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This series is specifically discussing "an even more important factor that shaped patterns of American development since the Great Depression." It is not discussing the roots of suburbanization, which is what you appear to want. For that you must consult the sources.

The series linked to http://web.mit.edu/ebj/www/doc/JAPAv61n1.pdf , and I suggested it as well in my earlier comment.

On page 2 it says "To avoid the harsh physical and social conditions of the industrial city, affluent citizens of that era chose to live in new developments at the rural-urban edge. ... the suburban notion trickled down from the elite to the middle class ..."

On page 3 "During the late nineteenth century the environmental chaos of the city was seen as linked to its social problems. Overcrowding and deteriorating sanitary conditions were believed to cause social and moral degeneration. Social and health reformers argued that the inevitable social disorder would be controlled best by improving the environment. Then as reformers discovered the difficulty of improving the inner city, many began advocating multi-centered growth patterns. Suburbanization was seen as a vital force not only in urbanizing the countryside, but also in revitalizing the city. ... "
Just got a quick prototype of this up a few hours ago. Thanks for the input!! So far no questions or requests, though...
That's your personal choice, but an explanation for the choice would be useful for all of us.
> Disease, for example, is mostly a product of settled societies, not hunter-gatherers

how is this a thing? Maybe you're thinking of large scale epidemics, but the most common cause of death in tribal settings are (modernly) treatable infections.
Does it change colors for each product? I would never consider that one as a budget brand by looking at it.

In Sweden (etc, I suppose) we have Euroshopper which is as minimal as it gets. It's instantly recognisable in each isle.

Example
http://files2.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_1664/16649...
The author probably means that people in their 30s will be the last generation to have witnessed telephones plugged into walls — i.e., the generations after them, people in their 20s and younger, won't have.

That anyone in their 40s, 50s, 60s, etc. has witnessed and used telephones plugged into walls is implied.
Yes, that is all true for the suggested replacement code, but you quoted the statement "Yes, I know it could be unaligned, but this is x86 where it would still be faster than 4 separate reads.", which referred only to what the compiler should do, and the compiler combining char reads into 32 bit loads obviously is not allowed to assume that the resulting loads are aligned ...
I feel like eventually some combination of factors would nail anyone against that level of effort and access. It would be interesting if there were a platform for people to compete on how long they can keep their servers up without being compromised.
> Are you really so different that for you this will be such and impossible situation that you'd throw yourself to the wilderness?

These garment factory workers don't have the option to become hunter-gather. There probably is nothing to gather or hunt around where they live and the skills to do it are lost. We are comparing two models of society. Are humans in our capitalistic society happier on average than hunter-gatherers of the past?
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Memory usage is often a bad indicator of bloat. Especially GC languages like Java and JS will just go ahead and allocate a lot of memory from the OS without using all of it all the time. If you sum the "used" memory of all apps, it will often be more than the available RAM, even though there is no swapping going on. The OS memory management is really clever nowadays.

Actually, an app not using much memory may be sacrificing performance by not using a caching opportunity.

Unfortunately, apps coordinating how much memory to best use is an unsolved problem, as far as I know.
Yay, someone else too! :)
When you consider that hunting has been an elite pastime for the entirety of recorded civilisation, I suspect that many people would indeed opt to "run around [in environmentally-appropriate clothing] looking for an animal to kill"
They will regret it some generations later as they swing to the other extreme.

The core point here is too much of anything leads to stress. Living totally like a savage is indeed stressful. Also living a life totally immersed in urban dystopia is equally stressful. A happy medium works, but so few can get and remain there. Our economic systems encourage falling into extremes. They don't encourage stability and moderation.
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no, even in the second (the ex-communist block) and the third (south america, africa, and non aligned countries in general).

Just check one of the Hans Rosling videos on TED[0]: almost everywhere life expectancy has increased, child mortality has dropped, education has risen.

[0] https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling
You know I’ve thought of that too, but if the popular password managers fail, then we have such a big problem on our hands that your personal data will seem trivial in comparison to the larger societal disruption.

You could also use a local password manager that doesn’t upload to the cloud and just syncs with your phone.

Also there are lots of guides on Github on how to set up Mac, PC, Linux, whatever as securely as possible. Good stuff to look up.
COM used to be treated as a legacy technology by Microsoft, but it is pretty central now.
> Except in case of profile-guided optimization (which few people use), the compiler has one massive weakness: it doesn't know the "shape" and distribution of your data. If it did, it would be able to do quite a bit more, but it mostly does not.

Well, that's only true because programmers define functions in terms of types that are not sufficiently specific wrt their runtime invariants; in a dependently-typed language you could have an optimizing compiler that makes use of type-level information to do better optimizations. For instance, in a dependently-typed language, you could have a type of integers divisible by 11, and it will have no runtime overhead with respect to a machine integer. Of course, this comes with a cost: if you want to use such specific types, you have to prove to the compiler that the data it is getting really does satisfy the property (and yes, you can do such proofs even with data that is only available at runtime, by simply implementing a runtime check).
Right now the fed is trying to solve this issue by giving more money to the people with the caves.
I know of better ways to kill my computer fan.
I'd actually add one thing: coding style.

Shame on me for admitting this! In fact, despite having personal CS favors like everyone, the painfully obvious subjectivity of the whole matter has always striked me as entirely futile to be taken into account for basically everything. I even worked for years of uninterrupted peace with people who would, for example, prototype pointer arguments of c/c++ functions gluing the wildcard to the type, then space then boom variable name. I've always been cool with this, even reading things like glibc's code.

This liberalism however has two exceptions: my own code obviously, a dictatorship where merciless enforcement of inflexible and rigorous coding style is accepted. But unfortunately, in algorithm books too! I know it is completely idiotic but I'd be in denial not to admit how much of a total turn off the coding style of code in algorithm books can be to me. Segdewick for example, such a wonderful book, the prose is excellent, the content really is outstanding (probably one of the most comprehensive I own), the editions I have even has a superb typeface and paper quality, unfortunately the C coding style of this book has this effect on me which makes me want to close the book immediately. I feel the same deep pain every time I have to look at it (which does happen a lot since it is a great book really!). I'm actually jealous of those more advanced human beings who are able to make an abstraction of that when reading a coding book!
Spolsky had very little to do with the actual coding of it. If memory serves, it was his idea and he engaged Atwood to build it (hence the partnership). It was Atwood and two other developers, which I sadly cannot remember their names at the moment who did the actual programming. You are correct though, the reason Atwood picked the MS stack was that it's what he knew, and they had ties into MS itself. It was built on the original MVC framework, before the MS framework was released to the general public. If you go back to the original podcasts it talks about why they built SO the way they did at the time.
Poor response. Basically "we're not actually evil, just trust me". Why should it be a question of trust? A programming language that is controlled by one for-profit organization is an obviously bad idea. And the last paragraph, where he suddenly goes straight for a personal attack is completely uncalled for. You, a rockstar creator of a language are in no position to personally insult your users. Never punch down.

Of course Clojure zealots lapped it up.
Muji is a pretty fun case in irony. No brand markings but super obvious that things come from it due to its unique style.
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> If the product ends up being subpar, the company has nothing to lose, so what's their incentive to make a quality product?

That's an interesting thought. Assuming that the company is already worth millions/billions of dollars, I wonder if it can give extra assurance of a money back guarantee to unhappy consumer backers. Especially if the company primarily intends to use crowdsourcing as a form of product validation.

There's also the risk of unhappy but influential backers going public about what they think. Crowdsourcing for big companies must not be as fun as your typical Kickstarter campaign!
I have a rule to keep all my personal life off the internet and use it only for intellectual and public life. It is impossible to follow it strictly - but I manage to do it most of the time. I think it alleviates much of the problems described in the article. In particular I don't often feel like I have lost time following what the computer offers (be it facebook stream, Hacker News, wikipedia links or whatever). And maybe I am mistaken but also 'likes' and '++s', or upvotes on anything also do have some more meaning in this arrangement.

I also don't use Facebook on my phone - only on a desktop. I still don't use the smartphone much - only on pull bases.
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It is common, and you will probably get 2 or 3 counteroffers, but (unless you bluffed) none will make you stay.
Why do our programs need to read input and write output?
i love that victimology has made it to consumer goods. i was just thinking how gamer-whining needed a good round of overintellectualization.
Hey! Thank you, I really just wanted to get a super minimal version up so I can hack on it and build something people want, its not open source yet, but I'm thinking about open sourcing it.

The only user data being collected is the emails, as part of Firebase's innate auth system. They won't be used for any other purpose and are completely siloed from each other. Honestly this is my first time building anything really, so these are all considerations I'm going to have to make, and I'd love any pointers you could give me!
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Also, it means a lot to me that you think its cool :) thank you!
Ah yes, that would be it.

IMO it is better to present the Bloom filter by asking/stating what one can be certain of given each return value of the Bloom filter.
Then we use that to prevent children from being raped at no cost to civil liberties, or risk for the innocent.

And if anyone has a moral problem with that, because it feels wrong, well fuck them.
Nice!

Will you be adding something like a categories tag?

Any initial feedback on using Cloud Firestore you'd want to share? [Good | Bad]
I'm trying to find a good way to organize 8000 technical IT security papers. One option is a category and subcategory list like DMOZ. Another option is high level categories only. I use tags, so in theory tags and search may work.

Appreciate your input.
I talked to some emulator folks recently, and apparently timing accuracy is almost an impossible to solve problem on non-ancient consoles.

Funnily enough, there are some games that work on crappy emulators, but not on the accurate ones, until they get sufficiently accurate enough.
Completely failed? JetBrains' IDEs seem awfully popular, and they are all Java and Swing.
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>> Facebook has recruited one of the world’s top AI teams, led by Yann LeCun

Information I have is dated (~10 years) - Facebook had 'top' psychologists team working to design product behaviour.
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Not sure why the IRC is even needed in the, at least on paper, wealthiest country in the world.

I thought NGOs like that were reserved for 3rd world countries.

When there's an earthquake in Japan does the Red Cross fly in? In my opinion disaster relief is something the government should deal with. I'd consider it a point of pride as a nation. It would be shameful if my country had to beg for outside help.
Work, energy.
I’ve heard this argument many times now and I still fail to see how we’re feeling sympathy for these people. Every time this conversation is brought up I see 0 solutions and people that very low-key suggest these people have to die because coal must disappear, because outsourcing to China is good because we’re living in a global economy, because they vote Trump and they don’t share our liberal view of society and they might not like black people or feminists, etc.
This is not a settled question. The references in your link are mostly new-world non-state (nonstate != hunter-gatherer), whereas Africa, where most of human foraging history occurred is under-represented. There are significant differences in environmental constraints and physical and social ecology between these regions.

The link also mischaracterises the argument that anthropologists make: they do not believe that foragers had a fundamentally different ("noble savage in a Marxist feminist garden") character than moderns, but that their incentives and constraints differed. It is hard to find people to war with if you are living at extremely low population density, or to carry out ambush raids along long sightlines in the savannah. You are probably less likely to murder your neighbours' children if they are your nieces, or fail to share food with your brother's wife. Hunter-gatherer social technology exploiting human biases (e.g. toward kin) is often ignored in favour of wishful retrocasting of our own political viewpoints.

Globally, foragers may not have enjoyed the low levels of violence we do in modern society, but they may have been competitive with gardening/agricultural/tribal/state societies for millennia.
That's exactly my setup. For the past year or even longer I've unsubscribed from basically every automated email that hit my inbox (or off to spam if unsubscribe is behind a login). Additionally I've got a huge list of muted words on twitter, mostly "politics in tech" buzz words. It's a much better experience.

Trying to replace hacker news with a hn newsletter now, but so far not really successful. But well, there are worse things.
Found the mathematical realist! I'm more of a formalist myself, given the uncertain nature of where mathematical objects have to live if they are not just a useful tool we came up with to understand our surroundings.
Indeed, and I ditched it as soon as I had a choice as well.
This looks like a case of the base rate fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Disagree again, especially in Germany US-style CVs with focus on achievements and accomplishments are learned, appreciated and have a much higher conversion than descpriptive CVs.
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On my way to work, I‘m passing a store of a bag manufacturer that‘s in business for 25 years. Now, they advertise their Kickstarter campaign that will still run for a few days. Out of the 100k funding goal for a new bag(!), they reached almost 500k. Mind blowing for me.
Drug problems get worse with higher unemployment

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/27/unemploym...
Why make it easy to use something bad and hard to use something good? The concept of "this variable is mutable" makes more sense than "this variable is constant" anyway; saying that a variable is mutable is like _adding features_ to it (i.e.: the ability to mutate it).
Added some breakpoints to the stylesheet, give it another try.
Couple of years ago I was at this event where Stackoverflow had their stand, so I asked them the ultimate question - what stack does Stackoverflow run on? When they answered ".NET" I couldn't believe it, thought it was a joke. Stackoverflow, one of the most prominent sites in the world of free and open software is actually running on a stack that is neither free nor very open.
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Indian mathematicians like Aryabhatta have never been given the same credit as western ones, it all stems from the British invading India and seeing a civilisation that was much older than what the Bible stated (4000 years). Now the hardline Christian invaders couldn't have any of that, people that are older than their own religion would have thrown doubt into their own people. So they gave India very little credit.
Oh yeah, I'm going to be adding a lot, I really just wanted to get something out there to stay motivated and get people's feedback. I'm actually probably going to add a roadmap or feature suggestion component soon. It's my first time building something like this, so I'm pretty new to managing user interest LOL

Dude, Firestore is pretty sweet. It can be opened with a realtime connection, and works just like Mongo. The only thing is that the way the queries are handled is a little weird, and they don't necessarily return static data. The query options may return some methods that you have to call, and really read the documentation in order to wrap your head around how to grab what you thought should have been a simple JSON object.

That being said, it is in Beta, so I knew there would be documentation issues going in. I think it will be a fantastic tool going forward, and its worth building something small on it to play around with right now.

TLDR: [GOOD], but needs some improvements

Thanks for your feedback by the way, I really appreciate it :)
The numbers just seemed incredibly high to me. I looked for similar data for the EU, and I found one report for 2015 (http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/system/files/publications/4541/T...).

The number of overdose deaths in the EU is ~7500 there, and there is no similar large increase since 2006 (the data in that report doesn't go as far back as the NY Times article data for the US). The report cautions that there is underreporting in some countries, but even then the number seems to be much lower than in the US.
In New Hampshire, you can pay that much or more in taxes. Plucking a random house nearby:

https://www.redfin.com/NH/Amherst/47-Merrimack-Rd-03031/home...

For sale for: $284,900

Assessed at: $269,500

Taxes (2016) $6,764

(New Hampshire has no sales tax, and high property taxes, quite high in some towns...)
Visual Studio Enterprise is $2999/year, Pro is $539. Might as well add anywhere from $400 to $1500 for the IncrediBuild license.
There isn’t one, so legally it’s illegal to use
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aDNA is a complement, not a replacement for ancient history and anthropology.
It's a bit odd to intermingle talk of a written symbol for zero with the use of binary by computers. If I chisel open my Xeon, I don't think I'm going to find 1 and 0 symbols, and likewise the vast majority of the source code for what's running on it won't contain binary literals either.

The "ones and zeros" way of talking about computers to a general audience is a bit of a cliche at this point IMHO.

The squirrelly nature of zero in a purely physical sense is interesting to focus on. e.g. if you use the fingers on your hand to count, then zero can be represented by either a closed fist, or by the absence of the hand altogether (unary numbers). No need to involve bleep-bloop-computers or even a sheet of paper.

I'm coining a phrase: "Unary is the native number system of the eyeball."
It's not clear that Google or its representatives wwere present, that Iran was the only challenger, or that Auletta's point was social vs. ndividual benefit:

Not surprising, many governments are hostile to the idea of a free and open Web that Google advances, believing their national values--or the governing regime -- are threatened. I soured on attending the World Economic Forum in Davos several years ago because I found too many panels there to be insufferably polite and boring--designed to bestow
backslaps on corporate and government attendees. But what is mind stretching about Davos, and different from most conferences, is that attendees come from all over the world and bring with them different sets of values and assumptions about the meaning of words. I remember a panel in the late nineties moderated by Esther Dyson, an early champion of the Internet. She opened by extolling the democratic values --
freedom, liberty, access to all information -- advanced by the Web. The former foreign minister of Denmark chimed in with his agreement, emphasizing that the Web gave individuals more freedom. He and Dyson thought they were
taking the unassailable moral high ground.

For the next several minutes, they sat slack-jawed as Singapore's ambassador to the United States challenged them. He said his government licensed Internet use with the idea that the Web must serve society, not the individual. "By licensing you are asking for responsible use," he said. An Egyptian diplomat educated in America chimed his agreement. He favored regulating "human dignity" situations, such as expressions that might be construed as "racist." He urged
the adoption of international standards to prevent freedom of speech from being too free. Astonished, Dyson and the former foreign minister challenged these ideas as threats to "liberal values."

"I am not a liberal," a member of the Iranian Parliament shot back, declaring that his government opposed the "pollution" of Western democratic values spread over the Web. "A nonliberal system does not equal intolerance," he said, explaining that his country favored "community" over "individual" values.

This exchange was a reminder that "common values" are not always common, and that Google, whose mission is to share and make the world's information accessible, will always have government bears to contend with.
Not anti-crowdfunding for large companies, but consider this: what happens if these companies start flocking in Indiegogo and Kickstarter? The main ethos of crowdsourcing platforms is to give extra leg-up to lone inventors and small startups so that they have a chance to be competitive too, but if you have large companies with their big budgets and finely tuned marketing, would these platforms still provide fair ground for everyone?

As the author pointed out, Indiegogo is supposed to focus on the "underdogs":

"Our mission is to empower people to unite around ideas that matter to them and together make those ideas come to life... We know building something from scratch is hard, so we’ve got your back."