skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I remember reading somewhere that mosquitos have a negative footprint on ecology. There's definitely a ton of research at the moment on mosquito control. There was another article on HN a few years ago on a device that tracks and kills mosquitos w/ tiny lasers that can't harm humans. Apologize for lack of source, I'll try and dig them up.

EDIT: found it! wasn't too hard to find haha. And it seems other replies have already provided source on mosquitos and their net benefit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
> I wish having an advanced degree was a criteria here. A few years ago, I noticed that Britain would give a blanket visa to anyone with an MBA from a list of top international schools.

Care to explain the reasoning? It seems shortsighted to limit this proposal to people with advanced degrees, and why only from the top 50 schools in the world? How does this make sense in the context of startups?

> That said, the proposed rule might mean if one gets into YC/techstars, etc. they would be able to get a visa for the US easily.

The article mentions that this is not a visa, but parole. And with the requirement of $345K in funding, getting into YC/Techstars would not be sufficient. Startups would need to raise additional money, unless they receive $100k from the Government.
Can't agree with you more there. If the public is going to pay for research like this it would be nice if they get something in return (even if it is only basic eye candy).
How to Disrupt Network Effect Incumbents: A New Form of Distribution APIs
Do people actually take exclusives into account that much when picking a streaming service? It seems to me like the biggest differentiating factors would be price and familiarity, as long as the services in question had a reasonable amount of the content one wanted.
Worth considering whether "poignant" is the word you want there. It denotes something evocative of sadness or regret, and derives from a root which means "to prick". So, that pricking sensation around your eyes when you feel yourself on the point of tears? Something which evokes that feeling, and that sensation, is accurately described as "poignant".

(Also possibly of interest is that "pungent" derives from the same root, for much the same reason. In this case, the pricking sensation is that caused by the irritating sulfoxides released when you cut up an onion.)
A radar-shielding plasma shield sounds a bit like having a speaker wall to mask conversations.
I thought it just meant that it can't (yet?) be detected with electromagnetic radiation, not that it necessarily doesn't interact. For example, MACHOs have fallen out of favor, but were once a decent theory to explain dark matter, and they're just normal matter in a form and location that makes them hard to see.
REITs encompass more than just housing (there are large REITs for malls, office buildings, prisons, and even data centers). I would imagine that multifamily and student housing REITs increasing in equity value would allow them to use some of that value to take on more projects, thus increasing demand for real estate and increasing the price. But most of the sandboxes that they're playing in aren't individual homes (other than mortgage REITs which represent about 10%, not sure how they would be impacted, I'm not a REIT expert).
The waste energy in a regular car is not electricity, it is mostly simply heat. Instead of heating up a brake-disc by clamping it with calipers and pads an electric car or a hybrid will engage the motor by allowing it to be driven by the car instead of the other way around. The resulting energy at the output terminals of the motor is rectified and used to charge the batteries.

So when you brake your regular car you lose some heat to the environment, you don't 'waste a bunch of electricity'.
Well... it might.

Your closet probably has the same concentration of dark matter in it as everywhere else on the surface of Earth. But that quantity is unmeasurable at our current technology level, because any signal we might get is completely obscured by all the noise from bright matter around here.

Dark matter is not matter that does not emit light. A rogue asteroid far from any star is a dark object, but it is not dark matter. If you aimed a radar beam at it, the signal would bounce off, and you could detect the reflected/absorbed/re-emitted signal when it gets back to you. If you somehow found an aggregation of dark matter, your radar beam would not bounce. It would pass right through, like a flashlight beam shining through a crystal ball. Your beam might refract slightly due to the gravity, but it would not reflect. It would be similar to aiming a neutrino beam at the regular asteroid. Most of the beam just passes straight through without interacting.

Not even black holes are dark matter (or if they ever were, they aren't any more), because they absorb light. If one eclipses a known light source, you can see the black spot, along with the lensing around the outside. They interact with light.
Under my scenario of separation of the marketing and the manufacturing entities, there would be much less incentive to create such a monopolized standard in the first place. The marketers would worry about getting into a jam like this. On the other hand if the invention is truly essential, they would have no choice.
Oh c'mon Zoidberg, that's a strawman argument. "with" is a Python keyword and the statement syntax is in the grammar. I would expect any working Python developer to know what it is, and even understand how to write a context manager.

...wait wat? It's in the Standard Library? No, I just checked and it's not. Too bad, if it was "blessed" by inclusion in the library I would totally withdraw my objection on that grounds.

You had me going for a second there. ;-)

You make my point for me though when you say that you'd have to read up on it when you first encountered it. That's exactly my point:

The trade off is between one application of attr to the code base to save N time/effort for the current developer one time, versus every bit of lost time/effort of future devs taken to understand the attr package.

It's cute, but it's an in-joke. Don't put in-jokes in code you want other people to use, otherwise they have to "get the joke" before they can work with it. That's what I'm on about.
Wetsuits add bulk too but those don't present swimming difficulties (in fact wetsuits are really bad to wear if you're not actually swimming in them; they can get too warm, since they're made of rubber). Burkinis look absolutely dangerous though because they're too loose-fitting; they look like a great way to get tangled up and drowned. What these women need is a tight-fitting one-piece unitard made of swimsuit material. But they probably won't go for that because it's not "modest" to not hide their bodies behind loose-fitting fabric.
You must be here to case HN. I'll file a report.
That's new since I read the article, and an enormous qualitative improvement. Kudos to the author for a quick, thoughtful bugfix!
I think they're referencing the fact that it's outside of the US, for privacy reasons. Not the quality of the software engineering.
This is true! New with the Knights Landing generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing

available in two forms, as a coprocessor or a host processor
Same thing happened to me after reporting SQL injection (in 2015!) on Vivaldi website. Polite email and blocked account.

Some companies do seem to prefer to learn about vulnerabilities from pastebin database dump.
> Many plants have two different generational types (haploid and diploid).

For the vast majority of plants, these are not physically separate organisms. The key difference here is that the haploid cells of the plant can themselves undergo mitosis, which animal gametes cannot do. Since we generally consider cells with different genetics to be different individuals, we speak of plants as having alternation of generations.

For the most part however, the haploid cells live in the diploid organism or vice versa, depending on which branch of the kingdom you're considering. It's not like botanists run tests on a particular specimen to determine its ploidy. For any given species, we know what the ploidy of the individual is. For example, flowering plants are all diploid. If you find a flowering plant, the individual has two sets of chromosomes, but somewhere in its tissues there is a haploid cell (descended from the parent) that is undergoing meiosis, and is thus a separate organism.
If you have growth and revenue, it should be easy to get investors to invest. By outsourcing their decision, the government doesn't have to understand how to benchmark growth or revenue in every kind of business.
> > Even if one agrees this is true, that doesn't mean that they aren't also victims of drug prohibition.

> Every criminal is a victim of the system, then.

That does not follow; for instance, if one views someone as a "victim" of prohibition only when the harms done to them by prohibition (whether directly through punishment, or indirectly through costs and harms they bear only because of prohibition) are disproportionate to the harms prevented thereby, one can easily view drug users as victims of prohibition but not generally view, e.g., those involved in crimes of violence against other persons as victims of prohibition of those acts of violence.
For a lot of people though, myself included, the choice is more like:

1. Resist evil at all costs. Even if it is expensive and takes a long time.

2. Give up resisting evil. It's too powerful. Just embrace it and go into damage control mode. It's less expensive that way.

When framed that way, #1 is preferable to #2, even if #2 is cheaper in the long run.
As More Travelers Rent, the Risk to Online Travel Agencies Grows
That's the best praise of Chomsky I've ever seen.
Yeah I don't get this strategy either. It also seems like it would hurt Spotify's relationships with these artists, which doesn't help Spotify either.
ITT Tech banned from enrolling financial aid students
Inside the German version there is a test for biases against Western or Eastern Germany. I knew that I had a bias, but I was surprised that I found it that difficult when moving a bunch of Eastern German cities to one group to associate negative things to the group with the Western German cities.

The test might not be totally fair, though. Is it actually a bias if it is based on facts? Soviet architecture, higher unemployment, high rate of extremism, lower buying power, less people, people moving to the West, the list goes on and on. I think stereotypes and preconceived notions are bad most of the time, but I see no reason to get rid of the ones that are actually true for political correctness.
I don't know about the poster above, but commonly load balancers can be used to do SSL termination, which can significantly improve application performance.
This is fantastic. It's already fixing many of the issues I run into in my day-to-day Scala programming. I hope it serves as a good test-bed for features to make their way into the "official" compiler.
Who Solved the Secretary Problem?
Welcome to 'anti-sound':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

If the 'wail' is carefully tuned to the original forces dragging on the craft it might actually work.
Agree wholeheartedly

> big decision was to make all drugs illegal

Well, except for alcohol and tobacco. Caffeine is a stimulant too. Don't forget prescription drug addiction, which is legal.

Basically, everything is a giant mess and prohibition on something people want to do will never really work.
Great, I wish you luck with it. I realize it can seem like a lot of work to do this, but this seems like something all of you loved working on, so it would at least be able to survive in some way or other, and keep some of your users happy.

Even something as simple as a basic code dump (with whatever needs to be removed, removed) would be better than nothing. I'm sure you'd be able to find a steward in someone for this project.
Vultr seems to take longer than digital ocean to get to a prompt from creation. But if you're not rapidly spinning up dozens a day it may not matter.

I also feel like they don't communicate maintenance windows or outages as well as they should.

But I still use them because they have a Dallas location and DO doesn't.
You can now stream any Blizzard game live on Facebook
That won't "reclaim" the beaches, you'll just have conflicts between the two groups.

The way to solve it is to make the beaches nude-only. Then no anti-religious discrimination can be claimed: if they want to swim there, they just have to shed their clothes, and the rule is the same for everyone. Although, as a very fair-skinned person, the main problem I'd have with that is sunburn; I already like to wear a t-shirt at the beach for that reason.
I see 15%
I don't think it's necessarily targeted at abuse from wealthy foreigners, at least if you mean the kind wealthy enough to be putting up the whole investment themselves. There are other ways a wealthy foreigner can get a visa, like through the investor visa route. I would guess it's targeted more at visa-selling via sham investors. Something like, you charge a person $50k as a fee to "invest" $500k in their "startup", but structure it in such a way that they never actually see the money, or it comes back to you via some backdoor. Restricting it to legitimate investors who have some kind of track record probably makes it easier to police; they're less likely to running brazenly illegal schemes in the first place (gray-area stuff maybe, but probably not flat-out visa selling), and have more to lose from misusing their name/reputation.
That's a CPU with a built-in fan.
> Before it there was no real competition to Spotify.

rdio and Grooveshark were competitors well before Apple/Google Music until both shuttered :(
I find myself wondering if the type of inference required to make this claim could be automated. Given the right observations, couldn't dark matter be detected (or at least hypothesized) algorithmically? Couldn't this be used to create a "dark matter scope" by which the dark matter in the universe can be "seen" and visualized?
Would you say the vast majority of drug addicts were physically abused as children? Were you?
The relationship between drag and lift is complicated. They're ultimately both the same phenomenon: pressure differentials introduced by dynamic fluid flow. You cannot have lift without drag, and you cannot have drag without lift [1].

That being said, this is fluid dynamics, where nothing is simple. Some of drag could be loosely described as friction, but not all of it. Think of what you feel while you're swimming, or sticking your hand out of a car window. It's like something is actively pushing against you, like you're catching a ball or something -- which you wouldn't normally call "friction". On top of this there are temperature effects, turbulence, ... and so on. And, most of these are actually at least somewhat coupled to each other.

Anyways, though at the end of the day it may be technically accurate (in certain contexts) to say that all of the power consumed at level flight is going to drag, it's also disingenuous; a bunch of that drag is the direct result of needing to generate lift to fight gravity.

[1] Admittedly this is a somewhat loose interpretation of the word "lift" but when you get down to the nitty gritty details like this I don't think "lift" is any more than a semantic construct to denote "useful drag". But the lift created to help control Apollo command capsules during reentry is a good example of this: by altering the angle of attack, thereby introducing highly asymmetric drag, the capsules "generated" lift to ease reentry angles.
> black mentally handicapped man get picked up by the police because he asked a neighbor to borrow a ladder

I think there's a problem with the police, not Nextdoor, here. I mean, ok, somebody asked to check out suspicious person (and police, with their experience, should know how (non-)reliable such reports usually are) and they did. But picking the person up - which I understand means detaining the person - is decision that the police officer responding is making. No reporter can make such decision. And if this decision leads to innocent man borrowing a ladder being detained - this is not really reporter's fault, it's the police being unprofessional.
PaaStorm: A Streaming Processor
no

-- Betteridge's law
People own a lot appreciated stock they don't really want to sell and take the tax hit on. EX: CEO/Founders etc.

So, the real question is what percentage of funds are index funds.
"So Apple has enough money coming in from other businesses that, if they want to (and maybe they do), they can simply operate their Apple Music service at a loss. Forever. Spotify can't do that ..."

But Spotify can and is also operating at a loss. They are just doing it with VC money instead of their own. The numbers for 2015 were a loss of almost 200 million dollars!
"Hillary Clinton’s lawyers used a special tool" - click bait, I actually thought for a brief millisecond that HRC ran software on her server ;)
NBA Analytics Hackathon in NYC
Play music has no desktop client so it's not even worth considering. I think apple music and Spotify are both very nice. The android apps of both are particularly good and both have acceptable desktop clients.
Exactly, in fact the hypothetical massive sterile neutrinos, which are part of one of the possible explanations for the neutrino masses, are one of the dark matter candidates.
Could two factor authentication have stopped the hacker from exploiting the Elasticsearch vulnerability or from implementing the final "Smash and Grab" strategy?
Stating the obvious – how to code
First step is to obtain root? I understand choosing not to use root for day-to-day activity but how in the world can a device be considered secure if the user is not allowed full control of the OS when they want it?

Edit: Oh, it's also not open source. This device is pointless.
So why not just get himself a few dedicated VMs on the mainframe? Those things can supports thousands at a time...
We do have the screenshot he provided of the facebook conversation which is pretty damning and very clear. Employment with equity != shareholder in any well used definition of the word shareholder.

So, as long as we assume that the OP didn't falsify the Facebook screenshot, it's not small evidence.
Are Your Customer Service Metrics Just a Vanity Score?
I didn't down-vote you but I don't think you "get it". Linus quotes Greg and explains why approaching it with lawyers does not have the desired outcome and offers example(s) of how effective the "behind the scenes"/"honey instead of vinegar" approach has been.

"Goodwill means nothing when the law is being broken. It means nothing when licenses are not being enforced."

This hasn't proven to be true with Linux/GPL. Look at the real world examples given in the article.

Legal action is a tool but it is not the appropriate tool to convince another party to join you in a shared endeavor. You can "win" an argument with your wife by striking her but you have to ask yourself, is that the best way to reach your goal?
Features for me are the big ones. Currently i debate between Spotify and Google Music. I vastly prefer Spotify's social features and collab playlists.. currently using Spotify. With that said, i was using Google Music for ~5+ years due to having a large custom library which was accessible cross device.. Unfortunately Spotify doesn't support this.

Tough decisions on the features front, atleast. Exclusives and other crap.. those don't matter to me. Fwiw.
Why should I care what a physicist reckons about cities?
The purpose of drug laws is not to punish intoxication. It never was.

Drug laws exist to punish subcultures. They're grounded in racism and cultural bias, and they're enforced that way as well. It's not about the addicts. It's about the blacks and the Mexicans and the hippies and the punks. The undesirables. Drug laws are an excuse for police to harass anyone who doesn't look "right".

If we can't accept this basic fact, if we have to lie to others (and ourselves) about it, we can't have an honest conversation about drugs.
Exclusives are just a good way to get people to try out your service. It works best when someone doesn't already have a streaming subscription, and their favorite artist releases an album exclusively somewhere. You sign up to hear the album, you like the service, you decide to stick with it.
stuff white people like: white guilt
I used to be bitter about stuff like this but I've gotten over it.

The chances of getting wealthy by joining a small startup are very small. It happens, but it's probably not going to happen for you.

If you really want to do well, you have to pull together the resources to start a successful company.

On a different note, I used to work for an almost billionaire, they were incredibly cheap. I often reminded myself that you don't make a billion dollars by wasting money!
So Spotify is penalizing artists who opt to do an exclusive with a company whose business model doesn't give their music away for free? That just seems wrong.
People can die from peanuts though. It was not there on a whim (though I would argue is more to avoid lawsuits)
How Peter Thiel Killed Gawker
Opera server breach incident
I think #1 is better phrased as the following, and is why we have LEAP:

"Resist evil at all costs. Even if it is expensive and takes an infinite amount of time and creates more evil than that which was set out to be destroyed."
Drop the plasma. What is has are, potentially, some directional antennas capable of attacking inbound radar. But imho it doesn't have even that. This is 1980s/90s tech. It's a quiet bird, as opposed to something like and EW/weasel jamming platform. I doubt it does anything active. Now it may have some conductive material meant to absorb and play tricks with RF, giving the appearance of some magnetic shield, but I don't think it is deliberately broadcasting, at least not in any omnidirectional way remotely similar to a force field.

One active trick is does do, and has been confirmed by ATCs all over the place, is transmit transponder data as if it were a commercial aircraft while in civilian/peaceful air space. This prevents enemy spies from detecting a mission launch and direction, but has raised concerns amongst legal minds. It's akin to a soldier wearing civilian cloths while travelling behind the lines ... but such principals seems to be falling by the wayside these days.
> I've actually been wondering, why isn't there a iPod touch style Android device?

You mean a WiFi-only tablet with a ~4" screen size? There have been a number of them over the years, but I don't think demand has been there to keep many people making them.

Of course, go up a little bit in size and there are plenty.
Some early uses of the term 'missing link' in anthropology
You're right - legal action is not always the best tool. And companies resort to it far more often than they ought to. But legal action != lawyers. Lawyers get involved all the time to make sure legal action doesn't happen. In fact, for civil lawyers, that's most of what they do.

It's the frothing-at-the-mouth, "we must NEVER do this," all-lawyers-are-evil attitude that gets me here. If Linus had just said "I don't want to over-rely on legal action to get things done, I want to make sure we are not hurting our community relationships," that'd be one thing.

But the way he comes at it - like he does with so many other things - is so inflammatory and my-way-or-the-highway that I felt a strong response was required.
The proletariat? How's that working out for them?
I had read your paper :) but did not dig enough to find whether tcmalloc had introduced the concept or not. Thanks for pointing those out!
It is clearly a violation of the TLS RFC 5246 [1], page 47, Server Certificate -> certificate_list. You may only omit the root, but otherwise must supply all parts of the certificate chain.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246