skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ingredients list is over here: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424 It's been modified repeatedly since then, but that's what it started as anyway.
The blackout scheme is a very secondary thing. If you make interval 1 hour, then the rapid response advantage only applies to data made available in the seconds before the trading event. Rather than having a millisecond advantage on every trade, the fat pipe guys have a millisecond advantage on every 3.6 millionth trade.

I think prices would be better for people not playing the low latency response game. Liquidity within an hour would probably cost a premium as you'd have to get the money from someone on the real time market.
Show HN: Waurb - Content Worthy of Your Time
Catchy, repetitious, instrumental music for programing
No, actually it will not.The vast majority of people using Google do not care whether their data search data is being recorded or not. Heck, most even do not know how Google search engine works from 'behind' let alone worry about the difference between Google and DDG.

So they will really need something more compelling to get the average Joe (who make up the vast majority mentioned earlier), who always get his results from Google's first page, to switch from Google to DDG.

Yet, in the context of search engines, I don't see anything that could be more compelling than always getting the most relevant search results.
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You seem to know your shit. What resources do you follow to stay current with UK politics?
Here's a list of what soylent is composed of http://robrhinehart.com/?p=424
If you like to meet people and discover new countries, I deeply recommend Servas[0]. This is a world wide peace activist association where you can be guest (traveller) or host. You go as host and guest through an interview process to be accredited. We travelled worldwide, from Norway to Japan, and are now hosts in Germany and we had wonderful experiences.

This is a low-tech group, you get the list of hosts in a country as a book on paper, etc. but full of really really nice people. The interview is a good way to be able to then trust the people coming at your home. The interviewers get regular training on how to run an interview as they are basically the gate keepers.

[0]: http://servas.org
Hey NSA, if you have nothing to hide...
The Power of Transparency in Conversion (with examples)
The Evolution of Mobile Application Development
Hurricane Coasters - laser cut bamboo coasters featuring Irene, Isaac and Sandy
Watching common Americans being abused by their government and corporations for a decade now, with very little that came out of it, except a few protests / shows / petitions - I highly doubt a serious uprising is possible.

Americans seemed to have lost their free spirit. Back in the 60s - that was a real movement. Real actions. Real spirit. Right now, most people, especially young (what's saddening), are conformists and as long as they feel relatively safe and well fed, they won't go far than writing a comment on HN... like this one :)
Some will say that they think people don't click on ads (which in general is false). For some terms clicks can be very expensive.

There is plenty of spammy leads campaigns that Adwords won't let you on that will absolutely make you a lot of money if you have good search position, half the stuff on http://www.clickbank.com/ Think diet pills and similar.
" Whatever. Fucking Apple"

Just about sums it all up, really.
funny, I just remarked earlier in the day that a famous JS open source developer loves photography and mixology ... like everyone else.
This is irrelevant, but I just had my first Java experience yesterday. I decided to make an Android app, it's a simple remote control for hobby projects (Raspberry Pi/etc) that gives you a customizable UI with buttons that perform API calls. It'd be pretty simple to do in Python, which is the language I am proficient in, but Android development sounds fun so I wanted to get started in that.

Creating the UI was easy enough, but making an HTTP response was hell. The simplest HTTP GET took around 30 lines of code, and the compiler kept complaining about unhandled exceptions (I know the URL is fine, it's a fixed string I can see, it's not going to throw MalformedURLException, I don't want to catch it, thank you. What? I can't compile without it?). Wrapping the calls up in try/catch blocks was easy enough (if a bit verbose), but now the variable only existed in that scope.

I know I'm new enough that I can't form an opinion about the language, but I know that something that has as simple an interface as an HTTP GET call shouldn't take 30 lines of boilerplate to do. I'm wondering how people deal with this issue (I'm guessing it's a lack of a good standard library?). What attracts people to the Java world? Is it the tooling (Eclipse was, admittedly, very good about auto-fixing my mistakes). Is the verbosity just "the way it is", or am I doing something wrong?
Reminds me very much of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

Well, as a possible consequence.
Sure. Like the Germans under Hitler rebelled against Poland and France, for example.
If this was the case, how come the leaked FISA order about Verizon's metadata doesn't refer to it?

The theory relies on two people from two different backgrounds using the same meaning for "collect".
For arguing with these "I have nothing to hide" folk.

I'd like to put up a website[1]. At the website, I'd begin posting my personal details. Telephone records, Credit Card Bills, Utility bills, etc. Eventually have a lot of info on there. Not because I like surveillance or don't enjoy my privacy, but because now I can go and make really snarky comments and arguments to the "I have nothing to hide" brigade. Invite them to post all of their data, show their hypocrisy when they don't, or show what we can all learn about them if they do. Anybody else interested?

[1] Trouble is I suck at websites.
SqlYog does, not sure about other tools.
if you want to apply for Java job at the the company which needs core Java, yes, you can easy learn some Java, and play with some core stuff, though you can do it in Scala too.
But most companies outside SV need Enterprise Java experience and that can be a problem as it needs much more time investments, ideally at work, and after Clojure you can find this stuff boring as hell, clunky and awkward.
I have similar issue now - I have experience in Scala, Play framework, Akka, no JEE. I decided to get some Rails and Javascript experience outside work to have more chances on job market.
I went through a similar analysis a few days ago: http://www.dbms2.com/2013/06/10/where-things-stand-in-us-gov... See also the comment thread, and the followuphttp://www.dbms2.com/2013/06/13/how-is-the-surveillance-data...
How Linux Foundation Runs Its Virtual Office
Huh, don't know what to say.. for me it just works. Maybe you need an admin user? Not sure. Sorry bout that.
> Just to clarify - this is not simply a petition. We're using a script that the late Aaron Swartz wrote to deliver emails directly to Congress via the contact us pages on legislator's websites. That means there'll be hundreds of thousands of emails delivered to Congress in the coming days.

> It's amazing how practical some of the things that Aaron worked on are.

I predict such large-spectrum email delivery will:

- either arrive to the designated inbox, and get ignored

- or get stopped by a spam filter

If you want something to happen, at least write a personalized email, or better, call. It's more difficult to answer calls with a form letter.
Assault rifles have basically never been allowed. You are thinking of assault-style weapons, a recently made up term that basically refers to a costume a semi automatic rifle is wearing, along with high-capacity magazines.
In other words you have nothing of substance to say, either.
Regardless of what anyone can think about the actual product, I find it remarkable how the author managed to get such resonance in the media.

It might be the name, it might be that the subject matter generates strong opinions in people, but in terms of generating buzz and getting attention it has been quite a success.
When it comes to UK/US relations, that ship has long sailed.
Because it's, pretty clearly, Soylent Yellow? That's like asking why Coke isn't Sprite.
Considering all the tax sheltering that the corporations engage in and the government doesn't aggressively pursue, I think they already get great financial breaks.

(My contacts at IRS said they are warned to avoid "poking" into certain institutions actions without highest authorization. So they go after the small fry and leave the big fish alone. Fucking game of life is rigged.)
Could be right.

If you could text your vote in, most of the UK could even manage to have an opinion between the adverts in the X-Factor and their next cigarette.
Absolute knowledge is absolute power
I'd love to read a book that went over all the links between carriers and the government from an outsider's perspective. Unfortunately, I have no ideal how anyone could ever write that book, because every carrier I've worked with has been as opaque about the simplest aspects of their operation as the NSA has been about this spying scandal.
> On a console you have to pay for that PLUS any additional licenses for when you sell / trade / borrow / etc

This is rubbish. Better DRM is what makes the difference. I bet resales are about 1/100th as costly to studios as piracy, especially for single player games.
They do list the ingredients, but not the sources of those ingredients.

There are existing alternatives if you want to try liquid feeds but want rigorously tested QAd product from existing reputable manufacturers.

Or Soylent, but be aware that it's fun self-experimentation.

Here's one of my (grumpy) posts listing alternatives (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876219)
Why geniuses don't have jobs
It's no different to people seeing the "Goth" style of clothing choices being described as showing individualism. Which is, indeed, exactly how I heard many (very nice, friendly and often intelligent) teenagers describe their decision to wear nothing but black.

By rejecting what you consider to be mainstream, you feel you can describe yourself as different, it doesn't matter that you are merely conforming to the behaviours of a smaller subset. There is some comfort in being able to declare yourself as being different I think, I'm just not sold on the idea it shows Individualism (if that is even a word, I need an ism for it though)
What happens when content marketing starts to work?
Verbosity is Java's middlename. That said, 3rd party libraries can get you a long way.
Funny, it sounds very similar to the US :) I wonder why :)
They have branded stainless steel mixing / drinking cups on their pages, and they're working on branding.
Peer to Peer VOIP with NodeJS
Mitm seems heavy handed. They already have help from one side, google and company could log the session key and pass it on.
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>What attracts people to the Java world?

Portability, security (automatic memory, static typing, etc.): you cannot bore a hole in your feet when shoving a nail. And backed by a huge company. Relatively fast. More reasons there: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyJavaIsGreat

>exception-related problems

A common hack it to wrap your code in a dumb try/catch block at the uppermost level. That way there is no scope-related problem and the compiler won't complain. Ofc that should only been done in a situation such as yours, not in "real life" (i.e. "entreprise world" for java).
I once met a Scandinavian SEO guy who insisted CS was an international free-sex hookup network. He said he used it to this effect a few times "you need to look for hints in user profiles". I dismissed it as his nerdy fantasy but noticed since that some people indeed tried to look "inviting" in their profiles.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879204
And other systems. Amazing how much demographic data is available to third parties alone. Spend some time with a skip tracer or good bail bonds person and you realize how easy it is to get almost any data of significance on a individual.
Which API were you using? Java's HttpUrlConnection is notoriously badly designed [0] On Android (and elsewhere of course) you can use Apache's HttpClient instead which is a bit less horrible [1]. Part of this problem is checked vs unchecked exceptions, and some of the older APIs in Java use checked exceptions too heavily, IMHO. On top of that, I think all the Java IO stuff provides a pretty leaky abstraction over the system calls.

I had a somewhat long discussion with a colleague about this over the past year, and we looked at all the error cases in the C standard library and came to the conclusion the Java API was probably throwing checked exceptions in one or two corner cases where it should throw unchecked runtime exceptions. I'd be curious what other people think about this. I think specifically, I was asking him (a more Sr. engineer who has used Java heavily and considers it basically good) why closing an IO stream in a finally block throws another checked exception.

In short, I don't think you're doing anything wrong.

[0] See this, but I should caveat this with saying it's a bad API as designed to be consumed by an application. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/01/17/HttpURLCon...

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/clien...
Putting Landsat 8’s Bands to Work
Devoid of context, your question means nothing.
(related) since he's been confined in this place I was wondering what happens if he must see a dentist or receive some emergency medical cares? It's better than gitmo but it's no paradise either.
Did you pull in a library to do the HTTP work or just use the raw HttpURLConnection?

I agree checked exceptions are annoying, though I have kind of grown to like them since they force me to think about failure cases.

You're going to hate this answer, but honestly, after you do Java for awhile the lines of code just become noise you don't notice... it's like reading and writing XML by hand; kinda sucks, but eventually you just stop noticing.
Soylent, the man food :)
One of our representatives openly supports the IRA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._King#Support_for_the_...

sigh
Seems legit. I'm totally sure that high level whistleblowers from across the government would have chosen a slightly-mentally-unstable freelance literary magazine contributor to reveal the truth about the most secret government program of all time.
My favorite part: Japanese Kobe Beef is known worldwide for being the most ... juicy ... beef on the planet.

Is this an important property when making beef jerky? 'Cause I've never had juicy beef jerky.
How about checking for previous submissions before posting and putting a [2010] in the title then?
Well, there's already Office for mac...
Enormity has a neutral use as well.
Ask HN: High-pitched noise when lots of colored text shows in terminal over SSH
So my Google-fu is completely failing me here.

I SSH into a server, where I run a grep --color=auto, matching about a third of its output (so nearly a third of the screen is showing colored text). Whenever the terminal showing this output is visible on screen, my monitor emits a barely audible high-pitched whine (which, as soon as I noticed it for the first time, became highly annoying). Alt-tab away, the sound stops immediately. Run a command showing non-colored text, the sound stops immediately. I can reproduce it with other commands showing colored output (cd /; ls; ls; ls; ls, etc). I'm not hearing it if the amount of colored text on screen is low (cd /; ls -al; ls -al). I've changed GREP_COLORS to show non-bold and non-red colors; doesn't make any difference.
This _doesn't_ happen in a local terminal; only over SSH.

OS is Ubuntu 12.04 (both client and server), monitor is a Samsung Syncmaster 215TW.

I'd like to make the noise go away, without losing the benefit of colored output, but I'm utterly clueless on how to proceed from here, or even where the people who would be likely to be able to say intelligent things about this would hang out. I'm hoping someone here could give me a first pointer...
I started using HttpClient, but I saw a blog post that said that HttpURLConnection should be used by all new apps, so I went with that. I can't tell you about checked vs unchecked exceptions, as I just found out about them a minute ago.

In the end, I used this excellent library: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/

It's asynchronous, but it still required the work to be done in an AsyncTask, which is odd to me (why spawn a thread to spawn another thread?), but it wouldn't work in the main thread, and Android was good enough to tell me about it.

I'm glad that I'm not doing anything wrong, but I'm also sad because I was hoping I was doing something wrong. Thanks for your reply!
What do you mean "citizen"?
Do you have any rights?
I'm interested in shelf life.

What's the shelf life of the beta product? And what's the expected shelf life of the released final product, in the correct packaging?

Are they going to sell it as a monthly subscription, delivering each week as individually bagged days? Or do they deliver a huge box of the stuff?

The World Food Program has a Specialized Nutritious Foods Factsheet, and that lists shelf life as 12 or 24 months. (One product, Wawa Mum, is listed at 6 months.)

(http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...)

I'm still strongly against the way it's being sold at the moment. Other people on HN have said that they enjoyed the idea of Soylent when it was self-experimentation.

As Kurtz79 say, they've done a remarkable job of generating media buzz about something that is not new or disruptive or innovative. I'd be interested to see what they could do with a real product.
If you're not paying the bills your views aren't interesting. Advertising is what wins elections.
Retrieve data from Postgresql index, using java
I'd add:

5. He finally gets stir crazy enough to attempt to sneak out and gets collared or just decides to take his chances in Sweden.

6. Ecuador gets sick of him and kicks him out (maybe after a change of leadership).

And I think 5 is likelier than 3.
I think the last two reasons are the most important ones, as the first to are relatively common.

About the try/catch, it sounds like something that'll come back to bite me in the ass, so it's a bit unfortunate that I have to pick between being verbose and handling exceptions that can never occur, or being terse and hacky...
I also dumped MySQL and started using and recommending MariaDB in production since i've seen it resolve a lot of my hard fought battles with super complex nested joins and index overloads. Queries that took 4.5s went to 450ms just by dropping in this beauty. From then on I was on the bandwagon. Slow Wordpress site with a ton of plugins that tries to solve everything? Now it can do it within a timeframe thats acceptable. Ok your bottlenecks will still be there somewhat.. abeit less apparent. But it just is faster and scales way more predictable imo with hardware adapted configs.
How convenient, to have some bloke kill people just in time to get new restrictions.
NSA scandal was perfect, perfect timing, just wait and see how it will turn out ;)
> Usage note

> 3. Enormity has been in frequent and continuous use in the sense “immensity” since the 18th century: The enormity of the task was overwhelming. Some hold that enormousness is the correct word in that sense and that enormity can only mean “outrageousness” or “atrociousness”: The enormity of his offenses appalled the public.
> Doesn't make them a bit less repugnant.

...in your opinion.

Most people aren't so prudish - otherwise, the long line of comedians who make jokes about racial stereotypes wouldn't have been so successful.
Responsive Patterns
Highly editorialized title. It was quite an expected move.
The psychology of motivation at work
Man plans and Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter laughs
I used this in the end: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/, it exposes an interface that does not make me shudder, and I am guessing that is a very good thing.

I should read about checked exceptions more, I don't currently understand the difference between checked and unchecked.

I don't hate that answer, I was just hoping it wouldn't come to that :P Getting used to a language to get one's job done is fine, but it's not something that would cause one to fall in love with said language...
Not true. He was a distant mentor, not a close mentor. He did the same for Zuckerberg.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/stop_lcd_whine What happens if you increase the brightness
It looks like it, I just wish that the most frequently used libraries were standard in the language. That said, it's really magical for me to write something that runs natively on my phone, so it's still lots of fun.
How to play video formats in Android using VideoView
Fear Hadoop?
Somewhat ridiculous article about the dangers of Hadoop and NSA. Did you know NSA programmers contributed code to Hadoop!?
huh. the centre for advanced study of language (casl) at the university of maryland really isn't on google maps, afaict. http://maps.google.cl/maps?q=centre+for+advanced+study+of+la...

ah, but the wikipedia article links to http://tools.wmflabs.org/geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Center... so i guess it's here https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.97398,-76.92558&q=loc:38.... (is that the sign shown in the article main photo?)
Ask HN: How to keep feet warm and healthy when sitting?
As a coder, I sit for long hours and especially in winter, I find it hard to keep my feet warm. Getting up and moving around periodically helps a little but usually after 10 mins, it's back to its worst condition. I've read about feet warmers/massagers and heating pads, what do HN readers use to keep their feet comfortable?
Baffles me why the dupe-detector didn't work here? Exact URL after all, it seems.
Is it really news when someone points cameras at a possibly secret government facility and is then told by government security that they're not allowed to do that?

Next article, please.
News, economics and (especially) politics do not matter in your life. You have no control over those things anyway (lets be realistic).
Can Corporate America Innovate?  Only If The Solve Problems
Perfect forward secrecy doesn't apply if the NSA has broken the key exchange algorithm and has your session keys.
Same here, and it's one of the most interesting pieces I've read in a while.
Political parties are a brilliant way to dilute the power of a populous. Not only do they split the power of a group in-half, but they also serve to redirect both positive and negative energy towards the opposing party rather than towards the entrenched government.
(6) engage the public in BS non-issues or peripheral issues, the two parties are putting a show of disagreeing about, from the debt ceiling to gay marriage to corporate taxes, etc, while they work hand in hand in all important aspects of fucking over the middle class.
I should've put 2010 in the title. HN shouldn't have allowed it if it was a problem/against the rules.
Awesome experience on my iPhone that by really speedy. I am using Meteor too. I have questions, did you used Meteorite in this project? And Why choose?
While technically interesting, I find those animations highly annoying as they are.
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Clandestine foreign signals intelligence is their charter indeed. But looking at the means they use in regards to their stated charter can give us hints as to how they operate domestically.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/305047-dem-...

So if PRISM is just the tip of the iceberg, what method do you suggest for speculating as to what exactly they are doing domestically? Maybe, say, look what they are doing overseas?
It was submitted 945 days ago, if I remember correctly there is a time limit.
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