skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this prevent reproduction of the mosquitos, or of the disease? If mosquitos, will this have a negative impact on bats? My bats eat mosquitos and moths, but there are not many moths any more.
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Not in the general case, it only removes copying of literal (constants known at compile time).
I would be curious to see more detail about these factors:

"...the attractiveness of the market, strategy, technology, product/service, customer adoption, competition, deal terms and the quality and experience of the management team."

I feel that there is another layer of analysis that is being missed which is the interaction.

Q: Would you invest in AirBnb at 31B?

Hypothetical response: No, there is so much competition from the hotels, and competing sites. I think they have liability risk.

Q: How about at $1B value?

Hypothetical: Are you kidding me? Of course!

The valuation interacts with the other criteria.

Q: Would you invest in my personal device company at $100 million?

Hypothetical answer: No way. I think the market is saturated.

Q: Will you do it now that Steve Jobs is back from the dead and has agreed to be the CEO?

Hypothetical answer: duh! Of course!

Again, the "team" has now changed things around.

I can't think of any situation where these factors don't interact with each other.
This is only way VC firms can be motivated to actively punish the bad actors. Unless, it hurts their dealflow, they are not incentivized to act. Pledges and warnings' only go so far.
I don't know about drones, but there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser .
If that's true for harassment, it's even more true for other things that would put you on YC's shitlist; after all, genuine misunderstandings and misfortunes routinely kill VC deals, but if that happens with a YC firm you already have to know it's costing your VC firm reputation.
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Mosquitoes are also pollinators.

I believe orchids are one flower that is mostly pollinated by mosquitoes.
TensorPort: develop TensorFlow 10 times faster
How much time did you spend before you felt stuck?
Funes: Infer the general shape of data
From morning to night your Assistant is ready to help
could you please elaborate on the "disquieting things about its culture" I never personally found any, maybe I am missing something.
How so?

This isn't unlike Uber or Yelp ratings, where someone's reputation will affect their ability to make money. It's not perfect, but it at least provides some accountability.
I accuse Paul Graham of harassing women.

There you go - he needs to go on the list and be blacklisted now. He has been accused of harassing women now. It's a fact!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/6n8gs8/funes_infer...
If a significant portion of the population has a market value lower than the cost for them to have a reasonable quality of life isn't that some kind of fundamental failure condition for society/humanity?
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Ask HN: Does HN store IP addresses to identify users?
does HN store IP addresses for the purposes of identifying user accounts?

I wonder if HN was hacked if "anonymous" posts would be linked back to actual people even though no email address is on the account.

EDIT after comments: OK so maybe HN should be clear that anonymity is not likely if HN is hacked. HN sort of presents as being a "safe" place to post anonymously but it's an illusion.
Do escalators not come with a ratcheting mechanism to prevent exactly that from happening? Seems to me like a serious design error if not..
The New Hamiltonians
Ask HN: Anybody else get ripped off via “Free Tea Friday” at Starbucks today?
All week, Starbucks here advertised a "Free Tea Friday" promo for their new Iced Tea Infusion drinks -- free from 1PM - 2PM today.

Well, the local Starbucks was slammed, with a 20+ minute wait in line and who-knows-how-long at the drive-thru. Anyway, when our order was rung up, we were being charged full price for the "free" tea. Turns out that the register time had slipped into 2:00 (and not even 2:01!) and "free" became silently un-free.

All of us who got in line less than 22 minutes or so early got left out. Stores apparently can't override this.

I can't imagine that the cost-of-goods for this (pennies per drink) would warrant alienating SO many people. We abandoned our order altogether and went to Peet's instead, and I personally will never buy that particular item.
They may have originally been created to protect consumers, but they've been manipulated and lobbied for so long that they now exist to protect entrenched business interests.
It's done on purpose. This is what we call clickbait.
Moore's law and all that?
The workflow I would have imagined for versioning data is:

1) Load original data from source into quilt

2) Do transformation

3) Commit transformations to quilt, with commit message

4) Run experiment

5) Do new transformations

6) Commit to quilt

7) Run experiment

Rinse and repeat.

Looking at the video and documentations, this is not emphasised at all, suggesting that edits to data should be saved as a new package.
In NY, you can only take 3x. In CA, you can take it as many times as you want. This is one of the reasons that the "repeat taker rate" and the "aggregate rate" in CA are much worse than in NY. CA simply has a different proportion of first-time takers, since repeat takers are not cut off at any point.

When I took the bar in 2007, there was a guy who blogged about taking the bar. After learning he had failed, he continued blogging [1] about his repeat-taking experience. In all, he took the bar 11 times over 6 years before finally passing. It struck me that by the time he was a newly-minted attorney, I was a senior associate. I can't imagine how much time and money he spent on that process, and I do wonder whether the system should allow people to do this. On the other hand, he obviously really wanted it, and there's something to be said for that.

1: http://californiagbx0707.blogspot.com/
> The person already spent 3 years and maybe hundreds of thousand of dollars.

The rest of your post seems well argued to me (I have no experience with law school), but surely this part is irrelevant. If someone, after spending howsoever much time and money, isn't qualified to be a lawyer, then he or she shouldn't be a lawyer; there shouldn't be any certification by the state just for effort, or financial expenditure.

(The rest of your post seems to pursue the alternate argument that the CA cut-off is too high, giving many false negatives, and that is an argument that appeals to my selfishness: if I can't find a lawyer at a reasonable price because the state has, intentionally or not, stifled competition among potentially competent lawyers, then my interests have not been served.)
I don't really care about the AR part, but the Mapbox SDK for Unity looks very cool.

https://www.mapbox.com/help/unity-mesh-pt-1/

I can't help but imagine playing a game like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in environments generated from actual map data.
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perhaps not the best place to discuss
What kind of planning and permitting process does a project like this require?

Or would it be legal for me to just go and release a cloud of mosquitoes myself?
>It's hard to argue that it hasn't been an unalloyed good for founders.

I can't agree with this without knowing who is on what list and why. There's way too much room for bad judgement to get in the way.

Having said that, I'm making a very minor point here, since of course you can say the same about every single business and who they will or won't work with.
Is there software that you can run on a Pi that emulates a microcontroller that uses the Pi's I/O pins? That might be an easier to use way to prototype, with the ability to restart the microcontroller while the host is still functioning. It could also be a nice way to emulate additional IoT devices in a neat little package, which might help simulations and debugging.
Dresden Files reference. Excellent.
I took Latin in college (having not taken it in high school), and found the Wheelock text book pretty helpful (https://www.amazon.com/Wheelocks-Latin-7th/dp/0061997226 ). If you're looking for Latin texts, check out the Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) and the Latin Library (http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/).

If you get stuck on something, swing by the Latin StackExchange (https://latin.stackexchange.com/).
That would be awesome! We're happy to help, but we only know a little bit of R. We've been looking at Sparklyr in case it might help read Parquet into R.
Americans could start by having their government actually do the things a government does, rather than shoving it on the backs of autocratic companies. Like providing its citizens with health care.
I'm very supportive of these efforts to distance startup founders from investors who are unprofessional and/or abusive -- but:

"She also tweeted that Y Combinator had disinvited an investor who was trying to replace a female chief executive with a white male"

Should it be the best person for the job, male or female alike?
I believe I recall reading that if we were to eliminate only the disease carry mosquitoes, those responsible for transmitting maleria, dengue fever, Ross river virus) there ought not be a problem in the ecological web of life as other mosquitoes would fill the void.
Clothes moths are another which would be a good match for extinction.
No, it isn't. It is not a matter of logic that the incentive is removed. One could logically say that if the company wanted people to continue subscribing, they would have to keep up with the bugfixes and patches.
Nest is doubling down on the dumbness too. Their nest cams ship everything up to the cloud for processing!

What happened to computing at the edge? Are Apple (of all people) the only ones to still embrace this philosophy?
If they want it, they can get it.
"The greater fool theory is the theory that states it is possible to make money by buying securities, whether overvalued or not, and later selling them at a profit because there will always be someone (a bigger or greater fool) who is willing to pay the higher price"

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greaterfooltheory.asp
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Isn't the goal of Selenium/WebDriver to allow for some level of standardization in interacting with different headless browsers?

If you're only interested in ever testing in Chrome, great. But headless Firefox is in the release pipeline (I think it's being tested in Nightly?).
That's not a failure of public key cryptography, that's a failure of the SSH protocol.

As you say, public keys were designed to solve a key distribution problem. Inherent to that problem is the idea that a public key could become, well, public. They solve that problem very well, and there is no intrinsic reason why you shouldn't just publish them because they were intended to be defensible against that very eventuality.

Practically speaking I disagree that GitHub has done anything wrong here - changing habits to diminish the publish-ability of public keys because the SSH protocol exhibits suboptimal behavior encourages further lazy security for the SSH protocol.

We shouldn't tap dance around an SSH-specific problem by claiming that public keys need to be kept secret. That's absurd, we already have private keys. Moreover, it is detrimental to other protocols that rely on publicly verifiable signatures and nonrepudiation to adopt this sort of perspective.
wolbachia prevents (sexual) reproduction in various insects by a process called "Cytoplasmic incompatibility". This requires infected male to fertilize a non-infected female.

<disclaimer: IANAB>
Quite. Though, if by any chance you have reached a sufficient mastery of English prosody to understand the iambic pentameter, the dactylic hexameter really isn't such a stretch, notwithstanding one being based on stress and the other weight.
Well I meant e.g. "only have 30K of student loan debt instead of $45K". And yeah all that stuff is possible. It's called life and it's not supposed to be easy. Sorry.

And yeah if you can't earn enough then you should move. It's not a big deal. Sorry that money is a thing and that real estate has varying prices in different geographics areas causing you to have to make this decision. So sorry.
"Other researchers are experimenting with Wolbachia as a means of suppressing Aedes mosquito populations. This approach involves the release of only male mosquitoes with Wolbachia. When these mosquitoes mate with wild female mosquitoes without Wolbachia, they are unable to reproduce. The technique requires the release of a large number of male mosquitoes to reduce the overall mosquito population. As with insecticides, this technique would need to be reapplied over time as the population of mosquitoes gradually returns."[0]

[0] - http://www.eliminatedengue.com/our-research/wolbachia
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Why does there always have to be one bikeshedder in every HN thread who reads too much into another's analogy and comments about how it's flawed/wrong/inaccurate, thereby completely missing the analogy's point?
Exactly what I thought. A bunch of technical, academic questions that have very little relation to the actual work being done? Yes, I am very familiar with that.
How does it work? Is it filesystem snapshots? I know it's unreasonable to expect, but do you support forking/merging? What about incremental or logical replication?
I doubt folks are too "wound up" over it. It's more an understanding that HN is as successful as it is because the community actively discourages low-effort content. It's unfortunate that some people think that quality discussion communities just happen, as if Internet message boards were the one place in the universe that defied the forces of entropy.
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YC's done really well evening the power disparity between individual, unconnected founders and investors. This is a good way to do better.

You're right, too, almost all the stuff that would be a black mark against an investor is an accusation.
If you don't trust YC to be pro-founder, then you should be very concerned about YC, because they're enormously powerful.

I can't convince you either way. It would be pointless to debate it. Reasonable people might disagree. I'll only say that I don't know any founders, including people who have gone through YC and not felt they got much out of it, that don't agree with me that YC is far, far on the "founder" site of the "founder vs. capital" spectrum.

I have less respect for the argument that YC might be pro-founder but would prioritize some secret conspiracy to inflate harassment claims above the welfare of their portfolio companies. (I don't see you making that argument, just heading it off.)

For what it's worth: I have no connection to YC, and am openly critical of Sam Altman.
The author mentions that he would like IoT for his washing machine, so I think you’re misrepresenting his sentiment. Most likely, he’s angry with the current engineering standards of IoT, more specifically Nest
This is a Star Trek: The Next Generation reference, circa 1989! If the Dresden Files (circa 2000) used such a line, they were, in fact, making a reference. ;)

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Survivors_(episode)#M...
or else, on the other hand, the best place to discuss...
Perfection is a particularly anthropocentric concept. Earth was clearly a local optima, but our very capacity for trashing the planet suggests it was rather shallow. We've changed the fitness landscape like so many bulldozers in a landfill. There's no way to know what lies among the slopes beyond. Maybe we really are stuck here and defending our crapsack position from asteroids is as good as it gets. That just sounds depressing, though.

I expect we won't evolve our thinking, but if we could somehow reproduce the same problems wherever we go enough times, there's an opportunity for evolution and natural selection to operate on our societies at a galactic level. We'd buy ourselves the chance to roll the dice many, many, many more times. There will be misery and suffering along the way, sure, but that's been the cost of our existence thus far.
Should You Subscribe to a Mosquito Control Service?
Living our Shared Values
>Whomever

*Whoever

(sorry)
AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel's Core i9 by as much as $1,000
Hard to tell on HN. Much easier on places with less decorum than HN. Aka most of the web.
> I’m certain Adobe has made a good amount of money in the short term, but they've forfeited a monopoly. I’m more skeptical about their long-term business.

I don't think they ever would have had a monopoly, even if they had kept their perpetual licensing instead of moving to subscription. The cost of those licenses was pretty high, so there was always room for someone to come in at a lower price point and undercut them.

Besides, $10/month for Photoshop and Lightroom is much more accessible than $699 for a perpetual license, especially if you don't need to use it that often.
Every branch of engineering and science has more theoretical and more practical aspects. Look at physics. The people who do the theory and those who design the detectors have pretty different jobs.

And universities, at least the more elite ones, always tend toward the theoretical side in all fields. Which is mostly a good thing so long as it doesn't over-rotate. Whatever language you learn is probably going to be yesterday's news in 10 years. (Unless it's COBOL :-))

[And I say this as an engineer with degrees in non-SW fields.]
You mean you explained to him your idea of copying Heroku?

Visions of Apple crying foul about Microsoft sealing from Xerox.
Yeah it was featured on the news, I think we would need to prohibit the news to stop this craziness.
This secret list might give less incentive for these issues to be publicized. Having these issues raised publicly helps change overall culture.
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> you shouldn't discount the power of words and symbols

Words are not static entities. Language evolves in unpredictable ways. Master/slave became jargon based on a truly despicable thing, unfortunately, but the original meaning is an irrelevant detail in our technical context.

One can attack the idea of "context", but I think it is not very effective, or even honest. It is a leap of logic to imply that a single expression used in very specific moments is somehow related to atrocities happening right now. The words (and symbols and culture and ideas) argument is a killer abstraction and anything can be said with it.

I am black and I live in an extremely racist society. The habit of discussing this kind of thing can have a negative impact on what really matters. Even empathetic people could become tired.

Ps: my english is not that great.
I'm aware that this is a known technique and thought has been given to whether or not it will impact the food chain, etc. But I do wonder this: has anyone considered what the effect will be of removing this constant source of stimulation for our immune systems?
What would go wrong (almost forced to) is inevitably the creation of mosquito populations resistant to this bacterium or bacteria that infect other hosts than those mosquitos.

Don't underestimate life.
Here we're inventing a controversy where none necessarily exists; we simply don't know enough to discuss what's happening here, and so we shouldn't.
no, he's suggesting that creating a "blacklist" of accused will inevitably end up with innocent names on the list.
The same is true of elevators, though, is it not? If we're postulating motor failure and brake failure, I'd still rather take my chances with a broken escalator.
They were too busy disrupting the smoke sensor market
I second that, as I tend to be in the forest a lot.

And even though I love nature, I am pretty sure, eco-cycles can do without ticks ...
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VMU hacks (&C-M23 emulator)
If the control line for your furnace is just a 24V loop (or a dry loop), a good hint is that you can keep a traditional thermostat in parallel with your 'smart" one - so that if either closes the loop, the furnace fires.

Then you can aim for "comfortable" with your "smart" one and "safe" with your real one.
More likely it's because this article is from ABC News.
Here in SoCal I see a massive generational divide. People over 40 tend to be NIMBY and against things like public transit. People under 40 are completely the opposite, especially about LA's expansion of subways and light rail.
I guess they were designed to run in both directions, meaning you can't mechanically lock the "down" direction.
I respectfully disagree. Yes, your 401k's bonds and international diversification could hold its worth. But not for your company stock especially if it is publicly traded (which is what I am talking about). It's not unheard of to get 50K+ and 100K+ in RSUs. They are not valueless. Once you have vested it, it is whatever the market says it is. Nowadays engineers (with masters degrees) start at $120K at many places. You put 10% of your pay in ESPP and in four years you have ~$50K in your company stock. Again not valueless. Now you are looking at $100K+ in a single stock (your company) and it gets more riskier if you have had a stint at 2-3 companies in the last 10 year accumulating stocks at various places.
It's really a shame they haven't jumped on tokio yet. Then again, I tried to look at the code, and it didn't seem to be a simple dropin thing to move over to tokio.
I wish they'd do it in Sacramento where most of the mosquitoes live.
Given what we know about older techniques, it's safe to assume that many intelligence agencies hold zero-days for most popular network and server gear. From my personal experience interacting with some of the people who use these tools, exploiting networks is neither free nor particularly difficult.
If you prefer plain-text format, this is available at:

https://github.com/<user>.keys
From the WHO factsheet[1] on malaria:

> Nearly half of the world's population is at risk of malaria.

> In 2015, there were roughly 212 million malaria cases and an estimated 429 000 malaria deaths.

> Increased prevention and control measures have led to a 29% reduction in malaria mortality rates globally since 2010.

> Sub-Saharan Africa continues to carry a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. In 2015, the region was home to 90% of malaria cases and 92% of malaria deaths.

If you lived in a mosquito/disease endemic region, would you still have the same first reaction?

[1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs094/en/
I expect this thread to be flagged down quite soon. Many such threads are if they are lacking substance and/or attractive to flame.
I just can't see going to law school without have a very clear career plan starting immediately on graduation. If you can do well at one of the top 5 schools or have family connections that definitely lead somewhere, that kind of thing. The risk/reward is just out of whack otherwise.
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It quotes Leman, who proposed this change, as saying: “[We are] making sure that the space in which students learn... doesn’t just have the busts of the bearded 1920s men, but also has pictures of people from different ethnic groups, different cultures. It's not that we're throwing anything into the bin.”

Of the two options you proposed, this sounds much closer to "correct for colorblindness". As other examples of correcting for colorblindness: “Meanwhile, teaching materials, such as diagrams of the human anatomy, will be changed to feature a “range of ethnic groups”, rather than just the “standard white male”” and “increasingly we try and broaden it to include more recent research from Asia, Africa, and from other parts of the world.”
> Should it be the best person for the job, male or female alike?

Yeah, that's not how it works.