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City officials defend their record, saying some tree mortality is to be expected. Various studies of newly installed trees show that 7 percent to 11 percent die within two years of planting, depending on the location. “It’s not surprising in urban areas to see these mortality rates,” said Bram Gunther, chief of forestry, horticulture and the natural resources group at the Department of Parks and Recreation.

Even elected officials who profess

To address residents’ concerns, the city has introduced a number of programs. For buckling sidewalks, for instance, the city now does repairs in front of one- to three-family homes; in the past, it was the homeowner’s responsibility. Since starting a repair program several years ago, the city has received 38,300 requests, and it has addressed 9,169 so far. To prevent buckling in the first place, all new trees have considerably larger beds, allowing room for spreading roots.As for pruning, the city says it responds to all complaints about dead limbs or trees within 30 days; if the condition is deemed hazardous, the work will be performed immediately.The parks department, with the nonprofit group Trees New York, has stepped up its “citizen pruner” program, in which residents can become trained and certified to do limited pruning of street trees. The one limitation, however, is that citizen pruners must keep their feet on the ground, which prevents most work on taller trees.

om Paino, an architect whose house overlooks the median, said that landscapers planted the trees too late in the spring and that the root balls were not sufficiently submerged. Recently, workers chopped down the dead trees, leaving behind stumps. “As soon as they put them in, I thought, ‘They’re not going to make it,’ ” he said. “It’s a very frustr

An internet with these qualities will not come to life on its own. Individuals and organizations must embed these aspirations into internet technology and into the human experience with the internet. The Mozilla Manifesto and Addendum represent Mozilla’s commitment to advancing these aspirations. We aim to work together with people and organizations everywhere who share these goals to make the internet an even better place for everyone.

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“There is a bigger problem with why so many of these efforts have failed” to achieve mass adoption, said Brennan Novak, a user-interface designer who works on privacy tools. The challenge, Novak said, is to make decentralized alternatives that are as secure, convenient, and seductive as a Google account. “It’s a tricky thing to pin down,” he told me in an encrypted online chat. “But I believe the problem exists somewhere between the barrier to entry (user-interface design, technical difficulty to set up, and over-all user experience) versus the perceived value of the tool, as seen by Joe Public and Joe Amateur Techie.”

“There already exist deep and geeky communities in cryptology or self-hosting or free software, but the message is rarely aimed at non-technical people,” said Irina Bolychevsky, an organizer for Redecentralize.org, an advocacy group that provides support for projects that aim to make the Web less centralized.

But, while both projects met their fund-raising goals and drummed up a good deal of hype, neither came to fruition. Diaspora’s team fell into disarray after a disappointing beta launch, personal drama, and the appearance of new competitors such as Google+; apart from some privacy software released last year, Moglen’s Freedom Box has yet to materialize at all.

One solution, espoused by some programmers, is to make the Internet more like it used to be—less centralized and more distributed. Jacob Cook, a twenty-three-year-old student, is the brains behind ArkOS, a lightweight version of the free Linux operating system. It runs on the credit-card-sized Raspberry Pi, a thirty-five dollar microcomputer adored by teachers and tinkerers. It’s designed so that average users can create personal clouds to store data that they can access anywhere, without relying on a distant data center owned by Dropbox or Amazon. It’s sort of like buying and maintaining your own car to get around, rather than relying on privately owned taxis. Cook’s mission is to “make hosting a server as easy as using a desktop P.C. or a smartphone,” he said.

We are also actively looking at how we can innovate with Google+, Google Drive and Google Sites to transform the way we approach other aspects of our business.

The positioning template should not be a way of documenting your value proposition or approved messaging around features or value. Once you have your positioning figured out, this becomes a set of inputs to your messaging. I usually build a messaging document that references the positioning template. The messaging document goes a level deeper into approved messaging for value statements for different buyer personas and provides boilerplate messaging that can be used as a starting point for marketing and sales materials.

But just as ETH is at a low position, talk of overtaking Bitcoin has resurfaced, with a prediction for another attempt of “flippening” with Bitcoin. Ethereum co-creator Steven Neyaroff recently stated that the multiple projects and computation demand would help lift the price of ETH, up to three times its current values.

Even the current levels of usage of the Ethereum network, however, have not lifted the asset’s price organically, and a lot of the price movements happen on speculation. It is also unknown what would happen in case Ethereum-based USDT and EURT tokens become more active and numerous. USDT tokens often serve as credit on the markets, inflating the price with the possibility of exuberant buying

One of Novak’s projects, Mailpile, is a crowd-funded e-mail application with built-in security tools that are normally too onerous for average people to set up

n back doors. (However, that privilege

Engineers anticipated this convergence. As early as 1967, one of the key architects of the system for exchanging small packets of data that gave birth to the Internet, Paul Baran, predicted the rise of a centralized “computer utility” that would offer computing much the same way that power companies provide electricity. Today, that model is largely embodied by the information empires of Amazon, Google, and other cloud-computing companies. Like Baran anticipated, they offer us convenience at the expense of privacy.

Ocean Protocol is an ecosystem for sharing data and associated services. It provides a tokenized service layer that exposes data, storage, compute and algorithms for consumption with a set of

Established by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the ASEAN Secretariat, Grow Asia brings together companies, governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders to help smallholder farmers improve their production and livelihood through access to information, knowledge, markets, and finance.

One might expect job markets with low proportions of university graduates to quickly absorb new graduates. But in many developing countries, the reverse is true: employers doubt the job-readiness of graduates, and as a result unemployment levels are high. In India, for example, one survey of employers found that only7% of India’s engineering graduates (a field thought to develop good employment prospects) are job-ready. Skills found particularly lacking include English language skills and the ability to innovate by applying conceptual learning to real-world problems.23A major British Council study of the employability of African university graduates found that ‘employers across the region complain of a lack of basic, technical and transferable skills.’24 Uneven and often poor quality teaching, resulting from underqualified staff, large class sizes, and outdated teaching methods, are held responsible.

However, the surface temperature data are more relevant to humans because they reflect temperatures where we live, and are less uncertain and more reliable than indirect satellite temperature estimates.

When performing web-research, everyone puts a lot of mental work into understanding if an article is qualitative, or to research more background information. But we cannot really share it with others, thus they can’t really continue where we started. 

One of those leaks, reported by the Washington Post in late October, revealed that the National Security Agency secretly wiretapped the connections between data centers owned by Google and Yahoo, allowing the agency to collect users’ data as it flowed across the companies’ networks.

Do you want to develop a business-led product, process or service that has future commercial potential? Innovate UK provides funding for R&D and innovation activity.

New technologies and business models that make the digital economy more inclusive or use collaborative solutions to reduce inequality.

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“I’m all about trees — trust me,” said Jimmy Van Bramer, a city councilman who represents western Queens.

ast, predictable transfers. Once you’re set up, transfers arrive in your bank account on a 2-day rolling basis. Or you can opt to receive transfers weekly or monthly.

the amount of lookups can be reduced dramatically by doing the pagination stage before lookup stage (obviously)

The future: The Chain of Trust (CoT)

The creator of each icon holds the copyright to their work. By paying for a NounPro account, you get a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide right to use each icon you download as many times as you wish and in any medium, without having to credit the icon’s creator. This is because Noun Project pays royalties to creators each time their icon is downloaded.

Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles.

Feedly reported having grown to over 13 million users months after Reader’s demise, and last April said it had reached over 15 million users.

Opt-outs Chrome provides the --disable-background-timer-throttling flag for use cases like running test suites and other user-sanctioned heavy computations.

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Now you are ready to hack! 😃 We recommend reading through the Code Overview to get an idea of how the extension works and also looking @ [Submitting Changes](Submitting Changes) before making any pull requests.

We encourage you to Merge your own branch if you have done testing, rebased, update docs and feel confident or if it is a very small change.

Before making any significant changes we recommend creating a new branch, making a pull-request with your initial commit and adding a to-do list to help everyone be on board.

Please email @swissums: yager@worldbrain.io

We are currently on the cusp of releasing a brand new version of the extension. See roadmap for more details The old one can still be found here: worldbrain.io/download

Want to help out? If you are: A Developer A Marketer A Designer An Investor Or want to donate a bit of money Please see Contributing!

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Contributing If you are a Developer head to Getting Started If you are a Designer, Marketer, or Investor Please Email Oliver Sauter: oli@worldbrain.io If you would like to donate a bit of money Please support us on Patreon

Store and Index all the content of every web page you visit.

How the Worldbrain Extension Works

Easy [] - Updating the Acknowledgments Page. Adding Photos/Descriptions of everyone. Speak to @swissums for more details. [] - Adding Filter hooks for search queries. Medium [] - Add a note/notes to a page see issue #56 [] - Add bookmarks to new index implementation, speak to @poltak for further instructions. [] - Work on the Testing Suite see issue #102 Hard [] - Replacing Chrome History View see issue #101 [] - Add a read later version of the page issue #57

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Here’s the short of it. As far as we can tell, no matter what, tokens purchased for pre-functional products are securities. After it is functional, it depends. Talk to your lawyers.

Use built-in 'token creation' mechanisms such that the protocol can issue more tokens to the foundation if the community agrees that the extra inflation is worth the incremental value the foundation creates.

A more responsible way, for complex projects, is to divide them into smaller rounds with six months or longer in between, so people can take controlled risk and observe how the team execute in real world.

Some people may experience increased symptoms of depression during ketosis because their bodies may have a hard time producing the mood-elevating chemical called serotonin.

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Just like mom used to make. You can bookmark / favorite any site directly

This rate is 100 times faster than any changes in ocean acidity in the last 20 million years, making it unlikely that marine life can somehow adapt to the changes

And due to the aforementioned lag, 2016 could be even hotter yet. Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the Met Office, said in an interview with Carbon Brief,

Superintelligence (public library) by Nick Bostrom The clearest book I’ve come across that makes the case that the so-called “control problem” — the problem of building human-level and beyond artificial intelligence that we can control, that we can know in advance will converge with our interests — is a truly difficult and important task, because we will end up building this stuff by happenstance if we simply keep going in the direction we’re headed. Unless we can solve this problem in advance and have good reason to believe that the machines we are building are benign and their behavior predictable — even when they exceed us in intelligence a thousand-, a million-, or a billion-fold — this is going to be a catastrophic intrusion into our lives that we may not survive.

[IN PROGRESS]: Local Web Interface to Search/Filter Updated 5 hours ago As a user I want to have a web interface that allows me to see more results and better filter them. Right now I can only filter for the time and this also only by typing i.e. after:"yesterday". This feature needs to be carefully taken into account when chosing the database model. Subtasks (Click on title of project for issues) Define possible filter methods Create Design Adjust Database model Implement Page

An exceptionally hot year, 2015 shattered records, but will just be the norm in 15 years’ time

Ice extent is the cumulative area of all polar grid cells of the Northern Hemisphere that have at least 15% sea ice concentration, using the NORSEX algorithm. Ice area is the sum of the grid cell areas multiplied by the ice concentration for all cells with ice concentrations of at least 15%.

If you have some traction and a solid, tech-savvy network of people from several team members go for the 250. If you are announcing an early launch, an alpha or beta version I advise you to go for 100 (you can always do more and outperform, which looks good).

In all, 93% of adults say that being in control of who can get information about them is important; 74% feel this is “very important,”

Our chickens are offered non-GMO grains as a supplement to what they find on pasture. Our broiler chickens are raised for meat and are kept in portable pens that are moved daily. They are kept in the pens to keep them safe from predators because they are not as mobile as the laying hens. They too get most of their diet from what they find in the pasture, but do have access to non-GMO grains.

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Google: 1.17 billion unique searchers, 76.6% share

Here’s how it breaks out when you look at cumulative percentages:

Desktop: steady as she goes This is my rough model of how search distribution might look, generated by plugging figures we know into a Pareto generator and then doing a distribution function for N = integer number of searches per day. Here’s how it looks for the desktop, using a mode (most common) of 0.9 searches per day and mean of 1.23: Estimated profile of number of searches per day per person on Google on desktop. What this is saying is that on any given day you get about 55% of people doing just one search, a bit less than 15% doing two searches, just under 5% doing four searches, and so on. Small proportions, but big absolute numbers. And who does what searches isn’t fixed; so someone who did zero searches yesterday might do 10 tomorrow. But equally, the 10-searcher yesterday does none or one or four today. And so on.

Google data centers cost the company more than $5 billion in the second quarter of 2014, according to its most recent quarterly earnings, reported earlier this month. The company spent $2.65 billion on data center construction, real estate purchases and production equipment, and somewhat south of $2.82 billion on running its massive infrastructure.

Drittens schreibt das deutsche Recht (nicht erst neu, sondern schon seit Anfang 2002!) eine zweijährige Gewährleistung für alle üblichen Verkäufe vor (§438 BGB). Die Gewährleistung besagt, dass der Kaufartikel bei Übergabe frei von (sich vielleicht erst später äußernden) Mängeln ist. Dies betrifft definitiv auch Verbrauchsgüter wie Akkus oder Bremsen - das Gesetz kennt keine oft so genannten Verschleißteile. Diese Gewährleistung kann bei gebrauchten Gegenständen auf 1 Jahr reduziert werden (§475 BGB). Sie kann von privaten Verkäufern auf 0 reduziert werden (§474 BGB). Sinnvoll ist also an Stelle des üblichen Geschwafels eine einfache klare Aussage wie Dieser Verkauf erfolgt unter Ausschluss der Gewährleistung. Viertens gibt es keinerlei Recht auf Umtausch, wohl aber ein Widerrufsrecht gegenüber gewerblichen Verkäufern bei Fernabsatzgeschäften (§312 BGB). Ein Privatverkäufer muss dieses Recht nicht ausschließen, weil es ihm gegenüber gar nicht existiert. Also kann jegliche Gewährleistung ausgeschlossen werden? Ja, die Gewährleistung kann auf 0 reduziert werden - aber nicht ganz so, wie es manch ein Betrüger wünscht. Es gibt noch die Mängelhaftung (§433 BGB). Sie besagt, dass die angebotene Sache der Beschreibung entspricht - d.h. wenn z.B. Funktion beschrieben wird und die Ware nicht als defekt gekennzeichnet ist, dann muss sie zum Zeitpunkt der Übergabe tatsächlich (sonst wäre es arglistiges Verschweigen und damit strafbar!) funktionsfähig sein, auch wenn die Gewährleistung (für die folgende Zeit mit sich erst dann äußernden Mängeln) ausgeschlossen ist!

Ein Gehirn für die Welt Auch Oliver Sauter nahm an der Konferenz teil. Der 27-Jährige hat Anfang des Jahres das Startup Worldbrain gegründet. Sein Ziel ist es, einen Fakten-Check für Informationen im Internet anzubieten. Dazu setzt Sauter auf die Web-Annotations-Technologie. Durch die Schwarmintelligenz von Journalisten und Wissenschaftlern einerseits und Alltagsnutzern andererseits sollen immer wieder auftauchende Aussagen identifiziert, paraphrasiert und bewertet werden. Geld will das Unternehmen über kostenpflichtige Zusatzfunktionen ihrer Produkte, spezielle Suchmaschinen oder auch Expertennetzwerke verdienen.

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GLP, whose stated mission is to “explore the intersection of DNA research, media and policy to disentangle science from ideology”, commonly aggregates news stories. But when they re-posted this particular article, the headline was changed pretty dramatically, to “WHO study finds thousands of illnesses linked annually to organic foods.” After some criticism in the comments, it was later changed to remove reference to a WHO study. There are a few things that really annoy me about this Western Producer article and the GLP headline. I initially expressed my annoyance with the headline on twitter, but I wanted to expand a little on this topic, because I fear this is becoming an all-to-regular occurrence.

Which brings me to the back end. Making annotation providers easily switchable creates competition amongst potential future annotator stores for who can provide the best service, for instance: the largest, most diverse community, the best model for distributed moderation, the fastest, most reliable storage layer, the highest commitment to long-term archival access, and so forth.

Massive digital misinformation is becoming pervasive in onlinesocial media to the extent that it has been listed by the WorldEconomic Forum (WEF) as one of the main threats to our so-ciety

Some attribute the apparent health benefits of pizza to the lycopene content in pizza sauce

The Guardian is committed to tackling the problem. This research is a part of that: an attempt to be open, and to share publicly what has been discovered. We hope to do more research to dig deeper into the problem, and to discover not only what can cause online conversations to go awry, but also what media organisations can do to help make those conversations better, and more inclusive.

GM crops in general need fewer field operations, such as tillage. Reducing tillage allows more residue to remain in the ground, sequestering more CO2 in the soil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Fewer field operations also means lower fuel consumption and less CO2.

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