skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may not be open source, but DraftSight is free to use (commercial use included) and has 99% of the functionality of autoCAD for 2D stuff, but its a bit anemic if you are doing 3D.

I use it all the time at work, very easy to pick up if you are used to autoCAD (similar interface).

https://www.3ds.com/products-services/draftsight-cad-softwar...
99pi , which loves architecture and looks for the beauty in everything, tried really hard to say something nice about Brutalism and all the got was:

1) it's really hard to design and build well with concrete (you get one shot to build, and you can't elegantly patch mistakes or change your design), so architects love to try for the challenge, and they usually fail.

2) concrete is impossible to maintain; the buildings we hate today weren't as bad when they were new.

3) concrete is a really nice background for outdoor fashion photography.

4) concrete had a humble look and cost-effective nature that embodies the working class spirit.

Theae are true facts, none of which make me want to live or work in a concrete building. Maybe #4 when I am feeling camaraderie with my fellow worker.
Isn't the original article talking about that? "Total Mosquito Destruction"
Is there any sort of compelling evidence that CEOs ought to be paid so much money? Seems like you get a fairly sweet haul whether you help the company thrive or run it to the ground.
It will probably save you around 1 hour every 5 years. XKCD did the math https://xkcd.com/1205/.
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This little evidence comes from little research.
Aside from the question of whether we should kill all mosquitoes, I question if we can. Is there really a pesticide that we can apply globally that kills all mosquitoes, but not huge swaths of other types of insects? And what is the cost of this--who is paying for this global campaign?
For those modding this down, yes, that's the link-bait title of the article.

The link-bait title is wrong. No one is seriously talking about eliminating all mosquitos. There's discussion of eliminating two (two) of the over 3,500 species of mosquito, specifically those that carry horrible human diseases.

Maybe you should try reading the article, rather than just the title?
Err, I can give you a credible reason to believe that it won't: the parasite will inevitably develop resistance.

Here is the paper where they talk about the mechanism of resistance being conferred on the mosquito: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/28/E1922.abstract

The mechanism is this: "These scFvs are derived from antibodies specific to a parasite chitinase, the 25 kDa protein and the circumsporozoite protein, respectively."

So you'll spend a ton of money building a fancy CRISPR system in your mosquitoes, release them into the wild, and in a matter of months you will have parasites with on-target mutations in these proteins that will allow them to evade your resistance mechanism. I'd lay $1000 on this without blinking.

You're basically talking about curing malaria in mosquitoes. Why not, instead, just cure malaria in humans?
Not to state the obvious, but surge pricing is simply the most efficient way to motivate people on the platform (read: drivers) to flow into an underserved area (read: where the customers are). The macro take-away on this is that we should celebrate the fact that Uber is trying to incentivize its driving population to serve its riding population by implementing surge pricing. The opposite would be Lyft, which I doubt has any reasonable way other than asking nicely to try to encourage its drivers to venture into these underserved areas...

And yes, I understand that this opinion (read: "interpretation of the laws of supply and demand as they affect reality as it exists") is likely to be unpopular, and am prepared to be labeled all sorts of nasty things and downvoted.
The title is wrong.
Curious Link Between the Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster
One reason is mentioned in the incentivize stakeholders section. The vineyards apparently get more money when they use the proprietary bottle.

I imagine that's better stated as the vineyard getting a higher percentage of the retail price, but that's not a big difference.

edit: the same section mentions not using distributors (I guess they are doing direct to consumer sales for now).
Slightly OT: I wish more projects with a rapid release cycle would adopt CalVer (calendar-based versioning, like Ubuntu).

I find they're much easier to parse for humans, and the semantics are just fine for projects such as Chrome and Firefox.
Thanks. You're right of course. I use to do this at BigCo and we had people doing the calculations and negotiations for projects. And doing the planning. Apart from that I'm just to f*ing nice. Clients do love fixed price. But I am way too busy working my ass of for months now. I need to raise prices and want to use Planscope to see how.
Evolution does not work that way. Parasites are generally happy to keep on reproducing until their host dies - there's no reason for them to stop, since the only reasoning that evolution understands is "there tends to be more things that reproduce better". Malaria reproduces better by going through human hosts and mosquito carriers than by going airborne. If going airborne helped an individual generation of malaria, malaria would already be airborne.
I'm the only one not comfortable with the idea of wiping whole species just because we don't like them? I mean, I'm far fromthe Gaia thing, but what rights do we have to do that? And next? Rats, cockroaches? Hey, this specie of birds doesn't do anything useful and eat our fruits, why not killing them all?

Mosquitoes aren't even "responsible" for those diseases... Maybe we should invest in proactive body defenses against virus instead of just killing some random things.

Even if we just kill those mosquitoes species you know what? Nature evolves. Other mosquitoes and viruses will come. Do we kill them too?
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FreeCAD is a 3D CAD tool with features and UI similar to Catia, SolidWorks or Solid Edge.

With CATIA being the gold standard tool that is used in aerospace, automotive, etc industries.

So FreeCAD is on a very great path.

(It also highlights how important the UI is. Everyone who every used a 3D CAD tool, can use FreeCAD in no time. On the other hand, everyone who used a polygon based 3D modeling like 3DMax or Maya will have a really hard time with the Blender and its very non-standard UI.)
A moldable mind is a valuable thing.
There seems to be a dialogue change too, savers are being called 'hoarders'.
But thinking you're better than everyone else is the whole point of the article! Take away his pride, and what does Fry have left?

(I'm not sure if I should include a smiley with this or not, to be honest.)
all kinds of discussions already: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=EU%20Google&sort=byDate&dateRa...
"they could go to jail for misallocation of taxpayer funds" can you site a source where this has happened before...
It's not just about trusting that project. It's about trusting that project to understand relevant interactions with the rest of your system, which may include components or configurations that project's authors have never heard of.

Developers can screw up even with the best of intentions.

I trust distributions more because interactions between components is pretty much all they deal with. That's their specialty.

I'm a distribution developer. I know first hand how often upstream projects screw up due to naivety, because it's my day job to fix their bugs.
The meaning to you or the meaning to the ancient?

If the latter, I'm not sure if people back then were so megalomaniac to consider being useful to humans as an advantage. The world was much less developed before steam engines gave us craploads of energy for free.
What if the diseases that depend on mosquitoes to spread mutate/evolve themselves to spread via air...

You know, "life finds a way" and all that..
>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.

Does this actually happen?
I make a Saas web application and I still got something from this. I'm going to commit some $$$ and buy some other Saas apps to see what they do right.
One known evolutionary purpose of mosquitos is that "mosquitoes represent a considerable biomass of food for wildlife on the lower rungs of the food chain."[1] so they are feeding the some other species that may or may not have direct impact on humans.

[1]: http://insects.about.com/od/flies/a/10-facts-about-mosquitoe...
It's not Amazon's job to determine if clones violate IP. That's the purpose of our court system. Amazon will, without a doubt, remove the product given an order to do so. But they aren't going to make a legal determination on whether or not IP laws are being violated.

Expecting them to do that is absurd.
life, species, organism.... all are leaky abstractions.

[There's a "species" that spread around the Andes and eventually reached itself on the other side---and could no longer breeed with "itself". Genes could still in theory travel all the way around and back to the discontinuous point, however.]

edit: http://i.stack.imgur.com/4VsFW.png will make this less confusing, and quite unintentionally :).
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It makes you wonder if the sound bite cycle and instant feedback loop with the general public encourages this behavior, even more so than politicians just being more dumb. You'd think that with the educational institutions most of these people come from, they would be capable of significantly more thoughtful and in depth discussions than we see from them. I mean, Ted Cruz in college, by all accounts was a stand out on the debate team at university. I'm no fan of his, but certainly he's proven capable of the type of discussion we (at least, I) would like to see from these people. But if you engage in a classical debate and the masses get bored a la Idiocracy, or you can't engage your opponent because they are just lobbing verbal grenades and non sequiturs, there's nothing you can do. You'll either be the boring person no one listens to, the angry person that seems to be talking down to everyone else, or you just engage at the lowest comment denominator and throw out your own grenades.

Add to that social media blowing up when you say some rhetorical BS (good or bad), which then gets the news channels to talk about the social media, which then feeds back into the social media, you can see why there's no incentive to rise above it all. Being the 'better' person in this case means you get ignored, which means they aren't going to vote for you.
That's not entirely true. See: http://yscouts.com/executive/where-did-fortune-500-ceos-go-t...

Stanford has some fantastic opportunities, sure. But those opportunities come with significant opportunity costs (at the very least, financially). For some, it is better to attend a state school; the mental calculus involved in making this decision is rather difficult for an 18 year old and his/her family, especially with all of the noise that surrounds the college admissions process.

If a kid is going to be a success, they'll be a success. Multiple studies support this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/20/where-you-go-to-col...

Disclaimer: I'm a proud Penn State alum, which was (at the time) my safety school. Just my $0.02.
So Wangle is (mostly) a protocol agnostic platform for building asynchronous network clients and services in C++.

What transport layers are supported and can it be extended?

What I can gather, it only supports IPv4/IPv6 TCP or UDP transports. TLS is also supported.

Notably, local pipes seem to be unsupported. Those can be sometimes useful for performance and security/isolation reasons.
I got fired, but it was the kick I needed to finally do my own thing
Can Traits Evolve More Than Once in the Same Species?
In the comedy club itself, I'd say yeah, definitely! The proprietor ought to be able to set any rules they want, definitely including "no heckling" or whatever. I didn't realize that in-the-moment heckling was going on for "offensive" comedians in any widespread way.

I always hear about it through social media, like someone on twitter calling out someone for making jokes they didn't like--and that's the speech I can't imagine silencing (even if some people can't get gigs anymore).
You are getting downvoted, but you are correct. Maybe a few state schools compare (UM, UM, Berkeley...) but even so, getting a market-relevant degree from Stanford is not a bad investment. You will so fine. Then again, if you live in California, Berkeley is great.

But when people talk about wastefully expensive private schools, they really mean schools that have nothing over state schools but the price tag: GWU, George Mason, American, and the like. Combine that with a non-reliably-marketable degree like Psychology, Political Science, Communications, or Art History, and the result is disaster.
Clearly the EPA screwed up, but the BLM should have promoted rather than jailed the bureaucrat who sold the feral horses. That program should be ramped up: it would be better for the horses and for the arid environment that they inhabit if the absolutely necessary regular culling resulted in nutrition rather than thousands of horses penned up to no purpose for the rest of their lives. It's not as though we're going to run out of them, for the several hundred people every year who decide to buy a mustang. Giant ungulates with no natural predators, there will always be more mustangs, at least until irresponsible humans allow them to destroy their habitat completely.
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Of course. Do you eat pesticides for breakfast?

How do you supposedly kill mosquitoes without chemical dangerous products? Products that will kill people with cancer, asthma or birth defects.

How do you kill mosquitoes without killing bees and other useful insects that pollinize most of the agrarian production?

Most people ignore that on their own(using just wind to pollinize) the food that we cultivate the food production would be 5 percent or 10% of the current production. 50% of the world population will starve.

Bees already died en masse after the introduction of new pesticides, that had to be delayed in lots of places to study how they were accepting bees.

The healthier bees today live on cities like Paris which had forgotten pesticides in parks. The irony.

Ignorant people are very dangerous. Most people, specially experts on a specific field, are ignorant in most of the other areas.

Near my house there is a river 30 years ago some smart ass though it was a good idea to introduce an alien species of fish into it. No problem, the new fish was small and won't eat the local fish, they said.

Genius! The new fish eat all the eggs of local native population, that basically become extinct as a result.
Matchmaking in Lyft Line – Part 3
I did some more looking around. Oral MTBE is a carcinogen at levels above 200mg/kg/day in rats. When inhaled it has acute toxic effects before it has carcinogenic effects. MTBE tastes bad enough to render drinking water unpalatable at levels around 10ug/l. So you basically can't drink enough to give yourself cancer.

Calling it a persistent pollutant is perfectly fine. It's bad enough to make entire aquifers taste bad until you put in the hardware to clean it out. What it isn't is a problematic carcinogen.

"Because of the intense odor (and taste) of MTBE, humans will not tolerate either air or water concentrations sufficient to produce the cytotoxic precursors required to promote cellular proliferation." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997....

> Arsenic has medicinal uses, too.

Not for its macroscopic physical properties it doesn't.

> I'll swing by the house later to drop some in the water inlet of your house.

Just be sure to stick to things like the EPA exposure limits and so on.

> 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.

That's fair.

> 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?

I'll admit that a little bit of it is snark. I find that the kind of person that's most vulnerable to misleading science is also pretty vulnerable to snark. But, no, I really did mean that you needed to do more research.
Harriet Tubman – the new face of the $20
The legal minimum in the UK which just about everyone is entitled to is 28 days paid holiday assuming a full time job [1]. That can include bank holidays which are 8 per year for the vast majority of the population (1 or 2 more for Scotland and Northen Ireland I think).

For example, my first job was 25 days + 8 days of bank holidays and then you could earn up to 5 extra days if you stayed with the company long enough. Other jobs were all 22 + 8.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement
> Sure, but we all know costs of a litigation which most sellers on Amazon can't afford

That's an excellent argument for changing how patent litigation works, but that has nothing to do with Amazon.

> Amazon takes most of the profit, 15% default fees leave very little to normal sellers

The trade-off being potentially billions of eyes on your product. Again, that has nothing to do with IP.
Go for the more simple, stable tooling and frameworks. They might not be as fancy and they can look unmaintained because they implemented all of the features they needed to add, and mainly only need to fix bugs.
Unfortunately, I am a part of mosquitoes' diet, and will gladly want them to go finally and never return.

They make a great great deal of nice countryside not enjoyable. Even if they don't carry malaria or zika here, am I bound to suffer?
TLDR: "Tools of a certain level were good enough for our grandparents, they should be enough for you, young man: there's no point to enhance the tech stack, everything exists already." Um, nope. Learn JS first, and know how and why to use it; don't just take a library for a Golden Hammer - but shunning jQuery for being one level too far from the metal is just plain weird. Remember, we're talking about JS executing in a HTML page inside a browser on top of a GUI on top of an OS on top of...turtles all the way down.

Plus, I sort of remember the Dark Ages, before jQuery. Let me tell you: I'm immensely thankful for an abstraction layer against all those freakish browsers, their versions and their quirks. Can I natively select DOM elements by class name and attribute values in IE9? I don't know, and I don't give a flying fork - life is too short to spend it with browsers.
Study on the conversion lift when implementing Apple's Universal Links
I lived in Germany in the 80's when my dad was stationed there as part of the military. I am barred from giving blood in the United States, as are many military men and women who served during that time, because of this [1]. This is especially sad because many active and former military personnel, and their families, take blood donation very seriously.

I was raised to do it, but I am now barred due to the note on the eligibility sheets. I talked to a Red Cross area administrator about it and he said that, even though it has been over 20 years, they are unlikely to lift the ban until effective testing and treatments are found. Since there are no tests, they can't risk the blood supply.

[1] Check the details of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Variant (vCJD); "Mad Cow Disease" option: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requ...
Android is a Google trademark, and if Google licenses it to you, you have to follow Google's rules.

One of the rules is that you have to use Google's Play store and pre-install its proprietary apps.
Easy. Untold side effect of MTBe caused infertility in 50% of cases in second generation of black women in treated regions. Entire country was depopulated in 25 years. Like that research article from 2056?
GitLab allows you to show issues from a milestone in multiple projects (but one group). See http://doc.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/milestones.html#groups-and...
Did you consider simply skipping estimated payments and paying the interest? It's only 3% above the federal funds rate. (Historical real return on equities is usually computed to be higher.)

Or a hybrid (pay a reasonable amount in estimated taxes but don't put any serious effort into getting it exact).
> what if the disease that are currently only spread via mosquitoes mutate/evolve themselves to be airborne?

Evolution doesn't have an intent. Diseases can't "evolve themselves." Evolution happens through random mutations* and selection of the fittest. If a mutation makes a virus or bacteria or protozoan more likely to survive, then the descendants of the mutant tend to multiply more and become more common. If the mutation makes the organism less likely to survive, descendants of the mutant tend to die out over time. (In other words, no matter how hard you hope your offspring will be born with four arms, they never will be.)

If anything, eliminating mosquitoes will make us SAFER from airborne zika or malaria. Why? Right now, there are tens of millions of infected mosquitoes out there right now. If airborne malaria is possible, there are tens of millions of chances for it to occur every day. And that would be such a powerful disease that it wouldn't matter that there also exists bloodborne malaria. If we eliminate tens of millions of malaria hosts, we reduce the number of chances for malaria to mutate into an airborne form.

As it happens, I don't think airborne malaria is likely -- the life cycle of malaria is way too complex and depends too much on stages that are specific to mosquitoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria But the idea is the same.

* And a few other processes, such as DNA exchange, but the effect is the same for this purpose.
First, you're confusing wiping out the mosquito species with giving the mosquitos resistance to the malaria parasite. Those are two different things.

Second, there is no reason that a CRISPR-based system is limited to a single target. Will you also lay $1,000 against a system that targets ten species-unique sequences at once?

You're basically talking about curing malaria in mosquitoes.

Neither I nor the article is talking about that. It's a discussion of making the mosquito species itself extinct.
What, boss didn't want to spend a day relearning syntax so many many many more man-hours get spent making a new syntax?! All for tk?!
Free White Paper: A Multifaceted Dependency Map of MySQL
The relevant question isn't whether Stanford admits will do better at Stanford or elsewhere. They will be fine regardless. The question is whether Stanford non-admits should try to buy their way to prestige by attending American over UVa or UMd.
> 9.1 Billion: forms and passwords automatically filled each month ...

I simultaneously love and and terrified by chrome's capability to store and sync my passwords to all the websites I log into. It sucks when you use another browser: only by repeatedly typing the password(s) can I train myself to recall it. It's fantastic on all of the devices I use Chrome on. And I'm placing absolutely enormous trust in Google that's probably pretty risky for many reasons.

Yes, I acknowledge that there are other solutions available as plugins and whatnot. It's just too remarkably convenient to keep using the builtin solution.
Visualization of cannabis population genetics with threejs
Given that we don't have $40 bills, I'm not sure this is a problem.
If they did do you think they would let entire startup teams live and work on reclaimed landfill in the SF bay?