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> The park was too far away for him to walk and he had a good chance of being the only kid there, because of backyards. And finally, everyone was so damn insular. In the year we lived there we only knew a few neighbors.

Did the other kids in your neighborhood mostly play in their backyards or inside at home?

When I was a kid, we were expected to go out and play in the front yard, or the street, or go ride our bikes to a park or open field or creek or convenience store, with the main restriction being that we be back for meals. Most suburbs kids were what would now be called a "free range" kid.

When families would go to a sporting event, or to a movie, or on a camping trip, it was common for their kids to be allowed to invite a friend to come along. There was enough interaction between the kids of different families that the parents had to talk on occasion, and so families tended to become acquainted somewhat through the relationships among their kids. If their kids participated in organized sports, parents would meet and talk with other parents in the stands while watching the games.

I wonder if the decline in free range kids is what caused the empty parks and insular behavior you experienced?
Do you happen to know which protein?
"Golf cart that follows you" is a thing.[1] Those have been around for 10 years, and they sell modestly. Suitcases which follow you exist, but haven't caught on.

It might be useful to have a set of suitcases that would follow the user and each other like a train. That would be an amusing option for road cases for rock groups and trade shows.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0XwJCllGnY
I wish some company (apart from compose.io) would create a RethinkDB as a service (DBaaS).

I would totally love a dynamodb or firebase kind of payment structure!

I specifically excluded compose not because their service is not great (from what I've heard - it's excellent) but more so because they charge a premium for it.
I wonder if there's something along the lines of a credit score for public servants out there. This score would probably need to be comprised of several stats, but one of the most important would be a score of all commitments and obligations an individual has per office and how many they've actually done. Another stat that comes to mind is NPS- are voters willing to vote again for this candidate?
Right, it's a weak argument. Apple tends to pull the plug rather quickly, as well, but that's tangential.
Got it - hear you loud and clear. The article wasn't worded correctly. We've corrected the explanation and linked to the APIs directly (which we should have done from the start).

Yeah, we're a tabloid and, yes, we're rude. But at The Reg, we do take accuracy extremely seriously. We want to be right. If you spot anything wrong, corrections@theregister.co.uk goes straight to our editors: it's a great way to get things fixed fast. Thanks.
Avoiding a car that crashes in the lane next to you is a lot harder than avoiding a car that falls 100 feet from above. Yet we have multi-lane highways.
"The article mentions that." would still be appropriate then. Rulebook still good.
Surely most aren't. I know in my graduating class in the late 2000s, maybe only 10% had any experience upon graduating. My point here is that the H1B policy has put these grads into an impossible situation, whereby they're competing against people from emerging economies who do have the skills for these entry level jobs, where 10 years ago grads would be hired and get up to speed on the job.

So there isn't an undersupply of willing workers, there's an unwillingness for companies to accept that entry level workers aren't commodities that you buy, ready-packaged to go.

There is no other industry in the world where lobbyists can say "grads don't have the proprietary skills that we need, so give us more visas to issue to Indians!" and keep a straight face. Training is a normal part of every industry.
Alternatively, congress can pass laws that would define net neutrality and enforcement... but good luck with that.
Those two points don't really oppose each other...
They could always dedicate themselves to committing more crime.
With a couple of weeks of Rust experience, that seems pretty clear to me, but the State type isn't the whole explanation. Check https://api.rocket.rs/rocket/struct.Rocket.html#method.manag... too.
So long as they do that with all videos regardless of source, what's the problem? It's annoying, possibly, but it doesn't really restrict the open flow of information that made the Internet great.
Yeah. Does anybody know why walls for houses aren't built in factories (with electrical, plumbing, insulation, etc already inside)?
“If it works, why touch it” – Managing refactoring tasks
IIRC it started mainly as a cannabis community but it's "branching" out to include other veggies - the growing method works for any plant, it's down to the individual as to what they grow. Feel free to experiment with different plants from different climates!
The Rise of the Rogue Government Tweeters
Bezos is infamous for his ego, and I think he just doesn't see it.

Actually, I think that this is the chink in Amazon's armor, the bare patch on Smaug's underside.

Only a few European countries have Amazon stores and the brand loyalty for them isn't strong. A single EU store would become quickly popular and has the potential to be bigger than Amazon, given that the EU is larger than the US in market size.
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Unfortunately b) is critical to some, which Mongo did not fair well on:

https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb
Their weird logic must be "we don't restrict access to the text of a law, you just have to pay for it".
Thanks! I think the Internet is one thing that has thrived in the absence of regulation, largely because of the absence of top-down control.

I'd be curious what unwanted scenarios you view as the most likely to occur in the absence of net neutrality.

In thinking about it a bit more, it would seem that unless VPN access were banned, users could work around nearly any port/protocol oriented non-neutrality simply by using a VPN.

But this also creates problems, because an ISP that prioritized all VPN traffic equal to known low-latency traffic would need much more bandwidth headroom to prevent degradation of service.

I think net neutrality is a very interesting issue, and argue against it largely to play devil's advocate, but also because this is a case where many of us have concrete experience and detailed knowledge of the thing being regulated, and so it is fun to attempt to argue against it based on technical points.

It would seem that if we're truly interested in a neutral internet we would also require upstream providers to purchase some percentage of extra "headroom" bandwidth, just as we require banks and insurance companies to hold reserve/underwriting capital.
Why would you do the calculation with compact fluorescent bulbs, when the project is really predicated on the efficiency of LEDs? Especially the red/blue LEDs that favor the photosynthetic spectrum.

I'm not saying the conclusion is wrong - this is generally about growing cannabis - but indoor cultivation is surprisingly economical for a variety of scales.
Once you start talking about 10's of millions of people some really dumb stuff happens. But, that stuff always happens, I remember 20 years ago hearing the story of the old lady who only used 2nd gear....

The reality is if you buy a new car you can hit 100k miles with standard maintenance and no real mechanical issues. 60 years ago you where lucky to hit 15k miles before something happened. And when cars where new you better bring a mechanic for any long trips.
"To keep the supply of cheap labor low" meant that they would increase labor costs higher than they otherwise would be, yes.
Good, the judge will probably let you or her say something.

Don't know if its with all cases, but the sentencing is usually in the 2 weeks after the session.
Original post: https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/04/climate-scientists-versus...
My bad. In my actual code I was thinking of it was a Vec<>, because my nodes aren't binary.
Per the parent's comment, Google needs to market their internships because there is little value to them, because as interns his friends felt insignificant.

I would say in my day, a Google Internship would have been amazing experience, even if I wasn't special and unique, however, Google wasn't really a the massive behemoth in 2001 (I first started using Google at my internship when the head of IT told me about it).
Given the description of State, the fact that it only has two methods to get at the inner value (.inner() and Deref::deref()), and each returns a different lifetime (one is 'r which is longer than or equal to the lifetime of the State, the other the lifetime of the State), it should be reasonably obvious to people who've coded Rust for a while. The example helps, obviously.
Cloud unlimited storage on your files
Great point. It would seem that with a stronger version of net neutrality this number would not simply be an aim, it would be a legal requirement.
According to their FAQ:

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I'd be more scared to get stabbed in Glasgow than in Amsterdam though.
"Google Student Blog" //
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Ah, but how would you determine the randomness of the delay?
Opendoor seems promising- company buys houses from sellers to sell to buyers. Guarantee of a sale seems more important than maximizing return, so they've experienced success in quite a few markets in the Southwest
I'm a developer and I've only worked with 2 people whose job title was "product manager" (both at the same company).

They didn't seem to have the any stake in building and inspiring teams. I don't think the product managers were involved in hiring at all. They were always remote and traveling so they weren't in communication enough to inspire anything.

The team was given vague goals by the CEO, but the product managers prioritized work on their own pet projects. In the end, the message about what we were doing was confused.

Is this typical? What should I expect from product management?
Thanks for bringing up this.

This is actually a really good example for why we don't want to ban weapons: Genocides are often perpetrated by the country the victims actually belong to.

Examples: Germany under Nazism, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, -I'm fairly sure the list goes on.

I feel totally safe and I'm actually happy knowing that many of my neighbors have weapons. Especially here in Norway were I know there are strict background checks on who gets permits.

(For Americans: What I would do is start cooperating with NRA like Nordic countries has traditionally done with their local equivalents. Work not to prohibit guns but to promote safe storage and safe practices.)
Note that you can't get affiliate income for purchases you make - I believe this will apply to companies and employees as well.
The CPU architecture bit size (32-bit) has no impact on the random range. You can implement an arbitrary length RNG on any machine.

Based on the article it seems that the flaw is that the machine uses the timing of human interaction as a significant seed source. This works well enough for unaware people, but as evidenced here is super easy to exploit once the knowledge is out there. Using time (e.g. the time the program started) as the PRNG seed is a very common security flaw. Otherwise experienced engineers keep making this mistake even in 2017.
I assume you mean "Some banks don't want to deal with". I have also have heard of this problem in some countries. Fortunately I live in the UK and I am unaware of any bank there that is rejecting US citizens.

Since you are referring to a $10,000 limit I assume you mean FBAR (rather than FACTA as that has a $200k limit combined across all accounts for non-residents). If so, have you looked at filing it yourself? It is really quite easy, just a bit time consuming to fill all the address details in the first time ( after which you can just copy and update it every year).

And yes, the increased fee is a joke. Do you have a source for people having visa problems? I've not heard about that but I'm interested to know more.
The problems in that video are P5 centric. P6 is very different as far as how under the hood works
Look at that same statement from the opposite direction: despite constant progress, most people are dissatisfied with current state. Awful way to live! Not an attitude to rationalize and look at the upside of!
It makes some sense as a way to weight for "promise". Many of the other factors (level of education, language ability, work experience) are measuring things that an older candidate will be more likely to have already, but which a younger candidate may be more easily able to acquire after immigrating.
If Visio made complete backups (say full HDD clones) of all their computers on a weekly basis, do all of the backups need destroyed? Is it feasible to open every backup and delete the relevant information? Is it possible to "forget" that a backup process exists and still maintain the data?
Well...as of today it's no longer part of prime video. :/ But you can sign up for a 7 day trial of the extra subscription for documentaries that allows you to watch it and then cancel.
Generally, compiler development is the intended use case of these emulators. I'm pretty unsympathetic when you say that; yeah, it's slow, it's an emulator, and using it is part of your job description.

I wasn't aware the Go team at large all had or needed hardware for all targets? I've done Linux kernel dev without a SPARC, Alpha, etc.

Google and first-class contributors to the ARM6 target (I'm sure a relatively small percentage of the Go community touches each individual, specific compiler target) should have no problem getting free or extremely-discounted licenses from ARM (and even test hardware) -- after all, it's in ARM's best interest to have lots of end users writing code that targets their platforms.
Robert Sapolsky on depression.

Fantastic talk on both the biological-neurological and the psychological side.
What are other examples?
They chose to withhold that patch due to non-technical, apparently PR-related, reasons

Do you know that, it is it just speculation? I could speculate that there were technical reasons around having two smb patchsets to test in various combinations vs bundling into one.
It is interesting that you bring up the iPhone as a positive example of better accessibility. I always thought that physical buttons which could quickly become muscle memory and relatively simple function were way more usable for the demographics in question.
I started this well over a decade ago, perhaps 20 years? The average person does not get NEARLY enough water per day. That was one reason, but the main reason was I knew about the anti-cancer affects of green tea as well as other healthy effects. And over the years I had nurses and medical doctors in my family tell me white tea was healthier for you that green tea. Lower caffeine, more of the same compounds and benefits green tea had. So I switched over to white tea. I am still drinking a gallon each day. Will I still get cancer? Maybe. But it won't be from a lack of doing everything I can to prevent it.
And the EU has the equivalent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
Thanks for the heads up - will try to find a new home. It's on my "not for production" azure sub in which they apparently kill any app with a suspicious amount of traffic.
A better DVR for cord cutters. The Tivo has a ridiculous monthly fee, and the Tablo is garbage. HDHomerun's DVR software is decent, but in its current form I don't see it as something I'd sell to my grandparents.
Why do we feel hot and cold as pain?
Even if your rent remains relatively low, if you find yourself forced out of that apartment you will suddenly be confronted with a much higher market rate. This can be quite an adjustment if you have taken on other fixed expenses afforded by your long-term below-market rent.
Monte Carlo Localization (1999) [pdf]
For me, Perl 6's "killer feature" is the same as Perl 5's: the ability to parse arbitrary textual data with relative ease. Perl 5's regex syntax ended up becoming probably the most common thereof (mostly by way of PCRE); I suspect Perl 6's "grammars" could do the same and serve as "the" syntax for PEGs.
The New York Times take on the ruling: "Judge Robart's brisk ruling contained almost no reasoning."
Gradual typing, grammars for parsing, writing your own operators for common tasks, FP style for one-liners...there are more, but I'll have to add later when not drawing a blank.
Well I wasn't thinking about pulling up to a US city, more like Chad, Somalia, etc. They'd be thrilled with 1 gallon per head per day.
Do you have a substantive argument, or is assuming that all illegal immigrants come here with 0 cash your argument?
Show HN: Picard – Framework for exploring deep learning architectures
> Trade deficits are a meaningless thing to worry about.

Manifestly wrong. Large trade deficits are unsustainable for three reasons. They cause private and public debt bubbles in the defect nation. They cause unemployment and underemployment in the defect nation. And, they can cause systemic inefficiencies in the surplus nations that lead to economic and social problems at home, and deflation abroad.
Closed door office spaces that contract out to open office companies.
The UK is not in the EU (and was never in Schengen), so you pay customs along as well as shipping.
Overpaid? We're paying people $30M a year to throw a ball into a hoop, and we're paying other people millions to recite a few lines in a movie.

Why shouldn't engineers, part of a class of worker that arguably brings much more benefits to society than actors or athletes, get paid much more?

If the natural labor market dynamics were allowed to occur, we would be seeing top engineers being paid $500K to $1M+ per year. In fact, during the SV wage fixing cartel, this is precisely what the executives of these participating companies were complaining about in the emails that were disclosed in court filings. Will you believe tech company executives when they say that it affects wages? How many earnings calls do you have to listen to where executives talk about how labor market dynamics and immigration policy will affect their payroll costs? I'm sorry but if you think immigration doesn't affect wages, I've got a bridge to sell you...

Not only is the H1B program putting downward pressure on wages, but all immigration is putting downward pressure on all wages.

Any time you hear a tech executive talk about "shortage of workers", what they're really saying is "shortage of workers willing to work for a lower than market value wage".
The FCC no longer handles communications. The part we thought of the FCC as being in charge of will be given to the FTC which lacks any enforcement authority and is inundated with millions of things to watch.
Ferengi Rules of the Acquisition:

34	War is good for business

35	Peace is good for business.

274 Ferengi are not responsible for the stupidity of other races.
Sorry, clarification: by "nasty" I just meant "subtle", not "debilitating" -- and agreed that they did really well on Jepsen.
FCC makes it harder for poor people to get subsidized broadband
Calling javascript a virus is hyperbole, of course, but it is quite obvious that a lot of people find javascript subjectively objectionable, and there are plenty of objective problems with the language. Unfortunately reasonable objections are usually shouted down online by javascript fans.

Mandatory mention: intercooler.js lets you add ajax to you app w/ very little javascript.

I really didn't like javascript and thought that AJAX should work like regular old web requests and, in the process, rediscovered REST/HATEOAS. I really like it. You can use whatever language you'd like on your backend, all the communication is in HTML, as Berners-Lee intended.

https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js
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What cats can teach us about how to live
Why is it FUD? I've heard the same reasoning that the Yahoo director uses in many places, but have never heard a sensible rebuttal.
Slot machines are the worst though.

The last time my wife and I were in Las Vegas, the only game we made money on was sports betting.
I don't want a general purpose tree editor. I want a general purpose text editor that understands the semantics of the text I'm editing. One that understands all the various not-necessarily-sexp-based code I'm editing is a tree and supports (ParEdit style) operations on that tree. Especially with languages in the Algol/C family. I think this can be accomplished (eventually) via language servers and editors that speak the Language Server Protocol (LSP) [0].

But I don't need a UI oriented around visually displaying tree-like things. Expanding / collapsing nodes is very meh. Moving / splitting / joining nodes is much more interesting and useful.

As a simple concrete example: changing the order of the parameters (and their type) in a function definition. Wouldn't it be great to 'swap-with-prev-node' or 'swap-with-next-node' rather than copy/paste and dealing with commas? The same operations could swap the order of two fields in a struct or two functions or two classes or any pair of adjacent nodes in a tree.

Or how about moving an 'if' block inside the 'for' block that follows it? Just execute the 'move-node-inside-next-node' (or whatever) command.

This only requires editors that (indirectly) understand the semantics of the text you're editing. Thus far the biggest barrier is all wheel re-invention needed for the cartesian product of all editors and all languages. But that's the wrong approach. We need each language to provide a tool that each editor can use via a common protocol.

This is precisely the point of the LSP. The functionality only needs to be written once per language and per editor. This is totally tractable. I don't know if LSP currently supports the specific tree-manipulation functionality I mentioned, but I'm confident it could.

Does anyone knowledgeable about LSP know if this is already possible, feasible, and/or generally desirable? Are there deal breakers that make this hard / not worthwhile?

[0] http://langserver.org/