skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go farther and say they need to get out of Social Security too. Have an option to grandfather in those who are too close to retirement to do anything different... give everyone else a payout that rolls into a personal investment account.
great to see nb moving forward. I've been a user since 5.x. it's serving me pretty well so far.
It is very easy to ruin a book even with manual translation. E.g. Albert Camus's The Stranger was first translated by some old English guy who brought in significant cultural aspects to the book that didn't exist in the french. Google translate is nice enough for the quick grokking of post but it is nowhere close to even the badness of manual.
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The architecture of DNS is pretty solid, but the encodings are unnecessarily complex. That complexity has a huge, hidden opportunity cost.

If anyone wants to help, I'm pretty confident a Space based encoding would greatly improve DNS:

https://github.com/nudgepad/space/issues/54
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Looks like the sellers and buyers are both meant to be developers:

> SideProjectors is a special community for the creative types, just like yourself, where you can find someone who can potentially take over your projects.

> Alternatively, if you are looking for interesting projects that others have paused on, SideProjectors would be a great place to discover them.

While Flippa.com is marketed to non-tech buyers.

Also, http://flippa.com is only for websites while this looks to be for any side-project, opening the door to more interesting projects.
Really? I say "our agency is so busy at the moment that someone else will handle your project, but I will personally oversee and QA it. Our customers not only seem to not mind, but they're extremely happy after the project has completed.
thanks - i thought this was well known but i guess not. :)
I'm curious about the ethics of this. Why is it OK to 'out' someone as the author of a book, but it's not OK to 'out' someone as gay?
Reposted for the anniversary of the landing. The original thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503225
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Microsoft is pumping cash into Nokia, not the other way around.
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America doesn't have a free market healthcare system. It is heavily regulated.

The fact of the matter is that we've somehow managed to end up with a set-up that has just the bad parts from both models. All the runaway costs of regulatory capture, and all of the gross inefficiency of entrenched bureaucracy.
Google's somewhat foolish acquisition of Motorola would begin to show some dividends if they could leverage Motorola's patents to force a cross licensing agreement which didn't involve paying these fees.
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It depends on what sort of job you are looking for and at what type of company.

I suggest building a proposal of what you would do to improve X at Company A. Say, for example, you're interested in [role] at target companies A, B, and C. Providing them with 'free', outsider consulting is a good way to a) validate your expertise, b) show that you're interested in the company and c) start a conversation out of the blue, and perhaps make a few contacts quickly.

Try to back your way into an understanding of their strategy and tactics for X through a lot of observation and research (shouldn't actually take that long). Then, do the same for their competition, or find analogous examples in another industry. After you have a feel for their strengths and weaknesses, you could identify the gap between what their competitors do really well and what Company A does not. Then, make a thoughtful, quantitative approach for how you would improve the company's standing in X, or redesign page Y to increase R based on what you know about T. There are a lot of ways you could take this.

Summary: demonstrate your understanding of the company, the problem you want to help them solve, and your solution. Send it a person in the respective department or even Tweet a link to your proposal at the company. Best case scenario: they hire you. Worst case scenario: they don't, but other companies take notice and you're building a portfolio.
Has Google gone after anyone over their file system patents?
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Yeah, also wondering if there are other correlations they didn't consider. That's the problem with these articles---all the evidence points to one answer, but is that causation or correlation?
Authors are not generally persecuted for being authors.
I'm pretty accustomed to using find | xargs grep.

This lets me completely tailor the file I search using find's filters (e.g., only search files with a .py extension, and skip .svn/ directory). E.g. assuming I'm in my project's root directory:

find . -name .svn -prune -o -name '*.py' -print | xargs grep -Hi 'string or RE I am looking for'
Didn't mean to sound like I was antagonizing you or against you. I think what you originally said was fine. I should've thought of a better way to word my comment over "being against". Since yeah my point was basically what you said with the hands.

Either way foobarbazqux's reply comment says this all far better :p
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The article at first seems to be talking abou "vitamins" in general but then goes into great detail about megadosing on vitamin C and trials with vitamin E.

Doesn't seem like that's quite the same thing.

Personally, I take omega 3, vitamin D (gelcaps, it's fat-soluble), and kelp (for iodine) daily. That article doesn't say much about those.
I wonder if you get the same kind of negative effects when you eat too many fruits. I tend to eat a lot of fruits throughout the day.
the only supplement which has been shown to have a net positive impact on health in long term studies is vitamin D3 - and its not even a 'vitamin' but a secosteroidal hormone
The underlying sync software (Unison) has been around for years now and is regarded as stable. So syncing should work just fine, although you should keep a backup of your files just in case.

You can also use Dropbox and Encbox together if you're unsure: Point your Dropbox installation to ~/Encbox and have Dropbox sync your (then decrypted) files. So you can be sure to have backups, file sharing features, etc. and see if Encbox is stable enough for you.
Your VPS provider, can in effect, chroot in to your environment, so EncFS is vunerable.
Something similar could probably be done with code (if it hasn't been done already). I suppose auto-formatting and checkstyles might mute some things, but I imagine you could still get a read from things like variable names, class names, function length, etc.
Article took way too long to get to the crux of the problem:

1. Choose your majors carefully and plan your career early - A degree in communications doesn't really make you employable. . 2. These people aren't willing to relocate to a less than desirable area to get that first opportunity
I have had two family friends pass away while being unable to afford follow up visits to a specialist in NYC. You mention that you have "worked with insurance billing" in the past tense, is it possible that things have changed?
May fit with earlier reports that they plan to create a monthly subscription where the first year after the initial install is free, and after that you have to pay $n per month.
> Yeah, also wondering if there are other correlations they didn't consider. That's the problem with these articles---all the evidence points to one answer, but is that causation or correlation?

My stats professor refused to read any pop-sci articles of this kind. His thesis was that bad statistics permeates the "lower sciences" (his words, not mine) and that just devolves into gibberish when it hits the mainstream.
You can see who's behind the project from the killer stack trace there.
Nice guide. One nitpick:

> Add a user for our project and give him a decent password:

Better off not giving the encbox user a password at all and only allow SSH key based login. You can already login to the primary/root account and sudo/su to setup the encbox user and copy SSH keys.
Are you serious? It's not ok to out someone as gay as that could have huge impacts on their life and relationships. Secondly I haven't seen anyone praise the outing of Rowling as the author of this book. I'd be surprised if the lawyer who leaked it didn't get fired.
This video is well worth watching. I almost skipped it, expecting the same old launch footage, but it is a slow motion closeup of the engines and exhaust with very interesting commentary. (You can skip the last couple minutes without missing much, though.)
> "a C/O 2012 and a C/O 2013 graduate should be fungible from the perspective of a recruiter, but they're not."

Assuming the 2012 grad doesn't have a year's experience, you don't think that the pool of those who have been passed over by hiring managers for the past year (as they presumably have) might be slightly less rich than the "fresh" pool of graduates from this year?

If you were a hiring manager, would you spend your time sorting through them, or would you work your way through the new class?
Netbeans is also very important for Solaris, as it is the official IDE.
The WWDC vids are in an app this year, not on iTunesU. Te an phones home to validate that you are a developer. It too is inaccessible now since dev center is down is down.
I would be convinced if Canonical:

- Dropped the entire Linux desktop software stack.

- Wrote a well-integrated top-down designed set of frameworks that provided a consistent API for desktop software, with binary-level ABI compatibility across major releases of the operating system.

- Promoted and encouraged the distribution of standalone applications that included all their dependencies, including distribution via an app store.

- Dropped the use of package management for anything other than OS components, especially for managing application dependencies.

- Leveraged their well-designed set of frameworks to advance the state of the art and simplify the lives of developers, making it easier to ship "great software" for their platform as compared to others.

As it is right now, Linux is a cess pool of poorly maintained, unstable, poorly designed, rapidly shifting crap. There's almost no centralized vision, and what centralized vision does exist is almost entirely co-opted and captured by massive ubernerds that don't seem to understand the first thing about producing a viable platform that end-user application developers would want to target.

What Canonical has done is put lipstick on a pig; it's not enough to throw money at making the operating system acceptably attractive to just end users.
I don't think people really care about syntax that much. OCaml, F#, Haskell all have similar looking syntax, Scalla has a particularly ugly one (maybe if it wasn't supposed to be C/Java-like it wouldn't have ended like this).

...the only times I heard people bitching about syntax to the point of staying away from a language for it was either about Lisps ("undistinquishable paren soup") or about Python's significant indentation and lack of multiline lambada. MLs have a pretty familiar math-like syntax and apart from some operators seems "normal looking" even for Java and C programmers.
Agree. Vitamin D supplements may be healthy for people living north of New York.

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_weller_could_the_sun_be_goo...
It's a project called Whoops:

https://github.com/filp/whoops
Glad too! My designs look utility functions ;-)
You might enjoy this then:

http://flownet.com/ron/control.pdf
When it comes to Star Trek movies, I recommend watching the red letter media reviews of them, and skipping the movies themselves. First murderous Picard, now punchy Spock; no surprise that the females regress as well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613734

this is a tough thing to google for. Terms I used a few weeks ago

- stylometry

- authorship attribution/verification

- grammatical analysis, plagiarism detection
Because it is cool to hate Microsoft while making a blind eye to all the other corporations that behave the same way.
That's politically untenable. Every time there was the failure of a pension fund or a stock market crash, there would be calls to bail out retirees. The government can't not be involved in providing a safety net retirement system. The alternative to Social Security is funneling even more money into Wall Street in the form of personal investment accounts, and that would be more capital sloshing around looking for the next bubble. The fact is that people trust Social Security's "pay it forward" system a lot more than they trust Wall Street.
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That happened long time ago, as the JRuby guys left Sun.
Still their FAQ lists its $ 0.99 after one year http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/general/23014681
It was not actually defeated, but if a Republican wins the next election (which is possible) and the senate and house can achieve a Republican majority, it will almost definitely be repealed.
Anyone who lives or works there is a fool.

I grew up there, and lived downtown for years before wising up.

Have a medical emergency and call 911? You're lucky if an ambulance shows up within an hour, if at all.

I've been robbed at gunpoint enough times for one lifetime. I'm tired of having to pick up my .45 as the first thing I do after landing at the airport and getting my rental car.

Tell me how cheap rent has to be to make it worth it?

No thanks. My family is there, I know tons and tons of people there, and know the city itself as well as the rest of the metro area like the back of my hand.

You couldn't pay me to live there.

There's a very good reason people run away from that place as if their lives depended on it. It's because they do.
A decent side-project is something you believe could be big. Why would you sell your "baby"? If it's not decent people just make it open-source.
And this is why science sucks. And I mean that in a supportive way. It can tell us that the answer we want to believe is not the correct answer. Unfortunately it takes a very strong individual to accept that when what they want to believe is the belief that is wrong.

My personal experience is that older folks (>65) get stuck more firmly than younger folks. It is especially sad when someone you care about deeply believes so strongly in a reality that exists only for them.
I used to do the same, but this accomplishes the same thing and is much more concise

ag -i -G '\.py$' 'string or RE I am looking for'
This should be taken a step further and have a UI and web control panel just like the real dropbox.
Fixed both errors. Thanks guys!
Am I the only one who thinks that we reached a point of nearly maximum efficiency? Think about it, that would explain everything.

The article clearly states that employers aren't interested in college graduates that finished two years ago if they didn't gather experience in the meantime. They'll happily hire the new kids straight out of college.
If they can afford to pass over to thousands of graduates then it means they're just not needed. Even the latest crop of graduates is having a hard time finding a job. As I see it, there's no shortage of graduates (STEM of otherwise), conversely, there's an oversupply of graduates.
A while ago I read an article that claimed that lost jobs aren't coming back and this only means, again, that many jobs and (thus workers) are not needed anymore. We can do more (or the same) with less. College graduates are taking jobs once reserved to high school graduates and dropouts, thus pushing these last groups into the ranks of unemployment. What if the global economic recession was just what was needed to cut useless jobs and turn companies into nimble and extremely efficient machines?
I don't think either is punishable by law, but if you were a direct friend of that person, it would be a violation of their trust in you in both cases.
The 2013 pool as a whole would be richer, but if you're in a situation where hiring was down dramatically in 2012 but picked up for 2013, then there will be candidates in 2012 that are better than the ones you would have to hire if you only limited yourself to 2013.

You can see this very clearly in numbers-driving hiring pipelines in finance, consulting, and law. This year's 50th percentile candidates are getting hired by the big companies, while last year's 70th percentile candidates are pushed entirely out of the market. You see the same phenomenon across the job market, though, just in less easily quantifiable ways.
Tell that to Salman Rushdie.
My only gripe is I have to look over its markup in pages I'm inspecting, but that's only when developing.
Same problem - VLC can't see .mp3 files uploaed to it's "app" folder. That's oddly strange and disappointing. I am certain it can play(decode) mp3 from the video file, why it doesn't open standalone audio .mp3?!
I understood that dietary Vitamin D isn't well absorbed and is of limited benefit in high quantities -
It's far better to get daily sunlight, even in Northern climes.

Disclaimer: not able to watch the video
You're moving the goal posts. "Strict scrutiny" is a specific legal standard that isn't really relevant to this discussion which implicates clearly established constitutional rights (automatically invoking a higher standard of review.)

The courts side against the government in national security cases all the time. See e.g. Ex Parte Endon, Merryman, Hamdi, Hamden, etc. so I'm really not sure what you're trying to say.

The Supreme Court also routinely addresses political questions, see e.g. Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Griswald v. Connecticut etc. The "political question test" is not a tenant of constitutional law, but rather an element of some conservative jurisprudence. Incidentally, one with which I'm intimately familiar, having taken Constitutional Law from Robert George.

The statement that the Supreme Court doesn't decide issues of national security, from a historical perspective, are just not correct. I've been told it's polite to give people a way out in these types of scenarios, but this is Hacker News. I don't disagree with some "unwritten precedent and protocol," I disagree with your statements.

All of which, by the way, I've proven wrong citing specific case law. This isn't discussion sections or precept. You can't not do the reading, wave your hands, and expect me to go along.
I'm not a lawyer - can the sketches on the site be taken and used in commercial projects if you commission them? If someone else has?
> If you place stock in the notion that ideas are worthless without execution, paying money to inherit someone else's unsuccessful idea that they lost interest in will only appeal to software developers that have no ideas or inspirations of their own.

Actually, paying $x to acquire someone else's product, try your hand at marketing it, and failing fast for yourself could be an absolute god-send for non-technical founders who waste months/years trying to outsource development or find technical cofounders to execute on a mediocre idea that has been done 100 times before. Now that I think of it, just having this marketplace and being able to see what's been attempted before will hopefully increase the quality of startups that make it to the product stage in the first place. That will be welcome: a lot of talent / energy today is wasted building things that are doomed to fail from the get-go.

We kill most of our ideas when they should be killed: as ideas. Paying $20-1000 to buy a packaged product that lets us test some of our hypotheses immediately is a nice option to have. Thumbs up from me for this reason.

I could also see brilliant developers who love building things using this as a means to connect with brilliant hustlers looking for things to sell/market. Maybe it will be a long time before any individual side project bought from here gets to itself be a major product (and maybe not!), but there's an entire spectrum in between that still adds value to the ecosystem: this could be a very interesting way for cofounders to serendipitously connect based on mutual interest, and of course it's a gold-mine for potential employers and head-hunters.

Edit: I think it's disingenuous to suggest that a side project is a "baby" and should not be abandoned, or if it is it should necessarily be open sourced. A product may be of commercial value but someone doesn't want to pursue because they have no ability to market it, or their interests changed, or they stumbled upon an even more profitable idea that is taking up all their attention, or they got a job at Google, etc etc.
You didn't actually read the article did you? They weren't talking just about retrospective studies, seeing who gets cancer and whether they took vitamins or not. The article talked about multiple randomized double blind placebo trials.

If you get a bunch of random people, give some these high doses of vitamins and give some a placebo, the ones getting the vitamins did worse.
I remember seeing a doctor speaking in a news story about how we overuse vitamins and supplements, most of which simply pass through our bodies.

He said "Americans have the most expensive urine in the world."
It's way worse than that. Microsoft uses FUD tatics to sign patent licenses. You can check Microsft vs B&N case, in which B&N showed the kind of patents [1] Microsoft is using against Android. (By the way, Microsoft had to invest in B&N to end this case. This is how strong good these patents are)
It's obvious that Microsoft is using IBM's old playbook on patents[2], where it's cheaper to license than fight.

[1] http://www.geekwire.com/2011/barnes-nobles-29page-slide-deck...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html
I often have Unison not notice file changes until I repeatedly scan or sometimes even until weeks later. If I new a better alternative I would not use it.
It does actually seem to be the case, I was wrong [1].

[1]: http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BitTorrentS...
Vitamin D is well absorbed if you take it in gelcap form, as it's fat soluble. Many people take it from "dry" tablets and that's why it's not well absorbed.

This can be verified with blood tests.
Or do you mean.. koi?
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It is a pretty compelling argument for little benefit on Yahoo's part. The correct answer for Yahoo is to freeze email in the previous domain, create a new domain for mail and move forward. But there is a certain lack of understanding that is settling in a Yahoo which feels distinctly like 'new young people' (and I mean that in the nicest way possible) but people who consider the time before they were aware of the world "ancient history" and for new grads from college in 2012 - 2013 that was anything before 2000.

Imagine the fun that could be had if Hollywood decided to 're-use' old stage names. We could get a bunch of new John Wayne movies!
Putting aside the work itself of creating a UI (this is just a simple install guide), that's not possible without exposing the encfs keys to the remote server. In this setup the client data is all encrypted before it reaches the server. The server is just a sync point for multiple clients.

You could have a UI (web or otherwise) on a separate client but it would have nothing to do with the server. It would just be a client that provides a UI interface to the decrypted encfs filesystem.
I remember reading that about half of people in Miami were deficient in vitamin D. It makes some intuitive sense if you consider that our bodies evolved in conditions that made us exposed to sun quite a bit more than even people living in sunny places, in good part because we spend so much time inside buildings (A/C helps) and with clothes on.

There's also a difference between not being deficient in vitamin D, and having the optimal amount of vitamin D available. People tend to confuse the two, as if as soon as you aren't deficient you can't possibly improve on that.