skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I believe you. You might have satisfied your curiosity by looking at the comment history of the users in question. I did, and found comments debating the relative merit of Github and Gitlab. Presumably the Chinese government has no moles that deep on HN.

It's not a worthy discussion topic without evidence. Opposing opinions are emphatically not evidence. When people allow their own strong opinions to skew their view of others in that direction, civility and discussion quality suffer terribly. So this is not something you can just raise casually, even if your curiosity is pure. Flamethrowers aren't welcome at public gatherings for pure curiosity either.
Also check out Stewart Lee.
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Not necessarily, Mosquito's are not primary prey for any species and the niche they occupy would likely be filled rapidly by similar species that don't tend to spread horrific diseases.
I believe VW has been running good incentive programs since the diesel scandal broke (for obvious reasons), but losing the diesel models really hurt the SportWagen lineup. The diesel was the upper trim, and carried some of the nicer features (like a 6-speed manual available across the range)
Expanding your point further, because I agree with you in that the CYA mentality is everywhere.

Whenever I see news about something bad happening, inevitably it turns into a blame game. What did someone not do?

The case of the mom getting arrested (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/07/arrested...) infuriates me. The person who called the police (and, really, everyone involved "up the chain") was faced with a decision:

A.) Do nothing

B.) Call the police (escalate upwards in authority)

C.) Do something else, like find a safer place for the child to be, if you truly believe the park to be dangerous.

A is free, but comes with the non-zero cost of being "the person who did nothing" when something bad happens to the girl (unlikely, but possible). B is cheap (you need to hang around for the police and all that entails), but is an easy way to attain the moral high ground. C is expensive and really you'd be no better off than if you did B.

These three options exist for everyone involved, and they escalated upwards until they found someone who had enough power to do C cheaply enough that they didn't need to do B. That involved taking the child away.

Passing the buck upwards is easy to do and seldom will someone come after you for it. I don't have a good answer for how this can be solved, because I can't say with good conscience that it is never the right thing to do - there are obvious cases where it is.

I also find the amusing that my thoughts on "how would I make this right?" lead to "that mother should sue the state for lost wages or something". Clearly we have too many lawyers.
Shake Shack doesn't complain about McDonald's entering its market.
I haven't used it in a while but there is QCAD. It doesn't do everything that AutoCAD does by no means but they have been working on it for a while.
Sumedh from Citus Data here.

> Does Citus keeps it's performance over tables with tens of billions of records?

Citus essentially shards the data across machines, and queries these in parallel. You can thus scale out your cluster and CPU cores as you add more data and maintain performance.

> Also, how fast it is for ad-hoc queries over data coming from streams (Kafka/Kinesis) that has not been cached?

By 'cached', do you mean OS or database caching in-memory? Query performance for on-disk data is as fast as you can get with regular PostgreSQL, since each data node is essentially a PostgreSQL node, and each shard a regular PostgreSQL table. Standard tuning like indexes and Postgres configuration parameters will apply here.
Seriously. For all we know, this envelope originally contained a "happy birthday" letter, or a notice of tax delinquency or something. Unless there's more to it, this no more indicates a link to the Saudi government than a letter from the IRS to me indicates my activities are linked to the US government.

And then these guys manage to write how many paragraphs about this? Sheesh.
Chrome: 50 releases and counting
I do not know your exact situation, but I think you should do a mix of both.

I make a large amount of my money from affiliate/ad revenue, and it is way too easy for things to go bad.

If you sell subscriptions you own everything. If you rely on affiliate/ad network you always need someone else to pay you, and if something goes wrong you are just out of your money.
That isn't true.[1] Honestly, I see absolutely no basis with which you could possible make that claim.

[1] http://www.oxfam.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2016/01/...
> But, you do have to enable it for each table plus you need to commit to using database roles as a main security mechanism. That last part is the barrier but also the reason to use such a feature.

That's kind of a sticking point for web apps. Wonder if there's a way around that.
"Louie" is just too damn pathetic. It's such a sad loser of a character that I couldn't bring myself to watch.

That kind of comedy works for a movie or maybe one season but for me it gets old.
Slack is the new telephone but it's treated like email. Conversations are ephemeral, synchronous and the worst of all they can easily interrupt you.
MBTE is unconfirmed as a carcinogen except at very high doses and can be efficiently and economically removed from water with simple bioreactors. It is better than either lead additive or the health effects of increased pollution from inferior combustion from increased knocking. It is in fact used medically to dissolve gallstones by way of injecting it into the gallbladder. It is not required to be added to gasoline; while there are laws requiring oxygenates to be added, MTBE is not required and there are alternatives. Do your research better.
They very well could be. That's just it -- we don't know. And when we kill them all off, are we going to be able to reverse it when we find out that the result is causing two million deaths per year?
Given what we've achieved in the last 200 years I wouldn't put it past us to terraform the entire Earth into a giant garden,

> Under the FAO's definitions above, agricultural land covers 38.4% of the world's land area as of 2011 [1]

You could argue we already have.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_land
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I remember reading the same story, however in this case I'm not sure how the metaphor should be applied
> If you're dealing with event or time series data—whether
> user messages, logs, web analytics, or connected device
> events—scaling out to both store and analyze terabytes of
> data becomes trivial with Citus Cloud

Speaking of time series use cases. PostgreSQL uses 30 to 100 bytes per long/float tuple, depending on schema. It's hard to see how it can it be competitive with TSDBs that are often in the single byte digits these days?
Has anyone used RLS in a standard web service? Are there any common use cases where this is handy? I'm thinking it won't work for your standard permissioning system since it seems clunky if you have any slightly sophisticated logic (X is in org Y and can see anything Y has read access to).

Maybe it'd be more useful if you're using a single DB for a multi-tenant setup, and you know each tenant's data is strictly isolated?
I am all for environment and sustainability, but in case of mosquitoes, even I would draw an exception! You have to be in a tropical country to know how many nights they spoil and how much effort it is, everyday, to keep yourself insulated -- all those Aerosols, sprays, nets... So much effort and resources. They are under the desks, in corners, in gardens, everywhere.. they seriously affect the lifestyle in a bad way.
What is so useful about a fingerprint scanner?

I could see how infrared sensor like in that new Caterpillar phone could come in useful especially if you are in a building trade, but fingerprint scanner?
In my experience, academia's brokenness has been greatly exaggerated. All medium-to-large human organizations are broken to some extent. And exactly what are the concrete outlines of these mythical "organizations that do not damage actual science in order perpetuate themselves" that you propose to replace academia with?
So if I steal food from you every day and some of my friends want to kill you, and I say "no, don't kill him, I need him so I can steal food", you should give me food every day as thanks?
Sounds like AIDS.

What with the sockets and everything.
But you can't set Google Maps as the default map application or Chrome as the default browser. In fact, Chrome is basically only a nice wrapper around Safaris engine.
Liberty, Justice, and Columbia were all historically depicted as female.
If I recall correctly, that was done in Panama by the canal builders; one of the reasons they were successful was because they wiped out mosquitoes in the region, and protected the workers from malaria.

Their method was to put a bit of gasoline in all of the swamps. The thin layer of gas on the water surface killed the larvae. It probably caused lots of other environmental damage too though, so a different approach would be needed today.
When I used AutoCAD 20 years ago I know it had a constraint based add-on. Maybe all integrated in by now.
Thanks so much for the kind words. Color pickers have always been my nemesis.
3D noob here. How does FreeCAD compare with Blender in industrial design? Not too much compkexity, think of a fridge's general structure and shiny outer shell.
An AA sized ISM radio Arduino clone
Signing Bonus offered by FB for level 1 is $75,000, disproportionately high compared to other companies, in all the levels. Why is that?
> all the Amazon Fire products are Android based

They are based on AOSP, but Amazon is expressly forbidden from using the Android name, and it can't use the Play store, so it's not really in the Android (TM) market.
I'm not aware of any pull-requests implementing an incremental GC with pinning support, or any alternative module/namespacing scheme. Those would certainly be welcome.

As I said, the people actively working on the compiler have to prioritize because time and resources are finite. This is not the same as anyone being "dead set against changing", or a "ban people for making too much noise about it".

> when did any of them last move.

Here's a sampling of some improvements over the past 4 months.

- Debugging, everyone's priority by astronomic margins, has seen massive work and a recent preview-release (I've been using it since the announcement: rough edges, but very solid core):
https://github.com/Keno/Gallium.jl/commits/master
https://github.com/Keno/ASTInterpreter.jl/commits/master
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15859
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15444

- Revamp of closures to make anonymous functions as fast as any other:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13412

- Significant compiler performance improvements:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15300
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/14543
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15609

- Work towards static compilation (a number of PRs):
http://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html

- Multithreading improvements:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15917
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15106

- Someone else pointed you to recent commits toward fixing the recompilation issue.
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We should just cure these diseases. Vector control is fucking hard, we've been trying it for a century without really fixing the problem. That isn't likely to change; therapeutic interventions, however, can keep getting better and cheaper.
This is a utility I build to be able to make sure my JS CLI's actually work across the version I want to support.

Right now, the tool also works across any language where there is docker images with versions, not just for JavaScript/NodeJS. It's enough with having a Dockerfile with $VERSION (that will be replaced by the tool) and changing the test command. I will make this easier in the future.

Thanks for taking a look and please let me know what you think about it.
Apple's done this for years. Most recent case I can recall is that f.lux program on iOS. AFAIK, people kind of mildly call them out on it and then forget about it a week later. It certainly hasn't seemed to actually damage Apple's business at all.
I'm wondering, how does C++ fare against Nodejs now, if this library is implemented for creating servers?
> The material standard of living of a homeless person in modern-day Manhattan is several dozens of times higher than the wealthiest of kings ten thousand years ago.

It was here that I stopped reading.
Trying to argue that clicking a link creates a contract that obligated me to cede control of my machine to you is laughable and harmful.

More importantly you aren't entitled to run software I don't approve of by virtue of putting up an openly accessible site.

Don't like it charge money. Can't make money that way go sell shoes.
I used to think Kudzu was really bad until I read this:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudz...

Not saying it was a good idea to plant Kudzu but there are far worse invasive plants to deal with.
Isn't it how Nintendo 3DS autostereoscopic display works? The biggest downside is that view position is fixed and limited to single person, so it's not really viable for TVs or monitors.
A reading list for InfoSec engineers
That's the old Norman stereotype of French things being better than English things. It's baked into the language.

There's no such relationship between Spanish and English, or at least none that I'm aware of. I would literally narrow that distinction all the way down to the use of French within English.

edit: I mean, we literally have no idea how to pronounce the most common English words until we figure out whether they were derived from French or not.
We've done this lots[1] of[2] times[3] when it threatens agriculture, but when it threatens the lives of poor people in third world countries, suddenly we're worried about the ecosystem?

There will be an environmental impact, but it will be from hundreds of millions of humans not getting malaria and climbing their way out of property, not from the lack of mosquitoes in the ecosystem. It's still a significant problem, but our current solution of "let all the poor people die" is not a good one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratitis_capitata

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastrepha_ludens
There will always be experts (and journalists) who can't think of the impact of some change. But I believe tropic cascades are a real thing in food webs, and we can't really know for sure that something will have no impact until we do the thing. If there is one thing we're learning right now, it's that these cascades are real and quite dangerous. Now that this is known, no one should in good conscience set off a possible cascade without knowing something about what might happen.

Humans can improve on nature once they understand the impact of an action well, so I'd get behind a well funded study into what effect getting rid of mosquitoes would have — one with an experimental basis and not just a journalist's thought experiments.
No, but that isn't even the million dollar question because the answer will never be "yes."

The real question is how certain do we have to be about their role before we decide the gamble is worth it?

In this thread you see wealthy westerners complaining that mosquitos are a nuisance. In many parts of the world they are holocaust-scale killers. It gets to an age old question re: the precautionary principle, and a lot of philosophers have spent a lot of time reasoning about it. No one has a generalizable answer.
Source: http://www.vetinst.no/eng/Highlights/The-first-detection-of-...
There's an excellent 20min Radiolab you can listen to that was released in 2014, explaining how the genetically modified male mosquitos work: http://www.radiolab.org/story/kill-em-all/

One (single) notable role mosquitos played was stopping early settlements from inhabiting and destroying much of the world's rainforests... "nature's Viet Cong".
That's an interesting point and basically leads us to "member generic functions". An object has some static slot which is a function, and treated as a method: it can be called obj.meth(args, ...). But, this method is also a generic function. A generic function is a function; an object can have a function, and so an object can have a generic function.
Make the witch speak
I am not a hardware guy, but honestly, they should mini-fy XB360 and make it appleTV competitor but with a huge game library.
I think you underestimate the immune system. We automatically remoce thousands of misfolded proteins every second in our cells. Its just those few the cellular defence has not yet adapted to too much that we notice. Some kinds of vaccination might work (like expressing part of the misfolded protein to make it an antigen) etc. The reason why we do not have any medication against prions is because they have never been a big thread to us. Pretty much like asteroids, if they fell on us regulary, we would build a planetary defense. But for now, that not up on the agenda
A very interesting article. It made me look up some facts, actually. In Finland, there are 218 public swimming halls. There are 313 administrative districts (communes, towns or cities) in the country. Thus, practically even the smallest of the communes with population of only a few thousand have a swimming hall; big cities have several. Lacking geothermal heat, the pools are indoors and explicitly heated obviously.

This isn't generally talked about much. I didn't realize it myself before reading this article: Finland probably isn't famous for its swimming and swimming hall culture, but it's everywhere. Except for people who don't specifically like water practically grow into a culture of swimming at halls. Nobody really thinks much about it. Everyone knows how to behave there. Old people gather at swimming halls for bathing, swimming and aquajogging. Physical education classes at school swim at the local hall, kids are brought to swimming halls in the first year, regular people go to swimming halls to exercise... There's nothing much special about it. We swim outdoors, in lakes and the sea, mostly for fun but swimming halls are the place for a more focused physical exercise. I would assume Sweden and Denmark are similar, roughly.

I've had subpar experiences trying to find an abundance of swimming options when travelling abroad. My culture might not be that common after all.
Seems like it would be relatively easy to preserve large captive populations of existing mosquito species, then kill everything in the wild. If we notice some tragic consequence, ctrl+z.
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Land has usages that create demand, which creates a market value for it. I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.
Amazon is a lot like China.

You go make your stuff in China it's cheap, they have the factories, the facilities. You do well.

Once they, in China and at Amazon, notice that what you're doing is selling quite well they make the same thing and cut you out.

Edit: Spelling.
Summary:

Xbox 360 production will be discontinued but existing stock is still available for sale in stores. Microsoft has no plans to discontinue support for it. Xbox One (now the only remaining gaming console from Microsoft) now has Xbox 360 backward compatibility, and that likely means Microsoft will maintain support for that console and the bulk of its services through the life of the Xbox One at the least.

That pretty much sums up it, if you'd like such summaries for all articles before you read them check out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11535695
AFAIR (cannot find sources) they are crucial for the soil formation (at least for tansfering the nutrients from the swampy areas), there've been some old Soviet studies.
With the risk being that we breed immunity into the population, seeing as it's still being carried and evolving in its carriers (the mosquitos).

FWIW, we could "cure" a lot of these diseases. We have, in rich parts of the world. If the option was between "we distribute cures to forgotten diseases to everyone who needs them" versus "we take a gamble and murder all the mosquitos," I might agree the former would be the better bet.

That's not the choice we're given because not enough people in the first world want to step up in a serious enough way.
> we find their presence unpleasant

It's a bit more then "unpleasant" I would say
Chesterton's Fence has made the HN rounds lately, but it's again relevant here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9745149
It's all about the Tubmans baby.
it was partially a joke. But yes, dollar cost averaging across a recession will make the total portfolio look ok. I do wonder if we can always continue to make higher and higher "highs" in the market though, meaning any investments I make at the top will make $0 gain.

I do agree with you overall about indexing, however "Just wait until the recession is over" is market timing and I dont believe I (or others) can do this dependably well.
So I'm not sure I agree with the original author but a modern homeless person can wander into a hospital emergency ward and get treated for a variety of diseases that would have killed a medieval king. Assuming we mean 1,000 years ago and not 10,000 years ago which may actually pre-date kings.
So the Sell/Check/Recycle model only requires 33% of the labor compared to the Check only model. The author suggests that this means tripling production would be possible, but that depends on QA being the factories bottleneck. If QA isn't the bottleneck, than you might as well fire 2/3 of Quinn's QA workers. Hooray, the computer didn't take my job, but it took the jobs of the guy to my right and the gal to my left.
Unfortunately the parameters of the algorithms, which are set by humans, end up being just as flawed. In the earlier example regarding the discarding of widgets, no cost was attributed to discarding of these widgets. Where do they go? Why is waste disposal free (or virtually free)? The environment is a finite place with tremendous monetary value. The fact that businesses are able to profit off the destruction of the environment (in this example, throwing away widgets that might not work) is a fundamental flaw in the economic formula. How can one discuss efficiency when one fails to factor the destruction of a valuable, non-renewable, finite resource in the process?
I'd be surprised if any of the big companies didn't provide at least 401K and as much matching as the law will allow. There really isn't a lot of freedom to innovate in this space that I'm aware of.

With that said, Google did have this odd thing where you could do an in-plan Roth conversion, and put post-tax dollars into your 401K. I did this in 2013 or 2014, and I think Google was one of the few companies to offer this at the time.

One interesting area of differentiation is health care. When I left Google in 2015, they were cutting health benefits to avoid Cadillac plan taxes. Lots of people were saying that Facebook had better plans.
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Those who have not yet seen it should watch The Killing Fields.
Which is why people are studying the issue, writing papers and popular articles, instead of just doing it.
The advantage we have with mosquitoes is that they fly about and mingle with the general population, looking for other mosquitoes to mate with. Isolated population reservoirs are relatively easy to identify. So if the latest advances in DNA technology bear fruit, mosquitoes may well turn out to be the easier target.

Also, I hate mosquitoes and want them all dead.