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Are the claims made against children and parents of the current generation true? Let Grow mentions particular examples, but how prevalent are these laws and the culture? It sounds like any other piece of scary garbage news. "Check candy for razor blades" is now the "dangers of participation trophies". I believe it's good to empower free range parents to organize, and to change unwelcome and unnecessary laws, and to promote cognizance of parents' own behavior. But I'd like to see more evidence and less anecdotes and conjecture about the damage caused by eighth place trophies.

The example of automatically removing logos from video seems like a great computer vision project.

As someone who was already using ad block this might be bad for me. If everyone starts using ad block, and if intrusive ads are more profitable than the approved ads, then advertisers will be pressured to find better ways to subvert ad block. The good times of ad block might be in the past, and the arms race accelerating.

Does the number of pending transactions impact Bitcoin in any way? If so, what happens if users create large numbers of transactions with low/0 fees attached?

"In a 2006 decision involving public sculptures that were removed from the park for which they were created, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that VARA does not protect location as a component of site-specific work. VARA covered works can be moved as long as the move does not constitute 'destruction, distortion, or mutilation.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act

I was wondering what federal law could support the artists here. Answer: "Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 A subsection of copyright law"

It's pretty short and the undefined terms stand out strongly. This was a useful overview for me to understand why the law exists: http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/esworthy.h...

Is the plant needed to produce the light? It sounds like the plant is being used as a medium to hold the light emitting particles, but otherwise isn't used to fuel or transport them.

The menu is broken for me using Firefox mobile. I can't scroll down, it just keeps snapping back to the beginning of the list. (That's my state of JavaScript :)

I really like all this information and the way it's presented.

"The government could theoretically go back to the 20th century model of taxing more and building more free transportation, but voters haven't shown much appetite for raising their taxes."

This is the author weaseling out of addressing the reality that most Americans want higher taxes on the rich. Not taxes raised on everyone, not funds raised through purchasable perks.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/208685/majority-say-wealthy-amer...

"A significant majority of Americans believe that upper-income people and corporations pay too little in taxes, supporting other research showing that well less than half of Americans -- 38% -- agree with a proposal to cut corporate income taxes, and that the majority favor heavier taxes on the rich."

I'm enjoying the Probability for Everyone post. I'm also quickly reminded how complex the notion used in Probability Theory is. Lowercase, uppercase, script uppercase, double struck uppercase, and Greek uppercase all have specific meanings (sometimes multiple meaning), and they get held together with the set theory symbols. It's even worse since some people use different characters for inconsequential things, and then there's situations (online forums) where the notation can't be used and substitutes are made, I even recall some books using bold letters which made note taking a real hassle.

It's very strange, why does Wikimedia believe its information should be accessed free of charge while other information should not? Why would any ISP believe the same thing? A megabyte is a megabyte, why dictate where it should come from? I see self interested answers. Everyone playing the game is a winner (Wiki gets users, ISPs gets visibility, users get wiki access), and everyone with a small website gets left behind.

Thank you for sharing how to disable the blue flash when opening new tabs. I have the same complaints you do, though I'm running Windows 7.

I also notice now that when I close a tab the screen flashes white. This is very distracting when closing a tab with a dark background.

Matthews answers that the Lena image is a part of Computer Science culture. Lemire answers that there is no benefit to using the Lena image above other similar images, but there is damage since it offends some people. Neither argument is convincing. Memes like Lena shouldn't be actively encouraged since that would corrupt their natural propagation: Lena (and its origin) would be forced in front of people rather than discovered, and would be resented for that. Meanwhile "Getting Along" (Lemire's usage) sounds more like kowtowing and is not how CS prospers. CS prospers by being accessible, open, inclusive, and exciting, not by shaming members over moral trends. Resources are abundant, and Lena is not so pervasive as to obstruct participation.

Computer Scientists should use whichever images they personally enjoy, since they're the ones seeing those pictures each day. Anyone else can and should be offended as much as they are at any other poor coding practice.

I would love to use a search engine that allowed filtering results by categories such as: personal, unincorporated, forum, news, contains ads, page size, blog, video, slideshow, contains javascript. Search is so cluttered, it's difficult to find small pages with excellent content.

I mention this because it's what obstructs my access to the Web I enjoyed so much before. I don't like reading news from whatever bloated sites news.google links me to, I don't like being redirected 3 times just to read a recipe, or getting movie recommendations in aggregate rather than from a single reviewer that I trust. But search engines lead users to these undesired things, and companies compete to get top search results, and the best way I find good websites is ironically offline.

I believe the problem is more general: touchscreen interfaces would benefit greatly from a wild redesign study. Why does the Android menu pull down from the top? Why does Firefox mobile lay tabs at the top of the screen? Why do apps and websites put menu icons at the top? When I had a <4" screen it worked fine, but on a larger phone I reposition my hand every time I reach above the top 3/4. That's for every unfortunately located app, every X box, every page reload, every notification, every search query, and so on.

Protected from other's speech is what I infer.

I think what completes the puzzle is that the Pixel 2 phone omits a headphone jack. Without a headphone jack wireless earbuds are required. Normally wireless earbuds would be superfluous, so they're introduced with a use case that highlights their advantages.

That's to say, I don't believe the Pixel Buds are necessary at all for real time translation. But I think they're presented with the real time translation to give people some positive and cool imagery to associate with the earbuds. It's advertising as far as I can tell.

I did, so the site is in Google and is crawled by Google (Analytics I believe has the option to do that). I also went through various SEO suggestions, set up Google Analytics, added meta tags, improved load speed (it's a pretty minimal static page anyway), among other things.

I created a website a year ago and I simply cannot find it using Google. Searching for the site title: Google - not in top 100, DDG - result 8. I am in Google, since I can search for the exact URL (which is the same as the site name), but otherwise I don't show up. It's incredibly frustrating considering the amount of no-content and repeated articles Google does return.

Related, my biggest gripe with the WWW today is how difficult it is to find personal websites among (what I'd call) all the ad-revenue garbage.

I had an issue where my phone would go from full battery to nearly dead after a day of idling unused in my desk drawer. The Android Battery app would just list "Android System, Android OS, etc" without pointing out any culprit app. I eventually figured out that Google Chrome was to blame and disabling Chrome (unable to uninstall it) fixed the problem. What was Chrome doing all day while my phone was sitting idle? I don't know, I never used Chrome as a brower, it's still a mystery to me.

Hangout was another problem app. Hangouts liked to crash, and after crashing it would leave something still going that would drain the battery unless I manually killed the Hangouts process.

These anecdotes are just to say I've found my battery problems are typically some app doing something bad without my knowledge. I'd like more strict control over background processes as well.

"We are strangers in this world, and the body is the tomb of the soul, and yet we must not seek to escape by self-murder; for we are the chattels of God who is our herdsman, and without his command we have no right to make our escape. In this life, there are three kinds of men, just as there are three sorts of people who come to the Olympic Games. The lowest class is made up of those who come to buy and sell, the next above them are those who compete. Best of all, however, are those who come simply to look on. The greatest purification of all is, therefore, disinterested science, and it is the man who devotes himself to that, the true philosopher, who has most effectually released himself from the 'wheel of birth.'" Burnet on the Pythagorean ethic, Early Greek Philosophy

The author of the article is very engrossed in modern values. Don't let her adamance that creators control the world frighten you into churning away at something like knitting block chain encoded socks, or worse writing horror novels. The world is beyond the control of any creator anyway, even Mark Zuckerberg if you'll believe me. I think a lot of people find, after years of creating or struggling to create, it's best (or just good) to consume and contemplate without regret.

I have no doubt everyone who grew up with strawberries in the yard thinks the same. I don't expect a berry to get from lab to farm to grocer and be able to compete with something fresh picked that summer morning.

Something I ran into while building a personal website was HTML elements tied to styling elements. Some issues were fixed by using the correct semantic element and overriding every unwanted default style, but some styles and features simply aren't available for the correct semantic element. I felt I was constantly abusing the language to get the look and features I wanted.

I had a chance to try out the update at home and I'm happy with it. There's an 800K color temperature now that's accessible using the Alt+Shift+PgDown shortcut, and many more dimming increments (Alt+PgDown). I'm at 800K and the most dim it will go without entering "darkroom mode". I still wish I could make it more dim, but this is a good improvement.

What is the option for someone to register a domain name if every domain registrar refuses to do business with them? I may have the terminology wrong, since the domain is registered but needs to be transferred to another registrar.

Very happy to see this, as I use f.lux less often than I'd like because of some shortcomings (slowdown when transitioning, and lack of customization). What I'd really like to see is direct and unbounded control over brightness and red-shift separately. At night flux just doesn't go dim enough for me, and the 1200k loses more contrast than I think it ought to.

I have a 2012 Mazda3 sedan with the 2.0L Skyactiv-G engine. I drive a daily commute on a 50-50 highway/stop-n-go mix. My average mpg has consistently been 35 mpg (40 highway, 32 off). The hatchback has slightly worse mpg, so does the manual transmission, but 29 mpg sounds more like the non-skyactiv 2.0L engine. The 2.5L sport engine would be closer to 25 mpg.

I'd check under the hood just to make sure :) then fill up the tires, reset the average fuel economy, and baby it on the highway to see if you can get around the expected 40 mpg.

Is there any plan that offers truly unlimited "3G" equivalent speeds? "Up to 2G speed" is an unusable scam. I used to tether to my phone on a truly unlimited 3G connection and that was what I used for home internet. Netflix, YouTube, etc worked great. Online games did not due to latency.

It seems that most carriers are trying to implement this in a roundabout way by letting services send video at reduced data rates in exchange for the data not counting against the user's data plan. What a complicated mess, and very scary with regards to net neutrality.

Another retrospective look at Sonic's design (2014):

http://redlettermedia.com/pre-rec-sonic-the-most-overrated-g...

I feel it's clear the fad is waning, but that's my experience among my crowd. For young children, for grandparents, maybe for other countries it's not the same. For example Facebook's trendiness is in that familiar slow motion fall. The same one blogs experienced, or Instant Messenger. But "social media"? No, contrary to my experience, social media is still trending up. It should be interesting to see the backlash grow, the holdouts dig in, and the slow fade to irrelevance and memory. In ten years you might ironically send a foodie to your friends alongside a status update about how cute your cat is. Or a hamburger themed math problem presented by a Minion. Or maybe social media is the new jeans (long term) or the new beer (very long term).