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I was homeschooled from 2nd grade up all the way through high school.

I've seen kids destroyed by home schooling and I've seen kids saved by home schooling. You are absolutely correct that the potential is there but not always realized.

Homeschooling shines when the parents play to it's strengths.

* Individually tailored education at the elementary level provides a huge boost to many kids.

* An environment that stresses and promotes self directed learning at the high school level also does wonders for a teenagers future. Done right home schooling encourages, rather than discourages, thinking for themselves through debate and conversation with adults.

* Lack of social grace while it exists for some kids is far from the norm. So far from the norm that I consider it a myth. It gets trotted out in almost every discussion I encounter around home schooling. And yet for the overwhelming majority of Home Schooled kids it couldn't be farther from the truth. In fact I think that in many ways Social Skills can be one of the biggest advantages a Home Schooled child can have.

Most kids learn to socialize from their friends. Those friends have no more idea than they do though. When they get their first job and/or attend college they have to learn all over again how to interact with adults.

A home schooled child tends to learn to socialize from other adults. The number 1 thing most people noticed about me and other Home Schooled people I've known was how well we could hold a conversation with an adult.

I've seen kids end up far too sheltered and harmed as a result but this is much less of a danger than most people think in my experience.

The #1 thing to keep consider though if you are thinking about homeschooling is the time commitment. You will probably need one parent to commit to it full time because it's a lot of work.
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Thanks for encouragement. we hope to release piece by piece to the open source community in the future.
Just so you know, traditional braces hurt like hell for a day or two after each appointment, sometimes longer. They are also uncomfortable the entire time.
> You see he's ok because he writes code and drug laws are bad, man.

Given that there were people arguing Hans Reiser was unfairly convicted even after he confessed to murdering his wife, and suggesting that imprisonment was a waste of his talents, I am not particularly surprised by any expression of nerd supremacism any more. Saddened, but not surprised.
These sort of "house call" or "doctor-on-location" weed businesses rely on people trying to get high that day. I find it incredibly hard to believe that they could be sustained by people who want to remain legal while owning more than an ounce of weed (a rather large amount of weed for all but the heaviest users...).

If it is merely a matter of keeping more than an ounce legally, the urgency is all but gone, and with it the advantage of the house-call system.

Also I sure as hell wouldn't start a business based on the current state of medical marijuana in Washington state; the system will likely be gutted and reworked relatively soon. Furthermore states that legalize in the future will likely follow Colorado's example more than Washington's.
I find the term "gastropub" amusing. In my experience it's not used much (if at all) here in Australia, where "gastro" is most frequently used as an abbreviation for "gastroenteritis". It does not seem to me to be the wisest of neologisms.
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Madoff had victims. Ulbricht did not.
Funny, I just got a flier from them in the mail today. They recently (not quite 1 year ago) opened a second store in my area, about 20m down the road from another bigger Guitar Center. I thought it was a bit strange that they'd put them so close together.
He said provided by the manufacturer by default, not something the user has to install themselves.
You know, I honestly can't recall my first glass teletype. I'm younger than you are so maybe it seemed like a natural evolution at the time.

I left the computer world in the late 70s when I discovered girls, music and partying. I came back to it the 80s when I learned about networked computers. Even through all of the intervening years, my coding still sucks. ; )
Thanks to all.

Good comments are good, negative comments are better. The service is in early preview so that it has huge room for improvement.

My apologies for your frustrations on several usage cases. I hope to make it better to serve you better in the next releases.

Have a great day.
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Same here, we have a dozen coops, and homeschool groups everywhere. Plus we are in a techi area, so occasionally my wife comes back from an outing, telling me about this new family she just met...turns out I know the dad as he is a programmer in the area.

As for single parent homeschooling...I can't even imagine. Homeschooling is my wife's job, that is what we call it. Anything less is a disservice to the kids.
Mostly momentum. I have a bunch of mobile bookmarks already in place.

I'm on an N4 which is starting to show its age; it's old and crusty and I'm trying to keep it as stock as possible.
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If the broker did such a good job, why not mention who you used? I can't think of why he'd want to stay anonymous.
Agreed, if Ulbricht hadn't tried to call a hit out on someone, life in prison would seem unreasonable. Based on the information we have, though, it seems pretty certain that he did.

Whether or not the hit went through, he tried to do it, which definitely puts him on the sociopathic spectrum.

If I had a button on some website that would cause someone to be killed, I wouldn't click it. A button on some website that enabled people to get the drugs they want, though? I wouldn't have quite the same moral quandaries.

Don't get me wrong, the hard drugs are bad and in essence the people who use them pathologically are victims of their own brain chemistry; I'm just not so certain that life in prison for someone who enables that is actually a solution to that problem (but the effectiveness of prohibition by force is a whole 'nother story).

It seems clear to me that the motivation for the prosecutors and LEOs involved is to crush the concept of an unregulated, international, black market. I'm definitely not convinced that this prosecution will actually produce the desired goal. Silk road was just the first of many darknet black markets that emerged to fulfill a need. Others are still thriving and as they get shut down, more will spring up in their place, gradually improving their ability to evade detection/termination.
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citation for what? ;-)

That PMTUD just works is not my experience, especially with IPv4, there are lots of servers/sites out there that break if you don't mangle the MSS if you are behind some link with an MTU < 1500--unfortunately.

But yeah, let's hope that your article will help spread the word that PMTUD is important, and that completely filtering ICMP is idiotic--in any case it has helped remove an "incompetent" flag for your company in my brain ;-)
So what motivated you to make Javascript in C#?
It depends on what "object" means to you. Turns out this is very, very complex. A deep answer has a lot to do with laziness, F-algebras, totality, dependent types, yada yada yada.

In particular, the tip of this iceberg is the difficulty of comparing functions for equality.

Does any of this matter? Maybe not. Structs with recursion can get you 90% of what you want (just ask OCaml). One thing you might miss is the ability to do late binding and open recursion—up to you whether or not you care.
So a broker that actually helps you save money and get what you want. Thats a first. Imagine if real estate brokers where this helpful.
Whether home schooled, private schooled, or public schooled, it's ultimately the parent's responsibility to educate their child.

One danger of public schools is that parents can get a false sense of security about whether their child is being properly educated. It can be easy to get into autopilot mode and trust that there are good things going on at the school. As long as the child is passing classes, being promoted to the next grade on schedule, and gets a diploma everything should be good - no?

Unfortunately, such indicators don't appear to mean much. I know several people who received extremely deficient educations, and yet passed all classes and got a diploma. In one case, the person received their diploma without knowing basic addition/subtraction or other arithmetic, and could barely read. They've since taken years of private tutoring (at their own expense, since the state owes them nothing once they grant the diploma). So, they could certainly learn, but apparently the school didn't teach.

The parents in this case were not well educated themselves, and were trusting that the school was doing its job. It's easy to throw rocks at them for not paying more attention, but what the heck was the school doing?

There's certainly no perfect system, but parents who are taking on the homeschooling responsibility deserve a lot of latitude and support.
Currently Intel's L1D (level 1 data) cache is 512 lines with 64 bytes each, 32 kB. Been that way for a pretty long time.

L1D latency with a pointer is mostly 4 cycles. Not sure, but I think having 1024 entries would increase that to 5 cycles.

Increasing cache line size from 64 bytes to 128 bytes would require more memory (DDRx SDRAM) bandwidth, because CPU needs to always fill a whole 64 byte - 128 byte with this change - cache line on a memory load. Even if you want just one byte. Wasted bandwidth for non-streaming workloads would be increased significantly. This change would force also L2 to have 128 byte cache lines, etc. LFBs and other buffers would of course also need to accommodate this.

Skylake will be able to process 64 bytes (512 bits) with a single SIMD instruction, with AVX-512. Perhaps Intel will need to soon increase cache line size, if 1024 bits wide SIMD instructions are desired.

SIMD gather instructions might be a hint that in the future memory loads will function in a different fashion. Maybe cache lines won't anymore be the smallest amount of data a CPU memory subsystem can deal with?
I had braces for six years, and if I had to get my teeth straightened today, I would probably go this route.

Don't forget, braces mean:

- More cost
- Monthly trips to the orthodontist

The physical act of having to go to the orthodontist every month for years costs you time and money in terms of gas, parking, etc, not to mention the time cost. Think of your schedule today. Can you fit in another 2-3 hour monthly appointment? You probably can, but it will probably be at the expense of another activity you'd probably rather be doing.

Emergency maintenance is sometimes needed (the braces can get damaged from accidents, sports, etc.)

Also, braces are UGLY.

Wow, I wish this was around when I needed braces.
I've never heard of house calls in Scandinavia either, unless it's strictly necessary (immobile elderly patient, etc.). It takes more of the doctor's time, therefore is more expensive, and generally we don't want medical care to get more expensive when it's possible to avoid it. For example a typical GP in Denmark sees 6 patients per hour, which seems difficult to do with house visits unless the patients live in the same building or something.
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That's correct, most games will never touch the native APIs, except for things like IAP or Facebook/Game Center/Google Play Games Service integration.

RoboVM gives you full access to all iOS native APIs in idiomatic Java. Have a look at the Javadocs [1] to get a feel for how that looks like. Currently not wired up to the Apple docs, but that's on our roadmap. We have quite a few ports of official Apple demo apps [2], a simple hello world looks like this [3].

You can even extend ObjC classes as if they were Java classes and/or implement Protocols. Binding of native APIs (C, ObjC) is accomplished via something called Bro, which is annotation-based and a lot simpler and faster than using JNI.

So, yes, i think RoboVM is a good fit for Rich-UI mobile apps. Performance is great (we use LLVM), and the bindings are pretty complete. We currently lack interface builder integration, but that's on the short term road map (and for anything other than a quick prototype you don't use IB anyways).

[1] http://docs.robovm.com/api/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/

[2] https://github.com/robovm/robovm-samples

[3] https://github.com/robovm/robovm-samples/blob/master/HelloWo...

[4] https://github.com/robovm/robovm-samples/blob/master/HelloWo...
Kudos to easypost for sharing this.
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Thank you for review. I had traditional braces for 8 years and I cannot convey much it would have meant to me to brush my bare teeth or eat some, say, corn on the cob, if only for a brief (albeit painful) moment.

All the same, good luck with your braces. I cannot recommend a "gum stimulator" enough!! http://smile.amazon.com/Gum-Butler-G-U-M-Stimulator-Pack/dp/...
> That's because much of the tech press prefers sensationalism to get clicks over accurate reporting to inform readers.

s/tech press/press/
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Because that size is optimal, regardless of transistor size. Making the cache larger makes it slower (because of the speed of light AFAIK) and more power-hungry which reduces overall performance.
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The initial claim is they used MLAT. But then the FBI claimed they didn't, because they don't have an MLAT treaty in place - doesn't that seem a little, um, unprofessional at least not to even know the legal status of their own request. When they documented the phone call to the officials in Iceland what did they write down, what did they say was the legal basis for the investigation? It sure looks like they didn't have a basis at that point beyond need for the investigation.

It doesn't look like a mistake beyond the "we got caught in a lie" type of mistake.

For avoidance of doubt I don't personally think that this should invalidate the evidence gained. To me the truth is important. However, the officials involved if proven to be acting without legal rationale and without attention to due process and the rule of law should be heavily punished. Indeed if my reading of the CoE Convention is correct then an official apology would be due to Iceland for breaching the terms of the Convention as well.
That's good info, but I think you missed the part where parent commenter lamented:

> I don't want to spend my whole life on this.
Except of course, when they profit handsomely from money laundering [1]... maybe you just need a bigger balance in the account?

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-02/hsbc-judge...
It's not a misuse of vocabulary, it's a misspelling. As my typing speed trends toward my thinking speed, the mechanical action becomes more tied to phonemes. I've found myself increasingly typing "are" for "our" which is fairly classic. "One" for "won" not so much.
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They're also useful for 3d graphics. I used them a lot in blender when making assets for a game.
Would you expect a title "How Hash Table works"? No, you'd expect "How a Hash Table works". Same thing here.
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Good point about being able to feel your bare teeth every now and then.

I had braces for six years, and after they finally came off, I could not stop licking my teeth for days! It was such a great feeling.
XMPP and Matrix are fundamentally different things. XMPP is all about message passing. Matrix is all about state synchronisation. In many ways Matrix is more like an eventually consistent distributed DB like Cassandra or Riak, albeit optimised for storing persistent messages and with open federation (anyone can spin up a node and join the DB) and an HTTP/JSON API.

So: if you want decentralised message history as a first class citizen, use Matrix. It's not just for group chat; it's for any data.

If you want lower-latency message passing with history as an optional extra, use XMPP.

In terms of how to make XMPP cool again - projects like XMPP-FTW and Buddycloud and FMUC are pretty cool :)
People making house-calls selling knives is also still a thing, but I wouldn't recommend getting into that business. The business existing doesn't mean it is a smart business to get into.

The high-availability-doctor/one-stop-shop variety of weed business relies on loose medical laws but draconian recreational laws. Recreational users don't want to shop around for a doctor to approve their "condition", so these businesses do very well for themselves. Legalization, combined with regulation of medical, will remove a large segment of these businesses target audience.

Some people seem to think I am saying that medical marijuana will go away. I am not. I am just saying that these "convenience businesses" cater primarily to recreational users in markets with draconian recreational laws. Those people are their bread and butter.

Do you think that Florida's infamous "pill farm clinics" would still do well if you could buy Vicodin over the counter in 7-11's? Doctors would still be prescribing Vicodin because it is a useful medication, but would those businesses that specialize in getting prescriptions for middle-class addicts stay in business?
A large bricks and mortar chain coming to grief isn't an enormous surprise. It's happening throughout retail. Radio Shack, Best Buy, Office Depot, Borders Books; everywhere you look chains of brick and mortar retailers are collapsing, closing, or merging.

But of course, selling musical instruments is different, for unspecified reasons. Guitar Center's problems aren't just because of a changing retail environment but a searing indictment of modern capitalism that is somehow linked to the housing crisis (what?), and somehow to the declaration of martial law (huh?) and the destruction of the US dollar (uh...) that apparently happened over the last few years.

Fine, the author thinks Guitar Center is about to declare bankruptcy. He's not alone; rating agencies have deemed their bonds to be junk. But neither is Guitar Center; there's a lot of failing companies around. Unless you're unlucky enough to own some of their debt (or, worse, the company itself), I have no idea why you'd care.

(...which kind of makes me wonder why the author cares. If he ownd a bunch of Guitar Center bonds, I'd assume he'd just sell them. What's his angle here?)
A few months ago, I was thinking about the opportunity to use 3d printing/imaging to drastically lower the cost of these types of devices. Ultimately the biggest hurdle is going to be getting an extremely accurate scan (not sure if you could do some combination of using dental x-rays, along with 3d imaging tech from mobile cameras to build the mouth model for each customer).

Part of the solution could be in home try-on (similar to Warby Parker). Ie send 10-20 sets of 3d printed retainers, all slightly different but potential fits. The customer selects which one fits best & the full set is based on that starting model. Since you're not actually creating molds to base the retainers on, the cost of each slightly different model should be pennies.

Anyway, that's about as far as I got... then I went back to building enterprise software.
redandwhite was almost certainly a scammer and got paid to kill friendlychemist and tony76 + three roommates. Nob was an undercover agent who got paid to kill "The Employee" aka flush aka cronicpain aka Curtis Green. Two different incidences.
This statement really comes across as bigoted, and really just gives ammunition to people looking for excuses to withdraw from society.

It takes all kinds to make up a society. You might think that an 18% pregnancy rate (check wikipedia) for typical condom use is 'effective', but others may not. You may not like what the Bible has to say, but others probably have a different view. I don't see many Lutherans or Baptists running around blowing up planes or burning down villages, but I do see alot of them involved in the community in helpful ways, so I'm not too worried that they may be passing their beliefs down to their children.
The thing that bothers me is things like this:
"the American Association of Orthodontists, a trade group, warned consumers against moving teeth without an initial exam and continuing supervision by an orthodontist. “Our concern is that patients who don’t see an orthodontist for regular checkups and/or for a complete diagnosis are more likely to be harmed,” said Dr. Rolf Behrents, a spokesman for the association"

Everyone knows that visiting a dentist is better than not visiting a dentist. Same thing for doctors. Industry groups insisting that people visit health professionals seem oblivious to the reasons that people don't (or haven't) visited the professionals: cost.

If someone doesn't have complete dental coverage and must front the cost out of pocket, the 6k for braces can be catastrophic. Thank goodness there are cheaper alternatives. Even if they aren't a complete solution (can't twist teeth, or whatever) the fact that some people can get their problems fixed without going deep into debt is a good thing.
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Waffle house is an interesting company.

Don't know how often waffle house will pop up on hacker news but here is a couple fun facts about them.

+ They have opening ceremonies for all restaurants where they put the key of the front door in wet cement (since they are open 24/7/365)

+ They hire a lot of illiterate people and people out of jail starting over from scratch, so they have an innovative way to communicate what people order to the cook. The waiter / waitress can 'write' or scribble whatever they need to do, but will set up plates to communicate the order to the cook with condiments [0]

[0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickgray/378694469/
I'm 29 and got standard metal braces 5 months ago (top and bottom teeth). My bottom teeth are particularly messed up

Maybe it's different for others, but I strongly disagree about the pain. It's only painful up to a few days after having wires adjusted or installed, and even then I wouldn't call it painful -- just soreness. My dentist recommended Tylenol but I never had to take it, because the pain wasn't that bad. Currently day to day I barely notice I have braces on. The only real annoyance is eating food, as food easily becomes stuck in your braces. Investment in a water flosser, like the Waterpik, is highly recommended, as well brushing after every meal -- including lunch.

My braces cost $5k (my own pocket) and I pay monthly. I have to wear braces for two years, but I foresee no issues because it's been a breeze so far wearing them. I do wish I got them earlier, and suggest anyone thinking about it to get them sooner than later.
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Nope - as I recall, it was a short film, around 15 minutes long.
can someone explain the non-warrant requirements of the 4th amendment abroad? I don't seem to be grokking how that's reasoned out