skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built the original Tested for Will and Norm while at Whiskey Media. So excited for these guys, think the site has become something even more awesome since they joined up with Jamie and Adam. Miss working with them daily.

If you dig science, photography and other general geekery they're worth an RSS add.
I have. It used to use X11, I saw even more complaints then.

There aren't any competitors, however, so people use Mathematica.

I use high-end expensive that are Qt-only too, but I would gladly switch if there were other options, because Qt is buggy, uses non-intuitive non-standard UI, exhibits poor performance due to impedance mismatches between the Mac and Qt event/threading models, and ultimately decreases overall utility of the UX.
Local widgets & theming yes, although generally we ship with our own themes by default as we make VFX apps, and the last thing artists want is bright UI to distract them.

I don't believe there are general UX guidelines for Linuxes, but for things like notification popups, system tray stuff, yeah, we do all that natively to the distro through Qt (DBus handles all that transparently within Qt very nicely).

We ship Qt as shared libs with the binaries and all dependencies we need system-wise statically - i.e. zlib, libpng, libjpeg are statically linked. For things like embedded Python, we have to do the same on OS X anyway, due to different python and zlib versions per OS X version.

As for Qt and OS X regarding nativeness - I keep hearing this, but I never see any good examples. I agree it's possible to create Qt Apps on OS X that looks crap, but it's also possible to make them look native as far as I'm concerned. The only thing I can remember not being able to easily do in Qt regarding OS X widgets is the horizontal grouping of side-by-side buttons in radio-button fashion. But it's easy enough to knock up a QWidget subclass which replicates this. But admittedly I don't think I've tried to replicate every possible OS X control/widget...

I think what might be the most difficult part of making a Qt app on OS X look native is the layout and spacing stuff, which generally does seem to be a bit crap within Qt on OS X.

I can have the same code to do a side-panel with edit values in a panel, and it looks great on Linux and Windows:
http://imgur.com/kUI90ry

on OS X:
http://imgur.com/yqigBdw

and the spacing and padding is all over the place - so I have to add a manual style-sheet to get the padding and spacing right, which is crap (image above is without extra stylesheet). So I'm not saying it's perfect or easy, but I think it is possible.
Well as it was explained to me UK employment law descends from the "masters" and servants" act note the term "servant"

A quick Google seems to indicate the "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988" is the relevant law
Should Colleges Charge Engineering Students More?
Here are the people besides Snowden who have been charged under the espionage act by Obama:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701813

In subsequent discussions it's become evident that even the Kiriakou case isn't as cut-and-dry as it seems.
> anywhere the Hapsburgs ruled

... which is why Austria and the Netherlands are so poor and backwards??
IQ is not abstract 'perfect world' capacity. It's a reflection of how well developed your brain actually is (to the limits of what areas it can measure). Without nutrition, the brain doesn't build actual neural capacity, and the IQ is lower than well-fed peers.
This is awesome. What I'd want most is in the quiz, I'd love to see how others are coming up with shorter regexes than mine. Satisfy my curiosity and competitive spirit.
I think this is a really pathetic reason to be depressed. And these "gifted" people have it all wrong. No, the laws of physics don't directly dictate that all governments be democratic, or that people drive on the right side of the road. But if they thought about the world on a deeper level, they would realize that there is structure, and that it's breathtakingly-beautiful (albeit subtle and not always easy to pick up on when you don't explicitly seek it). No, you don't get to be a teacher's pet for your whole life, and you don't get paid for doing well on IQ tests. But one person can have an impact on the world: sometimes, a very pervasive, meaningful one. I fail to see why some gifted children can't appreciate the world and their existence enough to at least have a good time and explore it a bit. You only get to do it once, and you won't get the chance to do everything the world has to offer, but you should consider yourself lucky to be conscious in the first place. My theory is that kids labeled "gifted" end up dwelling on their "ability" to the point where they actually think they are entitled to something outside educational institutions. Or maybe they fail to realize, to their chagrin, that IQ grossly belies proportional intelligence, especially after a certain point, and that IQ tests don't measure what it takes to make a meaningful difference in the world. People like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates are unequivocally gifted, but they don't dwell on it; they don't statistically determine the probability that they will make a difference; they don't spend their time researching IQ tests or bragging about their intellect; they go out and do their best to change the world. And they do.
I'm late to the thread here, but, as one who has received a threat (entirely different situation), non-specific threats by themselves are usually non-actionable.
Why is a mere unfounded speculation not backed up by any facts written to garner pageviews featured on the frontpage?
Crack Cocaine and Cocaine are not quite the same thing.

Do you have any links to support this? I had always heard that chemically, they are both "cocaine" and the "crack" preparation simply allows quicker intake and thus a faster high.
Apple’s Developer Center Offline for 32 Hours; Compromised
ICML 2013 talks
The biggest point is probably that the existence of an Open Source/Free operating system has probably enabled more profitable businesses to exist than iOS.

Maybe.

On the one hand, I know exactly how great it is to have development tools that are a free download away (I remember shelling out hundreds on a C++ compiler in the mid-90s). Open source definitely rocks in this respect.

On the other hand, I know that without the iPhone, iOS, and all of the associated things that came with it (including the industry's massive pivot to compete in its wake), things might look very different for an app developer today. (Or at the very least they'd be slower in getting to this point.) I think it's important to realize that there were no independent app developers in 2007 - writing, buying and using software for the Palm handhelds or Windows CE was radically different on nearly every level.
NUI is a cross-platform C++ GUI programming framework for OpenGL applications
> I don't see any part where the talk about the "amount" of drugs consumed?

What I meant is that if cannabis does confer some sort of protective benefit, then by definition the benefits would have to come from use that was above some minimum level, and perhaps also below some maximum level.
No, you can download a .deb file from somewhere else and install it manually, or even just a .tar.gz with the binaries, or (if the software is open source) even get the source! Alternatively, as I posted above, there are a load of mirrors (over 400 iirc) of the ubuntu software repository.
I work at an Apple Premium Reseller, and when we order stuff from Apple we use http://reseller.apple.com (which now seems to redirect to https://ecommerce.apple.com/) and all those systems feels hacked together just as you're saying.

The Reseller Store has been down the whole time the Developer Center has been down. Even more interesting perhaps, our company's "master apple id", which is used to place multi 100K USD orders from Apple, got some strange seemingly manual password reset from Apple about the same time as the Developer Portal went down.

Apple's hardware service portal (http://gsx.apple.com) has also been even more flakey this week than normal.

Something is broken over at Apple.
Apple’s Developer Center Offline for 32 Hours; Compromised ? Details : http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/apples-developer-center-off...
Different wall sockets may well be on different legs of the three phase power. That may be why you can't communicate from one to the other.
I would like to disagree that there aren't any moving parts used whilst generating ultrasonic waves. After all, something needs to vibrate.

Ultrasonic levitation is pretty cool, and the tacile interface isn't bad either. I just somewhat pity that they've looked at the technology and told themselves "Ohh, that'd be great for musicians", which I think isn't the right assumption to make in this case. I mean HD-MIDI still hasn't been adapted widely after being discussed in 2005 (that's 8 years now), so I wonder if musicians are a fertile breeding ground for "paradigm changing tacile interfaces".
Hmm, I don't want users to see shorter answers and then modifying their own to get the same length or even shorter (since they didnt do the real work). What about something like being able to see the shortest answer, but after that you are no longer allowed to modify your pattern? Feel free to pitch in if you have an idea of a neat way to do it.
They'll be around longer than me no doubt. The default OS on a PC will be Windows for many years to come, but that won't last forever, and obviously the percentage of sales of traditional PCs to all other consumer computing devices will decline. Their other businesses may or may not thrive.

But to address the title literally, the relevance of Microsoft to me is about the same as the relevance of General Electric to me. I just don't care.
> Welfare can make things much worse (misusing food funds for drugs, setting up a cycle of dependence on government funds, etc.), but welfare is a perfectly logical solution to lack of money. We made that mistake before, and can't have a whole new generation of people buying into that statist crap.

Except that welfare actually works, and despite the fact that poor people are in general poor money managers, a marginal income that improves some environmental variables goes a lon way towards improving intelligence. Especially when it translates to greater food availability.
on the Package Manager-Package Manager front (idea 12), i bet you could bastardize chef to do this. it already has the translation layer for multiple package managers (yum, apt, pkg-add, etc).
Those laws are also often qualified, so that the state can't use journalist sources as a first resort, but can fall back on them if other avenues of investigation are exhausted.
Is the concept of 'causes' so hard? Severe lack of money, over a period of years, causes bad nutrition which causes development to be impaired.

This causation takes time.

The amount of money at a specific moment is meaningless because it's 0% of the experimental window. Look at the average and compare it to food and necessity prices.
Study Confirms Male Circumcision is Genital Mutilation (2007)
If all the mirrors of ubuntu's repository went down simultaneously, I'd be more worried about the internet itself than installing some new software
Dunno about Ubuntu, but Debian has dozens of "unofficial" mirrors, not to mention their main package server balances amongst a bunch of servers.
I think relative font-sizing with "em" and "rem" [1] is a popular and good choice these days. "em" has been popular since 2004 after an article by Rutter [2].

IE9- (and Android 1.6-) didn't scale/zoom well when the font was set in px. But using px was widespread despite these (and other) cons because it was easy, reliable and consistent to implement across browsers. [3]

Pt (point type) are only for printer style sheets [4], not screen style sheets. Using them for screen styles is not-done and doesn't make much sense. [5]

[1] http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/font-size-with-rem

[2] http://clagnut.com/blog/348/

[3] http://alistapart.com/article/howtosizetextincss

[4] http://css-tricks.com/css-font-size/

[5] http://style.cleverchimp.com/font_size/points/font_wars.GIF
Why Is The Internet In Romania So Damn Fast? (april 2012)
I see the hobby programmers are out in force today
It could also be a matter of public health advocates being savvy about how their messages are received. If we say it's probably safe to drink d drinks per week, then some percentage p of the population will assume it's okay to drink x*d drinks per week and may harm their babies.

Also, simple rules are easy to state and simple to follow. The words "never" and "always" are very clear and leave no room for misinterpretation.

However, if any of my speculation is correct, and public health messages are tuned to account for their real world affect, than perhaps there is a risk that they will loose credibility.
Most hotels are an expensive overkill when you want to get somewhere fast and for cheap, do some sighseeing/do some job/visit some event and leave. That's the modern lifestyle: fast, cheap, in bulk yet personalized. Why have one long and expensive trip in a year when you can have five short inexpensive ones?

They are also misguided: I don't need somebody to sneak into my room each day in order to "clean" it (I'm staying three days, is's not that I produce much dirt during stay) but I would appreciate having a small kitchen and a fridge (not minibar, those are like the stupidest thing ever).

Well, AirBNB supports your local populace directly by letting them rent out their propety to support their family/drug habit/whatnot.

And the fun thing, it's not even a job.
I just had my whole house wired up with Cat6. 2 runs each to 6 rooms + garage in the house.

$800, not including cost of materials. That's pretty cheap considering.
A monthly paycheck for these employees that were determined to quit was $170. In other words: if you worked at McDonald's, you couldn't afford to eat at McDonald's.
It's possible this is some sort of migration gone wrong I suppose, there are a lot of pieces involved in the dev centre, and I've seen a few changes popping up over the last few weeks. Seems odd that they'd just pull the whole thing though without warning, rather than just rolling back to the last state. With a migration they should have a good known state they can go back to quickly if necessary.

No planned migration or consolidation should take several days of interrupted service, it's just not necessary unless something goes horribly wrong.
YToolkit. OAuth 1.0/2.0 ObjC lib
The word's meaning has also been twisted by the tech startup crowd to mean "one who glues together a couple API calls to make an MVP".
Supposedly it is at least 22.2% by ages 14-17 though, so perhaps 25% by age 18. So it is the same order of magnitude at least as the naive assumption. My point is just that exposure to violence isn't especially rare across the entire population.
Well, this is a super helpful comment. Let's have a discussion about whether President X is a sociopath or a liar!
The only place that Dr. Offit has a credibility problem is with those who choose to ignore the mountain of scientific evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
So the fourth estate now can't keep their sources secret ...

Funny because the executive branch seems to like their secrets so much, they will work to set up secret courts with secret laws just so the secrets don't get revealed to the public. And they will go to great lengths to pursue those that reveal those secrets. "Trust us, we followed due process and our actions have been authorized by a few secret courts."

But journalists? Hey they are just "citizens." After all who cares that this will severely hamper anonymous sources to the media?
I've read that it's notoriously difficult to measure the impact of crack on prenatal development because so many crack-smoking pregnant women also smoke cigarettes, and the latter is so harmful already that it's hard to isolate the effects of the former.
Except that intellectual capacity is evidently not the main factor in determining the poverty level of people; it's certainly among one of the variables, but the fact that poor people are better off in some systems and countries rather than others and social mobility also varies substantially, it means that there's a ton of things that can work as government policy to improve the situation.
As a HAM radio operator, I was playing around with ethernet over powerline adapters and it caused all kinds of issues. Signal quality to many repeaters dropped, and I would get random interference when one of the computers would wake up.

Instead I just wired my whole house with Cat6 instead. Nice patch panel in the basement, and I am a happy camper.
Show HN: Browse Wikipedia articles as-of a specific date & time
What would happen with superconductive materials at this heat death of the universe?
What does fetal alcohol syndrome have to do with intoxication?
Nah. Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Northern Spain, Northern Italy. Those are really wealthy and quite efficient places. And most of those have been so for decades if not centuries.

If the EU consisted of just those places it would probably be as productive per capita as California.
10+% of women self-report as binge drinking during the first trimester, and the FAS rate is only about 0.05-0.2%: http://fasdcenter.samhsa.gov/documents/WYNK_Numbers.pdf.
New set of analytic engines make the case for convenience over performance
There is also no law that says the government can't seize phone records, email, etc. from 3rd party providers.

Let's face it ... any kind of laws like this are just delaying the inevitable, which is that organizations will keep any data they can, whether they are private companies like facebook, or governments.

So how about instead we push for greater transparency in everything? If journalists are required to reveal their sources, so should the NSA and CIA. Stop with the "national security" excuse to take away civil liberties. In this day and age, classified intelligence secrets may be more damaging than helpful, the same way that patents are more damaging than helpful in a fast-moving industry like software.
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You fail at reading comprehension. The OP isn't trying to dispute the study with anecdotal evidence. He's simply suggesting that even though premature birth wasn't a consideration in this particular study, it nonetheless is an important factor when considering the broader effects of crack cocaine use. You can agree or disagree, but you may want to be a bit less smug when you do.
Funny that you would mention Vernor Vinge... as well known and highly regarded as he is, I've never read any of his books to date. So I recently picked up A Fire Upon The Deep, A Deepness In The Sky, and Rainbow's End and plan to read those sometime soon. I've heard so much good stuff about his work that I'm really looking forward to getting into those.
Steve Jobs also struggled with depression.

"I admit that in the past I have become angry, or have lost my temper when things are not going right. I feel that this type of behavior happened when I was in my early twenties. I feel that I have better control of these emotions at the present times. I have also have gone through highs and lows in my life, and have felt depressed at times."

http://m.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/06/steve-jobs-p...
Apple's customer-facing store was down last night for several hours.
Feedback please!
The XCode IDE is downloaded from the Mac App store which is still running. Apps are submitted via iTunes Connect which is still running.
I know this post is at least partially a joke, but if there's any correlation between IQ and happiness, it's positive.

http://theboostbook.com/2013/01/link-between-intelligence-an...
That's what I was getting at...
"Won't fix, as designed." B2B web apps have been hacky since time immemorial. Where I work, a different engineering team wrote a CMS in a bunch of Java with somehow Perl CGI to handle all of the little hacks that couldn't be put in to the main code base. I found this out by fixing a hack named emailservice_bkp_new2.cgi which was a hard coded rss parser. Our other client relations applications are even worse, often in IIS 6.0, and dating from 2003. Simply put, there isn't much "business reason" behind fixing something that isn't broken, but very shoddy.

The difference now is that "prosumer" application developers have enough economic weight to register as a force, but not enough to cause Apple to reconsider their entrenched developer relations.
Have journalists even really believed there was? I am not a journalist, but know of the tradition of reporters protecting their sources. IIRC several have famously gone to jail for contempt of court rather than reveal a source. So I'd be surprised if any journalists thought there was a legal basis for refusing to disclose a source if ordered by a court to do so.
Wow, looks very nice. We're in the process of moving our php development over to VMs, this will be useful.
Having some experience in this area:

Gifted children are aware just how dysfunctional this society is.

They aren't fooled by shiny things. They look at the structure of things and analyze them.

Thus they're a high-risk group because while most people see a few scattered small problems, gifted kids see one big problem.

Naturally, there are solutions to that including contexting and acceptance therapy, but those are never provided.

I bet they'll find gifted kids have a higher suicide rate, too, especially as an empire nears its collapse.
Re: The Box, it may have been my review http://www.petekeen.net/book-review-the-box
CoffeeScript already has an of operator (like js in) and an in operator (array like iteration) neither of which could easily be made to both (I think). So we'd probably need a new name. Once "of" is in V8 we can compile to it directly though.
I liked this explanation.
Because there are no facts, Apple hasn't said a word. The alternative is that we ignore this. At least with this article (which no one has to read), there's a place for HN Apple devs to talk amongst each other.
That is not true. Owncloud provides both SSL and file encryption:

http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/admin_manual/configuratio...
You stole this idea from someone else first.
C++ and Qt.
What would that second factor be?
There's a massive amount of software that exists outside of note-taking apps where the customer will be more than happy to put up with different-looking buttons because the value the software provides is so high.

There are many software categories where visual-design decisions are not the only competition advantage.
Thats because powerline adapters turn your normal, non isolated wiring into a big antenna.

(Interestingly, the FCC does not seem to care that 50$ boxes are messing up public frequency bands.)
The interactive homebrew encryption challenge
Ah, my mistake, hard to judge tone on the internet, etc, etc...
The root comment said "This administration is walking all over civil liberties and constitutionally protected freedoms", and, later, that USG was "tossing away the constitutional protections we've grown far too accustomed to taking for granted". Rayiner's interpretation wasn't just fair but also the most obvious one.
Do you work for the Foundry? I find that Nuke for OSX is by far the crashiest. Was wondering why.
Yep. Also:

http://www.mocky.io/,
http://ivanzuzak.info/urlecho/,
and in some cases: http://hang.nodester.com/
Check out The Last Policeman trilogy- Pretty great.
For those that have never seen Adam Savage's TED talk on his prop-making, it's fascinating and well worth the 15 minutes of your time: http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_savage_s_obsessions.html

I was particularly interested by his research and collection of reference images, but his whole process/thinking is fascinating (and awesome).
Oops, should be ZFS send.

Reference Link: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbinw/index.htm...