skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why everyone seems to think the researchers are incompetent. From here (http://www.economist.com/news/21589145-how-sort-best-rest-wh...):

> The big surprise has been the support for the unabashedly elitist “super-forecaster” hypothesis. The top 2% of forecasters in Year 1 showed that there is more than luck at play. If it were just luck, the “supers” would regress to the mean: yesterday’s champs would be today’s chumps. But they actually got better. When we randomly assigned “supers” into elite teams, they blew the lid off IARPA’s performance goals. They beat the unweighted average (wisdom-of-overall-crowd) by 65%; beat the best algorithms of four competitor institutions by 35-60%; and beat two prediction markets by 20-35%
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8323814
The Special Agent e-mail exist and headers looks strong ! This looks legit !
Rust must statically prove lifetime of references to stack allocated variables does not exceed lifetime of the variables they point to at compile time, in order to be 100% memory safe. How is that different than just an advanced escape anlysis? Theoretically a VM could do much more, because it could do speculative escape analysis (I heard Azul guys were working on such experimental thing called escape detection) and even move variables from stack to heap once it turns out they do escape.
It's very similar to Racket, and yes, it is nice to use!

Other systems can get you much of the way there (node, Python are the only ones I'm really familiar with) but I suspect you need a little language help to achieve the same kind of convenience.
> and have reply notification to comments set up

How do you do that? That would probably cut my procrastination in half! HN used to be connected with some push notification startup and there was an option for it in profile, but it seems missing now.
Does anyone know WHY hackful.eu didn't work?
I think it's just a matter of how much you value being better at photography vs. being better at DotA. If you care about improving a skill, I'd call actions towards it productive.
> Those attitudes - that mental illness are caused by the family - are old and not acceptable any more.

"Not acceptable"? Your post suggests that, because the "refrigerator mom" idea has been debunked, that mental health professionals can't think that way any more. But this isn't how psychiatry and psychology work. An absence of solid science (of explanations) means that, even though a way of thinking has been discarded at the top, those at the bottom are free to keep thinking the same way.

This is why, more than a year after Asperger Syndrome was abandoned, psychiatrists and psychologists continue to apply the diagnosis. This is why, decades after homosexuality was dropped from the DSM, psychiatrists and psychologists are free to offer therapies meant to correct this "defect" in some of their clients.

> See RD Laing for an example of a psychiatrist who used to push this incorrect theory.

Incorrect or not, it wasn't a theory, defined in science as an idea about a cause, an explanation, with supporting evidence and falsifiable by new evidence. There aren't any of those in psychology.
Interesting backtracing of the origin of that quote: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
This blog post http://blog.ivanristic.com/2014/09/sha1-deprecation-what-you... gives some background for this change and discusses dual-certificate deployment as a way to remain warning-free in Chrome and continue to support older (SHA1 only) clients.
Android has its merits, but more and more I am reminded of this aptly titled article (proudly mentioned by Tim Cook during the WWDC keynote): "Android Fragmentation Turning Devices Into a Toxic Hellstew of Vulnerabilities" [1]. These kinds of incredibly serious, system level issues are a significant competitive disadvantage, and they keep happening. Google needs to build fast security update requirements into their Android license agreements with device makers. At least then, when these things are discovered and publicized, tens of millions of people won't be left vulnerable.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/android-fragmentation-turning-devices-i...
You are completely wrong. I don't know why everyone seems to think the researchers are incompetent. From [here](http://www.economist.com/news/21589145-how-sort-best-rest-wh...):

> The big surprise has been the support for the unabashedly elitist “super-forecaster” hypothesis. The top 2% of forecasters in Year 1 showed that there is more than luck at play. If it were just luck, the “supers” would regress to the mean: yesterday’s champs would be today’s chumps. But they actually got better. When we randomly assigned “supers” into elite teams, they blew the lid off IARPA’s performance goals. They beat the unweighted average (wisdom-of-overall-crowd) by 65%; beat the best algorithms of four competitor institutions by 35-60%; and beat two prediction markets by 20-35%
Big list of static site generators
I want to set up a blog with one of these - anyone have a recommendation?
> Disappointing to see yet another language-specific package management system (Cargo), though.

That's a much bigger problem to tackle, and one that nobody has really thought much on or done much work with. Package management is a tough problem in the abstract, and it's a big challenge to create a meta-package management infrastructure, more so when there doesn't seem to be any money in it (at least not easily).
Ask HN: What sites do you frequent that have never been mentioned on HN?
What websites do you visit regularly that have never been mentioned on HN before? Please do a search (bottom of the page) to verify it's never been submitted as a story or comment. Only 100% fresh, never mentioned news sources.

What have you got?
Given that it's a random event, a good coin flip forecaster would be predicting a 0.5 probability for each side rather than a 1 for either heads or tails. Consequently, of the 20,000 coin flippers, you can tell who'll be a good predictor before a single coin has been thrown - the good ones are the ones who think it through and are open-minded enough to say their prediction is "I don't know."

If you insist on a heads or a tails then your experiment is broken by design and tells you nothing.
> If you wanted to prove someone has talent, you would point to them pushing out noteworthy things on a consistent basis.

That's not a very good proof. If anything, that would show that they are productive. "Noteworthy" is very subjective, and it's not a measure of talent, though there can be correlation. If I have a big marketing team, I can make something noteworthy by someone's standards.

> Sure, someone can be very talented but have only a single thing to their name, but it's just as likely they got lucky.

Notch is talented. He got lucky with Minecraft. That doesn't make him any less talented. And now that he's "famous", his odds for being lucky have increased since he now has a bigger audience, more connections, more money - basically more opportunities.
Minecraft + World of Warcraft. Introducing Oort Online
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A `!` followed by an identifier does, yes. But a `!` also lets you define diverging functions:

fn diverging() -> ! {
unreachable!()
}

The two `!` in that code are completely orthogonal things. See the manual on diverging functions: http://doc.rust-lang.org/rust.html#diverging-functions
Sample size and confidence in qualitative research
NYT: Will Portland always be a retirement community for the young?
I think adding creative skills and skills of physical mastery both make for more worthy pursuits. This would cover your jazz piano and unicycling and would exclude the Dota example. It also excludes reading fiction, which I think is not much different from watching a movie or playing a game.
tho they probably mean 100% more, I'm confused
I used to have a similar feeling about not "improving" enough, until I realised something: doing all that messing about (watching TV, films, reading books) makes you more human.

When I'm not at a local meet-up, or conference, most of my conversation revolves around non-programming stuff. Most people don't want to hear my opinions on Python, Django, Scala, JavaScript etc. but they do want to know if I saw that ludicrous display last night.

If you want to think of it in "self-improvement" terms, then imagine you're working on your personal database of trivia that you can talk about.
I didn't downvote you but I read your comment a half a dozen times and couldn't make sense of it...
Video of a guy telling the time every minute, 24h in a row. Please make the app
Why are you even considering this investment? It comes down to a basic question -- what kind of player are you:

* A gambler, interested in risk and excitement.

* An investor, interested in reliably making money.

If you're a gambler, then investing in IPOs is certainly a way to add excitement to your life. If you're an investor, if you just want to maximize your chance to make money, then invest in one or more index funds, and don't churn your portfolio.

More detail here: http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths
Mac is the best you can go with rather then going with Windows. So if you want then you can visit http://www.showhiddenfilesmac.com/
Why are those your only choices? What makes your problem unsuited to e.g. Nimrod?
Quote from the post we're talking about: "His girlfriend left, took the kids, and didn't tell him where they had gone."

We simply have no information to make the sorts of conclusions you are making. You are making assumptions based on what appears to be your views on the matter. As further evidenced by you bringing in Mens Rights Activism with your comment about the parent poster being an "MRA troll", for no reason. Or perhaps you're just trying to taint the discussion by making it about womens/mens rights. When it could just simply be either an abusive stalker boyfriend or a crazy girlfriend that kidnapped kids.
Also, after having a MBP for an year, and Windows at work, I still prefer Windows in many aspects, and should probably have stayed with a Windows desktop + remote Linux box + Putty for server-side development - and a high end tablet for travelling.

OSX experience isn't that "superior in every aspect" compared to Windows 7. (Their hibernation/power manager is really good though :P)
So developers end up installing later versions manually. And in many cases it's no big deal. If the distro has Julia 0.2.1 and Emacs 23, I can upgrade to Julia 0.3 and Emacs 24 and it's not likely to damage anything. It'd just be nice if I could do it with the package manager instead.

But just because I'm doing that doesn't necessarily mean I want, say, the latest unstable version of the window manager.
I can't help but ask, why? I'm using an iPhone 4S and I feel like it's time to "let it go". I feel the life force ebbing from the battery each day, the camera quality is starting to feel dated, it's becoming increasingly rare to find an "old style" Apple charging cable when I'm somewhere else, etc. It's nothing more than a disposable electronic good to me and trying to fight this is, ultimately, a losing battle.
Hindsight being 20/20, not much he can do now after the fact. Respect will do little when a relationship gets to such a point.
BetaBoston had a related story looking at technical assistance to victims of domestic abuse.
http://betaboston.com/news/2014/05/07/as-domestic-abuse-goes...
I think this link has been posted on HN previously but I can't find it. Apologies for not crediting the person who posted it.
Or how about if you're fine, but your children will be born with disabilities.
Ask HN: Percentage table for startups
I'm keen to write a formula that clears up confusion about percentages for early-stage startups.

I don't want to repeat the wheel - does anything like this exist?

eg: instead of simply assigning 33% to each founder at the start (when you have no idea or commitment) you have a big pot you can assign percentage from:

All these percentages are made up as an example:
Came up with idea: 5%
Worked on initial prototype: 5%
Built the v1 product: 20%
Came on full-time to work on the product: 70% vested over year 1

If anyone fails to deliver or drops out then they lose their percentage up to the last stage.

For me this would solve a big issue of expectations and fairness.

What do you all think?
Reminds me a bit of a thrift shop book I picked up a while ago, "The Coming Exploration of Space" by Lester del Rey from 1959.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/xach/sets/72157601657100517/
Unfortunately a lot of apps embed the Android browser as well, and you can't change that.
I've never looked at it too closely, but wycats has talked about how the Ruby code calls Rust code through the FFI and how Skylight doing some special things to make that work especially smoothly by directly calling some internal functions of Rust's failure handling bits, and about how the Rust code crashing shouldn't take down the rails process. That seems to suggest it's not just an IPC thing.
Better security and privacy through image proxying
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You would think that, hey. But I've been recently reading up about the subject, and it seems that father's rights when it comes to children and their custody is wildly skewed in favor of the mother. Look online and you'll find countless stories about perfectly reasonable fathers not getting custody, while they claim the mother is bad (Crazy,addict,something).
This is in fact iOS 3.x skinned to look like iOS 7. This means absolutely nothing in the App Store is compatible.
Personally i love playing games and not only computer games like DoTa or Heroes of the Storm but some more involving titles like World of Warcraft. Besides this i play Magic The Gathering card game and loads of board games... never felt bad about it. But same time i'm not a guy who says working 12 hour a day is a stupid thing and striving to be perfect is just a road to insanity.
That isn't really definitive, because the NSA has required companies to change software to capture keys before. There was an encrypted email company who was told they have to start recording private keys used in their web client.
The continuing sales of the Galaxy Ace should be criminal. If you buy one and update all apps it comes with, bam: you're out of space. Not to mention even if you apply all updates available you're still a walking target for every Android exploit that's come out in the last 3 years. It is completely unfit for purpose, but even when replacements came out (Y, Ace 2) the shops near me were still pushing the Ace. Why??
thanks for that link!

While it says `/security`, it's actually the only link I know of with an updated list of how the maintenance policy applies to current versions.

I hadn't been able to find such before, only dated news/blog announcements, which can get out of date really quickly as fast as Rails goes.
This is an interesting perspective. Is the goal of learning photography not ultimately to bring beautiful (or whatever) photos into the world? Or to achieve self-expression by doing so?

To me, creative skills are not inherently meaningful until practiced. Except I suppose for improving ones self-image as a "creative person," which is ultimately a self-destructive pursuit.

If one goes around "being a maker" without actually making, that distinction exists only within ones head. Seems pretty solipsistic.
Am I missing something or is it strange to speak about "a single CALL instruction"? It implies you'll have to execute some function, so it can't be really considered as a single instruction.

If there was a pool, then the article is at least misleading on that point because it seems to imply that in loops, you repeatedly allocate and free, which would not be necessary with a pool.

But yes, in the end it comes down to see whether pool/linked-list bookkeeping is better or worse to data copy + pointer bookkeeping.
There's something to be said for trying to get as much life as possible out of older devices. For not just discarding them because they're 'old' even though they're still fully functional (battery replacements aside). I'm not saying I can do that myself--it's hard to willingly keep using an inferior device when you have the option to upgrade to something better--but I see why some people think otherwise.
Very cool. Love the animated pivot.
How about do GermanHackernews instead of BerlinHackernews?
"back in the day", it was called workaholism...and a certain percentage of the population is afflicted with this disease.

the web makes these people's addiction stand out in what seems like a positive way, unlike, say addiction to heroin or alcohol might.

what isn't so obvious here on the web is how these workbots personal lives are affected by their 18 hour workdays.
Yes, the physics demo shown in the user guide was a bit slow (less than 60fps for sure). This video was made one year before today, using a version of nphysics that was at least 5 times slower than the current one.

Also, unless the gravity is artificially boosted, things may still look a bit slow because of the scale issue described by aaronetz (in all the demos, most objects are around 1 meter tall, and the camera is far enough to see them all). AFAIK, it is not uncommon on e.g. video games, to artificially increase the gravity so that things look a bit more dynamic.
What is missing is that they can add another key for intercept. They really need to be able to do so to comply with the law.

It's well established that the police can intercept communications with a warrant. Many HN posters have an issue with that too, but that is just a hard truth with decades if legal precedence.

The issue, IMO, is the warrantless collection part. IMO, iMessages probably protects you against the latter, although 3-letter agencies may record the messages and use other means to decrypt them later.
At the time Lego would have been just pulling out of near bankruptcy that probably contributed to not jumping on blockland and/or doing more to make their own digital lego (the steady trickle of games have always been lego themed rather than lego-like).
Because to some, either an iPhone was a major investment, or one they couldn't make at all and were gifted/handed-down an old device. I ran out and grabbed an iPhone 6, but I'm a pretty lucky person to be able to. I know others who can't afford to - who are on pre-paid minimalist plans and can't even practically afford the monthly uptick for a new device payment plan.

Or you have a kid. I don't know...
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> You are completely wrong.

Citation needed. There has never been a study of forecasting ability that has stood the test of time -- ever, anywhere.

> I don't know why everyone seems to think the researchers are incompetent.

The null hypothesis, the gold standard of statistical science, offers this as the default explanation, and the researchers have the burden of evidence to contradict it. They will fail, indeed they don't seem to realize they have the burden of evidence.

Have you even considered that the positive results arise from chance? What is the p-factor for their result? Do you know what I am referring to?

Your quotation doesn't have a single reliable word in it, or any content recognizable as science. If it were a scientific paper, it would contain the standard phrase, "Here is our p-factor, the statistical assessment that our result arises from chance."

But it's not science, it's public relations. The thesis is assumed to be correct until incontrovertible evidence proves it false -- the opposite of the scientific outlook, which assumes an idea to be false until incontrovertible evidence supports it.
I'm curious if such a system will be limited only to USA people or will they use data collected outside of US?

Will citizens have access to their data?

It's very similar to what Stasi did in GDR (or SB in PRL, or check any other East Block countries from Cold War).
I think this is actually the epitome of hacker culture, for the same reason that some folks still create games for the NES and a few people still run dial-in BBS's. The feeling of taking old tech to its limits and seeing what's truly possible... that's a strong desire for some folks. I don't personally have the time to play around with such things anymore, but I still think it's awesome.
Different algorithms will usually get different false positives. This is why large collections of algorithms generally perform much better than the best individual algorithm. I imagine these are all weird edge cases as it is.
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Yes, but the tradeoff Go takes right now is "slow programmers," or "no generics." You are trading that in for "slow programs." This directly implies that generics have some sort of cost structure and are not free.

`interface{}` is very rarely used for writing "generic" code precisely because of its lack of type safety and performance implications. If you came up with a way to make it type safe without addressing performance, you've just implemented a generics scheme that will cause programs to be slower than they would be without generics (because people would start using them!).
For those of us old guys on HN with kids, that time away from coding is almost exclusively spent with your children. The time spent caring for them or just hanging out and being a Dad are sure ways to break yourself free of the hyper-motivational-echo-chamber that is HN and the greater developer web.

Now a free hour to play a video game? That's especially hard, as it feels like you're robbing not just your professional time, but also your valuable parenting time.
The gentleman doth project too much.
Quoting Wikipedia:

"The term verbal contract is sometimes incorrectly used as a synonym for oral contract. However, a verbal contract is one that is agreed to using words, either written or spoken, as opposed to an implied contract."

It's funny how GP is heavily downvoted even though he's right. Downvoters (which I assume you're one of) didn't even check their facts.

Sometimes HN sucks.
> I don’t play computer games” they say, “I read five blog posts every evening”, “I don’t watch stupid TV series”.

For me, saying this would be a point of shame instead of a point of pride (and it often is). I never understood the "I live for my work" macho-masochism. Even if you're passionate about something, I think it's healthy to have other interests.
The Africa tie in here is beyond stupid.

Not to be flippant but Africa is the absolute last place anything "Apple" will take hold.
Docker, the hottest cloud startup in the West, adds $40M
Well, you wouldn't go for Arc (atomic RC) unless you need to share data across tasks (threads), within the same task you can use Rc.

This is different from shared_ptr in C++ which is always atomic and LLVM has to try hard (in clang, no idea what GCC does) to eliminate some redundant ref-counts.

Oh and since Rc is affine, you only ref-count when you call .clone() on it or you let it fall out of scope.

Most of the time you can pass a reference to the contents, or, if you need to sometimes clone it, a reference to the Rc handle, avoiding ref-counting costs.
Although it's pretty cool by itself, they modify and distribute copyrighted IPSWs (iOS firmware), which is basically illegal.
To be fair Lucas had been planning on the third trilogy since Empire Strikes Back.
You have a size wrong in the Iphone 5. You're not taking into account the width of the scroll bar (if any).

The wrapper should be 20em wide and the iframe inside should have 21.2em wide. You should also use overflow:hidden on the wrapper.

Out of all of these I've found this guy has done it the best so far and is the best representation of how a websie actually looks on an iPhone 5

http://www.nodex.co.uk/services/mobile-responsiveness-intera...

Perhaps you can look at his CSS and see how he did it?