skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder why the decline in one and not the other? It seems pesticides would affect them both

I think the difference probably comes from the practice of transporting domestic bees to large orchards and vegetable fields for pollination services, where their diet is almost exclusively limited to agricultural products (which are sprayed).
Storefront by Fancy
Loops in CoffeeScript are not closures
Yes. Many thanks to Steve Yegge. js2-mode is why I use emacs.
Kudos, iSEC. Love how you guys are always giving back.
iHeartRadio is owned by Clear Channel and is advertised on their radio stations and billboards. My mother used to listen to a Clear Channel radio station and whenever I would listen with her, every other group of ads mentioned iHeartRadio back in like, 2010 and earlier. Before Spotify was available in the US, even. Now I see that said radio station has replaced all of their custom players to just redirect to iHeartRadio's streaming or music playlists.

That they have a lot of users by going that route is completely unsurprising. Not sure about paid, cause I'm pretty sure it's always been a free service so there is no paid subscription.

Clear Channel is also on such a different level from Spotify and Pandora right now that I'm quite sure that HN would start caring a lot more about iHeartRadio if it weren't owned by the 800 pound gorilla in the industry as opposed to the two startups. Only if iHeartRadio was owned by the record labels themselves could people care less, really.
Stackdriver Acquired by Google – Venture Capital
LogMeIn Acquires Ionia Corporation
I've read this blog for a long time now re: minimalist running, it's really great. More interestingness:

http://www.sportsscientists.com/2012/03/vibram-shoes-named-i...

I went back and checked this blog again (I haven't read it for a while) after seeing this:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27335251 (Vibram has settled a class action suit for misleading advertising claims).

Barefoot running works well for me but I'm painfully aware there's really no good evidence either way. Certainly I don't advocate anything except that people should try it - now I'm not sure I'll even do that.
As a web newb, can you explain why the things in this comment are wrong and downvoted?
I figured now was as good time as any to post this, after seeing jsfmt posted today.

I've been dogfooding this for about a month for all my Markdown (mostly GitHub README.mds, comments to issues, etc.), and by now it's stable to cover my (admittedly, more basic) use cases of Markdown. I don't have explicit support for exotic Markdown features like tables at this time.

The Atom package has 100+ downloads by now, and I've only had 1 issue reported so far, so I'd be very curious to actually learn how many other people use it.
Right. If anyone could be called the anti-Kay, it would be Rob Pike.
That's a good point. Wild bees probably happen into agricultural areas but not as much and have the option to avoid them.
oh, I didn't realize it does double click. I clicked the link and it redirected me to their home page and that's it for me.
> This article may be a bit fluffy, but it fits the bill.

I don't even know whether this was intentional, which makes it the best kind of wordplay
Please be serious.

Go has about 0.0001% of the third party library base that Java does. Many of which are essential for large scale enterprise development. It's why languages like Clojure and Scala have become a lot more popular because they leverage the ecosystem.

No one will move just because of some insignificant lawsuit.
You are right!

I was told once asparagus is a fern and always believed it.
Doctoralia Health Tips. What would you like me to talk about?
MobileAction: Apple changes app store algorithm yet again
Anyone have and idea what the prices are for the full fulfillment service?
If that bugs you, think a bit about how the conflicts of upvoters/downvoters are totally obscured.
https://developer.android.com/guide/index.html

"Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment."
It is very amusing though to turn on Google's auto close captioning though :-) (my way of agreeing with this request)
How does it get the YIQ color? It seems to arbitrarily pick a background color.
It really depends on the area and age of the people eating. Growing up (way in the country) many of my older family members relished goose and duck. We kept them in a steady supply, but never really enjoyed the flavors ourselves. Now that I live in the city, many people I meet enjoy duck, but its a very different duck then what I grew up with-the duck as I knew it was wild, and very gamey. The duck most people enjoy are farm raised and more fatty and less gamey.
It's easy to write Python 3 compatible code with 2.7, you can import most things from __future__. You lose some cool features though.
Not much news here, a sensational headline is all. The FBI has been going to conferences like this and working with the DIY Bio community for ages. Some day some terrorist will have the capability to make entirely new viruses, but that day is still away off and they'd have to do it without killing themselves first. It's good that the FBI is paying attention, but honestly there are many natural viruses which nature has made already that would be more useful to a terrorist than using synthetic biology, and luckily we've been quite good historically at containing these kinds of risks (as long as you don't believe Hollywood).
I developed a stress fracture from running in minimalist shoes bad enough to require surgery, and now more than two years later it still hurts bad enough that I can't seriously run anymore.
This is neat. I've created something equivalent for Markdown, and decided to post it today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7724159

After getting so used to gofmt-on-save (err, rather goimports-on-save now), I find it very odd when I edit other file types and nothing happens to the obvious mis-formatting when I save. So I'm a big supporter of any new formats coming out in the future to come with some sort of similar automated formatter tool.

One important aspect that allows gofmt to succeed with effectively full adoption is that it still allows for (limited, but nice looking) custom formatting. If you want an extra newline between two lines, it will be preserved. It gives enough freedom that always having it on is quite acceptable.
Your only experience with static typing is with Java which has one of the lowest "value for effort" type systems around. Java's type system is mostly bookkeeping and doesn't help you functionally really at all while taking a lot of effort to deal with at the programmer end. By contrast there are much more powerful type systems where the typing takes much less effort AND delivers you actual functional benefits. Crucially Java's generics are not preserved through to runtime, so there is no actually difference between List<Integer> and List<String> to the JVM, only the compiler. If there was a difference all sorts of powerful things could be done with the types at runtime, but as it is it's mostly just the compiler complaining about whether you dotted i's and crossed t's.

I program a lot in Groovy these days, and it now has optional static typing with a limited amount of type inference. What I observe is that I voluntarily prefer to type my variables much of the time because it really does save time and takes only a fraction more effort than leaving them untyped. I find Python quite hard to decipher much of the time because it's nearly impossible to know what type a variable passed into a function is unless you trace back to the caller.
node.js is probably the most fun.. if i "had to" write some crappy "web app", it'll most likely be in php. because it's fast, easy, whatever. if i want to have fun doing it, i'll make it in node.js.

what i won't do is tell you about all the crappy java toolkits i use on the weekends and tell you about how awesome comicon or whatever was this past year.
Another interesting thing I read about Buran is that apparently (some of?) its computers were ternary, not binary. Unfortunately, I cannot find any English mentions of that, and a quick search in Russian did not produce anything reputable, so take it FWIW.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun - Soviet ternary computer.
You're probably looking at a Supermicro system if you DIY. Otherwise you could try the business line workstations from the normal OEMS.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/superworkstation.cfm

Warning though -- some of those supermicro systems are very loud, and rival similar 4U rackmount systems. In fact, most of them have rack mount conversion kits available to be loaded into a server room.
itunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/coderquiz/id853093430?mt=8
stack exchange = tell me a fact

quora = tell me a story
Counting headers is rather unfair.

C++11:

map<int, char> x = {{1, 'a'}, {3, 'b'}, {5, 'c'}, {7, 'd'}};

Any not-ancient C++ using boost Assign:

map<int, char> x = map_list_of (1, 'a') (3, 'b') (5, 'c') (7, 'd');

Shamelessly stolen from here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138600/initializing-a-sta...
Imagine that, being able to sell each addy in a ::/32 for a cent each. You'd practically be the entire economy at that point.
You can still sign up for Quora accounts without a social network OAuth. I just did. It asked for my email, firstname, and lastname.

When you post questions or answer, you can also click the "anonymous" checkbox to remove your name.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TempleOSV2

Probably him. Or some guy with a lot of time on his hands pretending to be him.
Birds playing with cats and dogs? MUST SEE
Watch as dogs and cats play with... BIRDS!
A UI critique: the "Another" button appears after the tweet. Most tweets vary in height. The result is that the button moves up and down after each press, which interrupts my ability to look at the tweet and requires me to hunt for it.

Luckily, I could use Cmd+R to refresh the page, which lets me focus on the tweets without UI distraction. But you may want to do something about the button, which is unusable for me.
The Soviet army during the Winter War was very, very different from its 1945 version, both in terms of organization/training/experience and equipment. Winter War was somewhat of a wake-up call in fact.
My parents are in the same situation. I can ssh out but with 1500 mil latency a day at the console is pretty tough.
Python's support for this is awesome, but there is a gap: you lost cross platform. You now have to figure out how to make it compile on every platform that anybody could every possibly want to run it on, including ones not yet invented in the future ... Jython / Java (or other JVM languages) are quite a nice option in that space.
The deep problem with successful sociopaths is that they can manipulate others to believe they are being kind. I've seen it a few times. Once you step back it feels obvious and bizarre, but before you can do that you're caught in their web. What code of ethics protects against that?
How automatic semi-colon insertion works causes braces to be on the same line as a function signatures/ifs/switches/etc.

This program won't compile: http://play.golang.org/p/8DSev4ZjWZ
What's the software analogy of a factory? Making copies is simple in software so you must have something else in mind?
When I saw your username I figured it had to be a new account registered to post this comment. I was wrong, well done!
Fixing MOOCs - Live, Online Discussion Sections
https://archive.org/about/dmca.php - it looks like the exemptions applied to everyone, for 3 years at least.
This seems interesting, but I'm not sure what formatting it would actually apply to a given Markdown document - could you add examples to the readme?
Maybe swan is the decidedly-not-pork mystery meat that chinese food serves me in their 'special' fried rice? Anyone know what im talking about.. Smokey smell, looks like a fowl in its cooked form.
Something that Facebook and Quora have in common is that the initial set of users were cool enough to prime the pump of viral growth. With Quora, you had awesome people giving answers only they had. Like a startup co-founder talking about the early days of their now successful venture.

So starting with awesome people creating awesome content helped. Over time, Quora has done a few things really well: (1) growing the community while keeping it fairly high brow, (2) their topic taxonomy, and (3) their email digests.

My problem with Quora is that it's more entertainment than useful. SE/SO is more functional. Who really cares what are the things about San Diego that most people don't know?
Those are great for tracking and/or studio-critical ( read: intense, "What was that??") listening but they're pretty shrill for general listening.

I find them fatiguing.

I cannot get past the Koss KTXPRO-1. They're very inexpensive, but I can mix on them, they're comfortable and priced very well. There's no fatigue with them.

I really do throw a rough up first on the 'phones because it seems to get me to a decent first mix fast.

I need to buy a nice pair of Grado and/or Stax just to try to wean myself off these things. :) Don't mean to sound fanboiish, but I've used 'em now for going on fifteen years. Headphones are like that.
Maybe they need to update their site. At the moment, if you select US as your country of residence and go down to the fees section, it says it is not available in the US.
Permian-Triassic Extinction Event
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison
Meta-Circular Adventures – Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp
i think the appropriate comparison would be bdb, not SQLite. and from the site, I can't tell?
Question: are there disadvantages to spaced-repetition or memorizing in general? Could it be that by memorizing new things efficiently you forget older things, or that other abilities deteriorate?
That's a strawman. Don't compare Quora to Stack Overflow (which is, indeed, limited to programmers). Look at the entire Stack Exchange network.
Don't worry about it, I got used to occasional trolling on HN. Basically if you are not talking about the newest hottest community approved thing or you have a slightly different opinion than the HN standard you get down voted. Making which programming language is the best for web applications sound like "node.js is the silver bullet of web apps, it also cures cancer and aids at the same time" is laughable. I enlisted several technical details why Java (besides Erlang and Go) is the best for scalable web applications while the other guy was just "java sucks node.js rocks". If I get down voted, it tells more about the people reading this site than anything else.
CDB is one of my favorite data structures. When a student wants to learn about databases, I get them to implement cdb.

It's easy to implement and really demonstrates some good system engineering tradeoffs.
Can/has someone do this for Objective C? Clang-Format doesn't do it like Apple and most programmers do, and nothing else comes close that I've seen.
A pun that bad deserves a Haydn.
I honestly don't think it would happen. The cable companies have no incentive to go after sites like that. They don't use much bandwidth, wouldn't pay much before just shutting down, and are very sympathetic. There's nothing but downside for a cable company to go after such a site. It'd be irrational. They're going after Netflix because their site is responsible for a ton of bandwidth on their network and Netflix makes a lot of money leveraging their network.
What does Apple want with Beats?
DISCLAIMER: I myself never read any of his books.

Rezun's books are not a reliable historical source. Back when they first appeared, there were huge discussions and dissections on Russian military/history forums about his inaccuracies and weird theories (e.g. "offensive" strategic bomber vs a "defensive" one). He can provide interesting leads to base your own research on, though.

Also, this particular book seems to be poorly translated, because some passages don't make sense at all (I don't believe Rezun himself is that incompetent). Example:

"The design of this Soviet tank was taken as a basis for the `Panzer' and shortly afterwards for the `Tiger-König'. "

"Panzer" simply means "Armor" in German. What he wants to say here is "Panther", a German tank which many feel was heavily inspired by T-34.
Yup. the HUGE "CPython is only reference implementation" ego
Hasn't the premise of YC --since the beginning-- been to explicitly state the investment amount and percentage? This move feels like dilution of both purpose and brand.
The paper is short and clear. It's worth reading, and worth thinking about how it could have been differently so as to be more conclusive, and how a followup study might be improved.

1) There is no mention of whether the people caring for the bees were blinded as to control versus treatment. This is simple, and should have been done if it was not.

2) There were only 6 hives in each treatment group (control, imadacloprid, and clothianidin). There are always constraints, but more hives would be a much stronger study.

3) Lu's previous study found 100% mortality with 1/7th the dose of imadacloprid. Why did they increase the dosage for this experiment?

4) There are 3 apiary locations, but they don't report the breakdown per apiary. Did all the apiaries experience approximately equal losses in the neonicotinoid hives?

5) Is there a "file drawer" effect here? If there had been one fewer treatment hive collapse and one more control collapse, would this study have been published?

6) Were any other studies performed? Or started and abandoned? I'd presume not, but it would be great to have a clear statement from the authors.

7) Is it reasonable to assume that the dosage is spread evenly across all bees? If the clothianidin LD50 is 3.4 ng/bee, and they are administering .74 ng/bee/day, it seems likely that some bees will die from acute poisoning.

8) They don't breakdown the numbers per hive, and instead give averages that include abandoned hives. Were the surviving non-abandoned neonicotinoid hives any weaker than the control hives?

My hope would be that the authors would provide the full data if requested, but I'm constantly surprised that journals don't require this. Without additional information, this seems like an interesting exploratory study that neither confirms or denies any specific hypothesis.

I'd guess that there are enough beekeepers interested in future studies that a larger scale study would be possible. Many bees are fed over the winter with sugar, to compensate for the honey that is taken. Do you suppose that there are beekeepers that would agree to a blind dosing of their bees if the lab were to provide the (possibly poisoned) sugar?
I meant metaphorically. Both companies are capitalized privately.
App splitting is a silly idea. Let’s not encourage it.
I am not sure I completely understand the use case but I am intrigued. I ran the following enough times that I finally aliased it to `prettymd`:

$ pandoc -t markdown --atx-headers --no-wrap uglyfile.md

That has been my go to way to clean up some of my crufty markdown formatting. I have a variant `spretyymd` that pipes the output to aspell. Obviously this does not replace the file in situ or create diffs. In situ pipe processing is always risky sounding enough that I never thought about doing it.

I wish someone would write an updated par with better documentation.
Yeah, I don't get why that's superior to something like std::sort : http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/sort (or a similar approach however you like).
They certainly don't. And the rules don't say they have to. That is the definition of pettiness.
You are talking about a stall picture, a moment in time, thinking this will last forever. I am talking about how fast that 0.0001% becomes 50%. If Oracle is patent trolling the Java developer communities the developers and other enterprises are not going to take it easy. We are talking about Google not some random 3 people startup that pays whatever the patent owner is asking for just to save a lawsuit. Java is the the most resourceful ecosystem today, there is no doubt about that. It is ~20 years old Go is 5, and please have a look to this chart:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Go%2C+Java&l=&relative=1
Your company needs hackers, but HR hires yes men.
This is obviously wrong. I learned from HN that the poverty line in Silicon Valley is $120K, and your life is an utter failure if you work a 9-5 job.
I bet the people of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Czech Republic etc etc feel pretty good about it though.
This is great, now I just need a similar tutorial but for LISP.
What is "hard wrapping"?

PS: No kidding, can't Google it. I only find articles about jewelry instead.
Human bites zombie: What happens?
By your logic, that you didn't own but used nevertheless:

You don't know I asked those questions, you only know that your sense impressions have been triggered.

Similarly my eyes sent some signals to my brain and after processing them I have concluded that you have replied to my comment. But wait! I don't really know you replied me, do I?

Since my senses are unreliable and I don't have any other means to interact with reality but my senses, my mind is impotent to deal with reality. What else can I do but go through my life hallucinating and doubting myself or inventing fantasies to keep my sanity.

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When you look at the moon (at the right time) you see circle. Then you can decide the moon is circular. Your senses are working just fine, so is your brain. It's your limited knowledge that leads you to wrong conclusions. As you observe and learn more, you integrate more and more concepts and you can eventually arrive to the point that moon is indeed a somewhat spherical object.

Or you can conclude that your senses are lying to you and reality cannot be known. Then you'd never go further than "looks circular, but know knows, right?".
12,000 for 316 million people is 3.8 trillion dollars.

Total GDP was 16.8 trillion

Total federal tax revenue was 2.8 trillion in 2013

This would be an enormous tax increase if it was the only tool used to provide income to people.
> Add to the fact that the pure liquid fattiness of the(even raw) bird in my experience makes it a huge hassle

Yah. In Grad. school, I once bought a whole duck on a dare. One of those long nights, I decided to stuff it and cook it. The damn tray was swimming in duck oil.
Our local yakitori joint serves swan and lion - http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/17/burlingame-resta...
Hire qa.
No, they are going after Netflix because Netflix streaming video service competes directly with the cable companies own TV and streaming video services. It's a straight up toll to compete.
> I didn't like it, it tasted a lot like rabbit to me, and sourness in a meat is just weird to me.

Odd. I have had both Rabbit and Kangaroo. Both were lean flavorful, the Kangaroo more close to a lean beef than anything. But I wouldn't associate "sour" with both meats. Could you have sampled a bad batch?
FM radio receiver written in JavaScript : Chrome plugin
I would eat swan just to prove a point that its not fair for chickens just because of the looks.