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Landscaping should be the first to go, but it's also a relatively minor part of the problem. Agriculture is the primary cause of water depletion--not just use, but depletion.

If the tradeoff is unsustainable and as-we-currently-know-it-irreparable biosphere destruction and more expensive almonds and beef (through higher alfalfa prices), I'm really okay with that trade-off and I think if you dig into the situation you probably will be too. People aren't gonna starve because dead cow costs more--because beef is already nearing "too expensive" for Americans in situations of food insecurity as is.
They don't make it easy, broadcasters just add a link in their profile. There's no information transmitted to PayPal about the donation being for Twitch broadcasting. In fact a lot of broadcaster use third party tools, tools not made by Twitch or PayPal, for the donation system so that it updates in their stream and chat.
HTTPS does help with government surveillance. It won't save you if the NSA is targeting you individually, to the point where they're prepared to use targeted active exploits whose detection and identification would cost them both technically and PR-wise... but it will prevent (some of) your data from being passively vacuumed up en masse along with everyone else's, which for most people is a more pressing concern.

Well, unless the NSA has some magic passive SSL strip attack, which is not out of the question, but very unlikely.
I made this and I'm really excited about it, since it combines all of my favorite things. I'd love to get your feedback / criticism on the initial newsletter and anything I can do to improve the overall thing. Eventually, I want to start featuring and interviewing artists and other futurists, and build some glitch art-generating tools of my own.
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Well-intentioned or not on your part, I would quit my company if they required me to input my opinions into such a tool. With only 10 devs, it is instantly possible to match any downward trend to a specific individual based on keen observation, and then penalize (no raise, no promotion) or even fire/lay off that person for not "fitting the company's core values".

Because of the possibility for abuse, chances are high that some/many of the inputs are pure bullshit anyway - people saying they're happy when they're downright miserable, out of fear of being scoped out if they log negative results.

Just another management PR stunt so they can gloat about how happy their employees are, when the results may be fabricated. Perhaps this would work in a small company where downward trends in happiness result in immediate changes based on employee suggestions. For every medium and large sized company I've worked for, this would just be another manipulative game pushed onto employees by management who will never implement any real change but can show the CEO ridiculous charts about how "happy" the employees are.

tldr; Management loves to show off reports like these, but the values input are often meaningless and only serve to antagonize employees rather than help.
I think a poet is like a sculptor that is always forced to sculpt using Lego.

Words are a coarse medium for expressing art as their look, sound and interaction with surrounding words defines their meaning. Stray too far outside of convention and people reading your poem won't understand it. I can understand this being frustrating.
So much in the space of folk (of many cultures), your examples are closer to that than most other music. Indeed some of the best music out there melds the poetry perfectly with the music. It's an art that doesn't exist if either part is missing.

Example that comes to mind, Nanci Griffith's 'Wing and the Wheel' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDs1kXTS9r8

The wing and the wheel they carry things away
Whether it's me that does the leavin' or the love that flies away
The moon outside my window looks so lonely tonight
Oh, there's a chunk out of it's middle big enough for an old fool to hide

Where are all the dreamers that I used know?
We used to linger beneath street lamps in the halos and the smoke
The wing and the wheel came to carry them away
Now they all live out in the suburbs where their dreams
Are in their children at play

There's a pale sky in the east all the stars are in the west
Oh, here's to all the dreamers may our open hearts find rest
The wing and the wheel are gonna carry us along
And we'll have memories for company long after the songs are gone
But even if they do, they won't (and shouldn't) be held liable for any subsequent things that happen in your life because you were delayed in traffic, consequent to that accident.
A few of these people didn't seem to do much research. There's not only one patent on ECC: there's around 130 esp by Certicom with a whole wikipedia article [1] dedicated to the topic. The early NSA patents are indeed expired while the linked Certicom patents seem to be in effect. Article also mentions Bernstein's might be exempt but anyone following patent troll suits won't be assured by that. Certicom loosing the lawsuit against Sony's high-priced lawyers with some prior art is somewhat assuring. Yet, it's a fact that ECC in certain forms (or in general?) is patented and even Schneier was disturbed by how well the patents were written.

So, next time ECC patents come up, those replying like they don't exist hopefully will not mislead HN readers again. (sdevlin's fair comment being an exception) I mean, if there are no patents, we wouldn't have people griping about licensing costs [2] or companies dropping $100+mil on the company for its ECC patents, would we?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents

[2] http://seekingalpha.com/article/2554945-blackberry-make-cert...
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People forget that many genres of games will never make it to VR in any meaningful way. Even in a far-future holodeck scenario, strategy games don't change a whole lot.

But it's true that VR is an immersive experience which I can't vicariously participate in the same way I can watch someone playing Hearthstone now. In many ways VR games are likely to remain largely unsuitable for streaming.
I won't argue that support is not a necessary cost of doing business. Of course it is.

It's nice to be "free" to spin up a handful of disposable test instances of a database when doing test driven / agile type development.

Oracle is difficult and arcane to create a DB instance. I had the sys admin at work help me to try to set up an instance (he insisted it was "easy"). It takes MANY steps, some of which were shown to me in tools that did not lend themselves to scripting.

I have a script that can create a ready to rock PostgreSQL instance in 5 seconds, no "Mother, may I???" required to run it. Well, ready to run a schema creation / migration, but the "tablespace" and schema name with admin/app user were in and ready to go.

If you are twiddling a few lines in a legacy app, this doesn't matter. If you are doing a big chunk of new development, automated regression testing data sources matter.
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See my above reply concerning 130 patents on ECC.
The problem i see is that Twitch already has a very strong culture in the gaming community. You see Twitch emotes being used everywhere on the internet and i started seeing people on my campus use it on everyday language.
I know its silly, but the chat and all the "underground" culture around it is a major player in Twitch's success.
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Who knows NSA's purpose. Certicom's was money from licensing: so much that their company (mainly patents) sold for over a hundred million dollars to Blackberry. I have details in comment above.
So much is possible within that convention, though. So much. The best poets (different for each of us) somehow surpass the impossibility of using language to express true humanity, and do it anyway.
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>> " Modern code monkeys don’t even recognize mastery; mastery is measured in dollars or number of users, which is a poor substitute for distinguishing between what is good and what is dumb. Lady Gaga made more money than Beethoven, but, like, so what? "
Spot On !
This is a good example of the technical restrictions that make lyrics a (proper) subset of poetry: note in particular the abundance of long vowels, which make it not just readable but singable.
> The early 2000s were a dark time for state education statistics. States could report high school graduation rates any old way they pleased, and many did.

> It was only in the 2000s that most states acquired the technology to track individual students.

It's easy to miss the major progress that has been made--very recently--in the basics of measuring education.
My six year old came up with this idea for pokemon cards on his own this week. They are loving it - and so am I!
The average is VERY stressful. What's everyone so stressed about?
Ehm, twitch has it's own donation system (which works trough paypal) e.g.:
https://www.twitchalerts.com/donate/tsm_theoddone
(and ofc boobies!)
https://www.twitchalerts.com/donate/pink_sparkles

If you use a paypal link they also get the referrer unless you simply post your PP email and make people doit manually, but since the introduction of TA i think that's against the EULA.
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I cross-referenced it against the documentation. Let's assume someone won't, though. The commands' appearance make their intent pretty obvious. Further, using them produces output that confirms what the cheat sheet says. For instance, adding a public key said something along the lines of "public key added." Decrypting the incoming message showed its plaintext. Encrypting outgoing plaintext turned it into ciphertext other party decrypted. Along with a warning that the key didn't have others' signatures on it, which ironically re-assured me more because it shouldn't.

So, a visual inspection of the commands and their results in a sandboxed machine was about all one needed to know that they worked. My experience with similar tools helps there. More concerned people can thoroughly cross-reference them with the documentation, source code, program's author, and so on. Whatever level of assurance they like. The basic level, though, was incredibly simple.

I'd take using GPG over learning Emacs or OpenBSD any day. In level of difficulty, that is.
It's not a font for body text. Just like you wouldn't set an article in Helvetica.
It's unlikely an FPS needs high bandwidth -- typically less than the lowest-quality, 2005-age YouTube-video. Even with a high-tick game, you're looking at topping out at around 35KB. Yes there are going to be gamers in countries with less-developed internet, but I'd wager many streamers are pulling a minimum of 1MB+ and more likely 5-10MB+ egress.
I disagree. This is really only relevant to Startups who are seeking to not die.

Cash on hand, burn rate / break even point, revenue growth, and I believe even Valuation metrics are relevant to all companies all the time - even if you're two guys in a truck building fences and wondering what one comma on your ATM slip might feel like.
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One thing that would be neat is if google rolled out their own streaming software. I've streamed a little on twitch for fun (mostly programming and some gaming) and I found all of it pretty bad.

Another neat thing is how much Replay value people's streams could get instantly being on youtube. I just checked twitch, and nobody really watches previously recorded streams. The most watched recorded videos this month in Gaming Talk Shows was only a little over 1000, while League of Legends most was in the 400s. Maybe youtube can really increase and monetize that for streamers.

I would also be super interested in streaming other things too, which is just now starting to get popular on twitch. I would love to be able to stream me programming and interact with other computer folk that way. I've done it on twitch but didn't stick with it long enough to really give it a chance.
Yes. I think that this makes their achievement all the more amazing.
Online games don't normally need much bandwidth since they're just communicating the player's positions, velocity gunfire etc. None of that data is particularly big. Latencies on the other hand are really important.
Yeah, that was a thing for us too circa 1996. It ended with there being two groups of players: "Poor" players that printed cards and had access to the entire card catalog and could build insane cheese, and "rich" players who didn't and didn't.

Then there were the my-dad-owns-a-textile-mill types who would learn a cheese from the print-it-yourselfers, spend millions of lire on cards, and replicate the cheese with the people who played with the official cards.
And if you want to scrape a list of Facebook usernames to use with this, Facebook makes that easy too: https://www.facebook.com/directory/

It's against the ToS to do so, but of course Facebook is willing to expose all that information for anyone willing to break the rules.
Unfortunately, I don't think you can learn, for example, Spanish by translating pages to Spanish. You have to read pages in Spanish and translate from it, otherwise you're learning Google-Translatese, not Spanish.

There's a lot of nuance, idioms, etc that translations can't give you, not to mention that they're usually, very, very wrong.
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I'm genuinely not sure if you're trolling, or just unaware that sourcing and analysing various financial indicators against valuations across multiple startups is what Mattermark does?
Never have I read more love between the lines of such an intelligent, thorough, and obtuse criticism. Nowhere will you find more humanity than the impossibility of perfection, and what is poetry but the shared search for that humanity? Imperfect as it must be.
Drawing and emoji are just normal expectations of an interactive device with a screen, heartbeat stuff is just proximity of the device to biology, and whatever the fuck activity achievement awards are, if something named that is now considered play, then Huxley scores yet another point.
Any plans for Bitcoin integration? My preferred methods of payment are, in order of preference, Bitcoin, PayPal and credit card as a distant last.
Can someone explain why the CSR is exchanged over https? The whole point of a CSR is that an adversary can't fake it and get a key that works for you and the adversary.
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It enables the lyricism of the song! Even more beautiful. That actually makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing it out.
The reason I spend so little time looking at things is the fact that they're yesterday's news. There's "top stories" and "most recent", which is really "top stories" wearing a different hat. No way of getting just the new updates from my friends in a chronological order.

As a recent example, my friend A posted that they're going out for drinks and are looking for company. Instead of showing me this quite time-sensitive piece of news, FB wanted to tell me that my friend B liked the picture of C from 2013.

The drinks invitation became visible three-four days later, when it started to get comments about people seeing it too late. Now it's been stuck to the top of my "most recent" for at least a week.
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And yet ...

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897v1.pdf%EF%BB%BF
It was: Certicoms ECC patents got them acquired for roughly 7 times what Matasano got. A neater trick would be if you're right, the patents don't exist, and Blackberry was scammed. It go down as one of the greatest cons of that year with Blackberry's shareholders having more to gripe about. I'm just going with Occam's Razor: the ECC patents exist and you're just trolling my latest comment without any evidence to back up your claims. That's been your M.O. so far.
You're right, but nonetheless, we could conserve a lot more by making those cattle ranchers, and the alfalfa farmers who supply the feed, pay market rate for water (and, likely, move their operations to another state) than if we got sidewalk spraying down to zero.
The DualShock 4 is arguably even a better PC controller than the Xbox controllers. Its out-of-the-box support is decent, but it really shines when paired with ds4drv for Linux or DS4Windows (both open source tools), which allow you to play Xbox controller games, use the touchpad as a mouse, set LED colors, and create macros/profiles.

ds4drv: https://github.com/chrippa/ds4drv

DS4Windows: http://ds4windows.com/
You surely would, if it was appropriate.

And if it is to be a system font, it will be used for body text as well. Not too different from Myriad in that context anyway.
Just want to add that despite the amusing anecdote, it's a lovely building with wonderful acoustics.
The worst aspect of most arts are critics. Programming included. All these pseudo-intellectual categories, analysis of sizes (forms) and styles, anthologies stuff like that.

BTW, for those who can read Russian, Nabokov's the Gift (Dar) is the best reading about poetry - how it is not a a mere classification of rhythms (I imagine hipster idiots, advocating well-typed pairs of words and type-checkers for poets) but an inner sudden insight from a pre-linguistic, non-verbal mind (which people call "heart") verbalized on the spot.

This is what programming is also (read On Lisp) - one express his own sudden insights by giving it a structure in terms of a programming language (and trying it till it is hot), which means it should be restricted as less as possible (this is fucking why Lisps or Smalltalk or Erlang feels so special).

Poetry is not the a mere form with some vague meaning, it is these sudden insights and some structure a poet gives to it. That is why we could enjoy Rumi without being able to read Persian.

We are excited when we found an unexpected, rare gem, a verbalization (an expression!) of what we felt ourselves, but still been unable to express (same experience with reading source code of the best (Norvig, rtm+PG, Sysoev, etc.)) The rate of gems to stuff is 20/80, so do not expect to much. Read arc.arc to understand what I mean.

Like it is with everything (at least with literature, music and programming), 95% of poetry is narcissistic or graphomanic crap, like blogs. That's why, perhaps, most of people are convinced that poetry is something which has a rithm in it.

Read Nabokov or Pamuk.
Or in assembly, for that matter. You never what data the CPU is duplicating behind your back: store buffers, prediction, etc.
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Thanks, couldn't read that one earlier(blocked at work). I think I am starting to get it, But I still feel like all the facts were never presented. Basically, it was a 50/50 game except he had a 20 percent cushion on losses. You would think a cool million would at least get you single deck black jack opposed to 6 deck.
Twitch has already won over most of the potential audience for computer game streaming. Computer gamers tend to be a loyal bunch, and they know that Twitch is a site by and for gamers. If I had to guess, YouTube Gaming will have trouble making headway.
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I recently converted all of the old font suitcase (FFIL) files that I salvaged from Mac OS 1-7 (other than the elusive Taliesin which I have the FFIl for but remains unreadable in FontForge) to working OS X bitmap datafork fonts (.dfont). [0] Missing a few random ones such as Fancy (1993), the Apple Newton font, Espy Sans (1993, Apple eWorld, Apple Newton and iPod Mini font, known as System on the Apple Newton platform), eWorld Tight (1993, Apple eWorld font based on Helvetica Compressed), Simple (1993), Apple Newton font, based on Geneva), and toronto. It seems Grant Hutchinson (splorp) seems to have some old converted Apple fonts from his Newton projects [1] and from Mark Simonson [2], which could be promising of finishing the collection of what I've been referring to as the "Lost Fonts" project. I will be e-mailing them when I get the chance...

[0] http://i.imgur.com/Q1tZknV.png

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/8289012748/in/photostre...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20030807223056/http://www.ms-stud...
I personally like the (language-dependent) "series of actions" approach.

So, you quite literally send to the VCS "add this parameter with default value <foo> to this function", "make a copy of this function", "add this function", etc. With transactions.

And the VCS "just" replays the edits. Note that the VCS will occasionally have to munge the human-readable names in the case of what would be otherwise a conflict. But the VCS doesn't deal with things at that level anyways. You really should end up dealing with things at the AST level and rebuilding the source code when necessary.

Think of it like a refactoring tool integrated with the VCS.
I mean every day of my life (as far back as I can recall). Literally every single day.

I find it very difficult to describe the nature of the symptoms. There's definitely a lot more than the general description I gave.

Regarding celiac disease, I have no idea why you're mentioning osteomalacia, as that does not seem at all related to the symptoms I described.

I would really really like to get a biopsy for celiac disease, but the effects of gluten on me are too severe for me to presently spare the few months of eating gluten required for the test. Unfortunately I got given, and followed, poor advice -- to go off gluten for a few months and then reintroduce it and see the consequences. I wish I had gotten the test initially. Being off gluten has cleared up a number of fairly bad symptoms that I've had all my life, and my brother and his daughter also have similar issues with it.

The inflammation/muscle spasm stuff has generally improved after avoiding gluten, but seeing as it is a chronic problem and has gotten into the state it current is in, even if the gluten was the root cause simply removing it is, by now (it seems) too late to make those things simply go away. (...and it's complicated by damage to some joints and muscular weaknesses from it being chronic for so long).
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I assume to keep licensing current to support legacy code. I would be surprised if much revenue comes from new installs
Well, we were going to grade all of them on a modified AP scale and then bring the top 20-40 to a panel (journalists, teachers, etc.) and then take the highest "scoring" offer/essay from that. Still subjective, but it would add some distance. Ultimately, though, this is still a house sale and the criteria is subjective--the baking contest below was a nice metaphor.

My brother just put in an offer that was accepted on a house in California that was thousands of dollars below multiple other offers according to the listing agent. Why? Because the owners liked his letter. Having a letter accompany an offer is fairly standard in real estate and as long as we're not violating any fair housing laws (essays were to be stripped of identifying information), I don't see how this is different. In hacker parlance, it's just at scale. I am, admittedly, a bit defensive about all of this.

RE: Poverty--I can't control what people are spending their money on. I know that sounds like a "not my problem" answer, but it would be pretty condescending for me to tell someone they were not adult enough not to make their own decisions (we made them check a box that they're 18). For a person who would become the new owner, it would change their life dramatically—I've read some realllllly horrible stories about poverty now.

Maybe it's not the best use of money. On the other hand, if you wrote an amazing offer and competed against--max--3,000 people to own a home, would that put you at better odds to dramatically change your life than solely working a minimum wage job in an unsafe environment?

(That said, it wasn't our intent to find the poorest/any specific person to sell the house to—I'm just using that as an example.)