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I wonder, where in particular does SF's children-to-family rate diverge from the national metrics? Are all races having fewer children in SF than nationally, or just some? Are all incomes having fewer children, or just some?

Not that the overall stats aren't illustrative, but it's often enlightening to drill down. The 53,000 public schoolchildren, who are they demographically and socioeconomically, and how do they differ from, say, NYC, Chicago, LA?
Shouldn't the schools in SF be incredible? I mean with the skyrocketing costs of residences intersected with the hugely decreased student populations, $/pupil should be higher than ever. Seems like a great place to start to draw families back into the city.
Sure there are some, but several lists (for example, http://py3readiness.org) show that over 95% of very popular packages support Python 3, and some only support Python 3. At this point while you might need 2 for some very specific purposes, 3 has the majority of important packages and new development.
Does anyone track the frequency and size of layoffs from tech companies? It certainly feels that there has been a notable uptick in layoff news over the past 6-12 months.
> Oakland

I've lived in Oakland for almost a year and I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen a child older than an infant.
I'd try to meet up with like minded people. At the very least, put your email in your profile.
This supposes that the docs are the ones responsible for the choice of giving antibiotics or not at the population/industry level. This is already questionable.

A second thing your statement supposes, is that people prescribing drugs in first-line care have the same agenda as people doing medical politics, or at least are not concerned about the well-being of their patients. Every profession has its black sheep, but I think you severely underestimate the drive docs have to see their patients do well, and the self-esteem hit we get when things go wrong.
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I need to use dual monitors with my laptop which only have one video card. So i was trying to find a USB 3.0 to VGA/HDMI adapter. I got one with fresco logic card but there are no compatible drivers for ubuntu. It seems there are displaylink drivers for ubuntu however I dont know any compatible device. Does someone know a good option that is available on amazon/ebay?
Much more accurate to say Walnut Creek / Tri-Valley as far as the East bay goes.
In evolving resistance to multiple antibiotics do bacteria tend to become weaker or less fit in other ways? I would think there must be some trade offs involved if they can no longer use certain molecules in their cell walls or metabolic pathways. Or to put it another way, if there are resistant and non-resistant bacteria in a particular environment will the non-resistant population tend to out compete the resistant population in the absence of antibiotics?
That will land you in Guantanamo!
> The city has also invested millions in upgrading parks, according to Phil Ginsburg, the general manager of the city’s Recreation and Parks Department.

I'm not sure infrastructure is the issue here. Bay area parks can be a bit, well, heavy on needles and doodoo.
I think 'physical assault' is a very simplistic view of the NAP; and I fall on the other end of the scale where indirect damage through social/economic/environmental channels can be considered to infringe on liberty. Slander laws, noise ordinances, and non-localized environmental pollution all fall into this category and are eligible to be addressed through regulations which actually improve liberty. However, not being allowed to ask questions does not fall in this category in my opinion.
Not sure about GNU, but BSD build systems depend on AWK for building installation media.

crunchgen, a compiled C program, has to call AWK.

Anyone out there do AWK-less builds?

Why did I need to learn a little AWK?

Because I could work out how crunched binaries were built without knowing some AWK.

Best thing about AWK IMO is the C-like syntax.

For anyone learning C and AWK concurrently, this kills two birds with one stone.
And by being free beer instead of having to pay lots of dollars to Sun, HP, Compaq, Unisys, IBM, ....

They do the same by outsourcing their development expenses to the FOSS community.
It's pretty naive to think the democrats aren't doing the same thing. Maybe not with the same company, but I'm sure they're doing it to some extent.
The article alludes to an important point - it never quite asserts that anybody is having fewer children. Instead, when people decide to have children, they move to a suburb.
How does python 3 suck? It seems quite pleasant to use for me, and I much prefer the clean bytes/str separation.
Short-term contracts where continuation requires renegotiation aren't a novel innovation, they are routine. Longer-term contracts don't occur because no one understands short-term contracts, they occur because interests exist that aren't well-known served by them.
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It's not propagandists that are making people conclude that nothing is true, it's people putting themselves into echo chambers, aided and abetted by the Internet.

30 years ago if you had some crackpot theory, good luck finding anyone around you who agreed and would validate your beliefs. You'd watch and read normal news like everyone else and that was your source of information.

Nowadays you can come up with some strange idea, look it up on Google, and then find a bunch of other people who will tell you that you're right, the media's full of liars, and the scientists are all in it too.

Of course, this happened historically too before the Internet, but the difference is that in the past movements usually only happened in cities and college campuses and the like, because people had to talk face to face. Nowadays, everyone with a smart phone and some free time can self-radicalize.

Eventually society will notice this trend and people will adjust to it, but until that happens you're going to see a more fractious society with more people who won't believe anything anyone else says (at least about particular topics).
the SF school lottery system is the primary culprit
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One should not discount the triumph of feminist ideology in this city, that contributed to this result.
I've been using flask with python 3.6; it seems to be working fine.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4829a1.htm

That kind of rates.

In the 1918 influenza pandemics for example, many people died of a bacterial pneumonia following the flu infection. So you see, the impact of "1-tier" infections is very real without antibiotics.

EDIT: by all means, downvoters, make your point explicit!
> I probably sound arrogant, but I'm not. I'm smart enough to decode this shitty aspect of human nature for what it is.

Your post does sound a bit arrogant and that's OK. A bit of arrogance is so common it shouldn't discount validity of your post per se.

I think getting an answer to your original "Why?" question may be difficult because: 1) I don't think many tech interviewers do what you experienced at these two examples 2) To the extent such practices happen and as smart as you may be, I don't think your "decoding" of things is broadly accurate.

I say this because "they tell the owner I'm junior to them, which is 100% untrue" is a ridiculous statement. First, it's odd to see the word "owner" when talking about startups which usually have "founders", so what kind of startups were these 2 places? Also how do you know what they said? And how do you know it's "100% untrue" that you are junior to them, as in how many questions did you get to ask about their tech skills and what does "junior" mean to you?

In terms of an answer: Your post shows a lot of assumptions that miss the point of technical interviews and what they look for. Things like "stupid ass tech trivia" have to be asked. Granted, sometimes too many basics do get asked. There is difference between "junior" from a technical skills perspective and "junior" on an org chart. Unless someone is hiring to fill the position above them on the org chart (it happens) then you are likely "junior" to the person hiring you. However, from a technical skills perspective, or what some interviewer may or may not have told their boss about you being junior...who cares what they said, you got the offer no? and once you start working there the people with superior skills will be able to stand out, 100% regardless of what was said months ago after an interview. So I would suggest: stop assuming incorrectly, think like a manager, read up about emotional quotient (EQ) in hiring, accept that life isn't "fair" and neither is interviewing. Best of luck sir or madame.
"Entitled white heroin users in the Rust Belt would rather help themselves with protectionist policies to give them no skill jobs instead of help the rest of the country and the world."

"Black crack smokers in Detroit would rather help themselves with welfare instead of getting a job and helping the rest of the country."

Wow, doesn't that really make you think? Maybe we shouldn't target people by their race, and associate them with negative stereotypes? Maybe we shouldn't dismiss their response to struggle as selfish and stupid? Really gets the noggin goin'.
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I know, but I was addressing the point about migrating to Go.
If it said up-front "this data will be collated and eventually used to emotionally manipulate you", I'd agree with you that people give the information up of their own will.
Peloton also means fearless in finnish, so the name could be based on that.
The parser section is great. Recursive-descent parsing is something that everyone should be exposed to and practiced at least once, because it's so elegant and simple.
The main problem is the cost of housing. You can have the best parks. You can have the best schools. But when your city's median home price is seven figures and rising, it's not affordable for people to raise a family in your city.
$/pupil in public school operating costs is mandated to be equal across the state; local tax base may make more money available for capital improvements, but doesn't make any more available for classroom operations (even to keep pay of faculty and staff in line with living costs.)
In this particular case, you would emphasize the distinction between speech and general commercial activity. Citizens United says you can't prohibit political speech just because it was via a corporate entity or paid for with a lot of money. But the actual case was about an anti-Hillary Clinton movie. And subsequent applications of the law have concerned things like campaign advertising (e.g. all things that look like traditional political speech).

In this case, we're dealing with a condition of employment. Even if we consider it "speech", it's commercial, not political in nature, which courts could use to distinguish from the Citizens United precedent.
> I think 'physical assault' is a very simplistic view of the NAP

Its simple by design. Its easiest to get universel consent.

> I fall on the other end of the scale where indirect damage through social/economic/environmental channels can be considered to infringe on liberty. Slander laws, noise ordinances, and non-localized environmental pollution all fall into this category and are eligible to be addressed through regulations which actually improve liberty. However, not being allowed to ask questions does not fall in this category in my opinion.

Sure you can create such contract. But it cannot be called NAP. Otherwise it will lead to miscommunication.
Every single HN thread about Python includes a pointless and repetitive discussion of Python 3 being bungled. I didn't downvote you, but I can see why many others might.
Yes, let's make a black box that we can't understand that makes other black boxes that we can't understand. This is a good idea.
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Whatever her persuasion
Yes and no. Said antibiotics are given because we know that the diet we're feeding them will cause them to develop infections. Cows aren't naturally healthy eating corn/soy.

For so many reasons, we need to end crop subsidies in this country.
It'll be interesting to see if/when a non-antibiotic solution to killing bacteria comes along. I read about an approach a novel approach a couple months ago that uses a polymer to destroy bacteria.[1] I'm not qualified to comment on the merits of the science.

[1] http://inhabitat.com/student-discovers-a-way-to-destroy-supe...
I didn’t think the protocol was that amazing so it is just described in passing in our papers (see [1] for an example).

The basic idea is really simple. Phages come as both generalists and specialists (and all grades in between). The specialists grow on a limited range of bacterial strains, while the generalists can grow on a wide range of bacteria (even different genera). The specialist phages grow faster than the generalists in a single bacterial strain as they are better adapted to their specific host. The problem is that when most groups isolate phages from the environment they only use one bacterial strain at a time so they end up isolating specialists rather than the generalists; the generalists are just too slow to form visible plaques in the presence of specialists.

The solution to isolating broad host range phages is to use multiple bacterial strains in the enrichment and isolation process (we used up to 50 at a time). Under these conditions the generalists grow faster since they have more hosts they can infect (i.e. the specialist can only reproduce in one bacterial strain, while the generalists can reproduce in multiple). This tips the isolation process towards pulling out generalists phages that have a broad host range. I have to say when I entered the field I thought that this was the way everyone isolated phages as it is so obvious, but I was wrong.

1. http://aem.asm.org/content/77/4/1389
I'm not sure I understand what side of things you're coming down on, but personally I'm in favor of tilting things somewhat more in favor of labor than they are now.

Partly this is because I don't think a market can function justly on a principle of enforced asymmetry and imbalance. As I see it, if we allow people to pool capital together to gain greater collective leverage than any of them would have individually, and reap greater returns as a result (also known as a corporation), we must also allow people to pool their labor together to gain collective leverage and reap greater returns (also known as labor unions, worker protections, etc.). Having one without the other does not appear ethically justifiable to me, and rigging laws to strengthen one significantly at the expense of the other is similarly unjustifiable.

Partly this is because of the relevant history. Much of what people have convinced themselves constitutes a "free market" was in fact deliberately rigged to artificially preserve and benefit one side (capital) at the expense of the other (labor). Look into employment law from the 1800s, for example, and it's very clearly designed to prevent competition between companies in the market and ensure they each can comfortably remain immune to several important market forces. But somehow we've idealized that period as one of "laissez-faire" and "free markets" despite it being nothing of the sort, and then whenever an attempt is made to un-rig the system we hear that it's bad for business, will kill business, will hurt business, is anti-business, etc. -- being in business for business' sake is not an end worth pursuing in itself, and if a business can't survive without the market rigged in its favor, well, the true free-market position is that that business shouldn't survive.
Higgs and LIGO are big nothingburgers compared to anything that happened in physics in any given year between 1910 and 1950 or so. Meanwhile "physicists" spend their careers doing piffle like writing programs for quantum computers that arguably will never exist in the corporeal world.

Yeah, I coulda been one of those guys: I even had a pretty good idea for an imaginary QC platform and a position in a major research institution. I couldn't live with myself: I got a job in the valley.

Physics and science in general looks stagnant to the larger population because it is actually stagnating. Stating otherwise is mendacity of the highest order.
I can't help but wonder what would have been different had IBM been successful in the Sun acquisition. It would have been a strange marriage, and there were a lot more staffing and product redundancies that would have still hurt customers and employees. On the other hand, IBM is often aloof but never callous like Oracle is.

IBM's acquisition of Sequent might be a reasonable starting place to guess. Sequent customers got a fairly abrupt EoL. There was a lot of drama with Itanium hype and even the x450/x455, then IBM fleeing that IA64 sinking ship. And of course Project Monterrey and the SCO lawsuit. But I'm not so sure how sad the world was to lose Dynix/PTX and instead Linux got RCU and a ton of general NUMA scalability know how.

Anyway, hindsight being 20/20, most of us should have probably switched to OpenSolaris back in 2005 and figured out how to wrestle it out of Sun's control for their own good.
Is there evidence that this was a conscious decision on the part of Facebook?
It's quite useful to let people sign themselves up for an enemies list.
What does libraries team entail? I run a FreeBSD kernel team, and am interested in speaking with any Solaris kernel people you may know to fill some additional roles.
Note: this article is from July 2015.
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Can you explain how an OCEAN score helps do that?

Because I have yet to be convinced that knowing how open, agreeable, etc. someone translates into manipulation and the article did not even attempt to explain that, it just said this has some vague relation to Trump & Brexit and left us to assume it was a magic X factor.
> TPP is about the US as a whole.

And most of the information I have suggested otherwise.

The problem was that all of the things pertaining to the duties of corporations were optional while things falling on individuals were enforced with the full weight of law.

The people putting together the TPP knew EXACTLY what they were doing and tried to tie together a bunch of unpopular stuff with a bunch of important stuff and ram it all through together.

Given how much effort some of this took to hammer out, they can split the TPP provisions apart and try passing them individually.
Both your points are technically correct (the best kind of correct), but miss the mark in practice. There's no real reason most of the time to differentiate between the common cold and other upper respiratory infections, unless complications ensue. Simply put, a healthy, non-immunocompromised person will fight off basically any upper respiratory infection without a problem.
When I went to the doc with a cold and high fever they didn't give me antibiotics, they first looked for bacteria. It's not that hard to do, it just costs more than writing a prescription.
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Thank you for the reply. While I understand the idea behind that law, it seems untenable for a teacher in SF to be making the same as a teacher in Bakersfield.
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Thanks for the link, it is a great project.
Wealthy people raise families too. The GP is right, the problem is that SF parks are unsafe for children. Needles, human waste, etc. SF parks are very hard-hit by the homeless problem. I don't claim to know how to fix it, but I notice that many plausible solutions are struck down because, roughly speaking, they're not nice to the homeless people leaving shit and needles everywhere.
As I mentioned elsewhere, my go-to example was PCSC-Lite support. I thought it so old and obscure it will never happen. But look, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyscard/1.9.4
This is a great way to get to know KDB. As a language it will definitely make you think about problems differently in a functional array context, and as a development platform it will give you some unique perspective on databases as it is much different than many others. And the simplicity of the system will be refreshing.

Probably most importantly it will raise you potential salary :) KDB are really interesting and a door to the finance industry if that interests you.
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Is there something more to the story? I travel with laptops and iPads all the time. Never been stopped.
There are quite a few AOT native compilers available for Java, actually all commercial JDK ones.
I agree. What exactly is the point of backporting features, when the main reason people give for wanting to use Python 2 is for legacy applications? What 8-year-old codebase is going to be updated to use `async`? And if you're starting a new project, why not write it in Python 3, which has first-party support?
The Whatsapp is backdoored people are mailing this story around

https://rbth.com/news/2017/01/16/whatsapp-helps-chechen-poli...
It seems like the WSJ has closed the HTTP Google referer paywall loophole. I've tried a couple of browsers/OSes over the last week and I can't view any articles. TY though for the pastebin.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/legitimate

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legitimate

I have nothing further to add to this thread.
I am afraid that, the python community has messed up 2.x => 3.X transition. Until 3.3, there seemed no incentive to port your codebase to Python 3.X.

Just to bring up a small counterpoint: I don't think anyone really expected the early 3.x releases to be used in production. They were, as I recall, intended primarily as proof-of-concept releases to let people start looking at what porting would involve, and to get feedback and make improvements in the 3.x series to make porting easier and production deployments nicer.
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Both points are correct. Unsafe parks are bad, but wealthy people also tend to raise smaller families than less wealthy people.
Border entry points aren't legally in United States and you have absolutely no rights whatsoever, even if a US citizen, when at those locations.

There is nothing new about this, but it's been getting worse ever since the evul hackers started subverting the US Government by encrypting and leaking the Government's illegal activities.