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This is true. But is MBTE specific only to that species? I am pragmatic, I don't care about the "butterfly effect", but I know enough about immune system of Arthropoda, to be sceptical about long term effectiveness of worldwide campaigns and I know enough about development and humanitarian aid projects in the third world to be perfectly sure about bloody huge mismatch between declared and real targets of those campaigns.

Remember human population fertility control effort performed by the US under cover of humanitarian aid in Central Africa less than 30 years ago?
> requiring manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and Google's Chrome browser and requiring them to set Google Search as default search service on their devices, as a condition to license certain Google proprietary apps;

Google gives away Android for free. If it can't put google search and ads on it, it won't be able to make money to keep funding Android. Banning Google Search from Android will cut its funding, not sure it would be such a smart move...
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What do you do when the virus infects reservoir species ? Or when there are infected people that aren't sick (and so, don't die or recover) ?
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Ah, the scapegoat for the much harder problem: "Let's get rid of bad government."
Yes but fences don't usually kill more than 700k people per year. Its one thing to think carefully about making a change you don't fully understand, its quite another to see great harm done and act to stop it.

Humans (especially first world-ers) have become (somewhat rightfully so) paralyzed with fear about doing anything at all in the environment.

Our 20th century hubris lead us to think that we could fully understand and control our biosphere with unfortunate consequences, but there was a huge dose of optimistic humanism that went along with it. Smallpox was a good, good thing to eradicate.

Someday we will be able to exercise that measured control successfully. We'll probably have to to survive long term on earth no matter how many low-flush toilets we put in. I'm starting to wish to see some of that optimism again and a world without malaria might be just the kind of small step we need to get our mojo back.
I think a solution to planned obsolescence would be to require prominent labelling of guaranteed product lifetimes. (Including "0 Months" if they aren't willing to offer a warranty.) That way consumers can judge products based on lifetime value instead of just the immediate price.
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While the documentation itself is available to you under the Apache 2.0 license, note that proprietary trademarks and brand features are not included in that license.
Google's trademarks and other brand features (including the Android stylized typeface logo) are not included in the license.
https://source.android.com/license.html

Android is a proprietary trademark wholly owned by Google.

See also: Leverage over manufacturers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29...
Which iteration? My roommate went through two of them due to the red ring of death.
Something like 30 out of the 500 anopheles species are capable of carrying malaria. Of those, only those two matter, because the rest won't bite humans. Eradicating those two would be sufficient and another species (that doesn't bite humans) would take over. "Bites Humans" is furthermore not a strong enough competitive advantage to overcome any attempts to eradicate a successor that picks up the disease-ridden malarial torch.
And what is true?
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Agreed. I'm not really seeing that much similarity in the products at all.
Do different species of mosquitoes interbreed? I'm guessing not, as this is the definition of "species".

If so, why do we care about the "ecological" impact of mosquito species that feed on humans? If anything, the ecosystem is unbalanced given the human population and the amount of mosquito food sources.
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Yeah, if you have tests without strong correlations then your approach is a good one. My point is that when your test returns a result which had low prior probability (even if the test is accurate) you should often retain a lot of your scepticism. In this context, it may well be that many of the people identified didn't have the genetic disorders indicated...
> It's almost impossible to beat Amazon in the supply-chain economics, unless you have a highly specialized product and deals with the manufacturer

Yeah. And the opposite of a highly specialized product is exactly the example the article gave--a piece of metal to hold up your laptop. I don't think there's anything we stand to lose from this happening to products so simple and generic. Or is there?
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> what I don't understand is how I'm supposed to be satisfied with false equality where the vast majority of power and wealth get concentrated into a few controlling hands

You're not describing communism, so I guess that's a straw man. You're not supposed to be satisfied with that situation, and that's what communism, idealistically, tries to address. Whether it's effective in the real world is certainly debatable, but we can't have that debate if you change the definition of communism to essentially mean authoritarianism.
As an Alaskan AND a Floridian: If they wanna auction/raffle off the privilege of throwing the switch I would attempt to give them all my money.
Viruses don't make any specific effort to reproduce, they too are just accidentally self-reproducing patterns.
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The term for that is Sherlocking, referencing a 3rd party tool they 'integrated' in either OS 8 or OS 9 (sorry, don't remember exactly).

I'd argue the f.lux case is a bit different.

Either way, haven't big retailers (Walmart, BestBuy, etc.) always done this?
For future reference, that's what the tiny 'web' link does at the top of this page - it will search Google for the article title, so you can clickthrough from Google.

The Australian's article title (before the link was changed) was "Saudi diplomats linked to September 11 terror plot".
MTBE...can be efficiently and economically removed from water with simple bioreactors.

That wasn't the case fifteen years ago. Mandating something, then hoping we come up with an inexpensive way to clean up the mess later probably isn't a good long-term plan.

It is in fact used medically to dissolve gallstones by way of injecting it into the gallbladder.

Arsenic has medicinal uses, too. I'll swing by the house later to drop some in the water inlet of your house.

MTBE is not required and there are alternatives

When the alternatives are more expensive, MTBE has been effectively "required". Perhaps it is not the current case, but it most certainly was in years past.

Do your research better.

You mean do my research such that my conclusions match yours? Or did you just have a nice, cold glass of Uncalled-for-Snark(tm) with your breakfast this morning?
Personably, I just consider the timing of all this stuff suspicious. Like how it became an increasingly large issue right after talk of income/class inequality and the 1% and Occupy and all that stuff. Suddenly the focus switches to something more convenient for large corporations and the well off...
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RLS is great for SaaS providers.

Stick all of your customer data in a single database. Implement RLS per customer. Now "Pepsi" can't see "Coca-Cola's" data.

Essentially creating a virtual private database per customer by using RLS.

edit:typo
Chrome on IOS uses Webkit, it's basically a skin over Apple's outdated browser engine that crashes frequently. This is due to Apple Store restrictions, not technical reasons.
Another example is from the contemporary historical accounts and depictions of early Europeans in North America. Plain Indians seemed to have been in very good health. They were taller, had a more varied diet, were in better physical shape, and enjoyed longer lives (save accidents/violence).
The original post says:
>Since people often re-use envelopes and citizens of any country may have legitimate reasons for correspondence with the embassies of their government in foreign countries they live in, the Saudi embassy envelope isn’t by itself conclusive of anything. 28Pages.org couldn’t find any other history of the FBI’s find or of the government’s evaluation of its significance.
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Could HN help me with this.

I remember reading this really wonderful article on the levenshtein distance on HN 2-3 months ago.

basically I have difficulty understanding why the Wagner-Fisher's algorithm works - the intuition behind it - I remember it was dynamic programming but I really want to read that article again.

The format was similar to medium with wonderful diagrams :( I tried searching for it on HN but searching on HN is really difficult and it was my own fault for not saving it on Pocket.

I would really appreciate the help since it was one of those "better explained" gems.
Original: http://news.xbox.com/2016/04/20/xbox-360-celebrating-10-year...
Dumb question, from someone who doesn't work with Node.js: Why are there 32 versions of it?
It's glasses free as long as your head is in the right place. The nintendo 3Ds uses this tech.

Microlenses also enable stuff like light field cameras and light field displays. Particularly cool in this area is NVIDIA's near eye light field display[0].

However, for a applications like this you don't really need 3d printing, one can make microlenses for these systems with molding.

However, there is one application that might benefit from 3d printing micro optics. Augmented reality contact lenses[1]. You can't just put a bunch of LEDs on your eyeball and expect to see anything, you need optics to focus them. One could make microlenses as before, but now we can print an array of them that has a bunch of holes in it so your eye can breath. Alternatively, we can make a complicated weave like structure of light pipes with lenses on their ends that lead to LEDs on the periphery of the contact so that we don't have to worry about making transparent LEDs and wires.

[0] https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/publications...
[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-realit...
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There seems to be a contradiction in this article. It is "everything wrong in Silicon Valley", but at the same time, it acknowledges that "tech culture is trying diligently to correct its overwhelmingly white male demographic and calling for diversity as a necessary infusion of fresh perspective".
From the confidence intervals you can tell that there was no statistically significative difference between the different alternatives.
What about the aspect where Google prevents Samsung from selling any phone based on AOSP that wouldn't be Android (tm) (i.e. Google ecosystem)?
Can you explain how you relate this to the Apple ecosystem?
Fascinating. Maybe that's the point of the story? It's not as if the ancient Hebrews were unfamiliar with agriculture. Perhaps the meaning is that people should listen to God even if it seems counterintuitive, because you could be more wrong than you (a puny mortal) could possibly understand.

That was really interesting. Thanks for that.
Just to make it clear to everyone: The US has done a really good job of (I assume deliberately) screwing the Saudis over the last couple of years. Firstly the Iran agreement has shown them nothing is off the table, secondly the US shale oil has given the US maneuvering room by crashing the oil market, and finally this set of "leaks" is showing the Saudis that they had better fall in line.

Exactly what the US wants isn't clear to me though. Maybe cutting off funds to ISIS?
But that misses the parent's point. At $300, the Xbox One isn't an AppleTV competitor.
I agree that there are real structural issues, especially in certain fields, and especially involving the incentives for funding and publishing. However, I think that the overall impression gives some mis-characterization, at least from my perspective as a molecular biologist / geneticist.

First, I think that the most prominent studies are the most likely to have issues; generally they're doing something new, often with new methodology. It's here where extrapolations tend to be made that are the most dangerous. It's also not surprising that social sciences have such issues; they don't have rigorous tools (i.e. genetics) that can effectively ground their work. It makes compounding issues much harder to catch.

Related is the re-testing issue; in many fields, subsequent work will catch errors in previous work. If you work with a mutant and then someone else works with it, they'll see if it behaves differently than expected from the previous work. Germplasm travels, and it's the ultimate arbiter of truth. This usually does lead to further scrutiny and fixing the issue. The real problem that I've observed isn't that the errors aren't caught, but that a formal retraction isn't always done. Sometimes it just gets contradicted in a subsequent paper (and often with some relish) without ever resulting in a retraction. The editors of that journal clearly have a responsibility here that they are failing to uphold.

However, despite these faults, it's quite clear to those of us with 'boots on the ground' that you can't hide from the data; as long as you're using solid genetics and doing 'real' experiments (e.g. western blots, in situ/immuno-localization, simple gels/pcr, etc.) you can only hide for so long. The exception is if no one keeps working on it, in which case it's probably not that interesting to begin with. This also leads to a deep suspicion of bioinformatics among geneticists because we see how often things go wrong, and what is needed to make it right. Fortunately, genetics can still be used to great effect.

Ultimately, I'm not suspicious of the large body of work in my field. Most of it is based on extremely solid forward genetics that withstands lots of testing. Even now, great value is placed on these 'old school' methods because of how robust they are known to be.
Thank you for mentioning this.

I am a owner of an affected TDI but did not receive the letter (or threw it away mistaking it for another car warranty junk mail letter) and was unaware of the "TDI Goodwill package"
Big difference with food, is that it's usually not quite as tasty. They cut corners to make it cheap. Whether that translates into some silly plastic thing Amazon is taking over production of, I don't know.
College students still do that today.

Just because new communication mechanisms come out doesn't mean old ones are abandoned and things are all worse.

Honestly, these regular screeds against the Internet remind me of the many individuals in history who have decried the evils of writing, newspapers, telephones, radio, and television.
If the ecological niche of the mosquitoes is a lucrative, rich one, another species will eventually fill it.

As long as there are no drastic effects on the ecosystems involved, (local) extinction of one species is fine. It happens in nature rather regularly, e.g. due to epidemics.

We, the humans, can exert evolutionary pressure to fill the niche of virus-bearing mosquitoes with other species that don't have this trait. The nature will deliver. We can even help by introducing other species, well-known species that could replace the mosquitoes which are going to be exterminated in a more or less controlled way.
Socially and relationships are in serious trouble. If you measure success as in performing in business and don't count the family and children then okay. Drugs harm relationships. Its proven.

People on drugs are emotionally numb and a emotionally numb people make horrible friends and parents. http://cascw.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SubstanceAbu...

Best I have seen or heard on the effects of drugs on relationships. This is from "Liberal" This American Life.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/524/i...
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2300 isn't that expensive BUPA would cost you nearly double also please don't compare the public healthcare spending it has nothing to do with the actual prices you end up paying.

The health care expenditure in the US is the biggest in the world but that's including all the prices that insurance companies pay for treatment and services.
If the US stops charging 3000$ for an MRI scan it's expenditure will go down drastically (an MRI costs about 300$ in most European countries) but it might not have any affect on what the individual ends up paying.
You are nearly completely right.

The one good thing about the new/delete approach is that it keeps the master object small, since it's just a farm of pointers. No matter how you define a C64 instance, most of the storage comes from the heap.

I once ran into an issue where declaring a class on the stack was actually crashing the program (running in a small-ish embedded system). The quick and dirty fix was to new/delete the entire object. But when that is out in the open, you expose potential leaks; you need a smart pointer to manage that. Making some of the contents dynamic (so that the class is effectively a smart pointer) is another option.
Row-level security can be respected by pg_dump as well, which means it can be used (in a multitenant context) to do things like migrate just a single tenant between databases.
My wife had this problem; she took Neoral, a brand-name immuno-suppressant, for many years. CVS, especially their mail-order-specialty pharmacy that my insurance plan forced us to use, kept trying to substitute generic cyclosporine. The problem is that she learned years ago that the generic didn't have the same effect at the same dosage, putting her transplanted liver in jeopardy. Yet month after month, no matter how often her doctors intervened, CVS kept trying to send her the generic.

Last year her transplanted liver failed. She was lucky to get another one; she barely survived and she's still recovering. She's on a different immuno-suppresant now, which the hospital arranged for her to get from an affiliated transplant-specialist pharmacy in NY. CVS' horrible service wasn't responsible for her liver failing (transplants don't last forever) but the incorrect medication and missed doses definitely took its toll, and cost us a lot more than it should have when we had to pay out of pocket to buy emergency doses in-store at whatever pharmacy would supply them.
We've already got a good start on guinea worms (they'd already be gone if it weren't for a set of superstitious, fuckface warlords in certain African countries).

Other prime candidates:

Pediculus humanus (human louse, including the head and body subspecies).

Pthirus pubis (crab louse)

Onchocerca volvulus (causes river blindness)

Trichomonas vaginalis (causes nasty vaginal infections, and can be carried and spread by men)

Ascaris lumbricoides (giant human roundworm)

I believe all of these are parasites specific to human beings, and find it highly unlikely that wiping them out would cause any significant ecological catastrophe.

Those who disagree would be welcome to serve as hosts a fallback population, so we could restore them if it became necessary. Concerned about Aedes aegypti mosquitos? Sign up to serve as a blood donor for them. You can help save the species, at the small cost of yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and (apparently) zika.

What, that doesn't sound like a good deal? Then why are you willing to wish that fate on others? Especially unwilling others?

Sorry for any sarcasm, but it's quite disturbing to see First Worlders condemning Third Worlders to horrible deaths because of ecowhacko "concerns" about friggin' mosquitos.
No one is talking about wiping out all mosquitos.
> In theory though, if Amazon is making a superior
> product that's cheaper, isn't that what competition
> is supposed to achieve?

Yes and no. It's the age-old question, right?

If it's too easy to rip off somebody else's idea, you stifle innovation.

But if you go too far in the other direction, innovation gets stifled that way as well.
> However, I don't think it was necessarily a result of people viewing black people negatively, in fact, it often seemed to be admiration

But see, that's still racist. And the contexts in which it comes out makes it seem like an admiration of looseness, coolness, style, toughness, sexiness, grittiness, authenticity... an escape from just being a plain old person. Really, these are qualities involved in the identities many teenagers hope to construct. I'm just a plain old person too, but the culture makes me a repository for fantasy.

I'll go on a tangent here about something that really bothered me yesterday. There was a really interesting and informative article yesterday in the LA Times about an "Asian" propensity towards diabetes - an article which could help people with their health by informing them of something which they may not have been aware of.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-asian-americans-diabetes...

Here's the question:

The article had nothing to do with white people, yet this was the graphic: http://www.trbimg.com/img-571584ce/turbine/la-me-g-asian-ame...

and later: "Asians tend to have less muscle and more fat than Europeans of the same weight and height, studies show. So an Asian who isn't obese or even overweight could have enough fat to be in danger of getting diabetes, a phenomenon sometimes referred to as 'skinny-fat.'"

So how did white people get to be the baseline? The zeros of the world, the people that other people are a divergence from, the people that you have to know to understand? Why is an article about Asian diabetes instead an article about comparative rates of diabetes between Asians and whites? Some liberal arts major might call it a "microaggression", but as a engineering major, I am just literally looking at Asian health being described mainly in relation to the health of whites and trying to figure out the words to explain how that bothers me to white people who can't see it, without them erupting into rage.
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Thanks for bringing this up. Since no one's brought this up already, check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
Yeah, and again, that's just an example of a problem that has a large gradient of issues. An even better example might be apt and logstash, since both are considered "not shit" by many. I realize it's a large and unbearably difficult problem, but when so many devs just say, "Fuck it, it's going live" and don't maintain their repos or push the repo managers to maintain them, it's a problem. Shrugging these problems off like you're doing does nothing to solve the problem.

I'm the user and I'm feeling these effects hard and I'm speaking loudly so that some devs may hopefully listen and respect their product, not just their code.
also, server is having a real bad time with just 5 players. I'd suggest to send only the throw and have the client calculate the physic, as sending the ball position is extremely choppy
NHS is good when you are bleeding and need to go to the emergency room.
Preventative medicine and specialist care is horrible under NHS at least in inner London, why would I want to wait 6 weeks to see an orthopedist?