skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is MSNP "horrible", specifically? You've worked with it?

The main difference I see between MSNP and Skype is that much of MSNP could be figured out in a day just by sniffing packets, which is probably what lead to a proliferation of alternative clients and client libraries for it. The (deliberate?) complexity of Skype means that RE attempts are more difficult, so there are fewer people with the skills and inclination to do it. Hopefully there will be more focus on it now, but it's still a huge effort in comparison.

Personally, I'm not too fond of XMPP either; something more similar to IRC would be my preference. But all of that doesn't matter when almost everyone you know used/uses MSNP/Skype, and from experience it's very difficult to change that, so any progress toward an open-source Skype client will be great.
Kitematic can be used as an image manager.
"Our Windows guys were still working on restoring the master Active Directory pair "

I was a Solaris admin at a previous employer. We ran annual DR exercises, and saw similar issues with the Windows kit. Even with months to prepare for the exercise, it took the entire exercise, sometimes longer, to bring 'Windows stuff' back to life.

What we (the unix team) did was to write into _our_ DR plan a few paragraphs on how to be up and running without DNS, or Active Directory.
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"The rate of re-offense isn't high because 'bad people are bad'"

How do you know this? Certainly there are different kinds of people who do crimes for different reasons. Some people are in fact "bad" and will keep doing bad things, and the only way to protect the rest of us from their crimes is to keep them locked up, kill them, or banish them to distant lands. For others, incarceration is counterproductive and might lead to a higher likelihood of them committing more crimes after they are released. And incarceration for anyone under the conditions prevailing in some US prisons and jails is insupportable. But some kind of humane incarceration for people who are compelled to continue offending, until one day we learn to fix these people, seems unavoidable.
Awesome to see you here. I've probably spent hours browsing your documentation and msnpiki. There was quite a great community around building "hacked" addons (MsgPlus) and bots for MSN Messenger :)

Still a pity to see it go (nostalgia..)! I kind of owe it the start of my "entrepreneurial" career building a website for MSN related resources (when I was 14, learning the basics of SEO and earning some Adsense money and later on programming and releasing addons). It was also great to see how Microsoft embraced the community around it!
Most people (a vast majority?) think people should pay for their crimes, and also don't want to see their tax money used for anything that could benefit to inmates. I'm actually surprised that it's not even worse than this.
The kernel VXLAN implementation actually supports manual endpoint configuration via NETLINK (or newer versions of the iproute2 package).
now a days flippa has become more careful about listing fake sites - there are many tools ... one of them is offered by Centurica ... they do thorough due-diligence for you (especially revenue and profit claims)... also you can ask for skype meeting to show you actual online inflows and outflows of money, email list, etc.
very nice documentation! Sorry for the lack of depth of my comment, I don't need vectors...
When all you do is view everyone's best moments from that day it's no wonder it leads to a certain kind of depression. I saw it in spades in my ex-gf who is a lawyer working 10-12hrs/day. She would get so depressed looking at 'everyone playing outside' while she was stuck inside working that she would inevitably take it out on me.

Facebook is the Billy Mays of interacting with your friends. The sooner one steps away from the herd they realize the toxicity of the life that's being sold.

Disclaimer: I 'deactivated' my account a month ago and feel fantastic!
In Qt, you can mark types as Q_MOVABLE_TYPE and get optimizations from a lot of containers
The Indian goodies subscription service might be a great startup idea (a la Graze, Pact Coffee, Dollar Shave Club...), but its hardly a passive income? Its a high involvement logistics business with a small technology involvement.
A monthly delivery of Indian spices would be incredible. If you could get it past the Canadian food inspection agency, I'd definitely subscribe (and possibly get your logo tattooed on my arm)...:)
This sounds awesome, reminds me of automated trading systems in a way. Very intriguing, hope this goes a long way!
How do you earn money?
There are several people I do not have contact info for that I have fleetingly seen on my MSM account in KTP in the last year. It will be a shame if they shut off their XMPP servers, because then I have no way to reach them.
There is a strange obsession here on HN with passive income. Yet I haven't seen any good examples of passive income, which were built without significant effort or time. Income is anything but passive.

Here's a better way to look at it:

You want to earn $500/month? As a good Ruby developer, you can earn that much in two days doing contract work. And no, it doesn't matter if you're based in Bangalore, you could be based in Belgaum and it wouldn't matter, as long as you had a good internet connection.

You can make more money while doing work you enjoy, instead of trying so hard looking for passive income. And you can save up, invest that money and buy solid chunks of time to totally focus on your crazy startup ideas.
Fertility Clinic Investigates Grown-Up Results of Genetically Modified Babies
Typical security exploit with realloc is attacking code that assumes realloc always success and never moves, thus keeping all pointers around.
Reading the paper the article is based on (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3550v1.pdf)- the evidence seems pretty weak:

"Subjective well-being is observed through the answers to
the question “How satisfied are you with your life as a whole nowadays?”. Answers range on a scale
from 0 (extremely dissatisfied) to 10 (extremely satisfied)"

The average results are about 7 ( between 7.25 and
7.76 in the North, 7.02 and 7.21 in the Center and 6.85 and 7.26 in the South)

And for social networking sites "the total
net effect is negative and amounts to about -0.15%."

So that's a change of like 7.25 down to 7.24 approx

Which seems a pretty marginal result to me. I know they've tried to correct for spurious correlations and the like but it's an inexact science. I mean the change is 1/40 of that of moving from north Italy to the south for example.
Imagine you are HR (or hiring for your start up). Would you take a chance on your company on somebody that has been proven to fail (even if only once)? Would to take a chance on your company, your bottom line, your livelihood on this person?

There's also a line of fully qualified people that hasn't failed before.
Thanks! (I'm a co-founder)

There is definitely a "buy, sell, hold" aspect to what we're working towards. For example, can we tell you the right time to book at the best possible price? There are so many factors (photos, copy, reviews, etc) that need to be optimized before you can get the best price.
Does anyone happen to have a spare giant stone to place above the MSN grave so we won't see it again?
If my addiction to entrepreneuring doesn't abate, this will be my retirement plan...:)
emplace_back was added in C++11 which does just that: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/emplace_ba...
>Isn't the OP referring to what happens after the 'lifespan' of this processor?

No, he's reffering to what will happen in "2 years". I quote: "But in two years, swapping in 128gb would be the no-brainer upgrade to this thing. That this is being ruled out ahead of time is not a good thing".

And there's just no way that normal users will run their desktop apps in VMs in two years -- which is what was said a as a justification for needing > 64gb.
What Does It Really Mean to Be (an Open Source) Non-Profit?
"Pay for their crimes" is extremely vague, if you steal a cigarette should you go to jail? Most people would say "no, just give him a fine". But it has cost 300 billons on tax dollars to capture, convict, and jail the 2 million people that lives in American prisons, which is 25% of the world prisoners, mostly because there is harsh punishments for soft crimes (drugs, minor robbery, etc)

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/february/punishing-taxpay...
Ask HN: Marketing My App to Middle Schoolers/High Schoolers
I am a 16 year old developer who recently completed a fairly impressive app (I think) but the market is young. The app is called Truthly and it allows anyone to easily create and join a "Truth Is", "tbh" and more. If you don't know what those things are they are quite common posts on instagram and then your followers like the post and you send them a text saying "Truth is your funny" or "Truth is i haven't seen you in forever!" and things like that. Anyway it is quite popular but also very complicated . This app makes it easy to create them, supplies you with some cool images and you can request/read your answers with the app! So far I have had a lot of positive feedback and over 100 users (though mostly just in my high school). I think it could be very popular but I am unsure of how to market it to the target audience of 11-17 year olds. I would love to hear any ideas! Thank you!
A friend told me their mailing software (or rather, domain registrar email forwarding thing) wouldn't accept an email address with one of the new extensions of more than 3 characters. So I'd be careful using it for serious business for a while.
> I'm a little surprised Starbucks wouldn't just revert to cash mode?

The register - I speculate - is also tracking inventory. Ring up two cappuccinos and a pastry, corporate keeps track and knows what and when to re-order.

Getting the inventory out of whack might be worse than loosing trade during the outage.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/truthly/id900784708?ls=1&mt=...

^There is a link to the app if your interested in looking at it
Absent progress in medical science, your odds of achieving that end are very remote. 75% of everyone, including most of those with the best diet and lifestyle choices behind them, are dead by 90 at the present time. The winnowing is precipitous over the next ten years following that: 1% make it to 100. Few of those lack serious health issues that greatly impact their ability to enjoy life.

Unless something changes these odds are improving only very slowly, with less than a year added to life expectancy at 60 every decade. This is an incidental trend, brought about despite the fact that no-one has really tried to seriously address the root causes of aging and age-related disease in the past.

If you really want to live to be old, and do so in good health, then the way to increase the odds is to get out there and make a difference: contribute to research funds, advocate for more longevity science, ways to treat the root causes of aging rather than patching over the late stage consequences. The whole field of medicine as it pertains to aging and age-related frailty and disease must be disrupted and change greatly from where it stands today.
Did you read the article? I'm trying to understand the mindset that would think of what she experienced as "failure". Can you help me? What did she fail at?
From its earliest days, one of the selling points of Guile was that eventually it should be possible to use it to run Emacs Lisp. This is one of the reasons RMS chose it as the GNU's official extension language. For some of the other reasons, google "Tcl war".
Passive income does not mean no effort. It means initial investment that pays off over time. For example, book sales or a portfolio of stock photos would be passive income.
Fantastic blog post! Now I don't have to start digging myself :). I've always thought realloc could do a few optimizations, glad to find out the details.
It looks like Kitematic uses VirtualBox, a VM.

Aside from the GUI, how does it differ from Boot2Docker, which is what the Docker web site tells you to use on a Mac?
This isn't true for either of the common high performance mallocs. tcmalloc doesn't support mremap at all, and jemalloc disables it in its recommended build configuration. glibc will remap, but any performance gains that get realized from realloc tricks would probably be small compared to the benefits of switching to a better malloc implementation.
I solved an "realloc is really costly" problem by ditching the memory-is-contiguous notion, paying a little more (really just a few cycles) for each access rather than spending tons of time shuffling stuff around in memory. This eliminated nearly all reallocations. The extra bit of computation was invisible in the face of cache misses.

I'm guessing that most customers of std::vector don't really need contiguous memory, they just need something that has fast linear access time. In this sense, std::vector is a poor design.
“Village” Chromebook build
It appears that we're quite close to having a usable, if not production-ready, pure GNU distribution. The vast majority of Debian packages have already been ported to its GNU/Hurd.

On the other hand, they made the unorthodox decision to switch from dmd to sysvinit. Probably one of the very little systems to switch to SysV, rather than from it.
I don't know much about Guile, but can't it compile elisp too?

But you would need dynamic scope in Scheme to mix elisp/Guile code in Emacs?

Edit: Ah, this was discussed in your link at the top of this comment thread.
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This is not Five Thirty Eight type reporting. This is just pseudoscience. It starts with admittedly subjective, unvalidated criteria then proceeds to analyze and present them as though they were data. It's non-science presented as science.
Bill Gates is still alive. I've heard it said—and I agree—that he'll be remembered not for Microsoft, but for his philanthropy, particularly his foundation's work aimed at the worldwide eradication of infectious diseases. My guess is that's what he wants to be remembered for.
Guix seems nice in that it is all-free and is configurable in Scheme, but packages for quite common stuff like Java and Haskell and Jack-audio server are not present yet, although they are in NixOS. Looking forward to Guix 1.0 as I like Scheme and GNU :-)
> Once you understand that people are merely a resource for government, law enforcement and business, things make more sense.

Then why is it that other places in the world, such as Norway, prisons are not like American prisons? You're claiming that the state in America is simply an outcome of universal properties of Government, but this outcome is not universal.

You can't just flippantly say "Things are bad 'cause Gubmint'", when it's clear that other places have overcome these challenges.
Cell Phone Kill Switches Mandatory in California
> ... Rocket surgeon

That's a new one. Usually it's rocket scientist or brain surgeon. What exactly does a rocket surgeon do? :)
The Vexing Legacy of Lewis Terman (2000)
Intriguing properties of neural networks [pdf]
Not in any benchmark I have ever seen and that not counting the performance/watt aspect which is where the new x99 with DDR4 an i7's have a nice improvement.
3 weeks.

FYI: Something to be aware of is if the company shuts down at the end of the year. You may have to use 2 - 4 days of vacation around Christmas/New Years or take it those days as unpaid.
Tuples, Structs and Enums – Chris Eidhof
Maybe you need a break from school? Try to line up an internship, or at the least just some kind of bill-paying job, and start working on something. Then re-evaluate where you are next year whether you want to re-enter school or jump into the industry instead.
Onarbor takes code and only 10%, https://onarbor.com
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I recently started an affiliate business. I'm not sure if it will make $500 per month but it just made $60 in its second month so I'm cautiously optimistic.

For some types of purchase I do a lot of research to find the right item for me. I actually enjoy the researching process so an affiliate site is a good match for me. A big part of the work is providing useful content which you can only do after performing good research.

My site is a huge searchable catalog of products with affiliate links to Amazon if they're for sale on Amazon, otherwise I provide non-affiliate links to wherever they are for sale. Most affiliate sites are based on product reviews but my site's approach is to provide more search options with more accurate data (data that is often incorrect on Amazon).

If I estimate the hours I've put into it so far I'm surely making less than $1 per hour for my time but as the earnings increase and my new hours decrease it might eventually be a wise investment.
I've been using NixOS and Nix to install things in my servers. It's very mature. Most things I need are packaged, including not so popular utilities like isync or notmuch.

However, I'm curious about containers. For example systemd-nspawn seems like a simple way to achieve many of the functionality NixOS brings into the table.
The Marber – A layout derived from Marber’s classic grid for Penguin books
Is it normal to notate powers using double caret notation? (i.e. ^^) I've only ever seen it using a single caret (^), in what presumably is meant to correspond to an ascii version of Knuth up arrow notation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_up-arrow_notation).
I found it a bit strange, and confusing in the article having powers denoted using ^^, and had to go back to make sure I wasn't missing anything.
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I didn't say it's universal, and Norway is apparently a place where reason wins more than America. They are also differently structured governments and societies, and the people have different formative experiences.

We are not uniform, and no outcome is inevitable. The way things are in America are probably more likely in America than elsewhere because of our unique shared myths and the wieldability of government by evil people.
Great script and timing. For those who missed it, this was just requested on HN yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8243157

Screencast is a nice touch.
Redbird – a modern reverse proxy for node
It troubles me that there actually are people who think like you.

I'm pretty sure your definition of a friend is different than most people. I'd label your "friends" as people who are in the same social circles as you because of their socioeconomic status. You, as the hollow facebook drone who has never actually experienced friendship, think that real people socialize by posting pictures of themselves online to boost their image, they don't.

Your life must be lonely and sad, but hey, as long as 500+ people know what you had at that new sushi place last night, who cares, right? #culture #sushi #nightout #selfie #misusedhashtags
It's likely to distinguish it from XOR, which is the carat operator in many programming languages.
hello world,
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enjoy
It is in some states, like Texas. They do forced labor outside (hoe squad), and none of the buildings are air conditioned so the inmates and guards go bezerk in the 40deg C heat. Texas tribune keeps a list of inmates and almost everybody is in their for some petty drug crime.
I just use a shell script based on this SO answer. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9023164/in-bash-how-can-...

The only sort of problem with it is that the output gets merged with each other. You can quite easily figure out what is what though.
Amazon Updates Their Login Screen for the First Time in a Decade
Greetings Facebook, several decades ago welcomes you. 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.

Most of the time if performance and allocation is so critical, you're better off not using a vector anyway. A fixed sized array is much more cache friendly, makes pooling quite easy, and eliminates other performance costs that suffer from std::vector's implementation.

More to the point, who would use a c++ library from Facebook? Hopefully don't need to explain the reasons here.
Name one important person who ended up in jail for more-or-less-violent protesting, and ended up having this as a "self transforming" experience. I can name at least one... Adolf Hitler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler) ...and I think Mr. Joseph Stalin followed a similar career path, though I know less about the details (but here's a cute mugshot of him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_of_Joseph_Stalin#med... )

So, here you go:

Q: How do you severely radicalize a random semi-moderate non-violent protester?

A: Send him/her to jail.

Thankfully this girl kept a cool head and drew a sane interpretation from it, but seriously, what are you Americans trying to do, 'cook up' the next generation of world-wrecking monsters in some insane social-engineering experiment?!
What does "elitist about 'GitHub' commits" mean?
Founder's syndrome
Marijuana and Alcohol are considered economic compliments actually. The more you smoke the more likely you are to drink and vice versa.
www.possiblestartups.com A startup idea generator.
I don't really have the kind of money it takes to move research like that, but I don't look at it as negatively as you do. At 27 there is a long time for me to grow old, and predicting the future over that kind of timeline is darn near impossible.
Battle of the Heavyweight Rockets
My point is that if it takes so much effort, it's better to spend it on doing something you're not trying to avoid doing. You make more money and it's more satisfying, when the goal is not to stop doing it.

But I think people get a kick out of chasing passive income, because it gives them a sense of having "hacked" the system.
The internet has got fair pricing. You can work for $10/hour or $300/hour. It depends on the value you bring, and your negotiations.

Now how to get the clients. I'll leave you to figure out that part on your own.
You could try emailing them. At their contact address they used for MSN.
No, that's quite intentional. If you don't need contiguous memory, you can consider using std::deque. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/deque/deque/
I also really love tmuxp, which lets you save tmux sessions as json files and save/reload them later. Great for setting up tmux sessions for different workflows.

http://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/
With such small income you cannot live correctly in France.
Ask HN: What are the common features for any startup website?
I'm building a Django project template that is meant to be helpful for start a website for startups, by helpful I mean the most common features for a website before launching.

https://github.com/mariocesar/django-startup

With the time, helping others I realize there are features that are common to everybody. like User management, Leads, Email marketing integration, branding, sysadmin tools, deployment, etc.

I want the project is common enough to be useful immediately and be ready to extend with a particular service, product or awesome idea you are thinking.

I'm on the early stage of development, so:

What do you consider are the most important and common features to all startup websites?
There is no "passive income". You just invest a huge amount of time up-front and get paid later.

What the OP wants is a higher pay, so he gets more free time.
It is still weird. * * is the other established convention used for exponentiation in languages like Python, Ada, m4, and others.
They do account for unemployment, but I agree with you. More evidence needed.
How my apps are funding my long-term investing