But this isn't shown by the article. Cycling dropped, but there is no indication that this was caused by helmet laws. A much more detailed study would be required to determine the cause of reduced cycling.
Are you sure about this? My wife and I fostered a dog last year (here in Southern Oregon) that had heartworms. The treatment was nasty and dangerous to the dog, but the dog did recover.
This really sounds like a hardware problem, not Yosemite. I've upgraded 4 Macs (2 Airs, older iMac, and old MacBook Pro) and haven't seen any problems like you describe.
According to BBC News, in the interview with The Sunday Times, Watson said he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours -- whereas all the testing says not really." He went on to say he hoped everyone was equal but that "people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true."
Sounds more like racism than political correctness.
Very interesting and thought provoking read. Having seen one parent die recently at 94 and the other fading at 94, I've observed that they were/are both really done with life. Not in a bad way, but they had lived long full lives and were ready to move on. I agree that any advances in extending physical youth will not necessarily change this natural evolution of the mind.
But I think that's my point, although I didn't express it very well. I happen to be reading Ulysses right now - amazing book. But what about Danielle Steel's books? They're also books, right? There's a tremendous range, so I don't think we can have these blanket statements that books are special and that we need protection against companies like Amazon.
Sorry, I admire her writing, but I call complete and utter bullshit on this speech. Books are commodities, not some magical elixer from the gods. Some are good, some are terrible. I buy mine from Amazon and Audible. New technologies, and they are helping more people to read more books than ever before.
I pay for Evernote Premium to get PDF searching, offline notes, larger data volume, etc, as I manage all of my projects in Evernote. For me, the cost is trivial compared to the benefit. That said, I hope they don't lose their focus with projects like Context - the social aspect has no value to me at all.
APL was the first language I learned - we used an IBM Selectric type terminal with an APL type ball on a time sharing system. I still fondly remember writing Least Squares analyses in 1 line of "code". I couldn't believe how clunky Fortran and Basic were in comparison.
I totally agree - bikes should not be sharing the road with angry entitled nasty car drivers. Solution - get rid of the cars. Seriously. Make all traffic lanes in city cores bikes only, and make public transit free for everyone. Have dedicated hours at night when delivery vehicles can use the roads. BTW, I drive and bike and would be willing to give up a lot of the convenience of using my vehicle if these measures could be implemented.
Maybe an outlier, but they are providing 12mbs service to my rural home in S. Oregon, and 40mbs fiber service to my apartment in Portland. Both work great and are very reliable.
As an Oregon resident watching this mess unfold over the last few years, it seems as if both parties are to blame. The State of Oregon clearly mis-managed the project from their side. On the other hand, Oracle saw this as an opportunity to dump a lot of inexperienced highly-paid consultants on a naive State, and did so. I personally hope that Oregon can recover at least some of my tax dollars that were wasted on this project, but I suspect that won't happen. Oracle probably has better lawyers.
Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
What makes you think that "scientists" have any better ethics than anyone else? Given past examples, I really don't trust them to look beyond their own self interest. Besides, this particular experiment would be much more useful if performed with "scientists" children.
I agree - this whole post is totally unbelievable. I eat in restaurants all the time and have never seen a single person take a picture of their food - group photos are rare and happen quickly. I call fake.
A caution if you're considering Quebec. You might be caught off guard by the draconian French language laws, and restrictions on where you can send your children to school. (Ex-Quebecer here)
This is why I read HN - fascinating article, knowledge of an industry I had never thought about before, and a heads up about a new source of information, Cabinet Magazine. Thanks, HN!
I agree. I think part of it is that the NYT reporters see their own industry slipping away, and really identify with others who are struggling to maintain ink on paper publishing. BTW, the recent internal NYT report stated that the future for the "paper" is a thriving digital publishing environment, with a secondary emphasis on the traditional newspaper.
Is it just me, or is this kind of "science" reporting more annoying than it used to be?
1) 'Space rocks, formally known as asteroids' - actually no, they are informally also known as asteroids. You just made up the term space rocks.
2) 'Only people with telescopes can see most of these “occultations.”' Why is occultations in quotes? It's a real word and that's what these events are called in real life. You know, that science thing again.
3) 'Regulus is what’s known as a first-magnitude star.' No, it actually is a first magnitude star, not just known as one. Again, that's the real term in the real world.
I would ask "science" "reporters" to quit dumbing things down and to start writing like adults.
This is interesting - I've been using iOS7 since the day it came out and don't think I've seen a serious bug yet, certainly not hundreds of them. I really am curious - is it the hardware (iPhone 5s here) or different usage patterns? I'm a developer too, and just haven't had this experience. Please let me know a couple of the specific bugs you've seen, as I'd like to try and recreate them before upgrading to 7.1