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One fact I find notable with these "massive" societies in the American South West is how small they were. For example, the linked article describes a site with hundreds of rooms. That implies thousands of people.

And, Chaco was the kingpin. Many other fascinating sites, such as Walnut Canyon, had "tens of rooms."
Setting iptables is not absolutely necessary since DO offers a built-in firewall.
I use the built-in script blocking in Chrome, it's fairly quick to whitelist any scripts i actually want to run. It's by domain though, so not really perfect. I also block ad servers at the DNS level, and run an an blocker. Until recently I didn't need the blocker, but ad networks have gotten better at serving from legitimate hosts, so I can't just block them anymore.

There are lots of services I would be glad to outright pay for, or have some sort of flattr-type service attached to. I don't feel one iota guilty for blocking ads, given the risks and costs.
What drives me crazy is how they make 3 million trees sound like a lot. I am a Forester and we typically plant over 600 trees per acre so 3 million is only about 5,000 acres. Which is not a particularly large forest. Hell I have 5 times that in a moderately size metropolitan area.

A decent crew of 5 people can plant that in a few months.

I'm sure their prices are extremely high but we pay less than 10 cents a seedling and that is for high end seedlings.

Planting doesn't cost much more than that either.

Once again I am sure it is different in a place that doesn't have a forestry industry, but if it is a national priority they could make it happen.
What's the point in the world having more art, culture and mythos if it doesn't have more that's accessible to any single individual? The best way for each new cultural artifact to reach the most people is for it to be created in a language and culture that the most people share.
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I love Material Design language. But never would have made the connection with Italian "Mod" style of the 1960s. For me it's more about bringing tactile sense and physicality back to digital interfaces.

Another touch stone of inspiration for me is Mid Century Modern Danish design. Consider this "Valet Chair" by the legendary Hans Wegner. It isn't just that the seat lifts up to form a rack for hanging your trousers. Or that the backing hides a jacket hanger in plain site. It's the final reveal: a mini compartment underneath the seat for "storing ones cufflinks and tie pins" ;)

The functionality of the chair is modelled upon the world it aspires to inhabit. It's a design for living.

Hans Wegner Designed Mid-Century Valet Chair

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/season/18/baton-rouge-la/ap...
I'm of the firm belief that suburbs are a blight in general. Wasteful, inefficient, characterless... they are the real reason cities "lose their soul". So I agree with you that Amazon did the right thing by choosing to go with an urban campus.
There have always been international languages since mankid has been able to speak and started travelling on the old world, that grew organically from the interaction between those travellers.

Or imposed by the new rulers after conquering a new territory.

Artificial created languages never gained any meaningful ground.
Prions (transmissible protein configurations in general) are not a part of the Alzheimer's disease. If it were, the valeant drug would not have failed so spectacularly two weeks ago.

The major risk factor in Alzheimer's is susceptibility to oxidative damage in the brain.
This is becoming an increasingly large problem in Canada as well with Chinese, especially with ethnic enclaves and lack of cultural integration. And any discussion similar to that of the parent comment to yours would be considered near hate speech by most people under 35, particularly those who are university educated.
Fun fact: In Danish the word volapük has come to mean nonsense.
Even better - make sure that everything is under version control or backed up so that in such a situation you can just reinstall from scratch without introducing the possibility of "recovering" infected files.
Good for them, I think this is a great way to help the fight against climate change and regenerate their ecosystem. Who doesn’t like trees?
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And I don’t actually think it’s very eco friendly. They only do that because the altitude doesn’t allow for enough microbial activity to break it down.
A major factor in language death is parents choosing not to speak the language to their children. So apparently people are plenty willing to give up those things.

The flip side is it's easy to wax poetic about the importance of preserving language and culture when you will not face major barriers because of your language or dialect.
I always assumed that everyone on HN would be using uMatrix. Strangely it doesn't seem very popular.

I don't run JS at all except for very few webpages (think gmail log in page, etc).

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I haven't really stressed how good uMatrix is. It really has changed the way I use the internet.
This would be lost anyway as language evolves over time. You really have to study in order to understand old english as an english speaker, or latin as an italian.
whats the student loan crisis?
Is there any reason I should care exactly which chips I'm working with, though?

If I were buying the hardware, sure. But if I'm renting then it's all just a means to an end.
What?! Does Terry finally decide to use Rust for his browser development?
“We” = the people who will be crying in their beer in a decade when “we” are too old to be employable and bankrupt after the end of life of 1988-2008 systems and datacenters drops the bottom out of the IT labor market.

Billions are being invested in replacing that stuff today, and every one of those projects cuts staffing needs 90%.

The plumbers will be there laughing at office wankers who thought they had a sweet gig.
It's super unlikely. Having worked in the field, I am almost certain that amyloids are a consequence of, not a cause of the disease. Otherwise, valeant's drug would not have failed so spectacularly a few weeks ago.
> Central to Olivetti’s philosophy — and also to the designers that it hired — was that technology needed to be humanistic, not domineering

Today's Google is very bad at this. Their every product is creepy, cold, dumbed-down and surveilance-based. Maybe they are trying to somewhat fix that by visual aesthetics? Their hardware surely look great, and UIs in Android look good too, but UIs in their web apps look dull and authoritarian.

Google Photos is just "we exfiltrate all your photos and use machine learning on them". Its UI is like designed for monkeys. Compare that to Flickr or their old Picasaweb. Few buttons, no functionality except "we get your photos now you can look on them". I have lots of photos dated in future (from old camera which had bad clock) and there's no way to fix it (except to edit date on each photo).

Google+ was so cold and dead and creepy. Modern Youtube is just a stupid TV. Most "account settings" pages look like I'm viewing them on giant phone. They are saying "you don't need desktop computer, just use phone, you need only play and pause buttons". Their design is highly political. It feels more like eastern bloc's high modernism, not like Olivetti.
Its a worthy of the time endeavor, trust me. White listing very carefully over time enhances the browser experience, but you are right there are sites that go excessive on the off-domain js callS, but I choose to just get content elsewhere. Its time people were pickier about this stuff and pushed back more to the companies.
Amazon does both. https://advertising.amazon.com/
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Agreed. Mesa Verde in Colorado is also fantastic.
There may be things an exploit can do as root that wouldn't work under your user to break out of the adobe flash "sandbox". But yeah, the real recommendation is to get rid of flash and kill it with fire. The security of free software isn't fullproof but good riddance from the web to that particular closed source blob.
well, when wannacry was around, you could "salvage" the decryption key from an infected machine before it was rebooted.

not saying your idea is bad advice but you need the full picture to counter ransomware attacks
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"We've restored this building to how it looked... Fifty years ago! No, surely no. No one was alive then":

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2PbKpsMRk
> This was also the traditional view of the Esperanto movement, which wanted Esperanto to be the unique world-wide language of communication while preserving all of the existing languages through bilingualism

This is inaccurate. L.L. Zamenhof hoped that Esperanto – or at least something like it – would eventually replace all other languages. He didn’t care much for language diversity as we would understand it today, and he saw such differences between peoples as divisive and an obstacle to overcome.

Naturally, even with Zamenhof’s dreams, in the short term Esperanto or another international auxiliary language would only coexist with the native languages of its speakers. However, it wasn’t until the last fifty years or so that a certain segment of the Esperanto movement has begun to advertise Esperanto specifically as a way to safeguard language diversity by letting people keep their native language but have access to an international auxiliary language.

Not all Esperantists agree with this, and through such campaigns one gets the impression that World Esperanto Association and similar organizations are only trying to jump on the wider anti-globalization bandwagon in order to get more attention for Esperanto. Furthermore, Esperanto organizations take a quite schizophrenic approach: if Esperanto is supposed to be only an auxiliary language, why do so many Esperanto organizations praise the creation of original literature (and other cultural output) in Esperanto? Why isn't it encouraging people to write solely in their native language and then only translate it to Esperanto?
There’s still the possibility that the infected files have been already committed to version control or backups, before it activated.
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Answer:

> From Queensland's Department of Agriculture and Fisheries brochure Can I have a pet rabbit?,

> Why are pet rabbits illegal in Queensland?

> Rabbits are Australia's most destructive agricultural and environmental introduced animal pest, [...]

> Can I get a permit for a pet rabbit?

> A permit cannot be issued for keeping pet rabbits of any variety for any private purpose.

> A permit to keep domestic rabbits in Queensland can only be approved if the animal is being kept for an approved purpose:

> certain forms of public entertainment (e.g. magic show and circuses)

> scientific and research purposes

So you could be a magician OR a scientist
IMHO the hardware has been shit since the AMD disaster.
>people are actually ready to shell out some decent money for getting the verification done.

True, "trial runs" for asic production cost impossibly huge amounts of money as mask sets cost so much to make even for a 3 generations old process.

Only top players can afford them, yet some of them do switch do limit themselves to extensive verification.

Another big thing is time, doing a trial run in actual silicon takes many times more time than the most extensive verification run you can afford for an equivalent amount of money on current mainstream litho process.
Too bad. Rabbits are the best small-scale meat animal.
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Yup. It's always labor's fault.

Executives, investors, management, industry, market, over production, competition, technology, and economics are never a factor.

Stupid labor.
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If that's your culture, you'll find a way to express it in whatever language you use. If it's not your culture anymore - maybe only your parents and beyond, then you're already lost it, despite having the language.

My point is that culture exists or dies on its own. It doesn't depend on a language.
> imploring passersby not to shit on my grave

This is oddly specific, it feels like a dare.
Not only is formal methods more effective for HW, the incentives are also more tilted towards HW. If you fuck up the HW design, well..you're fucked. With SW, "you can always push out an update" mentality exists. I'm not saying this to criticize SW, but this is more an example of how you conform to the ecosystem in which you exist.
This is an easy opinion to harbor when you speak a language that affords you access to the best cultural and economic opportunities.

If you had children you wouldn't even try to bring them up in a dying minority language, why should Other People?

Why do you want to keep Other People from joining in the world's culture?

That's what you are wishing for here.
> Cute. The decision is made by an executive based on a magazine article they read on a plane, or on what their buddies on the golf course said, then handed down by diktat to the workers.

I'm sure that has happened somewhere at least once. But in general what happens is that the executive reads a magazine article about The Cloud and the IT department gets orders to "do cloud" when the executive doesn't even know what that means. So the details fall to IT, like which provider to use.

And in the cases where the details are decided by people who don't understand the technology, they'll inevitably choose the wrong things and pay five times too much. Which makes it easy for IT to get a lower quote from the provider they actually want.

I mean your argument is essentially that executives are all incompetent and easily swayed by shiny objects and bright colors. But that was sort of the point -- they're as susceptible to being controlled by crafty subordinates as crafty vendors, if not more so.
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It's supposed to protect the privacy of people in the video, e.g. recordings in bathrooms, bystanders, etc.
To be fair to us - if you’re traveling 100 miles it’s rarely as easy as it is in the US.

In the US that’s likely “sit on this one highway for about 90 minutes”. In the UK you’d have to have do a ton of road changes and work around or through several major towns and cites.

It’s just lots more dense. So it’s less that it’s a “long way” - it’s more a pain in the ass to drive 100 miles most of the time.
The same is, broadly, true of Finnish.

(But despite that it is a hard language to learn, I'm making only small amounts of progress despite having lived in Finland for two years.)
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I'm curious how the new study involved 40x more officers than the Rialto study, but only collected 5x more hours of video. Were the Washington officers using the cameras a tenth as much? The article goes on to say that in Washington they collect about 1,000 hours of footage a day, but previously they say the study involves over 2,000 officers, so this sounds like fairly low usage. It says researchers checked to make sure they were turning on the cameras "when they were supposed to" and "found a high level of compliance". Curious.
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It seems like some variant of the Linux.Encoder.1 (2015):

http://www.zdnet.com/article/crypto-ransomware-strikes-linux...

https://labs.bitdefender.com/2015/11/linux-ransomware-debut-...

probably "python based" and, as mentioned on the gentoo forums, the ransomware mesage is very similar to the one in:
https://github.com/jdsecurity/CryptoTrooper
> Why else would you learn a language?

Because you have a foreign-partner, or because you've moved countries? (Though I appreciate neither of those would be super-common.)
Ok. So think about what that actually means. You get a payment from the government for $1000 once a month. Then they take $2000 in taxes from your paycheck once a month. Net, you paid $1000 in taxes. For you, it is indistinghuisable from a system where you paid $1000 less in taxes because of lower rates. UBI functions like the standard deduction for your purposes, except insofar as it is refundable if your income and thus taxes owed drops below the UBI level, whereas a traditional refundable tax credit is refundable only after the return is filed, once per year.

You can relabel the account balances however you want, but the underlying economic reality is the same for people earning income taxable above the UBI amount. You are paying more to the government than you are receiving. For people near or right on that level, they simply have an accelerated refund schedule.
Actually, the word it is derived from still exist in Norwegian (ludder), though it feel a bit archaic in modern Norwegian, and is much less used than "slut" is in English.
> from which you can do some forensic work to find out how you were owned

It's worth noting that if you are really serious about doing forensics and investigating the attack, then shutting down can be pretty destructive.

> what data is recoverable.

Another point I'd make is that try to recover as little as possible from the infected system and prefer using clean backups instead.

I agree on the overall sentiment though, attempting to recover a infected system is unnecessarily risky. Nuke it from the orbit, it is the only way to be sure.
Ethics? Morals? Not knowing exactly what sort of lie they can get away with? Years of training and practice in not lying? Fear of getting caught and not getting the job? Fear of getting caught later and losing the job?
Yes, and it has a CSS-like flexibility. E.g. you can allow *.cloudfront.net _if_ the top-level site is one you trust
What is the benefit of going public through media but not reporting it to the police? Do women really get less harassed from chan/Reddit if they only go public on media? How would trial by media be better for the victim? Trial by media benefits no one.

> you were partially responsible because you passed out (so it wasn’t rape)

In practically every country in the world it is rape if someone has sex with a unconscious person. What legal system where you referring to that has that as a legal defense?
I believe the first validation of product must come regardless of marketing skills. If you built a side project and no one is using it, it is a product problem, not a marketing problem.

Actually, I believe a clever marketing tactic can be counter-productive in such an early stage, as you might lure customers to a product that doesn't deliver value.

So, your first few paying customers should come from building the product and putting it in front of few people (your personal and professional network, Show HN, Reddit).

After you have these first customers then it is time to stop underestimating the marketing effort a successful product demands.
Which is why people are keen on developing formal methods for smart contracts, which generally can't be updated. Plus they're a lot smaller than most software.
I think the analysis may be interesting to readers who can't read Chinese, but I don't think the author has taken the time to analyse the phrase in the context of advertising, and I don't think the conclusion is at all surprising.

To begin with, I tend to disagree that the alternative the author suggested ("yīqǐ Zhīfùbǎo 一起支付宝") is catchier. Using "let's" in this context does forgo rhythm but it's also a lot catchier when it's read out in an advertisement for exactly the same reason—I would argue that people remember it because of the sudden interruption introduce by the disruption in rhythm and change in language.

In fact, if this multiscriptal advertisement was carefully designed (instead of the designer thinking that it's simply cool), I would go as far as arguing that they only want people to remember the second half of the phrase, "let's 支付宝".

As for the conclusion that "[Alipay] wanted to sound international, since Alipay has global aspirations", as I mentioned earlier, I don't think it's at all surprising.

Growing up in Hong Kong, multiscriptalism in advertisements has been around for as long as I have been alive and the purpose, at least for as long as I have been able to understand the purpose of advertisements, has always been to either make a product appear to be hip and cool and/or international.
Yeah, this alone discounts the entire study IMO.

Police body cameras should be on all the time. They averages 30mins per day per officer: no wonder they get funky results.
Did anyone else have problems after releasing the hypnodrones? I lost most of the interface and stopped producing paperclips. I don't have factories yet, and only have produced 700 million paperclips
The Apple Watch bands are pretty diverse in their coloration.
> This is inaccurate. L.L. Zamenhof hoped that Esperanto – or at least something like it – would eventually replace all other languages. He didn’t care much for language diversity as we would understand it today, and he saw such differences between peoples as divisive and an obstacle to overcome.

Thanks for the correction! I've heard exactly the opposite from Esperantist sources, but it's quite possible that people are sort of retroactively attributing their views to Zamenhof even if he would have felt quite differently -- which I guess isn't unusual in movements with a respected charismatic founder. Maybe this approach emerged somewhat later and people then described it as the "traditional" view of the movement. Can you suggest any sources or references that might clarify this issue?
> My thought is that there's something good in the notion, not just of the dead not being forgotten, but of having the dead impart some sort of cost or burden on the living.

Sure, as long as "the cost or burden on the living" is merely that of remembering our debt to the dead for their contributions to our present-day lives. (Cf. President Obama's "You didn't build that" remark during the 2012 campaign [0], which triggered outrage by opponents who quoted it out of context.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
> These data are striking.

The use of 'data' to mean 'plural of datum' continues to fall out of favor in modern usage. Encountering it in a Saturday-morning browse was a note of angelic harmony to start the day.
Weird, I've never done either of those things.
I believe there is a long tradition in live performance to have someone "warm up" the audience for the main event.

I'm sure your example got the audience way more than "warm" but I don't think it's something stand up comedians, MC5 or rap can take credit for.
Just another data point: Drupal uses its own bug tracker and the workflow is that anyone can participate in an issue with various contributions. Two of these are uploading or reviewing a patch. But another is reading the issue and writing a new summary which given a long enough issue is invaluable. Or adding new tags -- which can be totally new. Or re-titleing the issue. Read: https://groups.drupal.org/node/313068#comment-955593 for a better writeup on theese.
I think a very important trick was, to make her phone number look like it was from headquarters.

I don't think I would ever question a call or email that is technically being shown as coming from WITHIN the company.

How can one protect from this??? call the department back yourself EVERY time someone new calls or emails you in your company?