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Ugh. I frankly don't like the idea of having people on the bills at all. I'd love to see just distinct abstract shapes.

I was also going to make a dig at them for changing purely superficial characteristics before actually creating accessible money for the blind, but apparently starting in 2019 there will be tactile features introduced, so, I guess they put me in my place! Good on them.
>just because we don't like them?

It's bit stronger than "we don't like them"

>Maybe we should invest in proactive body defenses against virus instead of just killing some random things.

Invest more than the billions that billions that Bill Gates has already invested?
Anyone finding their $200K in tech company equity to be a big pain in the ass should feel free to send it to me. I'll grudgingly bear the burden for you.

Sheesh!
Exactly, we are talking about millions of people if you go back a few thousand years.
I grew up in the Northeast US (New York suburbs) but spent 4 years in California.

People practically do not care about the sun at all in SoCal... because it is always sunny.

It ended up feeling very strange to my brain... I missed the "rhythm" of seasons to mark the passage of time... I felt like I was drifting in a vacation I couldn't escape.

I ended up coming back to NYC :)

And now I appreciate the spring, fall, and winter here more, to boot!
>Research assures government that killing mosquitos would have no negative effect on world ecology

Neither would killing of the last few panda (stupid, useless animal), but we wouldn't actually do it. With mosquitoes, do to their large numbers, it would seem like a bit of a gamble. If we're wrong it would be hard to undo killing all the mosquitoes.
That's the right solution.
I'll be your frugal friend and respect you.

I blow my money on charity medical relief in impoverished regions, not fancily-plated food.
Related to the article...
It sounds like Ron MacDonald was probably Scotsman (with some connections to Canada) Marty Mullen. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison in 2007, so probably a free man now.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/satellite-pirat...

I'm just putting together the facts though.
+1. But they are not the only ones. However, I 'd rather observe tropical ecosystems for 10 more years before making such a radical effort. Like I said earlier, no one is eradicating cars just because more than a million humans die in car accidents every year.
Posting on behalf of Hannah, since her new account is getting blocked from replying:

hi! resident scientist at Benchling here! searching near-exact sequence can be really useful! for example, sometimes i would like to find if any of my plasmid has a certain signal peptide, it would be so hard without this search algorithm because so many DNA sequences can be translated to the same signal peptide. it would be great if i could just paste the amino acids and i could identify which plasmids contain the signal peptide.
Stuff in the south in general grows really, really fast.
It may well be. But this was more fun!
You could be right, but it's a familial monarchy in ownership of a country. One that behaves pretty badly as well. So if it is a screwing, it seems the very very least that they deserve.
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I think we disagree on what that monologue was about. To me it wasn't about shock comedy at all, it was about pushing the boundaries of empathy and getting the whole audience at once to realize they are, on some level, empathizing with the human experience of being a pedophile and also playing with what is on or off limits on mainstream television. It was even mentioned in the article here. To me a super long form joke about how child molesters are people too that pushes everyone who watches it into deeply uncomfortable territory is a far different animal that cracking a joke about someone being fat and ugly, for example, or Jay Leno's jokes about Monica Lewinsky, etc.
This is exactly this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h60VapD1rOo . This feature is kind of hidden but extremly powerful
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I remember that when I was growing up, seismologists were telling us that there would be a really big quake any day now. Decades later and they're still saying the same thing.

There have been some significant quakes in the meantime, but not the huge one that has been continuously predicted.

The seismologists are probably right, but it's really difficult to accurately predict the timing of earthquakes. The earth will sit around doing absolutely nothing for decades and then suddenly lurch violently without warning.

The seismologists keep saying it, and someday it will end up happening, but that could be tomorrow or it could be centuries from now.
The sea is rather cold, and the seaside towns were prosperous in the last century's seaside holiday boom but have declined since air travel and the collapse of fishing. Nowadays people living there are more likely to be retired or unemployed.

Property value is very strongly linked to travel time to London.
Nice one Victor :)
Now, if they'd only enable extensions for android versions... so that ublock/ghostery could work...
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This is interesting, but wouldn't that require to create a postgres user for each customer (and then use that user to make the connection to the DB)?
My guess would be at the vast majority of tech companies that are not called Google or Facebook, RSU compensation is a tiny add-on to your base comp and wouldn't move the needle much.
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Other news sources[1] are reporting it as "legalize", not decriminalize.

[1]http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/04/20/canada-marijuana-leg...
But the ongoing cost of eliminating cars would be enormous. The ancestor post is saying that there would be only fixed costs involved in eliminating malaria-transmitting species of mosquito.
> offline first

> site doesn't work if javascript is disabled
"Kuvée’s system hinges on an intelligent wine sleeve that keeps wine fresh for 30 days after opening."

Personally, I don't recall a need for anything over 30 hours, and dumb seems to get the job done. I am sure there are others with less demanding requirements.
Package formats each have their own expectations. RPM likes being pointed to a source tarball, given the steps to build the project, and being given a list of the just-built files to include in the package. Those are the artifacts that RPM will manage (and they can be marked things like "doc", "config", or given specific attributes). Deb is broadly similar, but I feel like the framework is a little less controlled than the RPM one.

The manager basically just defines a framework. Packages can abuse that framework in various ways (I haven't even mentioned install triggers, to execute code when other named packages are added or removed). There are a lot of ways to get it wrong, but when the dev builds a good package, it's almost magic how nicely it works.
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Firstly, the cure should not be worse than the disease.
Ivy League school admission offices literally have lists of preferred schools to recruit at, and give more respect to GPAs at those schools, and many of those schools are public schools. I attended one.
I've been using LastPass for a while now... I recently switched to a Nexus 6p, and have to admit the fingerprint integration is great, I bypassed lastpass half the time before, because my master password is pretty long/complicated.
You can actually set a passphrase that's used to encrypt all synchronized items, before they're being sent to Google[1].

[1]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?hl=en
Fair enough; your last sentence was a reasonable answer to my primary question, since I'm not sure I could differentiate natural vs constructed dialects (I'm tone-deaf enough to have trouble with truly foreign language accent identification) so I err on the side of giving people the benefit of the doubt that it's not malicious, however it seems you were referring to more obvious imitation which I can't speak to, and have to trust your judgement on.

And to your middle question, self segregation of direct interaction doesn't necessarily limit exposure. We sat in the same cafeteria, went to the same classes, rode the same busses, so it seems natural that some aspects of speech cross pollinated out of peripheral immersion. Take "jawns" for example. I'm pretty sure I first started hearing it in... 4th, 5th grade? Had _no_ idea what it meant or the implications of using it, but used it because the people around me used it; nothing more sinister or subversive than that, frankly I don't think I had the social sophistication to motivate that sort of conscious mimicry at that age.
Legalization rather than decriminalization was certainly the campaign promise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal came to mind in less than 5 seconds; I'm sure there are many others.
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Please remove you ego and try again.
This article doesn't seem to know what the impact will be and doesn't seem to care.

Mosquitos are food for birds and bats. I think that talking to bird and bat biologists would be the best idea.
This tool is the solution. I don't think you're going to live in a static would anytime soon, where programming languages and packages do not change over time.
Lol that is a good idea.
Where are you getting this 50% number from?

http://www.epi.org/publication/the-class-of-2015/
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Yes but decriminalization could have been an easier first step. So I think it's interesting they went directly to legalization.
So the app is social because of it's matchmaking mode. You're right about the jealousy part and we decided that it's more beneficial to be playing against a national pool. Amongst high schoolers, we found that students consistently play more because they want to win (or alleviate the pain of losing).

Single player was an idea of ours, but there are a bunch of apps out there like that already. Once our new version comes out (that contains our weekly leaderboard challenges), we might revisit that idea. Some of those challenges include beating your last week's accuracy, etc. ;)
>RKD is saying (whoever he is)

Philip K Dick. He wrote this essay back in the 70s and was talking about what you mention as well as the impact of things like TV but I think it is even more relevant in the internet age. Based on the rest of your comment I think you'd enjoy his work.
This is indeed blasphemy. I worked close with people who replaced Soviet DDT programme for controlling gypsy moth populations with effective biological treatment programme in 70-ies (viral agents species-specific). Cheaper, easier to apply, no side effects, real cute. Took 15 years to develop.
> First, you're confusing wiping out the mosquito species with giving the mosquitos resistance to the malaria parasite. Those are two different things.

You're the one who brought up CRISPR and gene drive. Perhaps you should read the actual paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49/E6736.full; you'll see that the proposal is entirely about giving mosquitoes resistance to the malaria parasite, not about eradication. That is, the goal is to eliminate the parasite in mosquito populations (i.e., cure malaria in mosquitoes), not to kill mosquitoes.

>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?

Yes. On-target mutations are trivial to produce, and alleles segregate independently.
You're suggesting that because it's never happened before (that we know of), we can say with _certainty_ it won't happen in the future? Can we go back 100 years and say that about climate change please?
This sort of attack on people isn't ok here. If you want to make a careful criticism about hiring practices, you're welcome to do that, but not this.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535180 and marked it off-topic.
Thanks for posting this is great to read.
http://www.hhs.gov/

> Preventing disease, including immunization services

This seems to fall under that. xD
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> Even, predictable pace of work is a hallmark of professionalism.

You are making an insestuous appeal to tradition while we discuss the merits of exactly that tradition.
> Android is that OS itself and just the OS.

Actually, Android is a Google trademark and you have to do what Google says if you want to use it.

Amazon uses AOSP but it can't call it Android.

This makes sense. Anyone could take AOSP and make it incompatible with Android (TM). If they could call it Android, that would mislead consumers.

The problem is that if you ship a single Android phone with Play etc, you are not allowed to ship any phones based on AOSP. In fact, Google just made Acer cancel the launch of an AOSP phone aimed at the Chinese market because it is already shipping genuine Android (TM).

This is not "fairly unrestricted" ;-)
The first part? Probably not (yet)

The second part? Most definitely. I've implemented something similar last year
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This hits the nail on the head in calling out news reporting sites who don't fact check or truthfully report a topic. Its incredible how far from the actually story the Apple recycled gold headline deviates and really makes you wonder if citing so called reputable sources is even valid in some cases.
"Either way, let's assume he believed it..."

Sure. We all go thru phases, cycles. So do relationships, hobbies, habits.

I now help admin an org's web presence. It's fun, for now. In a few years I'll go back to being a hermit.
80MB * 1024 * 1024 / 2500000 rows = 33 bytes/row

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Um, no. "Fred Martin" was my brother. Deceased (died in 2000 in a car accident; Used my name for that business, giving me a small claim to faim).

Ron MacDonald was also Canadian (lives in the Toronto area).

You can put together the rest on your own.
Interesting choice of Tubman. Is she the most important woman in American history? I don't know that much about her, I'll read up on Wikipedia later today.
This is great! Nice work.
If she's really sorry, she'll return the $175,000.
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I don't know if there was any strict requirement to use Python, but you mention the difficulty in finding a library to parse regular expressions.

One of the many great features of the Rust regex crate (https://doc.rust-lang.org/regex/regex/index.html) is that there's actually a regex_syntax crate that provides this parsing support (https://doc.rust-lang.org/regex/regex_syntax/index.html), which can be used for purposes like this, to do alternative kinds of matching engines.

Rust's regex library also has pretty good DFA and NFA matching engines, and an Aho-Corasick engine for parts of the regex that can be decomposed into just a set of simple strings to match, as well as some fairly well optimized exact substring search to speed up search for expressions with some substring that must match exactly, so it can be fairly fast for the kinds of matches like your "TAG(A|C|T|G)GG" example.

Another, even more radical change, would be to build a finite state transducer of your data set, which you can then do regex matching on directly by taking a union of an automaton representing the regex and the FST representing your data (which is itself an automaton). I learned about FSTs from the author of the Rust regex crate: http://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/. An FST is actually used internally for certain types of searches in Elasticsearch/Lucene (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...). I don't know if these would be suited to this problem as is by just building an FST from your set of sequences, or maybe using the overlapping subsequences idea to make FSTs from a larger number of shorter strings, but it would be an interesting project to explore.
I have heard of equivalent 'screwups' described as horrific criminal actions, described as being done by greedy, stupid, and lazy people who should be sent to federal prison; but alas, those were private parties. My point was that catastrophic negligence goes unpunished when committed by a bureaucrat.

Horses were native to North America, and existed on the continent before humans arrived; they were probably wiped out by said humans. These 'giant ungulates' have much the same natural predators as bison and deer, which also happen to be 'giant ungulates', but whose presence I do not believe you would object to.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533926 and marked it off-topic.
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>Evolution doesn't have an intent. Diseases can't "evolve themselves."

I know. But when you remove mosquitoes from the picture, aren't you putting selection pressure on the diseases to be airborne?

>Evolution happens through random mutations* and selection of the fittest...

Yes. Say a virus of a disease x that normally spreads via mosquitos, gain a mutation to be airborne. But since there are an abundance of mosquitoes, an airborne strain does not have an advantage over mosquitoes borne strain. So it dies off (because of competition)

But when you eradicate the mosquitoes, or reduce their number significantly, suddenly the airborne strain has a tremendous advantage over the mosquito borne strain. Hence it can grow in numbers and eventually completely replace the mosquito borne strain...

Isn't this even remotely possible?
The people behind the project are Dutch, German, Mexican [0] and none of them -from what I could see- would normally speak English as their first language.

Why don't you send an email to point out the mistakes in their text? [1]

They might even appreciate it :)

[0] - http://preciousplastic.com/thanks/

[1] - http://preciousplastic.com/contact/
Please don't snarkily dismiss other people's work on HN.

Thoughtful criticism is fine, but it should be grounded in respect.
Interesting, the linked article called it decriminalize, but the text sounded more like full legalization to me. If you have the political support to fully legalize, why take half measures?
So why does this feature require real database users? Why couldn't a statement be added like "SET current_user = some_id;" that is called once per connection and have the row level security authenticate against that? Sure, it's not real security, but it's a step up from a single user being able to select everything in your database through a single SQLi as long as you ensure that the "current_user" is the first statement executed.
What really ailes me is that all research is concentrated on killing poor mosquitoes, not the Plasmodium, which is the real cause of the disease. Should we also kill all the cats because they carry Toxoplasmae?
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There was malaria in Sweden a couple of hundred years ago, and we still have a few mosquitos. It was never a big problem but malaria went away when it couldn't spread efficiently, largely because of better houses and hygiene such as not keeping the cattle in the same house (room) as the people. Also a lot of breeding ground was dried out and converted to farm land.

I'm all for releasing CRISPR on the worst species of mosquitos though. And ticks. They can't serve any function other than killing a few persons each year due to TBE.
I'm curious if all those decriminalizations and legalizations in various states & countries are having an impact on Netherlands' tourism.
Isn't it an unsolved problem whether or not physical reality is deterministic?
hmmm, talking about "rights" might not be the way to look at this. talking about systemic effects might be a better way. consumers aren't just consumers after all, they're also usually employees. What are the effects, both positive and negative of having such a large company be able to dominate supply chains so much that they can often bring equivalent quality products to market for cheaper. It's a complicated question, not as easy as the moralizing on either side. Amazon and WalMart bad! Amazon and WalMart good!
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Fair point! Only 3 years difference, not 6-7 years ;-)
What were you doing there?
The problem is not mosquitos drinking small amounts of our blood. The problem is that in doing so they infect people with diseases like Malaria, effectively killing thousands of people every year.

I like the story, though.
That's the problem with 24/7 news and the Internet.

1: Someone breaks a story
2: People get interested and share it with their friends
3: Other sources want a piece of that action so they bandwagon and cite the original piece for their own version.

I am often struck at how our modern communications framework, going all the way back to the telegraph, has allowed so much misinformation to be spread.
Very nice project. I built something similar for PHP:
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One $NameBrand is, the rest are not. So for all companies except that chosen one, this is the same; brand-name products being undercut by (someone else's) no-name.
The first thing that comes to mind after reading this is GRPC (https://github.com/grpc/grpc). That library has the advantage of supporting just about every language, not just C++.
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Why do people think it's a good idea to kill off an insect that's a food source to thousands of other insects and animals?
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I can't speak for Wangle, but I've used Google's version (GRPC) to implement the networking transport for an N64 netplay hack[1] I wrote, and it was awesome.

[1]: https://github.com/water-works