skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The money raised is a fair bit more than the hives are worth, assuming everything was destroyed (unlikely). At least some bases, lids, mats frames and boxes are likely salvageable, and I’d guess most. Assuming the hives have been properly wintered, they are currently small, so there wouldn’t have been much gear out there. Paying absolute top dollar would get those hives replaced would use about half that raised money. I had a look through Californian supplier sites.
Eg $320 for a complete hive at https://billsbees.com/products/bees-complete-hive
However a hive is unlikely to be needed, a $220 nuc would be fine, and could be split into 2 or 3 during the season quite happily and a decent beekeeper would be splitting them fast, reducing the cost significantly. Decent hives here have been split more than 20x this season (admittedly it’s a very good season).

It is interesting to see the costs as they aren’t too different from here, though queens are cheaper in New Zealand, and buying boxes of bees to dump into your hive isn’t a thing here.

As others have said here, why was it done? Hive vandalism is a thing all over the world, but it’s usually a few hives knocked over or mass damage by stock. Messing with 50 is unlikely to be much fun.

Edit: The story linked here isnt complete or very good. Yes, most the hive equipment looks salvageable though the bees are now dead. However a storage shed was broken into and vandalised, gear was smashed. Extractors and processing equipment can be very expensive and it’s a hell of a mess in there. The focus on the bees is likely because that’s what the beekeepers focused on. Having 50 hives killed when you have nursed them from a frame or 2, saved from disease, wintered etc would be heartbreaking. Yes, an extractor and store shed could contain very expensive gear but it’s soulless steel and tools.

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/vandalism-destroys-ha...

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/whotv.com/2017/12/29/vandals-de...
This seems like mostly semantics. If a machine can literally do your job then the claim is that it becomes beneath humans to do it.

Your work will continue to have value so long as you can do it better and/or cheaper than a machine can. I don't think anyone denies that the process of making a hamburger can be automated, but this certainly doesn't put chefs out of business because they do it better.

This is, say, in contrast with say a conveyor belt. No human will ever be able to do better in the task of moving and sorting large amounts of simple items over short distances.
The Tech giants like, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. will never let that happen.
The problem with self checkout stations is that it's simply slower per unit compared to a human, period.

If you add even more self checkout stations, it would decrease efficiency, not increase it.
It's called faith. Faith that tomorrow will be a better day. Faith is hard work.

People aren't taught well what it is, how to produce it and how to hang on to it when it's most needed.

Doesn't matter which geography/culture/religion you are from, understanding how faith is generated in self and in others/what it takes to preserve it under stress is fundamental to doing the hard stuff.
WARNING: DO NOT USE BEACON GENERATED VALUES AS SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS.

So probably not a good idea.
Is this somehow incompatible with bringing your own bags?
>but it seems very cheap for companies that profit billions of dollars yearly to only donate $25k to projects and foundations that support part of the software backbone of their infrastructure..

That's the free rider problem, one that the GPL (and the AGPL) was designed to avoid.

It's true that many of those companies which use FreeBSD wouldn't touch a GPL codebase (and all the more so an AGPL codebase), but that't the point - while some chose FreeBSD because it's fast/stable (NF and WhatsApp), others chose it because they don't have to contribute back.
When I worked for Amazon, I felt bad for the people working there on visas. They never felt like they could say no when pressured into working through the weekend.

After uprooting your family and bringing them to the States, you have zero bargaining power. It's a pretty dark system.
You haven't noticed that people you see regularly don't all have a uniform?
Normal security practices are applicable to the node/wallet software. Smart contracts are another story -- think of the DAO heist. Short programs whose behavior determine the fate of $$$ are exactly the kind of thing where verification excels.
That would be a huge improvement.

Frankly the whole original point of H-1B was to bring in awesome people and encourage them to stay if they showed they brought enough value.

It should, as you said, be attached to the person with a fixed term (10 years?), then at the end of the term there should be a "job interview"-like process where it is determined if this person has brought enough value. If they succeed hand them a Green Card.

Employers should still help them get the initial H-1B to show they have a job and that their credentials are credible. But after that the employee alone should hold the H-1B and be allowed to jump ship if they're unfairly treated or poorly compensated (after all the point of H-1B was never to get CHEAP labour, it was to get GOOD labour).

The fixed term also gives them more personal security, without the threat of being kicked out with little notice.
I had a busy year. I converted a major auction site to fully responsive as the sole front-end developer and interface designer, learned Java and started doing full stack development at work, and then quit my job when they moved the offices too far away.

After quitting I decided to start my own company and began developing next generation assistive devices for the blind. I actually got pretty far along that path when I thought of an idea in a different realm that had much larger potential and required much less development. I can't talk about the specifics yet, but I'm getting very close to launching a new type of mapping service.
Just for context: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42529424

Of course cops don't put their lives on the line. Now let's all slag off those cops, because let's face it they deserved what happened to them didn't they!
Potioneer, my VR gardening simulator/Animal Crossing/Stardew Valley game. I had to take a two month hiatus while I switched jobs but I'm back at it every moment I get. I'm hoping to launch the game fully by this time 2018.

If you're interested in this kind of thing, be sure to follow me on GNU Social: https://kwat.chat/focusonfungames

You can find the game on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/544410/Potioneer_The_VR_Ga...
I like to believe that's the plan - get them to US, teach them, force them back home. Truly doing the world a service, Team America!
My girlfriend I've been with for the past two and a half years I met through OKCupid as well. Honestly OKCupid is the only site I've ever had any luck with for online dating, the rest have been pretty much useless.
First, I don't really think there is a shortage of college degree-earning people in this country. Second, your plan is just a giveaway to colleges... they can charge whatever they want as gatekeepers to visas earned in the USA.
two other options (not mutually exclusive)

1. get better self-checkout systems. our target just upgraded theirs and... it's so much cleaner/faster/easier. I was OK before, but it's cut out so much apparent bloat that i can be in and out in under a minute if the payment system is fast.

2. mark some self-checkouts as "express" (or maybe "experienced"). Having to wait behind someone using the last self-checkout station who is going to do 40 items, and who apparently has never used self-checkout (or, to be fair, this store's version) is excruciating when you're standing there with 2 items. Marking a station as "for experienced users only" (or marking others as "for beginners") - would rub people the wrong way, but would probably help if adhered to.
Ask HN: What is your new year resolution?
Good stories. It inspires the thought that immorality "bubbles up" until the cost to address it (court-marshal a general, impeach a president, both destabilizing) is too high to pay. This is why leadership in a good society is moral, and broadly it means not just competence, but a willingness to accept the existence of evil in oneself, and in ones organization, and exercise appropriate amounts of self-restraint. (And the utter lack of this quality is what makes Trump so dangerous.)
A new kind of UX tool. The first version uses text-commands to create and edit wireframes. These articles are about the progress of the prototype:
https://medium.com/proof-of-concept

In a week or two there will be an online sandbox version for people to play with.
You’d have to get a picture in the exact same angle, which is unlikely.
Not as cool as a lot of these, but I built https://voyagefound.com as a react learning project. It's a filterable interface for viewing random pages on WikiVoyage.org.

It's one of those projects that I got 95% done in a few weekends early this year, then lost interest. I spent some holiday time last week wrapping it up and deploying it. Actually finishing projects (especially learning projects) is something I often struggle with, so it felt good to get over the finish line on this little project.
I seriously started pursuing Python, did number of freelance projects and managed to write a few blog posts at http://www.kashifaziz.me

2018 will be the year of Python for me.
But it's the opposite. Since I have just a couple sets of outfits, I have to do laundry often. If I'd have shitload of clothes, I might get away with doing laundry once a month.
Skimming it, unless I missed it, under Linux there is no mention of epoll, edge vs level triggering. Things you should familiarize yourself with if you care about performance.
This administration is such a clown act. H1B's bad/unnecessary. H2B's good/necessary.

I think it's obvious the idea is to be protectionist with tech jobs, making those people more inclined to vote for party/people who have enacted that protectionism. Meanwhile at the low end of the scale, competition is good to keep low end wages suppressed. It's protecting classism.

Here's an example of a local career placement service with thousands of qualified workers already in the county, and yet a certain politician snags 70 visas for cooks and maids.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358793-trump-wins...
Yeah say you do most of your processing in the client but need to sync local storage to a server for persistence and then may need to re-hydrate that state later, those can be run in the background with a service worker where the slowness doesn't affect the other parts of the application.
The Department of Labor does (here is one for Software Developers in the Bay Area: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesQuickResults.aspx?area=36084...) and requires that H1B applicants be paid at or above market rate for a given job code and level.
We have a 5 cent bag fee too (Switzerland), and it works just fine. I fail to see the problem?

Our bags have big bar codes to scan, and there's also a big "+1 bag" button on the self checkout machines.
It's winter, the bees were hibernating. They won't be able to fly for more than a second or two in the cold if they were warm enough to get going.
10+ years before a green card? Yeesh. That’s an outrageously long time to wait for permanent resident status.
Well duh, if the alternative is destitution I would be willing to do all kinds of degrading things.

Nobody wants those jobs, they're a means to an end. We are overflowing with useful work that needs to be done and can only be done by humans. There's really no reason to have professional ditch diggers and fillers.
This is not going to be a popular opinion. My opinion has kind of changed on H1B people. I have talked to a bunch of these folks and they were hating on other immigrants. Some of the people from South American countries are basically are coming here so they don't get killed.

Most of the H1Bs could get a job in their country and at least have some safety. Everyone is just trying to better their lives.

India Graduates vastly more people than america. Even if only 10% of them are any good that is a massive number of good people. I am not sayings only 10% are any good its just a number. American companies should just go over there if they want.

Did you know you can get perm residency in Canada and its not nearly as hard. Why hasn't Canada surpassed the US for tech jobs?
OP is arguing the moral principle in reply to someone trying to justify a moral wrong, but OP's original point is that the practicalities observably trump morals, despite this being wrong. I don't think it's helpful for you to switch tack back to practicalities again on this branch.
Getting an H1B is 90% of the way to getting a green card but with that weird company control, so why not cut the crud and do like the UK and Australia do: have a point based system that allows immigrants to directly apply for talent-based permanent residence?
If salaries are low, the employer doesn't need a visa program. They need to raise wages.
Isn’t the purpose of the visa for a company to fill a hard to fill position? If that’s the case, it doesn’t make sense to give that visa to some random worker since the purpose is for a business to fill a specific role for which there is no suitable American.

H1B is not an immigrant visa. It’s a temporary visa. Also pretty much everywhere in Asia has the same kind of visa and it’s always tied to the employer. This kind of visa isn’t some uniquely American outlier.
An Introduction to Cryptography [pdf]
>Just give me an endpoint where I can respond to HTTP requests and parse the URL path/parematers myself, thank you.

This would be "lambda proxy"with api gateway. Happy to post code samples or whatever.

You can also specify via slightly watered down regex what controller is called, and even do "nothing matched go here"configuration

it's clunky, it needs work, but it's been great for crud or utility stuff
Using the values directly is not the same thing as feeding the values into a RNG.
So how many bits does it produce per second per lamp?
It is rather ironic that you should write that, when the poster had already clarified his meaning (for those who had not realized it from the context in which it was originally made) and in the very post to which you were replying, no less.
Agreed. Friendships happen after work. Either after hours or (more rarely) after you no longer work together.

I've got a handful of close friends that I used to work with. Including a couple of former managers. But that friendship and trust didn't really start until after we parted ways.

It works the other way too. I recruited one of those friends for my team at my last job. I've known this guy seems like forever. I was at his wedding 12 years ago and took care of his dog during his honeymoon. Threw his divorce party. Started a business with him. Let him stay with me when he was feeling down about the divorce. Celebrated his new wedding with him and play with their daughter while we watch football and eat pizza. We've loaned each other cash when we were having rough times.

But when he walked in the door on my team a few months ago, nothing needed to be said. Total professionalism. Just people trying to solve problems. We hang out and be friends on our own time. And work is just work.

But the risk is still there in non-tenured situations. There was a situation at the company we started together when things were not going super well. And he had to let me go. I wouldn't want to do that anymore than he did at the time, but if I had to for <reasons> it's a thing that could be done without destroying the friendship.

I'm also hoping to go back to a company I used to work for with a manager I really liked. We've stayed friends since I worked there before, and I'm excited to go back for a number of reasons. But the bottom line is that once I sign that piece of paper that says "at will employee", I have to treat it the same as any other job that has no guarantees. And I can't rely on any past friendship with that person.

Work is work. In a culture that awards tenure only to a certain select group of people, work is always--as you put it--transactional. Trust really doesn't enter the equation.
Employment Based Green Card is for the future worker. The proper way it's supposed to work is that, when hiring for non-temporary positions, you go straight for the EBGC for the foreign worker. Who, of course, is not working for you yet so he gets his GC for the future job. And it's the way it worked before H1 program has been introduced in 1990.

What happens now is that people are hired in the H1B status, which is, by definition, a status for temporary worker. And then the vast majority of them suddenly realize that the job is not temporary (wow, surprise!) and they need to be in a permanent status to do this job, nobody else can (here is the proof that we tried to find somebody and failed, honestly!). So they need to go through adjustment of status (AOS) process to change their "temporary worker" status to the "permanent resident" one. Of course, while the process is going, the worker is in a vulnerable position. On one hand, he or she just claimed that they have been in the wrong status (by requesting it to be adjusted) so their temporary status became even more temporary, so to say. On the other, the EBGC has not been granted yet so the worker remains in the state of, essentially, temporary suspended deportation. For the great benefit of the employer, of course.

Don't you find this strange that so many companies fail to estimate permanency of their jobs? Don't you think they might be doing this intentionally in order to exploit the AOS process?
- left my old job like every year or so

- commenced an MSc course focussing on AI and Machine Learning

- according to GitHub I've created 624 commits and 35 new repositories in 2017

- built Botlang (https://botlang.org/), a scripting language for conversational chatbots

- have begun blogging about this and that (https://www.matchilling.com/blog/)
Generating large amounts of banking/credit card data in a fixed width format in Go and python.

In an effort to reduce technical debt I've deleted 40-50K of lines of code in my work code base.
I'm looking forward to the future value of my oceanfront property in Pittsburgh.
An automated system to drown the competition on Google and review sites... Hey, no one else offered me money for something else, so...
Maybe changing the default would be a good idea? Just a thought :)
I think people are for the most part honest and good, I think it’s overlooked how much goodness is inherent to our nature.
I worked mainly on open source side projects such as:

Sandglass https://github.com/celrenheit/sandglass a distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time ordered message queue. It was developed to support asynchronous tasks and message scheduling which makes it suitable for usage as a task queue.

Sandflake https://github.com/celrenheit/sandflake decentralized, sequential, lexicographically sortable unique id.
On the other hand, it's just a piece of plastic machined in an automated process. Exactly the type of thing that has become nearly free in the modern age.
I find the best approach is the keep the code base small enough so you can keep everything in your head. Knowing that if you change something you also have to update this and that , and make sure feature x, y, z still works (which could be done with automated tests).
I love Jeff's way of thinking. I watched a YouTube video where he explains that he identifies a particular form of conversation - for stack overflow it is Q&A - and then hones in and builds a perfect environment where such conversation can take place.

Discourse is an awesome offering too,I hope that commercially it can lead a long life.
Are you suggesting a gamma ray beam? Or neutron beam? (You couldn't do an alpha particle beam - that's stopped by a sheet of paper... and the beta particle ray would have difficulty with the building construction).

This then goes to the question of "where are you getting a focused gamma ray beam that has sufficient rate that you're able to modulate the period between two detection events?"
Yeah, and the point is to create other options. We like to grandstand about how infrastructure in the US is degrading but then scoff at the idea of liberating millions of people's time to actually work on it.
Yes, I've used it for a few months. That's the reason I've started working on my thing. I felt that it didn't have the features that I needed the most (hyphenation, dropcaps, ad removal etc.) and I would have felt like a jerk to ask for these things from the developer.
These are not common needs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Room (film)
I don't get the hype for elementary. It looks like an other gtk-themed os. I swear by Manjaro kde now, it looks gorgeous out of the box.
Deeper analysis by whom? Who cares about deeper analysis anymore?
Also from pittsburgh - can’t wait for the 3 rivers to be a real delta to the Atlantic!
What are you talking about?

Facebook already offers E2E encrypted chats (both in Messenger and WhatsApp). Offering broadcast communication (such as public posts) pretty much flies in the face of offering E2E encryption (the author wants a large group of people to see what they wrote, not have to enumerate everyone who is allowed to see it).

Governments generally don't care about controlling content of messaging, they care about the wide spread of information (accurate or not).
I’d like to see this at my local grocery store. Then again, online ordering has free delivery for $100 minimum order. Even for stuff you buy at the store, it caches that in a history list for online ordering (assuming you paid with a debit/credit card).
> Some of the people from South American countries are basically are coming here so they don't get killed.

So? That’s a problem for their government to solve, not mine.
I dislike the ones where you take all your products to the checkout bay and scan them yourself while you bag them. But my local supermarket recently got a much better system with a portable scanner you take with you. As you choose products, you scan them and put them straight into the bags. When you're done you go to the checkout bay and put the scanner in a cradle, pay, and you're done.
https://introspected.rest/ a kind-of publication and self-research around REST and APIs. One thing that I definitely learned is that these kind of things are much harder than writing some code.
> The problem I have with meeting people from "real life" is that they're mostly random people that I usually have little to nothing in common with.

What meeting people in real life means is basically just getting on with your life and doing things that interest you. Like comics? Go to a comic shop. Fascinated by chainmail bikinis? Start spending time at Renaissance Faires - or learn to make them and build a community around yourself. Enjoy mountain biking? Go biking, then go grab coffee or drinks with some other people doing the same. Don't focus on doing these activities to meet potential romantic partners - do them to have fun because you enjoy them and meet other people who enjoy the same things. Don't expect those people to be possible partners, expect them to be friends or acquaintances and to be people through whom you may meet a possible romantic interest.

To quote Ben Carson, "I don't have facts to back this up," but I feel pretty sure that a huge percentage of relationships come from either having some common activity (e.g. "high school," "college," "coworker") or from knowing someone in common (e.g. "friend's brother/sister/other friend").

The one thing I can pretty much guarantee for you is that sitting at home and hoping for a date with an interesting delivery person (or service person if something goes out) is not going to be a successful approach - and if you're that delivery or service person instead, remember that asking out someone whose home or office you've just gone to would be just as creepy as being hit on by the people you've been sent to.