skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java's type system is extreme with its checked exceptions. Try C# instead. I can see the value of checked exceptions for robustness but if you're just prototyping something it drives you nuts.

The specified classes for arguments is a good thing since you dont have to dig through piles of documentation or code review every method you use to understand their behavior.

What do you expect the arguments of the following function to be: 1. A file descriptor, or 2. A path to a file that will be opened by the function?

def print_log(file):
...

One could argue it's bad naming convention but i see shit like this way too often to think it can be solved by conventions. Documenting doesn't work either for the same reason, documentation becomes more boilerplate than specifying types in a type safe language btw.

Contrast this with the C# equivalent

void PrintLog(File file)
{ ... }

Bang!, You instantly know that the file parameter is a File-object and you can focus your mind on more important things.
Why would the "won't be destroyed by cooking" part matter that much? We all consume a lot of uncooked produce everyday...
Sometimes a little lipstick massively increases form conversions. The more minimal and inviting the form looks, the less imposing it feels to the user.
Are you implying that a Nobel Peace Prize winner was, in fact, corrupt?!

(Said sarcastically)
I'm very sorry to admit that (happy) hardcore does it for me. The music sucks but I get awfully productive by listening to it on full volume on my headphones...
My opinion would not change as far as "which looks nicer."

You need to consider the context of the icon though.
Please when you say toxin try and give some examples about them - what kinds, what molecules - something that could be tested in a lab.
Ask HN: How do students find startups to intern at?
If you are a student who is interested in working at a startup, how can you find a suitable startup that is interested in taking interns?
I noticed at the bottom of the article it mentions that "Amazon affiliate links benefit Erowid". I think Erowid is a magnificent resource and I'm a big fan. What motivated your decision to support that site?
Rounding down is not a good solution to the rounding problem. As a software engineer, I also used rounding in my contracts when I was working as a contractor - and here's why:

If I have 5 clients at a time, and each one has a concept/idea every day that takes 20 seconds to explain to me (and isn't on the current iteration) then they are distracting me by not managing their time properly and calling me a dozen times a day to tell me about their thoughts. If it is a change to the current iteration, then it should have been discussed when we agreed on the current iteration's feature set. Either way, the call is not a result of well thought out time management.

As much as I like hearing new concepts and ideas, I also have to take attention away from a project that I'm working on in order to provide my full attention to the client calling me.

After the call is done, I also have to come back to the project at hand and hopefully I'm not working on something that requires that I retain a super complicated thought chain which may or may not have been lost in discussion with another client - especially in consideration that I'm not going to bill on other client project for the time that I've spent having been sidetracked and/or getting back to where I was before the call was made.

So, charging in $15 increments causes the client to actually manage their time with the same effectiveness that they would hope that I am managing mine.

Rounding down makes this more of a problem for me, not less of one. Now a 90 second call is at no charge, and I can get more than one of those in one hour - still at no charge - based on the suggested agreement.
There is no certainty of anonymity, especially in Mexico, for two reasons.

First, drug cartels have very easily control of the IT infrastructures, and second, they now employ hackers exactly to keep the internet information under control.

They've killed several bloggers already, and you can be sure they thought they were anonymous.
Law enforcement would rather go after the vendors than buyers. There are probably too many buyers for officers to deal with, and they would have to make all the arrests simultaneously. In meat-space, they arrest buyers so that they will rat out their dealer. This is not possible on SR because the dealers do not expose any identifying info to buyers.
Lol, not multiplied. I know it was a huge amount (for being a kid). I don't want to exaggerate though if it wasnt 300,000
The last two are too "plastic" for me. The first two seem nice, I'd guess I prefer the first, because the second doesn't seem to fit in with the other ios7 icons.

Sorry to not agree with the rest and thus create a gap lol :P
Trouble is, without evidence it's hard to distinguish between plausible-but-true and plausible-but-false theories, and Occam's razor usually finds the prosaic explanations simpler.
> > our bodies are designed for scarcity

> This is something that's been forgotten in many countries ...

This requires either a Biblical citation (substitute your religious text of choice) or (preferably) citations from peer-reviewed journals.

I've read Eat Stop Eat and do a 24-hour water/coffee/tea fast once a week, but I don't buy these sorts of justifications that appear rooted in a misunderstanding of Darwinian evolution.

* "Non-survival of the least fit" is a better summary than "survival of the fittest".

* Even if our bodies were incredibly well optimized for the conditions present during most of our recent evolution, that does NOT imply that those conditions are optimal for our bodies. [Affirming the consequent]

* Lots of things will make a person feel "healthy" or mild euphoria, particularly when a person has become accustomed to a low baseline for a couple of days. Subjective anecdotes aren't a substitute for quantitative measures of health.

On a side note, detoxification from unspecified toxins is often accepted as an axiom without journal citation or other justification apart from subjective mood following the fast/cleanse.

Edited for formatting.
Photographer brushes, textile mills, etc -- source of alpha radiation to get rid of static electricity.
got my gender wrong
Germany asks for explanation over 'secret Berlin listening post'
Senator Tom Carper's statement on the launch:

“This new website – launched barely a month after Federal agents shut down the original Silk Road -- underscores the inescapable reality that technology is dynamic and ever-evolving and that government policy needs to adapt accordingly. Rather than play ‘whack-a-mole’ with the latest website, currency, or other method criminals are using in an effort to evade the law, we need to develop thoughtful, nimble and sensible federal policies that protect the public without stifling innovation and economic growth. Our committee intends to have that conversation – among others - at our hearing this month on virtual currency.”

http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-media/chairman-ca...
Which other website would you like to see added to push.co?
We had some great response to launching the HN push.co app and are wondering which other website you would like to get push notifications from. Feel free to drop suggestions in the comments.

http://push.co/a/w4bcXKT0W
A day in the worlds largest building
It has been used successfully before. Just ask Alexander Litvinenko.
Wal-Mart Blames Price Errors on Technical Glitch
Wouldn't it be interesting if Litvinenko wasn't killed by the Russians after all, but the hit was contracted out to/preformed by Mossad... I really doubt that, but I wasn't aware there'd been such use of Polonium previously.
The fake seller issue is independent of the honeypot issue. There was nothing stopping anyone from creating fake sellers on the original Silk Road. I assume the main reason it didn't happen is that doing so would only help catch buyers, and governments really want to catch sellers.
It's pretty close. With over 8k tweets (and a load of pictures) I was expecting a little more.

TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS SPORTS SCIENCE POLITICS

Would be neat to click on those broad categories and get the tweets that fall into those categories.

Also, the social fingerprint page is super sluggish when scrolling- anyone else experiencing this?
I take the view that "a majority of science publications are wrong" is a purposefully misleading and sensationalistic take, even though it may be technically true. IMO, only the leading-edge of known science should factor into such studies, and I think that is probably not "mostly wrong". After all, even if there has only been 1 rock-solid publication in favor of a round Earth that is preceded by 99 publications in support of a flat-Earth, I would't call that field 99% wrong.
If you're trying to be penny wise about legitimate third-party expenses like mileage and legal research, why pay $49 fee to a third party (in addition to state fees) to change your company’s name? You could have saved that third-party fee if you'd done it yourself through the Secretary of State's website.

As an additional tip, you may be able to save some money by doing some of the legal research yourself. Google works surprisingly well for some things, as does the local public library, which may have a subscription to Lexis Nexis or Westlaw. Facebook is a great resource for family law issues. There are also free law-specific resources like nolo.com (e.g. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/small-business) or avvo.com.
This might be the most beautiful form that I've ever seen. Just gorgeous. I can't think of any way to improve it, and so have nothing valuable to add as a comment.
Projects are never done. You'll always be improving, releasing new versions, fixing security issues, making your application/product fit in with the rest et cetera.
A good moment to show HN is, I guess, the moment where your potential users can really see what your app will be like when it's near completion, in a way that they will share it with others. And about your "product": good luck!
I read this awhile back and it's great.

Curious honest question to the SEOs out there - other than present me with a strategy, is there anything specifically an SEO can offer to my site? As far as I can tell, any gimmick or scheme an SEO could do previously is now effectively non-existent since the Penguin and Hummingbird updates to Google. Is there anything outside of the standard stuff that I have to do that can make my site stand out?
The majority of posts in this thread are anecdotal and personal experience. But they are strikingly similar and very close to the experience of the author in the original article. It almost feels like the experience is reproducible.
Garbage. Conspiracy theorists are frequently ridiculed because they have dreadfully low standards of evidence, exhibit poor logical reasoning, or engage in obvious bias (the number of judgmental adjectives employed by the theorist is often a good proxy for bias). I will give any theory the time of day if it put together properly, but most 'conspiracy theories' are not.
There are already lots of channels in there. I'd say perhaps give the user some control on what they receive push notifications on.

For example keywords, when my company name is mentioned in one of the channels, push me a notification on it.
The trial limit was pretty annoying. I tried putting in several obvious and already recommended keywords and it said that they weren't found. Then I reached the trial limit. Sigh...
Drawing Tupac's face with a parametric equation, a.k.a., Tupac Shakurve
Posted on the wrong story?
"this should never happen" and/or "how did you get here?"
But not enough.
I'm an audiophile, and I can tell you from looking at the FFT which settings you used in LAME to make that MP3* :)

Different presets set different lowpass filter values, opting for the best balance between preserving frequencies, achieving a small file size, and the perceived quality. The latter is often measured with various approximations to human perception of sound - psychoacoustics. This is why you can't compare different encoders using an approximation - the algorithms themselves are made using them. It's the Dunning-Kruger effect, but for computers.

You can actually change those presets, so you can hear for yourself what effects changing it has: http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lame/lame/USAGE

* Why would anyone bother to learn this skill? Well, I don't mind MP3s (or AACs or OGGs for that matter), and I certainly can't tell the difference between them and lossless formats, but an MP3 that has been re-encoded several times is really atrocious. It's like when you re-compress a jpg a few times, it gets messy. This helps definitively figure out what an MP3 really is or was. Sometimes the tags on the MP3 lie about which encoder was used or what the compression settings were. Other times, the file used to be something else, such as re-encoding a 128kbps MP3 as a LAME V0 preset MP3. Looking at the frequency plot in a sound editor makes this rather obvious, as the lower presets and crummier encoders have much lower lowpass filters.
As a lawyer, I'll first say that it is always okay to haggle a little bit about the billing arrangement. I would expect an entrepreneur to want to negotiate.

Two, some of these practices described would raise eyebrows with state ethics committees. Double billing travel time, rounding up your billable hours, it all amounts to padding your bills. Lawyers have been disbarred for such practices, and this typically happens when people start wondering how they can be billed greater than 24 hours per day by the same attorney.

Lastly, if you are a start up, you have no business going to an attorney that is going to charge you $600.00 per hour. A rate that high should be reserved for some specialties, like perhaps patent litigation. If you are paying an attorney $600.00 to incorporate for you, you probably will not be in business for long.
Google Is Ordered to Block Images in Privacy Case
Google Apps drop support for IE9
It got my parent status wrong, too - and I'm single! The rest of it was pretty on the mark, though.
A domain for a project of mine uses GMail for e-mail (I don't trust my server with hosting a 99.99% up mail server: it's too cheap to be able to), while my personal website uses Microsoft Window Live Domains. My WLD is then used inside GMail though, so for the client I can't really give any good recommendation. The server for WLD seems fine, not good.
As an ex-zarafa employee I can confirm it is written in-house, from scratch. Uses Extjs.

Also see: https://community.zarafa.com/
Facebook is always looking for interns and has a great intern program. See https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=interns&req...
The data still lives in HDFS, so Sqoop is the preferred way to export to RDBMS as far as I know.
Great work guys, we had a great time with you in San Fran and its great watching Driblet grow!! Keep up the good work.
What are the access paths that presto uses (full scan, range scan, skip scan, ...)? Does it understand indexes?
I don't remember the exact details, but I don't think that was DPR's mistake. I thought he had ordered some fake passports that were intercepted.
Half-day trip on san pedro in college... good times
Not to be that guy, but could you possibly have picked any color other than that particular shade of brown for the header?

Other than that, this is a really gorgeous solution. I'm going to see if I can implement something like this for Android.
I'm afraid I may be outta place here, but for me its classical music. Anything Bach, but my big fave is Mozart's Requiem. It makes me sing while I code. Especially Tuba mirum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-i5S4uXlNg
Appreciate the response. The problem is that the new process introduces another click where you have to select the document format. In iWork '09, you click the menu, then drag to word, then a menu opens. so 1-2 clicks vs. extra clicks and context shifts. It's a step backward.

I realize an update to Mavericks won't necessarily affect iWork, but I'm too attached to my current process to even risk it. It's an irrational behavior, I know. :-)
Does anyone know of any email clients that will bump potentially negative or angry emails to the top of my inbox?
The most atrocious overcharges we've experienced have been around equity asks. For some reason firms think it's good practice to ask for a sizable chunk as an interest payment for their incorporation fee (which they expect to be paid anyways). Even if a company is worth $1m (founders time for 4 years) half a point (standard ask) is $5k. If incorporation costs $10k (mid-range) that's 50%+ interest! Not to mention there is some risk mixing the roles of counsel (representing the company) and owner (a minority shareholders) I think this has spilled out from WSGR and hope it stops soon.
Spend five hours on the HackerNews front page and get a few thousand uniques from the most cynical, judgmental visitors you can imagine.

In response to the idea that getting listed on TechCrunch, HN, or the like, is somehow a "launch"
Sorry, I meant this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6682813
Things it got wrong: sports interest and employment

Otherwise, good job! :)
Outlook integration is a paid option, but z-push (ActiveSync implementation) is free.
Everything, did you read it? It's exactly what you were asking for. It's a clear outline of how Google works on a basic level. It uses signals from keywords as well as popularity. A web dev alone cannot affect the popularity.

You can follow all the technical guidelines but if no one is linking to you, you won't be number one. In the unlikely event two sites have the same weighted links, quality and technical relevance, I'm sure other things like speed or age are taken into account.
is this your final answer?
I chose heroin specifically because that's the drug I associate most with the Silk Road, probably because of this story: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybe...

And I thought it was a memorable way to phrase it... I've never seen heroin, except on The Wire.
There are plenty of gray area substances, e.g. precursors to schedule 1 drugs.
Thanks for that link. Awesome article.
Track India's Mars Orbiter in RealTime
Absolutely. That's why we need real investigative journalism. The problem is that this is very, very hard and expensive to do well and nobody seems willing to pay for it.
the fact that he revealed that people were trying to kill him

He claimed people were trying to kill him. Revealed implies that this claim has been proven as fact, which it certainly has not.

Suppose I claim that people are trying to kill me. Have I revealed a truth, or is it possible that I'm making things up?
email a few you like (showing a few projects is a good idea), if there is a good fit after a few emails I'd try and have lunch with the team. boom
Great idea. I'll definitely implement mirroring.
The excellent Lost Weekend Video is still a going concern, on Valencia between 21st and 22nd (IIRC).
"low standards of evidence, exhibit poor logical reasoning, or engage in obvious bias"

I don't disagree with any of this. Unfortunately these are the only muckrakers we've got. Everyone else just smiles and nods until the muck is shoved in their face.
I find this kind of stuff fascinating.

Are there any decent books (kindle or proper books) with this kind of content? I've got no background in Maths (other than some (UK) A-level maths at school), but always love reading these sort of posts.
Not really. When I work, I work. And I get to spend a lot more time with my family than I would otherwise. I have plenty of interaction with customers via email, skype etc. Also I hang out online with other entrepreneurs, who are generally very helpful and supportive. Its not quite the same as face-to-face interaction. And I guess I don't meet as many new people as I would working in an office. But I don't have to put up with people I don't like and I certainly don't miss office politics!

If you are very extrovert, it might not be for you. But how many extrovert programmers do you know? ;0)
Interesting - Fastspring currently charges me EUR 38,26 (pre-tax) or EUR 46.29 (post-tax, Netherlands) whereas MAS charges me EUR 44.99.

That being said, anyone with a VAT ID can get the lower price as tax is then waived.
Dish Kills Off Remaining Blockbuster Video Stores and Services
should be here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684156
Follow the guidelines in the document? It's not rocket science and unlike most SEO guides it's not filled with voodoo.
Fedora celebrates 10-year-old birthday
Congrats Mike!
Connecting Presto to a relational database is a tricky question. If you just want to have Presto scan the table and perform all computation in Presto, it is pretty easy, but for this to perform well, you would want to push down some of the computation to the database. The other problem is if you only have one database, you would have hundreds of cores hammering that single database for data.

That said, earlier this year, during a hackathon, we build a prototype connector that could split a query and push down the relevant parts to a distributed database that supports simple aggregations. It would be more work to clean this up and integrate, so if a lot of people are interested in this we can prioritize that.
Long list of Angular JS Resources
To say nothing of people who want good recommendations on what movie to watch next. This is not something you ever got with Blockbuster, so good riddance, but the loss of neighborhood stores will lead to a constriction in the number of titles actually viewed (as opposed to available, which is a largely meaningless metric.)
I also prefer the first because it's the simplest of them all. The clipboard in #2 is something which I had a hard time understanding it to be a clipboard.
Wow, I didn't realize they had a VM image available. We haven't tried it, but there's no reason why it wouldn't work. Try it and let us know!
It's not clear to me whether the issue was being charged an additional $200/hr for a ride-along law student, or being charged $200/hr for a law student's solo work.

I agree that charging extra for a ride-along simply doesn't seem fair. However, based on my experience, it's quite possible that the law student researched or wrote solo (billed at $200/hr), and then reported back to the lawyer with a finished product that only needed review (billed at $600/hr). Given the choice, I would much rather pay $200/hr than $600/hr.
That "no data were stored at the San Francisco site" wording is a bit misleading.

There's tons of data at the Archive's SF headquarters - but the dedicated storage systems are in the building adjacent to where the fire was contained, from the photos I've seen.

It could have been much, much worse.
" All told, nearly a million prisoners are now making office furniture, working in call centers, fabricating body armor, taking hotel reservations, working in slaughterhouses or manufacturing textiles, shoes and clothing, while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73 per day."

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/19/21st_century_chain_gangs/
I'm looking for open source java web app. I want to contribute.
I'm new to java web app development, to improve on my skill, i need any open source java web app to contribute to. Any link?
You should put your contact info on your HN profile.
If you are interested in audio fingerprinting using the FFT check out my IPython notebook that explores this idea in more detail. I used a spectrogram and image processing tools to identify what a given audio sample is. You should be able to download the notebook and run all the examples.

http://jack.minardi.org/software/computational-synesthesia/