skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just picking one of your "sources", here's what the European Food Safety Authority is saying about bees on their website ( http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/beehealth.htm );

> No single cause of declining bee numbers has been identified. However, several contributing factors have been suggested, acting in combination or separately. _These include the effects of intensive agriculture and pesticide use_, starvation and poor bee nutrition, viruses, attacks by pathogens and invasive species – such as the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor), the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina), the small hive beetle Aethina tumida and the bee mite Tropilaelaps – genetically modified plants, and environmental changes (e.g. habitat fragmentation and loss).

Looks like his step dad is a better source than yours.

Just out of interest, are you paid troll? Shame to see this kind of BS on HN
I think a lot of these things also aren't thought through:

1) Driverless cars might possibly allow higher capacity/speeds on major highway thoroughfares, causing cities to expand. Or, they might totally solve the "last mile" problem of commuter rail. High-speed car travel dramatically increases wear and tear on roads, and building more highly-worn roads further out might not make as much sense as building out rail.[1]

2) Driverless cars may case semi-urban areas (like Palo Alto or Tyson's Corner in Virginia) to contract, because of the dramatic reduction in parking requirements.

It's not clear that the prevailing trends are towards bigger, sprawlier houses. Indeed, at least on the east coast, the development seems to be on moderate-density mixed commercial/residential in places like Northern Virginia. In the Chicago area (not east coast, I know), satellite cities like Aurora have been growing at 20-40% the last few decades. In the D.C. area, Arlington has been growing at double-digit rates over that period, and Alexandria has averaged about double digits. I can easily imagine driverless cars moving this trend along, replacing core cities with sprawling suburbs with core cities surrounded by dense satellite towns, connected by rail.

[1] One of the interesting things about say the Metro North railroad I take to work is how relatively undisruptive it is to the surrounding area. There are nice houses a stones-throw away from the rail line, while there would never be such houses that close to a highway. And even the 2x2 express arrangement fits the capacity of a major highway into the space of a very modest suburban road. The whole Metro North system moves 300,000 people into Manhattan each weekday and operates on a meager budget of $200 million/year. I don't think there is any way you could maintain a comparable highway network for that price, and that's before you factor-in gas/mileage on the vehicles (which, operating at higher speed, are going to use more energy and wear out faster--it's simple physics).

EDIT: I've seen 7-15 cents per vehicle mile quoted for maintenance and traffic services. Metro North probably represents a few billion vehicle miles equivalent.
If anything, it’s a religious slur, and it is neither intended as a slur nor as some sort of insult.

Taking offence in random statements is highly annoying.
> Emacs bash and make for all programming

It seems if you pick your tools well you can accomplish a lot with a little
Just look at the recent KDE git disaster. A lot of things went wrong there, but fundamentally the issue was ext4 silently returning bad data.

The thing about fsck-like recovery tools is you need to have a failure mode in mind when you write them. ZFS can fix most of those types of errors thanks to the checksums and on-disk redundancy on the fly. Or at least tell you that something is now going wrong and which files are affected.
Harlem studios are nowhere near $2500 - $2500 is at at the upper bound of studio prices in Manhattan, outside of anomalous neighborhoods like TriBeCa.

You can easily get into the $2K range in Chelsea, a bit less on the Upper East Side, and in the high $1Ks in the Village. Harlem is gentrifying, but the last prices I've seen there aren't anywhere close to $2500.

Manhattan housing prices are more or less stabilized as all of the manic demand has moved to Brooklyn. DUMBO, Williamsburg, Park Slope, are now giving even the most expensive parts of Manhattan a run for their money.
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I just want to point out (as a Microsoft employee) that Microsoft is very actively using node.js internally. Many services are already using it and many more are starting projects with it.

I suspect the author did this as an evaluation to see which would work best for a future project, not a teardown piece on the platform. We really love node.js - seriously!
Hook this code up to redstone (the nodejs server also on the front page) and you'll really have something :) Not to detract from the demo, it's really cool!
I mean

self.dy = 0.050 # jump speed

Jump higher for more fun...
> Denying that this is not true

They're openly admitting to it!
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If I were judging this case, I'd call a car an inherently dangerous instrumentality and hold drivers strictly liable.
Seems like there's a fair bit of evidence around neonicotinoids being the cause.

http://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/without_honeybees_we_may_cea...

I really don't feel like the EPA or USDA has our backs. Those organizations tend to be pretty well integrated with lobbyists from large agro-corps.
And architecture is more than just arts. Perhaps more relevant than the existence of multidisciplinary fields is the low employment of monodisciplinary fields?
Aw ok, I clearly didn't research this enough. Thanks!
> Just out of interest, are you paid troll? Shame to see this kind of BS on HN

This is the reason why I think that off topic articles like this should be mercilessly squelched. They turn into flame wars within an hour or two.
it is sans, obviously. a font without serifs (and this one has definetly no serifs) can not be serif.
This is why people think BTRFS isn't any good, because someone waltses up and says yeah well it doens't have XXX feature which only _one_ other filesystem has so its clearly lacking and immature. The truth it it works great its sufficently fast and has been stable for years. Yes it doesn't have Raid5 or Raid Z if you would like and I can't import and export pools the way I can in ZFS, but honestly if you jumping on a FS that has been marked stable for all of two days on Linux and your reasoning is you can't do software raid on the other one then best of luck to you.
yes, I would agree with you a lot on what you said above. The war with china (if any) is not on the military level, but is and should be on the socio-economic development issues.

we should ought to say, that we both have 1 billion+ people, lets see who can do things for them better, who can eradicate cancer/malaria/dengue/H1N1/etc, who can provide better education and opportunities, and much more.

The fights of today and tomorrow should not be fought with guns and explosives, it should be with budgets and plan implementations.
Why are big houses far down the list? What's high on the list?
This article is a year old...
Oh... and you think Erlang or Haskell frameworks are mainstream while you fail to mention ASP.net?
That's a lot of ignoring to do. In the last feminism related thread I can think of (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5432277), the majority of people were, to put it mildly, not exactly progressive. That includes two mainstays of the HN community, with 15k+ karma.

The last one before that got flagged off the front page after one commenter declared that he was flagging it because programs that help women are sexist (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353136). The story was highly upvoted, but it only takes a handful of flags to relegate a story to oblivion. Pg commented that it was an abuse of flagging, and it was restored, but pg usually doesn't show up, and most of these stories get buried, even when they're upvoted.

This story is a perfect example. With "19 points, 3 hours ago", it is ranked 151, right next two stories with "3 points, 14 hours ago".
Have I missed something, or is this simply giving the NATO alphabet spelling of the word you type, as you type it?
Wow, that's a very compelling story. Thank you for sharing.
People want point to point mass transit.

I'd love to use Mass Transit for my daily commute. But at 1 hour for taking the bus vs 10 minutes to drive, it just doesn't make sense.
Wrong thread then, apologies. Still hopefully useful information!
If you are going to bother answering people that want to pick at the details (I'm not sure it is worth it), why not give us an even baseline? Comparing 2011 poverty lines to "whenever" wages doesn't really mean anything.

Even in 1990, $14,000 was 'only' 3700 hours of minimum wage work, that's not 2 full time jobs, never mind 100 hours a week (I would think it fair to include school time as work, but it would also be fair to mention it). If this all happened before then, the 2011 poverty line isn't a very interesting point of reference.
"Great power" ROFL. We are a nation where most of the country lives in poverty and have a truckload of economic and social problems that we like to sweep under the carpet. Importing weapons does not make us a "great power".
I wouldn't say this is so obvious. There is also an study that the microwaves (from mobile phones) are affecting the bees and the birds.

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It won't be just fuel cost - personnel, recertifying/rehabbing the reusable equipment, etc. Cheaper, but likely not $200k by a long shot.
I think the type of comments you mentioned are not only relatively rare, but they are quickly downvoted when they occur. The thing that HN does not do well is political correctness. I think the Richards case was jarring to most tech folks (men and women) because someone was fired for being very mildly politically incorrect in a private conversation.
Really? Where are you reading that exactly? The European Food Safety Authority has done a formal peer review of independent studies and found reason to suggest that neonicotinoids pose a risk to colony survival and development. That is far from a conclusion that Colony Collapse Disorder can be attributed entirely or even mostly to pesticides.

[*] http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3066.htm
I don't understand why it's necessary for the server to be open, and have recursion enabled. I run a couple of authoritative name servers and have seen them used for amplification attacks. Sure, it's not as easy as querying every open recursive DNS server you can find for <single_domain_with_huge_sized_reply>.com, but there's still (literally) billions of unique hostnames on the internet which can be resolved "legitimately" via their authoritative name servers. There is no magical config option to prevent this; the only way to block this type of activity is to analyze traffic to find IPs that are repeatedly sending the same [spoofed] request.
You just supported his point - the EFSA in the text you quoted say there's not any single obvious factor, but some have been suggested. We really don't know the exact cause.

Making shill claims is really not helpful.
Using Fussell's class breakdown [1], it is likely that you haven't worked for any people in the "upper class"; you have met the several varieties of the middle class. Fussell's definitions of the class is more about their tastes and behaviors than about how rich they are.

The upper classes would never get on their hands and knees and pound nails, because they feel that it is beneath them. The uppers are content with who they are, and don't give a damn what the lower classes think. But they are also uninterested in new ideas and would not be curious about your profession.

The rich people that you work for are likely to be upper middle class. They are likely to have earned their wealth by working hard, so they can relate to the hard work you do, even if their work was "white collar" instead of "blue collar".

The "middle class" that you describe seem to be Fussell's "middle" or "high proletarian". They are near enough to your class that they are bitter to you because they feel threatened by you, or because they think that their snobbery makes them better than you (it doesn't — usually this is the mark of a person with low self confidence). They might also not be there when you work, because are also at work.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/d...
Come on, those are german cities/areas. These cities have harvested the best talent from the total german population (80 million) to come up so successful. Cyprus is 1/80th of that. And Germany has a huge science and engineering tradition, it didn't exactly form ex nihilo.

I'm not saying it's not desirable to be well diversified, it's just unrealistic to do it overnight (or over-decade for that matter)
There will be far less car accidents.
Transportation. San Francisco's Achille's Heel (though the city has many, many such heels).

If you look at the heatmap you will see that it corresponds to transportation infrastructure almost to the T. Areas with access to BART are expensive. Areas with access to a functioning MUNI train are expensive (along the J-Church, for example).

Outer and Inner Richmond has no mass transit, whatsoever. The Inner Sunset has the N-Judah train, which has about 1/4 the capacity it really needs - i.e., don't count on it getting you to work during rush hour. In fact, don't count on it getting you downtown during off hours either, given its notoriety on breakdowns... From the Outer Sunset to downtown the N-Judah easily takes a full hour.

Yes, to go six miles.

Transportation in San Francisco is really a clusterfuck. For the second densest city in the US it is positively shameful. Even sleepy Portland, OR, has a better transit system. In fact you can find mid-sized cities in the Midwest with better transit. SF is really the worst-run city I've ever lived in.

San Francisco is where people move to live the car-free, urban lifestyle, and then yearn for a car and beg for rides all the damned time.

Ultimately, you either give up and buy a vehicle, or you give up and develop legs of iron cycling over hills, or you move to the Mission.
Crooks would loot electronics and other valuables in the abandoned towns near Chernobyl and sell them to unsuspecting buyers.

The problem got so bad, the authorities resorted to imposing the death penalty on looters.
Down for me. As a TI-99/4A enthusiast I am quite anxious to read this!
If automated cars stop just one drunk driver from killing someone, I think the whole invention will be worth it if only for just that.

Because I've come to realize people are just going to drive drunk no matter what the penalties may be and judges are going to keep letting them back on the road. So maybe robots will cause better behavior despite some horrible people in society.
The article is down, and TI used a model number in the same series as their massively-popular handheld calculator line. People are probably thinking the article is complaining about the primitive screens that the calculators have.
This editor is incredible. How did you make it? Can I see the un-minified source code somewhere? I want to learn how to make this.
Interesting, especially at git support. How do you implement git on Android which don't have native git support?
zpool import -fFX, but sssh, don't tell anyone :)
Cool about the fact that there's increase in cargo capacity by 60%, but doesn't the grasshopper project will eventually reduce capacity to something like 1/10? (Can't find the quote right now but I swore I seen something like this)
I remember being obsessed with it for an afternoon. The design of it looks awesome, but I think it's a victim of being built on a particularly annoying stack.

Redone as a webapp w/an easily setup server, even with no other UX changes, and I'd absolutely use it. I'm going to put researching that on my substandard todo list:)
A plush toy, is only a non-living thing, that sits and do nothing, NAM is a 115 country strong organization, most of which are countries that joined it to not align based on military issues, but on development issues, with someone like India, who have also been under colonial rule like them
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Let's note that the EFSA stated a list of causes that includes pesticides, but his step-dad "knows" that it is all solely caused by pesticides.
It could equally have been due to a disease infecting the colony. In our department several labs work with bees, and I spend a fair bit of time in the bee colony room. Sometimes a colony will come in that is just infested with mites or some other parasite, and they start dropping (excuse the pun) like flies.
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It is a slur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew_%28word%29#Antisemitism and the word "Jew" does not only refer to a specific religion, but also "those who have some Jewish ancestral background or lineage" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew#Who_is_a_Jew.3F Further, the only definition of "jewing" is offensive https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jewing
Are you suggesting that supports his step-dad's conclusion that "it's obviously the pesticides"? What could be more clear?

"No single cause of declining bee numbers has been identified"
"Several contributed factors have been suggested"

If that, in your opinion, amounts to "it's obviously the pesticides", then I guess you can think of me as some kind of troll. If, instead, you can understand that making simplistic and overreaching statements like "it's obviously the pesticides" does nothing to help the bees and instead just brings the conversation down to a third grade level, then no, I'm not a troll.
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I found these papers through a link trail beginning with a HuffPo article further down the page, but I'm directly linking them here due to relevance.

There seem to be multiple studies indicating that 'neonic' pesticides are responsible for large portions of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) symptomology [1,2,3]. However, your skepticism is not entirely unjust. Other scientists have linked portions of CCD to various factors involved in industrial bee culture, including artificial insemination of queens and lack of biodiversity.

[1] - Assessment of the environmental exposure of honeybees to particulate matter containing neonicotinoid insecticides coming from corn coated seeds.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22292570

[2] - In situ replication of honey bee colony collapse disorder

http://stream.loe.org/images/120406/Lu%20final%20proof.pdf

[3] - Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6079/351
What would be very interesting is to set up an open WiFi access point which alters any HTTP response from an unknown MAC address, inserting a local copy of the script tag right before the /head tag. You could also prank your friends with this by installing it as a GreaseMonkey script or a Chrome extension.
I am the author of the article, though I didn't submit the headline. I'm fairly used to this sort of criticism, especially when I create something targeted at beginners.

You're correct and not only does it not add value but the person you are criticizing gives no weight to your opinion, because you just look like a "hater". Seems like the trend these days.
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My question would be: If you have a computer capable of posting something on the internet, why are you thinking about your TI-99?
Really? So you can ascribe sentiments like "Entire Community X Hates Community/Idea Y" based on comments in a forum?

Try this one on; "Feminism Hates Technology".

Sounds dumb, doesn't it? Because it's not a useful rhetorical approach to having a constructive debate - which, I am guessing by the hue of your comment, we would both strongly agree needs to happen. We need feminism in tech, for a lot of reasons - but not this "sensationalism at the cost of progress" flavor of it.
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| If automated cars stop just one drunk driver
| from killing someone, I think the whole
| invention will be worth it if only for just that.

Well, not if they cause more deaths from malfunction.
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From the about page, they are separate people:

https://spandex.io/about

http://www.latextemplates.com/about
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Not ZFS, but ZFS for Linux.
That is bad benchmarking!
Why are all of you commenting out of complete ignorance and near absolute lack of domain knowledge?

If that's a serious question, because we're pattern-matching this issue with other ones we're emotionally invested in -- archetypical issues of technological progress and ecology. Pre-existing cached narratives.
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An option to turn on the mouse pest would be good, I'd like to see how well it works.
Some of those issues are also addressed/worked on by feminist groups, particularly the rape one. Almost every survivor counseling organization I know of provides services to men as well as women. I'd also characterize most of those groups as feminist. (In fact, it's the ones that don't provide services to men that I'd often characterize as not feminist and that get the most feminist criticism, such as the services offered by most universities).

My experience has been that the Men's Rights Movement's good parts are often what is basically non-radical feminist activism repackaged, and its bad parts are reprehensible. (Note: radical feminism is things like the SCUM manifesto; most feminism isn't particularly radical)

The article does make the important point that there aren't a lot of places for (straight) men to discuss cultural ideas of masculinity and its possible ill effects. (In my experience, gay men often have a better understanding of male dynamics than straight men, and there's more of a cultural discourse about masculinity in some parts of gay culture.)
I think the legal situation is clearer than it looks. Hitting someone due to software failure isn't any different than if it happens due to a break or cruise control malfunction. As long as the equipment is approved by your local traffic authority and you did proper maintenance, you can prove it wasn't your fault. (not being your fault won't stop anyone who wants to sue you, but that's another matter entirely)
Nevertheless, I want to make this editor. How?
You 're assuming that these nations trust their own leaders / nationals only. If you were an italian having to choose between Berlusconi and Merkel based on their track record what would you choose?
it's not mostly about ethics, but it is about values and meaning. the startup someone starts for purely economic reasons is worth zip, because the founder will falter when the going gets tough. economic incentives are significant, but if they were all that mattered there would be a lot less poetry, and a lot less war.