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You're right, you totally have the right to ruin one of Earth's great treasures because your state needs jobs.
> unlike with FF and Chrome

Both of these work fine in hidpi, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
How is this different from the phone based 2-factor that Google once had for their own products? Honest question, not being sarcastic here.

Google used to have an authentication system that would display a QR code on the screen which you would use your phone to navigate to. That URL would then, assuming your phone was already authenticated to Google, log you in on the computer as well. I was trying to remember the name of the system, but can't come up with it.

The short version is that Google determined the system to be too insecure and vulnerable to exploit and canceled the system.
which I guess illustrates how unreliable anecdotal evidence really is.

Or, maybe your use case skirts around the problems?
I'm not saying we should forbid climbing. But offering a way to make the trip without dying would be nice. Also, having a gondola that goes up there would make it easier to remove dead bodies of climbers.
Wow.. I know a few startups that just killed after this announcement.
I don't think development vs production matters here, you're still wasting people's time.

You can't have it both ways, you can't benefit from the npm ecosystem and then get mad when people are upset that you're not following npm's conventions and wasting their time. If you want to be righteous about something then this is what happens.
It'll soon be as seamless as a magstripe. See "The Solution" here: http://cointelegraph.com/news/113255/keeping-score-at-the-20...
Having lived both in Phoenix and Tucson, I can say for sure state politicians will be in no hurry to protect the Grand Canyon. Sen. McCain wanted to dig up the canyon for resources. The argument will be "job creation," and anyone that opposes this project is against jobs. Not that I agree with it, but AZ is a big red state that also taxes solar panels even though sunlight is cheap.
> Manufacturing is hard.

Especially when you are not the one who manufactured the item, but get the blame for it's failure (Hitachi hard drives in Dell computers... Takata airbags in Toyota cars...)
That's because those people have no business being there. Those mountains are for genuine climbers that can earn their ascent there, not idiots with too much money and no respect for a mountain, who have sherpas basically push them to the top.

I hate this ridiculously entitled attitude. If you aren't a great climber in fantastic physical shape, just don't go to Everest. I have the same kind of contempt for people who pay crazy sums of money to go on a Safari in Africa with loads of guides to shoot lions or elephants, so they can show their friends back home the pictures and the carcasses.

Actually - in that same vein. Those are the same people that show up to Burning Man spending insane sums of money and completely defeating the spirit of that event.

I am not a climber, a hunter, or someone who has ever gone to Burning Man, but if you want to take part in those cultures, you should do so with respect and humility.
That's Grand Canyon Village, the existing visitor center in the National Park.

I spent a week there once for a wilderness first responder course; it's very much a small town.
Benefit from the NPM ecosystem?

What benefit, exactly? No-one makes money from the development of CoffeeScript. It being on NPM is a convenience to those who want to use it, not a benefit for the programmer that gets absolutely nothing in return for making it.
I second what you had to say about self-coaching and listmaking. Ruling an ADHD mind is all about the meta-game.

I've always thought it was cruel that methods for dealing with my ADHD involved exactly the kinds of things that ADHD would to keep me from doing:
-Setting appointments with doctors
-Reading full books
-Regularly checking schedules and priority lists

Eventually, I buckle down and these things happen. But it takes me longer than it takes other people, and the trip definitely goes uphill.

But if you're fighting, you're winning.
The Canyon is huge; about 250 miles long. There's room for some tourist friendly stuff there, especially if it gets people interested in geology and conservation. I feel like anytime there's a proposal to do anything of value there's always some, largely, neckbeardish outrage.

This all just sounds like overly political correct, and often corrupt, tribal politics. A cable-car ride would be a wonderful experience. If I was a kid I'd lose my mind on something like this.

>To Dave Nimkin of the National Parks Conservation Assn., the developments represent "profound and enormous threats to the park. It's a grim forecast."

Oh come on, lets not be hysterical. If these guys really cared that much, how about stopping all these asshole hikers and campers who drop garbage all over the place? It seems like the line in the sand drawn here is pretty arbitrary. Heck, there's a massive development right on the Canyon, called the Canyon Village. This area is not this pristine, untouched thing, its very much been developed in significant ways.
Same here on both counts - have been using ST as my main git interface since 2011 (I still use command line for git init, reflog, and checking stuff remotely on VMs, and git bfg if someone committed a credential), and using submodules across a wide variety of projects. I've never had a problem, and only avoid subtrees to be nice to my colleagues that have had problems
You have to install Group Policy Tools for Windows in order to have gpmc.msc on Windows 7 work from the run box.

Going through MMC works even on virgin Windows 7 pro/ent without installing anything.
Ask HN: How do hackers hack?
How do hackers hack into systems and networks, like how do they discover vulnerabilities. Is it possible to learn this? Can you guys share some examples. I have briefly read through a few hacking for dummies type of books, but non of those techniques would actualy work in real life.
In the news you see so many of headlines claiming hackers hacked into bla bla. But it has always confused me of how they acctual do it. It would be awesome if you guys can share your thoughts.
Stephen Bond had that great article (well, lousy on the AI side) about "Positivist Programming", and how the philosophical education of scientists is often so poor they're unknowing logical positivists.

The whole achievement of post-positivism and falsifiability seems to be lost on people who seem to think "some math" == "rigor". String theory at least seems like a harmless example, I'm more worried about the public perception of economics.
I'd go for a solution inside the mountain - maybe a train (like the Jungfrau - not to the top though) or a funicular then a elevator to take you to the very top (like Les Deux Alpes - though that is a glacier dome rather than a peak).
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Hahaha @ haters downvoting without providing any counterexamples... because they can't

What else on the market is that size and weight with a quad core, 16gb ram, and pcie storage?
A couple books that I'd recommend for their attention to biology and genetics as the scientific driver:

Julie Czerneda's Species Imperative Trilogy:
Survival, Migration, and Regeneration.

Maragaret Atwood, anything, but recently the MaddAddam trilogy:
Oryx and Crake, Year of the Flood, and Maddaddam.

Nancy Kress' Sleepless series:
Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride.
but wouldn't you miss sentiment terms in the text if you sample a subset of your negative dictionary?
I think it means 9 times...I think.
Sometimes reading statistical comparisons in the news is just insufferable.
Why would that matter? Intelligence agencies have turned foreign nationals before. And in the case of a US/British cross-over, those intelligence agencies have intelligence sharing agreements.
I understand your point - the proprietary applications offered might be so vastly superior to any potential alternatives that would use an open protocol as to make the whole idea irrelevant.

But that supposes that all user needs can be met that way, which in a resource-constrained world cannot be true: the proprietary application provider will inevitably have to prioritize some classes of users over others. Those users whose needs are not within the functional scope of the application are going to find their experience quite horrible.

Only open protocols guarantee the potential for diversity that can cover provide all users with good experience - or with an experience at all...
> doesn't provide any extra prediction

But it does. It predicts extra dimensions and it predicts supersymmetry. However it might be that these are only visible beyond our achievable energy levels such that we cannot verify them. The goal would then be to find what other indirect (as in not actually observing the strings) feature string theory predicts, that is hopefully within our reach, and verify that.
Interesting article. I liked this part:

> Although, David Hertz Architects did find out that the studio has to register the roof of the house with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) so pilots flying overhead do not mistake it as a downed aircraft.
Yes, the Great wall of China, that strange natural phenomenon, formed by tectonic forces over millions of years.
likely any new development near the Grand Canyon or similar would be required to have something akin to gondola because of the ADA.

While I agree preserving nature is the best reason, guilt over treatment of Indians by past generation has effectively allowed the greediest of them to run all over conversation areas and state laws.
There are two problems with that. One is that for previous and future traditional ascenders it would "cheapen" the experience. In essence it makes scaling it mundane, so you would have elitists oppose this. The second is that unless you institute a limited lottery system Everest would become littered like mt Fujiyama. So basically nature becomes spoiled by commercial interests.

So given those choices, what's the answer?
Jeremy doesn't benefit from having popular JavaScript libraries? This is news to me.
That's ridiculous. It's like you're saying: without Honda, the car industry, as we know it, wouldn't exist.

The hosting industry is huge. There's a ton options, many of them better, larger and older than AWS. There are so many sites that don't use AWS. For example, I believe that, pre-Google, youtube used ServerBeach.
> RAM: 48GB

Per server or in total..? Either one is believable.
> Are you referring to all flavors(Home Basic/Home Premium/Pro/Ultimate) from one disk? Installing retail/OEM from one disk has never been the case in my experience

No, Home/Pro/Ultimate are separate disks -- but OEM/Retail are exactly the same thing. You have to phone in your activation however, since OEM keys usually do not automatically activate over the internet.

Vista and up, there is no such thing as an OEM ISO image. XP had that and it was a great pain for support...

If you mean OEM in the sense of the pre-installed image on your recovery partition... that's not an "OEM" install in the same sense as the XP disks were... that's a customized image either made by something like nLite or installed on a generic factory laptop, pre-loaded with garbage, ran sysprep (to genericsize it) and imaged to a file.

The recovery image/factory image does not use the license on the bottom of your laptop usually -- it uses a factory volume license key that is pre-activated on the image. However if you try to recover that key with some key extractor, and use it to activate another installation from an official ISO, it will not work -- ie. that license will only activate at the factory. If you use the license from the bottom of your laptop, you need a genuine microsoft iso.

So long as you have a Windows 7 Pro license key on the bottom of your laptop, and use a Windows 7 Pro ISO, it will work.. or Home and Home, etc...
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Putting a set of stairs to the peak appeals to the type of person who wants to be on top of Everest, but not to the type of person who wants to climb Everest.

A set of stairs, obviously, ruins the wildness of one of the world's great wildnesses, as well as costs a lot of money for something that would likely go relatively unused.

Otherwise, as has been pointed out, you can take a helicopter to the top, but honestly, that may prove over time to be more risky than the slower way.
This is exactly what I thought (I spammed many of my friends with the link to the talk). I bet you that this (which is a step in the wrong direction) will trigger a something worse (a leap in the wrong direction to 'protect' consumers).
Is the vertical movement actually part of the authentication, or is it just a fancy looking barcode?
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Awfultitle or Stupidtitle?
Superphish
The way I understand it (and I am probably completely wrong, seeing as I am not a physicist, nor a mathematician), string theory is to scientific theories as a class is to objects in OOP.

You can indeed never falsify string theory itself, but you absolutely can falsify a theory derived from string theory by picking parameters for it.
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Yes, agree. Love the look of Layers WP - but the people that you're trying to attract (people that actually know what the WP core means) are the ones who want exactly the opposite of something built into the WP core.
First, why? Semver is for humans -- it puts a defined meaning to version numbers so that humans can gain useful information from them (this also is useful for automation, because once there is a clear unambiguous meaning, workflows, automated or not, can use that meaning as input.)

The "romantic" version is pure noise that adds no information, for humans or machines.

Second, why octets specifically instead of numbers (or, more precisely, non-negative integers) more generally? Is there any value in restricting the range of components of a version number to 0-255?
It's number 30 on the Tiobe list of programming language popularity. I'd hardly call that dead.
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> Many evolutionary biologists also prefer not to call this Lamarckism

Maybe that's why I got downvoted for - as it turns out - writing the exact thing the scientist said.

It was just something that popped into my head.
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As though the results of randomly flipping a coin "destroyed the definition of science"?

Dealing with randomness has always been a part of science. Understanding how far that randomness permeated the nature of the universe was a revelation, but it's hyperbolic and sensationalistic to say it as you did.
Interesting that your choice of phrase is "having" those libraries. Not "creating", "developing" or "maintaining". It's as if they just dropped into his lap or something.

Of course there are benefits to being a well known JS developer. But there are also drawbacks to spending a huge amount of personal time developing projects that hundreds of thousands of people depend upon and taking no money in return. Come on.

Don't get me wrong, breaking changes in code are A Bad Thing. But it irks me that instead of everyone saying "oh, what an unfortunate mistake, how can we fix it?" they say "Jeremy broke my app".
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That's mountain climbing elitism. The "great climbers" made it look cool, then others with more money than skill figured out their own way to do it, and had a great time to boot. I'm sure that drives elitists nuts, kind of like how I'm sure software hackers building with Arduino makes EE majors nuts.
Indeed I am, my "minimum useful" amount is 16GB -- my desktops are 128GB, and my current "monster laptop" is 64GB. The in-flight state on the software I work on can get well over 8GB with our test dataset.
Irrigating the southwest in the first place was a Big Government mistake. That's the real disaster here. The Grand Canyon is pretty, but it's just a big ravine. Damming up the Colorado so people in Tuscon can have grass lawns is the real crime.
yeah, as someone who has worked with WordPress a long time, "built into the WordPress core" is a terrifying statement. I didn't read any further.
I agree, that's the problem, the problem is not that it is SSH
Yes, but that essentially is saying the same thing as "people's assumptions can differ".

This can be an assumption about the meaning of a word or subtleties in the collection of concepts that connect to that word (as often seems to be the case with most computer science and mathematics material on the internet). Engineering interestingly enough does not seem to suffer from this insanity.

This can happen from overgeneralizing and even correct simplification. The pattern still fits, but both people have applied the pattern to different 'other stuff'.

We both have different points, so we both are directing this dialogue towards unrelated directions. I will attempt to connect them. I agree with you. Meaning can be an issue in communication. Form can be an issue in communication as well.
I can call myself a hacker maybe - start from reading some blogs and articles, maybe books too, but you have to be a good programmer first.
That's a good question - I believe my router is good up to 300mbps but I'll double check!
For better or worse, it's not an Arizona problem, but a problem on the sovereign Navajo nation land. There were major conflicts in the northeast over this kind of stuff before the gambling money got into the political process. Sadly the reservations intended for native Americans have become a easy way for foreign interests to skirt state regulations and freely obtain the necessary property (even if currently occupied) to do so.
The price of solitude is effort. Don't want to share nature with others? Walk a mile and you will filter 99% of humanity. Three miles uphill will filter 99.9%.

My trip to the Grand Canyon was tailored for solitude. We drove hours to get to a trailhead on the North Rim, hiked a a steep trail down, camped (by a hard-to-believe falls/spring), and hiked up and out by moonlight to avoid the heat. I don't mean to sound hardcore - I'm really not - I just like solitude and that's how you get it.

I'm ambivalent about this particular proposal. Exposure to nature creates naturalists. At the same time people ruin nature - the experience of it and it's physical environment. It's a balancing act and I have no idea if this is too much or too little.
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If you've not been to the Grand Canyon, you should go before we humans ruin it. It truly is one of the most beautiful places you'll ever see.
Yes, economics is the most hyped pseudo-science and just because it "is mathematics, man! so it cannot be wrong...".

Like Varoufakis claiming he uses "Game Theory...".

Wilmott has a great example of the uselessness of mathematics in the real world when it comes to things that cannot be properly modeled: "when a magician says he is going to guess the card that the person from the audience chose, what is the probability that he guesses right?"

Wrong model (or too simplistic) => absurd/uninformative conclusions.

But "they use cohomology, so they cannot be wrong".
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Millions of people haven't even summited Everest (much less everyday, can you imagine? It's like Dane Cook's skit about thousands of firefighters). The numbers around 4,000 according to a quick google search. And it's a multi day trip with plenty of acclimatization stops. Not only that but 100s of those 4000 have perished.

It's not some trivial walk around the park just because it's not considered one of the hardest summits in the world.

As for whether or not the gondola would be a good thing, I guess that'd depend on a lot of feasibility studies and cost analysis (cost to the environment, to the local populations way of life, monetary costs).
I believe that the "hard" actually refers to the fact that such trees have a harder shell for their seeds.

From wikipedia [1]

Hardwood is wood from dicot angiosperm trees. The term may also be used for the trees from which the wood is derived; these are usually broad-leaved. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen.

Hardwood contrasts with softwood (which is from Gymnosperm trees). Hardwoods are not necessarily harder than softwoods. In both groups there is an enormous variation in actual wood hardness, with the range in density in hardwoods completely including that of softwoods; some hardwoods (e.g., balsa) are softer than most softwoods, while yew is an example of a hard softwood.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwood
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Moving limbs with your mind
Great... I'm the last person in the startup world still using a PC, and it happens to be a Lenovo.
Consider me another Macbook Pro owner (late 2011) that had this issue. I've now gone through two logic boards. Luckily, the second was covered under the warranty of the first replacement.

Has anyone here been contacted by Apple for Reimbursement yet?
> and then pay a guy to go do the needful

I've seen that sentence several times in different contexts. Is it in current US usage?
ClojureScript is just another part of a typical Clojure stack. Yes ClojureScript job opportunities that don't involve Clojure are far more rare.
So drunkards are better at data compression than the non drunk population?

And forget about southerners who speak English as if it were French. Eass for east. Repore for report. Assed for asked, etc. (really you 'assed' me a question?) It can quickly make a conversation ambiguous as this tendency results in lots oh homonyms.
It's been a while, but I used to work with some folks who performed maintenance on helicopters that had composite rotor blades - and they were constantly being inspected and sent back to the manufacturer.

Perhaps it's different in the civilian aerospace world, but I don't think it's sensible to expect those blades to last as long as the airframe.
Years ago, I agreed with you. I wrote a simulation to demonstrate it. The simulation showed otherwise. I encourage the exercise - others have described the same experience.
Why is that relevant? Would the Grand Canyon be less grand if it was only a couple millennia old?
Nice. This problem started happening more than a year ago on my early 2011. I just had it sitting collecting dust as I got the 2013 version. Last week I decided to take it to get repaired... and now they announce this. Hopefully this will save me the $300 repair.
Language change: slowly does it
The more they deny this is a problem, the more it damages their reputation.

They should just admit the problem, thank the security experts, and develop an easy fix.