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>Who gets to decide what is "harmful" and what isn't?

Typically zoologists, botanists, and other biologists who study local ecosystems and determine the damage done by invasive species.

Construing this as a human concept doesn't make it arbitrary - anthropogenic impact on the environment is important because we rely on our environment for survival as a species. Damage isn't limited to just a less biological diversity, it can and has stretched into agriculture and human production.
Or untapped market.

As a single guy I don't buy wine at all because I won't finish it in time - not because I wouldn't enjoy a glass every few nights.

Though I can't see the expense of such an accessory being worth it to someone who doesn't need to show off. It is possible to seal and cool it for pennies - its just 'ugly'.
I mean packet loss and mutation is inherent to communication though. Just consider the game of telephone or how rumors spread; the technology doesn't matter, it's our own memories and interpretations that are at fault. In this case people are too trustworthy of information from others and don't scrutinize it.
Google is the number one employer of Bernie Sanders donors
Couldn't the angel calculate when it's necessary to change direction and then do so, forcing the devil to begin constructing a new trap, and then keep repeating the same behavior? I'm sure there's a reason why this obvious strategy wouldn't work, but I don't quite see it.
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Intel's C++11 support continues to be quite buggy. I'm still running into with issues with Intel's support for auto type deduction and for uniform initialization in non-obscure use scenarios.
And that would be fine—as an ad-free TL;DR, as so many other HN members offer on many long articles.
Al Jazeera use to be a reliable source of news, back when Donald Rumsfeld called it a propaganda network. Today it's pretty much just another part of the US/EU propaganda network.

People like to think NPR or BBC are different, but they're not. They spit out whatever is handed to the in government/company press releases.
>>shouldn't most people expect to get at least some of those things more often than that?

Spend $100K on a wedding, and then save $15 on a movie a week/two-weeks to make up for the remainder of your life.

Why would you even get into this situation?
I heartily applaud the idea of a bill bearing the image of a Saturn V rocket.
Or it could be like air bags and seat belts: certainly responsible for its share of issues, but far fewer than what it prevents.
In other words, regulated in a way that is very close to how alcohol is currently sold in Ontario.
It's not that they posted the summary, it is that they put the link at the end advertising the product. The summary was appreciated.
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I actually just bought the Rain stand for my rMBP a week ago, and have to say that I'm impressed with the industrial design. Sure, it's just a laptop stand, but it's solid aluminum and has solid design principles - it's a heavy piece of metal that looks and functions well enough it could have been designed by Apple and Jony Ive himself.

I'm fairly certain the AmazonBasics stand isn't the same quality, but that's not really the market they're going for. They're going for good enough and cheap - AmazonBasics cables are a good example of this - they're not high end, but they're affordable and when you just need an HDMI cable, they work fine.

Honestly, Amazon is in the perfect position to compete with their partners like this, and I don't see the harm. If anything the customer experience is even better because we now have reasonable low-priced options to buy that might not have been there before.
Why, you get to decide. And I do. And everyone else. Just like we all chose whom to listen to. Turns out that people who study these things and understand the implications tend to be more listened to than, say, me, because I'm not an expert.

But to explain a bit of the reasoning, as I understand it, invasive species are considered harmful to ecosystems because they tend to throw them out of equilibrium. If you introduce something to an environment with no natural predators or other environment feedback loops to constrain population growth, the newly introduced species has a field day, for a bit, until it kills off whatever it feeds on. Since ecosystems are inherently deeply interconnected things, the boom-bust cycle causes all sorts of problems.

Now maybe a new equilibrium is eventually "better" than it was before, but that, I think, is the real arbitrary human value judgment. Observing that introducing a new species throws existing systems out of whack isn't a value judgement - it accurately describes what happens.
I did this by reflecting on my own life. I reflected on my habits and behaviors. I thought about how my life was before and after this. I thought about this even more compared to when I became a smartphone owner and when I was not a smart phone owner. There is no algorithm for this. There is no correct answer and that's the point. Some people love being connected to 10 social networks and constantly checking them. Some people don't. I am of the later group.
Let's take an ounce of effort to post the whole quote shall we?

Speaking to the US TV show The Rubin Report about campus free speech, safe spaces and trigger warnings on literature.

"In terms of how they think, they can’t bear complexity. The idea that things aren’t easy to understand, they want to be told, or they want to be able to decide and say, ‘This is good and this is bad,’ and anything that conflicts with that is not to be borne.

There are many great plays which contain rapes, and the word rape now is even considered a rape, if you say: ‘you can’t watch this play, you can’t watch Titus Andronicus, or you can’t read it in a Shakespeare class, or you can’t read Macbeth because it’s got children being killed in it, it might trigger something when you were young that upset you once, because uncle touched you in a nasty place’, well I’m sorry.

It’s a great shame and we’re all very sorry that your uncle touched you in that nasty place, you get some of my sympathy, but your self-pity gets none of my sympathy because self-pity is the ugliest emotion in humanity. Get rid of it, because no one’s going to like you if you feel sorry for yourself. The irony is we’ll feel sorry for you, if you stop feeling sorry for yourself. Just grow up.”

Context matters, you can dice up anyone's words to make them say what you like but it doesn't prove a point, it's still a deception, and you're still doing everyone the disservice of assuming that you know better than they do to make up their minds for them. Grow up.
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I think labs with more professional scientists (Research Scientists as opposed to postdocs and grad students) might be the way of the future and a Good Thing. There are obviously too many PhDs trained today to work in the academic market, but I think it's also likely we're training too many bioscience PhDs for industry as well. It would require more money for sure, but I think the concept of depending on an indentured servant class/apprenticeship model developed in the middle ages to execute most academic research isn't ideal. I think professionalizing the lower levels of academic science would make for a fairer, less exploitative, and because the practitioners would be more skilled, potentially more productive scientific academy.
Re cost, looks like it's an additional $99/month on top of the Nanodegree fee. Although the first month is free for anyone signing up between now and June 30th. Also limited to SF, LA, and NYC.
Well, those are not mutually exclusive.

Building a plastic recycling plant is out of reach for most of the people almost everywhere and requires industry while building those machines though requiring tools and skills is totally doable in a local workshop.

The precious plastic project allows a handful of individuals to a local operation. A village can be equipped with those machines and beyond picking the local plastic waste and reusing it, it also offers the possibility to not throw the waste away.

Here we have recycling plants, but it seems no one actually knows how they're operated, what they actually recycle from what is burned or buried and there are no obvious resulting products. What we do know is that they are expensive, financed by taxes and there are lots of constraints.

I'd rather have a place run by locals where I can get some new objects and material for a 3d printer.
Save a hand full of people while potentially dooming billions? I might not be getting your sarcasm but I'm totally okay with the current situation when the other presents the possibility of destroying millions of ecosystems which mind you would effect billions to trillions of animals, insects, and even people across the globe who are dependent on these functioning ecosystems. Killing off the primary source of food for a few insects/animals can have cataclysmic effect.

In addition Mosquitoes do serve a purpose outside of being food. They introduce many diseases, much of which we developed immunities to and continue to successfully ward off naturally to this day. They are the worlds natural vaccination shot so to speak.

Truthfully the idea of killing off all mosquitoes seems so damn absurd I don't understand why anyone thinks it's a good idea.
The answer to the second question is pretty obviously no. There are maybe 20 private schools in the US which are genuinely worth the price over public schools. They're not just offering a comparable to better education. They're offering the children of the middle class an entree into the upper class. (Relatedly, the con which the 2nd tier private schools are running is selling parents the idea that just paying a lot for an education is a ticket up.)

All of which seemed relevant to me since the author of TFA was making sacrifices to send his girls to Emory & Stanford.
Yes and eliminating two specific Aedes species from where they are invasive is by far the best plan of action.

Claiming that mass extinction of all mosquitoes from the ecosystem is a bullet the environment can take is another matter.
I was not complaining about the summary, of course.
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When I worked at Apple I was shocked, truly shocked, to find that their PR/Advertising was mostly handled by a company in LA and not done entirely in-house.

On one hand I get how secrecy works well for Apple, but on the other it gives them less control over Crystallizing Public Opinion and occasionally results in some pretty weak ads for uninspired product(s/ updates), like the 5s parts all coming together: beautiful but meaningless.
> Rust is one of those languages—and it does indeed look like things are going in the direction of new languages getting prototyped/bootstrapped with a Rust compiler/runtime/vm instead.

I'm curious what examples you have in mind here? LLVM seems to be the default go-to compiler infrastructure, at the moment.
I just came back from China, in which most of the phones I used did not have Google Play, or Play Services, and had replacements for everything.

If you try to use an phone with Google Play in China, you need a VPN, since if the app calls things like location services, it'll get blocked, for example, Taxi hailing apps could not retrieve the location, however with a native-phone, they work.

Needless to say, the experience of the fork of all of these services is inconsistent between devices and makes it less easy to move between phone vendors. One paradoxical outcome could be that you could get locked into XiaoMi, Huawei, etc.

Also, the experience of 9 different appstores is kind of jarring. I think it would be better if apps simply worked like the Web, and could be safe enough to stream-through and purchased through distributed payment systems.
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Yes, I already said that it's a weird sectarian fringe opinion, you don't need to post weird sectarian fringe group sites to prove it, but thanks.
Yep, and we can't decouple real estate from school access [1], because most people's wealth is tied up in their house and would lose significant value if it weren't required to send your kids to the good schools. Oops.

[1] e.g. like much of Europe, let you go where you're accepted, regardless of where you live, and let the public funds follow you
Google employees are also among the top donators of Obama's last reelection campaign, and Google employees have contributed to over half the current sitting Congress. The White House regularly places Googlers in executive branch positions, and Google representatives visit the White House weekly.

Google is also almost functionally immune to investigation by the US.

If Google thinks he has a chance at being President, Google wants to make sure he knows Google is happy to support him. And the fact that our administration won't go after Google for antitrust... well, clearly there's no relation.
Why equate only women with sex work?
Has a bug been filed?

And you can still use the older version, presumably.
>"1) You can tell whether a protien has this viral property by looking at its amino acid sequence"

Supposedly (I have no idea how well it works), but here is an example of such a tool:
http://aias.biol.uoa.gr/AMYLPRED/

>"2) Looking at this seqence has shown several reasons why proteins don't often go viral"

Yes, but to clarify a bit: It looks like all proteins have this ability, but not all are just as likely to get into that state for the reasons mentioned. IE, it should be possible to find some way to make amyloids/prions out of any protein in the lab. It just requires figuring out the necessary conditions for that protein.

>"The elucidation of this code has enabled the identification of factors that determine the intrinsic aggregation propensity of these molecules"

Translation: Being able to get the amino acid sequence of proteins and predict what type of structures such a sequence leads to has allowed researchers to also predict which are likely to form aggregates.
> What does it say about the world we live in where blogs do more basic journalism than CNN?

To me it says that people who thought the Internet would kill journalism were wrong.
You haven't answered the question: what is the alternative?

At least with BI, you don't have to toil away at a time-wasting job that's just busy-work: you can do something you enjoy, and maybe we'll all get lucky and you'll write the next Harry Potter series and become a multimillionaire, while paying a bunch of taxes to keep the system going. If not, at least you have the dignity of not digging holes and then filling them back in all day long to justify your paycheck.

If you don't like this, then let's hear your alternative. The only alternative to this that I can think of is to ban automation, or strictly regulate it so that any automation which does a job that humans can do is banned (allowing only automation which does things that humans cannot do). Do you really want to go that route?
Thanks for your comment. This is what I like about HN, on virtually any technical topic, obscure or not, someone more authoritative will add real facts to the story.
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One of the main issues I see with the EmDrive in general is time invariance. And especially with the theory Mike McCulloch put forward. If photons cause this process for a positive change in momentum, the same process should happen in reverse with a negative change in momentum.
Are there better CAD kernels available as open source?
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Sorry I was updating the comment as you replied.

I never used it, but last time this discussion came up and I searched for their support page many C++11 features were either TBD or GNU/Linux only.

Thanks for the feeback.
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This is precisely what conservatives say about Fox News. Is the editorial firewall more effective at WSJ than at other News Corp properties? If not, you're being duped.
Glad to see this is full legalization being proposed.

Decriminalization is of little use to the chronically uncool.
WSJ also has a political agenda, which requires a second source for any story in there, from the other point of view.
Also reminiscent of the Zip drive "click of death" problem, in which bad media could damage drives in such a way that the drives could damage media that would further damage other drives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death
I think comments like this (girlfriends) with regards to the article (dating, finding a soul mate) is quite relevant.
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I don't see it as a moral disgrace at all, but it really is an inconvenience. I have no way of creating this myself, but why doesn't the "Netflix" of journalism exist? Or why can't I just pay X$ more to my ISP, who has deals with publications such as the WSJ, to offer me access to their articles? I'd rather just browse and read, not manage subscriptions.

EDIT: Apparently I'm replying too fast. Note that I quoted Netflix, implying similarity and not identity. I can also see the potential problems concerning Net Neutrality, but I don't think it has to be a problem. If done properly, no throttling is needed as the news sites can still serve ads to non-paying customers. You're just distributing your money in 1 place instead of 10. It's solely for convenience.
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How do you determine how many views your HN comment received?
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I'm wary of business models built around just selling hardware, long term -- it seems like hardware + service combination is the way to prevent this kind of activity from vendors, ghost shift manufacturing, other counterfeiting, and such. Also good for the consumer in a lot of cases. The problem is the products run the risk of being orphaned if the manufacturer stops supporting them at some future date.
I suppose we just have different ideas about what constitutes "catastrophic negligence", although I agree that government employment shouldn't shield one from the consequences of negligence.

The "horses" you're talking about were a different species, they were much smaller, they disappeared 12,000 years ago, and their predators included Smilodon and dire wolves. Environmental conditions have changed since then. The feral horses I'm talking about descend from long-domesticated stock of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. They are larger and more robust than typical deer. They inhabit desert country that currently doesn't have gray wolves and has only a tiny population of cougars. These two are really the only predators that could take down feral horses on a consistent basis, and they don't control feral horse populations in these areas. The vegetation in these areas is continually degraded by the presence of feral horses, which harms many actually wild species. Bison are not a factor because these areas are too hot and arid.

My objections to feral horses are not philosophical. If they occupied a sustainable niche in these environments I'd be happy. That just isn't the case. For more information about the mustang as it currently exists, I recommend the movie Unbranded, currently on Netflix. That movie sets up some sort of fake conflict between feral horses on BLM land vs private cattle on that land. It's true that horses' dentition means a single horse damages plants more than a single cow does. It's also true that neither domesticated animal should be present on much of this sensitive wild desert land in anything close to their current numbers.
Agree with a lot of this, however it is all about balance and moderation I'm not sure going all the way makes you a better person or gives you a better lifestyle.

email is fine once you have filtered out all the spam and dicks who put everyone on cc.

I love music, but I wont be going back to vinal anytime soon, my mp3 collection is fine and much more convenient. Yes MP3 may have cheapened music and there maybe something about removing it from the sleeve, putting it on the turntable and turning it over after 20 minutes but that person is not me.

Same with books, I love reading books, but I am as happy (if not more happy) to do it on a kindle as a 'real' book from the library.

A cell phone is convenient if left on silent or turned off when in company and not continuously checked

I would still want google and wikipedia to do my job and I would still want hackernews to ensure I can see and click on articles like Mr Frys if I so desire, again these should be on-demand not continuous.

I have some beautiful countryside outside my door and I am very happy to step away from all this and into it as often as I can.
If that's the case, if Google could cause massive disruption by pulling out of the EU, they have effectively monopoly power in that market. So if that's the case, the suit is anything but disingenuous.
This is why I hate ES6. JavaScript used to be a write once, run anywhere language.

We sacrificed that for syntactic sugar.
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I love that they picked this day to make an announcement.
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Good comment. I totally agree that after a certain point in career, it comes down to how well you can negotiate. When you start, you don't have a lot of say in terms of salary (well may be you do if you are the cream) but after you have about 5+ years of good experience, you need to learn how to negotiate.

Sometimes when you are in a strong position, you gotta bluff. If they call it, then no worries as you have nothing to lose. If they don't call your bluff, you may just have got a $15K raise :)
That sounds about as serious as this article from Vice. It's just click-bait.

The worst thing they found (as far as I can see) is that the government required Apple to have a recycling program. What a horrible thing the first article was hiding from us.
I always thought the store brands of things like that weren't independently developed, but just batches of the product it's cloning that didn't pass that company's standards or something like that.
And this will work as long as Amazon retains their dominant market position. As soon as there is a viable alternative, all that pent up ill will they have generated will come back to haunt them 10 fold.
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