skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story is dead and buried, but, for what it's worth, EconTalk last week had a really fascinating interview with a honeybee economist (<-- thing that exists!).

Turns out:

* Practically 100% of US honeybees are domesticated; wild honeybees were wiped out in the late 80s by mites.

* Honeybees aren't native to the US; I'm not sure if I heard this right, but it may be that none of the social bees are.

* Colony collapse is largely a phenomenon observed during overwintering. Some 15% of domesticated colonies fail over the winter. CCD seems to have upped this figure to 30%.

* If CCD is causing problems for professional beekeepers, those problems don't seem to be reflected in the economy. The price of queen bees (raised by specialized apiarists to help other beekeepers split colonies) hasn't changed. The price of pollination services --- mostly for the California almond crop, which is fed by beekeepers from around the country --- hasn't changed significantly either, with the possible exception of a small spike in pollination fees at the peak of almond pollination season.

It's hard to reconcile what the economist reported with the alarmism surrounding colony collapse.
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A prison sentence isn't meant to be only punishment for the offender - it's also (theoretically) a deterrent to other potential criminals, a chance to rehabilitate the prisoner, and a method of preventing immediate re-offense.

We probably shouldn't send people to prison for first-time trivial crimes (which this might have been) but "trivial" and "non-violent" aren't the same.
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To put that in more context, the murder rate in America is 10 times that of the next developed country.

The murder rate in NYC and Chicago is higher than Mexico City
Too bad this didn't happen before the elections happened. Not that I wanted Romney to win, but at the very least it would've forced the Democratic party to offer some candidates, too, and with any luck, actual changes to NSA spying would've arrived earlier, if it would've been a major issue during the campaign, when everyone is watching the debates.

But now we have to put up with Obama's dismissal, since he doesn't have much to lose himself, short of impeachment (which I think is warranted, especially if the Supreme Court ends up declaring the mass spying unconstitutional).
You would need a lot of coins but the way i think it would work is this:

Use mtgox since for the most part other exchanges follow gox.

1. Using half (or more) of your coins, sell out all the high bids you can at once. this will grow the gap between asks and bids.

2. at the same time, create an ask wall using the remainder of your coins at a penny above the highest bid you couldn't sell to. This will ensure that no transactions occur at a higher price than your artifically-created low.

3. auto-traders that haven't adjusted will eat away at this ask wall to some degree, which will make the buy and sell price basically identical.

4. Since all of the indicators look consistently bad, automated traders will adjust to this lower price, lowering their asks to below your wall to try to exit quickly. This is also when a lot of panicky weak hands will exit.

5. This is when you want to DoS the exchange. It's important to do this AFTER the price has adjusted, so that the outage creates more confusion and hysteria, but there is an overwhelming sense of a crash. If you can deface a site to report a wallet compromise, that's even better.

At this point, people should be desperate to get out at any price.
I assume you're joking, but faster confirmation times doesn't necessarily mean they're equally secure. Blocks take time to propagate across the network, so if the confirmation time is too short miners will be working on old blocks for a larger portion of that time, essentially wasting some of their hashing power, making it easier for an attacker to beat them.
The OP only mentions the below in passing, but I thought it was one of the more interesting parts:

"A former coworker offered me a job as CTO at a startup he'd left justin.tv to found. That seemed like just the kind of thing I was looking for, but after nearly a year it was clear it hadn't worked out."

I'd be curious to hear more about what happened. If somebody were to offer you a similar opportunity again today, what characteristics would you look for in that person (and company), and how would you test them?
Does HHVM get massive gains for "normal" PHP code? I remember reading something about FB's early efforts, and there were strict guidelines about proper usage and whatnot.

I have no idea how "good" "normal" PHP code is written compared to Ruby/Python.
That speaks to the problem of train travel on the opposite end: it's really only feasible in the half-dozen or so American cities that have highly reliable, built-out intra-city public transportation. If you need a car when you get there, the train doesn't work. That's one of the reasons I'm so skeptical about any high speed rail that terminates in LA.

Many of the inter-city buses also stop at Park-and-Rides outside of the downtown cores, so that people can both drop off their cars and get picked up by people who have them.
I don't really see the point to Twitter for hiring purposes.

But both LinkedIn and GitHub serve as e-resumes. Any decent tech company will want to see what you've worked on/contributed to, and a lot of the time and dev worth their salt will voluntarily provide their GitHub on a resume. LinkedIn, even though it's more social than GitHub, still serves as a professional site. You don't voluntarily put your information on LinkedIn only to hide it from potential employers.
Actually, it's most likely that software development is capitalized and amortized over the life of the product (GAAP standard is typically 3 years). Basically, accounting rules allow you to spread the cost of software developers over a few years, so the impact of 34 employees (assuming they are all developers) may only be in the $25-35k/each range
"something killed our huge monoculture, so we replaced it with another huge monoculture, and now something's killing it!" Is it really so surprising?
I don't disagree with the author's premise; but Cleveland? If you look at the major technology startup hubs around the US (San Francisco, Austin, Boston, NYC, Pittsburgh) the one common factor is that they have major, world-class engineering universities.
Hey guys,

OP here - would love to get everyone's feedback.

Thanks!
Justin
I first read The Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) when I was maybe 14. The way such a powerful man struggled so much to exert control over his own mind really blew me away. Got me started on the journey towards learning about, and influencing, my own mind.
I think the key phrase is "intermittent rotary motion." The movement of the red wheel in the gif on Wikipedia is very unlike my legs powering a bicycle or a cars piston pumping up and down.

I would like to transfer the movement from the red wheel into the smooth continuous rotary movement of the green wheel.
Assuming you put a decent effort into the process prior to applying:

The point is, at this point you've already been told no. The worst case scenario is that you're told "Still no."

Depending on what it is you do to impress them, that can be used in other scenarios. You make some marketing plan or a brochure or redo a website? Stick it in your back pocket and save it again for later.

So you look desperate? So what? Either they say no, in which case apart from the extra work you've done, you're no further behind, or they say yes and think you're desperate, but you have the job.
Megabus and Boltbus both do NYC-Philly, and there are probably even more competitors now.
"apt-get is not much more difficult than php"

Nope, I install PHP and then upload a page with PHP embedded and it works. It is not that easy with python. That's why all these hosting accounts had LAMP and not something else.
If the genetic engineering works out, can we go back to the Gros Michel cultivar? They were sweeter and much bigger than Cavendish.

Edit: The article mentions that the wild Asian banana Musa acuminata malaccensis seems to be resistant, but I'm betting they're small and/or not very tasty.

Edit2: aw man, this is addressed right at the bottom of the article. "For his part, Dale is trying to engineer Gros Michel bananas for resistance to the original Foc strain."
Hey thanks for trying it.
We've tested it with many different people and machines with bluetooth accessories, and never ran into that issue.
I personally use pair of magic mouse/keyboard on both of my Macs.
Can you please try replacing the batteries in your mouse and try again.
On a technical level this should never happen since your smartphone and your human interface devices utilize Bluetooth on your Mac through different profiles.
I agree, Cleveland is a strange choice - for more than a lot of reasons. Personally I'm rooting for any of these cities: Chicago, Austin, Madison, Portland, Seattle or Minneapolis. Austin might be the ideal choice, if only for the big weather factor.
What does this even mean?

Is not asking whether the graffiti was intended to intimidate somebody considering the follow-on effects?
One of the key points in their push for new legislation is establishing a universal framework for handling cross-jurisdictional legal conflicts -- one in particular is Google being indicted in the UK on privacy violations and them subsequently requesting to move the avenue of debate to an American court. These kinds of legal uncertainties are troublesome for large multinational corporations, especially with regards to patents and whatnot.

They're piggy-backing on the surveillance issue to push their idea of universal jurisdiction, a concept unheard of until WWII during the Nuremburg trials where German war criminals were charged with violating American laws even though they weren't Americans, the victims weren't Americans, and the crimes hadn't occurred on American soil. The very basis of state sovereignty is being challenged.

"Because it hurts their business model" simplifies things a bit too much.
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That's a long drive for a beer.
I agree. Stints in jail (even if short) hinder earning ability as well. If I knew of a good way to deal with petty crimes committed by people riding the poverty line, I'd tell somebody about it.
The engineers working on FB's PHP have reimplemented the runtime. I doubt that was a bonus or a reason they considered PHP. I find it highly unlikely anyone started off using a platform with the goal of "we get to completely re-implement this platform because it will not work for us otherwise."
While it is true that asymptotically 5 * O(m) equals O(m), in practice 5 * O(m) is still 5x slower.

EDIT (reply threshold):

"That's not how big-O notation works. It only applies to asymptotic behavior. It makes sense to say that iterating over the whole list 5 times is slower than just doing it once, but it's O(m) either way."

Now you're just being pedantic.
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I, too, kind of wish that these revelations had taken place before the elections. Not that politicians promises mean anything, but a positive rhetoric is often the first step towards positive change.

I don't think that Obama should be impeached over this, though. These spying programs were started under the Bush White House, for one, and beyond that I don't think that impeachment is an appropriate response to this issue. The constant looming threat of privacy breaches is not something that can be corrected by assigning blame. Rather, we need broad laws to protect American citizens and corporations from being treated as potential terrorists.
I don't know that the justice system as a whole has to account to anyone for handing out cruel and unusual punishments. I imagine in this case, they knew at the time of sentencing that the defendant was practically live tweeting his experience, and that a light sentence would be more likely to encourage others to disobey in a similar manner. It's not a justification, but 'making an example' is probably intended to serve as a deterrent to copycat criminals.
That's not how big-O notation works. It only applies to asymptotic behavior. It makes sense to say that iterating over the whole list 5 times is slower than just doing it once, but it's O(m) either way.
If you burn a disk, it stays put. The disk will never be changed. Every time you use that burnt DVD, you get the same results, unless it gets scratched.

On the other hand, let's say you have a USB stick.

1. Download installer package.

2. Create bootable USB stick.

... maybe leave the stick plugged in, and surf the internet.

3. You boot, successfully install a clean system, then:

...leave the stick plugged in, and surf the internet.

or

...leave the stick unattended, and in the physical presence of an enemy.

4. Fall victim to malware which goes undetected:

...specially crafted malware corrupts the USB stick, and includes a malicious payload as part of the *NEXT* install.

or

...someone builds an evil corrupted debian package and slips it into the installer, so that it piggybacks into the *NEXT* install.

5. Now, you have a corrupted installer spreading its hazards to every installation thereafter. You have no idea whether the installer's integrity has been compromised, because the USB stick remains writable.

With a DVD ISO, there is only one chance to attack, and it's during the download. This is easily mitigated if Valve tells us the exact size in bytes and what SHA-256 hash of the downloaded file is (over an SSL connection), so that we can verify the integrity of the download by matching hashes. If that matches, and we burn the disk, we know the disk remains secure and tamper resistant (more so than a USB stick), so long as it is not damaged or scratched or anything.
How so? Perfect hash functions only work when all possible inputs are known.
How about instead of making pointless songs and trying to appear cute, have your expertise speak for you?

100 hours on shit not related to the job, yikes.
I love to workout while working and have my desk next to my gym setup. Mine is a Smith cage with an olympic bench that inclines/declines with olympic dumbbells. A treadmill is nearby. For me, it is ideal - and mostly all i need. I can do a set of heavy squats after a call to let out tension, etc. I can't recommend it enough - but I'm the type who doesn't enjoy sitting down for long. I also put a small TV in for the occassional p90x-style program. For me this covers all the bases. What are you thinking about putting in?
Is there a workaround I (the user) can employ to make Windows+Chrome work right? I've long since given up on sites to figure out a workaround but would really love to have readable sites.
It is my understanding that tuition never funds research, except possibly in the sense that it pays some fraction of faculty salaries and buildings in which the faculty have offices. The actual research is funded by grants.
Is there precedent for a party to put up a different choice in the primary when there's a reigning incumbent?

I don't know the answer, but I'd be surprised if the party would do so. I think had they, it would guarantee a failed election.
I've hired a couple of people who claimed to never have problems and/or pointed out to me in the interview that the test situation I ask them to diagnose "could never happen", even when I'm drawing on personal experience.

Each time, the person in question turned out to be a terrible hire and never lasted more than a month.

If you can't come up with a disaster in your career, you've never had a career.
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The prices are not so high that they're unaffordable in an emergency. If it's not an emergency, then we should ration it the same way we ration any other non-essential consumer good when demand exceeds supply: by raising the price.
That's how my investments tend to go too.

To paraphrase a once great govenator.

The key to success is to buy when I sell, Sell when I buy, work hard and marry a Kennedy.
What's the workaround for this problem? This is the first I've heard of it, and it looks pretty bad.
Gemini is the private Java framework Techempower uses on their client projects. I believe questions regarding its performance relative to various open source and enterprise JVM frameworks inspired the first Techempower benchmarks.

http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/28/frameworks-round-...
EMBERDART

Just kidding.

I laughed.

This progress for Ember is really making me interested - I will probably do my next big app with Ember. I'm happy to see that they are moving away from requiring jQuery & swapping Handlebars to HTMLbars, which will help reduce Ember's JS required footprint, which is massive currently.

Nice integration with ES6 also sounds promising. One thing I fight with Angular so far is with asynchronous loading of modules/controllers/directives/services/etc. - while I love Angular, its not good for lazyloading.

I'm a bit wary since I have found that I don't like convention over configuration personally, but I am liking some of the high level decisions made recently to refine Ember.
Business cards are an absolute. Moo.com has great "Lux" business card that will surely impress. Then visit every possible event and conference in your general area. These are usually fairly cheap to attend (if not free) and use that time to network and pass out your card(s). Event exhibit area will be key to just getting your name out. An actual booth isn't absolutely necessary and since you are on a budget it would be best to just walk around and share what you guys are doing.

Of course social media (Youtube, Facebook, Twitter..etc) is always a must with starting out. Create a Graphic and ask friends, family, and whoever you can to place it either on their Facebook banner area or on their timeline posts.

just a few examples ^
> As all data increasingly goes digital, it is wrong for our society to present a conflict of interest: either keep my data myself, and lose out on modern technology; or use modern technology and be subject to omnipresent surveillance.

I don't think that dichotomy is so stark. Ultimately, the root of the 4th amendment is "reasonable expectation of privacy." That definition should adapt to new technology, but must still be rooted in whether the expectation of privacy is objectively reasonable in light of the actual nature of that technology.

I contend that, however we reform our law to adapt to new technological requirements, data that is encrypted and not accessible broadly within service providers merits a higher standard of protection than data that is exposed in plain text to potentially hundreds or thousands of people. In other words, I think whether it's "reasonable" to expect digital information to be private depends on a common sense evaluation of whether that information is, in fact, private.

I think a lot of our digital infrastructure fails that test, and often by design.
I think the 0% was just for usd/btc trades, and they already charged a fee for withdrawing, so I'm not sure that this makes sense.
Use a non-custom font. You can edit the CSS using the inspector, or use an extension like Readability.
Case Western is in Cleveland and Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh is close.
Synthesizers are killing film and TV music, say British composers
While on unemployment, people are often required to spread their search across hundreds of companies.

After being laid off, I was unemployed for several months and was required to submit at least 3 applications a week. On the face, that doesn't sound like many, and for some fields it probably isn't heard. But if you're in a specialized field, even finding 3 open positions to apply for becomes a full-time job. And each of those openings tended to require many hours of specialized work. Some of that time was moving a nicely developed resume into their proprietary applicant webpage (urgh!!!). There was one job that actually required me to develop a dummy website. Because I knew there were weeks when I wouldn't even be able to find 3 openings, when I found more than 3 I would intentionally wait until the following week to apply to the more promising openings. The idea being that I could do the minimum work on the required 3 applications, then spend the rest of the week diligently working on the more promising openings, and submit it first thing the following week.

Then there are the weeks that I couldn't even find 3 in my field and didn't have any left over from the previous week. For those I applied to complete throw-away positions. I felt sorry for whatever sap had to review my application.

All the while, I wish I had been able to focus on a handful of desirable positions and personal retraining. Instead, I spent months doing B.S. work just to be able to pay the mortgage until I was able to get a job, which ended up coming through a personal connection and would never have shown up on the radar that the unemployment office required me to use!
Looks little rough compared to recent sleeping mask on Kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/intelclinic/neuroon-worl...
What would make google et. al. want to move, though? Is it really feasible for government (local or federal) to give strong enough incentives? Those companies are immensely profitable, so I'd guess it's not easy to bribe them with tax breaks. Furthermore, they care to be able to attract talent AND having a critical mass of talent, moving them all at once would only help with the latter, while they have both in SV.
When nesting is used incorrectly it's absolutely an anti-pattern (my first LESS project regrettably mimicked the HTML structure with nesting), but when everything is kept as semantic/modular as possible and nesting is avoided except where obvious (a UL class that styles the children LI/A tags, etc) it can be a great help in keeping your CSS simple and understandable.

While it's more difficult to replicate the same issues in native CSS due to the friction involved of copying/pasting the same elements/classes over and over, I don't think that should be a reason to entirely avoid a tool that can be a great benefit in the long run.

On the other hand, per our email I have to say I'm more and more skeptical of the benefit and long-term maintainability of SCSS @extends and @mixin except in special circumstances.
Why would a site want to target only Chrome? If your site has a URL, I think it's of the site's best interest to target many modern browsers and provide a graceful upgrade/download experience.
Armchair expert articles like these make conclusion first and justify it later. Google has obviously given a LOT back to community. They had all the reasons to keep BigTable or MapReduce or GWT as trade secrets. On the other hand, Bell labs never intended all research to go to public domain. In reality lot of things "escaped" to public domain because they apparently did not saw any competitive benefit in them. Also saying that only Google is doing this is also purely false. FaceBook and Twitter has given back to community a lot. Similarly Microsoft Research has published probably more research (many times including the one that offered competitive advantage) than very likely any other company on the planet: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/science/publicati....
This is a particularly big issue for us because we spend more than 50% of our resources on serving robots (not humans!).

I wrote about this back in July of 2010, and the problem has only gotten worse: http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/15/great-idea-google-sh...

It's a crazy problem to have, but we haven't found a solution. We can't just disappear from all the various indexes and collections that these robots represent.