skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one difference is that VW wants to break into the US markets, but is already a dominating brand in the EU market. The number of diesels sold in the US (low) compared to the risk of legal fallout there (high) means they have one strategy there, compared to the EU where the number of diesels sold is much bigger. If VW offer compensation without requiring you to not claim anything in the future - that's pure goodwill/marketing. That's good to hear. They probably can't afford that here, or they don't want/need to because of the market situation.
>"bureaucrats are not being evil or heartless when they don't allocate funds for necessary work that falls outside of their mandate: they could go to jail for misallocation of taxpayer funds. "

Which bureaucrat has gone to jail for making any decision of this sort? The BLM sold ~1700 protected wild horses to a slaughterhouse a few years ago, and I don't think anyone was even reprimanded.[1] EPA allowed 11 million litres of contaminated, toxic wastewater to pollute the a river, and no disciplinary action was taken (that I know of), even though it seems this would be negligence (or a criminal offense) if a private party had done it.[2]

[1] http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/17708998-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Gold_King_Mine_waste_wate...
Big Marijuana is coming – and even legalization supporters are worried
As someone who suffered the wrath of both malaria and dengue, I can't agree enough.
> damn slow for car manufacturers that tend to release a model upgrade per year

That's not true. There are facelifts every few years and new models take a few more years. And even new models are often based on the older model in many ways.
Play up the (Zika) birth defect angle. Potential parents will be scared to death and will scream at their legislators to do something. There's all the funding they need.
If the fence would be e.g. electrocuting hundreds of thousands of humans a year, maybe the depth of the due diligence could be somehow limited.
I am pretty much ground zero of where they want to release them down here in the FL Keys and I am all for it. The amount of chemicals they pump out in the summer months is enough to sway me towards the belief that it can not be much if any riskier. When we hear the hum of the mosquito truck we have to yell, to our kids playing outside, to get in the house and stay out of the mist. Most of the other locals are vehemently opposed to their release. I say they cannot release them fast enough.
I don't think the EU is too worried about that. It has already imposed very large fines on both Intel and Microsoft, for example.

Like them, Google has lots of staff and offices throughout the EU.... although (not uniquely) it uses various methods to avoid paying taxes ;-)
"Centralized" doesn't mean you rely on Github or Google or Microsoft or whoever, although you can. It means you handle authentication and authorization with a service that does that job, instead of shared secrets or "well, it's on this VLAN, it must be OK". You can run your own OAuth2 (or whatever) provider pretty easily these days.
the 'what happens next' question should be answered or asked depending on the client's personality. sometimes the client wants to be a little important in the negotiations or the company clearly has their own way of doing things, so I ask them 'now what', but it is never asked so bluntly. More along the lines of "To move forward, I typically would send you a proposal/invoice, but I would defer to you on how you company handles this. What works for you?"
Whilst the address of this site made me assume it's a conspiracy theory site, it seems pretty level headed and I think it is worth reading.
Mesosphere Open Sources the Mesos-Based Data Center Operating System
Totally. That is what I was going for when buying it and it didn't disappoint one bit!
Semantic versioning -- basically each version here is x.y.z for some x, y, z. Node patch releases (.z) happen reasonably fast and constitute a "version of node" as used here.
ublock has a anti-ublock list that removes nonsense like that.
Can you show me an actual program using CRISPR and gene drive that's produced some effective changes?

So your argument is that it can't be done because no one has done it?

No one has released gene drive systems to the wild, but there is every reason to believe that it will work fine, and no credible reason to believe that it won't.
Sure, but it would eat a non-zero amount of Xbox One sales. Presumably that's why Microsoft isn't about to do it.
I read it as using the imperative mood, myself; otherwise the sentence is missing its subject.
Has anyone heard of this “olive” micro server thing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535629
The GameBoyAdvance class could have a constructor which more directly connects together the pieces. The PPU doesn't care that it's inside a GameBoyAdvance: it has a connection to the CPU to raise an interrupt:

// Don't throw away that simple old C++98 so fast.
class GameBoyAdvance {
private:
CPU cpu;
PPU ppu;
public:
GameBoyAdvance()
: cpu(ppu), ppu(cpu) // CPU has ref to PPU and vice versa.
{
}

So now:

void PPU::scanline()
{
cpu.raiseInterrupt(Interrupt::VerticalBlank);
}

Gee, exactly like before, with the namespace. Only now cpu is a member reference to a CPU, inside the PPU object.
Lets make Yahoo great again
I honestly haven't tried working with large image files as I don't normally do that so I don't know how the processor would handle this. The problem I had with the rMBP... ...is that I was not taking it often with me.
I bought an Xbox 360 about six months ago to serve as a Windows Media Center extender - while I was at it I picked up GTA5, too. It's still a very respectable machine, given that it cost me less than $100.
Is mail sent from foreign embassies within the U.S. protected in any way, similar to the contents of a diplomatic bag? Does it make any sense that someone associated with the Saudi Embassy in D.C. would use an official letter to exfil sensitive documents like the pilot certificate? Sure doesn't seem like a wise move, but some sort of legal protections might make the scenario more plausible.
Nice article!

BTW, Go has a very complete RE2 parser: https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/ - it even handles simplifications for you, I'm actually using it together with a RDPT in namegrep.com.

And in JavaScript you also have ret.JS: https://github.com/fent/ret.js/.
The more jobs are lost, the quicker the demand to fix it, with Universal Basic Income or something similar. We know it has to happen eventually, but the sooner we man up and go for it, the sooner millions of people can get relief from their suffering.
Yeah, there are plenty of editors that do, but none that I'd want to use on a day-to-day basis.
Why should consumers pay a tax to keep SMBs alive? If Amazon can offer the same product for cheaper than anyone else, what right does a SMB have to charge consumers more for it?
> Gamers will also be able to continue to buy over 4,000 Xbox 360 games or Xbox 360 accessories at retail and through our Xbox 360 store online, while supplies last.

Guess I need to stock up on 360 controllers
Slack's pinning UX baffles me.

My previous team used Slack to coordinate releases (deploys). (Automation? What's that?)

The devops lead would post the release notes, whatifs and whatnots, then pin them, hoping for easy recall when the chat activity scrolls them offscreen. Great idea. I never got the hang of Slack's implementation.
There's a name for this: "Javscript Fatigue"
All the people chronically sickened by malaria (but not killed) could be more productive. Probably the strain from chronic malaria is worse for an economy than any theoretical strain due to feeding a few million more people.
ublock all scripts, including inline ones.
* ROOT files still have terrible documentation. Rene throws up his arms in protest anytime people say this (I've personally witnessed this)

* Physicists still don't like pyroot interfaces, otherwise rootpy wouldn't exist.

* astropy is proof that you can be performant and user friendly. Julia is proof that you don't even need a C++ library underneath.

* Saying ROOT scales well is weird; It is true that ROOT and the ROOT IO/ROOT files are efficient, but it needs but additional services have helped it scale (dCache, XRootD, batch farm/grid/DIRAC, etc...)

* Not sure what the ScyllaDB tangent has to do with anything. There are scalable open source RDBMS options out there too like CitusDB, Greenplum which support UDFs. Hadoop and Spark with HDFS are still great for certain applications, and as general data analysis tools are great, but it's tricky to really get them to perform well without HDFS and the grid model of computing doesn't lend itself well to that paradigm.

* I've heard the C++ interpreter is much better with Cling (if that's you, I applaud your effort!) CINT was a gun that fired in both directions for every grad student I ever had to help.

* XRootD has little to do with ROOT anymore other than it also implements the original root protocol.

* ROOT is not modular. It is both an application and a collection of libraries and somewhat of a VM. That does make some things convenient, but it also makes some things extremely hard.

There are many reasons to move away from ROOT, and the astrophysics community is a prime example of that!
Typical for _Google_ in the bay, is what I meant.

At any rate, I've received more than my fair share of $200k+ 1st year total comp offers for _start ups_ in SF for positions that only wanted 2-3 years experience. So, I wouldn't be so surprised.
Most mosquitoes don't bite humans; we will leave those alone. Birds can eat those all they like.
It's best to think neither in terms of rebelliousness nor conformism, but in terms of right and wrong -- the standards by which we determine whether rebellion, or conformism, or withdrawal, or some other act are appropriate. Aging hippies and aging squares are both stopped clocks, wrong at least as often as they're right...

That said, I'm with the author in one respect: I don't have a Facebook account and never will. Constant connectedness is the enemy of deep understanding of the world -- although drugs, pinball machines, and basking in one's alleged superiority to the squares are also its enemies.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Medi...

See the third section in that link.
what about change for 50?
Layman here.

Even if the impact on the food chain is zero, does it mean that there won't be other impacts?

For example, on the eradication of mosquitoes, what if the disease that are currently only spread via mosquitoes mutate/evolve themselves to be airborne?
Table schema, with indexes disabled:

> CREATE TABLE SensorData (
Sensor INT NOT NULL,
FOREIGN KEY (Sensor) REFERENCES Sensors(Id),
Humidity FLOAT,
Precipitation FLOAT,
Temperature FLOAT,
SampleTime TIMESTAMP(3) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (Sensor, SampleTime)
);

Size on disk 80MB after 2.5 mln inserts {sensor,temperature,humidity,precipitation}.

SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('"measurements"'))
Wouldnt the only solution to "see if you code worked with changing apis" to either

1) never change apis even if you were wrong or you have more opportunities
or
2) know everything beforehand and implement the api perfect
At minimum it's true in the same sense that physics is a computable process, though that probably isn't very insightful.
QCAD is great, but I would not consider it free: without paid package is not that usable. But this package is just 40 bucks, which is really cheap.
I hope so, or something similarly anonymous.
Tips for Accessibility for Android Developers
Also curious, could it be one of these websites where they explain algorithms visually?

Have you tried https://hn.algolia.com/?query=levenshtein&sort=byPopularity&... ?
Protein Structural Chemist (i guess) here and I'd like an even higher level 'regular expression' which would allow one to search DNA sequences likely to code for protein domains with likely secondary structure, (something like a string to search for "Secstruc" within "Exon Structure" [1]). The "likely" will always be a problem in these sorts of attempts; any genomics regular expressions should allow for the option of the statistical best hit.

[1] http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/protein/P00918
The S and E models don't have that problem. I've heard some of the later chipsets for the original model also fixed the problem.

From what I've heard, the 360 was original designed with an environmentally-friendly (read: not lead) solder that had never really been used in a major product. The original design already had heat problems and the solder turned out to be easily melted.
I recently stumbled on a podcast I found very interesting that relates: The Art of Manliness #189: The Classical Education You Never Had [0]
They had an author (Susan Bauer) on discussing topics from her book The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had [1], where they discussed the differences between a classical education and today's modern education (in America).

One of the salient points was where she described today's method of reading literature and stopping every few pages/chapters and discussing what you think/feel about it and your interpretation. She made the argument that these students are being taught to come to conclusions and judge things before getting the full picture, and human nature being what it is, we stick with that judgement even as we learn more. She went on to say that instead of this, a more classical approach would be to read the whole book first, then go back through and discuss those interesting sections and come to conclusions with the whole picture.

I haven't read the book yet, but it's on my list now- the entire episode was very interesting and thoughtful and I'm going to check out more of their podcasts as well.

[0] http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/04/04/podcast-189-the-cla...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039308096X
Do you have any source to back up those numbers (50% and 20%)? They're very unexpected to say the least...
What is this thing, called swing?
Common over-the-counter drugs can hurt your brain
I don't mind being showed ads. It's being packed up and sold as the product I have a problem with.
UC Davis chancellor apologizes for Internet scrubbing controversy
I want to see this guy's analysis of D, Rust, and Erlang (Rust at the very least)
How does this company convince vineyards/wine distributors to adopt the proprietary bottle?
There is a long list of things about our technological civilization that would have benefited from applying the precautionary principle a little more. We're in damage control mode right now for a large number of environmental catastrophes, our agricultural techniques of the last half-century or so have depleted and desertified a large amount of prime arable land, we're rapidly shooting ourselves in the foot by abusing antibiotics, and we have some huge problems with war, poverty, and other kinds of social strife. In my opinion, we should be learning to think deeply through consequences instead of looking at our track record and saying "let's do more of that." We don't need to be absolutely sure, but given our history I think we could probably strive to be /more/ sure before we make irreversible changes.
Why does MS pay their engineers less than other tech companies when most of their services are not free? It's like getting paid at tight budget startups. Despite of the reported salary here, I admire the engineers there. Is it because MS has great work culture and excellent benefits?
Thankfully I think I read this article back in '94. I seem to recall a picture of a guy holding a shotgun and the satellite dish behind him. I don't remember any of the ads...
I've owned a single 335 since 2009. It drives/handles beautifully. It's hard to describe being able to feel the surface of the road through the suspension and into steering wheel. I've driven the new ones and feel less in control and that special road feel is gone. My 3's interior is certainly spartan, but well made. After 6 years of ownership on crappy Midwestern roads, my interior is still solid without a single squeak or rattle. The new one's I've driven look like "cheap fancy" to me, and can imagine all that plastic is going to warp into a squeaky rattly mess after a few years. I've already decided my next vehicle will be a Tesla.
If feminism truly is about egalnatism as I am told repeatedly then that joke should offend feminists should it not? If men were the other half of the team would the same joke be acceptable?
LOL come to Canada. Our wireless prices are 4x worse than USA
I don't know if Chrome was the first or one of the first desktop apps to do that, but they really brought a breakthrough in continuous updates, and it would be totally worth that even if we wouldn't use Chrome itself anymore. Crazy times when we had to manually update all the time from Firefox 3.whatever to 3.whateverelse to get some minor improvement in functionality plus 10 new things breaking until the next update. I used to keep the last couple of versions of Firefox in my Apps folder just in case.
Seems a little fishy. I would expect a greater level of operational security from a Saudi Arabian official in the position to be involved here. If you knew the long term plan why would you ever hand someone a key piece of evidence in an envelope bearing your own information? Even if you didn't personally know the long term plan, ensuring the certificate is untraceable in all forms seems like something you'd of been made to understand.
Apply HN: Database of Used Books for Sharing (Developing Countries)
This will be like a couchsurfing for books or the catalog of hundreds of personal-libraries together, in places where there are no libraries or bookstores. This can later become what Amazon was at the beginning, a marketplace for books, that handles payments and shipping, but at the beginning, it will only be sharing.
Knowledge is key for development, and people know it. Thousands of people in developing countries are paying high amounts of money for private education. After Amazon and kindle, it may be weird for many of you to think about books, but they are still a reality, and will be for at least the next 10 years. They are particularly expensive in developing countries because they are printed somewhere else, so prices have extra shipping and import taxes on top.
Highly efficient database, just text (like Hacker News), will allow parents, college students, and professionals exchange books.
Business Model: Still working on it, but it will be for profit. (v1.0) Maybe subscriptions that will help the safety factor, plus selling advertisement. (v2.0)Online market place. Right now credit cards companies are being ridiculous in Guatemala so don´t know a way to work with them at the moment. We´d have to find another way to manage payments. A couple of Guatemalan payment startups are “starting” right now. Maybe we can work with them in the future
It's literally the title of the article
'they already have my address & payment info, let's do business with them again'

I had hoped Apple Pay would help here. I order a lot on the phone. No way I am going to input address, payment info, and create a password just so I can spend $15 on something from the phone. I will just buy Amazon or wait to go to the store.

With Apple Pay I would think the address info could be transmitted to the merchant and I could pay with my thumbprint. The hoopla on Apple Pay was on point of sale transactions, but that was a yawn to me--saves me a swipe, who cares? It's shopping on the phone that needs a boost. But it seems few online merchants take Apple Pay and Apple has no easy way to find those that do.

I guess Google Shopping is going for this problem but it doesn't deliver to my area.
ConsenSys Weekly: Collaboration with John Hancock, Decentralized Registry and More
Just digging through the fact sheet released by the European Commission [1] to gain a more concrete understanding of what the investigation is trying to turn up. Quotes are heavily edited; please read the full document before forming opinions :3

Licensing of Google’s proprietary apps:

The Commission seeks to ensure that manufacturers are free to choose which apps they pre-install on their devices.

Anti-fragmentation:

The Commission has found evidence that Google's conduct prevented manufacturers from selling smart mobile devices based on a competing Android fork ... In doing so, Google has also closed off an important way for its competitors to introduce apps and services, in particular general search services, which could be pre-installed on Android forks.

Exclusivity:

The Commission takes issue not with [financial incentives to ... smartphone and tablet manufacturers ... on condition that they exclusively pre-install Google Search] in general but with the conditions associated with Google's financial incentives, in particular with the condition that the financial incentive is not paid if any other search provider than Google Search is pre-installed on smart mobile devices.

[1]: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-16-1484_en.htm
The only comments I see here seem to be taking the the article literally, but I have a strong suspicion that it's largely a parody of the Trump/Cruz talk talk on the Middle East, ISIS, and Islam.

> The ugly situation on the ground does not call for Integrated Mosquito Management; it demands a program of Total Mosquito Destruction.

and

> we’re left to wait and watch swarms of evil on the wing, mating in midair, and landing on our shores. An enemy has made its way to the nation’s borders. Now is not the time for soft responses.

(and more)
That is exactly what I thought when I saw what had been posted. I have a feeling that we have a generation of developers whose work makes sense on a small scale or in the short term, but becomes ridiculous with growth and/or age.
The strange way upper-middle-class British people looked at food in the 16th Century as referenced by Shakespeare.
The graph makes it clear that no high-cost area has built many houses recently.
Look at this problem from different angle. These two species are only abundant in areas where humans live. The malaria annual death toll is about 440000 lives. Maybe it is more worth of an effort to move humans out of there?

Since no one is going to eradicate cars worldwide just because the annual human death toll in car accidents is 1.25 million!
Well, it's true that if you don't eat you'll die of starvation. (Or, if you happen to be in a computer simulation at the moment, that if you don't run through the acts which the simulation reckons as simulating eating, you'll end up in the state which the simulation reckons as dead, after having been in the state that the simulation reckons as starving -- which is the same thing from your perspective.) Perhaps something larger can be built out from there.

I think that what RKD is saying (whoever he is) is that large-scale manufacturing, plus a healthy dose of cheap plastics, have cut us off from physical construction and from the constrained but rather satisfying (at least when contemplated in hindsight) way of how we used to live. That, and he read enough _Dune_ that he's now talking like a Bene Gesserit...
oh wow ! didnt know there was a handy search engine for HN.

basically it explained 1-dimentional Levenshtein distance first.

That blew my mind since its much easier to think about the 1d case and then apply it for a 2d matrix.

but i remember reading only half-way through the article before had to do something else :( sorry - but I really want to read it again since it will really help me out at my work !

EDIT -

FOUND IT !

thanks a lot for that ! It was a god send !

http://davedelong.tumblr.com/post/134367865668/edit-distance...

here is the link - you just made my afternoon !

EDIT 2 -

someone should write a book which explains all maths/algorithms concepts using just links to blog posts by most HN popularity - just a though :)