skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Killer" is a misnomer -- in the beekeeping community, for obvious reasons, they prefer the term "africanized". And it is likely that these bees, being in Africa, are or will very soon be africanized.

But it is still possible to safely and enjoyably keep and tend Africanized bees -- you just require some extra precautions, like smoking the hell out of them when you're working the hive, and leaving your protective gear on even after you're far from the hive.

A friend of mine did beekeeping in Paraguay through the Peace Corps (the last country featuring a Peace Corps beekeeping program), and said bees would still be ramming his face veil, even after walking several kilometers away from the hive.

That was, however, after he had been working them for anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. Generally bees don't bother you if you're not bothering them. And if they do, you might just wear a veil when harvesting the crops closest to the fence.
The eating at work part doesn't need to be a factor. Just eat dinner. You don't really need 3 meals a day.
In Python 3, there is a clear distinction between string objects and bytes objects. String objects are a sequence of Unicode code points, and bytes objects are a sequence of 0-255 byte values.

> Character is a context in which we read integers and currently we don't use more than a couple hundred thousand of those.

I don't understand this sentence.

> UTF-8 is a data-compression technique taking advantage of the fact that smaller code points are used more often, and the largest ones (which require 5+ bytes, because any compression algorithm expands some inputs) are, currently, not standardized and effectively never used.

It's better to think of UTF-8 and UTF-32 as encodings: their role is to serialize strings into byte sequences and to deserialize byte sequences into strings. Some encodings are more efficient then others in different cases, but that doesn't change their role, and it's not necessary to understand this to avoid Unicode mistakes.
And there are many that aren't. Don't make the mistake of assuming that just because a few are content that everyone in that position is.
You are looking at this as a problem rather than an opportunity.

If I were in your shoes I would calmly explain that you do offer video of the coding in the condensed form that the HN person 'chops' shows.

That service of offering the video will cost $X more per hour to implement and you would be happy to rewrite the contract to include that service.
Today is a deluge of last minute mother's day sales.
While I do not downplay how vicious school can be and I don't envy his situation back then, I think it definitely is an amazing opportunity to launch out into a celebrity career. He couldn't have known that in the pre-rebeccablack / pre-meme era, but it's a life lesson, don't get down on yourself, rock it. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Overly Attached Girlfriend has used her celebrity status for good causes!

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/overly-attached-girlfriend
Those interested in this might also be interested in an older (1999) discussion of embedding Prolog in an earlier version of Haskell: http://www.silvija.net/0000OxfordPublications/seres_haskell9...

And a 2004 LtU discussion of that paper: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/112
Shooting is an Olympic sport for God's sake, but of course Americans are ignorant violent idiots.
No, the author simply repeated old stuff. If all those 'reasonable' diets worked, the current obesity epidemic would not be in its worst point, as it is.

Some evidence about sugar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRAwgdvhWHw
http://martin.ankerl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/trouble_...
Article would have been MUCH better if he showed actual examples of these problems (specific github repos, dates, current state). Beyond that, I think Github fits the natural tendency of projects to be heavily driven by a small number of individuals. The idea of democratization is often silly on open source projects because the level of merit between individuals varies massively.
There never will be more than 4 bytes for UTF-8 because Unicode is restricted to 21 bits. Remember that all UTFs have to be able to represent all of Unicode and UTF-16 could not represent those “code points” where UTF-8 needs 5+ bytes.

Also I wouldn't say that UTF-8 is a compression scheme. SCSU is one but has its own share of problems. UTF-8 just happens to preserve ASCII compatibility which is an important property for Unix-like systems. Nothing more and nothing less. That is also happens to be more space-efficient for text that consists mostly of ASCII characters is merely a side-effect of that.
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"I think virtually everyone in the UK has the means to eat healthy if they really want to."

For too many people this is simply not true.

People living in poverty face a number of challenges to eating healthily. For example:

- Cost. Fresh healthy food is becoming more costly due to exchange rate commodity price fluctuations. See [1][2].

- Access. If there are no shops nearby that sell fresh food (and this is becoming increasing common in some areas of the UK, see [3] or google "food desert") then time and/or transport need to be expended to get the food home. A person working 12+ hours a day on a couple of low paying jobs (say, factory work and then office cleaning)may not have the time to walk miles to a supermarket and do child care.

- Fuel. Gas and electricity are expensive in the UK. Cooking veg, pulses, grains, etc. requires fuel. Batch cooking to use-up cheap bulk-bought food also requires a freezer to store it, which in turn uses electricity that might not be affordable. Some people lack the resources to be able to afford a cooker and/or freezer.

A useful but rather depressing read on the situation in the UK is "Food Poverty and Health" from the Royal Colleges of Physicians Faculty of Public Health [4].

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/datablog/intera...

[2] http://www.which.co.uk/documents/pdf/the-impact-of-rising-fo...

[3] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/food-deserts-...

[4] http://www.fph.org.uk/uploads/bs_food_poverty.pdf
We have department P-cards where we can buy small stuff from pretty much anyone who accepts credit cards, I think we can even do PayPal now. For large purchases we have to use approved vendors and there's red tape but it saves the company billions of dollars (literally, where I work).

In fact, in most large electronics companies the real money is made and lost in the supply chain so they have incredible power, annoying as it sometimes is.
I don't think it would be perfectly right to compare Sleek and Cube.

Sleek is a library that you can add to any Ruby project and use it right off. Cube is a separate service that you need to setup and monitor.

My goal is to make Sleek more of an analytics framework, that can be tightly integrated in your Ruby application and easily extended in Ruby.

Right now Sleek is very simplistic but it already does something that Cube doesn't (relative timeframes, namespacing). I'm also planning on adding other functionality that's missing from Cube (relative timeframes with proper support of timezones, funnel analysis, ability to group_by metric values, probably a nice wrapper around MongoDB Aggregation Framework.)

(I used Cube while developing ShopStream initially. As it later turned, using it as a separate service wasn't really convenient to use because of how ShopStream works and because of Cube limits. It'd be much easier to have everything embedded in the Rails app and wrap MongoDB Aggregation Framework myself. That's how ShopStream's own analytics library was born. But alas, it was very tied to the way we do things. I wanted to make something more universal so I made Sleek.)
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Fun list, but morning people do love to spread their belief like a gospel. :-) Some of us quite enjoy staying up late.
i wonder what happens in the 15% of cases when it's not effective, do the destroyed bees nests unleash a swarm of African bees on all bystanders?
There are plenty of anaerobic efforts during most road races. Sure, it's primarily an aerobic activity, but you need to be able to 'go anaerobic' too.

Exhibit A would be the finish of the Fleche Wallone. This video (at about 8:00 ) shows it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-kNDQuiIo - just about 90 seconds.

Perhaps a more even distribution of lactic acid lets you generate more power overall... I don't know.
If you think there are literally no legitimate nutritional scientists that agree with Taubes then you are woefully misinformed.
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Maybe a maintainer can mark a repo as orphaned and others can bid to adopt it using their karma? Then the maintainer has a list of people to talk to about the future of the project... just helping make that transition easy would be nice.
Because setting up a remote control car with a camera is currently impossible?

That's trivially easy in comparison to forcing an autonomous car to do something dangerous.
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I don't think I'll ever stop being awestruck by the amount of fear the average hacker expresses when confronted by even the slightest democratic concept.
Looks like I'm not the only one who has had this problem: http://blog.mailchimp.com/ewww-you-use-php/
Not true. Take this string:

d͊

It is composed of two code points: U+0064 and U+034A. The second code point is a combining character. The two code points together form one glyph. The term "character" is confusing because people use different definitions for it, I avoid using it, but the term Unicode code point is very clear.

Python 3's strings is a sequence of code points. The above string is represented like this:

>>> print("d\u034A")
d͊
>>> len("d\u034A")
2

Truncating between the base and combining code points works as expected:

>>> "d\u034a"[0]
'd'
>>> "d\u034a"[1]
'͊'
Isn't the point that not all phones are truly off when the user thinks they're off? i.e. if you can ensure there's no power (removed battery) you can be confident there's no tracking. But if you can't ensure it...
"please go see someone. It really does help"

Sorry for your circumstances. I wonder though if it could actually be more helpful to have a close friend that can provide unconditional support and guidance if possible of course. Reason being is I've always found (from relationship counseling) the therapist caring but then "ok our appointment is over that will be $x" to contradict somewhat the caring part even recognizing that it's a job. Wondering about your thoughts on this?

For example when someone calls me for help (which is actually pretty often and I separately dated for some time a very depressed woman and oddly find it interesting) I gave all the time that they needed anytime anyplace and the conversation didn't end "just like that". I would imagine things like that provoke feelings that aren't exactly positive.
I think as software developers, many of us are very disconnected with the lives of the very poor in our society. There are people out there working multiple full time jobs, or working full-time while raising young kids by themselves. It boggles my mind that you would consider these people lazy because they're dead on their feet when they arrive home... probably even software developers can think of days when they're too tired to cook, is it really so hard to imagine having to work so hard that those days are every day?
1) Asian immigrants tend to self-select for high achievement.

2) Asians historically were at a cultural disadvantage compared to other Westerners in America. Americans were at least passingly familiar with other European cultures, and had quite a bit of common ground with them; much less so with Asians so there was a mutual unintelligibility problem. So to compensate, Asian parents tended to pressure their kids to excel in something universal that Americans would consider valuable -- hence the tendency of Asians to gravitate towards the hard sciences, math, and music (oddly enough, Western classical music at that). Amy Tan wrote about this, remarking how unusual and against the odds it was that she became a writer instead of the scientist or classical violinist her mother wanted her to be.
I assume your experience was on version < 2.4?

Now that 2.4 is out I'm interested in seeing how much the switch to multithreaded V8 has improved that. http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/2.4-javascript/
The other reason I had to buy a PS3, besides GT5, has just vanished forever.

Now buying a console for just one game seems like a waste of money.

Great news!!!
I love bourbon and scotch as much as any self-respecting man, but the sheer variety of beer is what makes it my go-to option. There are few things more satisfying than a nice, cold craft beer, even more so when drinking with others as you can take a taste from everyone's glass.
Actually, if the employee in question has ever contributed to one of Google's many open-source projects, it shouldn't be that hard.

For instance, just look at the history of the chromium project. You'll see lots of email addresses ending in @google.com
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Thanks! That stats stuff looks exactly like what I need. I have been really disappointed with my current stats class, and I am actively looking for more computer science related stats stuff. Any suggestions?

I am more looking for places where stats has been applied to CS related problems, rather than the other way around.
Great, glad it's backwards compatible.
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Google Glass Will Fail. Passive Interfaces Won't.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2001/cs6470_fall/LTAND.ht...
They call it "stunning", but I think it's not.

1) The slider. The slider is ugly! Apple wouldn't put an unlock slider on the top of the phone. That's just dumb. Most interactions with iPhone are (or should be) designed for 1-hand motion, and putting the slider on top makes unlocking with your thumb a real pain.

2) Inconsistency. Watch the video, some apps "pop" on the screen, some slide from top, some from the bottom... Apple wouldn't allow for such inconsistent behavior.

3) Widgets screen is a hazard. There is a lot of information there, but little elegance.

Overall, the concept looks cool, but it is certainly not 'stunning', and neither is it very functional. I feel like an Android lover was in charge of this concept.
When you provision your device for development it comes up.
Until 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller), not really. Our betters read the 2nd Amendment out of the Constitution after our Civil War, couldn't have freedmen (former black slaves) legally keeping or bearing arms, could we? Followed by laws aimed at disfavored immigrant groups starting around 1900, followed by application of these laws to everyone and multiple spasms of nasty gun control, nationally and at the state and local level.

This didn't start reversing until 1986, through the political process, and it wouldn't have happened if we hadn't kept owning guns at such high rates; right now we're most feared because we vote on this issue to the exclusion of most others. E.g. the Democrats suffered a string of catastrophic defeats 1994-2000 that they correctly blamed on gun control, and mostly gave up on the issue until after Obama won reelection. E.g. compare the reaction to the Aurora, Colorado "Batman" movie theater mass shooting in June during the election to Newtown after, even allowing for the difference in the victims.

As of yet the 2 Supreme Court decisions and all or almost all of the subsequent lower court decisions have made almost no changes "on the ground". That may change real soon, Illinois has a June 9th deadline when their "no citizens who aren't politicians can carry" law goes poof, although they filed for an extension for filing an appeal with the Supreme Court and got it (http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2013/05/supreme-court-g...), June 24th....

Of course, us gun owners always understood the clear meaning of the 2nd Amendment, and ultimately it means what serious men with guns say it does. Which would be us, we overwhelmingly outnumber gun grabbers and those who would follow them if they get too out of hand.

And very occasionally they have cause to think about the issues you cite, e.g. a few got a clue during Watergate; gun control was very hot back then, and the idea that Nixon might e.g. have the 82nd Airborne arrest the Congress prompted a few second thoughts.
You need to actually remove the battery. Apparently software can make the phone "appear" off but not actually be off.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029_3-6140191.html
Not to mention the assumption that this is not the best cyclist who:

* will work for free

* is local

* is reliable and not an asshole

* would rather do this than actually cycling

This is a long-term challenge, where they have been getting progressively better for months and years. It's not like they just built the machine and then need a pilot for a day.
A good friend of mine chose to take a job doing java at a big company rather then a hot tech startup because he would be using PHP(And he is a start up kind of person). It's not the fact that PHP is bad, its that there are so many other maturing and robust languages.
Firstly, there are all sorts of biases involved. We're far more likely to hear about situations like these, than native development of solutions.

Secondly, there is a non-trivial cost to thinking up ideas and experimenting. Beyond costing time and resources that the farmers may not have/may not want to spend, experimenting as a whole is pretty risking. Being an outside player with far greater ability to take on risk has an obvious advantage.

Thirdly, while the farmers probably don't want to fight elephants, in the scheme of things, they probably individually rate the well being of elephants lower than their survival. We on the other hand probably rate the importance of the two far more equally, and thus have a greater incentive to solve the problem in such a way.
Just send him an endless loop of the scene in Swordfish where Hugh Jackman is coding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO_O4AD1MhI
A bit of a tangent, but I've been thinking about a utility which will parse C/C++ documentation and automatically produce enum value to String translation functions, including simple "parsing" of camel case enum value names for default string values. If I could get this down to "one click" operation, would people pay beer money for it?
I wonder if the Black Mesa mod works instead.
Extremely well put.

> Is this Citizenship idea the right way? I don't know, but - at worst - it's a good discussion to have.

Completely agree.
In most contexts we interpret "speech" quite broadly. Speech is the transmission of information. Blueprints consist of information structured in a particular meticulous way which can be beautiful as well as practical and informative. Novels and paintings also fit that description. A painting could show how a bomb is constructed. A novel could explain how to commit a crime.

So I'm surprised public-domain blueprints aren't already considered "speech" as a matter of settled law. In the case of commercial blueprints I suppose I could imagine an argument for considering them "proprietary information", but in this case where the producer wants the information to get out and is not claiming copyright over it...posting a blueprint on the web is like posting a flyer on a telephone pole. It's a speech act. The federal government isn't generally allowed to prohibit speech acts.
This is excellent!

Any plans on doing the same thing for resizing?
Sweet, I've been needing something like this, and had been considering rolling my own. This looks like it'll save me the trouble!
A 3d blueprint file could be considered free speech as well, and yet it was just declared illegal. Can you explain that?
Who cares about brand recognition or brand adoption? There are boatloads of companies nobody has heard of making boatloads of money.

Why does it only matter if you're famous?
Also, and this is true for many things, the poor are less capable of spending more money now to save money over the long term. E.g., if a pair of boots that will last 3 years is $150 and a pair of boots that will last 6 months is $30, the $150 pair of boots is a better deal because you'd have to buy $180 dollars worth of cheap boots to last 3 years. But if you only have $50 available to spend and you need new boots now, you have to choose the cheap boots.

So, forget buying everything in bulk, or buying a membership to a warehouse club.
This is what "no real resolution yet" means: every few years we get a pet theory or two.

The reason this so easily devolves into a `religious` argument scenario is because the basic science is still too weak.

The author did the right thing to stay well shut of all that in this article.
A coach is probably the highest-paid public employee in your (US) state
Yes but she said in that article that the money will go towards expanding the programme:

'The recognition and financial support will enable us to expand our vital research work and protect many more rural farming families from elephant invasions.'

I was friends at university with Lucy - she's amazing and the success and expansion of this work will definitely be her main motivator. She's doing it because she adores elephants and spending the money on protecting even more of them will be her main priority.

Like all 'overnight successes' (she's been working on this for over 10 years) it's the result of many years of tough grind and convincing skeptical people you have a viable idea. It's great to she's getting the recognition she deserves.
Linear algebra is great. It wasn't required for my major, but it really should've been. Definitely check out Salman Khan's videos [0], I found the KhanAcademy selection for linear algebra to be especially helpful. I took a grad course titled "Axiomatic Linear Algebra" and even at that level, the videos were helpful.

[0]: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra
The last time something about this was posted on HN there were a lot of comments about them taking advantage of the ground effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aircraft)

Apparently a lot of the aircrafts flying capability has to do with its proximity to the ground. I'm sure part (if not all) of the reason why the rotars almost touch the ground.

It seems that you're certainly right, they're not creating a fully functioning flying machine, they're building a challenge winner, and that's what they set out to do.
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And, he didn't even touch on the horror that is EBCDIC. Once you've had to touch that, the idea of "code point" for a character is something you can't ignore, hoping that things just work "most of the time" -- ASCII A != EBCDIC A.
The number of people killed in violent crimes by guns in the US is continuing to trend down. This is via the CDC. Why screw with that?

Second, the US government does not have to the money or constitutional authority to "fix" all things. It has a budget and income which should start to match.

11,000 people taken over the whole US is not much of a risk. If you look at the CDC stats, it is very far down on a long list.
I just submitted a related article on Hyperdex which, although it's not Python, has a very good Python interface.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686973
Well of course they're going to raise prices. They're a business. This isn't happy fairy land; their cost of doing business went up, so their prices will have to go up. If businesses didn't increase their prices to match an increase in cost of goods sold, they'd quickly go out of business.
Why the URL are not working from the SpeakerDeck document? Captain Obvious here: But isn't that the purpose of the Web? It's the WEB... make those links work!