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>With the exception of fighting malaria,

This combined with the topic stirs a related thought, with some scientists wanting to fight malaria by gene-editing mosquitos it's worth noting that there are some plants that are pollinated primarily, if not solely, by some species of mosquitos. Stuff like cocoa (too small for other pollinators to service), goldenrod, some orchids.

>using pesticide for non-agricultural purposes

Pesticides are sold all the time for non-agricultural purposes. Some examples off the top of my head since I actually just did an EPA refresher today at work that included pesticides:

- Oil of Citronella is classified as a pesticide by the EPA (other governments and international agreements) for mosquitos.

- Esfenvalerate and Cyphenothrin for bed bucks, again by the EPA and international agreements.
I wonder if this can be (ab)used to identify who has your site bookmarked.
Seems like a semantic argument to me.
Taleb's insight applies where there is no linkage between bets.

The problem is, a 4 year degree "if done right" is building on a body of knowledge. you can't "do" year 4 without the core competencies in years 1,2 and 3.

So, (and I admit I didn't read your article) I ask if you address the neccessary linkage problem.

Because a chain of 4 small bets is what we call a quinella or trifecta, and in betting circles its high payoff, but low likelihood: It may be better to commit to the whole big package than assume you can bite of chunks and always get the same value.

A midpoint model, is to do 1 or 2 years, get a low degree, then do 2 or 3 more and specialize for a high degree.
offtopic! but very cool to see a story from the Inlander that includes bits and bobs from Spokane, WA come across Hacker News :)
I think there is almost a neo-Prohibitionist attitude coming from some, of late. Though this is largely anecdotal, I think it got ratcheted up by the movement to see marijuana legalized, where weed has often been compared to alcohol.

Aside from this, I agree that the vast majority can enjoy these substances without destroying themselves, leading very productive lives with some of the evident downsides that even casual consumption can bring.
I first played it in the 80s and then again in the 90s as an aside to playing MTG.

The opening to ET was my first exposure.
Scientific prize network predicts who pushes the boundaries of science
Had to throw in the 99PI link for anyone interested in learning more about Sears homes.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...
Nice. But I use C++ so I'm used to shooting off my own foot.
and...finding people to play with if you aren't already in that crowd and have a family/full-time job.
I only went to a community college, but my experience is fairly similar to yours. I was lucky that the community college (Washtenaw Community College) was in a city with a decent university (University of Michigan). As such, many of the professors worked at both. These were the best professors.

Similarly, there were many professors who did not care at all. However, my girlfriend is currently attending the Ohio State University as a medical student, and similarly many professors either (a) do not care about their students or whether they are effectively teaching them material, or (b) have too many students and are unable to effectively teach them all.

While I attended some classes at the community college that had 150+ students (less than her largest classes, to be fair), those professors actually were some of the best I had. Maybe I just got lucky.

FWIW, she also attended Eastern Michigan University and Washtenaw Community College (with me) prior to this. The community college was her favorite.

In any case, there are plenty of skills I'd like to learn, or learn more about (e.g. mechanical skills, art skills, etc.) and without a doubt I would choose a community college -- and research my professors! -- over a university. In either case, you should pick your professors carefully; but the price difference (even on a software engineer's salary) is simply not worth going to a university IMO.

Don't forget that money spent at the beginning of your career is worth more than money spent at the end! (Assuming you're investing well.) Compounding interest and all.
Speaking of CCG's, any collectors who happen to be coders? I haven't met too many at the local shops I stop by so I always figured collecting cards wasn't very popular amongst engineers.
OK Google, cue the sun: Philips Hue debuts voice fades at CES 2019
Any nights quieter than others to try it?
This is interesting to hear from other people. I basically stopped drinking because the side effects (being hungover specifically) made it no longer appealing on a totally emotionally level. I didn't realize this was "a thing". Nowadays I'll sometimes have 1 glass of wine and those alarm bells start ringing loudly preventing me from having a second.
I have an automated system that is recording mixes from various radio stations and I was wondering if it's possible to get this to run on a saved file? Say I had an mp3, is there a way to run it through such program and get a resulting ad-free version?
If I bookmarked a story, getting notifications when there was an update or correction would be nice.

I'm doubtful it would be used for something as valuable as that, and marketers always seem to send out an order of magnitude more emails than my interest level.

(If you're writing an email client, you should add a "delete X% of emails from this address" feature.)
I agree with everything here, but the biggest problem with this article is that it's - unlike the book it's about - totally boring, doesn't include fact finding, and I can't imagine the writer really taking the time to clean it up and shorten it. I really tried to understand the reasoning within a limited time.

Repeating something won't make it true.
The Firefox Reality team is much smaller than the FirefoxOS team was (i.e., by more than an order of magnitude).
You could build a relay system that lets you galavant across town while sending and receiving messages between your handheld radio <-> house/apartment <-> internet.
That's not what they mean by "use real numbers." If you're using a finite subset of the reals, you're not using the reals. We can only approximate real numbers in a finite representation.
I agree on your last point, but I will say the P=NP feels like a particularly good candidate for being independent of ZFC, not only because it seems to be very difficult, but because it feels so adjacent to things like the halting problem and incompleteness theorems. :)
Sure, but from experience in play, sticky notes in the Monster Manual are much faster for switching back and forth than browser tabs are.
US Navy Destroyer Discreetly Tested Hyper Velocity Projectiles at 2018 RIMPAC
Going to plus 1 on this one. The Software Freedom Conservancy is doing great work. They are the fiscal sponsor for the project I run infra for (LibreHealth).
There has been 6 cows infected with mad cow disease in the US[1] and only 4 cases in humans.[2]

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/prions/bse/bse-north-america.html

[2]https://www-m.cnn.com/2013/07/02/health/mad-cow-disease-fast...
The Disruptors: A Radical Prescription
> Pathfinder didn't win because it didn't have the name.

And the history. '80s nostalgia is a big thing right now, and D&D can drink at that well. Quite a lot of people who made it in Hollywood and are powerful right now, were D&D players 30 years ago when they were kids; so they supplied the glam factor that helps keeping games out of the "nerd" niche.
> That said, I'm fine with legalizing marijuana. Not so much so with the likes of cocaine, meth or heroine. Soft drugs, sure, hard drugs, keep a leash on it.

I realize that this is becoming a popular opinion, but why? I almost understand the full prohibition mindset more.

as long as there are any illegal drugs with strong demand, people are going to get killed over it. legalizing weed isn't going to make much difference; there's way more money in the hard stuff.

so I gotta ask, do you think you will personally be hurt if hard drugs are legal (or even decriminalized), or are you taking it upon yourself to protect other people from themselves?
That is interesting but I don't think that it would be healthy for people to eat beef burgers as their primary source of nutrition either. What annoys me about the fake meat is that in the dystopian future soymeat was supposed to be everywhere and cheaper where real meat was a sought after expensive delicacy but due to government subsidies and hding the costs of environmental externalities real meat remains much cheaper than the fake meats in general. Just saying.
When your player requests the mp3 file in this example the server on the fly can generate an mp3 file that your player then downloads. This means that they can serve different ads in old podcast episodes or even remove them in old episodes.

I heard about this tech on a podcast actually.
"We'll make sure that they don't forget about their bookmark and keep coming back."

I love that this reads like a line from the Godfather.
Probably should abstract away the PRNG use, so you can retarget away from the C library rand.
I always used to question how people I worked with who are demonstratably much more intelligent than average could fall for things like this but then I realized I seem to have a unique set of circumstances in my life that kind of led me to question everything and be maybe more aware of propaganda than an average person. The more I've observed, traveled, interacted with people, etc the more I have realized people who are book smart are often highly susceptible to propaganda as they often will build up a mental image of the world from 3rd party sources, rather than first-hand experience, because they are so proficient at reading, analyzing, etc.
If there was a paywall and it was priced too high in your view , what would you do? I assume you'd simply decide not to pay and move on. Online ads are essentially an honor system: I'll let you consume my content but you'll need to watch ads. Yet here you decide to circumvent the system instead of just walking away. Why?
Lol I paid for next day before the holidays and got my stuff 7 days late. Demanded and got refunded shipping.
> The only contrary data point I can find is this study of laryngeal cancer, which finds worsening stage-specific survival rates for high-stage laryngeal cancer since 1977.

I seem to recall someone theorizing that the increased prevalence of oral sex is responsible by putting HPV deeper into the throat and thereby increasing the prevalence of throat cancers.

HPV vaccinations should cause a corresponding down tick shortly if that is true.
Indy is one of the more commonly used networking libraries. It’s open source and in active development (with few breaking changes). Works for Delphi as well as FPC. I’ve had great success with it for FTP, HTTP, POP3, and SMTP.
alcohol is a bit different than other drugs in that people also appreciate it as a culinary experience. most users of other drugs are not willing to pay 2-10x as much for the same drug in a better tasting form.
WR doesn't help much with DOM update related issues, WR comes into play after that, when it's pixel time. WR is pushing the envelope for creative (ab)use of DOM elements as graphics primitives, like in that spinning cubes demo :) but on a more serious note, leveraging the GPU makes a lot of sense because it's been sitting there mostly unused (only used for layer compositing) when browsing, and it's more efficient at graphics operations.

That said, Servo itself has a fresh DOM implementation and I think there was work on making it really fast.
I want to go back to school. I graduated undergrad in 3 years so even though I have a Bachelor's in CS, I still feel half-baked. I studied CS only because I freaking love it and learning more is my utter passion. I want to have a graduate degree in CS... but how? I have a job, I have other stuff to do now, and taking an almost decade investment sounds way too much (in US PhDs can take very long). I'm a very socially awkward dude and spending my entire 20s in PhD almost seems socially "risky". Did someone else have experience on this matter? I have otherwise have the funds and passion to pursue this.
The web equivalent of this is emailing registered users. Works fine, always has. This trend of taking away control of when and how users are interrupted is very abusive. We (developers) should really be trying to make everything less like social media, not more.
> If they change [arrow functions taking `this` from lexical scope instead of caller], what good are classes?

Using an arrow function on a class field seems like a way to get static methods that are still callable from the instance. But I'm not sure I have a burning need for that at the moment...
The sanctions also restricted dealings with IRGC, if skycom was working with the largest telecom in Iran then they were dealing with IRGC's owned entity - TCI.
Sidestepping trade war, Musk breaks ground on Tesla Shanghai plant
I don't dp this often or ever on HN, but....Bullshit, there are far more vegetarian foods available than your typical fish, pork, beef, lamb and poultry (and perhaps "game") dishes.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I can certainly say that products based on a previous living animal are certainly not a "subset" of vegetable based diets.

What a most ridiculous assertion to make.
I really can’t wait for these to show up in Canada
k0, k1 are intended for use by any exception handler, not just TLB handlers.
Huawei broke international treaties. My understanding is that violation of such treaties is enforceable by any signatory. It's more like someone laundering money in one country and getting arrested in another country that is a signatory of an international anti-laundering law.

If this weren't the case, then international treaties would be pointless. Countries just wouldn't bother enforcing them against their own citizens.
Mostly because (a) insurers will typically void your homeowner's/renter's insurance and (b) the amount of business you can do from home in NYC is limited. It works fine for a techie working solo. But you won't be able to work with anyone.
I'm in NYC, a Lot of MTG players are Developers/Programmers/SREs/Webmasters etc.
Do you mostly rely on brokers to look for commercial lease space?
Mine was cub scouts, someone's older brother. I was already playing MTG then though from Taekwondo back in 94. I don't think I started playing D&D or others like VtM until 97 (I remember buying the VtM book and then months later a new version came out) and even then I played VtM almost exclusively on IRC heh.
The Design of Parallel Programming Languages
State of mobile operating systems privacy in early 2019
I worked for a part of Emerson Electric that made Craftman tools for Sears. They were made in the USA and then in 1995 Sears cut the budget and gave the contract to some other company. I was downsized as a result.

They got Rigid tools at Home Depot that EE makes now. Should be just as good as the old Craftsman series.
this is also on this article
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201709291057806285-russia-ele...

mister tesla would perhaps roll over in grave to hear this abuse of his technology for war.
this type of weapon is what scalar research is all about.
this is not about free energy or any snakeoil tech.
this is about understanding part of physics enough to weaponise it similar to how radiation was barely understood when the first nuclear reactors atomic bombs and experiments such mademe curie occured
There is no official position!

Something can be dead because it is flagged, in which case a bunch of people didn't like it (for valid reasons or not...) or because the user is new and all their stuff is marked dead until someone comes along and vouches.
Haskell predates the paper so no, I don't agree with your interpretation
Terraforming Mars is my favorite game. I think its worth giving it another try. I would remove the Corporate Era cards for now. These are the cards with the white triangle near the bottom left.

Here are some games I would suggest for a group that likes Puerto Rico:

-Lords of Waterdeep
-Castles of Burgundy
-7 Wonders (scales well to 6 players)
-Pandemic Legacy (co-op)
-Clank
-Azul
-Splendor

These all have different mechanics and feel, so it is a good starter set. Let me know if you have more questions. Hope you enjoy these!
5G microcells will make this data much more accurate.
Unfortunately not quite enough for the money I ended up settling with. I'm hoping in the next couple of months we see some 6/8GB card options out of the box
This is the D&D I remember. Half the time we we didn't have the books accessible (basically each friend had bought a single book, so if they weren't around, neither was their book).

Due to limited transportation, we spent most of one summer playing on a 3-way phone chain. Whenever someone's parents needed the phone their character would become an NPC until they could dial back in. No maps — just a lot of trust and imagination.
Why can't you wake up at 7:30AM, be with your birds and start your day for the next 1.5 hours, and then get into the office before 10AM?

It sounds like you have other problems that are preventing your employment that are not related to you being a night owl(I don't even think you're a night owl...you self-admittedly wake up at 730-830am).
> FWIW: Pathfinder didn't win because it didn't have the name. The game itself is fine. But there can be only one D&D, and once WotC managed to figure out that the edition upgrade mill was a death trap and released a streamlined 5e, there wasn't much niche left for Pathfinder to fill.

5e was the second D&D edition released after Pathfinder, so I'm not really sure what “edition upgrade mill” you are talking about.

> (the community rejection of the fourth edition is the reason Pathfinder exists as a commercial product at all),

Pathfinder was released to wide acclaim before 4e; it's true that with sufficient acceptance 4e might still have displaced it, but the real reason for PF was the announced imminent replacement of the 3e Open Game License with a more restrictive Game System License for the upcoming 4e, and what that said for both Paizo (who made Pathfinder) and other third-party players in the 3e/3.5e ecosystem.

It's perhaps worth noting that 5e returned to an OGL core.
s/fetishize the technology/fetishize the product of the technology/
You haven't won a Pulitzer.

(There's a web of trust so to speak, with journalism and investigative reporting).
In that case you’re probably better off asking how hard it would be to get onto the Georgia Tech Online Master of Computer Science at

www.reddit.com/r/omscs

The Master’s itself costs less than $10K still but you’d need to do enough undergraduate courses to have credits sufficient for a Bachelor’s, though I don’t think you actually need to be awarded one. So if I remember right you’d need to do a year’s worth of coursework towards a Bachelor’s and then you’d be admittable. Not sure though, ask in the subreddit.
To game the 'installed on X phones' metric. Facebook can still claim it is installed on the phone even if it disabled.
> it's not the users data, it's our data about the user. The notion that data about you belongs to you is frankly absurd

Interestingly, I find your viewpoint to be just as absurd. Why shouldn't data about me belong to me? Why can't I tell people not to collect data about me when they are providing me with an unrelated service?
The person writing the article was able to obtain data despite not even being a "real bounty hunter" (whatever that is). And it seems entirely plausible for a stalker/abusive ex/etc) to obtain the same data. So I think the collection and resale of the data remains an issue regardless of the bail bond/bounty hunter aspect.
Facebook does not sell your data. Facebook licensed data for very specific use cases (e.g. allowing feature phone developers to create feature phone FB apps, allowing individual apps to access data with your permission) but in both of those cases (all the NYT cases about FB data privacy in-fact) they did not get paid.
Is it wrong to want the others around you to not have access to drugs that can destroy their lives?

I'm of the legalize everything mindset, but heroin (and fentanyl) have killed many people I personally know. Weed has not. It is not illogical for people to want to treat them differently.
No, we often make calculations with a finite, countable subset of real numbers. We can only approximate the real numbers with finite precision.
This was my experience. I started in a community college, and my professors were there after retiring from industry, so they had little use for the meager salary they earned. The other professors worked at nearby universities, as well.

They genuinely liked to teach and loved it when they could get their students to care about a subject as much as they did themselves. You could tell they did it out of passion, and moreover, for the students.
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How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money
Well, never using them again. That’s shady and there’s 7 other services that don’t do that (as far as I’m aware). I’ve tipped every time and have ordered probably 15 times in last 30 days
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You can, but not in any secret way, at least not without breaking FCC rules. Encrypted comms on Amateur radio bands aren’t permitted.
I can't believe that anybody would recommend WhatsApp for any kind of secure messaging. The app is closed source, and there's absolutely no way to audit that it implements the protocol faithfully. Facebook can easily be spoofing keys, there's already a story regarding this type of vulnerability https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-...

Say what you will about Telegram, but at least you're getting what's advertised. WhatsApp is a complete black box that's owned by a predatory company whose business is selling user data.
I guess it comes down to different strokes for different folks. It would be interesting if there was a website that quizzed you on randomly generated expressions like these, giving you S-expr forms sometimes and ALGOL/infix operator forms other times, and asking you whether the expression is true or false given a set of variable values.

Naively I would guess that I would do best on infix exprs and you would do best on s-exprs.

But I could imagine other results, like s-exprs giving me a speed disadvantage but an accuracy advantage (either because I had to read them more carefully or because they eliminate reliance on precedence rules). Or there may be other quirks, like maybe S-exprs read better for larger, multiline conditions while infix reads better on short one-liners with <= 3 operations.

It reeks of effort so I'm not going to make such a site, but I do wonder what the results would be.
While I agree that abuse is a problem with push notifications in general, I don't think this is a bad thing.

I don't want to install a desktop app for something like facebook messenger. I wouldn't hate getting notifications for a few conversations I have on it.

Browser support is the obvious spot for this.
Nobody's saying that beef burgers are a good primary source of nutrition, but this product can't replace beef.
"Bookmark our messenger app/news service to receive realtime alerts which are configurable."

I think you're being cynical to assume that everything coming over web push notifications is spam. I agree that there is lots of it though.
Yes, with hindsight a lot of things look ridiculous. Now go and tell such a story about a person offering an investment into their business of whom we don't know the future outcome yet...
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