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I'm not too surprised to read this. I get a little antsy if I haven't been on a hike in a while. It's more than just exercise. Urban walks, including ones with a lot of greenery like in Golden Gate Park, stave it off, but don't completely take care of it [1]. Even a place like Muir Woods, which does have beautiful trees and a creek but is so heavily travelled that people are supposed to stay on a roped off path, doesn't quite do it. Fortunately (recent tweets from a high profile investor notwithstanding), SF has a lot of this available within a 90 minute radius.

Some researchers did find that natural walks have a stronger effect on blood pressure and stress than "urban" walks (the link was here on HN, but unfortunately I don't remember it right now). However, they took a walk down el camino real in suburban sprawl as their "urban" experience. I have really enjoyed taking very very long walks in places like Paris or New York, highly urban areas, and depending on where you go, it's actually pretty fantastic. So my guess, again this is just based on my own experience, is that highly urbanized areas aren't necessarily lacking in whatever that element is that brings a sense of calm and contentedness from long walks or hikes.

[1] I know, GGP has a reputation for having lots of addicted or mentally ill people camping in the bushes. This isn't undeserved, unfortunately, but SF's problems, while pretty bad, can still be overstated. It depends on where you go in the park.
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The scenarios will always exist, but the uncompensated damage to innocents does not need to. The "reasonableness" of the stop is effectively internal to the police, and is not a substitute for actually making the innocent person whole again.

Doing otherwise is making it so the true cost of policing is funded by a reverse lottery.

(You've constructed the scenario to be quite benign, but even so the victim has been assaulted and is likely pumped full of adrenaline with nerves shot for a few hours. And that's basically the simplest thing that can occur)
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I think they don't have to be related. The article's example of tags and folders is a good illustration. "Tag" and "folder" models might have a clear enough implementation in the code; a programmer might wonder why they're both implemented but may have no trouble supporting both in principle. But the existence of both may be very confusing to the user.

The cost inflicted on the coders is not coders' conceptual debt, but users's conceptual debt - certainly costly to coders as they have to support multiple patterns, but I think there is a difference. I guess when I think of coders' conceptual debt, I'd think of something that may be abstracted away at the UX level such that the user doesn't see it, but inflicts pain on implementors due to counter-intuitive patterns.
I believe New York, or any other crowded big city, like Shanghai or Beijing is hardly the model of how things should sound.

After having lived in those cities I enjoy a lot living in places like Switzerland or Spain where there is silence or people in a much more natural way, like small buildings with pedestrian only streets.

All this background noises in big cities are just cars thermal engine vibration. I hate it. You go to savanna and you see 6 ton elephants that sound very weak because nature is efficient.
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A friend forwarded this article to me about a half-hour ago. After reading the article a few times, my feelings are a little mixed.

Yes, sound matters. Sound can help to characterize an environment. But I read some of the quotes in the article ("We need reverberation", "The beauty of the high ceilings and big windows was amplified, and humanized, by the scratching of chairs and the clomp-clomp of boots on hardwood floors", "There can be privacy in a crowd" etc) and I hope that architects don't come away with the message "background noise is good, silence is bad" because that's not the case.

Look at the Grand Central terminal example - yes, the high ceilings and reverberant background helps to create an atmosphere of a "great metropolis." But it also hurts the intelligibility of conversations and the PA system. You're trading acoustic comfort for atmosphere. The non-native English speaker or hearing-impared patron is not going to appreciate the atmosphere when they miss their train because they couldn't understand the PA announcement that departure platform has changed.

Similarly, yes a room sounds very different when a window is open. Sometimes you need that background noise. I remember being in a bedroom that was so quiet I could hear the blood flowing through my ears. I had to open a window to let in the natural sound to I didn't go crazy. On the other hand, you may not want that sound of sirens coming in at 3am when you, or your newborn, is trying to get some sleep.

I guess my recommendation hasn't changed - hire an acoustician! :)
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> As Green puts it, “Your computer is now only as secure as that database of keys held by Microsoft, which means it may be vulnerable to hackers, foreign governments, and people who can extort Microsoft employees.”

One way to think about this: before Win10, my computer was only as secure as the car I sometimes left it in, not to mention that it was only as secure as a bag which I admit I sometimes left out of my sight in coffee shops for seconds at a time.

Overall this is a great win. The NSA is not the only actor that FDE secures us from: FDE is more critically protection from anyone who can smash the window of your car or grab your computer in a public place and run. Security is always full of compromises, and MS here is making a compromise to provide protection from the latter group without significantly damaging data availability.

Think about this from a C/I/A perspective - that is, Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability as the security industry often discusses. Will-implemented encryption, with as few parties as possible in control of the key (e.g. only the data owner), is excellent for confidentiality and integrity. However, it can have severe impacts on availability if the key is lost. Controlling availability often requires policy and procedure controls (e.g. manually keeping a backup of the key on media stored in a secure place) which cannot simply be automatically enabled like FDE can.

Users who are worried about protection from actors like the NSA must take significantly more stringent security measures, including less technical policy and procedural controls, and Windows gives them the capability to do so by re-encrypting without backup to Microsoft and making their own backup which they can manage as they see fit.
Probably in regards to ambulances. After getting sedation they explicitly told me they won't let me be picked up by Uber/Lyft.
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For context: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/19/8621581/sony-music-spotify...
If you're looking for loud overseas cities, you should visit Beijing. :) Heavy car traffic, constant honking, loud salespeople, and everyone is constantly hawking a loogie (since it's unhealthy to swallow phlegm, according to traditional Chinese medicine.)

What quiet overseas cities were you thinking about?
Or that consciousness is unitary :-)
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I've seen multiple 'operating systems in Javascript', but this one is exceptionally well made. The only thing missing is a web browser so I can load the OS in the OS (in my OS).
My understanding was/is that spotify goes in to agreements width record labels and the record labels provide spotify with music.

If i am right about that, then the record label that provided the music would be at fault. As they sold material that they did not have the rights to sell.

I guess you could find them at fault as they are not verifying what they are getting. But that would not be a civil case.
On that note, what's the most convenient way out there if you want to use a cloud service as an external drive to store most of your images in RAW format?

Ideally you wouldn't have to keep them all on your local drive, only the ones you're working with. I know S3 would be a fit, but I'm thinking something equally cheap, but with a nicer web interface specific to photography and similar affordable pricing.
This just sounds like a description/discovery of UX/service design. BDUF is also a huge problem there, hence Lean UX
You're correct. That person calling each embassy separately and asking them is evidence.
Most medical offices won't let you use regular taxis (or Uber, etc) after major procedures. They require a personal driver (family member, friend) that they can provide after-care instructions ("if his face starts bleeding, turn around immediately"). There are dedicated medical taxi services that serve this niche, typically drivers have some basic training, have easily accessible vehicles, etc.
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So I hope I don't have to point out how the goals of censoring abusive content and protecting freedom of expression are at odds, or how infantile it is to force users to delete their own tweets (once their "time-out" is up, even).

Also, from the rules, one of the stated examples of harassment is "if the reported account is inciting others to harass another account." So if I'm a rowdy Yankees fan, and my followers are rowdy Yankees fan, and I retweet a tweet by a rowdy Dodgers fan without comment, and in response a bunch of my followers threaten that fan, have I incited harassment? This sort of thing happens all the time.
"Sorry" is not an undermining phrase, it is part of being polite. I don't care what you learned in Alpha Male school, sometimes you really should apologize.
In my newly built house, I asked for the master bedroom wall to be soundproofed with rockwool and its inner door to be solid wood. It works incredibly well, and it makes the house appear bigger: If someone's watching TV in the living room, I can just go to the master bedroom and shut the door and there's incredible silence.

I did this because as a teenager I always struggled with privacy in my parent's house. Even though the house wasn't small, it was hard to have a conversation with my girlfriend without it being heard in the nearby rooms (my parents rarely watched TV, so there was no sound to mask my voice).

If I ever get the chance to build another house, I will specify rockwool insulation in all inner walls and all-around solid doors. In that way, I can have a small house with great privacy. Or I can study while someone else is watching a movie with surround sound in the adjacent room with no problem.
Additionally, how are we to answer that if the assumption that aliens could or should possess such faculties is wrong? There is no finite amount of processing power that makes individual electron trajectories feasible or rational to reason about in the general-case.
Beginners tend to think alike, while experts develop an original line of thinking, that is identifiable.

I'm not sure I agree with your conclusion. Beginners tend to look to others' code more frequently (often including copying and pasting), which means their "style" is really an amalgamation of multiple styles.

On the other hand, even when more experienced programmers look to others' code, they will still fold it into their own style, even when including large amounts of somebody else's code. Their own style shows through the entire project.

However, both of us are just hypothesizing. A great follow-up to this work would be to look at why beginners are harder to identify. I'm sure the other obvious follow up, "how to anonymize yourself", is in the works somewhere.

The other thing I'd be interested in is how well this holds up for multi-person projects. Would it be possible to identify if I submitted code to the Tor project? How much do I have to contribute before identification becomes likely.
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> You cannot rely on any phone with a closed firmware baseband processor to be 100% secure.

That's not the question being asked. The question being asked is:

"How do you know that the key for full disk encryption on Android is sent to Google?"

Every technical person understands that any part of a system that has unrestricted read access to RAM can be used to thwart any FDE scheme. For the purposes of this conversation, it's not useful to talk about this.

Doing so is like saying "One can be instantly vaporized by a nuclear bomb, therefore the question is irrelevant." in a conversation about whether aspirin or ibuprofen is safer for occasional relief of minor pain.
It does not use the movie file at all, so yes.

What it does is this. It goes and fetch all available subtitles for a movie (You can limit this if you provide a partial release name). It then selects a candidate dialog from all the subtitle files based some criteria and prints out the time at which that dialog appear in the each of the subtitle file.

You can use this to co-relate the best subtitle file for your movie file.

A downside of this approach is that you have to seek forward and actually find out when the dialog actually occurs in your movie file.
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This is a deceptive HN post with a "vote-bait" title. There was no launch. This is a year old.
I can't tell if this comment is meant to be trolling or not, however, I can speak to my own anecdotal experiences that exercise has had such a net-positive in my life as whole, that even if you would consider sore muscles and the occasional light injuries along the way as "side effects", the benefits have far out-weighed them.

Also I find nature so full of different sensory experiences, for example the smell of wild jasmine next to a stream, or the sound of running springs at the same time the feeling of a cool breeze under a hot sunny day. Sure it's enough to get boring after some period of time, but it's such a delightful reset from the hectic city life I surround myself with daily that I always look forward to revisiting "nature" when I can.

I think it's also telling that California (well most of the western United States, to be honest) made so much of the land public parks. The federal government even goes as far as to make areas safe for everyone of all ages and fitness levels. How amazing is it that someone in a wheelchair can also experience Half-dome in Yosemite?
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"Is there a reason the product owner can't speak both english and logic?"

Theoretically no, but it's a big ask for one person. In reply to this entire chain, I'd suggest that it's actually something for the technical lead and the Product Manager to work out in conjunction with each other. For any team past about 4 people, it's just going to be too much to expect someone to both be the technical lead and be in contact with the users enough to be able to make those decisions. (A bit of crosstraining may be good, but trying to avoid that specialization is probably asking for trouble.)

If the PM and the lead don't respect each other enough to make that work, you've got a people problem. There's a lot of people-problem ways to muck this up, unfortunately. (Most obviously, I'd contend that making the PM be above the tech lead is a very common failure case. If you can't trust anyone on the engineering team to have a roughly equal voice in the product design process... uhhh... that's a pretty big problem on its own!)
Spot on. Uber and Lyft made legality gambles that paid off (they weren't shut down), and were then able to reap the reward (apps were easy to use).

I hope hindsight doesn't forget that it was indeed a gamble. Homejoy made a similar bet in the housecleaning industry, but couldn't find a way to pay the illegal workers that make up a good portion of the industry (there were other issues Homejoy mentioned, but this one stood out to me - I could be wrong though).
Which is good, isn't it? I mean, how nutty was the idea that matter could bend space(time)? What about time dilation? Black holes? Particle/wave duality? The brilliant dots in the sky being immense balls of burning gas? Big discoveries begin with a nutty hypothesis.
I rewrote this section to hopefully be clearer, but carussell is correct that if you think the secret rule doesn't match the name then you don't understand the secret rule.

Also, Wikipedia is a wiki. Anyone could have made this edit. I don't understand why people take the time to write on the Talk page about noncontroversial fixes but then leave the article untouched.
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I wish we would stop beating around the bush and just add templating to HTML already; not as the current ‛template‛ element proposal, which still looks like DOM manipulation, but actual "expressions inside template attributes and content + data context set in code" like every templating library is doing. And don't forget conditionals and repeaters while you're at it.
I can confirm this.

I just moved into a classic MCM house which has a ton of built-ins (I should post some pictures when I get a chance) and although the house has really high, angled ceilings and a very open concept floor plan, it's surprisingly quiet.
War Games with Mathew Brodrick had a fairly accurate portrayal of how hacking is done. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AByemfK_qD4
52% is close to a random guess, yes: between two alternative outcomes, such as heads or tails in a coin toss.

If the question is, which of these 20 programmers wrote this code", then a random guess has only a 5% chance (1/20) of being right! So 52% is more than 10X better than random.
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An excellent point of reference for sure. I've reviewed that in the past and I'm pretty comfortable thinking the consensus by musicians was "Wow, Sony really throws its weight around and gets everything it can for itself and only bothers with artists when it actually has to pay them legally" which, all kidding aside, is kind of what a lot of people do (or should) expect of recording industry practices. As in tenths of tenths of a cent:

>Some artists have clauses in their contracts to get a larger share of the streaming revenue, and some artists are still operating under CD-era contracts that only give them 15–20 percent of their streaming revenues.

I don't think it's right to lift the entirety of the comment from over at the Billboard site, but one person has already noted the Copyright when the files were on Spotify were attributed to what appears to be Lowery's label at the time. It's an interesting bit of investigation that I'm sure the Spotify team would pursue. I do get the feeling that Lowery doesn't have much of a "willful infringement" case when Spotify is, by outward appearances, setting aside proper monies to pay out when they get the right information. If that turns out to make Lowery's label look bad for agreeing to allow streaming and agreeing to the compensation being offered by Spotify (against his wishes?), I won't be surprised really.
Which is called an abstract. An abstract on an article about abstraction. Reminds me of a paper I read once:

http://www.ppig.org/papers/20th-blackwell.pdf
I never liked the idea of changing the content of a quote for any reason.

Let's say I go on the record saying something like this:

> Code reviews are worthless when it comes to those nasty little runtime corner cases that crop up now and again.

I sure as hell wouldn't want you writing the following:

> Mr. So-and-so was quoted today as saying "Code reviews are worthless."

Punctuation isn't just there for decoration. It has meaning. Injecting full stops into quotes in places they don't actually exist not only doesn't make any logical sense, it can actually change the meaning of the quote in very significant ways.
This has been by favorite way of researching new music for quite a while. I'll usually start with an album I really enjoy and then read reviews or checkout lists with that album included to find similar (and sometimes totally different!) albums and artists. I know a lot of people who praise discogs.com but RYM deserves way more credit.
There's another factor here: interest. The women's department in clothing stores is almost always MUCH larger than the men's department. Women typically have a lot more clothes, and a shitload more shoes than men. They just spend a lot more on clothing than men do, on average.

Let's compare that with another market: aftermarket automobile parts and accessories. How many women spend hundreds of dollars on a spoiler or carbon-fiber hood for their car, or thousands of dollars on new rims? Almost none? At best, you might find a small number of women getting fancy rims (usually just tomboyish women who are into trucks), but good luck finding any who buy exhaust headers, intakes, engine tunes, etc. Similarly, you also won't find many women purchasing automotive tools like socket wrench sets, air compressors and impact wrenches, etc.; there's a few but they're ones like my sister, who do it because they're extremely practical and want to save money (and usually stick to easy stuff like oil changes anyway), not because they enjoy spending time working on their vehicles.

There's other markets like this, which largely cater to men and in which men spend lots of their disposable income. For men, these things are usually called "hobbies". For women, clothing and shoes are frequently their "hobby". For many men, clothing is mainly seen as a chore anyway; from what I've seen, it seems that it's mainly only gay men who actually care a lot about "male fashion" and put a lot of effort and money into fancy clothes.
Any idea when that will happen?
Is music really worth this much? I mean, its intrinsic value to society? It's normally used as the backdrop to a party, or exercising, or some other such thing, but really, $150,000 per song?

Why can't we put a clamp on the problem of every random artist thinking they've created something that lasts a few minutes and has more value than most people make in a year?

The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain. This would do away with many industries that serve almost no purpose for society, other than to attempt to extract value where no value has been created.

The conventional way for artists to make money should come from performance.
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I am white and got this talk. It was in the early 2000s, well before the current awareness of widespread police abuse of citizens.

The moral of the story: people have known the police are rotten for a very long time, but haven't discussed it until now.
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Is this new? I've been using this for over a month now.
I'll agree that the original premise assumes that all jobs would be magically automated at the same rate.
Huh, that's weird. We'll take "launches" out of the title.
When my sister had her first baby, I was tip-toeing around their house when her baby was sleeping and was told not to.

Apparently if you go about your normal day, babies will get used to falling asleep in a semi-noisy environment. However, you go out of your way to create an ultra quiet place when they sleep, any slight disturbance will wake them up.
Any project that starts developing UI separate from code (in whatever order) fails at the fundamentals because there are interacting constraints, and both must fit business/political constraints as well.
$11.99 a year is quite cheap. Although I have MUCH less than 100GB of images, so I think Google's $1.99/mo for 100GB is better so I can use the rest of the storage for something else.