure which side of the river they are on matters much.
The points made here are covered in Coda Hale's post: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

While it recommends using bcrypt, if you augment that with "or scrypt or PBKDF2" the same principles apply.
Are there accessible lay-person "popular science" type books that contradict Dawkins and are highly regarded? My very limited understanding of evolutionary biology mostly comes from reading Dawkins books, which were highly enjoyable. And the concepts seem pretty solid and playing around with my own toy throwaway simulations, don't seem implausible. I also understood that other math had backed up the general points of Dawkins.

If this isn't the case, what's the recommended pop-sci reading to help make me less wrong on all this?
Wait, they just imposed water restrictions? Wouldn't have that made sense to start like... near the beginning of all of this?
I looked at that patch, it still divides by 0 when you have 0 CPUs, I hope Linus rejects it
In terms of #3, anywhere developers can build residential, they will. Rents & prices on residential are much higher. Unfortunately Manhattan zoning prevents residential in large parts of the city. I believe that is why there are so many hotels going up in the 20s/30s on the west side, when that is someday rezoned it will be easier to convert to residential than offices would have been.
The problem here is that he is joining Neri's group. Neri is an architect who tries to design articles inspired by biology. It's all wishy washy with her (at-least from the science perspective).

So all that enthusiasm is going to Zilch, unless he wants to be a brain skeumorphia artist.

Again, this might inspire some awesome things, but maybe not traditional science research. I think most of HN can buy that.
I do mind them, because the most common use I have for YouTube is background music and short clips. A song is usually 3-4 minutes long, which makes the ad 12-16% as long as the content. Clips are even shorter, and the very disruption of my state of mind is annoying.
I strongly agree with MaxGabriel. I find it difficult to make meaningful contributions to projects which I don't use or have some familiarity with. I am significantly more motivated to make contributions to projects which I have invested my time in.

My advice is to start small. Look into making documentation updates and fixing bugs you find in projects you currently use. Expand your open source toolset as you build more and repeat the process.
I think it risks to harm everyone. At least based on the EFF's analysis since IANAL.

It sounds like this will make it easier for corporations to extort signatory countries.

As I see it, it will probably promote patent trolls, draconian copyright laws that will be extremely favorable to corporations, etc.

This is really not good at all.
I solved your little challenge two months ago but never heard back from you. Mine was the email titled "Worst JSON API ever", with the tongue-in-cheek snarky remarks about your upper/lower case tricks and string/array confusion and session limits.

So I ran my Python code again just now and noticed that it still works. Should I post it here and make you rewrite your challenge?

Just kidding! I wouldn't do that.

But I do think you should make a point of at least replying to everyone who solves your challenge, even someone as annoying and probably-not-a-cultural-fit as me. :-)
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You need motivation of some sort to create a feature or fix a bug. Whether it's a monetary reward, notoriety, or your own need for the feature.
I agree it can be difficult getting into the social conventions of a project.

I try to keep a list of places that people can contribute effectively in the readme for my project.
https://github.com/Semantic-Org/Semantic-UI/#places-to-help
Well, the idea is that if you start working on a project specifically because it is noobie friendly you are likely to burn out quick since you don't have that itch you are scratching.

I think the parent is correct in that you should try to work on projects that scratch an itch. If it turns out it is a hard community to work with then fork it or move on to your next itch.
Reminds me of the Bill Cosby outtake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzL8I0xC3c
At some point I had to take medication where one of the known side effects where higher blood pressure.

I also noticed a significantly increased blood pressure every time I took this medicine.

This continued until one day someone knocked the door just before I took my pills, and I still got the same symptoms while the pills where safely on the kitchen.

I then realised my brain had played games with me and since then the side effects disappeared.

...and I consider myself somewhat rational.
Sounds like you would have liked the new tunnel that Christie single-handedly killed in 2010

"ARC would have cut passenger transfers by 97 percent and taken an average 23 minutes off each trip, according to the GAO. It also would have been financed at historically low rates."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-06/christie-e...
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mostly uphill for millions of miles.

Not quite that far. San Francisco to New York is less than 3K miles. Maybe tens to hundreds of miles.
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yes - this is the kind of BS that I alluded to because he is working with Neri Oxman.

Neri is an architect who says her work is 'biologically inspired'. BS Central.
That is surprisingly easy to read, as long as I just sort of scan it and don't focus too much on the individual letters, but if I actually pay attention closely, I trip over the substitutions. Interesting to see the effects of different subconscious cognitive strategies at work.
I hadn't realized how important it is to be the voice that speaks up and positively reinforces support when people post their views publicly.

Thanks for sharing this & brave thing that all of these people are doing to share their thoughts.
You can't give away what you down own.

When the state gave rights to water to land holders it was well before we had the technology to meaningfully impact water levels and thereby impact other peoples access to water.

Since Roman times land ownership went from the highest heavens to the the deepest deeps, but the law was changed after blimps and other aircraft needed it and they certainly didn't need to pay off millions of people in Italy or anywhere else for that matter.

Same goes for pollution. When there are measurable impacts to other people (ie, my small use, home well went dry and now I need to ship in water at a much higher cost), farmers don't get to claim compensation.
Regressive taxes are usually not very popular.
The opportunity cost is not to the individual, but to the lawmakers and society's attention. They spent time deliberating about water at restaurants when a single almond takes a gallon of water to produce.
This is the point of land-value taxes rather than simple land taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

The site-value of unoccupied desert is pretty low, so the land-value taxes on it would be low, which gives incentive to build there rather than elsewhere. Whereas an empty lot on valuable real estate in the city would face not merely the opportunity cost but also a high land-value tax.

A lot of tax policy in John Locke and Henry George's day was about getting "unused" land into "productive" uses.
Microsoft is trying to buy its way in.
So far, with a lot of cash but very limited success.
I don't see how FFOS can hope for better results. Mozilla's strategy seems to be to start with the low end but Android has already that covered and is even starting to produce some very impressive low end devices (Moto E, Android One, ...). And Android is not even the only platform coveting that market.
Mozilla seems to be cheaper but an tremendous difference in quality. I am not sure that they stand much of a chance with that.

To be fair, I am not an economist, so maybe their ultra cheap phones can land them some markets where Android One & competitors are too costly ?
Also, if farmers are blowing $100 of water to produce $5 of crops, that suggests some kind of "use it or lose it" system is going on, which means it can be eliminated without taking anyone's rights; rather, just give them the right to sell it, at which point significant water is freed up.

But I don't know the water rights system well enough to know if we're in that kind of situation.
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That would require somebody with intelligence and conviction to lead the push for change.

We don't have those people in politics in America any more.
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Just have the masses translate them through captchas.
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