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> Why try to create an inferior python 3?

I think the point is -- it will not be an inferior python 3.

It will be a python 2 with the best non-code-breaking parts of python 3. Sane byte handling + bug fixes - breaking changes.

That will make it a superior python 3.
I think the main point of Buffalo is using the common web app libraries that are used most. Yes it's still important to understand how it all works underneath the hood. Coming from a Rails background, Buffalo makes me really enjoy web development. I feel this is what Rails was to Ruby in a way.
I'd love to see this take off. Not sure I'm willing to sacrifice my own time with it but, the 'kids' would have a good laugh with it.
> SF school district has banned algebra in middle schools.

Surely there are some kids who don't learn it in elementary school. Are they supposed to wait until high school?
>Although the patent system is good at producing new blood-pressure medications and cardiovascular drugs, it’s not the right fit for antibiotics.

I don't know if I want to get into an arms race with microbes where we keep trying to discover new antibodies only to have them develop resistance. Maybe the better solution is to limit antibiotics only to life threatening situations and let people build up their natural resistance.
The problem was the "white heroin users" part. "Selfish and stupid" can't really be argued against.
Awk does not support local variables. However, to simulate local variables you can add extra function parameters. I would guess that the backslash is inserted to separate the "real" parameters from the "local variable" parameters to make the code more readable. In your example, when the function `scope' is called only one actual parameter would be provided.
I doubt people on the trenches were blatantly in on it. But I gave my views on the outcome. Investigate that and see the pattern.
The article seems to have thrown in the towel with regard to existing antibiotics, which seems like a waste since there's so much more we could do. Restrict antibiotics the same way we restrict morphines. Censure doctors who over prescribe antibiotics, when they aren't needed. Do not allow them to be used in animal feed for any reason. We're talking about a vital resource that can save millions of lives. Allowing this resource to be depleted by frivolous use, is downright criminal.
I support this, but I also think employers should be banned from requiring a credit check for employment. There are regulations on discriminating on race, gender, etc. The one missing piece is discriminating against the poor (which indirectly tie back to race, gender). It's still amazing to me that this is a practice that's still allowed for a society that purports to value social mobility.
I like a lot of Nautilus articles, but like you didn't know who funded it. (Ie Templeton)

That's important to know as a critical thinker.
>Why would a city actually want kids?

School districts want kids for the same reason start-ups want customers: it's hard to scale with smaller demand. Yesterday when I was in SF, I saw a sign hanging on the fence of a schoolyard: "SUPPORT YOUR SCHOOL - BUY SCHOOL LUNCHES!" Apparently, so few students were buying school lunches (and instead bringing their own) that it was becoming more expensive to provide it for the ones that do buy it.

Children who grow up in a city go on to invest in that city. Children also require services that drive the local economy, from babysitting to clothing/toys/food.

I know you don't like sitting next to a table full of kids at a restaurant. Me neither. But children are necessary components of a thriving community.
Google does the banning, but they limit their download speed to some slow speed and I have a 1 Gbps server which I use to download stuff, so I often open up to 32 connections to their server just to download at a normal rate. They have the bandwidth, why do the limit the speed is beyond me. You can see this on the googlevideo.com domain, for Google Drive transcoded videos, thought not for YouTube.
Like the sibling post to this I also have a bioinformatics background and awk is one of the most important tools in my toolkit. It is just so extremely fast. A few years ago I was laughing about a friend that did a lot of simple data transformation in awk and told him to save his time use python instead. He challenged me to do the same task in python. It took me longer to write and it was magnitudes slower. That was eye opening.

It is useful to be aware about the different awk implementations. For example mawk. That awk version is stupidly fast. GNU awk is already extremely fast, but if I work on a > 200gb file, I just prefix the m and the task will be done even faster. It however does not have all the features of gawk. The differences in regex support are the most painful.

A very useful feature of the GNU version of awk is the debugger. Super useful to be able to step line wise through a awk script.

If I ever have too much time I would like to take a look at that experimental llvm-awk (lawk) someone started and get it production ready. Sadly is seems abandoned currently.
1. install it. and close the annoying tab.

2. visit a site, click the noscript icon

3. allow the domains you trust.

no step 4.

how is this hard?

you only have to click the icon again if some site is not working.
If you have no children around, what’s our future?

This question at least has a simple answer, and it's exactly the same as San Francisco's future has been for decades: Immigration.
What can SQLServer handle that Postgres can't? I've only ever used the former in retail settings, where its hosed my customers over multiple times (thanks 1 core, 1GB ram & 10GB DB Size cap!) either via licensing, or edge cases where theres no community support, and the upstream software vendor told us to go fly a kite, so I'm very much not interested in SQLServer or any licensed DB, cause its a relationship ending move to say "Your database is gone, start scanning everything in the building again, sorry".
> worlds 2'nd most used database

How do you figure that? ;)
Okay, I've read enough articles on superbugs to be seriously frightened. My question: is there anything I, personally, can do to help?
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My kids started algebra in elementary school as well. This is pathetic.
While this article on [1] priceonomics covers the issue really well, the given reason is to ensure all kids enter highschool at the same level.

[1] https://priceonomics.com/why-did-san-francisco-schools-stop-...
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> when the immediate merits of sustainability keep shrinking

I think that point will change when raw material costs rise significantly. When we run out of certain rare elements, such as certain metals (eg niobium, tantalum), sustainability will become much more financially attractive.
check the last build date.

it's so hard to remove the gapp dependence used for that tiny feature that the icecat maintainers just gave up.
You may have stumbled upon a solution here. Make it legal to ask the question, but also make it legal to lie about the answer (including doctoring paystubs, etc). Seems like a uniquely libertarian solution.
I don't know, Megaupload and mega.co.nz are and were legitimate products and services. Surely a fraudster who was after investment scams wouldn't actually deliver products?
Peter Thiel is brilliantly observant and often makes correct observations, it's the conclusions he draws afterwards that I find to be specious.
You probably have more wiggle room with law enforcement than you do with Border Patrol or US Customs. These guys have free reign and can do whatever the fuck they want, especially after 9/11. I'm sure there is accountability at some level, most likely unattainable by mere humans.
Turbo Pascal was great, I was already doing systems programming with 5.5, learning about OOP, modular programming, using powerful frameworks like Turbo Vision.

It was also my first compiler when I started doing Windows 3.1 development. TPW with OWL was quite ahead of how MFC ended up.
Insert loud horn noise here. Didn't use the catch phrase "Drain the Swamp" to get traction. NEXT.
This is exactly right. All the poorest kids get to go to a bad school far away. The rich kids go to a great school far away. One of the reasons that I wouldn't move back while my kids are in school.
Houses in Marin and the Peninsula are just as expensive, only slightly larger, and they get lots of kids. It's all about the schools.
Its not just housing prices, its also the school system, and the way children are placed in schools. From the article:

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Jean Covington, a San Francisco resident who works as a public defender in Contra Costa County, said she noticed a “pilgrimage” of her friends out of the city when children reached school age. When she decided to stick it out, she was confronted with what she described as a bewildering public school selection system governed by an algorithm that determines where children in the city are placed — sometimes miles from home.

When her daughter turned 5, Ms. Covington applied to 14 public kindergartens, but her child ended up being placed in another. She chose a private school instead, along with the strain on the family budget that it entailed.
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In my personal case, we owned a house, but moved out of the city specifically because of the school system placement process.
That HR sounds like all HR departments I have ever had anything to do with.
So what? With its insanely high rent and notoriously overworked populous, isn't SF a perfect place for people that don't have kids? There are millions of other places in the U.S. that are extremely kid friendly. Having one or two that aren't might even be a good thing. (Meaning you always need an alternative to the norm)
Raising children is the ultimate expense. It makes zero economic sense, it only makes biological sense. Biological, as in a people with no children ceases to exist in a historical blip. Our metrics and the policies they drive are solely concerned with improving the economy. The gradient is stronger in the more expensive place, thus more noticeable. Hence pieces in NYT.
Do you have kids? Because, as a parent, I don't care what might be bothering some childless 20 something. On the other hand, who brings their kid to the trendy restaurant?
The trick is opening the search result link in an incognito window (if you're using Chrome). It's a pretty nutty loophole, surprised it's gone on as long as it has.
Such servers are basically free if you know anyone in the electronics recycling business.
FreeBSD's beadm implementation is really nice now too, especially with its recent integration into the bootloader.
That's silly.
http://www.memsql.com/ does this today. Fast, distributed, rowstore + columnstore, relational database with mysql protocol.
> Maybe, maybe not. Sounds like a good RFC :)

I'll think about it, but honestly, that sounds super unpleasant. I've seen the bike shedding that happens in those kinds of discussions, and I think it would be difficult to convince any decision makers that there is even a problem if they haven't stumbled upon it already. I don't think many of them do numerical computing, and the language and libraries already scratch their non-numerical itches.
Yep, I don't feel bad when sites like that can no longer exist due to adblocking. If they didn't add any value in the first place, it's only a fluke that they've existed at all.
The use of nuclear weapons wasn't expected to end the war; in fact even after Nagasaki the invasion of Kyushu was planned to be supported by at least seven such bombs, which were to be used to destroy beach defences and defenders. More were needed for the final jump to Tokyo.

Later it emerged that it was actually the Soviet delcaration of war on the 8th August that was the deciding factor for surrender; the Japanese had stocked around 10,000 aircraft in Manchuria which were now under threat and they couldn't fight a two-front war.

Yes, the two bombs ultimately saved untold thousands lives but that was more accidental than deliberate.
There doesn't seem to be pricing shown on your website either.

Guessing that's on purpose?
I want to say there was one of those I read a while back, covered which startups were shutting down, which were shrinking/changing direction, some larger businesses mixed in, etc.
Maybe I'm naive (I don't have children), but many of these articles basically can be reduced to "I want it all." [1] Nothing is wrong with that, but considering the popularity and ideal climate one can't expect to live in the bay area without a few caveats, right?

The first thing I thought when I saw the title was, "oh, just move." Then I thought, "ah, people won't want to move because it's San Francisco." And so I see three options for anyone who complains about anything in any city:

1. Move

2. Pay extra for whatever convenience(s) you require (e.g. private school, a home closer to the school, etc.)

3. Attempt to change the law.

So, when there's an issue like the one of schools, doesn't it just mean there are not enough people interested in (3) or are not affected by it sufficiently? Or maybe (3) is just too much effort. Regardless, if people REALLY wanted it and there were a sufficient amount of people affected, the problem would be fixed, no? I think also that the problem is compounded by conflicts of interest. Maybe people paying extra for private school makes it more difficult to change the law.

Disclaimer: I have no knowledge of city politics.

[1] Seriously though.

> “Everybody talks about children being our future,” said Norman Yee, a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. “If you have no children around, what’s our future?”

The future is being kicked out or becoming like Detroit (if god forbid the tech industry somehow collapses). Isn't this literally what happened to the past inhabitants of SF? They were kicked out once the higher paid people started coming in droves? The same will happen to everyone else once the wage(s) become sufficiently high. Isn't this just the free market or whatever, at work?

Even if SF was a good place for kids and there were tons of kids, it would only be available for people of sufficiently high income. This article, then, would be titled "San Francisco Asks: Where have all of the regular families gone?" and would lament how no one goes to public school. Well, NYT has written similar articles already (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/25/us/backlash-by-the-bay-tec...).
How do you get sane byte handling without breaking backward compatibility? I thought that was the original reason for breaking compatibility in Py3k.
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The plan to drop out of the EU was removed from the FN's website because it was the one measure that was too unpopular with their voter base. Of course, it may just be for appearances, but I guarantee you that any Frexit plan would start up a shitstorm the likes of which have never been seen, and I wouldn't feel safe in the Elysée
I can agree that many investors will assume that because other firms invested, that is a "signal" that they use to invest themselves, and in that sense raising money can give you momentum. But I disagree that that is the same thing as the sunk cost fallacy. What I am claiming is that investors are not likely to reinvest once they realize the company is not performing as expected. It's only if they've spent their own money, and then put more money in a subsequent round that they are prey to the sunk cost fallacy.
In a way this is surprising to me. Shouldn't this destroy the gut flora, making it harder to digest/use the food ? Then again their entire gut flora might be anti-biotic resistant ....
I missed that part in the constitution where it said these rights not available in all areas.
Sounds to me like he's providing a service that enables people to get around the government-backed scams of never ending copyrights. When the copyright's about to expire, the U.S. govt bullies other govts into signing another treaty extending the time period.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/874883570/marvell-espre...
Every regulatory hurdle to hiring decreases the propensity of businesses to hire marginal candidates. The easier you make it to hire and fire people the more marginal candidates will be given the chance. There is no free-lunch here.
What if SF has so much external demand that it doesn't need to generate any internal demand? As in, who cares whether anyone grows up in the city, because the job market is so strong that every available living space will be taken by someone from out of town? What happens in 30 years when there are almost no kids in the city and almost no adults are ''from'' San Francisco? Does it even matter? Maybe this is just a harbinger of things to come as the birth rate declines more broadly.
Schools in SF are a mixed bag, but many of them are very good. We have a 6 and 9 year old, who started in a parochial school. We switched to a well-regarded local public school, and getting a fantastic education.

Edit: after reading some other comments, I should note, the lottery system is problematic. We got lucky and got a good school near us, and SFUSD stats show most people get one of their top few choices. But in a worst-case scenario, you have a long commute to a bad school--and you leave. The intention is good--to make good schools available to everyone, not just those who can afford the good neighborhoods. But until you land your kids in a school you're ok with, it's a big stressor.
Basics example: the canadian pipelines. If the US doesn't want canadian oil then China will take it. There are pipeline plans in canada pointing both south and west, nobody really cares which way it goes. And Vancouver has more Chinese nationals than Americans. If push comes to shove on lumber, oil, grains (ie beer ingredients) or any other basic resource there is another ready customer on this planet.
The parent article is by two lawyers. Here's a better introductory article by a biochemist.[1] A key point is that there are a finite number of small molecules which can potentially be used as antibiotics. Throwing money at finding them may not work against a depleting resource.

[1] http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/cmoyer/zztemp_fire/biol345_F10/pape...
No. The money might have been from the US. But the creation of the CEE, then later the EU was born of the will of European leaders. Martin Schultz had listened to the US but they weren't the driving force.
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Reading the exchange between Ron Rivest and Perry Metzcar here[1] is almost painful. Bill Simpson has a post near the end and it seems in character for the "anyone who was good at Unix, and standard-issue bloody-mindedness." observation that tptacek made.

[1] http://theory.csail.mit.edu/ftp-data/pub/ftp/people/rivest/i...
It is not just price IMO, even though this is obviously a major factor. Several other things make this place hostile to families:

- school system creates a somewhat unpredictable situation

- not enough decent parks spread throughout the city

- units on the market are often inappropriate for families

- all new buildings are designed for young, single tenants

- due to rent control and housing scarcity, many older apartments are not well-maintained

- 40% the city sidewalks are a noisy polluted clusterfsck, 40% are desolate and boring

- few trees or covered sidewalks, reducing shelter from sun and elements, walking around unpleasant

- streets are extremely wide in many parts of the city, creating a dangerous environment for children
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Seeing it from afar, it's worse than that. Seems to me it's full of temporarily embarrassed Zuckerbergs that also happen to be blind to the reality of the world.
You can find a good description of the system in this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/education/21sfschool.html

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Here is how the current system works: Let’s say a 5-year-old — we’ll call him Jake, like my son — wants to go to kindergarten. His parents fill out an application and list seven schools they prefer.

The more desirable schools get more applications than they have seats; in some cases that ratio is 20 to 1. That’s where the Diversity Index comes in. Known as “the lottery,” the index uses five factors to determine a child’s profile: poverty level, socio-economic status, English-language proficiency, academic achievement and, for upper grades, the quality of the student’s previous school.

Once that profile is built, the child is placed in one of his selected schools, in a class of students whose collective profile is as different from his own profile as possible. As each child is added, the class profile is adjusted, and more “most different” children are placed. Students living near their selected schools are considered first. The district also gives preference to children who have siblings at the same school and apply on time.

But there is no guarantee that a child will get in a selected school. And once the lottery has filled all the slots, those soon-to-be kindergartners who get into none of their choices are offered a place in a school with open positions. Proximity to their home and transportation are considered.

Designed to be race-neutral, the system has instead been widely criticized as too complex and opaque. “It’s all magic and voodoo,” Ms. Menegaz said, only half joking.

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Basically, they try to balance out the schools, but it means that if you are of a higher socio-economic status you are placed into schools with people with lower socio-economic status to try to balance things out. But that often means being placed into schools that are farther away, and don't perform well. So, it pushes away people from public schools who can afford to move away, or send their kids to private schools (this is why we left San Francisco).
I was actually against the TPP back when all the rumours were spinning around before the text was released. When the full text actually came out, in an old-fashioned sense of obligation I read the whole thing. Then I did it again. Very few fears I had held were grounded. To my surprise though, the narrative didn't change at all. What was actually contained in the agreement was irrelevant. People were afraid of sovereignty, environmental and worker protections and more before the text was released, and they were after.

Here's a couple of common criticisms that will easily identify a commenter as having not read the agreement:

"the TPP (or ISDS) allows companies to sue countries for lost profits" (they don't)

"this is a power grab by pharmaceutical companies" (Pharma was second after Tobacco at being upset with the deal)

"it undermines Net Neutrality" (there are specific points allowing net neutrality regulation, NN was an Obama policy plank FFS)

"TPP worsens environmental or labor conditions" (it actually provides minimum standards that will improve these in developing countries specifically around overfishing, trade of endangered animals, and minimum wage. It's why the deal was endorsed by the WWF)