skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
typical night out for many of my twenty something friends:

>uber to the first bar - 15-20$

>drinks at the first bar - 15$

>several drinks and food at a brewpub or the like - 50$

>nightcap at a bar - 10$

>uber home - 20-25$ (surge pricing, bars closing)

Youve just spent 110$ in a single night out, essentially on a single meal.

rinse and repeat each weekend day, maybe up to 12 times in a month - youre out almost 1500$

That or i know a ton of people paying more than 200$ per month for their car payment. plus insurance thats a good chunk of money!

Theres two grand right there that could have otherwise gone into a retirement account.
It doesn't really take that many people; these need not be expensive programs. It's a matter of political will, but a serious vector control program would be no different.

In any event, learning how to control human diseases and prevent parasites from killing us seems like a very fundamental goal of medicine which should be accomplished in any eventuality. Eradicating mosquitoes need not be.

Also, regarding resistance, it is much easier to track and defeat resistance in human patients than to track and defeat resistance in wild populations of mosquitoes, which is what we'll be doing if we try eradication campaigns.
I would love to see something similar for Finance IT (i.e. the Global Banks and Insurance Firms). It would also be nice if there was a country breakdown as well, but from reading the comments I see that data is not available in your current analysis.
How many species did we wipe before that ? is it a first ?

ps: the only time where humans destroying something made me happy was smallpox.
> MS made it very unclear to disable/remove IE

Microsoft had already signed a consent decree with Janet Reno's DoJ. This specifically allowed Microsoft to add features to the operating system. In effect, it didn't have a choice about building IE into the OS. (1)

The later anti-trust case was based on the idea of tying (forcing someone who wants one product to have a second product as well). Microsoft said IE was integrated, not tied, while the DoJ said it was tied. (Microsoft eventually won that one 2-1 on appeal.)

> It's just an EU money grab (am EU citizen and only use Chrome).

Less of a money grab than the EU fining Microsoft big bucks for bundling Windows Media Player, and forcing it to offer versions of Windows without it. (The EU refused Microsoft's offer to bundle three media players with Windows.)

(1) Microsoft also componentized IE so that different programs -- including third-party programs -- could use components from IE. This wasn't such a bad idea at the time, before the browser became the main focus for malware attacks and we wanted it sandboxed.
It's been a heck of a run! Thanks, Xbox 360 :)
I worked on a project that used the OpenCASCADE CAD kernel, and our conclusion was that it still has a ways to go. We often got errors with boolean operations and the speed of operations was generally slow.
I can't find Iris Pro 580 on benchmark sites, because no gamer gives a care about that for gaming.

The Iris Pro 5200 GT3e achieves Passmark 1,174.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=Intel...

If Iris Pro 580 GT4e is twice as good (Intel only claims 50% better), that's still not very good. Thats utterly awful actually.

A $100 GPU is the R7 360, just off the top of my head. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125...

Exactly $99 on Newegg right now. It achieves Passmark 3,150.

No one gives a care about the $600 Crystalwell chip that performs worse than a $100 dGPU. Its utterly awful. You'd be insane to actually recommend this product to anybody. You claim that you care about performance. Do you even look at the benchmark numbers bro? You're claims are so far away from reality I really just don't know how I'm supposed to respond to you.

Yes, a $600 Chip. I'm assuming this, unless you can figure out a cheaper Skylake Iris Pro: http://ark.intel.com/products/93336/Intel-Core-i7-6970HQ-Pro...

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EDIT: I see that you're an anti-AMD guy. Okay, whatever. That's why there's another company out there.

http://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-DisplayPort-Graphics-ZT-...

NVidea GTX 750 Ti, $105 right now on Amazon. Passmark 3,686. Still utterly crushing your $600 iGPU with cheap-as-hell GPUs, no matter the brand.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+75...

Dude, I'm running a (what was at the time) high-end R9 290x, although this is more of a mid-range card now due to its age (Fury / 980 Ti). It has Passmark of 7,153, and you're seriously suggesting I "upgrade" to a Crystalwell Iris Pro that only achieves ~2000 Passmark?

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PS: Skylake performing 20% faster than Sandy Bridge after five years of updates is awful.

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> I'm not into cost-effective bargain hunting.

Then why the hell are you bringing up M.2? Intel 750 is the best of the best and plugs directly into PCIe. Sandy Bridge handles it just fine.

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> In 2 1/2 weeks you'll see Skylake with Crystalwell and Thunderbolt 3 absolutely delete any SandyBridge gaming rig you may have

Crystallwell has to beat a $100 dGPU first. And the benchmarks say otherwise. My bet? Crystalwell fails to beat a R7 360 / NVidia 750 Ti (NVidia's LAST generation BUDGET card) and I get to laugh at its worse-than console performance numbers despite the $600+ launch price for the chip.

But hey man, show me those benchmark numbers if you disagree with my assessment.
It's not really an apples to apples comparison. All of those are invasive species, except for the screw fly, which isn't a large part of a biological ecosystem (e.g. a sizeable portion of the Myotis lucifugus diet).
So we get as many cases of malaria in Europe, just nobody dies from it?
Or maybe it does indeed has something to do with mosquitos after all?
Subversion beats git anyday everyday!
I see where you are coming from, for sure. I wish I was smart enough and motivated enough to try to come up with a solution to this, but my motivation goes elsewhere.

Sometimes, for you to focus on other (what for you is important), you need to throw together some rube goldberg thing to be able to move forward.
Kudzu is great for erosion and its invasiveness in the Southeastern US is GREATLY exaggerated. Apparently the 1996 survey that is most cited greatly overestimated the number of hectares covered.
It´s always tricky to mix faith and business. I´m assuming Christian.
Your loss man. The benchmarks don't lie.

Good luck with your overpriced Crystalwell failure. If you got actual benchmark scores to talk about, please respond to me here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536519

But I actually know the benchmarks of everything you're talking about like the back of my hand. Your argument has no technical legs to stand on what-so-ever. Don't feel bad if I'm just calling out your Bull$.
A more relevant post by Scott is The Control Group is Out of Control [1]. The starting off point is that parapsychology has high-quality studies with positive results, but we're pretty sure parapsychology is wrong, and this bodes poorly for "high-quality" studies in other fields. But then it just keeps going and going... by the end I always feel like lowering the acceptable p-value ceiling by a factor of 1000, and also like that would be a joke laughed off by the nature of the problem.

1: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
Except for Chrome OS. Boy, I would drop any Macbook for a Chromebook Pixel if it could run Atom without tinkering.
I think the article is wrong on assiming and calling out that RLS is only useful if you use only the DB roles for security mechanism.

When you create a RLS policy you specify a predicate (the USING and WITH CHECK parts) that is checked for each accessed row (read or write). The predicate is not in any way restricted to refer to a DB role it can compare for example a field with a parameter variable.

EDIT: Here is a gist how to not use it without roles for the permissions: https://gist.github.com/luben/4ab60b0dbda66ecf4b6601b88c8522...
Similar things happen with PCMCIA cards. The connector design on PCMCIA cards is just awful in that male pins are in the receptacle/PC. If you accidentally clog one of the holes on the PCMCIA cards connector and plug it into a receptacle it will bend the pin over.
I think the article means to say is JSONB modification.

Prior to 9.5 there weren't commands to edit values within a JSONB column.
I meant that it is questionable to the parent because Amazon has never done it before.
Can you show me an actual program using CRISPR and gene drive that's produced some effective changes? As far as I know this is still in the realm of theory. And given that we're talking about a single resistance mechanism, I'm going to guess that it will very quickly be defeated by evolution.

DDT was the "perfect" mosquito killer, as well. It didn't last - resistance inevitably follows these attempts in wild populations.
Is MBTE really specific to only A. gambiae and A. funestus?
Do you mind sharing your contact details? I literally burned out by working at a SmallCo (24x7 on-call) and developed multiple diseases due to stress and unhealthy sleep patterns. I'm currently rehabilitating (from an unrelated surgery) and thinking of getting back into the game.
https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/04/inbox-by-gmail-better-w...
What the FBI Found on the San Bernardino iPhone
Whatever happened to those mosquito laser zappers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm8FolQ7jw
I'm disappointed that the prevailing sentiment is applying the precautionary principle. We didn't create a technological civilization by being absolutely sure of all possible consequences before acting. That approach would have paralyzed us. Technology is a boon. It's done some harm, but a whole lot of good. Let's not throw up our hands and decide that we're no longer comfortable modifying our environment to suit us.
-Way to be dismissive. I work with two professionally and two at home. Not that simple.

-aur is just an example, but there are many, many "live" packages on there that aren't close to production ready like they think they are. A better example might be something like skype, whose repos last time I checked fail during install without a LOT of work. There's an enormous lack of QAing in packaging out there.

-That's incredibly dismissive of you again. Mind you, linux admin work is only my job. I do data science, low latency freelance work, security and networking as a hobby, so the extent of the software I use is comparatively large compared to most.
I doubt it's just red tape. More likely there is invested capital that has to be EOL, and they wrap up all the changes across the stack in one place. Counterfeiting is sexy, so it's the excuse. But really it's a calculation based on depreciation and lifecycle management.
Front end tooling is borked big time
I dabble in front end development, and every time I have to do a project, I am amazed at how incredibly bad the process is. The tools in fashion change every few months (grunt, gulp, webpack, babel,browserify). Frameworks deprecate and remove stuff every few months (looking at you react). How do full time front end devs keep up with this nonsense? We seriously need a moratorium on this crap.
Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhones’ Story Is True
Perceived reputation, color and packaging plays a big role in perceived drug efficacy[0], I wonder if a double blinded trial would show the same results you have seen anecdotally.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-power-...
Good question. We checked the raw data again, and the signing bonuses are all consistently high for Facebook Level 1. We also know a couple of people at Facebook who have received signing bonuses in line with the $75K. But we don't yet know why it's so high compared with the other companies.
Sketch-up us is useless toy from engineering point of view. Good for "sketchy" modeling.
FreeCAD is fully parametric 3D cad system. It's great for precision design. Unfortunately buggy as hell.
I disagree. There are many leadership principles which are contradictory either in part or in whole (e.g. Dive Deep vs. Bias for Action; Insist on the Highest Standards vs. Invent and Simplify). You can squint and see how these would be the same, but often they're just used as arrows in a quiver to knock someone down and/or put someone on a PIP (performance improvement plan).

Example I witnessed during people review (obviously anonymized):

A: I think X is one of the best members of the team, he took a bunch of customer requirements and put out something super fast that addressed some customer needs. (Invent and Simplify, Bias for Action)

B: I disagree. His product didn't think about scenarios a, b and c [ed: these would be things that caused the product to slip a year, and would leave customers in pain during that time] and he did not investigate g, h and i [which would have taken 3 months to figure out, still with customers in pain]. I think he needs to be put on a PIP. (Dive Deep; Insist on the highest standards)

Yes, I'm highly biased here - this person was on my team, and I endorsed his plan, as did person B, until we got into People Review. One of the most brutal and subtle things about the entire process is the fact that you're consistently asked for negative feedback about EVERYONE... even if you don't have it.

I moved from that group (AWS) to new businesses shortly thereafter.
Dijkstra's uncomfortable truths of 1975
Mesopotamia would have had farming [0], but if you consider the requirements just a group of people, I think there were settlements of sorts back well into the paleolithic. but not kings-with-castles-and-princesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
Although Nintendo's "New" 3DS fixes this for a single user by tracking the viewer's viewing position/angle with a camera and adjusting the 3D accordingly.
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Can't speak for tmaly, but you might look at things like the Xerox Finite State Tools, Helsinki Finite State Tools, or KLEENE. They were developed with linguistics in mind, but are in fact general-purpose tools for generating and editing string-matching state machines.

It seems like every time I learn something new about bioinformatics, it just has more and more overlap with computational linguistics!
Kite – Your programming copilot
For the purpose of disease control it's not strictly necessary to exterminate all mosquitos. Mosquito borne diseases are transmitted when a mosquito bites an infected person, becomes infected itself, and later bites another person. So long as mosquitos can be eliminated from the populated areas of a region, even if only for a couple of months, the infected mosquitos will die off, and the people infected with the diseases will eventually (hopefully) recover. By the time new generations of mosquitos reach these populated areas, they will no longer be infected, there will be no infected people for them to bite, and the disease will be eradicated.

Such a strategy might be more feasible than total extermination anyway since eliminating mosquitos in unpopulated regions would probably be the most expensive part of such a project due to the lack of infrastructure in those areas.

Of course, once the mosquitos return, you still have to deal with those annoying bites....
My worry would be if you end up on bad terms with said security service. Does this mean your site/app loses the ability to get sign ups till you move somewhere else? If so, that's a pretty big problem, especially if you do something controversial or the government has a hand in things.

That's one of the reasons I've always been skeptical of centralised anything. It's another potential group to fall out with or point of weakness.
Good job on the awesome product! insert hand clapping smiley face here
Angel Problem
This made me realize how much I miss the Zune devices "Smart DJ".
Yeah I'm surprised that most sources still cite those junk stats from the 1970's and 90's.
I'm getting attacked here at home. Tell me one of you has a mosquito destroying IOT startup going on. Something that maybe counts the kills and pushes stats to the cloud?
I realize this is blasphemy to some, but perhaps it's time to consider further use of DDT.
http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/shutdowncomplete

NT 3 and 4 did, and you always saw them since it didn't support soft power-off (although I vaguely remember there was a registry key to enable it but didn't work for me).

Win2000 removed the button (and looks like it was just showing a bitmap, rather than keeping the window system running)
I was expecting this for a while now. But the pricing part isn't very clear. Is it $149 per instance or for the solution itself? Could be better if the article elaborates more on this.
I'm not talking about legality (at least not directly), I'm talking about how working on this project will affect your career at this company. If the company puts you to work taking apart someone else's product and documenting it, but then relegates you to that role forever because they don't want you "contaminating" their IP with anything that might be patented, that means that you can never go back to an engineering development role at that company. You'll always be stuck just taking stuff apart and documenting it, and when you get tired of that, you'll have to quit and find yourself a new job at a different company.

So I'm questioning what kind of quality work you're going to get. It doesn't seem like top engineers are going to want to take that job, and in fact it'll probably be the bottom-of-the-barrel engineers who'll want this job because it's a stable paycheck and there's zero room for creativity or inventiveness. So what kind of results are you going to get, by not having really talented and knowledgeable engineers looking at it?
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I presume the fact that Xbox one got only recently the capability to play old 360 games might have something to do with it. But which one is the cause and which one the effect?
Interesting. As a total amateur in this area, does this mean that: There is so much cash available that betting on everything makes more sense than bets on individual things based on analysis?

In other words, the cost to upgrade tech, follow regulations, etc. is higher than the margin between an index and a managed fund? If that's the case—wouldn't that mean that there are fewer people actually setting the price for any given stock by analysis, and wouldn't that end up bloating the market with potentially bad companies/vehicles continuing to get investment because they are in the main indexes?
lol, did you even read the article?

There’s little evidence, though, that mosquitoes form a crucial link in any food chain, or that their niche could not be filled by something else.
This "fact" keeps getting repeated here. While it may be typical for Google, it is in no way typical for "the bay". Median salary is around $110K for sw developers, and I highly doubt people are getting 100% of their salary in RSUs and bonuses their first year.
Agreed that such tools can be annoying without the proper configuration. But I also don't really want anything automatically fixing my source code. That's a personal preference though.
You know that's not a documentary right?
Tabernac? Never thought I would see a french canadian curse here.
Console generations overlap; when a new console is released the older one is reduced in price and becomes the low-end value console.
Your perception will bancrupt 99% of smb's and remove all wellfare for the middle class
You know what? I'm totally off my rocker, not sure what I thought I was responding to. Sorry! Wish I could delete my original comment!
Dragonflies eat mosquitos. I happen to like dragonflies. The are one of the non-annoying insects I actually like to have in my (non) backyard.

edit: http://www.chron.com/life/gardening/article/Dragonflies-Moth...
It is just the application of money, time and effort. Total global funding for malaria research is ~ half a billion dollars. I imagine if we, say, multiplied this by ten, it would have a susbstantial effect on improving outcomes.
That line from Fang continues to be quoted, but I never found the justification in her own article. It's been a bit since I read it, but I recall that she spent the entire article relating the various ways the absence of mosquitoes would damage ecology, and then concluding nothing would change.
There's a large number of people that believe it's not their fault, e.g. comments here http://www.metafilter.com/158762/The-Secret-Shame-of-Middle-...
In doing a quick search for research on the topic all I could find was an essay on why 2015 was the year of the SJW http://www.salon.com/2015/12/31/5_reasons_2015_was_the_year_...

I am aligned with the positions explored for the most part, but it seems like self-righteous offense inevitably emerges as a defense mechanism for these types of views.
Skype has been trash for years.
If the database roles correspond to departments, and authorizations at a department level, this sort of thing can be quite useful. (e.g., in a hospital, designating certain rows as visible only to the psychiatry department, in a way that developers within other departments can't screw it up.)

But establishing a DB role for every distinct person within a department gets awkward very fast, particularly if permissioning requirements have a bit of business logic associated with them (e.g., "this row can be updated by the user designated in the row itself as "owner", and is visible to both them and anyone designated in this other table over here as their assistant...") So, you'll often still need additional permissioning logic within the webapp regardless.
I'm not a scientist, but I know from movies that the amber is filled with mosquitos.

Now: to ensure we're only extracting the mosquito DNA and not the dino DNA...
On the desirable properties of a programming language
There are plenty of sci-fi stories where scientists meddle with forces beyond their understanding and get burned. That's not evidence of anything except the fact that people enjoy those sorts of stories.

See also: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Those eradications were paid for by the Department of Agriculture (and equivalent organizations in other regions). Who is going to pay for the mosquito?

I'm not objecting. I think we should eradicate the mosquito. But as someone who has worked for the government (albeit a different branch) I know that 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. So whose mandate is this?
After most compilers started properly supporting the newer C++ standards, it seems there has been an increase in the amount of love that C++ libraries are getting. A lot of people like the to say that [x] is superior to C or C++ - often ignoring that their favorite language's libraries/runtime/compilers/vm is most likely implemented in the very same languages they are putting down.
I don't think that's necessarily inconsistent with this essay.

Social technology (Facebook, iPhones, etc.) are, in my view, absolutely great at helping us to feel less lonely. I've traveled all over the world but can still stay in touch with close friends from back home. They effectively add a multiplier to Dunbar's number.

That being said, there is still the attraction of slowing down occasionally. I spend my life connected but also try to go on a hike for a week or two every year.