skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you mind linking me to some of them?
"Microsoft has full control over it and can decide at any moment to... well, for example, shut it down."

Not if people decide to write their own server software for it. i.e. Something that you most certainly can't do easily with Skype as it's leaps and bounds more complicated to reverse-engineer.

"Not saying skype is better, just glad to see crappy proprietary tech die out."
What? Let me rephrase how I re-read your sentence: "Not saying skype is better, just glad to see crappy proprietary tech get replaced by even less open and more difficult to reverse-engineer tech."

Why would you be glad about that? You're contradicting your own viewpoint about how bad "proprietary tech" is by advocating it's replacement by an even more "proprietary tech"
Why didn't they do this sooner?

AMD already has an Operton 16-core processor. I'm not saying that AMD is any better, but I thought Intel would have started selling these from long ago, judging based on the pace of the computer industry.
Great idea, unfortunately in my case the setup phase gets stuck on 'Setting up the default Kinematic images...'.
Is this really Marc Cenedella? (http://www.linkedin.com/in/cenedella)

I didn't know he was such a misogynist and bigot.
> which is done using an allocator, and which essentially cannot be implemented in terms of new

Actually the standard says std::allocator<T> just calls the global operator new function[0]. When you call construct(), placement-new is then used to construct the objects in place. This makes it easy to replace the memory allocator globally as well as on a per-container basis.

[0] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/new/operator_new
The life: Begin-Plot-End
Does not happend only for humans, but also for objects.
I imagine that after some year, we will here somthing similar to WhatsApp.
Considering that pot doesn't help (me) with common pains such as headache, back pain, tooth pain, I'm led to believe it doesn't help either with extremely severe pain. Where there any scientific studies that tackle those questions?

I'm all in favour of legalisation, but the medical trend sounds like a big hypocrisy to me. I'm certain some patients benefit somehow from the effects of THC or CDB, but pretty much all cannabis users are recreational.
I don't see why it can't be both. If advanced space travel weren't a ludicrously expensive way of committing suicide, I'd support it more. But as best I can tell, the engineering reality is that we aren't ready to start accomplishing anything meaningful off the earth, so pouring money into that before the foundational technology exists is like funding alchemy. We don't currently have people living in a sealed-off bubble at the bottom of the Southern Ocean or something like that, so why are we trying to market a Mars mission or something even more outlandish?

In short, I think the problem is that the evident state of engineering makes the venture look somewhat unlikely to succeed. So no matter how awesome your marketing makes the cause sound, it has to be marked down in the final equation in proportion to the likelihood that it is just an expensive way to die.
I take that back, I see that Intel has ten-core commercial processors on the market already.
When you put yourself into such a situation as this, bad things can happen to you, and it may be you who must be prepared for those bad things and the consequences of your actions. Don't blame others for putting yourself into that situation.
“Why I cried at the Apple Store”
> I've not used Guix, but looking at those slides, the ability to take the build definition of the "hello" program, inherit everything but change the version, looks very interesting.

To do this with any derivation in in nixpkgs, call pkgs.lib.overrideDerivation on it, passing the relevant new attributes. This'll inherit the old attributes, only modifying the ones you supply. This is described in the manual: http://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-customising-packages
She probably didn't know who was groping her from behind.
Dude, as a law person you are pretty fucked.
A quote: "Diederik Stapel, the infamous "lying Dutchman" who in 2011 admitted to inventing the data in dozens of psychology research papers, unwittingly signalled his deceit through the language he used. As well as inflating the certainty surrounding his results, Stapel included more science-related terms to describe his methods when writing up his fraudulent "findings" than when describing genuine results.

"Researchers who have analysed Stapel's papers say they can separate his genuine research from the fictional with about 70 per cent accuracy. Now they are studying a larger sample of papers from many different scientific fraudsters, to see if the detection method works more generally."

Just think -- if psychology were a science, researchers could use scientific tools to detect fraud -- tests that were not conducted, lab measurements that were fudged, images manipulated to create a false impression, as happens in real scientific fields.

In extreme cases, we could detect fraud by simply repeating the experiments, using the clear protocols published along with the results. But in psychology, investigators are completely dependent on what people say, not what they do. If Stapel were in a real scientific field, he would never have gotten away with his many verbal frauds, and fraud detection would be child's play.

Another quote: "Stapel, who worked at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, used more "amplifiers" – words like "profoundly" and "extreme" – in his fraudulent papers, and fewer "diminishers" – like "merely" and "somewhat"."

Imagine a real scientist trying to defraud his university and granting agencies by using words like "profoundly" and "extreme" about his lab results. But in science, such descriptions would make no difference -- the lab results, the evidence, would decide the issue.

It's important to understand that in psychology, because of its status as a pseudoscience, how you describe your work is more important than the outcome of experiments, and one can cheat with words. In a real science, Diederik Stapel would have been exposed within days of entering a laboratory.
I think its more of a "lol Facebook" than actual Facebook having a bad reputation. They do have a lot of money to hire talented engineers, it maybe that this solution is poor in the edge case the other post was talking about, but it may also be possible their solution is poor for Facebook. Facebook also contributes A LOT to open source projects and you can see their employee email domain all over open source projects.

I could also probably speculate their thinking along the lines of backdoors or something. But Facebook does have a good reputation with open source projects, so I wouldn't be too worried about that. (As in no more worried than some other random project)
Family of instructor killed by 9-year-old with Uzi speaks
Actually, that would more accurately be rendered as "verbs are gerunding".
I find it amusing that Netflix is one of the main reasons we have both locked-down devices like the Chromecast and DRM in w3c standards. It all boils down to the content providers sticking their fingers into tech, but Netflix's popularity and leadership in the space is probably the direct driver of both of these.
Why? Obama is not very keen on protesters, and anyway next President would be Republican likely. What's the problem?

Compare that to countries where unrest is squashed and the same bad guy sits in the office for decades, and then bloody coup. You should be happy you still get protests.
'Tis true. Netflix uses FreeBSD.

EDIT for the downvoter: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect/software
I think market share has mostly led to that. As long as the commercial unixes had significant market share (esp. among paying customers), people developing Unix software had an incentive to write it portably, so it could run on at least Solaris and Linux. As the bottom dropped out of the Solaris market, a lot of packages decided not to bother, as >90% of Unix customers were on Linux. Some don't even bother supporting more than one specific Linux distribution (among commercial software packages, that's often RHEL, sometimes RHEL+Ubuntu).

There was a period when non-x86 compatibility went through a similar low period (due to the decline of Alpha, SPARC, etc.), but increasing ARM market share is making architecture portability more practically relevant again.
how about attaching volumes?
You joke, but running ZFS on disk w/o ECC RAM is not a good idea. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zfs-macos/qguq6LCf1Q...
I don't love cops, but you don't hit cops. No matter what the cop does, you don't hit the cop. 58 days... she got off with a slap on the wrist.
"You can't even work out some social squabbles with your wife, she left you for your neighbor. Christ How the Fk is a jackass like you meant to code a suggestion algorithm if you can't keep that in check"

You made a very good point.
What I mean is that YUI is a large, monolithic framework, which can be replaced with a number of smaller libraries/frameworks. This is modularization, which reduces the risk of a large monolithic framework losing maintenance support.
That's the standard line, but I have never felt that as a user. Debian and FreeBSD feel about equally integrated to me as systems. Some stuff in both is developed by different upstreams (large parts of both the Debian and FreeBSD base installs are developed elsewhere), but the "buck stops here" when it comes to integration, integration-testing, engineering a consistent user experience, and generally making the system work for end-users. If anything Debian feels slightly more tightly integrated to me, though it depends on whether you frequently use a lot of non-base packages. FreeBSD's model is tight integration of the base install and light curation of everything else in userland, while Debian's model is to "Debianize" everything in the archive and ensure it plays well together, even non-base packages.
I thought I was the only one weird enough person in the world to actually nap in a toilet. I can say a lot of good things about my company work culture, but unfortunately, naps in the middle of the work day are frowned upon there.
I agree that YUI can be seen like this, with its relatively deep object relationships and manipulations required for its mvc, widgets, etc. -- but does not have to be used as such. I've been using YUI the last couple of years in a lighter way. My code uses as much modern JS as practical, and dips in to YUI for things that are tedious to do by hand. Most of my modules can be swapped out to work with requirejs, jquery, underscore, handlebars, etc. without too much fuss. I've done that a few times when YUI was slowing down and showing signs of neglect, but then went back to YUI because I saw no noticeable signs of improvement, but rather found the code more difficult to maintain -- multiple dependencies vs. 1, and each of those libraries has a multiplicative effect (different documentation locations and styles, following the updates, engaging the community, finding workarounds, etc.) For a long time YUI had great docs, great participation from core devs, and a nurturing attitude towards 3rd party modules. It is when that love began to fade, without explanation -- the promises of improvements in the future began to gather cobwebs, and the community infrastructure began to crumble (forum, gallery, web site), yui dev participation plummeted -- that I and I'm sure many other YUI users began to disengage with the YUI project, even if we were still using it.
>What is the point of the wording "preparing consciously"? Can you prepare for something unconsciously?

The point was probably to emphasize the premeditation of it, and I agree it was needlessly verbose. But yes, you can prepare unconsciously, like when your body has the fight-or-flight response.
How are you defining effectiveness? Many campaigns for justice take years if not decades, and can produce numerous protests during that time. Those protests are only 'ineffective' if you imagine that conducting a single protest march or camp might change the established order overnight. That is not the point of protests, which are instead designed to register contesting views with those in power, and promote those views to other potential supporters. In that way many protests are, in fact, highly effective, and non-violent to boot.

The view point which you are espousing, whether you believe it or not, is a time-worn tactic of disinterested or opposed parties who aim to curtail freedom of expression by claiming offences to public order. There are plenty of laws for dealing with violence against people and property, but also laws protecting people who are engaging in free speech, and the fact that someone happens to be promoting social change shouldn't be taken as an excuse to ignore the latter, or misapply the former.
Hey, developer of Kitematic here. We have added a page for fixes on known issues: http://kitematic.com/docs/known-issue-fixes/

Let me know if it works! Feel free to hop in our HipChat support as well. :)
Hey,

Kitematic seems to have a conflict with older versions of boot2docker at the moment. We're still looking into this issue.

In the meantime, some of our users have found success in doing this:

1. In the terminal run boot2docker delete
2. Open Virtualbox and delete the boot2docker vm
3. Delete all the host-only networks under VirtualBox=>Preferences=>Network=>Host-only networks tab
4. Run the installer again

Sorry about all the trouble. We're looking into fixes.
> most of us had in-house stl libraries for decades now

I've no doubt there has been many talented programmers for decades, but what about open-sourcing these "in house" libraries if they are so great, to avoid countless other programmers the need to reinvent the wheel? I think it would be more constructive than bashing Facebook for being late to the party.
"If you have built hundreds of thousands of lines on top of a framework,"

Perhaps that wasn't the smartest architecture decision made. Now, don't compound it by rewriting it in the same deeply coupled way for the next shiny framework that sashay's by.
> Game programmers figured out the same and arguably better ways of doing this since each version of std::vector has been released. This is but a small reason most of us had in-house stl libraries for decades now.

OTOH, game programmers don't share this kind of knowledge on public fora as freely as Internet companies do. It may be "old news" to you, but it was unpublished. Knowledge is great, but dissemination is even better.
Added you guys, can you help me get some visibility via a tweet or other social media?
I'm glad she wrote this. In prison you don't just "serve your time". Instead you are abused and neglected, criminally so.

Source: My brother went to prison with a 70 year sentence. He was 17.
>First, there no "personal financial incentives." Lobbying isn't the same as campaign donations, and corporations like Intuit are prohibited from making direct campaign donations.

You say the most fantastical things sometimes. I know you're aware of what "Quid pro quo" means, but you apparently must believe it to be some abstract conceptual thing without any practical use.
Great work, guys! I just wanted to let everyone know that there's a HipChat support room[1] for this project, the creators are there and super helpful. Jeffrey and Michael definitely just set a new bar for open-source project support.

[1] https://www.hipchat.com/giAT9Fqb5
> In a real science, Diederik Stapel would have been exposed within days of entering a laboratory.

You ignore the fact that scientific fraud exists in other sciences; and that this article talks about extending the use of this tool to different sciences.
except building models is the essence of machine learning
Yeah, you would need to provide an explanation. Facebook's folly is the best, cleanest set of low-level c++ libs I've ever seen.

The fact the something has been done in industry 'x' does not negate the value of this article/library.
really like the playful flying airplane.
Announcing SQL Server Radio
I've had a long history of headaches and ibuprofen is something I'm taking a few times a week and have been since I was 11 or 12. I've never had stomach issues.
The equivalent Xeons to these i7s, the E5-16xx v3 models, should be out very soon[1][2]. v3 means Haswell. If you need ECC, wait a month or two.

[1] http://www.chiploco.com/intel-haswell-ep-e5-1600-v3-35072/
[2] http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2014/2014080502_Xeon_E5-2600_v...
For me reading fiction in bed is a great way to fall asleep... the next day at work. I lost countless hours of sleep at night and productivity during the day thanks to people like HN's own cstross, who absolutely, positively have to create captivating, entertaining and addicting pieces of writing...
So tempting though, I hate cyber-squatters/abandoned homepages...
You can use a feedback directed optimization pass to choose the initial size.
I have used both NixOS and Guix and can say that I definitely prefer Guix. Internally, the package manager is really the same. On the interface side, Nix uses its own functional programming language, while Guix uses Scheme which I am used to and prefer syntax-wise. It's awesome to write configuration files in Scheme! You can write scheme functions that output a valid system configuration for guix. You can then apply guix, reboot, and have a new system. It's also very easy to maintain different configurations.

On the OS side, dmd is also pretty damn cool. The whole system feels kind of polished and reminded me much of current *BSD systems, including a decent texinfo manual on the first boot. With the difference that you get a working framebuffer through linux on startup.

While NixOS is kind of an academical experiment, I think Guix really has the potential to become the only true GNU system. It still lacks stability and has some rough edges of course. Maybe Guix will also help merging the Emacs and GNU operating systems to create a single, tightly integrated Lisp OS ;) There is already an Emacs interface for Guix.
I own a forum that makes me $1500/month. I haven't logged in for 6 months. All the effort was done in 2007.

Contract work, like 9-to-5 employment, is the opposite of what people have in mind when they say "passive income". The goal of passive income isn't to get something for nothing. It's to create something that generates income that isn't linked 1:1 with your time.
Oops... Edit 2, since I can't edit this anymore. R7 has not flown over 3500 flights in 60 years, it's flown ~1600 flights. 749 on the model retired in 2011. http://astronautix.com/lvs/soya511u.htm
You wouldn't happen by chance to know of any libraries for doing geometric calculations? I would like a library that can handle rendering ellipses, determine if two ellipses intersect,if a line intersects or is within an ellipse, etc.
Icelandic Earthquakes in 3d (three.js)
By doing so they further tear apart the fabric of society which, when it rips apart, will destroy the Order they love so much.

To be precise, by demanding to narrow the feedback of the society and radicalize the protesters.
This isn't going to end well if that sentiment you describe is widespread.
Beautiful online voxel MMO game powered by WebGL / HTML5
Bear in mind that this increase has come about because of improved treatment of particular diseases, not because of progress in tackling the root causes of ageing. The point is, it seems to be very hard to push the human body above 100, and that is all we will be able to do by curing diseases, while not stopping the ageing process itself.
I'm not advocating anything else than XMPP; I'm just being practical. MSNP is one less proprietary protocol to worry about.
Thanks! Sean's pushing out troubleshooting docs so everyone can view them on our docs page [ http://kitematic.com/docs/known-issue-fixes/ ]
You can outsource logistics to Amazon. The support burden might be high, though.
Ask HN: What are some good online collaborative feature request tools?
Hi!! I want to allow users to suggest features for my software, and rank the most important ones.
Does anybody know a good and convenient system for that?
Other followers of that career path include Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela
Going into a career because it's noble, rewarding or because it "helps people" seems like a mistake.
In the future you can avoid downvotes by searching rather than asking HN for the answer to an easily google-able question.
Not really. Look at the "Current State" section here:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/GuileEmacs

> As of the end of GoogleSummerOfCode 2014, the Elisp engine of Emacs is fully replaced with that of libguile, and most things Just Work™. Some performance regression of dynamic scoping (lexically scoped code should be fine), and broken corner cases (like crazy Elisp macros that directly output legacy Elisp bytecode) remain.
More work for less pay huh? Being squeezed by profit taking business people at the top... surely no one other than doctors can relate to such changes in the economy.

*Edit I am of course being a bit sarcastic. It's interesting to see how shifts in the general economy are changing the medical profession.
did some kid code this or why is this top news?
Facebook chat is just XMPP, you can use desktop clients to receive messages. Facebook themselves recommend Pidgin and Adium: https://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
OK, how does the punishment for hitting a police officer in the US compare to other countries?
Do you have a source for this? I have a good friend serving time in TDC, and his experience has been nothing like this. He's gone to school to get his associates degree for drafting, and he has a job - because he chose to have one - working in the commissary.

RE: Air condition - you're right. http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/faq/faq_cid.html#air
Am I the only person that can't see anything in that video? Without hearing any explanation of what's going on in that video, I can't see it as proving, or disproving anything.
> You ignore the use of the detection method in other areas - areas that you would call science.

The linked article suggests that psychologists may try to produce results by analyzing how actual scientists talk about their science, blithely ignoring the fact that examining the science itself would be more effective. Also, an advocate of what you suggest would be hard-pressed to produce tangible evidence for results in mainstream science, because there aren't any. Frauds in real scientific fields are exposed, not by comparing their words to their work, but by comparing the evidence to reality.

> Do you realise just how kook-like your behaviour is when ever the subject approaches psychiatry?

1. Are you aware that your arguments have no content, nothing that might be mistaken for science or good-faith debate, as a result of which you're making psychology look even more ridiculous that it already does?

2. Are you aware that my views on this topic now represent the mainstream?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-harold-koplewicz/dsm-mental...

Ten years ago, I started a campaign against the use of Asperger Syndrome as a diagnosis, arguing that it was a particularly absurd diagnosis, able to reliably "diagnose" bright kids as mentally ill. After years of hearing from people like you who know nothing about the topic under discussion, Asperger Syndrome was abandoned for the reasons I gave.

In this new effort, the DSM is being challenged for its lack of scientific rigor, and not just by me, but by people like the current chairman of the NIMH. Conclusion? You need a reality check.

If psychologists were to read your replies to my posts, they would say, "Please -- don't be on our side."