skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Farmers have been increasingly planting corn and soybeans resistant to herbicides, and then applying those herbicides liberally on their fields. That kills off plants between the rows of crops that aren't resistant, such as milkweed... Because milkweed is poisonous to humans and to grazing animals, it's considered a noxious weed in many jurisdictions and is removed as such.

Humans want less milkweed around them. It competes with the crops we want for space and nutrients, or poisons us and our animals. But we also want more monarch butterflies, which need milkweed to reproduce.

We could encourage planting milkweed away from people. Manually this would be challenging. A scalable solution is engineering an ever-so-slightly sturdier variety of milkweed. This could be allowed to grow between rows of corn, or perhaps in arid or rocky habitats people aren't (yet) bothered with. Alternatively, we could encourage monarch butterflies to pick a less troublesome partner.
Ah yes, the old X is faster than Y pointless nonsense. Let's ask the basic questions that always come to mind:

- Does X do all or at least most that Y does?

- Are the benchmarks sane? I.e. not the pointless arithmetic fibonacci that nobody really uses, but the useful stuff such as regexps etc.
College Prices Have Not Increased By 1200 Percent
>I also wrote an interpreter, and it's 500x faster than CPython or PyPy

That's great!

Even if your new interpreter doesn't run all the code that's out there it can serve as a base for further work, it's a nice proof of concept and it's just plain cool hacking. It certainly beats all those people merely posting snarky comments on project announcements.

>(As it happens, my interpreter can only run a single fixed program, but I'm not worried: most people won't read past the headline when I announce it.)

With sarcasm off now, yeah?

They worked on something and they are enthusiastic about the results they get. Perhaps they want to oversell them, in a headline. So what? If people "won't read past the headline" then they also won't be using this PythonJS. So no harm done to them.

At worst, you'll be lured to read an interesting article. And if you have any understanding of compilers/interpreters at all, you'll know before the end of it who real-world-usable it would be or not.
I understand the idea has been rejected. I'm still gently, politely, mentioning that some people find the threads interesting fun and useful and hoping that the decision is changed.

I know that halfbaked covers some of the purpose, and there are probably reddit sub-reddits that do similar things, but still, and HN version would be good.
This was a joy to read. I highly recommend reading it out loud to someone. Try the techniques the author mentioned, and laugh out loud when he uses one of the techniques ironically.

A wonderfully written piece of art. And excellently communicated, too.
What percentage of the next level up on the food chain lives off mosquitoes? What percentage lives of screwworms and Melon flies?

I have no idea about the answers, but if there is a significant difference there then that might be where trouble could come from.

The problems really start at the reservoir hosts, the mosquitoes are just the transmitters. Controlling the reservoir hosts might be more feasible than eradicating 40 species of mosquito, it sounds like a very ambitious plan to me.

Panama had only 2 problematic species around the (prospective) canal zone.

Eradicating those mosquitoes to allow construction of the canal to proceed without the crews succumbing to Malaria or Yellow Fever was a huge success:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_measures_during_the_cons...
ADSB# has the ability to stream data to sdrsharp.com, but I don't know what they do with it.

ADS-B won't be awesome in the US for another 5 years, though. My office is at one of the busiest regional airports in the country. Very rarely do I see any aircraft that provide more identifier and altitude using my RTL-SDR and homemade antenna with ADSB#.
I'm a huge fan of meteor. I'm curious about the performance of Meteor too. At the moment I think it's creating castles that is bringing the server down, working on a fix for that then I'll see how it runs.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, what you said sounds very reasonable.
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The ambitious, absurd ideas to turn Brooklyn into a utopia
Plus I can confirm that the open source driver is much more stable on pre-radeonsi hardware than it used to be.

I eventually ended up buying a radeonsi card and while the extra GPU oomph is nice, the lower stability is not.
It is a bit of an arms race. A war on pigeons and homeless people.

At some point the space under those benches with too many arm-rests will look like a pretty good place to sleep given the alternatives. So the next step will be some extra legs to prohibit sleeping under a bench. Then sleeping behind a bench will look pretty good given the alternatives, so benches will have to be located next to walls. It could do on until there is no such thing as street furniture and nobody dare put street furniture up just out of fear that it will attract homeless people. Our outdoor environment will then be entirely privatised, where, if you need a seat, you pay.

Shelters clearly do not suit homeless people most of the time, maybe we need to think about using some normal benches in a 'honeypot' configuration, so the homeless community know there is somewhere that they can sleep rough without being abused and kept up all night.
> Google, for openness and transparency

I'm not entirely sure what you mean — that Google openly and transparently tracks user behaviors so that they can make money on targeted advertising?

If you try to compare the two companies, I'd say the difference is that Apple charges you a premium for their devices (thus making money), while Google gathers data about you so that it can be sold to advertisers (thus making money). Theoretically, each company could do both, but recently Apple started differentiating itself by actually emphasizing privacy and limiting access to data about users, in many places.

I do agree that it will be interesting, though.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccin...

Even vaccinations are used for other purposes than to keep people healthy. Clever, but likely to have a lot of adverse side-effects.
Watch What You Say, The New Liberal Power Elite Won’t Tolerate Dissent
Monochrome browser – bringing mobile web apps to desktop
Read the article - it's worth your time. Or if your time's more valuable, don't.
Near as I can tell, because CPythong is so tied to native code at every turn, none of the other VMs have any real chance of success without bridging to them.
I'm creeped out about the idea of some perv bugging his house with hidden cameras then renting it on airBNB, this alone is why I havn't used airbnb for me or my family.
"Because size does matter. It seems to me that progressive, reasonable, pacific and prosperous states - like the Nordic countries, or Switzerland or New Zealand - tend to be less than 10 million people."
That is what I often thought regarding the EU. A EU of regions instead of nations. United under a banner for economy, foreign affairs, standards and military and let the regions handle social insurance, police, taxes. Im actually a big fan of the EU but right now it seems to go in some wrong directions and politicans of national governments always using Bruessel as an excuse, while the EU itself is not speaking with one voice in conflicts like in Ukraine.
Flightaware I wasn't aware of, though PlaneFiner[1] is another good resource.

[1] www.planefinder.net
Except margin notes are not a web innovation. They are common in textbooks.
Microsoft's ’90s vision for the smart home looks a lot like today [video]
If you or anyone else wants to view the image easier, here it is: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/fit/t/1400/1120/gradv/... or imgur mirror: http://i.imgur.com/wZvP14e.jpg
Shifting Gears: How a dedicated team of students built a world-class race car
Python in the browser would be pretty fun. Congrats on the speed improvements.
The pace of the sentence is accelerating, launching into the remainder of the sentence.

Momentum - 3 syllables

Syncopation - 4 syllables

Rhythm and pattern - 5 syllables
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I wish I could read this, but as with every single Salon.com page, every time I scroll halfway down the body, the entire second half of the article blinks and disappears completely (on Safari on iPad). That, or the page stutters helplessly for several seconds until it crashes the browser.

There better be a special circle of hell for whoever came up with such an abomination. Memo to all of you Web 3.0 trendsetters: Please stop ruining the web [1].

[1] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Ah that's interesting. I actually opted out of HTML5 to see what would happen, but only in Firefox.

Firefox does have VP9, but it doesn't yet have the MSE (Media Source Extension) support that YouTube requires to deliver VP9, though a semi-functional version is available behind a preference in the nightly builds.
A similar effect can be achieved using just CSS: float the marginal note left or right, set the width and apply (negative) horizontal margins to move it outside the main text block, and if required use relative positioning to shift it up so the baselines of the body text and the marginal note align.
I do not understand that, either. Also, I find it weird that dictionaries are value types. If I started programming in Swift, I think I would soon have a generic class named 'Dict' that has a single field storing a Dictionary and the same interface as the Dictionary struct.

Does anybody know what is the reason they chose those non-standard behavior for the standard containers?
A blogspam linking to this page also claimed the alleged "boy" was described as a Russian boy to whom English is a second language. The official report from University of Reading doesn't mention this, can anyone shed more light on this?

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-first-computer-in-history-to-...
> That tuition has been massively outpacing inflation is something I have heard from too many different sources to dobut

Sticker-price tuition has. "Tuition revenue" is what students actually pay.
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Are retail stores actually using cell phones to track people at the individual level? I mean, I know the technology exists and all, but it just doesn't seem like it'd actually be all that useful to the stores.

My guess is that the stores that are using this tech are mostly concerned about how long the average person has to wait in the checkout line, not whether Joe Blow is was in the store.
> "tuition charged to student" has jumped ~9k on top of inflation to compensate for a ~9k decrease in per student state funding.

I got that, but that's a factor 4 increase, whereas the OP article's claim is that it has increased by a factor of 12.

> As to why students don't switch to cheaper universities? Because when it comes time to find that first job academic reputation and professional network matter at least as much and often way way more than having a particular degree.

But if it's a mainstream problem, wouldn't that imply that the majority of students are now visiting "reputable" universities with great professional networks, which would make it less valuable as a distinguishing characteristic?
Were users warned about this before the tracking started?
The entire OP argument is that predicated on students essentially being lemmings and willingly / unwittingly taking on student loans to spend on college tuition. If we believe that college students are rational economic actors-- as we expect adults to be elsewhere in the economy-- this argument breaks down very quickly.
Where anybody with physical access to their phone or their computer, or access to their cloud sync data, could get at it.
If you connected to a hotspot using a captive portal, you would need to sign in every time you disconnected and re-connected from the access point.
Note that this is how things work in many European countries (e.g. Sweden): universities cannot charge any tuition from students, but they get a certain amount of money per student from the government. This way the government can control the price exactly, so there are no risk of runaway tuition levels.
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99% Invisble had a few episodes that touched on that theme, primarily The Arsenal of Exclusion[1], but also the episode on the LOVE Park[2], which discussed the anti-skating measures (and includes one of the park designers skating in protest, at 92 years old!), and an episode on the Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS), which are often designed to discourage the public from actually using them.

[1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-51-the-arsenal...

[2] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-71-in-and-out-...

[3] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-09-99-private/
TD requires that you know a single security question in order to initiate a password reset. One.
Yeap, both setTimeout and setInterval are being sacrificed for performance. Alternatively you could use WebWorkers to offload the timers for precision.
Source?

UC Irvine is 2x that while not on campus ($24,693.97) and much more on campus ($31,667.97) for CA residents. Add $22,878.00 for out of state to get ~46k off campus and ~53k for on campus[0].

Granted, it is a UC in Orange County, but your numbers are 1/2 to 1/3rd of the true numbers. Is the rest of the country really that much cheaper than California?

[0]http://www.ofas.uci.edu/content/costs.aspx?nav=1
This article makes me think about a question to which I still haven't found an answer:

For me (I'm not a native english speaker by the way), when reading out loud a text, all commas are "translated" by a pause. But there are some sentences for which I don't understand why a comma is used, as I wouldn't pause at the comma when saying these sentences out loud.

For example:

> The problem is that many people have horrible rhythm when speaking, too.

or

> Thank you, John.

In both these sentences, when reading them out loud, I wouldn't pause where there is a comma. And I actually never heard someone pause at these commas.

So am I mistaken in thinking that commas should always be orally translated by pauses? Or do you pause at the comma when saying these sentences?
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Fix is going up, should be back up soon.
One of the takeaways of the article for me was that it's a small subset of all mosquito species that are conveying this disease. I'm not an ecologist, but wouldn't the elimination of one sort of (disease vector) mosquito lead to a different (non-disease vector) species taking over the niche in the ecosystem?
This guy is a hero. Can we kickstart having him come here to the US?
Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television
I'm working at a place that uses a simple app running on a Raspberry Pi to update a dashboard whenever a known Bluetooth MAC comes into the building, with no need to turn on discoverability or pair with the Pi.
I stand corrected. I just checked my "change password" option on TDCT and it now allows 8-32 characters. A year ago, this wasn't possible for my TDCT account as I distinctly remember the difference between the US and Canadian online banking experiences. I should read the fine print more often.

Thanks for calling this out.
Large stores use it to positionally track unique customers. They can analyze the paths they take and ultimately what they buy. This is powerful because the can optimize the layout of their stores to maximize sales based on hard data.

This will now become much more difficult to do.
Okay, so this is basically brute forcing against a kown list of websites. Not all that impressive IMO.

Although you could possibly try to use this for a clickjacking attack, for instance if you detect amazon.com loading from cache.
There's plenty of GMOs that have nothing to do with herbicides. Drought tolerant crops, for instance.

At best, it's an argument against some plants, but it's certainly not an argument against GMOs as a category.
PyPy uses JIT to generate optimized code during runtime. As many comments noted, PythonJS may not support all Python features but still don't understand why PyPy performing worse than PythonJS.
By making sure your steel-reinforced concrete mall walls are thick enough to block proper 3G/4G reception (no, really, reception is pretty bad in a lot of indoor places).

But still, I agree, it would be very hard to have everyone connect to your wifi.
it's a simple test: if data companies collect where clearly explained to the user, would the user approve or not?

"By entering this store, we will permanently record your location every 60 seconds. The main purpose of said data collection is attempting to stitch your actions on the internet to store visits to more effectively sell advertising. Further, we will sell this data to many companies, most of whom we don't directly interact with. Our privacy 'policy' will most likely never be audited, and the worst possible outcome of violations is a fine in the low millions of dollars. We will hand this information over to police and lawyers if they clear the high bar of, well, asking for it. The nsa doesn't bother asking."

What do you think people would choose?
His name is Dijkstra. I'm curious how you arrive at the conclusion that mimicking nature works most of the time, do you have some examples?
No.

First off too many people who do not need a college education are pouring money into one. Second the United States, nor any country needs the numbers of college educated people they already have.

Come up with a standard program if you must. We have standards for public education so let us have them for a college education. It cannot be that hard to establish the minimum required for each degree and then determine the cost of that education. With a standard costs will come down.

Uneducated voters, it is not from a lack of college. Public schools are not there to create critical thinkers. They are told day in and day out how the government makes it all possible. Top it off with thousands of assistance programs and why would you expect people to better?
I grew up on a farm in southern Ontario where, according to the article, little monarch breeding takes place.

Among many features of the farm was pasture thick with milkweed. We did not interfere with it. As a kid, it was trivial during the summer to find monarch caterpillars. Normally, we'd bring one or two into the house each year, put them in a jar that we'd refresh daily with milkweed and watch the process of the caterpillar growing, entering a chrysalis and emerging as a monarch butterfly.

Twenty five years later, when my city kids were the right age, I eagerly took them out to the pasture to find monarch caterpillars. The pasture was just as thick with milkweed as I remembered, but where is was once easy to find monarch caterpillars, year after year there were none to be found. Only one year were we able to find any.

I too mourn the decline of the monarch butterfly, but whatever the cause, it can't be a mere 20% decline in milkweed population. My parents' farm still has the capacity to support the hundreds of monarchs it once did, yet as far as I can tell they are gone.
OK, some more specifics...

For the strange opinions you just don't find -- e.g. conspiracy theories about all the West media being after Russia, which are only written in Putin's controlled media.

Then there were claims about Ukrainian right wing extremists (which got really few votes in the last election) and other strange things you only see in Putin's media.

Arguments were often just not relevant for Sweden. Like "but what about USA in Iraq" -- that only works in USA (and maybe Britain), if that. Even the Swedes that condemn the Iraq invasion, not so few, of course have no problems ALSO condemning that Russia starts to treat Europe like Hitler in the 1930s; military threats, destabilisation, annexations etc.

The Russians avoids all questions about where they were writing from and none claimed to not be Russian. If it was proved where they came from (e.g. logs from the proxies they use, or something), it would automatically be news in Sweden.

Then we have the obvious bad Swedish, the first month a lot seemed to be from Google Translate. The bad voting scraping (one comment posted a bit down in a comment tree -- 10-15 top votes in seconds; never happened otherwise).

I also posted a couple of links here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7865214

And so on...

Edit: And about a state's trolling/astroturfing being high quality: First, note the low quality of conspiracy theories from Putin's junta. The personal envoy of Putin, Sergej Markov, yesterday claimed that Sweden, Poland, Finland and the Baltics had Russophobia -- and threatened with a new World War if the countries joined NATO!! And other crazy stuff. That was worse than before 1991 -- and note that it wasn't for internal consumption by Russians only reading Putin's media! Also, see that about starting with Google Translate. There are lots of quite small languages in Western Europe. How do you to a reasonable cost quickly find enough people that know Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, etc, etc? Then you have to train them (or give them stuff to translate and post).

Edit 2: I hope the above is readable. Ask otherwise, I might have the energy to continue.

Edit 3: The main difference compared to spam is that spam has much less resources, it is much less work intensive. There are maybe one message per 100K receivers. With astroturfing in the end, most (probably not all) comments will be at least partly written individually. If the same comment is posted in many places, e.g. something like Disqus can detect them directly (or Google, for that matter).
#1 is essentially third-degree price discrimination. College tuition is effectively "sliding scale" with wealthiest students pay full sticker price and poor students paying little or nothing
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See also: Atul Garande's books on medical practice in the US: http://atulgawande.com/books/ including "The Checklist Manifesto".

You can have the best people in the world, but without a safety culture that abstains from blame and works to eliminate sources of error over time, your hospital will kill people that didn't have to die.
> Override functions must use the `override` keyword. Now when you rename the superclass's function, all the subclass functions fail to compile because they're not overriding anything. Why did no one think of this before?

As I understand it, Java has a similar `@Override` annotation:

http://stackoverflow.com/q/94361/49485
1) Source? I can't believe that the sticker price has gone up this much and that financial aid went up in essentially the same amount. Let's see data on this.

2) Again, source? What I get from this is that minorities are financial leeches, then. Is that a correct reading? (No of course not, but that seems to be a correct interpretation of this insane premise the OP stated; one I do not agree with at all)

3)Again, source? So, get rid of the student's needs and you get rid of the costs? Really, this says that needy students are the reason costs have gone up. Did you even read the original article at ALL? Over 30 years of needy students have pushed the costs up this much? That is blatantly false.

Sources for ANY of these points are needed.
The taxpayer savings don't fund Obamacare but rather go back into higher education:

"The Congressional Budget Office said the direct-lending approach would save taxpayers about $61 billion over 10 years. Roughly $40 billion of the savings will be redirected to higher education. Education programs will get an additional $10 billion from the health care package."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/us/politics/26loans.html
maybe
couple months
something

Good luck with that. Hope you didn't need those "bird" and "fish" things.