skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think often free will is a fuzzy concept people use to represent some kind of feeling/function/mode/whatever that exists in the psyche. As in, there's some kind of positive feeling associated with being in control, and when people speak of free will they don't necessarily have a clearly defined concept in mind, rather are speaking in reference to that feeling.

I'm not sure I expressed myself so clearly there. What I mean is that, the concept of free will disbelief in which is associated with paralysis is distinct from the philosophical/logical concept, but these two are often conflated. The logical understanding of free will not existing can actually be emotionally liberating; it acts as a balm against hatred and whatnot for instance, as it's difficult to hate someone when you see their actions as merely following a mechanistic, predetermined path. This kind of thing was an important concept in Spinoza's Ethics (Spinoza famously denied free will), and I believe also played a role in Buddha's teachings.
I'm working on a service which provides (obfuscated) aliases of your users e-mail addresses on your own domain. It only requires some API calls to generate the aliases and eliminates e-mail servers or servers to process the e-mails. Started working on it after a request of a fellow HN'er.

Check it out on: http://mailobfusc.com
I've been writing the documentation for my neural net powered 3D Reconstruction WebAPI that creates lip sync'ing 3D avatars from a single photo: www.3d-avatar-store.com
It's not the complete picture, but more expensive players tend to be better than cheaper players. So more expensive teams tend to be better than cheaper teams. I see this is completely ignored.

Also team Elo has issues, as not a lot of games are played, former achievements weigh in too heavily.

Nonetheless, this is a really nice effort. Let's see how well it works.
This is my startup http://skyul.com and right now I'm implementing a proxy server in php. So mostly working for fun, I think this is what's most important.
I've been working on http://trailers.flix.ie, I'm looking to finish the main site off soon, but trying to figure out the best way to get background video/media to work on tablet and mobile or what's the next best solution.
Exactly. OP doesn't have enough to complain about, so he's literally hyperfocusing on nearly imperceptible artifacts and amplifying them...

...in order to weakly raise a vague grumbling about "European" audio engineers.

Even though he has no evidence to support that claim.

Yes, Fraunhofer is a German company, with headquarters in Munich. But did OP know they employ 23,000 people, with centers in the U.S. as well as Asia?

He could have looked that up, but it's so much easier to just throw bullshit out there and hope it resonates with people ashamed of their ancestors.

MP3 is not one single technology that all came from Fraunhofer. It is an accumulation of several areas of technology, including types of filters, compression as well as the perceptual stuff. I once traced it through the research literature all the way back to voice compression protocols for the American F15 (16?) in the 1970s!

And if you're reading this far, you're probably totally obsessed like me and you might want to check out my associate Jonathan Sterne's book on the history of MP3 from a cultural perspective [0].

[0] https://www.dukeupress.edu/MP3/

Sterne traces the history of perceptual encoding all the back to the early 1910s! It's not just some pop-tech designed in 9 months for a quick buck!

Finally, audio engineers is a term that generally means people who work with sound in a studio or recording context, who produce audio for projects with specs. MP3 was designed by scientists who produce work about audio, not audio engineers.
Have just launched an app to enable people of all skill levels to create music - http://beatwave.co
An actor library which lets you run easily addressable processes on multiple machines in Python. And a Colosseum type RPG for the fun of it.
Working on a Digital Audio Workstation in HTML5 / Web Audio API, front and back end: http://hya.io
We are working on a MTurk like system for audio/video transcription. We have developed a four step process to ensure that the accuracy as high as possible irrespective of the difficultly level of the file.

Check it out at https://scribie.com
http://lame.sourceforge.net/gpsycho.php This seems to have some more information.
I'm working on a site for enthusiasts of construction toys - initially Meccano / Erector but not system tied, they're just what I know best :-) Model galleries, plans, collection management and sales facilities for dealers.
World Military 2014 : World War 2 'Forgotten Army' remember | 28 June 2014
Interesting. His theory reminds me of something called the Theory of Positive Disintegration[1], a theory of personality in which only through active reflection and self-confrontation can people develop a conscious personality that's not just the result of biological and social pressures.

1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_Disintegration
I'm building a Bittorrent Sync alternative aimed at ease of use to solve http://www.xkcd.com/949/:

https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare
> without being able to state any specific steps how to do it

All functional languages can express a sequence of steps. More yet, on most of them you can later decide to transform the sequence, instead of just generating code from it.
I working on open source personal finance app (Web, Android and probably iOS). It will be small and simple enough to deploy to Heroku's free dyno without any hosting fee.

I know out there have a lot already, but I want a modern and open source version of it (Web + Mobile app).
Huh? That link shows a 404, and ghostnote.com seems to be a drum enthusiasts community.
Interactive visualizations about authors who contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports.

http://ipcc.projetmedea.fr/

https://github.com/medea-project/ipcc.projetmedea.fr
A C library that allows querying system and process information. The aim is to support multiple platforms and then write wrappers for the library in several higher level languages. https://github.com/nibrahim/cpslib
Wow, I didn't know this even now.

As much as we'd like to say these things aren't big deals because we're [sexuality|color|gender]blind, society is still struggling with the fact that old barriers are coming down. Ironically, open opposition isn't the only reactionary response; people also try to react by hushing it up.
Is the undefined behavior applicable at runtime or at compile time ?

i.e. Is it undefined behavior if there are code paths that might access an array out of bounds, but at runtime it actually never would ?
I am working on my hobby project http://techpost.com which is basically manually built tech post index.

Other than that, I am developing few small websites, and still selling and brokering domain names.
Functional programming in Clojure
Blog engine in Go. Just a side-project though, but it has been fun. https://github.com/9uuso/vertigo
Everyday Algorithms: Pancake Sort
Is there any discussion about IntelliJ supporting multiple open projects at once? Requiring a separate window for each project breaks down when I've got 21 projects open, as I have now in NetBeans.
Quoting someone and then saying "this" adds absolutely nothing to the conversation. An upvote is sufficient.
We've been trying to automate qa. Allowing anyone, business owner or qa manager to record acceptance tests in the browser, then play them back across multiple browsers with a single click by selecting which OS's, browsers, and the versions.

If anything is broken we have a link that can be sent to the developer which will replay the recorded test back in real time allowing the developer to debug the issue without a qa manager writing up a long step by step ticket.

We just launched (it's still in beta). Request an invite and I'll be happy to add you.

https://www.gorillatest.com
Cosmic caffeine: astronauts getting an expresso machine
I am building free WordPress themes just to get some basic knowledge about web development and hopefully will move on to something bigger and bolder in near future.

You can follow my journey on http://colorlib.com
A good intro book is Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590308492/ref=oh_details_o...
I'm a meditation novice so take this with a grain of salt, but the only "For Dummies"-book I've ever enjoyed was "Meditation For Dummies".

It's not a heavy read like some meditation tomes can be but it's not very dumbed down either (IMHO), and it recognizes that some people are interested in the spiritual parts, some the philosophical, while some are only interested in the practical. The book has them all to a good extent, but helps you navigate to the parts that are of use to you.

I'm sure YMMV and different books suit different people, but this one worked well for me. I recommend it, but regardless of what resource you use: There is calm to be found, and it can feel great. Good luck!

Edit: Grammar.
Your Online Resource for Hypnosis and NLP    Certification
This sounds interesting, but the URL isn't working (404). Nor is ghostnote.com/uploads (same 404), and ghostnote.com redirects to "ghostnote.net the drum builder's community".
As the semester is ending this coming week, I'm making some android apps this summer to help pad my resume/give-me-something-to-show for when I look for a job next year. I'm making something like Yo.
Also, the part to get from 'this demonstrates what I had in mind' to 'actual finished, truly functioning project', is just... Dull. It's bugfixing, stepping back and realizing there's security issues, and whatnot. It's the stuff we associate with getting paid for, basically :)
Wordnik API from JavaScript made easy
Burning Slug book engine, generates ebooks and LaTeX code for print using a (greatly) extended variant of Markdown.

It's all client-side Javascript. No server-side processing.

http://burningslug.com
Waiting for the Other Person to Change – The Path Towards Divorce
I've been working on a little hosted websockets service, would like to ramp up the pace though.

https://preview.gorealtime.io/
Is the ios app meant to work ? I just get a white screen
Introduction to PGP
I am working on a small C# library implementing the Promises/A+ specification, details here: https://github.com/matteocanessa/SailorsPromises
A meta-search engine for English speaking jobs in Germany.
Backed by Go, elastic search and python scripts.

https://englishjobs.de
Mom beaten, only toddler intervenes. Is it really America?
I'm finishing up an open source phishing framework called gophish (http://github.com/jordan-wright/gophish). It's written in golang and angular, and has a full REST api and web frontend.
I'm working on a document-oriented database engine written purely in Python: BlitzDB!

https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb

My motivation was that I needed (wanted?) a pure-Python document database that does not have any dependencies (like pymongo) and provides querying capabilities similar to MongoDB.

Currently, Blitz is under active development and comes with a file-based backend as well as a MongoDB backend.

Contributions to the codebase and feedback are highly welcome :)

The issue tracker contains various suggestions for contributions, with various difficulty levels:

https://github.com/adewes/blitzdb/issues
I'm connecting a Hedgehog to the Internet :) . I have a hedgehog that runs all night in a wheel. Counting the laps gives me the traveled distance, so every morning he'll tweet how much he ran. He runs up to 15 km./9 miles!

Check him out at https://twitter.com/runhedgie

This project is a combination of hardware and software. I'm using a Raspberry Pi, a custom-built wireless node based on Arduino, Python, Redis, and a Go API for data analysis. I wanted to build almost everything from scratch, to really see what's happening in every part of the system, so I've done from PCB design and soldering to struggling with Go HTTP routers (I gave up and used Gorilla).

But it's been fun watching the hedgehog interact with the real world.

https://github.com/jlhonora/iot
https://github.com/jlhonora/iot-go
Coders Weekly – a curated, weekly e-mail of interesting programming articles
Ramit Sethi is looking for a technical lead
This is the sort of thing I'd expect them to implement in the black-box baseband processor. I doubt it'd be exposed to the host at all, though a little bit of sigint might do the trick.
We were lucky in that Opal wasn't ready yet. :-P But we were horrified by what we heard about it.

So we were spared that particular disaster, which was and is sold using the same "unquestionable superiority" rhetoric. Instead we dealt with Hope. As in "I Hope it will finish in the next 15 minutes". "It" being a 10-30 line program. Usually it didn't, instead producing a largish coredump.

Our Sun 3-50 diskless workstations didn't help, but hey, Turbo Pascal could compile + execute a hundred lines of code in a second or two on the Z80 card in my Apple II+, a computer with several orders of magnitude less CPU/memory than those Suns.

Later we also used another language, I think it was Miranda. That introduced us to the joys of type inference. Magical when it works, completely inscrutable when it doesn't, especially since you don't get feedback on the cases that do work.

The big problem here is not that the tools were buggy and the languages less than fully thought out, that is fine, if presented that way. The problem is the complete disconnect between rhetoric ("perfection", "everything else is steaming pile of manure") and reality (sort of the opposite).

In the meantime, tools have certainly improved a lot (ghc/ghci on my MacBook Pro are quite tolerable), but the disconnect between rhetoric and reality is still there, because everything else has also improved.

Consider Opal itself: an FP language (so one of the domains FP is actually good at) in active development for more than a quarter of a century by teams using magical, all-conquering, flawless-marvels-of-correctness-producing FP unicorn-technology by teams of programmers that are experts in said technology. And it is, quite frankly, a steaming pile of manure.

EDIT: Hope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(programming_language)
I'm a co-founder of Podigee, a podcast publishing platform, batteries included:

https://www.podigee.com

The backend runs on Rails + PostgreSQL, the frontend is a mix of Rails and AngularJS. Also, we run dedicated download / stream servers.
Scala and Play support is already vastly ahead of where it was just 6 months ago, but there's definitely more room for improvement. The overall intelligence of the IDE is still sorely lacking versus what you get for, say, Java. I'd love to see a lot more support for intelligent editing of SBT files, more intuitive ways of finding usages of instances and types, working with implicits, and refactorings that align with Scala's abstractions. It seems like such a powerful language should have an IDE that gives you more ability to access those features.

Also, I find the code style settings to be extremely difficult to tweak, in large part due to poor browsability and also because you can't actually see them applied to the example code next to the settings editor.
I wish that were true. Life would be easier for me.
Just finished up a site that displays the World Cup results with the arena the game is being played at in the background. Still working to make it a little bit better but just wanted to get the functionality in. It uses the Software for Good API http://worldcup.sfg.io/

https://github.com/friss/worldcup
You probably want to get your landing page proof-read since it contains a number of spelling and grammatical errors.
I am creating a widget toolkit for Go on Linux. Fun times.
Http://github.com/sesteel/go-view
Wanna see emotional contagion? Try /b/.
I've just finished a clean-looking alternative to Twitlonger and Pastebin, with Markdown support.

The last thing on my to-do list is that the site should be named 1p.cx but I'm still waiting for the domain name (bought tuesday) to be activated.

So you can check it at http://1pcx.azurewebsites.net/

For another source of inspiration, I've discovered faviconit.com recently, it's a useful little tool I intend to use again.
Hacking on my JavaScript operating system

Built on V8 engine and actually boots on my hardware :)

https://github.com/runtimejs/runtime
This is much better. It actually fits the purpose of the site.
This reminds me of those 20 Questions apps. Have you tried a good one lately? "Akinator" on iOS has an incredible ability to predict the person or character you're thinking of. It successfully guessed "one of the twins from The Shining" and "Calvin's dad from Calvin & Hobbes" when I played.

I can't imagine there are more possible diagnoses than there are fictional characters and famous people.
Do you know about http://asciidoctor.org/ ? It's asciidoc tuned to look a lot more like Markdown and they also have a JS renderer, browser extensions, ... Might be useful to you
What's interesting is that in German, you very often use the word "Bauchgefühl" (literally stomach / gut feeling) as a synonym of intuition, pretty similar as in English. I can't find the same kind of expression in Slavic or Latin languages though.
I spend about 90% of my time working on Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) which is doubling in customers/revenue every few months. Next month I'm going to be wrapping up a bunch of major features that have been on my TODO list for a long time which will be pretty neat.

I also run W3Counter (https://www.w3counter.com), a couple e-commerce stores, manage two more e-commerce stores for relatives, and have a few open source projects I mostly just manage pull requests in these days. My date range picker for Bootstrap (https://github.com/dangrossman/bootstrap-daterangepicker) still generates a lot of e-mails asking for help, and I usually end up writing some code for those people.
Cool! Reminds me a bit of the Tenorion.
That's pretty frickin' sweet!
I'm working on making a JSON API for Tennis scores, as I couldn't find one!
Well, if you count Emacs in batch mode, such a thing already exists.
I'm writing a flexible working environment for getting things done. Its intended to be usable for any field/task and should allow a lot of flexibility in use (like real-time programmatic and interface additions).
Making Your Own Super Mario Clouds
I've been spending some time working on a view first development framework that sits on top of Node and Express! It's called vain (because it cares only about its presentation... layer. Yuk yuk.)

https://github.com/farmdawgnation/vain
Working on a very simple web dashboard for monitoring linux server stats: http://linuxdash.com
Handle the precision lose issue in json_decode of php
I have been working on a game on my spare time in remote collaboration with designers and musicians who live in other countries.

I have every build since the beginning and I am hoping to use these to make a video showing the evolution of the work.

The HN crowd will probably be the first people to see it.
Why don't they link to the paper? This article is really crappy and doesn't explain what they did at all. For example, why diddn't they mention probabilist networks, which dominates this field. And I doubt that 240 data points is enough to write a paper.
Do things because you enjoy doing them. Then you'll be less disappointed when your startup fails. You don't need money to be happy.

Sorry about your gf though.
Sorry I was an idiot should be fixed now.
Yes, but then you have to subsidize them. There are also advantages to cabs not needing subsidies.
SiteBox -- for website in a box -- is software that will allow users to quickly create a website. Think of it as wordpress.com but where each site has an integrated wiki. SiteBox uses markdown as its markup language.

People will also be able to run SiteBox on their own PCs to use as a personal wiki. Or to have offline backups of wikis on the net that can be easily resynced.

People will be able to collaboratively write a book using SiteBox. It will have version control, possibly using git with an easier user interface.

SiteBox will also have privacy-enabling features: people will be able to run it locally (on a PC or a Raspberry Pi) to communication using email and a collaborative wiki, and all communication over the net will be encrypted.
4 days ago I launched my first iphone app (Ticket Titan App). https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ticket-titan-app/id838769146...

As a law firm we are only handling Florida, but as of now you can pay your tickets (traffic, parking, red light camera) or hire our firm to defend you. The future is much more interesting where we are seeking to become a niche search engine, whereas you will just take a picture of your ticket and the results will be attorney who practice on the jurisdiction filtered by their fee for that charge.
Great example, however this does not apply to free - or I would be very surprised if it did. It is relatively common for people to override malloc and free at runtime, so I would be very surprised if the compiler treated malloc or free as a compiler intrinsic, and inlined the code. I would not be surprised, however, if the compiler used the semantics of malloc or free to reason about the surrounding code. The original point, however, was about inlined code leading to generated code that no reasonable person would write (null check after use). So I still think that would not happen for free.
Is it a CPU bottleneck (cores being at 100% would be a good sign of this), or memory running low and causing swapfile use (high HDD activity)? Without any further info I'm leaning toward the latter, as you have both a Java application and a browser possibly running lots of JavaScript, and both being GC'd languages means they'll be competing for memory rather aggressively.
Tim Cook has as much right to a private life as anyone else, I think that his sexuality being too boring a topic to be worth commenting on is probably a good indicator.
I've been using https://bigml.com/ for this sort of thing. Pretty easy to use api to link to most languages.
Ah yes, gamma ray bursts got less common because of changing star formation rates? Really interesting.

I had missed the full argument. [Embarrassing :-)] The one I had seen was that closer to the galaxy centre there would be a higher frequency of supernovas per cubic light year, while too far out there would be too little of the heavier elements from supernovas.
Microserfs: Are programmers a new digital working class
Official Rock Simulator 2014 Trailer
Why not use a pimpl?
ZynAddSubFX - an open source synthesizer which due to some architectural flaws has spawned the need for a subproject of librtosc which is a hard realtime safe implementation of the OSC serialization protocol and a dispatch system to go along with it.

http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net

https://github.com/fundamental/rtosc
This discussion refers to the redesigned Android app.

> Also possible: type "restaurants near whatever", or simply "restaurants", which scopes the request on the current viewport.

This appears to work in the app as well, though.
JV Secrets Revealed 2.0 Make Money From Joint Venture Marketing
The Inspiring Story of Hello Games | No Man's Sky  PS4
Introducing Yardstick Golf – open a golf business
We were talking about IRR which is not "openly" available.
Colonies of growing bacteria make psychedelic art