skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't have any dependencies listed, how is it pulling in regex and such?

Adding a

[dependencies]
regex = "*"

and building works fine here... hm.

(also that [[bin]] section is just repeating the defaults, you don't strictly need it)
This is really incredible list. Very useful when in need. Especially the switches that come in very handy.
Pretty funny.

Not mentioned in the video, but up until the DC segue it's basically an homage to Wakko's "The 50 States and their Capitals" song from Animaniacs (also sung to the same tune of "Turkey in the Straw").

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUDDaEOvuY
Even the most seasoned expert could spend a little time getting to know the situation before attempting to jump to the answer. If the user's question is not a precise statment of the issue that needs attention, don't worry, this is normal.

In my opinion, it is up to the community to either tease out the real question and prompt the user to make some edits, or flag/downvote and give some useful criticism.
That's such a bummer! I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't work for FreeBSD! You should consider opening a bug about it; the devs seem pretty open and responsive. Maybe they'll get it fixed for you!
But... you are missing the point yet again. The officer's own judgement is not probable cause without specific indicators (e.g. visual evidence).

"The problem here is that invasive searches based on no more than a government official’s hunch is precisely what the Fourth Amendment is supposed to guard against."

Due to the high alert rate, we actually have a pretty good idea of the base rate of drugs in the situations that this dog is being used in (~50-60%).

The question is whether the dog is actually providing probable cause when the dog has such a high false positive rate.

The assertion of the article is specifically that drug dogs are being used and trained by police in ways that allow them to be be used as "a probable cause generator".

"The Supreme Court originally gave its imprimatur to drug dog sniffs because when used properly, the dog’s finely tuned sense of smell can detect drugs and their absence with incredible precision. But that caveat — when used properly — is critical. If a drug dog isn’t eliminating any innocent people, if it’s validating the suspicions of the police nine out of ten times resulting in searches for which up to half or more of the suspects are innocent, then descriptors such as finely tuned and incredible precision no longer apply."

Thus the base rate that we should be judging the dog against is not the base rate in the general population, but the base rate in the dog's tested sample. We need to incentivize the cultivation of higher levels of accuracy that the dogs are capable of providing.
A good part of usenet is in google groups. Otherwise there are any number of paid providers. There may still be ISP or uni providers, but I don't think that access method is much of a Thing anymore.

Some paid providers: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=usenet+providers

Once you have an account, wherever you get it, you can usually access usenet via their browser interface, or with many email clients (like Thunderbird), or with specific usenet clients.

I used to be on a variety of comp.lang.* groups, but I haven't accessed usenet for years. I hear it's still more than useful for technical and other interests.
Note the lack of a response actually helping the person. That's an occurrence of needless snark, not a positive demonstration of how to help someone asking for help.

Here's a better response: "What kind of information are you looking to obtain? Much of that information is already read by the OS and provided via various APIs."
The joy of fixing the bug/creating a solution for a non-trivial problem is enough for me.
also worthy of note:

> show that the number of managed colonies

Says nothing about wild bees. If they're declining more rapidly than before that's still a problem.
Someone is spoiling Pornhub with ads about venture capitalist Sam Altman
The author is actually expliciting stating "Yep, there is an increase in bee deaths but the total number of bees is substantially higher so the supposed negative effect of these increased deaths is overstated or wrong" I don't think that's dodgy.
By your own logic, you just made an intuitive decision about whether I have a point, and now you're just rationalizing it. Not much point in trying to have a rational conversation.
Indeed, Venkatadhvari's 17th century Sanskrit work Raghava Yadaveeyam narrates the story of Ramayana (left-to-right) and Mahabharata (right-to-left) simultaneously.

http://www.sanskritebooks.org/2009/09/raghava-yadaviyam-with...
Cuba: No Internet, No Problem
Can you cite statistics showing that e.g. mason bee populations are collapsing?
The "helpers" in both examples are awful. Ugh.

Also representative of all of my attempts to get support via IRC.
If you have any suggestions how to word this better I'm open to them. We did have a lawyer look at this. It is like sampling, you can use a bit but you can't use it all.
Our legal system very much distinguishes between venial and mortal sins. You can see that in the very language of the 4th amendment which is why I asked my question. The amendment recognizes that searching someone puts a far smaller burden on them than putting them in jail which is why the standard of proof is very different for those two actions.

My point here has nothing to do with the war on drugs. The same standard applies if law enforcement is searching for drugs or guns or stolen property.

You should ponder this some and then consider changing your point of view so that you can be correct more often in the future.
Once you closed all of the X-10 pop-ups.
Hm. What would be the probable cause level required for a search of a politician's records, phone calls, and bank accounts for evidence of bribery. We could probably use big data to establish patterns which are indicative of bribe-taking that would be demonstrably more reliable than 50%.
From experience, I've seen an explosion in a cottage industry around sourcing and selling data. While it was more common that I'd see startups (esp mobile app companies) supplementing their primary business model by selling their data to investors or data resellers, I've recently noticed startups aimed directly at this market opportunity (Earnest Research, Second Measure, etc.) Interestingly, Priceonomics also pivoted into doing data crawling for hedge funds.
As far as I understand with this exploit it was only possible to read files, not write to them or compromise the targets in some other way. With that in mind, it makes sense to target keys. Because the keys are an indirect way to compromise new targets.
We call it proprietary to prevent any confusion.
They are your only source on the small "hobby" scale (maybe wax and pollen too but that is more labor intensive) but pollination contracts aren't open to you until you're doing this full time.

Now, Hobby scale honey can usually be sold for more than wholesale honey that the pollination guys use to offload their crop so hopefully that makes up the difference.

For me, I'll never catch up if I keep having the massive losses I've been having -- even if I sell my honey for $7/lb ($8 total including the jar and label). The wholesale price is around $2-2.50/lb
See Section IIA of: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=.... It explains that probable cause is generally considered a lower standard than preponderance of the evidence (which is a 51% standard).
I dunno. Probably Cargo had some previous state stored somewhere that 'clean' didn't clear. I don't have time to figure out the internals of yet another weirdo build system.
Woah, yes I did.
Viewflow – reusable workflow library
It's clear, in Python 3 that would have to behave as in Python 2 if our goal were to have most of existing Python 2 programs "still working" when people give them to Python 3.
Indeed, GitLab EE is proprietary, GitLab CE is open source (MIT Expat)
I like the indentation part of PEP 8. Especially the ways to organise arguments while defining functions. Having a common way of writing those is really helpful when reading the code. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#indentation
True, without his lightgl library this project wont exist, but the first thing I did was to strip all the things I didnt like and improve from there. There is hardly any function in litegl that remains unchanged from lighgl.
Speaking of coffeescript, there's a python/coffeescript inspired language that I stumbled upon recently: http://breuleux.github.io/earl-grey/ Basically es6-ified coffeescript it looks like.
The scrubbed copyrights are bad enough, but can be fixed. The incompatible licenses mean that this code is actually unusable.

I have no idea how MS is going to rectify this.
It varies heavily by channel. It's impressive what you can produce if you decide ahead of time that your community won't be that way. For instance, the Rust community is exceptional; I would never expect to see anything like this there.
The linked page is only to a video. There's no article to read.

I'm assuming this is describing the same "Packet" system that's been discussed before - a USB stick or other digital medium is loaded with curated internet content such pirated videos and music, and influential articles each month & brought into the country for distribution.

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9686468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9719492
"Scientists notice small trend that may or may not be of importance to language" just isn't a very catchy headline.
Cooking in the Archives: Beer Cakes
If you want to contribute to EE I think you need a subscription. Otherwise you shouldn't run it.
Or at the Apple store! omg, the number of times I've walked in, gone directly to a sales person to request that they kindly go to the back room and retrieve a specific item for me so that I can give them money and been stalled, interrogated, and counter advised on other products when really I already know what I want and just want them to get it for me.

me: "Hi, I'd like to buy a White 13" Macbook with a 500gb HD and 8gb of RAM. Could you please get one for me?"

sales person: "What are you using it for? Do you browse the internet? look at photos? do a lot of word processing?"

me: confused "um, I do web development and use Photoshop sometimes..."

sales person: "Oh well you need a Macbook Pro then."

me: "no, I can't afford that and the regular Macbook is plenty powerful for what I need. Can I just buy one please?"

sales person: "Photoshop won't run well on the regular Macbook. What you really want it the Macbook Pro. You'll need at least 16gb of RAM and if you're editing photos you'll want a bigger harddrive, not to mention the extra power that comes from the Pro's CPU."

me: "um, I have money in my hand right here that I will give you in exchange for a regular Macbook. Can you please go get one and take my money?"
The Pleasure of Practicing: A Musician’s Account of Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Reduction in population allocates more reproduction-relevant resources to the survivors. Resistance genes spread faster if the threat kills the non-resistant. (It is much easier to outcompete a corpse than an invalid.)

But ancestor post is also presuming that it is possible for bees to acquire genetic resistance to CCD. As we are not entirely certain about the exact mechanism involved, which may or may not have something to do with pesticides, chemicals in HFCS, dietary deficiency disease, or mites, it's hard to say whether any random mutation could protect against CCD without also making the colony unable to reproduce. For instance, if CCD is caused by a dietary deficiency, a colony is very unlikely to spontaneously acquire the ability to synthesize the missing nutrient, unless the species lost that ability at some point.

For instance, it is far more likely that humans could re-acquire the ability to synthesize ascorbate than it is that we might spontaneously gain the ability to synthesize our own omega-3 fatty acids. E. coli evolution experiments show it is possible, but the selection pressure has to be maintained over thousands of generations.

Applied human brainpower to the specific mechanisms of the threat is going to cure CCD much faster than bee breeding, which in turn is faster than natural bee evolution.

The only good behind the pruning of the population is that it is scaring the human agricultural industry into investing resources to stop further losses.
Funny, I just saw the article. NoScript improves the web yet again.
The Unix Acronym List
Previous discussion -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9946060
So brutally rapid market driven natural selection of the honey bee population is a good thing, hmm. Darwinian both financially and biologically, and fits with prevailing American economic philosophy.
I venture that we're performing an uncontrolled experiment with known benefits and risks we are just beginning to understand. Not worth it. One can only hope the E.U invades in Operation American Freedom and imposes the Precautionary Principle on us.
This seems like a reasonable response:

s5msft commented 3 hours ago

@cjwl We're on it and definitely want to make this right. As a bit of background, (some of) our source code was originally C++ based (marked up to act like Objective-C). We then ran that source through a tool to generate "real" Objective-C code.

In any case, we're going through Foundation right now and will absolutely make this right.

They seem pretty serious about me, and honestly, their acknowledged mistake is pretty understandable. They also have loads of money that people could sue them for, so I'm sure they don't want to risk themselves either.
These abstract patterns are interesting (and I'd love to read more about them), butt more so if you can drive some kind of tree that neatly describes all languages. But doing so is essentially solving Chomsky's main theory which so far hasn't been done to my understanding?
Someone should reestimate severity of those "CVEs". I got 10 warnings and none of them is any severe for my app(and yours too, likely), so I'm definitely not vulnerable.

Also LOL "CSRF Vulnerability in jquery-rails" is known as not a bug at all.
Private Security Needed for VIP Only Burning Man Camp
You are at least the second commentor to suggest neonicotinoids as the primary factor. I've seen them discussed elsewhere too, but cannot figure out with the modest data available how folks can state such a thing with anything approaching a reasonable level of confidence.

And that's consequential if that causes one to stop looking too early. Maybe I've missed something. Is there some persuasive evidence you can make me aware of that points to neonicotinoids likely being the primary culprit?
Honey bees are not American. They're livestock brought into the country by settlers.
CloudStats announces free server monitoring for Digital Ocean users
I use TDD. No matter how complicated the task may be, I have found writing tests first really reduces stress.
Okay! That's not consistent with how Cargo is supposed to work, so if you can share anything, please open an issue. Sorry about that.
Slow Computers Cost You Money and Productivity
It's a whole genre actually.*

*http://cup.columbia.edu/book/extreme-poetry/9780231151603
For the incompatible licenses, Microsoft can:

1. Buy the rights from the original owners (if you are the owner, you can re - license your code under a different license).

2. MS can reimplement from scratch the problematic pieces of code.

3. MS can hire someone to write these missing pieces for them.
>> Someone at Microsoft needs to go back to the first commit and track down every bit of code that was taken, and investigate the origin of the code, and properly restore the copyright notices.

It is specifically to avoid these issues that most companies don't go through the trouble of open-sourcing their code. Not at all saying it's wrong to enforce licenses I'm just pointing out the obvious that companies that don't want to get into legal trouble avoid the issue altogether and discourage open source. A well known company I used to work for requires legal to sign-off anything that has to be open-sourced. A startup I currently work-off had to be audited for license compliance before a round of funding. One primary reason I see is that most engineers don't understand licensing very well. They don't understand when it's safe to use GPL and when it's not.
Yeah, that's what moved me from "they are jerks, oh well" to "this is something worth posting."

Note to Microsoft: I will be happy to write you a new ObjC runtime if you'd like, at my usual rates.
While I am by no means one to claim that typical geek behavior is always correct, could it be the case that geeksplaining is ultimately inseparable from the positive aspects of the geek personality (even if we can mitigate it to some degree)?

Also hashtags, particularly negative ones, have less to do with actually bringing about social good and more to do with social status games[1]. What I consider to be one of the defining traits of geeks (and I should hope be characteristic the HN community) is our disdain for social status games[2].

#hashtagsareforsheep

[1]http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/playing-the-status-game/
[2]https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c
From experience, when you can, it's just better spawning multiple processes over doing multithreading.
LLVM has a C backend [1], though I don't know how complete/stable it is. Getting a bit sillier, it's possible (albeit probably not sensible) to decompile asm to C [2].

[1] https://github.com/draperlaboratory/llvm-cbe

[2] http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/
This is just a link to https://imgur.com/yPXCyeN ?
I don't really see why a pile of different languages couldn't FFI through C-style interfaces without any of them actually being C, though.
More often than not, newbie questions on SO are XY questions, so I guess it creates a bias. I actually got downvoted many times for answering the actual question when most people thought it was the wrong way to achieve the broader goal, even though it was a correct answer.

So usually if I do it, I try to answer the question, and add my opinion on what the better approach might be.
He is not talking about being worse 'constitutionally'. He is absolutely correct in saying that being sent to jail is worse than being searched. I suspect he is correct positing that is why the standards of evidence for conviction (beyond a reasonable doubt) are higher than for search (probable cause).

He is however missing the point in that he is bringing up a separate standard of evidence that has no bearing on the issue being discussed. Being searched isn't bad just because it can lead to you going to jail.
That's the second problem with the dataset. (sampling bias for AngelList's preference toward startups)
It's just not that simple: the source attribution for the entire code base is in question. Of the licensing that is known, the licenses are known incompatible and the result is non-distributable.

They also got the copyright headers wrong when trying to fix Cocotron's stripped copyrights:

https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC/issues/35#issuecomment-...
A thought coming from military logistics: one of the best things you could do for the "friendliness" or "camaraderie" of a group of people is to cut it into monkeysphere-sized packets (~150 user cap), such that the people in that packet associate mainly with one-another. This is a "Company."

So, imagine a website like Reddit, where upon registration, you get assigned at random to a Reddit Company—a little shard of Reddit with its own posts and comments. Imagine further that you could give people an invitation link to allow them to move from their company to yours—again, permanently, though if you made friends in the original company they'd likely be willing to invite you back.

This would have a lot of the Web 1.0 feel, I think; the users would probably get to know one-another quite well, and those "welcome threads" would be perfectly common.

Interestingly, even though a given user's view of the website would only show items from their partition, you could still use statistical information collected from the entire user-base to do "wisdom of crowds" things, like ranking items. In a company-partitioned Reddit, each post's votes could be aggregated by URL across all Companies, with the Company itself then getting to decide to what degree they care about the tastes of the masses, versus the tastes of their (presumed) peers.
not enough jquery http://www.doxdesk.com/img/updates/20091116-so-large.gif
I am curious. Could you highlight some of the technical problems with Firefox?
What keeps someone from flooding it with trillions of files full of random data to waste all of the disk space on the participating nodes?
Is there a master tracking bug for compilation speedup ideas? Just curious.
Although I find Rust very appealing I still see C++ as the better option, mostly
because I fear that Rust would lack good suppport libraries (e.g. for talking to
DBs, generating/parsing data formats such as JSON or for generating cryprographic
hashes) and that I would end up implementing many of those myself. As of today,
many Rust wrapper libraries (e.g. for BerkeleyDB) seem to be written by a single
author, which makes me wonder about their stability and maturity even more.

Rust is in its very beginning[1]. Only time can tell if it will have a rich set of support libraries that are stable and mature.It has one big advantage over C and C++ in this regard.

It has a central repository for all the support libraries.

I always found it difficult to assess the
stability and maturity of libraries for C or C++ found on the internet.
Of course there are the standards, like libpng or zlib, and you know they must be good because so many projects use them. For more exotic tasks you are on your own.
With a central repository, you can at least estimate the popularity of a certain library. crates.io shows a download count for example. Also many other popular languages have one

Java Maven
Perl CPAN
TeX CTAN
PHP PECL, PEAR
Python PyPI
Ruby RubyGems
R CRAN
Node.js npm
Lua LuaRocks
Haskell Hackage

[1] I know that Graydon started it over 5 years ago, but from user standpoint Rust is more a child of 2015.

[2] https://crates.io/