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I can't help but agree that the communities seem to be disintegrating around the edges - but only in the feeling of community from the way the old generalized communities used to be. On the other hand, its hard to find something in real life that doesn't have an internet forum or 3 devoted entirely to it. I feel like a huge portion of my interests can fit neatly into existing forums that form their own specialized communities. Of course, there is no semblance of real anonymity there, I can use a pseudonym, but it would certainly not hold up to a determined investigator - public or private.

Of course, another trend here which really pushes things away from the anonymity/community is that the rise of Social profiles being tied to true identity has become a common denominator across a lot of the content sources on the net. Mobile access has also pushed us toward sole points of access to many of those communities. Sure, you can still log into many sites with a username and password from any old computer, but as more and more sites become personalized it becomes inconvenient to manage the multiplicity of web presences on a phone without resorting to using apps that are permanently logged in and tied to your single point of access.

Finally, the burden of defeating spambots has become nearly impossible without some strong anti-spam membership requirements. defeating spam has become a huge driver for anti-anonymity. The problem is, that even if you defeat bots, the giant number of people participating in discussions virtually guarantees that someone will post something in need of moderation under a pseudonym. A friend of mine at the NYT said they had to implant special filters to moderate the amazing amount of hate speech that would end up as non-sequitur comments on nearly every article. They are not alone in that experience.

Its not so bad, all in all, but the internet is a big place now. Some part of my thinks that when communities are small, they self-manage much more easily since there is a kind of group-accountability. On the broader internet, this isn't true anymore. on large public websites, it isn't true. But thats why we self-organize into smaller communities like Hacker News. As they get bigger, the rules necessarily become more strict because the feeling of accountability for the community's well-being on an individual basis goes down. </rationalization>
Definitely Stack Overflow, but it's a long-standing problem that existed long before that. "Assume the user doesn't really want what they asked for."

In the late 90s the ultimate condensation of this was to answer any computer question with "install Linux."
A while ago I saved some pretty useful sed[0] and awk[1] one-liners on github.

[0] https://gist.github.com/vmsp/38b9a891c76a2fc5c3b5

[1] https://gist.github.com/vmsp/5cbfa1b4ccd9f78f56c7
An assembler is probably pretty common. But assemblers aren't standardized or portable.

I can believe that the Rust toolchain is pretty portable. But it's also big. Say someone wants to install my software on some weird platform like, say QNX. I'm not comfortable saying that step 1 for installing my (relatively small and simple) thing is: install the (very large and complex) Rust toolchain.

I want to be able to ship C source that will compile anywhere. Though I am comfortable needing two separate C sources: a 32-bit source and a 64-bit source.
There's been a brewing controversy on Twitter and GitHub today about missing/changed licenses on some of the code that Microsoft incorporated into their WinObjC release from yesterday. This GitHub issue seems to be the best summary of what's going on so far. The quick summary of the summary is that there are a bunch of files released under BSD/MIT-style licenses where Microsoft removed attribution, some files which are GPLd or even more restrictive, and at least one file which is not under an open source license at all.

Full disclosure: some of my code is in there, so I'm not an unbiased source.
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Congrats on 1.0! We've been using Tabula in the office to get data, usually from government sources, out of PDFs. It's been very handy--though I don't especially love having Java on interns' PCs to use it. But it's worth the tradeoff to not waste their--and our--time manually extracting that data.
Doesn't really look like it. Of the current conversations, only two are related to the the topic of changes, the rest are generic questions or thoughts about rust.
On your quality metric, the best result would come from a two-tailed coin that indicated positive 0% of the time. But that seems to me to miss the point rather badly.

;-)
Because honeybees are just one of many pollinating insects whose numbers are falling dramatically. They just happen to get talked about a lot in the press because there are people with a direct economic interest in them.
This is the most outlandish attempt at a proof of the Banach-Tarski theorem I've heard so far.
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Ah, sure!

Good that you brought it up. Such questions were actually considered, but the answers arrived at were always vague and changeable. Not surprising for a startup I guess.

Much of it will be read heavy, some parts will be write heavy. "Ideally", we should be using different solutions for the different needs, but that's too much at the beginning. So the best bet will be the best balance, while avoiding a database/backend restructuring to the extent possible. How much data: not surprisingly, it will start small, and the upper limit depends on the future...

Geographic based system, yes, eventually; but they both support geospatial. There will be time based queries for analytical and reporting purposes, not the core of the app. So that can easily be offloaded to a separate system.

The structure of the data will be mostly relational, so we stick with one of the old school systems. For the little bits that will be either dynamic or non-relational, both MySQL and Postgres now support JSON.

Popularity came into the equation because the more popular a system is, the more solutions are developed around it. So We won't be the first to tackle any problem in a popular system, thus reusing what others have done will be enough for the most part.

Cheers!
It's nice that you can opt out of working with PDFs but that's not an option for a large portion of the world.
> You meet more of a person saying "hi" to their face than you do after months of reading their posts online.

Yes, but that don't stop you from reaching out and saying "hi".

I am (mainly) a front-end developper, and I occasionally send emails to the developper of product or websites that I love and simply offer to help them out. I don't work for free, but what I am doing isn't working. It's sharing knowledge.

I would email "Hi there! I love your product! I noticed that your X isn't working correctly... did you try Y solution? I had the same problem a while back." Sometime, this email is ignored. Sometime, a developper end up reading it. Sometime, it's some guy who is passionate about his product but has no idea what code even is.

Yes, the internet is turning into a mall. That doesn't stop you from becoming friend with the managers of the store next to yours.
If the tool for determining probable cause is no better than a coin flip -- which is in fact the case (see my other post) -- then the intent of the amendment is being circumvented. It's the whole "probable" thing that's the issue at hand.
> Then there is the rate of those who are actually carrying drugs within the a group that the police have pulled over, and suspect are carrying drugs, and have also presumably asserted their rights and refused a consensual search by the police and also do not have some other attribute (such as smell, items visible in plain view) that would provide probable cause.

Yes, but that hurts your argument rather than helping it. The drug dog does not, by itself have to clear the probable cause hurdle. Rather, the totality of the circumstances has to yield probable cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_v._Gates.

So say the base rate for carrying drugs is 10% in the population. The police, based on their suspicions, pull over a population of people where 40% are carrying illegal drugs. Then, the drug dog comes in, and he's barely better than a coin flip--60% correct. Out of 100 people stopped, he'll correctly identify 24 of the 40 carrying drugs, and incorrectly flag 24 of the 60 not carrying drugs. But overall the process will be right 50% of the time, versus only a 10% probability if you stopped drivers at random. That's probable cause.
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I can see the benefit of making progress quickly. Haven't seen frenetic/"quick" working lead to that result.
I guess it is freemium because most larger organizations at some point want to go on-premises (for security, legal, flexibility or other reasons) and opt for GitLab EE at that point.
Rust doesn't require it's own runtime but will be able to use existing ones eventually.
It's hard for me to come up with an answer, because I want to just say, "Don't search them at all, the War on Drugs is stupid anyway."

Of course, it's the job of the police and the courts to come up with an answer, so we should be able to let them do it. But it seems they can't be trusted to reason about it well.
Novice here, but wouldn't a list of vulnerable gems be almost as valuable a target (if it doesn't already exist elsewhere)? I would imagine it is not difficult to generate a list of sites using those versions of gems that have public repos.

Please feel free to educate me if that is not at all the case though--like I said, novice, so just starting to wrap my head around security implications of things like this.
Every cat I've ever had has been like this; if their litter box is full or for some other reason they don't want to use it, it's always the tub. I think it has something to do with the relative privacy the high bathtub walls afford them.
I'm speaking of the program itself not requiring a runtime. It can run on platforms where there is no runtime, like directly on POSIX.

And the fact that the program isn't tied to a specific runtime also would make it more compatible with other runtimes. You can't really run a JVM program on .NET, because the JVM and .NET have two totally separate universes of assumptions the runtime makes. When the program is runtime-agnostic, it can more easily be retargeted to different runtimes.
Howdy-

I'm the founder of a SaaS for dog daycare, boarding, grooming and training businesses. Have a few customers in UK/Ireland and they may be interested in chatting.

My email is on my profile here if interested.
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This is only too true, and I have no doubt that this behaviour has deeply discouraged people looking for a bit of help to get them up the learning curve.
Let me guess... those picture-hanging solutions the customer really wants just happen to cost more than the drill bit they specifically asked about?
One of the points of something like pdf.js is that in most cases you don't need all that extra fluff. You just want to look at some PDF. So doing less is exactly what allows pdf.js to be (more) secure.
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This is my favorite occurrence of the phenomenon: http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Development/microsoft.pu...
You didn't answer my question.
Ask HN: What do you think about crowdfunding of gifts?
I am thinking of something like "Crowdfunding a user's wishlist" where their friends pool some money from 5$ to whatever price, so help a particular user reach and get the wished item. I lnow this already exists but what ese you think can work
That is pretty cool, now I just need Meade or someone to make a six subject notebook like this :-)
Feel free to contribute that feature. I would love to create a milestone for all projects in a group in one go. Please be aware that if you name the project milestones the same you can use them to aggregate issues across multiple project in one view.
There are certainly domains in which quality is a crucial factor. If you're writing software that lives depends on - avionics, automotive control, medical equipment, encryption for classified information - then you can't "move fast and break things".

Also, if you're selling software for lots of money (e.g., enterprise software at a million dollars a sale) that big companies depend on for billions of dollars of revenue, your customers are going to be a lot less tolerant of breakage than some user who uses a free web site or an app that cost $1.99.
This was basically built for Hopscotch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch_(Julio_Cortázar_nove...
This is a great talk and I really like the second part where he promotes writing your own adapters for non-idiomatic third-party libraries.

That being said, I almost couldn't get past the obnoxious rant at the beginning against maximum line length. The reasons for the rule are made very clear in pep8 as well as the fact that it's not a hard rule and it's fine to override it in your team if you all agree on longer lines.
>extreme bureaucracy

As someone doing business in Germany since the age of 17, I would actually like to know, what you mean by that. Of course employment works different here (like generally in Europe), and I also give you that it is much harder for non-Germans, but if you know the language you can generally just call the folks at our IRS and they are happy to help you.

Starting to freelance is literally just filling out a one page online form at the Gewerbeamt, after that do not call them, they call you.

Setting up an entity is a bid harder, but come on, registering an UG or a LTD (in the UK, this is Europe after all, you can register your company pretty much where you want to) is not black magic either. It could be easier, but I do not buy that we are missing opportunities, because you have to google it first.

> poor funding opportunities, poor exit opportunities.

>Germany is probably one of the WORST places for a start-up.

I give you lacking funding opportunity, but the notion seems to be, that early stage funding is pretty okay, mid and later stage rounds seem to be the problem. We do have an exchange in Frankfurt and car companies are buying startups in their space, the problem is more, that there simply are not that many of them.

There is also the possibility to join Rocket, their E-commerce and (locale) marketplaces seem to do just fine, funding-wise.

I think we are pretty okay, even without the short-lived social stuff, that SV creates, which some people call a scheme anyway. What I would like to see more of are SaaS products in many different spaces. I do not think that missing funding or a bureaucracy are the reasons why we do not have more of them. I think the reasons are rooted deeper in society, which is slowly changing over time, thanks David Fincher.

Also: Compared to what? SV or the 192 other countries that exists besides Germany and America?
Well yes, you could run your business that way. And maybe your customer lives in a building with asbestos or old lathe walls or another reason not to drill holes in the wall.

Or maybe the customer just doesn't want to risk putting a nail in the wall because last time it went right into a water pipe and they had to replace their entire entryway - 2 walls, the floor, and rehang the front door.
If your nail looks like smaller size important data, CDC / immutable datastores seem like a great hammer. For all other stuff, the answer is: it depends. Some thoughs on the limitations of this approach: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/12/28/immutability-mvcc-and-g...
Exactly, that is how I meant that.
Someone posted the pycon videos a few months ago on hackernews, and this was actually the only one I watched. What's nice about this IMO is that he's entertaining when talking about a topic that I would normally fall asleep to. It's not that I don't care about code quality --- my coworkers can tell you I definitely care --- but it can be a pretty dry subject. Kudos to Raymond.

A few months ago I started to get into some networking and saw that there were a few free online courses available. Unfortunately, despite choosing my favorite one, I ended up falling asleep 3 times already listening to the lectures. Man, I sound like I'm getting old...
Sure- good luck with it! If it helps a lot, feel free to thank me with equity hahaha
From Wikipedia:

The pollination of California's almonds is the largest annual managed pollination event in the world, with close to one million hives (nearly half of all beehives in the USA) being trucked in February to the almond groves. Much of the pollination is managed by pollination brokers, who contract with migratory beekeepers from at least 49 states for the event. This business has been heavily affected by colony collapse disorder, causing nationwide shortages of honey bees and increasing the price of insect pollination...

Does anyone feel that transporting livestock from this many places to a single place where they can all commingle is a needlessly risky strategy? Assuming that CCD is caused by pesticides, this seems to guarantee exposure to a large number of bees that might otherwise live in pesticide-free areas. Additionally, if CCD has a fungal/parasitic component, then this would be an ideal way to infect as many hives as possible, in as short a time as possible.
Reminds me of the ancient Indian poet whose poems gave one meaning left to right and totally different meaning right to left
What you describe is standard ZRTP. You don't really have to imitate voices if it's someone the participants have never ever seen before, but you do have to get the lipsync right. Does Omegle have sound?
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> Not because it was designed badly, but because it has simply not kept up.

How has it not kept up?
Thanks, we're looking some of these but we want to keep it light and easy to use at the same time. Please be aware that some scrum tools also integrate with GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/applications/#scrum-boards
Upvoted because drugs are good.
What search are you talking about, in the issues or in the code?
I've recently started using Arch and their Pacman Rosetta has helped me a lot, it has equivalences in package managers for all the popular distros: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Rosetta
Did you mean pejorative? In which case "negative" is redundant, as pejorative also implies negativity. #wordnerdsplaining ;)
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Bro Pages (instead of "man" pages) is a similar resource I find myself using surprisingly often http://bropages.org/browse
A correction for your cancer example.

Now if you take the 50% of people you guessed to be positive for test, only 4.25% will be true positives, indicating 8.5% accuracy rate; if you take the 50% people you guessed to be negative for test, 45.75% will be true negatives, indicating a 91.5% accuracy rate.

But your overall accuracy rate is 50%.
I'm not too clear about what's being asked here - alternate ways of having a group pay for a gift? Well, beyond having everyone pay a portion - not necessarily the same portion - the group could have a fundraising event together and use the funds to buy the gift.
Is the answer partly that its a classic Pigouvian property rights issue? The pesticide users are not compensating the bee users for the damage to their property. There may be some overlap in the forms of agriculture, but I'm guessing its not 100%.
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picasa by google fits your description. It can do all that you want, its old but still being updated.

It can publish photos to google photos but dont require you to upload anything or sign in with your google account:

http://www.google.com/intl/da/picasa/
It runs on a RPi2 https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2...
I've run Firefox in a Red Hat/Fedora SELinux sandbox [1] [2] for the past 5 years or so. It is a little more tedious for things such as file uploads/downloads and cut-and-paste -- but worth it, IMHO.

[1] http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/31146.html

[2] http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/195-Firefox-in-a-sandbox-...
pedantic: The Internet (the public network of networks) is just fine, and hasn't fundamentally changed for decades. /pedantic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

Some of the service providers of the services that run on top of the Internet may or may not be lame, but that's a content issue, not an Internet issue. :)
This is pretty common in proprietary corporate code, but surprising to see in a project that seemed destined to be open-sourced. For code that doesn't see the light of day other than in binary form, I've seen people cut-and-paste whatever they can find into a source base and then move on without a second thought.

I would expect better of Microsoft -- especially from a company that supported Oracle when suing Google over Android's copying of an API (which included an incidentally small number of actually-copied source). [1]

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2613305/patents/microsoft--...
In the first place, by using modern ASIC it's possible to draw a chain from the genesis having no difficulty changes(by setting proper timestamps), and it will be longer than network's probably as latter has delays more than 10 mins pretty often. So Bitcoin has checkpoint as well ( https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/86cfd23f68367af07250... ).

In the second place a chance of drawing a long chain suffix with cumulative difficulty better than network's is negligible. Short-range attacks are possible, but they are not a huge problem. Please read the forum post with some results got with simulations https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=897488
Yes, this is true -- in large agriculture, pollination is where the money is in beekeeping. I know pollination contracts stipulate "frames of bees" to be considered a hive (for example you might need 20 "frames of bees" to get paid for that hive) but I also think you're getting weaker hives out there for pollination. So while the price isn't going up, the size of the product is going down.

Same concept as the cereal boxes. They look the same from the outside, but they put less cereal in it and charge you the same price instead of raising the price.
We've fixed the fake italics, I think I've fixed the mono text (if you're talking about sizing), I've consistentified apostrophes, and changed how underlines are handled. Sidenotes are still a thorny issue (I'd appreciate any suggestions; we're discussing it in the GitHub Issues for the project) and small-caps are still on the to-fix list.
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This looks pretty cool. cantor.dust seemed more usable than senseye (I haven't used either).
Europe is not equipped to go toe to toe with the Americans. Europe has found a great niche in glomming on to US power and will have a precipitous fall if their actions try to match their rhetoric.
Well sure but that doesn't really get to the core of the problem because I could just as easily substitute "guns" for "drugs" and all the issues will stay much the same (unless you're also a 2nd amendment purist in which case I might have to struggle to come up with another example.)
Here's what usually happens at this point in a politically-charged HN thread: I ask a question along the lines of, "Why are you so interested in defending an indefensible aspect of an indefensible war on an abstract noun?", and then I get a nasty note from the admins warning against personal attacks, even though none was intended.

So we'll need to agree to disagree on this one. I suspect we're coming from two very different places.
Thanks, I don't want to be seen as openwashing. Open core is a tricky thing and we want to find a good balance.
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