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Hartwick Pines (one I'm familiar with) has an accessible asphalt trail through it. It's not undiscovered.

It's also cheesy that the wiki list gives the size of the park reserve rather than the size of the actual old growth stand. The full article gives the much smaller size of 49 acres of remaining old growth forest rather than the 9,642 acres given in the list.

People estimate that the Michigan lumber boom was larger (in value extracted) than the California gold rush. They cut down almost everything.
Really? If you just take time to think then everything will go nice and smoothly and you'll always have spare capacity? Let us know how that goes for you when you get a real job.
Why the animosity toward free will, I wonder? I can see why it's not helpful to neuroscientists. It's not a neuron, after all. It's not a material thing, and so the material sciences don't reckon with it. But why does that make anybody want to dismiss it from reality generally? Is there an assumption that if it can't be studied in the lab, it can't exist? Boy I hope they're teaching scientists better than that these days.
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I'm fascinated by this topic. How do the legacy-type families do it? I'm talking your Kennedies, your Bushes, etc. Preserving wealth and power for generations?
Two things:

1. This is still murky law, still being explored... but I believe you can't be compelled to reveal something you know (your password) but could be compelled to reveal something you have (a key.)

2. Contempt of court I think is for 6 months at a time and has to be renewed, and regularly isn't renewed. If your hard drive contains crimes worse than 6mo of jail, contempt is a good way to go.
The article does a good job of showing examples, but strangely, it doesn't connect this in any way with the vast related research in psychology and economics. This makes me skeptical of the claims of expertise...
Very cool tool. Thank you for sharing!
Gmail? What about Google Search? It knows more about a man than his wife, doctor and lawyer combined. But Google convinced us to happily give up our privacy, for the amazing advantage (no sarcasm) of searching the internet. Maybe it was worth it, but Alo doesn't offer any ground breaking service.
While capitalism tends to balance itself out, zoning laws aren't as flexible. It's a fine line between inconvenient to intolerable, as more and more people living in San Francisco are discovering.
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Definitely. Thats how I I started recognizing the older trees from the sequoias I believe which are one of the oldest species of trees out there.
I know some may criticize this, but I cut up my credit card soon after moving into my first apartment. My wife and I use debit cards exclusively, but I know it's only a matter of time before our card numbers get skimmed online or through a hacked terminal. Does anyone know of any measures we could take to minimize the effects when that does happen?
The reason why such products still exists is exactly because the majority of consumers are not like you.
And if you have a free agent without prior conditions or influences - how was it made?
Is that really better? On the one hand, it makes it more specific what the example domain is ("mattress flipping" vs. "the bedroom"), on the other, it makes it less specific what its being used as an example of ("mathematics" vs. "group theory".)

It seems to me that the change is a net loss in terms of useful information about whether this is something you want to click through to.
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Anybody else struck by the irony of the glaring "Don't miss Tristan Harris's next story" dialog at the bottom of the article?

Note the verbiage exploiting Fear of Missing Something Important.
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Use a separate card for online purchases--for instance, a credit card that you pay off, in full, every month.
In 1876, not long after the giant sequoia trees were (re)discovered by settlers in California, a cross section of a large tree was sent to the east coast where it was dismissed as a hoax. The giant sequoias still seem like a hoax when viewed up close; their scale is truly enormous. Although I am glad that they are protected now, it would have been an amazing sight to see them being logged. I highly recommend visiting Sequoia National Park if you have the chance.
He just did with this:

> I'll explain it all in my next post...

By leaving it hanging your curious mind could not resist the temptation and started to fill in the blanks, and when that wasn't enough you posted a request for more. That's why the main characters never get home or never make out — it's a lot like an infinite scroll.
More importantly (to me) is that Py3 uploads have now exceeded Py2, according to https://twitter.com/chupapuma/status/730088983586181120
I am pretty sure if I tried this with my clients they would not be my clients for long.
My last landlord waived the fee if we had it set on automatic bill pay (via the credit card), I'm not sure if the peace of mind was worth the loss, but considering rent was 750 dollars, 2% would have only been 15 dollars. They probably pad the rent a bit to make up for it, but 750 for a 2 bedroom apartment was still a pretty good deal for the area at the time.
Thanks! :)

The techs were observing erratic behavior, but there wasn't any evidence of bad cabling -- I had actually replaced it about 3 years before. Also, my wiring is low-complexity... I terminate everything in the basement, and have 1 TV. The TV cable ends about 6 feet from the cable box.

Even in other circumstances, the techs are pretty good.
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Unscharf (the adjective to Unschärfe) can be translated to "out of focus" or "blur", which kind of describes the phenomenon figuratively.
Just one example from the article:

> rather than stating that either position or momentum are "as yet undetermined", it became common usage and popular wisdom to jump to the conclusion that there is complete "uncertainty" at the fundamental level of physics

Can you explain how you drew any other conclusion from the article? The whole thing is driving at this one point.
That assumes the suggestion is directly comparable to an action you would have chosen yourself. What about suggestions for things where you would have taken no action, or suggestions to not take an action you would have taken? What about suggestions that include information you would not have been likely to come across yourself?

Imagine your friend is in the hospital, but you've been busy, and haven't checked your normal sources of information about your friends for a few days. You get a suggestion to send them best wishes or flowers, because they are in the hospital. This both suggests a course of action you wouldn't have considered, because you didn't know it was a candidate as well as imparts useful high priority information that you want to know that was hidden behind a feed you classified as low priority lately.

Sure, many suggestions may be minimal and not help much, but do we always classify systems based only on their average use? Sometimes it's important to look at the distribution of use, and whether there are other positive (or negative) externalities.
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This was edited. It used to be in this order: breakfast at 8am and dinner at 6pm.
I believe you, but still my layman's observation is that the average cocoa/win32 ui feels much snappier than the average web app. I have no proof but I'm pretty sure most people here would back me up.

If it should be faster with CSS, why isn't it? In fact, I develop a web app. What am I doing wrong?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737959 and marked it off-topic.
Elixir is nice, but I hardly think it compares to Python due to the fact that you are required to hand back control from a native call approximately every half second or so or else you will screw the internal scheduler on the ErlangVM.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11738048 and marked it off-topic.
Steve Jobs believed that everyone will have a computer in every home. So I say ... umm... yes.
I've used this module for upgrading a python2-only lib : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/future . Basically it allow you to write Python 3 code that will run on Python 2 interpreter (bar from using advanced features like coroutine or matrix mult operator).

Once you decide not to support Python2 anymore, just drop the imports. They also have a Py2/3 compat cheet sheet : http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.pdf
Seattle reporting in, downtown is absolutely full of cranes and large-building construction sites.

https://www.seattleinprogress.com/
(not affiliated in any way) but privacy.com lets you hook up to your bank account and lets you generate one time use card numbers for individual bills, etc. They recently expanded to 15,000 banks/credit unions. It won't help with physical card skimming, but for online stuff it can.

https://privacy.com/

Another option is to use one credit card, and only use it for bills/budgeted expenses and NOTHING more. Then just pay it off every month. This will prevent your real money from being being stolen/frozen in the event of your card number being lost/skimmed, and it can also gain you cash back and/or rewards.
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It's not a winner take all game. Of course you can develop skills both ways. One way places an emphasis on it. Think of a good CS degree as an interface for abstract thinking.
Use a credit card instead of debit card and pay it off each month. If they steal your debit card number and get money out of your bank account it's a huge hassle to clear up that can take months with out getting your money back. If it's a credit card you can easily get the charges removed and even if you have to fight it you still have your money in your bank and can just refuse to pay the fraudulent credit card bill.
Then I think you'd be much happier with Python 3 as it's explicitly clear when you're transforming between str and bytes objects.
Makes sense!

A majority of our users actually report spending significantly less time on Facebook and Twitter after subscribing. We try to deliver all the most interesting and important news with information-dense summaries and lots of contextual links – so there's definitely overlap with what many of us see in our FB/Twitter feeds, but for me (and lots of our users) those feeds tend to be noisy, inefficient ways to get a daily rundown of what's happening in the world (although they are great for breaking news, discussions, and lots of other things).
No, I think there are going to be some tech guys who refuse to buy it for "tin foil" reasons. Generally speaking, I think "normal" people will continue to adopt it as the value increases.

My own experience though has pretty transformative. My mother, father-in-law, even my wife approached the device with extreme caution. However as they watched me naturally interact with it, they all gradually warmed up to it.... and now it's a must have. The other day I walked into my kitchen, asked Alexa what the weather was outside, but she was unplugged. It was weird... kind of like calling your grandma only to realize she's not alive any more.
But if your actions still could change randomly with your personality, memories and everything else that defines you how would that allow for free will?

Say the universe is perfectly deterministic. You could look into the future by simulating everything perfectly but why would that prohibit free will? Most people wouldn't argue that an all knowing god would mean free will is impossible, why is this different?
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> But talent and effort are not enough. Luck also matters.

It's interesting that the author distinguishes between talent and luck. Talent is to a great extent a matter of luck. Your draw in the genetic lottery may well preclude you from being a successful physicist, basketball player, or musician.
This article has the vibe of drawing attention to something else other than the subject of the piece. Is that unfair to say? Not for me to judge I suppose, but the final paragraph says it all.

Anyway, a couple of things from the article...

> "Netflix have already switched to HTML5...due to the benefits of HTML5 based streaming"

> "...HTML5 outperforms plugin based playback in almost every department"

> "...delivering high bandwidth products such as 360° video and Virtual Reality in a more efficient manor."

Such generic statements! Netflix HTML5 playback in both Chrome and Firefox is limited to 720p. That's not a benefit and is why I must use silverlight in IE on Windows 7 to watch 1080p Netflix. They really should cover things like this to better reflect how things actually are.

The claims about HTML5 performance over plugins should only come from people who have done side by side comparisons. So many bloggers telling it according to something they read somewhere.

Finally, "360° video in a more efficient manor". I like efficient manors, even bad manors, but again this claim should be backed up with evidence. If you look at VR, if you look at 360 video, the evidence for better performance in HTML5 for these technologies is simply not there. Even with still image panoramas, anyone who has made these in something like KrPano will know that Flash panoramas generally outperform HTML5 panoramas. Smoother motion, better memory management, better cross-browser performance. We may wish it weren't so, but we should get facts straight regardless of whether it leaves HTML (which we love) a little bruised in the comparison.
I think that the difference is that when you compete based on hardware or software, eventually, through accretion, a free alternative can grow up if there are sufficient people interested in the topic and prepared to work on it, and there's nothing inherent that means that what they create will be worse than what a large company would create.

Most of these new services are built on data, and large, preexisting companies have huge advantages for the datasets that they can call on to train their systems. It's going to be very hard to escape the data problem for open source software.

I'm also losing hope in some of this stuff, because everyone is obsessed with building products, when in fact the internet is more about protocols and standards for talking between hetrogenous systems. Chat is a depressing example of this.
Yeah, I found that approach to be much better even if it feels like it takes longer. Only now that I've got a working todo app (based on a particular system) working, with a decent understanding of every part, I might look into this boilerplate (or another) to see what might be some 'best practices' and to see where I might've taken a suboptimal approach.

I find that this generally is the best approach.

Of course, the mistake I usually end up making, and one I made in this case, is that I try to learn too many things at once. For the current project: Redux, React (+ router stuff), Flowtype, Typescript, hot reloading, and something else I forget. Certainly didn't make things easier or more efficient, but it was hella fun!

(Flowtype in particular is going to stick around for future projects where I don't want to go all-in on types. Typescript seems like a better long-term bet though, FWIW).
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> no solutions or actionable items

Well that's not true, they have no palatable solutions or actionable items. No new toy to buy that will fix things, no low effort/high status ritual to perform. Just a bunch of changes that involve sacrifice on our parts, and involve organizing large groups of people and trying to get them to plan for the future and then act in accordance with this plan. Also some of these choices will result in immediate harm to some people for the sake of future harm prevention, so these are quite easy to argue against using the inherent uncertainty of preventing future harm.

tldr; The problem with the doom sayers is that they have no solutions or actionable items that allow me to consume more things, so we say "fuck that"
Unrelated... Would 'they' have really been more awkward than '(s)he'?
Security isn't about solving problems the right way, it's about reducing attack surface.
And you should treat those people as satire, too. The insistence on taking everyone seriously all the time only creates friction. It is not your job to take someone seriously, it is their job to make you take them seriously.
That isn't necessarily a problem; Debian handles this by means of a kernel postinst hook that copies the newly-installed kernel from its installed location in /boot to /boot/efi/EFI/DEBIAN (or wherever gummiboot expects to find the kernel, I can't remember off the top of my head).

That systemd refuses to support anything other then EFI at /boot puts it into opposition with existing practice (as seen in Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and SUSE).
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Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological/indignant tangents. They lower the signal/noise ratio and usually provoke worse.
Trusted Computing Group (TCG) provides a TPM and OPAL spec. The more common term is SED (self encrypting drive) where FDE tends to be software (typically OS). FDE (full drive encryption) is probably better considered "volume encryption" since it applies to file system volumes. It's possible for other volumes and partitions on a drive to not be encrypted.

Many consumer drives are SEDs now. Check out the Samsung 840 EVO which is such a thing. It's always encrypting, it's just that out of the box it's always unlocked (i.e. it provides itself with the DEK at power on).
You pretty much fit the description of a financially irresponsible person, I have to say, I'm afraid. (You seem to be aware too so that's good I guess.)
That's fair. I think the vague approach of "they were clearly lacking skills" was what triggered my response. In this case, there's a justifiable position there. But a lot of details could have changed, and that vague statement could still be blanket applied.
Which is funny because that look has only been used by MS for the past 2-3 years. But yes, it's their current look. :)
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US citizens are binging on credit to make up for stagnant wages. That's not a theory, that's a fact. First it was housing, now its credit card and auto loan debt.

Fun fact: Subprime auto loan bonds are in a slow motion trainwreck:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/15/investing/subprime-unpaid-au...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-21/this-is-wh...
> From what I remember it's not as performant or reliable as the plugin...

... two things that absolutely kill videogames, so it's more accurate to say "Unity you will output WebGl-based games" (at some indeterminate point in the future).

Agreed that it's a step in the right direction over alternatives though.
4 more kilobytes. :)
What Slashdot did comes to mind...replacing the actual number with an enumerated set of descriptions. It was fairly easy to get to the top classification of 'Excellent', so once you achieved that, there was no reason to check it. It also cut down on the 'karma whoring' that led them to make the change in the first place, so it was a positive in multiple ways.
While it's not "plug-and-play" like Time Capsule, Crashplan is pretty good. I've been using it for about a year now and so far its been working flawlessly for me. All my Windows boxes get backed up daily to my Synology NAS (note: this is a third party package, so your mileage may vary).
Could someone guide me to a step by step guide for installing it in windows ?
It's a shame that so much about urban planning just proves the saying "That government is best which governs least."
I assume a web app (on a main domain for the platform or a self hosted kind on the pub's sub domain) should do fine. Guests can create accounts, vote on songs or use as guest (maybe with their table number) and even try to order online or participate in a draw/give feedback or share moments/songs with their friends which will attract more traffic to the bar.
Why do you do (or don't do) all the stuff? Sounds completely nutty.
This article presents determinism as certain. That's not the case.

In terms of fundamental physics we know probabilities are determined, but the exact outcomes are not. There's strong evidence that this isn't a matter of us being ignorant of some hidden deterministic state (Bell's inequality experiments) but rather is fundamental to how our universe works, though it's not a totally settled debate. Whether this gives an escape hatch where our brains are capable of free will is way too complex a question for me to think it'll be settled empirically any time soon, but I personally suspect it's true in a faint way. We're mostly reactive, but have some way to influence those reactions over time.
can someone explain the convention of importing a directory into a file of the same name (and same level) before main.scss. The structure is:

src/sass/
components/
support/
vars/
_components.scss
_support.scss
main.scss

and within main:

@import "components";

Just curious why this is? I usually just import them directly into main, but I could understand if they were nested into the directory so they could be broken out. This structure doesn't make sense to me though as they are all flat & in same directory.
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What are the devises that I can use to monitor activities of my grandma?So in case she has a stroke or something I can see that something went wrong? For example, wearable heartbeat trackers etc?
Don't get me started on Windows' bizarre, barely-documented behaviour. Magical filenames pointing to devices and file virtualization are bad enough... just try to decipher whether a given registry path is what it appears, or is redirected through yet more hidden virtualization magic some time. And we haven't even come to the truly wondrous series of overrides that occur when looking up names in the NT object namespace...
actually the win api is broken when it comes to unicode. there is no real unicode in windows and thats a huge problem.

Handling UTF-8 like on Linux is definitly akward in the Win32 API. And actually that only was caused by the fact of backwards compability.

Actually it would be huge if they would force users to unicode more. But I doubt that will ever happen. We maybe see Windows Active Directory on Linux before this will happen.
I generalize to the whole movie industry. Lots of the genes of 70s- era is gone. Framing, pacing, music, acting. Nothing clicks to me these days.

I don't blame Lucas too much. SW worked a lot because of the effects so Lucas tried to push the envelope has he did before. But yeah, drowned in the technical side of making pictures while making the rest utterly bland. But look, fully CGI grass fields.
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For me, I don't use Google Photos or Spotify, I have my own local copies and maintain my own backups.

I do use Github for some projects, but I also maintain local copies and maintain my own backups for all my projects.

If pinboard.in ever disappeared, it'd be like loosing an appendage! It might not be as bad as loosing an entire arm or leg, but its loss would be equivalent to at least a finger or two!
Part of the problem is that the big hosting services don't even support Python 3 yet. Google App Engine and AWS Lambda don't support it, Heroku does but only for the past year, etc.

I'm building a brand new company and I'm being forced to use Python 2.7 because I'm using Lambda. This was my choice, but the point is I can't use 3 even if I want to.
Well the median is an average so...

And honestly both averages should be presented together, paints a terrifying picture