skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mom says to tell you "Pretty please, be nice".

Help me understand please. How does owning land and leasing it to an almond farmer result in knowing quite a bit about this problem? I'll grant you that you might be seeing bees die and the effect this might have on crops. Not sure that helps understand the problem.

Are you a biologist? Perhaps a chemist? Virologist? Have you devoted decades to researching bee biology? Have you performed controlled studies on your land or lab to isolate potential vectors, contagions, chemicals and observe their effects over a number of populations and over time? Have you published any research papers based on your work?

Not taking sides other than to say that this is a complex problem that only true science can resolve. You could stop all insecticides and chemical treatments for a few years and see what happens. No need for a PhD on that one, but you have to be willing to make huge sacrifices in terms of crop yields.
Upvote for the best named project I've ever seen.
I realise you can rebind them, but both screen and tmux do themselves a disservice by choosing binding keys which overlap with prominent keys in emacs and for users who use emacs mode in their shell.

First impressions count.

If you want to configure tmux to use just a backtick as the escape, create ~/.tmux.conf

unbind C-b
set -g prefix `
bind-key ` send-prefix

When you need to type a backtick just press it twice.

For screen, I used to do this:

escape ``

.. in ~/.screenrc, but I've just tried it and it seems that there's now no easy way to type a backtick when you need one.

Query: in screen I can switch between two buffers by doing ctrl+a, ctrl+a. This doesn't work in tmux. How do I configure this to work in tmux?
The lottery is one where everyone pretty much has equal odds of success. Individuals, especially in startups, tend not to have equal odds at all. It's a game of skill, not luck.
msisto, you appear to be hellbanned.

> I remember being at a basement show in Allston when I was 18 that was broken up by the cops and thinking "This is so fucking cool". I mean, it's a pain in the ass and sucks for the bands. It can totally ruin your night, but for me it totally fanned the flames and made me love it even more.

> What this article doesn't mention is that the cop who was using the Lemmingtrail board to find out about house shows kept posting even after being outed, eventually being somewhat-ironically accepted into the community. I regularly saw him at shows after he'd been exposed and he was always friendly.
That's not how the credit card system works. The merchant first makes an "Authorization" which is a promise by the credit card company to pay the merchant that amount of money within the next 90 days. When they make that promise, they check the customer's account to verify that there are enough funds and then deduct that amount from the available funds.

Assuming everything else goes as expected, the merchant then issues a "Capture" which finalizes the transaction, and they receive the funds once settled (within 24 hours).

If the CC # details were stolen or the customers otherwise feels that it was a fraudulent transaction, they can call up the bank who will do what's called a "chargeback" and take the money back from the merchant plus a $25 "fuck you" fee.

Fraud rates are expected to be less than 1%, if they get higher than that you get in trouble as a merchant.

But the thing that's absolutely not happening is blind shipping of goods or delivery of electronic goods with a guess that the customer will probably pay, even below any amount.
What is the potential impact of Bitcoin forking, given that it's trivial[1]?

Q1. We can differentiate between fiat currencies by looking at the qualities of the issuing authority, and thus determine that it's better to have savings in Swiss Francs rather than Zimbabwean Dollars. With Bitcoin, Litecoin and other forks, how do we differentiate apart from popularity of the network?

Q2. I've heard the argument that Bitcoin is valuable because there is scarcity in the system, a limit to the number of coins, thus it is similar to gold. However, if tomorrow somebody discovered vast amounts of pink gold, with exactly the same chemical and physical properties as gold, except for the colour, it's likely the price of gold would fall. As Bitcoin is facing this exact scenario via forking, what are the potential consequences, and does it even matter?

[1] http://litecoin.org (changed the hashing algorithm from SHA256 to Scrypt)
Why not ship with fsck.zfs="zpool clear -F data"? Then people would stop complaining.
The Barkley Marathons - Few Know How to Enter - Fewer Finish
i suggest new commer give byobu a try, a wrapper of tmux.
Is it just me or is the entire article premised on this sentence:

"If we admit there are structural barriers to entry, and a culture that actively discourages and women and men of color from participating, then it logically follows that technology is not a meritocracy."

However, she fails to demonstrate/prove this fact. So if one doesn't admit it, the whole opus is hard to take seriously.
Could you ask your beekeeper friend if other varieties of bees (and wasps as well) are equally sensitive to pesticides as well? In my tiny little urban garden, I'm noticing that there are fewer of other varieties of bees than in past years, and my hunch is that this is due to the chemicals being used to control mosquito populations. Likely this year I am going to pony up for the vial of parasitic wasps in addition to a new crop of mason bees, because the parasites are very much winning now.
Not entirely happy to see NYT blowing up the Barkley, but this is a fascinating subculture.
It's easy to look back and say "see, it didn't do any harm!" Predicting the future is much more difficult, and it's perfectly reasonable to look at past trends in that prediction. If Frauenhofer had stopped giving out licenses, would you still be making that argument? If they started patent trolling, what would you be saying?

Calling someone out after the fact for warning about the potential for harm when the risk is very real based on what happened in the past just sounds like revisionism.
> That beekeepers are good enough at and persistent enough about shopping for the relative quality of the syrup they are buying to be relevant is entirely unbelievable.

I'm going to paraphrase that statement a bit:
"It's entirely unbelievable that a beekeeper's decisions in corn syrup selection could be relevant to colony collapse disorder."

That seems to operate on the assumption that every 5 gallon bucket of corn syrup is perfectly identical, no matter the supplier.

But I'll shoot down my own assumption that every bee keeper, who has experienced colony collapse disorder affecting their hives, has actually even used corn syrup explicitly as bee feed for their bees. I'm only taking that technique from the premise of the research I read about.
Scrubbing is more like reading the block, calculate the checksum. It's the same as stored for the block (not at the block, important difference)? Nice. Not the same checksum. Go to the mirror and fetch the correct one, respectively use an algorithm to calculate the missing block from the raidz1/2/3 set and write it to the disk with the error.
The .NET positions are typically higher in salary, but they also have a wider range. The ROR positions all seem to be within about $10,000 of each other.
Special forces training is taken by a large number of people - some of these people are just chancing it, hoping they will be able to push through anyway but not really prepared or ready for it. Others, like your brother, are fully prepared. When looking at a base rate, it's important to understand the different divisions inside that base rate and the reasons people drop out.

In special training, the reasons people are likely to drop out are because they aren't physically fit enough to cope. This gives your a brother a good indication - he likely knows others of similar fitness to him who passed. The key here is that there isn't much randomness involved - either you are fit enough or you aren't.

Startups are a completely different ballgame. The main factors behind dropping out are a complete mystery - team composition, relationships, lucky deals with investors, hitting your marketing in at the same time some other big player pulls out or pitches in - the list is endless and impossible to even fully understand.

Basically what I'm trying to get at is that comparing something you have complete control over (special forces training) vs something you don't (a startup's success) is not a great analogy.

However you're still correct anyway - the best indicator of whether a startup succeeds is whether or not they try in the first place! So it's always best to try and ignore the baseline.
I continue to be amazed by the people who install "random binaries" via PPA.

I guess I assume that if you want cutting-edge packages you'll use a cutting-edge release/distribution. If you don't, and you want something more recent then it seems to make sense to make your own packages, or install locally via gnu-stow, or similar.
Creating Marketplace 3.0
We are not going to migrate away from JavaScript (it would be impossible). We are figuring out how to use JavaScript without JavaScript's own warts.
In forms validate dictionaries, the example makes no sense. At first, I assumed this was a duplicate key issue, but I cannot reproduce this problem.

>>> good_form = MyForm({"title": "Two Scoops of Django"})
>>> good_form.is_valid()
True
>>> good_form.errors
{}
>>> bad_form = MyForm({"title": "Two Scoops of Django"})
>>> bad_form.is_valid()
True
>>> bad_form.errors
{}
> Query: in screen I can switch between two buffers by doing ctrl+a, ctrl+a. This doesn't work in tmux. How do I configure this to work in tmux?

"Ctrl-b n" for next-window?
I know learning C might seem a bit of a waste of time, but given Obj-C, C++, Python and Ruby can leverage it for performance it's not a bad thing to learn.
Amazon actually paid $150M for Goodreads - from AllThingsD
In light of the other thread about the BS $1B valuation based on an active users count (this is why the businessweek's of the world don't get tech), this price makes a lot more sense - Goodreads' users are not worth the same as LinkedIn or even Facebook.
"ctrl-[prefix] z" toggles zooming in on a pane now, this is awesome!!!
Again, there would be less demos/free apps if not for this, this is to motivate the developers.
I used to use tmuxinator, but it's pretty much abandoned. There are pull requests that are over a year old. On the other hand, I submitted a pull request to teamocil and it was merged the same day.
I don't think so ... it's going to be infinitely recursive in terms of "middle or connecting pieces that are the new bottleneck".

Some vested interest or IP complication will reassert itself into the same chokepoint as soon as (insert your future state here) comes true...
I had the same problem with Hack Design! Ended up unsubscribing because I could just never find the time to do it...
C really is fantastic language to learn. When I learned it, I also came from the scripting language world (Python, PHP). Having that as a base, then learning C, lead to revelations about how those scripting languages are created, and how the data structures I took for granted in a scripting language are actually implemented.

From what I understand in formal CS courses, you learn from the bottom up, but learning from the top down was much more enlightening for me.
Parleys presentation sharing tools switched to full HTML5
Sequoia has a really good outline on their site of things that every entrepreneur should know or be able to explain about their company:

COMPANY PURPOSE
-Define the company/business in a single declarative sentence.

PROBLEM
-Describe the pain of the customer (or the customer’s customer).
-Outline how the customer addresses the issue today.

SOLUTION
-Demonstrate your company’s value proposition to make the customer’s life better.
-Show where your product physically sits.
-Provide use cases.

WHY NOW
-Set-up the historical evolution of your category.
-Define recent trends that make your solution possible.

MARKET SIZE
-Identify/profile the customer you cater to.
-Calculate the TAM (top down), SAM (bottoms up) and SOM.

COMPETITION
-List competitors
-List competitive advantages

PRODUCT
-Product line-up (form factor, functionality, features, architecture, intellectual property).
-Development roadmap.

BUSINESS MODEL
-Revenue model
-Pricing
-Average account size and/or lifetime value
-Sales & distribution model
-Customer/pipeline list

TEAM
-Founders & Management
-Board of Directors/Board of Advisors

FINANCIALS
-P&L
-Balance sheet
-Cash flow
-Cap table
-The deal
Check out http://teamtreehouse.com/ as a basic business model that's similar and works.
Detached sessions on remote systems.
You find out who Satoshi is (private investigator) , and you hack their computer. Since they invented bitcoin there's a good chance that they own a nontrivial percentage of all currently mined bitcoins.

Likewise you could hack the computers of early adopters who own a lot of bitcoins (back when mining was easy). For example, someone paid someone else 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza a few years ago.

You now own a significant portion all all the bitcoins.

Alternatively, hire security professionals and finds bugs in the bitcoin protocol or client software. You may be able to force another fork.
Add these to your ~/.tmux.conf

setw -g mode-mouse on
setw -g mouse-select-window on
setw -g mouse-select-pane on
setw -g mouse-resize-pane on

Then you can scroll in panes, but also select like normal by holding alt/option.
That's not quite what I'm after. I guess it's hard for non-screen people to know what I'm talking about from my vague description above :)

Here's a scenario to show what I mean: you're in buffer 5. You switch to buffer 2. Now if you do ctrl+a, ctrl+a, you leap back to buffer 5. And if you do it again, you go back to buffer 2. This is great when you're editing code in one session and running it in the other.
Being in Tampa, FL is definitely a limiting factor in my desire to continue working professionally with Rails. However, I really do not want to relocate at this time. I guess I've been lurking on HN too long, because the availability of .NET jobs and lack of ROR jobs in my area was still surprising.
I'm hopeful that if they integrate the reviews at all (and I'm not sure they will — I suspect there's a different plan here), it'll be solely in the Goodreads→Amazon direction.

Amazon have a fairly good history of letting the companies they acquire stay fairly autonomous and independent.
"How? ZFS refuses to mount/import a corrupt filesystem."

zpool clear -F $POOLNAME

http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6067-PSARC-2009479-zpool-re...
#recruiterSPAM
We're seeing the beginnings of this with Apple's lightning connector. It's designed to be as flexible as possible, to the point where the AV cable that attaches to it has an ARM chip in it and runs (a very stripped down) OS X. By moving smarts out of the computer's port and into the cable, they make the port as simple and generic as possible.

I completely disagree on cursive handwritng though. I use that every day.
Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors
D'oh! Typo on my part. Fixed.
related: https://twitter.com/notpolice
Lucky you, but the rest is a hasty generalization.
Incompatible Changes
====================

* layout redo/undo has been removed.

Normal Changes
==============

* Add halfpage up/down bindings to copy mode.

* Session choosing fixed to work with unattached sessions.

* New window options window-status-last-{attr,bg,fg} to denote the last
window which was active.

* Scrolling in copy-mode now scrolls the region without moving the mouse
cursor.

* run-shell learnt '-t' to specify the pane to use when displaying output.

* Support for middle-click pasting.

* choose-tree learns '-u' to start uncollapsed.

* select-window learnt '-T' to toggle to the last window if it's already
current.

* New session option 'assume-paste-time' for pasting text versus key-binding
actions.

* choose-* commands now work outside of an attached client.

* Aliases are now shown for list-commands command.

* Status learns about formats.

* Free-form options can be set with set-option if prepended with an '@'
sign.

* capture-pane learnt '-p' to send to stdout, and '-e' for capturing escape
sequences, and '-a' to capture the alternate screen, and '-P' to dump
pending output.

* Many new formats added (client_session, client_last_session, etc.)

* Control mode, which is a way for a client to send tmux commands.
Currently more useful to users of iterm2.

* resize-pane learnt '-x' and '-y' for absolute pane sizing.

* Config file loading now reports errors from all files which are loaded via
the 'source-file' command.

* 'copy-pipe' mode command to copy selection and pipe the selection to a
command.

* Panes can now emit focus notifications for certain applications
which use those.

* run-shell and if-shell now accept formats.

* resize-pane learnt '-Z' for zooming a pane temporarily.

* new-session learnt '-A' to make it behave like attach-session.

* set-option learnt '-o' to prevent setting an option which is already set.

* capture-pane and show-options learns '-q' to silence errors.

* New command 'wait-for' which blocks a client until woken up again.

* Resizing panes will now reflow the text inside them.

* Lots and lots of bug fixes, fixing memory-leaks, etc.

* Various manpage improvements.
I don't understand why you would use LaTeX to lay out a poster. It just doesn't seem like the right tool for that kind of job to me.

I concede that I may be missing something though, since everyone else seems to like it.
bind C-a last-window

Switch the C-a for whatever your bind-key is.
Startup success and lottery wins are very different things. You don't get better at lottery as you buy more tickets over the years; but you get better at your trade as you do it more and more, even if you fail at each previous attempt to start a company.

If you see it as a lottery, then it doesn't make sense for people to try starting their own companies after several failed trials when they reach some middle age, as they really don't have much time left. But, it is just the opposite, because they are actually much better at seeing pitfalls and bs, and are a lot more likely to be successful.

So, the statistics do matter, you just need to know the kind of statistics that apply. As a rule of thumb, in real life, it is usually not the lottery kind.
Ah nice one about the /etc/services
I guess most of /etc/passwd should also be prohibited
> Treasury paper is as dangerous as holding your money in a Cyprus bank.

You were making some interesting points, but this kind of hyperbole makes it very difficult to take you seriously.
My thoughts:

It's impossible to know what is NeverFold by looking at the front page without. You need to watch about one minute of a video. I guess a user must be really interested in the thing to invest this time. I think images with text quickly explaining what it actually is would be helpful.
(NOTE: I just noticed you can scroll down the page!)

The concept itself is very good. I can believe it saves a lot of time.

When I thought about actually buying it I noticed it would take a lot of space. And clothing would be publicly visible. Not for small apartements.

Am I correct this site was created for crowd funding this one product? I would trust more a site that specializes in it (external authority).
thank you sir! I am now entirely migrated to tmux. :)
Thanks for the reply. I actually began learning from tutorials and I agree it is hard to to tell what to use and if you're actually learning.

I want to create a clear cut system on how to plan, wireframe and actually design beautiful websites. I think the one-on-one help can be an added benefit and of course I would be fully engaged in my community - not just posting videos but actually critiquing and helping users get better.
Well now I feel old. When I was in high school, CS was a required course for graduation and it was taught in C++ (that being the pedagogical language of the APCS exam). It wasn't even that long ago (late 1990's).
As far as I know there is no limit on the number of transactions, but there is a limit on the total number of possible bitcoins (about 21 million IIRC)
I meditate once a day, usually just 10 minutes, alone. I usually focus on breathing and every time i spot a thought i say (in my mind): "thought", then i let go of the thought and go back to meditation.
Apart from this kind of meditation i sometime practice mindlessness during the day, to be more aware of what's around me or to better taste life in general.

Apart from making me feel more calm and centered, it is a powerful exercise to train your mind not to wander aimlessly and be more focused when you need to.

I found it extremely useful to stop wining or suppressing not funcional thoughts during hard times, to ignore annoying stimuli from outside (and inside) and to better manage feelings/thoughts.

i would express this exercise like this:
core training : physical = meditation : mental
"And the whole point of RAID is to combat that..."

Actually the whole point of RAID is to combat a MISSING drive, not a corrupt drive. Parity works when I'm lacking one bit ... not when any of my bits might be lying.

Half of the reason of ZFS is to protect against the scenarios when a drive's internal checksum should catch a data error - but the drives returns bogus data and says 'oh its good'. RAID5 can't catch that(mathematically impossible) ... RAID6 can but most implementations don't check because its expensive(extra IO and calcs)

This is the reason most of your high end SAN vendors don't just deploy RAID5/6/10 but also checksum the data themselves under the covers. They don't trust even high end SAS/FC drives.
Yeah connectivity is going to continue to only slowly get better. The cost of upgrading the infrastructure is just so high and older venues don't always have the room for upgrading DAS systems.

It'll be another 3 years before things are really ironed out in the newer buildings. Not sure how older ones will manage to deal with the situation.
Society has an interest in certain things being covered (immunizations, infectious disease, some education required for basic citizenship). A single cash payment with no requirement that people buy or receive certain services might not be ideal. There are also issues of distribution -- alcoholic dad taking all the cash for a large family is more likely than taking all the free k-12, medical care, etc.

I still generally like the idea, but there are implementation concerns.
I use that screen behaviour for panes:

bind C-a last-pane

but last-window exists too.
All software sucks. All of it. Even the software I love. All we can do is try to leave the campsite slightly less polluted than you found it.
I am leaning towards opensourcing it, but we don't want to do it too soon unless we realize we want to do a PaaS sort of thing.
"My hypothesis is that most children are emotionally damaged by this upbringing. But a small percentage, whose brain chemistry and wiring is set for resilience ..."

This relentlessness, stress immunity, etc. -- these are "positive" characteristics of primary psychopathy. And it is associated with having a rough childhood. Maybe that's what he's referring to? On the other hand, it's such a small fraction of the population, maybe it's irrelevant?
Have they said that they're going to merge those?
The opened up controller looks kind of haggard. The controller in the image here looks more abused than ny 6 year old XBox 360 controller, hopefully their production models are more durable than this one looks.
Yep, there are a few potential ways that could be exceptions, depending on the bug. But let's not kid ourselves, nobody in the real world properly quarantines their DB servers anyway ;)
Abort / Retry / Fail?
> It's a game of skill, not luck.

I'm gonna guess that you didn't found a company at the Nasdaq peak in April of 2000.
Oh hai. Academics deconstruct the LOLcat meme