skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I name things I look for a word that doesn't get drowned out by unrelated hits in search engines, and has some kind of link to what the library does. Straightforward names are great when they are obvious, easy to remember, and not a search disaster. Otherwise clever memorable names make a pretty good substitute.

I picked the name Wangle because it is a synonym to Finagle, and because I couldn't think of a simple self-descriptive name. I think I also had the Edward Lear poem in the back of my subconscious.

We don't have a central naming authority - people just name their projects whatever they want. Sometimes we have to or want to rename things for various reasons but it's mostly similar to the open source world.
I had a currency exchanger claim that the largest bill I could get had a value of around $15 USD and that they did not deal in high value notes.
Note that these numbers are likely the marginal tax rate, the tax rate that the very last dollar was taxed at. However, all of the income is not taxed at that rate. That is why the commenter above mentioned effective tax rate, which is the calculation of (total tax paid / total income).
Same with Dengue Fever. I spent a month in Bali last summer with a group of 40 people, 4 of which got Dengue. 10%.
FYI, I downvoted because this is basically an advertisement.
Why don't Americans save more money?
Adding $25 USD bills would break the greedy choice property for making change. Making $40 in change using a greedy strategy would mean selecting a 25, a 10, and a 5, while the optimal choice is to select two 20s.
FY 2017 H-1B CAP REACHED: Now IS THE TIME TO THINK ABOUT Your H-1B BACK-UP PLAN
AI will make “technology disappear”
This is definitely something that's needed, by myself, and many other developers. Determining module compatibility across versions is always a pain. Great tool!
Of all of Larry Niven's SF, perhaps the most likely future is his Svetz stories. That is to say an overpopulated, polluted world with a global and imperial bureacracy, bereft of any life save man and yeast.
Wish list for WWDC 2016 Part 2
I don't know how the i3 drives, but I was short of shocked at how ugly (err maybe I should say quirky) the car looked - it looks like a toaster - and the two toned paint jobs it seems to often come with is even more of a head scratcher. It may perform well, and actually be a useful form factor - but IMHO the look of it is basically guaranteed to further limit the appeal of that product to a even smaller sub-group of the people who would consider electric in the first place.

I wonder if the i8 has the opposite problem - it looks lovely to me, but is a fairly radical design and again you might be turning away people who want an electric option, but don't necessarily want to call blaring attention to themselves.
Cool app. Minor suggestion: In your tagline, you might want to use a word other than "create". When I read that captions were created with AI, I assumed that your app was writing the captions.
Analyzing how people across the global work
because it's real nice.
Okay. Then lets let some disease carrying mosquitoes into all countries - including Western Europe and the US. We wouldnt want those ecosystems to be imbalanced.
Malaria used to be endemic in much of the US.

http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.html

I guess they were pretty close to eradicating mosquitoes in transmission areas once they started the control effort.
It can be really nice for enterprise web apps. One might have thousands of users organized into a handful of departments with different authorizations, some of which have their own DBAs and developers. Solid testing on the application side is important, of course.
Serious question: In areas where Malaria is killing many people, access to health care is a big part of why, right? So I'm assuming if you just removed the mosquitos, those people that died would be alive, and putting greater strain on already famine-like food economies. Wouldn't that be equally as bad?
Something like

(set -e; git rev-list --reverse upstream.. | while read r; do git checkout -q $r && make check; done)

(Aped from the very excellent http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/12/rebase-is-safe.html)
That's the thing about reputation though, really easy to burn and really hard to earn back.

I've worked on projects where touching a main header incurred a 1 hour compile even with Incredibuild. You can understand how people can get sensitive with compile times in cases like that.
> create or leave only life that has a value to people

There is a Jewish creation story (Rashi, Genesis 1:11) that God told the trees to make their bark (or the wood itself) edible to humans. The trees refused because "if we did that humans would eat all of us, leaving none behind".

It seems to me that the trees got it wrong: Plants that are valuable to humans exist in far greater numbers than those that are not.
" Vector control is fucking hard, we've been trying it for a century without really fixing the problem. That isn't likely to change"

With CRISPR and gene drive, it changes from "fucking hard" to "trivial", so it is not only likely to change, it's already changed.
Wouldn't it be better to provide each person with headphones? So they can listen to whatever they want.
Here is the original blog post they are quoting/paraphrasing: https://28pages.org/2016/04/19/exclusive-a-buried-envelope-b...
Well in order for this comparison to work, you'd be programmed on a deep level to take from him in order to sustain your own life. Your choice of the word 'steal' implies that the mosquito understands the morality of theft but just doesn't care.

Then again I tend to read way too far into things, my bad.
I loved the size, weight, and screen of the MacBook instantly, but put off getting one after reading all the flak about it not being usable for "real work". Heck, I've even heard sales people at the Apple Store say it. But eventually, my love of ultra-portability and retina-displays won, and I got one anyway (to replace my rooted, Arch-running, ex-Chromebook.) And I love it. Sure, I don't expect as much out of it as my 13" Pro (work machine), and I spend most of my time in the shell and vim rather than post-processing video or 3D rendering, but this thing is a joy to use.

It's not for everyone (or every computing task), but if you have a preference for the smaller screens and portability, and are aware that you're willing to trade raw machine grunt for this portability, then I wouldn't write off the MacBook just because "someone on the internet" said it wasn't usable.
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Do some of the same problems apply to peer code review?
Do you know of any extensions that put googly eyes over spiders? I really want this, but ironically I am too squicked out by spiders to go acquire a training set and tweak it myself.
So... why don't these companies get on the phone with Amazon and make the same deal?
>but Amazon is expressly forbidden from using the Android name

source?
They aren't a random niche animal. Mosquitoes are pollinators and a major food source for many, many other animals. We know that "pollinator" and "major food source" can be critical roles in an ecosystem.
I'd rather we not get bogged down in downstream minutia. Instead let's focus on the fallacy in the OP's core argument:

The original Treadmill Theory has been discredited--or at least fallen out of favor. Why? Because the original Treadmill theory is about people returning to the same baseline level of happiness. That's why the originators called it a treadmill - you don't go anywhere / change / improve / make progress etc.

That's why the "adaptation" analogy is preferred. After an initial rush of either happiness or sadness, you do return to a baseline...but this baseline is different that what it was before.

The reality, and summary, is this: nice things do make your life better. At first there's a rush of excitement over your upgrade. When that initial rush goes away, you backtrack a little bit, but still realize a life which is better than what it used to be. The inverse is true for tragedy.

For whatever reason, instead of the succinct description I gave, the author chose a long winded piece, added some charts with questional data, and slapped on a link bait title.

<shrug>
Quit buying BMWs (or whatever). Our Scion xB, basically a Toyota Echo and long since paid off, after 80K miles needs gas and the occasional oil change. Seeing as how it's a Toyota, I don't expect that to change in the next 50-100K miles. Might have to throw a clutch in it at some point, it is hilly around Seattle.

Not that I'm blindly hating on BMWs. Love their cars, and I have two of their motorcycles in the garage (one for me, one for the wife). I'll say upfront that my R1200GS is probably the finest motorcycle I've ever owned. But cheap to run it ain't (for example, it apparently needs a $100 set of rear brake pads every 5K miles; no, I didn't drop a zero). If I wanted cheap-to-run, I'd have bought another Honda. "Luxury brand" means it will continue to be a luxury to own even after the initial price is paid off.
Even more on point:

Which is likely to cause more ecological damgage:

1) Wipe out two (of over 3,500) species of mosquito

2) Spray poisons indiscriminately, wiping out many different species of insect, both mosquitos and non-mosquitos?
You can pick up some decent classic Nokias on eBay. I think the 1101 is a good choice.
Please, this is not even close to the content of the article.
This could easily be framed as a misattribution of cause though.

Mosquitos occur world-wide, and even flourish in many climates where rates of infection from mosquito-borne diseases are relatively low. As an example, 90% of deaths from Malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and even there, the likelihood of death from infection is radically lower for western visitors than for locals.

These diseases are largely a result of poverty and poor access to healthcare, not of mosquitos.
I don't think that such a speech from 2010 contradicts this blog in any way. Social media is still awesome, and it still provides tremendous value. And yes, it's been overtaken by big money and corporations — which earn their big monet by providing value to a lot of people. Thos two positions don't necessarily contradict each other.
Agreed; my point is that the FDA doesn't make that distinction. The FDA's definition of "same performance" is close, but it's not always close enough.

(I once worked on a system that had to special-case pricing for Synthroid specifically because the FDA-approved generics aren't quite the same to a lot of people, and I ended up marrying someone who gets moody when the pharmacy gives her generic Synthroid by mistake.)
Are you referring to something different than the double precision floating point on the types page [1]? Because according to the docs, it uses 8 bytes, in compliance with IEEE 754.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/datatype-numeric.h...
Most of the "whoops" tales are people that didn't listen to their scientists telling them not to, didn't have scientists at all, or were from long enough ago that we can discard their stories as irrelevant in the same way that we'd discard things like "spaceflight is impossible" and "nukes will end war". We've now traced the food chain around malaria mosquitoes out to three or four degrees of separation, including things like the diseases they carry. Their entire ecological niche is trivially replaced by close relatives that don't carry malaria. They're not even common enough to have major food-chain or crowding effects like you'd see with ants, rabbits, kudzu, or sparrows. Everything that we can find says that the damage from eradication would be zero. Not "small", or "manageable". None. They're small enough and unimportant enough that we should be thinking of them as disease organisms rather than insects. And I'm sure you're perfectly happy with the eradication of bot flies, polio, and smallpox. Reevaluate your beliefs.

Granted, we can never be certain about it. We're not deities, we're still limited by information theory and epistemology. But we're pretty damn sure. Way more than we need to be to go save half a million people a year.
I can't speak to 2016 as we've only recruited one person this year. However, towards the middle and end of 2015 it was very hard to find good developers in Raleigh, NC. It seems like everybody noticed, too, and as a result salaries seemed to have jumped up a bit. I know a number of senior engineers who were able to get 20% or so raises by jumping to a different company.
There's https://github.com/facebook/squangle for MySQL, though it's lacking documentation, and requires a https://github.com/facebook/mysql-5.6 or WebScaleSQL client library
twenty kilograms of high-grade worthless, without devoting my life to writing the anti-statement: "even a treadmill can benefit a person, it is the perspective of the person on the treadmill that matters" - you sweat, you win, no sweat, you lose.
I'd imagine the difference between a highly and a lowly ranked school is more than an SAT prep course.
A similar tactic was used in Cuba and New Orleans to combat yellow fever. [1] They used a layer of oil rather than gasoline though.

[1] http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/yellowfever/new_strategies/
This summary is not much shorter than the actual piece which is already very short. I did not need to scroll.
Maybe it is super naive approach, but what about sorting by the barcode of the product. A database could be created with the product barcode, parts, and plastic type for each part. Of course there could be still some parts with unknown origin that should be sorted by other methods but this could be a good improvement.
Despite the link-bait headline, no one is talking about killing off all mosquitos.

And yes, gene drives can be reversed.
Wow! I think it's worth emphasizing that in the given example, the time taken to install all dependencies went from 8m10s to 7.5s. Seems like a huge productivity boon for any teams working with Node.
If it were entirely easy it would have already been automated and you wouldn't have a job.

-Why would you deal with 4 different distros wouldn't it be a lot easier to learn the quirks of one or two?

-Expecting every single package on something like the aur which allows anyone to contribute to all be of optimum quality seems a bit optimistic. Why would you use arch and the aur if you want low maintenance?

-If you have constant issues you are either in the wrong profession, picked the wrong employer, or the wrong software.
This is addressed in both the article and the video.
What if mosquitoes are the only thing preventing an alien invasion? Or even worse, the key to stopping one when it happens.

"Tabarnak! we would have won if we had some damn mosquitoes!"
Surprised they continued manufacturing them this long. Why wait until three years after releasing the Xbox One?
This is much more than a million dollar question. I know local economies depending on mosquito larvae winter haul. They sell those to fishermen. Fish populations depends on mosquito larvae in many lake and river ecosystems.
>We should just cure these diseases.

Much, much easier said than done.
Under what hypothetical scenario would killing off mosquitos cause two million (human?) deaths per year?
It's pretty easy to set the user's role after connecting:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998597/switch-role-afte...
Next up is the "kissing bug" http://pvangels.com/news-mexico/176714/us-and-mexico-must-jo...

Possibly responsible for most heart failures in people under the age of 50.
I'm comparing "hunting for sport" against "hunting for food", and I'm comparing "hunting for food in a cruel way for the challenge" against "hunting for food in a cruel way out of necessity."

I don't think it's ok to torture a fox because it had a nice life before the torture started.

I don't think it's ok to torture a fox because we kill a lot more cows than foxes.

I don't think it's ok to torture animals that we raise for slaughter. I pay more for organic grass-fed cattle, free-range chicken and eggs, etc, in the hopes that the animals that provide my food were treated well while they were alive.

As I said at the start, I'm not a vegetarian. I'm definitely a part of the animal food chain, so I'm ok with the killing of animals further down the chain for me to eat, and I avoid the animals further up the chain so that I don't get eaten. (I wouldn't blame them if they got me, though.) What I object to is killing in a way that causes more suffering than it has to.
The worst man-made ecological disasters in history caused tens of thousands of deaths. We can say with certainty that killing off a few species of mosquitoes will not be worse.
On top of that, Autodesk hasn't implemented HiDPI correctly on any of their products, making them borderline unusable on my otherwise beautiful 3840 x 2160 screen.
Regular expression-based searching for bio sequences has been used for a long time but I don't think anybody thinks regular expressions are the write language for this, although I guess it depends a lot on the usecase.

i think most people want a sensitive search that has a probabilistic model for substitutions and for indels, ideally with a heuristic so it's fast. BLAST does this, and it also includes support for "profiles" which are probabilistic models (and HMMER has an even more powerful version of said models).
Personal experience dealing with a team that reverse-engineered industrial hardware. They would acquire competitors' products and hand them off to teardown teams who weren't allowed direct communications with the rest of engineering. These strictures may have been a legal artifact of the company's significant background in software as well as hardware dev, or perhaps to deal with contractual issues, but they were firmly enforced.
Canada to introduce legislation to legalize recreational cannabis
Don't things eat mosquitos? Do any of those things matter?
I was reminded by your post of Chesterton's fence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...
Frankly, I feel like this is an indictment of all software development, everywhere. When you need to do this kind of a thing, you are doing it wrong. I do not mean I am doing it any better, I have the same issues e.g. working on Android, but there are probably some fundamental things we could be doing to avoid all these horrible symptoms. Things like NixOS come to mind, where people are actively researching and experimenting with possibly better alternatives. I pray somehow somebody smart and motivated can find some fundamental solutions instead of this rube goldberg overkill type answer.
T-Shirt with 40 Icons Lets You Communicate Even If You Don't Speak the Language
+chiggers
"Here's the thing about ad blockers...We get it, ads aren't what you are here for"

That continues to amaze me from wired...I know they of all outlets are probably seeing a higher rate of ad blockers, but my use of adblocker is driven far less by what information your website transmits, and far more by what it collects.

If you just showed me ads I would grumpily accept...If you show me ads for flights to Australia because I have conversation near my cellphone yesterday about wanting to visit someday and the day before that looked at hipmunk then you can go screw yourself.

Edit to add:
ublock blocked 45% of the page and ghostery blocked another 21 trackers and other assorted items including this wonderful piece of software called 'Yieldbot'

"Relevance is our business. Yieldbot is the first technology that directly connects the intent of Publisher visitors to Search advertisers in realtime. We dramatically increases publisher understanding of their visitors and connect them to massive new advertising budgets."
If you are buying $75K worth of furniture, you're doing it wrong.
What led you to decide to make the app social? The competitive nature of challenging your friends seems like it would often poorly. (I recall a lot of jealousy when I was in school.) Would your product also be effective in "single-player" mode? Or, maybe you could structure it so that the child is competing with themselves (i.e., trying to best their prior scores).
This was my experience as well. We built a decentralized authz/authn system that used signed tokens had a lot of trouble with revocations. In the end, we had to give up decentralization to get quick revocation right.
The ironic thing is that email fixes pretty much all of the problems that Slack creates.

Slack is still better for sending out random links and messages about lost car keys or whatever, rather than having those clog everyone's inboxes, but beyond that it quickly becomes an anti-pattern that enables a huge array of self-destructive behaviors.
Those economies don't specifically depend on Aedes aegypti.
No one is talking about eliminating all mosquitos (despite the headline).

There are over 3,000 species of mosquito. If there weren't any Aedes or Anopheles larvae in the water, other species would expand to fill the empty niche.
Thanks a lot for those kind words!

Yeah, it was needed by myself as well, so I had to scratch my own itch for a while.
It's true. It's amazing. I'm using it at work for years for simple modeling and assembly.
But now I can't. Why you ask? They compiled it with buggy version of C++11 library ("boost" or something) and it doesn't work at all. Thank you developers! You ruined my experience with this great software.
"The End of the Whole Mess" by Stephen King is a good read illustrating the problem with this approach.
PS2 went on for 13 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

> Sony finally announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued after 13 years of production – one of the longest runs for a video game console.
but with a huge game library

They have actually backported quite a few games[0] to run on the Xbox One (where you can use the original disk, or now even buy them as digital downloads). So my guess is that they are likely to push for more Xbox One sales (where buyers have the convenience of playing either era of game) rather than try to create a mini-device that would only be able to play older games and not newer ones.

[0] - http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/backward-compatibility/av...
What do you recommend for how we could do it better?
I'm glad you asked. The history of the 1824 & 1828 presidential election is really interesting.

The first four U.S. Presidents were founding fathers, so the election of 1824 was the first time it was a completely different generation vying for what direction we should take the country in. John Quincy Adams, son of President John Adams, seemed like he fit the bill. He was secretary of state, and Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe all had served as Secretary of State before taking the mantel.

Andrew Jackson was cut from a different cloth as the first five presidents. Not wealthy/educated/elite/eastern, Andrew Jackson instead was a frontiers man and a war hero.

By the time the votes were tallies, Jackson won the popular vote, but since the race was split between more than two candidates and he only had a plurality but not a majority (more votes than anyone else, but less than 50%), congress got to decide the next President.

In a move of backroom bargaining, John Q. Adams offers the then speaker of the house Henry Clay a position as the 9th Secretary of State in exchange for whipping the votes. It worked.

Screwed out of an election that should have been his, Andrew Jackson held his tongue and his temper and instead looked towards the next election where he knocked the sitting president out of office.

Who are your favorite founding fathers of the U.S.A.?