skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if every meal is an experience to savour with friends and/or family? (well ok, every evening meal)

I like to live that way.

But then I also couldn't eat the same thing for lunch every day. Stuff that has actual flavour and texture gets boring fast. This would be boring before I'd finished the glass.
Not to be an apologist, but it seems like Apple's actions make a lot of sense.

First of all, who posts meeting notes from meetings with top executives when given a heads up about upcoming products? NOBODY. Of course it's confidential by default.

Second, Apple was right to presume a company charging to get music in the App Store would likely provide lower quality music. Charging for access completely reverses the motivation of record companies. Until they were ready to open the floodgates, excluding companies that charged was a reasonable if rough quality filter.
CURL From The Cloud
> Since we know that lying is (by law) part of what corporations are forced to do when addressing questions of "national security", no amount of denies, press releases, public outrage or congressional talk will restore trust.

What law are you referring to? The FISA gag orders do not mandate lying.
Edward Snowden: Classified US data shows Hong Kong hacking targets
Alexis is a good speaker. It's refreshing to see a founder talk about his startup in down-to-earth terms instead of being egotistical and speaking in platitudes.
Many many years ago, when minicomputers were going away, a fellow who wrote the sysadmin column for the DG users group magazine compared the disappearing environments to semi-benevolent dictatorships: if DEC got too oppressive, you could flee across the border to DG or Prime, and so on. He pointed out that you were much more on your own in the anarchic client-server world.
Microsoft launches Office for iPhone
The best interview question I’ve ever been asked
The idea is that if an exception has to be thrown, it will throw as early as possible, making it pretty obvious during development that there's a bug - whenever you try to run your app it will exit with an error about the MalformedUrl. Notice I said he/she should catch the exception in the static block and log it, pretty hard to have an issue tracking where the error comes from.

You can't check at compile time that the Url is valid, but if as soon as you load the program, it crashes with this exception, it will be hard to ignore and the mistake won't be hidden. Since you catch the exception that's thrown a static time, there's no ClassDefNotFoundException.

See examples of this concept in Go:

http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/#MustCompile
http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#Must

The better solution would be to have a compile time error, but I don't think Java can do that.
There is an answer that will restore confidence: Open systems for endpoints, including firmware, and zero knowledge in the cloud. That may require you to pay where ad supported services had been free. But every piece of it could be productized in weeks.

Funny that none of the cloud service providers has put that forward as a way to restore their credibility.
> I don't understand how the executive branch can guaranty immunity from civil action in the judicial branch.

The letters from the AG are protection from criminal action, and probably government civil action, that extend beyond the term of the administration issuing them (wiretap laws have criminal as well as civil provisions, and there are cases where the government can bring civil prosecutions.) For criminal laws, ignorance of the law is not a defense, but reasonable reliance on an interpretation provided by the public authority responsible for enforcing the law usually is a defense. For civil actions, reliance on the representation of the party bringing the action likewise can be a defense.

For civil action by a third party, unless there is a specific provision that makes this a defense for the particular offense at issue (which there may be, but I'm not aware of one), I don't think this would be particularly useful under any generally applicable principal.
Glossing over the data that you could glean from reddit was a mistake. Even if there isn't that much valuable data directly from reddit's back-end it's probably more useful to tie it to data from the same users extracted from other websites. You shouldn't have down-played that.
Ensure Complete describes itself as "Provides balanced amounts of macronutrients and essential vitamins and minerals." Lacks the micronutrients needed. Strikes me as intended for "we really don't have any other options at this point" and consequential symptoms will be treated as illness.

Nutrament describes itself as "This nutritional drink is ideal as a snack, an occasional meal replacement, or a perfect post-workout drink." Note the "occasional"; it's filler augmenting an otherwise sensible natural diet.

Soylent is intended as "you can live on this stuff full time", which its creator does. He's suffered some pretty painful & weird symptoms of not getting everything right (like inadequate micronutrient supply causing bizarre cravings), and felt profoundly satiated when he did get it right.

Anecdote: I once worked on a portable IV pump intended to "feed" people lacking most of their GI tract, injecting nutritionally complete "meals" directly into the bloodstream. Each "meal" cost about $300.
Exactly. There are times when you want to enjoy the experience, but there are also times (I dare say this is the majority of cases) when food is just a time-wasting distraction from the things you want to do at the moment.
Not that different, other than the recipe being public and the ability to make it yourself. The purpose is mostly the same, though Soylent aims to be sustainable, while most of these meal-replacement concoctions warn against prolonged usage. That might just be playing it safe though.
As a French citizen, I'd like to object vigorously to the notion that Paris (if you mean Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris' main airport) is one of the "better" airports.

If I believe wikipedia, Heathrow is actually Europe's busiest airport (CDG is next).
That is pretty cool.

The only problem being that you're probably going to get caught doing it.
You'd think I were an investor! Just a superfan.
Nearly £700 really?

I spent £100 on Geecon last year.
How do you solve Europe's youth unemployment problem?
While it is highly unlikely that a single free-dive would cause a symptomatic decompression injury, there is a high incidence of decompression-related injuries amongst free-diving fisherman due to repetitive and deep free-diving. The probability of decompression sickness occurring is related to time and depth.

Here's a link that provides a number of references:
http://www.thediveforum.com/dive-medicine/3706-long-term-phy...
Off-topic but I wish there was a way to filter out all these NSA stories. It has really destroyed Hacker News for me and I hope it doesn't go on for too long.
Anyone who tried to find news about the Boston Marathon Bombings on the day they happened via DDG should be aware the engine's inferiorities.
Corporations have been denying participation for years because acknowledging being part of the program was a crime.
I have gall-stones and another unidentified digestive problem that does not allow me to eat very much sugar or fat in any of my food, essentially knocking out about 99% of foods found in the world today out of my diet.

I mostly eat protein power drinks with almond milk, basic grains, vegetables, very lean meats, etc. etc.

I used to be a professional cook. I now cannot eat anything remotely fun or tasty. But soylent seems like one thing I could actually add to my regimen.
Clearly, then, malaria is a much bigger problem than e-waste. Kudos to BMGF for tackling this deadly issue.

So there are many issues, such as malaria, that would benefit greatly from good hackers working on them for the public good instead of for private wealth. BMGF is unfortunately a very rare case of a technologist doing good for humanity's sake instead of his own.
He's actually improved over time. I saw him on a panel and he was rolled over by a MPAA/RIAA shill. I'm glad he's grown more confident and poised on screen.
This awesome for testing. Easier than fumbling around with cURL in my terminal.
I still use Firebug, mainly because I'm more familiar with it than I am with the Chrome developer tools, I like the UI a lot more, but that's probably my own personal taste rather than it being a better UI. I rate it as being on-par with the Chrome developer tools, and quite frankly I don't consider either to be better than the other for general front-end dev.

That being said, I am really not a fan of the in-built Firefox dev tools. For the life of me I don't understand why Mozilla are dedicating their time to building up their own dev tools when Firebug is the preferred environment for front-end devs that use Firefox. Again, this could just be down to personal taste, but it feels like it's a wasted effort. I'd prefer to see those developers spending time on improving Firebug.
Cooking, eating and cleaning up after it take time. If I can prepare a daily meal in 10 minutes, with no washing up, consume it on the go, and it turns out healthier than what I would otherwise eat (I'm no good at healthy cooking)... I don't see the drawback.

I suppose I'd still eat recreationally, at least from time to time. And on social occasions, obviously. But saving up even half an hour every day is huge.
> American democracy is dead.

Hyperbolic bullshit like this is reason #122783278 why I hate to see politics on this site.
Every phone call in the US is now being recorded by the NSA

I haven't heard this at all, from reading the top 10 stories on HN.

The facts are getting buried in the outrage about the facts.
I try to promote ddg without being annoying.

One thing I do is send a ddg search result link in email when it's relevant to the conversation. No one link will cause anyone to switch, but continued familiarity might help whatever makes the final nudge.
3rd Annual NFTE Launch: Mentor Aspiring Teen Entrepreneurs in SF
I think the real promise of combining single-board computers into a grid like this is the potential to provide utility computing starting at a low cost without the curse of underprovisioning (http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2010/06/01/under-provisioning-the-...). I envision a rack full of single-board computers with specifications such that a hosting provider can rent out whole computers with specs and prices similar to a 1 GB Linode.

To achieve this goal, I think one would need a single-board computer with roughly these specs: a SoC that scores at least 1000 on Geekbench; at least 1 GB of RAM; at least 8 GB of flash storage competitive with SSDs from a few years ago; 100 Mbps Ethernet; sized such that a 2U enclosure can hold 32 of them plus an Ethernet switch; priced around $100. If any of my expectations are way off, in either direction, I'd be happy to be corrected.
Then this is not a product for you. But I'd say you're the exception, at least from my anecdotal experience.
I've heard it said that what finally helped bring an end the prolonged violences of 'The Troubles', was not the political process put in place by Blair, but the fact that after 9/11, many Americans suddenly felt a bit bad about sending money back to the IRA (no that they had experienced terrorism on their doorstep). With their main source of funding removed, the IRA was unable to keep up their armed resistance. I'm sure the situation was far more complex, but it's a fact that bars and clubs that once publicly collected money to send over, now no longer do.
I'm glad it was posted. I hadn't read it before and was glad to have done so. Its not like I'm going to spend my life searching through three years of archives to find interesting stuff.
"But, Mr President, if we destroy Java, what will parse the 5,000 line XML files we use...?"
Thanks. I love paying extra tax to replace vandalised cameras.
What law are you talking about? Google has hardly been denying participation with NSL gag orders; they've been pretty vocal about it. What they aren't legally allowed to do is to disclose details about them or inform the subjects of them.

They publish aggregate numbers of the non-secret ones here, by the way: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US...
Give the EFF your up votes :).

https://supporters.eff.org/donate
Thinking of anything that would lead to giving you more 'power' or access to what you desire / didn't have before could lead to 'evil' thoughts and actions.
Most statistical analysis isn't performed by statisticians
ACT UP used to raise a fuss in churches (mostly, as I recall, Catholic), and get dragged out by the cops. In one demonstration mentioned by Wikipedia, about 100 protestors were arrested, but got at most community service sentences.

I do not say this particularly to support PR.
Windows 8.1 is ready for business
Creating Windows Server Vagrant Baseboxes With Veewee
Yes you can. I just tested with unrar.
What's with the weird arrangement of what appears to be traffic cones in the old parking lot to the east of the building? Plus, why did they build a fence that cuts the east parking lot in half?
I haven't seen geek-related commercial made so well and funny for quite a long time.
Unfortunately, all the really enterprisey Java stuff completely kills that: now that everything is injected you lose all the compile-time protection that is the point of using Java!
Having just arrived back from South Africa from visiting my relatives on vacation, I was shocked to find a few highly computer-literate cousins over there who only had a 3G dongle to provide Internet for their entire homes. Another relative had a bandwidth-capped DSL line that was barely faster than ISDN basic rate. Income was not the issue.
Motor Club
Joke?

The only reason why large shops are attracted to the Java world is because the endless supply of low cost developers and a tooling ecosystem which helps such developers survive in that ecosystem.

That is the No 1 reason every manager I've know has ever given for using Java.
Nobody is advocating (and it wasn't the point of my comment) that a situation is setup for that purpose.

I think you missed my point. When firemen want to practice they set up a fake fire at a safe location. When paramilitary police forces want to practice, they should and do set up a fake raid at a safe location, rather than practicing on some random non-violent offender's home.
Contrary to the blog's URL, photography IS a crime ... if it's of certain military installations. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/795

It probably shouldn't be applied in this case( there seems to be little sensitive information in a photograph of a building, though maybe they didn't want personel identified) , but it can be.
There are solutions that claim to be nutritionally complete (Sustagen Hospital Formula) and anecdotally are sustainable for months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399994
Remember when radio host Michael Savage was banned from the UK? I get the feeling it's not hard to get banned from the country.
1) please see some George Carlin
2) Go to church, not to E3.
3) Gamers-against-bigotry: perfect example of bigotry.
What Game of Thrones Can Teach Us About UX Design
If the EU had their own Facebook and Google, it'll have their own intelligence agencies tapping data from those servers.

Sure we can perhaps get them to change their minds by boycotting, but try asking a regular American citizen to fully disconnect from the internet.
Sorry I just understood your question.

This is the point where I assert the existence of morality as an axiom. I have no more argument than "it fits better with my understanding of the world. Actually, its opposite does not fit at all."

However, I guess this is shared by many many others.

And because of both, like with Peano's, I am willing to accept it and (because of the nature of what I am accepting), hold it even to my death (or so I hope).
Google+, the Best Social Network I Never Use
Which reader do you use? Is HN open source?
3.5% of Android phone clocks are wrong by more than an hour
I remember the day I realized that freaking Newsweek provided better coverage of technology patents than Technology Review.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

That was the best video for ANY computer topic I've ever seen. HILARIOUS.

I'm going to be smiling the rest of the day.
> I read that in the case of C vitamin, for instance, the body simply doesn't recognise it as C vitamin when it doesn't come directly from fruit. Just ignores it and passes it onto urine.

If it's getting absorbed but excreted, it sounds like you're taking more than enough. Usually absorption is limited by cofactors. Allusions to fruit being better than isolated Vitamin C should be backed up by evidence.
Lots of small governments with small budgets.

Instead of that 1 point-of-failure-and-corruption that we have today.

That way, "government" really belongs to those who it is supposed to serve: the People.

PS: "Decentralization" is the word I was looking for. Just like the Internet is supposed to be used, in order to remain sane.
uh... and how's that working out.

Come on, "Don't be evil" is just clever marketing that a lot of people fell for at first, and some still do.
You can try to hit HN search or something, but if you didn't purposefully alter the URL to make it "unique" and the system accepted it, then you are playing by the rules that matter. Meta-disagreements from the community, notwithstanding, I appreciated your post. People like to complain. It's something you expose yourself to when you participate in a community.
This is a pretty good idea. I wonder what properties would make a $1 billion investment for five years a good investment? Star Wars maybe? That would be at the 40 year mark.

And I am probably confusing copyright with trademark here. I suppose Disney could still own the rights for all star wars merchandise and new content even if they hypothetically lost the rights to A New Hope, due to trademarks, no? Because A New Hope surely isn't worth $1 billion for five years.
What has Firefox's Memshrink project achieved in the last year?
> The majority of Linux users would complain that it was expensive, closed source, and continue using the free, open alternatives.

I don't know what you're user base you're sampling but the vast majority of Linux users are not opposed to closed source ( Steam, VMWare, Humble Bundle ) and are quite willing to pay for quality software.
Does America need a Pirate Party?
Scala is such a language, at least to me it was a pain to go back to Python after learning Scala. And Scala's tooling is IMHO better than Python's these days, although still not as smooth as Java's.
Surprising magnetic effect of light discovered at University of Michigan (2011)
The sad irony is that it is the termination of COBOL that could actually bring society to its knees. If Java died, it wouldn't take long for all that code to be rewritten in Go. But how many COBOL programmers do you know?
The story behind the DNS server at 4.2.2.2 [2010]
This blows my mind and this may be the reason I have so many problems dealing with frameworks of any kind.

If I am writing live code, I...want to write code. I don't want something to do it for me. If its in a language I am comfortable with I can generally write it more effectively than a tool in a toolbox and know how to fix it when it breaks.

Maybe I am just a control freak.
Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them
"Hello! I'm a software developer working for a very large company" --> why not invest in a startup?Or in some good developers who can make a good product. I mean u know software development...why go and invest in domains that you do not know ?
Every Start-up Needs an MBA Freelancer
Type inference = the compiler being able to figure out what types your variables, function arguments, and return values are without you having to explicitly tell it.

Polymorphism = the ability to write one function that works for multiple types. So for example, if you want to implement a sorting algorithm, you can write one function that is capable of sorting ints, floats, doubles, chars, and Strings. Java doesn't have this, so if you want to sort four different types, you have to write four functions instead of one, using overloading (you give all four functions the same name but they accept and return different types).

If you're interested in these topics I recommend learning a language like Scala, SML, OCaml, or Haskell. It will open your eyes to some of the very powerful features of higher-level and functional programming languages.
The standard method for getting around this in the java world is to create 'sane' libraries (in the case of android http, something like http://loopj.com/android-async-http/ ) and then just use the library. The strong point of Java is just how many libraries there are - you often don't need to touch the actual built in Java APIs. On the server side (non-android) this has gone even further through the use of new annotation based libraries that generally autodiscover classes in your code, removing a lot of boilerplate.

One area in Java that is still incredibly annoying, however, is the ubiquitous getter/setter pattern that bloats all Java code for zero benefit to anyone.
Why not a Hacker Party?
What's sad about Java is that the whole type-safety, compile-time-checks, minimal-runtime-surprises etc has gone out of the window since the DI craze, so now we have a platform that is as "unsafe" as Python et al, whilst still being relatively heavy to set up etc.. I guess there's still the advantage of having extensive libraries..
Go's Data Race Detector
The HTTP verb PUT under Apache: Safe or Dangerous?
Did you also change the storage engine for a better fit with your data?
Wow. The marketers have done a good job to get such an insipid product so much attention in diverse media outlets. Meanwhile, there are probably dozens of more substantial products failing because their creators don't know how to sling bullshit. #FailuresOfCapitalism.
Then you have authors releasing a short story and claiming that's all that's necessary to keep up the copyright. Mickey appears as a cameo in a Disney film and he's back in the vault for another 10 years. (Actually, he's still active in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, so he's likely to never make it into the public domain.)
Why the hell does CNN's video player play on load?
No it is not a serious attempt at proving everything a body needs, not in the slightest.

If it was a serious attempt the soylent team would be composed of scientists with expertise in nutrition. Instead their website lists a lot of people with absolutely irrelevant skills. I can't think of anything associated with y-combinator which is quite as embarrassing as this.

Sadly one part of hopes this takes off, so that in 10 years time we have an idea of the long term results of a diet of this kind of nonsense. It will have been tested on the kind of people who have the arrogance to believe that because they understand business / computing the can 'solve' the worlds nutrition problem.
Like cars? rate them in facemash style
Use click to play for all plugins. Problem (and many other problems) solved.