skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is indeed quite cheap if water is supposed to be scarce. (I don't quite see why you're downvoted.)

78 cents per 150 gallons is $1.37 per cubic meter. Here in North Europe, where we have no shortage of water whatsoever, we pay €1.34 per cubic meter. In addition to that we pay €1.66 per cubic meter as "wastewater management fee" (and yes, you have to pay wastewater management fee even for water that you use for watering plants, something that doesn't need wastewater management at all).

So, San Diego residents pay less than half the price of here? Wow.

(Not that the more than double cost would be a problem here, as the average consumption per person is 100-150 litres depending on whether people live in detached houses or blocks of flats. People in blocks of flats consume much more water on average, and even that is only about a quarter of the San Diego figure you quoted.)
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it's funny how all the people are focussed neo malthusianism.

malthunianism isn't about the biophysics of some sustainability paradigm hatched out of a theoretical model that places massive amount of assumptions about bio blablaba.

the real malthusianism is wrapped up in the nature of the relationship between population growth relative to the political-economic societies interacting with the realities of hierarchal governance.

all socieites are based on hierarchchal pyramids of one version of cheap labor or another dominating the bottom, with dominant 1% at the top. call it capitalism, communism , or any other ism to describe every society that has almost ever existed, but the few at the top are always contending with the demographics of the many at the bottom.

in our present circumstance we have a fairly intricate global dollar/euro/yen based credit system.

the economics of the western aging population don't add up to increasing amounts of cheap labor going forward.

even in china this is a problem.

so the solution of outsourcing everything and importing streams of young immigrants (dilution of middle class) is clearly not going to work as a strategy for keeping up the stability of the banking systems and governments layered on top of the western system.

malthusianism is not so much that everything will 'collapse', but that the structure of governments and societies elite power institutions cannot remain remotely stable going into, and especially out of, population explosions.

social structure is highly dynamic in response to the bubblenomics of long term human population explosions.

world wars, failed states and many more things are deeply guaranteed by the underlying demographic realities.

bizarrely enough , it's not because there are too many people. it's because there aren't enough slaves to replenish the pen of tax producers and the pen of 'demand' for usurous credit offered by banks. when decades of pricing mortgaged assets at near zero interest rates, the banks are having a harder and harder time finding people to burden with 30 year mortgages , or as bill clinton liked to emphasize , the american dream of home foreclosureship.

eventually the price and tax reset comes (like in post soviet russia) and the clearing of the pricing and taxing system once again allows for growth in spite of the dynamic balance of debt and demographics.

then again there's always tons of high birth rates in the developing world. so long as that is the case, there's no real problems
I'd have no problem at all with those billionaire towers but for the nonsensical property tax breaks (421a, J51, etc). Throw in a small non-resident property tax differential and I become an enthusiastic booster.

If a bunch of billionaires want to pay property taxes while using barely any city services that sounds like a win to me. We can use that money to provide better services to the people that do live in the city year round.

In my observation the people who are most bitter about billionaires "buying up Manhattan" are the multimillionaires who want to be on the top of the heap.
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If it turns out it is a hard community to work with then fork it or move on to your next itch.

Some people might unlimited energy to program and infinitely thick skin. I think a lot of people find putting energy into a project that rejects their efforts to be somewhat traumatic and something that can impel them to give up rather than bounding on to this next adventure.

I agree that getting involved with a project that interests you should be one factor in choosing what to involve yourself with. But the OP said "any of them!" concerning what project to get involved with where as I'm arguing one should be selective and that people involved in Open Source already should be giving some guidance on the question beyond just "whatever you want".
Virginia currently uses smart traffic signals:

> Traffic-responsive signals vary the timing
of the lights according to the amount of
traffic. They use sensors to detect the
number of vehicles on an approach. The
time the light stays green adjusts to let as
many drivers as possible through before
the signal changes to respond to traffic
coming from another direction.

Back when I lived in NoVa, the lights near me had this and it was awesome
I would love to see this implemented in SF. Every day I drive I see one light turn green just as the next one turns red. You really can't do much worse.
hit up google for the most common issues with the PS4.

I'm glad you've gotten lucky. Really, I am. But when a PS4 bricks after 5-6 hours of use and you find thousands of reports of the same thing on a single website.

Well, you may want to define common, but the point remains.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/may/26/california-fails-...
That's a good argument that may or may not stand-up in court.
> Everybody can just only guess why...

NOAA says it isn't because of climate change, if that's what you're implying.
Residential users are a dispersed interest group. Industrial users are (mostly) concentrated interest groups. These results are exactly what you should expect.
What is actual grassroots movement then? It seems like the idea you're putting forth is "The majority of people getting H1-B get shitty lives so they shouldn't be allowed to come here at all."
dos4gw.exe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G

univbe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE

oh my!
OK, my bad, I just checked the RFC[1] and reading it agrees absolutely with what you are saying.

I am probably misunderstanding the thread I linked to in my OP but reading through it (I remembered seeing this a while ago when I read your question) I got the impression that the LibreSSL guys looked at it from the opposite angle.

From my link:

TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV is only useful in the case where a client willingly chooses to do a downgrade and attempts to establish a second connection at a lower protocol after the previous one unexpectedly failed. In short, the client should not do this - client-side fallback is dangerous ("a landmine" to quote agl). TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV only works if both ends support it and it is largely a case of adding a workaround to support/enforce insecure behaviour. Unless you control both ends, you cannot be sure TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV is available and if you do control both ends you can either force TLS 1.2 and/or avoid client-side downgrade.

And the final reply:
Server-side TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV support has reluctantly been added to LibreSSL.

I guess in the end the reluctance is more about it being new and untested and not so much a bad security practice.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00
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> California has been supplying water to agriculture at below market prices.

Is that actually "supplying", or is it that farms have been located at rivers precisely for the reason that they have access to water there, and water rights are part of property rights?

(Honest question, I don't know California system.)
I'm still wondering what the appc spec has more than Docker (and vice-versa). At the moment, I know Docker and find it easy to use. Why would I use Rocket instead ?

Could anyone explain or link to non biased comparisons of the two, please ?
Remind me, is change compatible with re-election?
This was done by the team behind SUPERHOT, an FPS game with the same game mechanic. If you like the concept check them out!

http://superhotgame.com/
Exactly. We don't necessarily need to build skyscrapers to achieve substantial density improvements. There are easier gains out there.

In Vancouver you have conflict over the height and density of new buildings, meanwhile South of the small downtown core there's 60 blocks of ultra low density detached single family houses. Even the small step of transitioning this to row houses or stacked townhouses would allow significant population increases.
This article seems to be suggesting that drip irrigation is the norm in California. While it may be for his/her farms, it's still a ways away from being a majority: http://www.mullerranch.com/making_news/sacbee_drip_2_2014.ht...
Everybody who owns property does so in a specific legal context, including taxation. The long-term value of that property certainly depends on the stability of that context.

But taxation policy is something that people talk about all the time, to nudge people to do one thing or another, whether it be to save for retirement or whatever. Taxes on externalities are certainly a better way of handling things than explicit regulations, for example.
The benefits outweigh the negatives in the vast majority of cases.
Pure motives? Do you imagine that all Dawkins cares about is to find the truth, regardless of what it turns out to be? The reason Dawkins is involved is because he can't stand EO Wilson casting doubt on the ideas for which Dawkins became famous.

Pure motives in science are nice to have but aren't necessary. It shouldn't matter why a scientific argument is made as long as opponents are free to counter it. Taleb is saying that instead of just spinning verbal yarns like some social "scientists" do to disguise their political advocacy as actual science, Dawkins (who is a real scientist) needs to show where Wilson's math is either mistaken or incorrectly models the data (by, for example, abstracting away something important). If he can't or won't do so, it doesn't mean he's wrong, but it means his rebuttal is just rhetoric.
From what I understand, TPP isn't about US vs. EU, it's about standardizing the global rules for business. Obviously, businesses have a disproportionate say in what gets in, and so they're asking for everything they can think of.
i think the article should at least mention the liquidation preferences of the VC investors. for example, if the if the company sells for less than the $1B amount raised, the founders would likely end up with zero (assuming that the investments were made with a 1x liquidation preference).
I really want to want one of these but I have no idea what I'd use it for, and not enough space in my euro rack to risk on it.

I'm so glad that we live in a universe where this exists, though.
And the fictional dev has "Gotya" in his name ;)
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No, you're not out of water on that. 20 - 40% is way out of bounds, even on very large VC-backed companies.

15% is a good median. Some do go higher but use the option pool to issue portions of the founders' equity, but that's rare.
It was already done done mostly in the state/county level. For example, in my part of the bay area, they have raised rates especially if you have disproportionate usage. Also you cannot water your lawn more than once per week.
Phew, this fixed com.google. Now I can search again!
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Linux Kernel Reading Guide (2014)
Genius! I should do this.
I'm not sure either but there is an man made aqueduct that stretches form north to south.
That's more up to your application layer to define. Everything has a cost so forcing a CRC in the transport layer might not be good for things that need to be fast and don't care about potential errors. If you need reliable transmission you can do CRCs or other error correcting checks in your application.
> These tribunals are usually comprised of three private-sector attorneys who take turns being the judge and the corporate advocate.

Have alternate structures been considered for these extranational tribunals/courts, e.g. who represents the public interest? How would the public grant legitimacy to a secret commercial court which regulates Internet content, for example?
You're absolutely not too old for an internship. I did two internships when I was 29, one of which led to full time employment.

Internships are tryouts---the company sees what you're like, you see what the company's like. I think they can be a great way to bolster your resume and potentially find long-term work.
Thank you for your comment, and for obviously being concerned with issues of fairness.

If a person makes an investment, and that investment goes up in value, even substantially, and even with no additional effort on the part of the investor, does that justify others taking some or all of the resulting value?

If I bought stock in Apple years ago, because I thought it was a smart thing to do, and I simply held the stock, should other people get a cut of my gains when I sell?

What if the stock goes down? Am I then entitled to someone else's gains?
The effort to fork Debian (Devuan) capitulates:
starting here: https://devuan.org/ follow "BREAKING NEWS: Ultimately, we give up. Read here in detail" to here: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150401.095603.4a3a1e...
at least i think it's an April fools joke (not a super funny one at least)
Start with a project you use or depend on in your own projects. It's probably best to start by enhancing or adding a feature on that project.

Other things to look for is a project that is managed by people who a receptive to pull requests and have accepted them routinely. Also look for projects that have lot of issues open and closing on a routine basis--this will mean the project is in active development.

This will keep you motivated and provide you with some good mentors who may accept or suggest improvements to your pull requests.

Along the way you will probably learn about forking repos, writing good commits, sending pull requests and most of all, contributing code.

More mature projects have a lot of tooling such as running unit tests, adhering to coding standards, etc which can create hurdles to entry bfor beginners but if you do venture forth with these you'll develop some great habits.
That's the exact same argument, phrased differently.
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I strongly recommend taking a look to bugs ahoy maintained by some amazing people at the Mozilla Foundation. It's a great way to start contributing to a large codebase by solving some "easy" bugs. Check it out http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/
I used to think this way, but it's a very fertile desert. But the use of the land shouldn't be propped up by externalaties paid for by everyone else.

The water should just be auctioned off each year. Proceeds going to find new sources of water.
If we were considering weather for example we could say that the weather is predictable over a period of 1 second, somewhat predictable over a period of 1 hour, and unpredictable over a period of 1 year. It doesn't matter how much historical weather data you collect you just can't say anything about the weather over long periods of time.

If a math writer says "the primes are unpredictable" this means something like if you were given a list of all the primes between 1 and some number N then there is no way to find the next prime after N that is faster than testing the primality of N+1,N+2,... until the next one is found.

The speed of the primality test doesn't matter for predictability. It doesn't matter if I can check the current weather in 1 second or 1 millionth of a second, it doesn't help me know the weather a year from now.

But not being able to work out the next prime quickly isn't the whole story. There are many things that we can say about the whole set of primes. We do know that the next prime after N won't be much bigger than N in some sense (see Bertrand's postulate). We also know roughly how many primes there are less than a given number (Prime number theorem).

There are also many properties that exist in small sets of primes (twin prime conjecture) and the OP's visualization shows some of these. So, much like the weather, the primes are not random while still being unpredictable.
Yes those of us who did not already know this long-standing fact learned it yesterday. What many of us seem to have failed to absorb is that water supplies are compartmentalized in such a way that saving in one area does not necessarily improve the situation in another area. One city can run out of water while another has plenty. Many cities have dedicated water supplies that are in no way connected to nor shared with agriculture, so saving even 100% of agricultural water provides no benefit for the municipal supplies.
EEOC does not but Canadian Human Rights Act does, and it forbids discrimination on the basis of age, unless it is proven to be BFOR (bona fide occupational requirement).
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Why would they consider such? Those who should be representing the public interest in these discussions have clearly been bought out already. And being so secretive, why would they need to even pretend to put in place any safeguards for public interest?
The first picture that pops into my head when I think of California is sprinklers on people's lawns. We don't really have them in Germany. I mean, of course we do, but people are hesitant to put them up because the first thing that will happen is your neighbours standing at the fence judging you for being so goddamn wasteful (seriously). Now, I'm not a huge fan of judging people (that's a lie), but I can't help but notice that americans (seem to) completely lack this sense of responsibility/playing your part/restraining yourself for the greater good/whatever. Another thing we don't really have is air conditioning (might be a climate thing). It's insanely wasteful and chances are you'll be sweaty anyway. So we don't use them.

Unfortunately I have a hard time finding numbers on how much water is actually wasted. I.e., with a somewhat reasonable definition of "wasted."
This is on the state level. Most water districts have been imposing restrictions and raising prices for years.
Of course, even if they're taking from their own well they're draining the groundwater just as effectively. It's hard to see how a market based solution wouldn't turn into a tragedy of the commons without enforcing limits on the extraction.
forgive me, I haven't worked with a good hashing mechanism before.

How can it "salt for you" without you providing the salt?

This question is operating on the presumption of a unique salt per user.
% of GDP is one lens to look through when thinking about water rights. Having access to affordable/local/healthy food is another.

I think incentives would help, yes. There is also a "use it or lose it" system builtin to many of the water rights contracts that are toxic. Much like big corporate budgets, farmers find a way to use the water just in case they need it the next year.

The reality is it is very expensive to change irrigation systems in established orchards. Incentives to do that would certainly be well received by the tree farmers I know.
Or a fakechroot[1] if it is not rooted.

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/fakechroot
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could you clarify this a little?
North Korean Online Marketplace or April Fools Joke?