skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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.

Droughts, floods, dams, and aqueducts are older than any currently standing government. If water rights laws can already consider those events and structures, they can be adjusted to incorporate manmade climate change as well.
As expected, there exist people who think #2 is "deeply flawed": http://www.anh-usa.org/flawed-study-fish-oil-cancer/

It's a shame how little we can depend on all these studies.
But as somebody with zero experience, I wasn't aware when reading that this was a tool and not a part of the language itself. I read articles like these because I have an interest and a lack of knowledge, and I'm learning all kinds of things today.

I've been a longtime fan of Carmack, and I wish I could read and understand his work for myself!
> Having spoken with Prof. Wilson on numerous occasions (long ago), and thus knowing what a charming gentleman he is, I can't help but suspect that he would have preferred this work escape the attention of combative public intellectuals like Dawkins, Pinker, and Taleb.

Dawkins and Wilson have been directly exchanging attacks on this issue for some time [0], and however charming Wilson might be personally, he's hardly been any less combative than Dawkins.

[0] e.g., http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/07/richard-dawki...
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Apparently the drafts have been sent to the editor so they can't be changed. [1] Oh well!

[1] http://self-issued.info/?p=1323
Maybe that's a good idea: multiplying the opportunity cost ends up punishing the people who hold valuable land and don't develop it. The more valuable the land, the greater the punishment. That seems exactly what you'd want to do to encourage that West Oakland lot to get developed.
He's paying a small amount of money 4x$25k to get some 'founders' in control of millions of investment under control of threat of cancelled visas.
In German: E-Mail, URL, CD-ROM, and Jeans are usually feminine, for example.

Basically, whenever a noun (or the core of a compound noun) has a direct (or close) translation to a frequently used noun in German, then it's quite common for its gender to "bleed" over into the English loanword.

So in the examples above, Mail → Post, URL → Verbindung, CD-ROM → Platte, Jeans → Hose, etc.
July average high in NYC is higher than LA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City#Climate
I can get around Tokyo for the most part at a gross level--as in I can find parks, railroad stations, and the like. But I think I spent an hour the last time I was there searching for my company's office. Guidebook authors should start thinking about including GPS coordinates although increasingly, given a network connection, it's a moot point given Google Maps.
I sometimes put a `help-wanted` tag on GitHub issues I think are especially well-bounded items someone could contribute. It looks like other people use that tag, too: https://github.com/search?l=&p=2&q=state%3Aopen+label%3Ahelp...

You can further filter that by language, or other criteria.
In the US, states have vast, almost unlimited powers to seize private property for the public good, provided they pay fair compensation.
That's not the implementation of something like that. Actually, apart from military coup, your plan looks exactly like the current system.

I can't tell if that was an irony...
Did you consider quality as well as quantity?
Other states might grow more if their California competition wasn't subsidized so heavily with water.
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My money's on the annotation thing being moved into an extension.
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I'm pretty certain there no lights that have "weight" sensors. The sensors for triggering signal changes use large induction loops to detect when ferrous metal (a car frame) is near by.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what happened to FoundationDB smells like an acqui-hire par excellence. This article provides an interesting alternative to the "Apple bought this space age technology to keep it to themselves" narrative.

Seems like the guy knows what he's talking about as well, b/c surprise, he's working on a DB.
>$35-$50 for wired high-speed Internet access in San Francisco buys speeds that are about a tenth of those available in Seoul and Tokyo for the same price.

This.

I'm optimistic that SF leaders can put pressure on Comcast to improve speeds. Or perhaps they need to give incentives to Google Fiber and others to come to SF.
I favour Hexchat. Freenode is where a lot of the hacking talk happens, but not all; irc.mozilla.net and irc.gnome.org are other possible networks you might want to visit for "serious business". OFTC is another network where e.g. Clang and Debian things happen.
Irrigation methods can significantly reduce water usage for some crops. Others require gobs of water. I don't know the numbers for each crop, though.

The Almond Board of California has some info on this for Almonds. Obviously, take this as you will, given the source: http://www.almonds.com/pdfs/waterfactsheet315.pdf
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You're basically arguing against property taxes or capital gain taxes entirely. Our existing property taxes are measured against the improved (built-up) value of the land. An alternative would be property taxes against the unimproved value of the land. The latter are often called "land taxes".

I personally think land taxes are better than as-built property taxes because they encourage investment. If you assume that lower taxes are an incentive, we currently are giving land owners an incentive not to invest in their property. Society as large actually wants land owners to invest in their properties.

If you want to argue that land owners shouldn't be taxed at all, fine, but they are currently being taxed.
I agree with you that the cameras could be made fool proof, or close enough with a fall back at least that it would still be beneficial. I just wanted to point out that the vast majority of car sensors use an inductive loop which is far less prone to damage and relatively inexpensive compared to weight sensors.
That's not a terrible idea but once again you run into the issues of reliability and budget. At the end of the day you need to convince city officials to spend what little money they have remaining in their budget on your new system because it offers a greater value than all of their other proposed upgrades to the city AND that what you have is as reliable or better than the current system they have in place. This means asking them to trust a small company they've never heard of to manage the transit systems for their city and potentially drop contracts with companies that they have been working with for a very long time (remember this is politics). Also keep in mind that software or hardware failure in these systems could result in multiple fatalities. I'm not trying to be a naysayer, it's just important to recognize that getting something like this implemented is not as easy as convincing consumers to try/buy your product.

The best bet would probably be to get a forward-thinking city to experiment with this in a small area and then go from there.
Build tools and programming languages are a trap. Many (most?) good developers at some point decide that they're fed up with their tools and want to build their own. If you prefix `make` with any letter of the alphabet and Google it, you'll find someone's toy (or, occasionally, deployed) build tool project. But most of this effort is a huge waste.

I personally have now designed two languages (including three separate iterations of one of them) and three build tools. I say that with shame, not pride.

In my defense, Ekam was at the time I wrote it just a fun weekend project. I wouldn't have done it while on the clock for anything important. :)

And then having written it, it turned out to be useful enough that I kept using it. ::shrug::
> I sometimes get the feeling that traffic signals in my home town (Chicago) are designed to maximize ticket and speed camera revenue, rather than improve the flow.

You get that feeling because it's true:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/watchdog/redlight/ct-yell...
The humidity gets you. Germany isn't nearly as humid as New York in the summer.
If that is something that interests you, I would recommend Django and it's "easy pickings":

https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=!closed&easy=1
I would hesitate to call Central Valley "local" to most Californians.
Yes, I compared brands and didn't buy cheap stuff.
"I'm never sign for that."

Correct, your parents chose that for you, when they chose your place of residency when you were born. As a child, your parents had custody of you and the legal right to make that decision for you.

As an adult, now, you may renounce your citizenship and move to another place with no social contract; that is how you may terminate your obligations to the government where you live.
Unfortunately we aren't set up for interns just now. Try us again in a few months - we may very well have grown to the stage where we can do this by then.
In what form was it used in China? (Wikipedia and Google--and the article itself--weren't illuminating in this case.)
"Eminent domain" is simply the power to condemn, which is limited by the requirement for just compensation under the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment.
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I think the parallel to draw here is inflation. The Fed sets interest rates low to encourage people to invest or spend their dollars instead of sitting on them. If you have cash in a savings account it loses about 3% of its value year over year.

I see land-value tax as the same economic mechanism applied to vacant lots. There should be some penalty to sitting on land and simply watching its value accrue. Why aren't we treating the land crisis like a deflationary spiral currency crisis?
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Certifying and proving such a system was actually fool proof would be quite costly though, as in house certification would probably not satisfy safety regulations.

Side note: most lights use inductive loops not weight sensors for vehicle detection.
> I hope so, but I fear we won't - that at some point a company will finally figure out how to lease PCs to general population instead of selling them.

They'll give them away just to get you to be part of the ecosystem!

Apple does provide some verification services but the major reason the app store in its current form exists is as a choke point to extract revenues and as a way to remove any credible competition to Apple supplied applications.
One of the things that make these password hashing threads astonishingly tedious is that somebody who has never so much as googled "bcrypt" always chimes in with "but what about the rainbow tables???".
I completely agree. My point is that this is part of a bigger pattern of "power dynamics." For example the urban middle class engages in a kind of self-congratulatory mode by observing such rituals as Earth Hour, while at the same time condemning the intransigence of poor communities who refuse to be displaced for the sake of the country, the planet, etc. No one dare even suggest that the economic rewards of cheaper energy be allocated in further promotion of environmental protection measures, or God forbid, compensation for the displaced, instead of fueling an imminent manifestation of Jevons Paradox, which would obliterate the thinly argued benefits of e.g. a hydropower project. As we say in Spanish "la cadena se rompe por el eslabón más débil." [1] The case of environmental problems is filled with nasty expressions of this saying [2]. David Graeber is one who has written about this pattern beyond this case.

[1] The chain breaks on the weakest link.

[2] Take the case of the WWF http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/wwf-helps-industry... . Or this case of a hydropower project in my country Panama https://intercontinentalcry.org/un-registered-barro-blanco-h... which our local breed of "pragmatic environmentalists" dared not to object.
The reality of desalination is that apart from Karlsbad where they are already building one, there are very few places you could build a desalination plant and associated power plant without someone (rich person or environmental group) getting lawyered up.

Then you have the problem of getting the water from the coast to the Central Valley. Given that it's going to take 20 years to build 400 miles of train track I don't hold much hope getting pipelines of a similar distance getting built in under 10 years.
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We don't need meat. We just convince ourselves we do.
This is impressive, but the headlines seem to overstate the journey.

My first surprise was that they fly from North America to South America, rather than Old World to New World. I wrote that off as being my mistake - Nova Scotia to Venezuela certainly counts as Atlantic.

But then, it turns out they (quite reasonably) appear to stop in Caribbean islands along the way. To me, this doesn't qualify as "non-stop from New England to South America".

In fact, the quoted 1700 miles is roughly 25 degrees of latitude, which I don't believe would get to you South America, starting from Nova Scotia.

Still, further than I've ever flown.

Edit: not sure why I was downvoted. Did I make a mistake?
Not necessarily. The idiotic prior appropriation system is a matter of state law and takings doctrine are a matter of federal constitutional law. The combination doesn't have a whole lot of case law at the Supreme Court level. It may well be the case that a coordinated change in both federal and state (statutory) law would be enough to work around the takings clause issue.

Even if all else failed it might well be better to bite the rentier tax once than to live with them forever. Remember takings only requires the payment of fair market value, and these water permits have limited alienability.
Unfortunately, it will probably follow standard European practice.

Those responsible for making policy at international levels are often sufficiently removed from democratic accountability as to be effectively immune from any personal consequences whatever their actions.

National governments can argue that their hands are tied by international agreements that they cannot unilaterally violate, and therefore they are compelled to implement those international policies at home.

The same national governments may in fact have been responsible for voting on or outright appointing the relevant international policy-makers. However, media coverage and public debate rarely explore or challenge these processes.

It appears that this set-up can last indefinitely, until something very bad happens. Of course, some very bad things have happened in Europe in recent years, and national politicians are a lot more careful about expressing their support for EU and Eurozone policies than they used to be.
> I think the main reason people aren't scanned routinely is due to the enormous cost of the scanning and the data analysis that currently relies on physicians for interpretation.

The main reason is that doctors and regulators warn against it because, as patent says, people are chock full of scars and lumps and stuff that shows on scans but that is not in anyway harmful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7150583.stm

> "If 100,000 people undergo a CT scan every five years from age 40 to 70 years...then the estimated impact is approximately 240 excess fatalities."

Although that's talking about CT, not MRI, scans.
Yes, many crops use more water than Almonds, but the main problems with almond trees is that they're slow to grow and you need to water them at all times, even in a severe drought. With seasonal crops, you have the option to switch to maybe less profitable but less demanding crops, or to lie fields fallow.

What we need in California is not necessarily crops that demand less water, because some years we have plenty of water, what we need is adaptability. Almond trees are terrible in that regard.
Conveniently, the first webpage ever made has a manual: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html

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I was asked this same question awhile back and I recommended Fluentd:

https://github.com/fluent/fluentd

It's in ruby, very easy to understand, and also extremely useful.

You can also extend it with plugins, which is simple for a beginner to pick up.
Do you have any evidence of this that they are not growing more because California subsidizes water usage?
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Okay awesome - Best of luck with your product it looks really good!
We have yet to see an almond shortage turn into a revolution though.
With Anticorporatistan being the United States, and laws they don't like being the existing Fair Use protections. It's not a vague future hypothetical.
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I'd lean towards python just because it sounds like you may need a lot of data analysis, and that's where python's ecosystem shines. If you just want to create an application quickly then use rails.
Rails tends to have better learning resources over django.
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Former VoltDB developer here.

John makes some good technical arguments about why implementing transactional SQL on top of a distributed KV store (even a transactional one) is hard.

The points about metadata performance and consistency were actually new ideas to me. I already had beef with moving the data around to SQL nodes as that is an obvious waste of capacity.

But the importance of metadata in processing SQL queries in a distributed database never occurred to me even though I've lost a decent chunk of my life implementing that consistency. It's one of those things you take for granted if it's how you have always done it.
Remote interns ok?
It's actually tragically common for older people in hot climates (e.g. Arizona) to eschew air conditioners and die.
You can also use this $0.95 adapter from Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/products/2102 (although it doesn't include power and the other niceties)
He's right though. You may be too young.
His email address is encoded in Base64. Whenever you see what looks like random gibberish followed by ==, it's generally a Base64 encoded string. It's trivial to reverse. He's trying to weed people out.
Sounds like you bit off more than you can chew.
for the alpha version it searches 1TB of code from github.
I picked the top starred projects ( which means everything with >45 stars should be searchable )

The plan is to integrate metadata search and then expand the index.
Site seems dead.

Is it free software? What differentiates it from Signal/TS?
The rising cost of housing almost entirely explains rising returns to capital
A million and one.
I really wish there was something as mature as Django in Go (A little bit lightweight maybe)
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The comic[1] that I posted in the previous thread has a nice overview about the situation.

The specific issue the EFF article is pointing out is how the ISDS is designed to trumps national sovereignty, so business can strong-arm countries into removing any law they don't like.

It works more or less like this:

1) pass TPP as a treaty, which by definition has the same power as a constitutional amendment. (this is probably a serious bug in the constitution). This means TPP trums congress.

2) TPP sets up an international tribunal (ISDS) that hears complaints from businesses. (i.e. "Australia is hurting our tobacco sales with their plain packaging laws"[2])

3) The tribunal, as mentioned in this article, would be staffed by, "three private-sector attorneys who take turns being the judge and the corporate advocate." This conflict of interest would be a serious violation of ethics requirements in most legal systems.

4) The tribunal rules that your local law violates some foreign requirement, as determined by the ISDS and their business-assigned judges, and the local legislature is forced to repeal the law. ("Australia's plain packaging laws is seizing the trademarks of Philip Moriss, in violation of a 1993 trade agreement if we carefully abuse the agreement's language")

That's the short version, and I'm leaving out some details, of course. It should work as a decent overview of ISDS is a threat to national sovereignty.

[1] http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/

[2] this example is covered well by John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8

edit: oops.. s/ISPS/ISDS/