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California Imposes First-Ever Mandatory Water Restrictions
> Chrome OS is instantly comparable to Linux and Windows if it can run native apps.

Windows and Linux have many, many more applications that are meant for trackpad-and-keyboard-with-'large'-screen interaction. Adding phone and tablet apps to ChromeOS doesn't make it instantly comparable to Linux and Windows.
Fully Agree, I literally just published a full blog post to clarify that the focus of MVPs is not the 'minimal' part but the 'viable'!

https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/build-mvps-in...
> Also, the minimum warranty should be, at least, 2 years. Any product that is designed to last less than that, should never be on the market.

Not even milk?
It means that one gallon of water that could've been used elsewhere in California during the period of growth went into the clouds and is likely going to rain down a few thousand miles away.

The point of the "n gallons of water per x fruit" is saying that one certain crop is incredibly inefficient with its water consumption, and it'd be better to use it on something else. It's like saying a bloated web browser consumes 500 MB of memory/tab. Your memory isn't gone forever after you use it, but so long as you're using that browser or growing that crop, it's draining that resource away from other applications. You probably only have 8-16 GB of memory to use at once, just like a region only has N gallons of water it can use at any one time.
Maybe trivial household functions just aren't worth automating. Is it so hard to flip a light switch manually? At least you know it will work.
Nebula was coupled with hardware that included a bundled Arista switch [1]. The hardware provided additional security features. (TPM etc.) So it might be hard to switch to another Openstack vendor from a stack so tightly bound to hardware.

1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/07/27/nebula_opensta...
I've had the opportunity to work with this project and it does deliver. In terms of code portability it's pretty good. Small changes had to be done to accommodate some yet to be supported APIs. No big deal though. The performance is good. Even on the low end chromebook I test with. Myonly concern is related to how the (my) codebase might need to evolve over time to adapt to ARC updates. Right now it's pretty sane with only a handful of extra settings on the manifest file. But I worry about being forced into forking. Having two similar but slightly different codebase for the same app is silly.

The overall experience with the Google team has been very positive. Which, in all honesty, surprised me. I was expecting the typical corporate attitude towards outsiders. The way the ARC team has gone above and beyond to help has been refreshing.

I do worry as to how this would affect the openness of the web. A closed source container used to run other closed sourced clients is not my idea of how the Web should be. Even Mozilla is going down this route with their browser apps. Though I have more trust in Mozilla than in Google in regards to having and keeping an open web. Either way, it raises an important question: Where is the Web going in the next 10 years? I wish I knew. Right now it looks like a toss up.
This is what should happen when a CA does something insecure. Kick them out and make an example out of them. If you don't the whole system is worthless.

Ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo_Group#2011_breach_incide... Nothing happened after this breach, which was a shame.
A critical difference being you can produce meat / dairy in all sorts of climates that don't have water problems, unlike almonds that need a very specific climate. For example where I live there hasn't been a serious drought in the last 200 years, and you can easily raise chickens, cows, et al. without worrying about water.
> It's interesting that this is what you choose to remember.

Not really. Throughout its existence, Facebook has routinely made decisions that make me doubt whether it, as an organization, values people. I don't choose to remember the quote, I'm constantly reminded of it.
Sounds like the state needs to let the price of water rise naturally according to its increased scarcity. That should raise the price of nuts, which will lower demand and bring water consumption back to equilibrium.

Hold the price down on a resource that has its supply drastically cut and we'll end up with scarcity.
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or.. the public simply doesn't care. In that case, you get the government you deserve and California's government is absolutely nuts. Goes for the broader U.S as well. If people did care, they'd be more involved and wouldn't allow for such a group of clowns to tax them to the hill and piss it in the wind. The brightest people in the world focused on trying to get people to click on ads as their water supply dwindles and their government institutes retard level policies.
I subscribe to the digital edition of the Economist, mostly read it via the mobile app but previous I read it on the website. Got really annoyed recently since they raised their prices from around $100/year everywhere to being a discount on the local cover price.

What was worse that since the cover price where I live (New Zealand) is much high than the US I was paying 2.5 times the US price to subscribe to exactly the same digital product, without even the excuse of delivery costs. So I changed my address to the US.

More details here:

http://blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2015/03/parallel-importing-vs-th...
On 50 acres you could get maybe 5MW peak power, extrapolating from the utility-scale project being built in San Benito County claiming 247MW on 2500 acres.
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revel[0] is probably the best there is right now -- it's probably more similar to Play! of Scala/Java fame.

[0]: https://github.com/revel/revel
California Government here : Sorry, we need to raise sales tax to 12% to fund the desalination plants. Never let a tragedy go to waste.
In a localized sense, the loss is of the water that's readily available for use in that region. I suppose you could think of it as a sort of "debt," where you measure the loss in terms of energy or dollars required to restore the water at the rate it's being consumed, for instance through desalination.

I suspect it's just simpler to call it "loss of water."

Another way to think about it, is that farming has historically occurred in places where there are decent natural growing conditions: Climate, soil, and water. If you let the water go somewhere else, through evaporation and rainfall, then you might end up having to maintain growing conditions artificially by bringing the water to where there is decent climate and soil. And again, you could measure the cost of doing that as a "debt."
That's a bit of a false choice. If you don't build the trains you are either willing to forsake future mobility, or for equal mobility you are going to have to build roads and airports of far greater total cost than $68B.
Here's an interesting Forbes article about what happens when you unplug for a while; http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2013/02/06/feeling-...

It's more of an issue of technology making us interact in ways that are less human. Check out their link on the study about cell users being less likely to display prosocial behavior.
There weren't rules, but there was a hierarchy.
Charge balancing is a common feature, often built in to charge controller ICs. Of course Tesla has to do this on a much larger scale, like with all of its power electronics. But so does a Prius.

I'm not sure how much of a technological lead Tesla has versus major car companies already producing hybrids and electrics, but it can't be that huge, and those guys have way bigger R&D budgets.
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Extensive discussion a few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9306085
CNNIC is a joke, don't put any hope to them please.
If only "California" was a living, breathing entity that could make decisions.
For reference it takes 38 megawatts of power to generate 50 million gallons of water per day from that San Diego plant.
Are Oracle Coherence and Infinispan considered alternatives to redis? Don't know much about any of these besides their names to be honest.
There is something called "name constraints" in X.509 that can be used to control which domain names, email addresses, etc. a sub-CA certificate can issue certificates for. See [1]. CAs are using them more and more frequently, especially after Mozilla added items #9 and #10 [2] to its inclusion policy a couple years ago.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...
The more important point is China consumption, which doesn't seem to be tied to any dietary "fad" as you call it.
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This is covered in a little more details in other comments [1] but the basic idea is:

- The user generates a password. That password can be assumed to have relatively low randomness (entropy). It's normally going to be 6-12 ascii characters which isn't a particularly large input space. Expecting users to remember something substantially larger is not realistic.

- Because the input space is so small, good password hashing solutions need to have a high work factor, so that is it computationally infeasible to do a dictionary attack on the database.

- If the input space was larger [but everything else stayed the same] then we could reduce the work factor, because the size of the dictionary would increase, automatically making dictionary attacks harder to do.

- That "everything else stayed the same" is important. We still need our hash to be one-way, but it means (in overly simple terms) if we increase our input space by 1000 times, then we can decrease our work factor by the same magnitude.

- If you can increase the input space enough, then eventually you get to the point where a standard hash like SHA2 has a high enough "work factor" (CPU/GPU load)

And the missing piece is that it is argued (and is potentially true, but I haven't done the analysis, so don't take this as a recommendation or endorsement) that scrypt (used appropriately, with random salting) is an effective means of converting that small input space into a larger one.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9305504
I think the proper number of CAs is a lot closer to zero than it is to the current hundreds.
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yeah this is the mongoDB gridFS bug that keeps crashing my website.
The water cycle has a net loss of 0, but only on a global scale. Water that is expired by a tree and ends up as vapour in the air does not precipitate straight out again, unless the air is already completely saturated (ie: it's already raining/snowing). That water will indeed come down again... somewhere.

In general, something needs to change for the water vapour to turn into rain, like changing altitude from passing over a mountain (reducing temperature and pressure), or the air stream combining with a colder one. Deserts tend to be flat and featureless, so there's little in the way of atmospheric change as you pass through them.

An interesting example of this is the continent of Australia - the most populated part is on a thin strip on the east coast as that's where the water and hence arable land is. But the air moves across the continent from the west - in general, the air crosses an entire continent before giving up it's water. It gives up that water because it hits the long strip of mountains slightly inland from the east coast, which changes the conditions appropriately. But until it hits those mountains, the entire overland journey is very consistent for the vapour, so it stays as vapour. There are several mechanisms at play here in dumping the water from vapour into rain - check out wikipedia, I couldn't do them all justice.
This is nice introduction for someone just beginning gcc like compilers. For example I would use this back then when I started to use avr-gcc. It doesn't have to be cross-platform or need any other super complex fancy things. It just needs few extra rules and some basic stuffs. Make is great choice for this kind of things.
Just curious: What is your app? Is it available on Chrome web store?
The cells themselves are COTS Panasonic NCR18650A without built-in protection circuits.. The management circuits are probably developed by Tesla but are external to the batteries, most likely a circuit per array of parallel cells.

Having a protection circuit per cell would be wasteful and also result in quite a bit of power loss and complexity in wiring them up.
Upvoted, and re: documentation, I will say that I enjoyed the print book[0] when I was reading it years ago. Your comment re: quarter-assed BASIC... is about what I was thinking when I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9283016 -- a big missed opportunity.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-CMake-Ken-Martin/dp/19309342...
Also the route is just wrong at some points like the Delaware stop being 1+ hour south from where it's supposed to be due to Google Maps spitting out a weird result for New Castle Historic District.
> But do we really think that inadequate incentive to create new drugs or new movies is a major problem right now?

I found this line in Krugman's text surprising, because there actually are a lot of questions about incentives in both drug and entertainment markets.

In drugs, pharma companies are focusing on high-margin "lifestyle enhancing" drug categories like erectile dysfunction, blood pressure management, and various mood and mental management. Basically, the drugs that rich healthy people will pay a lot of money for. Pharma companies are not focusing on low-margin but highly useful categories like antibiotics, pests, and vaccines. Basically, the problems that affect poor people in 2nd and 3rd world countries.

In entertainment, companies are focusing on iterating well-known and well-used franchises for which they know they can drive immediate demand with marketing. Highly original hits like Inception are not nearly as common as they were in say, the 1970s or 1980s. Instead we get Furious 7 and a two remakes of 21 Jump Street.

Don't get me wrong, the drug and entertainment industries are making a lot of money. But the issue is how they are making it. Drug companies stick to first world problems because first world countries protect their IP, so that is where they'll get a return. Entertainment companies stick to movies that will pack the theater on opening weekend because the movie will be heavily pirated within a few days after that.

I'm not crying for the poor drug or movie executives. I'm saying that the rest of us have to live with the consequences of how we incentivize companies to do business.

edit: word fixes
> How can someone who suffers from a pretty serious criminal record ever feel comfortable meeting new potential partners who will almost surely run a background check and discover unsavory things that really cannot be explained away?

You could always meet them face to face and, if you're not comfortable with your past, you need to find a way to be so that you can sell that "the past is past" to those potential partners. Convince yourself in order to convince others.
Are there any code changes necessary to get your app to work on this? When I run my APK I just get a white screen with the app logo in the center.
What's the language that is semantically distant from Lisp, implemented over Lisp?
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It sounds a little more like the author isn't good at implementing the concept, and/or has just chosen some bad examples of it.
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It's certainly a fascinating piece of tech and a very politically intriguing play by Google, but I don't see it suddenly changing the calculus of app development. Here's why: the set of apps that I run on my phone are disjoint from the set of apps that I run on my laptop or desktop. My laptop doesn't need a flashlight, or turn-by-turn navigation, or the ability to hail a cab, because I don't have it out or open or even with me when I do the things that need these apps. My phone doesn't need Photoshop or Notepad++ because the form factor doesn't favor it. Write-once-run-everywhere isn't a selling point for your app because I don't actually want to run it everywhere.

The one exception could be games, which are a lucrative market. That said, mobile games will offer a limited set of interactions compared to typical PC offerings, which will limit appeal to people who are already playing mobile games but who wish to play those games on their desktop as well. It will increase time spent in the app, but not grow the market substantially relative to new users coming in from mobile devices. And because it requires a browser anyway and because ARC is never going to run on iOS, if the web can advance fast enough to keep the market satisfied (asm.js is a start, but payment is still horribly lacking) then there will be pressure to just do everything on the web anyway.

Interesting times are in store, regardless.
I was using PHPStorm but stopped using as it adds a big data folder(idea) into the application folder along with several xml files which was messing up my GitHub push. I read some documentation but was not able to figure it out.
Any idea how to avoid it? Thank you.
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I love the idea of minimum viable products. They can be cheap and effective for rapidly testing business ideas and getting mass user feedback. However, one shouldn't confuse an MVP with an alpha or a beta. If you release an MVP, it should definitely be able to do whatever is "MV", pretty darn well and reliably.
I would think the examples are there to show the difference between the two methods but in firefox the innertext column only shows "undefined". Maybe a picture could be used for firefox users?
Everything involved in Firefox OS and their web apps is open as far as I know, what are you thinking of when you say they're going down the 'closed source container / clients' route?
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I can imagine that composing a pod out of container images could have advantages over composing a system out of packages because communication between the containers would be more explicit.
fair enough; maybe it's too far outside my area of expertise. OTOH I never expect round-trip conversions to be perfect and couldn't care less whether there are small errors, and would use a different representation if I did.
Renewables aren't free. You have to build whatever to capture them. Even desalinization plants that use of sunshine in hot middle eastern deserts are expensive.
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I have used both, the iPhone's fingerprint unlocking feels better IMO.
> Does apple 'monetize' direct sales as a 'channel'? Does apple 'monetize' JIT manufacturing as a 'channel'?

Yes, keeping their stock pool as low as it does has real financial benefits associated with it. Cook's entire empire at Apple was built on the back of his prowess at streamlining this, such is the value of it to the business. In that sense, they certainly did monetise their skills in JIT manufacture.

I'd argue they also did monetise the direct sales aspect, since the whole 'Apple Store' experience is presumably of net financial gain to them, or else they wouldn't do it.
I really enjoyed it. It was pretty fun to see everyone else's submissions and read their comments.
I also like the command-line interface. No GUI or web garbage to muck with to fetch or submit exercises.
To me this seems like a hope and pray response to where Windows is heading with a heterogeneous platform strategy. What people want is high quality robust full featured applications on their mobile devices, not app store quality word processing on their laptop.

I already have all the Gmail and hangouts on my desktop I could ever want. I don't think I'll use the Clojure REPL app in lieu of $> lein repl or the Maps app in lieu of my browser. To a first approximation, apps are better than nothing but I don't see this as a Windows 8 app killer ~ their standard of fit and finish is generally higher.

There's a niche where this will be great but I don't see an app replacing audacity or blender anytime soon.
I think dash announcement is why facebook is releasing this blog post now.