skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Big Agro" is probably more inve$ted in this than "Big Chem". For those skeptical conspiracy theorists...

"A survey of honey bee colonies revealed no consistent pattern in pesticide levels between healthy and CCD-affected colonies when pollen, bees, and beeswax were tested for the presence of 170 pesticides. The most commonly found pesticide in that study was coumaphos, which is used to treat honey bees for Varroa mites.

The pesticide class neonicotinoids (clothianidin, thiamethoxam, and imidacloprid) has been accused of being the cause of CCD. The neonicotinoids were developed in the mid-1990s in large part because they showed reduced toxicity to honey bees, compared with previously used organophosphate and carbamate insecticides."

[1]http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572
Reprising a comment from an earlier honeybee thread:

For what it's worth, EconTalk 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 Varroa 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.

It's also difficult to compare the impact of "neonicotinoids" with that of the Varroa mite.
Yep, goose is quite a dark meat, and is easily overcooked to dryness. But potatoes (or anything) roasted in goose-fat should be the highlight of anyone's christmas dinner!
Could we start to come to an agreement that maybe "Native" might be a bit of a marketing term? For example a browser rendering HTML and CSS is probably native under the current term. It is not until you get to JavaScript that things need the JIT VM.
Sort of. We think. I dunno:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/18720/how-secur...
Python is a very different language than Lisp. It's much more dynamic. Every method call conceptually involves a hash table look up. Lisp on the other hand is much closer to the bare metal, and much easier to implement efficiently. For Python the implementation techniques of Self would be more appropriate.
General IPv6 question...is this a case where there is a benefit in being on of the early adopters? i.e. are there specific "good" addresses. Kinda like money.com is better than asoef.com.
Agreed. A swan is no cuter than a duck, which is a common dish in many menus. Also, we eat a lot of animals which could be considered "cute". A little lamb, for example, or a piglet. So cuteness can't be the answer.
What I got from it, while not a conclusive answer, was that because of the historical ban for anyone but the royal to eat swan, there is no tradition anywhere in the western world for it. Also people don't like to eat "cute" animals, like seals or squirrels. And lastly, when something is classified as a pest, people don't want to think of it on their dining room table.

While the article doesn't explicitly say the exact reason why, I think these were the main points. So I guess that is badly formatting on the article writers side.
Astronautics.
software vendor in this case might come to regret having taken such a hard line

Reminds me of Ernie Ball: http://www.osv.org.au/index.cgi?tid=91

http://www.metafilter.com/30137/The-CEO-of-Ernie-Ball-talks-...
Since you only have to change the CD once about every hour, its not as bad as it might seem. ;)
The bigger picture is that CPython's core team simply does not care too much about performance. Performance has never been a fundamental requirement, but merely an afterthought.

The biggest reminder of this was Python 3, which for me was a complete disappointment. They could have limited python's super-dynamic behavior (e.g. changing builtin functions, patching classes on the fly, etc.) or made them optional. They could've added optional typing annotations a la Cython. Or even changing the builtins and language syntax to allow more inplace operations and preallocations, so that temporary results wouldn't have to be allocated on the heap over and over again. All of these changes would have made python faster and more JIT-able. None of these things happened. Performance-wise, python 3 is no step forward.

Python+Cython is still a powerful combination, but eventually Julia or similar languages will eat python's lunch with respect to scientific computing.
If the subnets are allocated incrementally, you could get a shorter prefix length.
Since the Goldberg Variations were written for the harpsichord, I don't think any piano version could be considered definitive ;-)
Native depends on the platform. Firefox OS is all in HTML, CSS and JavaScript so an application containing those languages would in fact be native for Firefox OS.
Top comment on a reddit link:

"They paid 110.000 CHF (=$123 971,65) for that simulator/demo."

http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21ljff/worlds_first_...
Any details on exactly what you get with Digital Ocean IPv6? The page doesn't really go into much detail - and the implementation can make or break things.

Is this a single static IPv6 address with a /64 (or /56 or /48) subnet routed to it? Or is it something else?
Thanks! I find this very helpful. Seems like a terrific pattern.
I am not finding multiple-tab support via shift or control click on my browser (Chromium 33.0.1750.152 Debian jessie/sid).
I think a lot of people are not comfortable Buddhism with unless it smells like incense and has an exotic feeling distinguishing it from their everyday lives.
Nintendo's Ban on Virtual Gay Marriage is Cultural, Not Political or Religious
> This price point was so impressive for the html5 capabilities that it had.

No, it isn't. The price is standard, or even high, for the hardware it has. And the hardware is pretty crap (hence why the performance was also crap).

All phones have equal HTML5 capabilities, the difference is what you can do while getting good performance. And the answer to that on the ZTE Open was "not a damn thing", because it never had good performance.
Those earbuds that came with every iPod were pretty poor quality, IMO, and they were released under Jobs' oversight.
Thanks! We were writing up a response at the same time:

The Wayback Machine data is stored in WARC or ARC files[0] which are written at web crawl time by the Heritrix crawler[1] (or other crawlers) and stored as regular files in the archive.org storage cluster.

Playback is accomplished by binary searching a 2-level index of pointers into the WARC data. The second level of this index is a 20TB compressed sorted list of (url, date, pointer) tuples called CDX records[2]. The first level fits in core, and is a 13GB sorted list of every 3000th entry in the CDX index, with a pointer to larger CDX block.

Index lookup works by binary searching the first level list stored in core, then HTTP range-request loading the appropriate second-level blocks from the CDX index. Finally, web page data is loaded by range-requesting WARC data pointed to by the CDX records. Before final output, link re-writing and other transforms are applied to make playback work correctly in the browser.

The server stack:

- frontend: Tengine + HAProxy to a pool of Wayback tomcat app servers[3]

- backend: The redis-backed archive.org metadata API[4] for object location and nginx on linux (via ext4) for data service

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive
[1] https://github.com/internetarchive/heritrix3
[2] https://github.com/internetarchive/CDX-Writer
[3] https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback
[4] http://blog.archive.org/2013/07/04/metadata-api/

-sam and raj, Internet Archive
Listen Now Live 'EPISODE2 – The Wacko Network NFL Draft 2014
It's truly a small world, the guy who wrote that plugin is a med student at my fac, but I'd never heard of it. Thanks for introducing me to an awesome plugin, my anatomy classes would've been a breeze with it.

On a more serious note, I've been seeing some comments asking to share Anki decks. This is fine but you should read this disclaimer first (it's about language learning, but it should apply to other areas as well). http://fluent-forever.com/personal-anki-decks/

In short, Anki works better for reviewing rather than learning things for the first time. So the most efficient way to use it would be building your own deck for a more personal experience.

However, if using shared decks, it's best to only add cards to your review log after you've learned the underlying concepts (so that it doesn't break your review rhythm).
Personally I think the Canadian Geese around Oracle HQ in Redwood City could use a good thinning.

- Why? You don't like animals chilling out in a protected area.
"Run" on the iPad? How do they get around the App Store prohibition on downloaded binary code?
My personally trained chooser seems to prefer white text just slightly more than the baseline one. I wonder if programmers have a slightly stronger preference for light text in the more borderline situations.
I remember tabbed browsing showing up in either Galeon or Skipstone, well before Mozilla supported these. My recollection is that Opera actually supported the feature first. And though I thought it was earlier, the feature seems to have emerged around 2003, well after the date (1997) given in this article.
For my job I'm often dealing with pdf datasheets, so yesterday when Opera claimed on HN that web technologies were good enough, I fired up FF and put it to the test.

> "Web is rapidly losing users as it fails to adapt to disruption from mobile apps and continues to perform poorly – despite incredible optimization efforts – due to a bloated software architecture built of hacks on top of hacks."

Summed up my experience of PDF.js vs native code perfectly. When trying to do real work with it, I could handle additional 10 second load times, but the 2-5 second delays ever time I scrolled would drive me crazy. When today's machines can't render a simple text document smoothly, something is seriously wrong with the underlying technology.
Well, the data points are pretty much unreadable, with everything being smooshed on top of each other.
> I wanna know how a mechanical engineer happens to learn enough about malaria for the thought to even cross his mind to check the iron in the blood with a magnet.

A lot of mechanical engineers in academia are actually working on (or looking to work on) research that has medical applications, because you can get funding from the NIH. Although academics are technically supposed to be "independent," the funding climate ultimately drives research interests.

> What's that thought process like?

Well, presuming that he was already well aware of the ability to use magnets to move minuscule quantities of iron, it starts out with something like this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=human+body+iron

Note that it doesn't have to start out with malaria. In fact, you don't have to know anything about human disease when starting out.
What kind of discussions are propping up to #3 on HN front page. There is more general topic discussion than Hacker related discussion (btw I meant hacker in the good sense)
It should be fair use (non commercial, library purpose usage etc.).
But the premise is already weird. Who is "We" as in "Why don't we eat swans"? And who considers swans 'cute'?

I mean, I consider cats cute, lots of people consider dogs cute - and both animals are eaten in this world. Better example: Horses are cherished as companions and pets for some people and I _regularly_ like to eat them. There's even a dish local to the Rhine area in Germany [1] that (used to, it is replaced by beef quite often by now) is based on horse meat.

People tend to love dolphins. Asian cultures eat them. "They are cute" is not an argument here. That might explain a bias, but not why there's (according to the article) no swan to be found on any menu?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerbraten
Answering my own question -- looks like it just builds the IPA on the Mac, uploads it to Dropbox, and installs it on the device.
The Word "hacker"
How to use ngMessages in AngularJS – yearofmoo.com
18 hives. That's a whole lot of bees.

Furthermore, the results are jarring. Bees deserted the twelve hives treated with neonicotinoids, to the point that half of the hives died. The survivinghives were seldom populated and either without queen or without brood.

There was no desertion in the control group. One hive of the control group died of some disease, but the hive was full.
World Baking Day website
Sure -- you're right that the SE engine is definitely only good at specific things (namely, fact/data/science based questions), but it is arguably the best in the world at those particular things.

What is the Quora engine the best in the world at?

I'd look at growth, too. Even the less popular SE sites grow at very respectable rates. How much is Quora growing?
Are you on a Mac?
OS X's font rendering causes light fonts on dark backgrounds to be anti-aliased differently, causing white text to appear bolder, thus easier to read.
Link to Github repo that contains more info since it doesn't seem to be linked there for some reason:
https://github.com/harthur/brain
Apparently they've had a "Custom Image" beta in the admin UI for over two years [0]. There's also a CoreOS image request [1] that's been sitting around for almost a year. They just entered beta, and there's not really a good way to use them on DO without abusing Fedora, apparently.

[0] http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean...
[1] https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/176338623053045760
From http://www.gobolinux.org/?page=at_a_glance

~] ls -l /usr/include/stdio.h | cut -b 45-

stdio.h -> /Programs/Glibc/2.3.6/include/stdio.h

Does anyone know what happens if e.g. a later version of Glibc overwrites the stdio.h 2.3.6 version found under /usr/include/stdio.h?

How does GoboLinux still retain its "compatibility with the Unix legacy" in such situations without breaking things?
http://symbiosis.bytemark.co.uk/ - a set of packages to install on top of Debian to automatically manage vhosts and email domains, so you just create & delete files and directories rather than edit configuration files.

It's the default setup for Bytemark customers and we've seen some of them take it to other ISPs, so we know it's portable.
If you're interested in modern neural networks/deep learning in the browser, Kaparthy's ConvNet.js [1], (MNIST demo [2]) is a better project from both a technical and pedagogical perspective.

[1]: https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs

[2]: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/convnetjs/demo/mnist....
Holy crap. I know plenty of 20-somethings who haven't accomplished anything close to this.
This study takes Varroa mites into account. The hives in all groups were infested and responded to treatment identically.

On the other hand, hives treated with neonicotinoids were deserted during the winter.

It's good to know that the CCD hasn't had any impact on the economy.
This can cut both ways. Certainly parts of the Java API are essentially copied (SSO) from APIs they did not license. Google should be able to argue their rights are terminated under fruit-of-a-poisoned-tree doctrine.

But realistically, I can't see much except federal corruption in the decision to hold the copyrightable SSO higher than the functional requirements. In this digital age, that is a boot-licking verdict.

Alsup got it right.
Having studied Homeric Greek vocabulary for ~140 hours with Anki, the only change I found which made the experience more pleasant was to disable the card leeching. The "threat" of a card becoming a leech tended to take me out of the zone.

If one has 20 minutes to spare a day there is no reason one cannot gain a > 1000 word vocabulary in a foreign language in a matter of months. Anki comes highly recommended for vocabulary building.
"Web is rapidly losing users" - Data? Anyone have some data on the web 'losing users?'

Most mobile apps communicate with their cloud backends using HTTP, so clearly the protocol itself isn't dying. What may be slowing in adoption is browser-based access to HTML/JavaScript-based sites, but I question that assumption too.

This idea that we need to burn it down to build a new technology stack for the web seems kind of laughable. Why would we do that when we could just replace the piece that is bothering us - JavaScript?

All technology after sufficient degree of adoption and maturity is really just layered hacks. What do you think Windows is? Win32 buried under .NET buried under whatever runtime Microsoft decides to release next year - Metro tacked on because they only thought of building tablet interfaces recently.

Even new features on the elegantly and robustly designed Mac OS X are starting to appear as afterthoughts.

But this is all besides the point. What Mobile apps tend not to have is links to other mobile apps, whereas the web is a federated network of inter-linked content, which leads to pretty powerful network effects. All mobile apps will ever do is create siloed walled gardens - on the other hand, the web is open. So I don't see how mobile apps could be siphoning users away from the web. At the very least they are complements to each other.
We shot a swan for the sole purpose of eating it. It was lovely and served a large number of people (apx 8) with plenty of leftovers.

This was in a country where they are protected but are a pest and are in large numbers locally. Protected largely for historical reasons (the Queen).

In future I would (will) use the pressure cooker however.
My father recently told me he used to share lab time with Cray when he was in college. He said people would go crazy when he was on campus and follow him wherever he went.

He said he was like the Steve Jobs of his day - if you were into tech, you knew who he was and just wanted to soak up what he was saying.
I think Quora is a totally different product, content wise. You don't go to Quora for programming help unless it's hello world in php. You go there for /r/iama type of questions.

Or it's just my usage, largely influenced by the weekly email.
Thomas Edison's Reaction To Tragedy Shows Why He Was So Successful
Most normal people don't care about having to sign up. Or how Quora is allegedly gaming Google.
I know plenty of 30-40 somethings that call themselves programmers that wouldn't know how to even prototype this.
This is the case in point. You can't BSD license GPLed code without permission of the original copyright holder.
That's a valid point. But, being dynamically typed, you don't find out about the type error until runtime. It's possible, although unlikely, that a Python web application can run for months before hitting a particular code branch where a string and an int are added together, and an exception is thrown. (In Python, it's also possible to get syntax errors long after you start your program).

It's possible that the compiler would have had enough information to determine this, if the compiler were to check types. Again, the proposed solution is to simply write enough tests to exercise all code paths.

For what it's worth, I enjoy working in Perl. But I realize when I do that some things are deferred until runtime. I also enjoy working in C and C++, partly because I can push some things to compile time (type checks, sure, but also arithmetic ( http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/ratio/ratio ), unit checking ( http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/boost_units.ht... ), a decent amount of reflection ( http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/type_traits ), some assertions (static_assert), etc.). I don't necessarily push it all to compile time, but C++ allows me to.
Kinda off topic, but did anyone catch the comments from "Terrence Andrew Davis"? Google this guy...can't figure out if he's a real, mentally unstable human or a random text generator, but supposedly he wrote an os: http://templeos.org.

Uh...and Swans and stuff...
Normally I'd hope to see Google appeal it to the Supreme Court. But not this Supreme Court.
Agreed. Goose is all about the goose fat.
Or you could try being functional in JS, there are some good resources on that.
Without build out requirements you would be back to a playing field tilted in favor of the incumbents. Much of their infrastructure is paid off and they could engage in strategic behavior by slashing prices in whatever area a competitor puts a shovel in the ground, which would make investors in competitors skittish to invest only to enter a price war.

You're also only solving the problem for a minority of people. Competition could be effective in the highest density areas, but what about all the areas that are only profitable enough to justify a fiber roll out for a provider with more than 50% of the customers? No one is going to be the second to enter a market in which the existence of a competitor would destroy profitability for both providers.

I'll give you that eliminating the build out requirements is worth doing. I'm just not convinced that it's enough on its own.
Hepatitis A food outbreak traced with grocery store loyalty card clue
>> make me double click to get though

I really don't like it. At first I thought that a link is broken or something.
Building an Initial Following from Scratch
Does anybody know if it supports Sprint in the US?
"If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
Yep, mix with best headphones/monitors you can find, master with cheap earbuds.
Since the article was short on answers, here's one possible answer as to "why we don't eat swans":

Their numbers are too small to get into volume "manufacturing" (CAFO's).

15,000 swans. That's cute.

We harvest 10,000 kiloTonnes of cattle per year in the USA alone. That means, our CAFO'S produce about 2 million pounds of beef for every 1 swan we could harvest.

Our food system loves repeatable processes & volume efficiencies that wild game can't provide.

Note: I may be nearly vegetarian, & eat only local organic meat rarely. But, the facts of CAFO's dominate the market.
There once was a man from St John's
Who coveted one of the swans,
"Oh no" said the Porter,
Please take my daughter,
The swans are reserved for the dons.
No, because they cause economic harm. Both in damage to aircraft coming into and out of San Mateo airport, damage to cars which are involved in goose related accidents, damage to property in the form of plant destruction and defecation. Without natural predators they have become a nuisance.
This makes for very good reading indeed. I started reading it and just now realised that I'd spent the last couple of hours on it. It's written well, approachable and very pragmatic. I spent a short while on Haskell a few years back and stopped after 3 or 4 chapters of Learn You A Haskell due to time constraints. I think I'm going to make this my evening reading and finally pick up the language.

Thanks for posting this.

EDIT: typos
Since neither his comment nor his profile mention it, I'll mention here for those unaware that this guy is co-founder of Stack Exchange.