skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It gets worse. According to CBO estimates, the plan underestimated the costs of the original rollout severalfold. Republicans are gleefully attempting to guarantee failure by refusing to approve any additional funds for that purpose.
My two cents: You should add cursor: pointer; (and potentially a hover color or underline) to the large-7 class so that it's evident those are clickable links.
Watch the video that covers security, it should hopefully explain why we do it that way. Thanks
The article does in a way - you take those vitamins because someone, somewhere at some time was pushing them as an amazing cure. A couple studies were done, data was likely cherry picked, and now you pay money to some company to give it to you. That company makes very sure that beneficial studies are done as often as possible.

I doubt that those vitamins are doing you much harm, but I honestly doubt that you are getting much real benefit from them either (unless you have a real, medical deficiency). But hey, taking them probably makes you feel safer, so you'll likely keep taking them regardless.

Interestingly, the age of a person is usually the best indicator of which vitamins they will take - people often get snagged into some 'holy grail' vitamin (free radicals being the newest) and then continue to take them because accepting that what you've been paying for over years is a waste of money is very hard to take.
If you don't want/have Perl installed or are just a Python aficionado - check out https://github.com/eliben/pss/ - the Python-based ack clone. It's also actively developed.
I met a doctor recovering from a very bad breast cancer. Her opinion, for what it's worth, was "get lots of sun, and inspect for skin cancers - they are easy."
I don't have a lot of experience with NFC, but there are replay attacks of NFC-based credit cards, e.g., the NFCProxy app discussed a few months ago[1].

Does the small size of the inlay in this ring prevent unintended reading of the information contained? (It sounds like a larger version is necessary for some phones to read it at all...)

This is a compelling idea for another authentication factor, provided there were no concerns about data leakage.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5605499

EDIT: The "Privacy is Paramount" video explains how the ring solves this problem.
You may well be correct - I only noticed this now as most of the sites I frequent are not linked to my Google account. I know YouTube has been bugging me to put in a Real Name for a while, but I was never prompted before to create a fully fledged G+ profile (incl birth date, gender...)
You should be as vitamin-conscious as someone who takes supplements, but with Food.

The crux of the problem is with epistemologies like Popper's and Putnam's and the muddled thinking of interpretation of a hard science while lacking a "philosophy of" for that science. Users of the scientific paradigm think of themselves as derivative scientists, on the assumption that scientists know better.

It's "mythos" in the sense of metanarrative: it is the deferring of epistemic responsibility, just as Ancient Greek thought deferred the explanations of the natural world to rulings of the God's whimsy.
multiple sclerosis is more prevalent in areas with less sun (basically in the north, since not many people live at low southern latitudes).

i have ms and vitamin d is suspected to be important in reducing the chance of suffering from that disease (it's an immunomodulator - has some connection with your immune system - and ms is basically your immune system attacking your own nerves). other risk factors include being a woman, and having had glandular fever or chickenpox (or both). i am prescribed quite high doses (about double what i see as recommended for supplements). i understand that, along with the medication i take, it helps reduce further outbreaks.

i found it kind of weird that this kind of knowledge is still ongoing research. seems like the kind of thing people would have worked out by now.

anyway, consider getting a little sun each day (according to http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Summerhealth/Pages/vitamin-D-sunl... you don't need long), and maybe a supplement in winter, if you're in the north.
That would be an interesting thing to do. But since code usually has a formal grammar, and a relatively simple one at that, plus a far more constrained vocabulary and, like you pointed out, stricter style frameworks, the liberty of the author is way more limited. It might be enough to say that a piece of code hasn't been written by someone in particular, or maybe discern an author among a few coders. But I'd bet it can't be done on the same scale as with literature.
What does it mean though? Your hypothesis should be something more than there sure are a lot of black people there and then let people's imaginations fill in what that means based on biases and broad generalizations. An observation is not a hypothesis.
I think the key here is "without taking advantage of other opportunities". If you're unemployed for a couple years and you don't do anything, then you're signaling something very important to an employer: passivity. A fresh grad with no experience has no experience, but there's also no information to indicate that they won't be a good employee. A two-year unemployed worker has no experience and has two years worth of unsuccessful choices. Which would you hire?

The way to beat that cycle is to do something - other than looking for jobs - with that time. I've got gaps of 4 months and 6 months on my resume (actually more like a year and a half if you count a "startup" as unemployment, but I don't), and it's never been a problem - because I was finishing up the rewrite of a 100,000 user website with the first gap, and open-sourcing the remnants of my startup with the second. I've got friends with 2-3 years of funemployment on their resumes, but they did things like starting a non-profit in Vietnam or Peace Corps work in Peru, and ended up at the very tops of their fields. Unemployment by itself doesn't result in poor career prospects, but not going after what you want and seizing the opportunities that are available to you does.
I've only been in Detroit proper a few times, but this all comports with the general impression of a complete hellhole.

Hard to image a tech community "thriving" when basic city services and personal safety are so lacking.
I love the picture of FDR in a dress.

http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/pink-and-blue-Frankli...
Did the fact that MikeRoweSoft.com sounds like Microsoft.com have any bearing on your decision to register the former?
It's a really interesting idea (and sounds really fun to build) but a bad idea from a security perspective. Javascript crypto in the browser just doesn't make sense[1].

Summary of the link: Since you trust the server to serve the JS files, you might as well trust it to do the decryption and present it all over SSL.

> I think the biggest thing someone who tackles this needs to realize is that perfecting the crypto doesn't matter 100%. If you could get something working that's doing some kind of encryption/decryption without exposing anything to the server, crypto experts will come in and help secure everything (see: mega)

This is an especially bad idea. Application that perform crypto should be designed properly from the start. It's not something you can just patch on later. Building crypto programs to learn/test/explore is fine but building a product for actual usage and then expecting others to fix it after the fact is a terrible approach.

[1]: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeching_(boys)
It's hard to say if a 5 year old is a boy or girl withought clothing identifiers so it's not always obvious. However, from a practical standpoint a dress takes less effort to make, you don't outgrow them as fast, and it makes changing faster so I can see why it would be the gender neutral choice.
I find this interactive chart helpful:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...

Particularly, it breaks each supplement down by effect, for example, it lists Antioxidants far negative for 'mortality' (per the article), but positively for 'infertility in men'. It also cites sources.

Perhaps, judging by the article, they should have a 'harmful' ranking as well.

By this chart, Vitamin D makes sense for 'general health' (I have gotten it recommended for immune system issues like allergies), and Omega 3 for 'heart disease' seem like winners. I didn't see Iodine on there.

The question of 'what supplement' seems incomplete without 'for what purpose'.
Most people don't have everything they want, yet. So the answer is: more.
Python Timings
It's not third-world. If you have the money, it's first-class. It's just the 'if you have the money' part that causes issues.
I lived in Chicago area for almost a decade and was happy to leave. But I'd live there again in a heartbeat compared to Detroit.
> Government funding a safety net retirement program has quite a short history.

Relative to what? The government has funded retirement for about 1/3 the length of the republic, and for the majority of the modern industrial era. Moreover, such programs have been widespread in every country that has achieved modern levels of industrialization.

If we use infant morality rate as a proxy measure of civilization, then in the last year before Social Security was implemented, 1934, the U.S. was roughly as developed as Pakistan or Rwanda is today (~60 per 1000 live births).
amazing thing. life saver.
Magnesium and iodine deficiencies are probably widespread and it's not really possible to address these through modern food. Well over half the population is measurably magnesium deficient. The problem is soil depletion and modern water purification. The case for a lot of vitamins is weak, but I think it's pretty strong for various minerals. I add mineral drops to my drinking water, just in case.
The Man and the Lion Puzzle: Pursuit and Evasion Game Theory
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>> It's definitely possible that Midwest professionals would like the choice of staying in the Midwest, but how likely is it they'll pick Detroit over Chicago?

Forget about Chicago - why would anyone pick Detroit over, nearby Ann Arbor?
I really like this idea and I appreciate that the terms of service should be written in lawyerese but I would like a more plainspoken explanation about how the licensing works. It would give me a lot more confidence if I were a person who wanted to use one of these pictures for commercial purposes. I would also like the option of requesting a liberal creative commons license. I would love to be able to commission drawings that everyone could use.
What about ExFAT, could Android had implemented that? Is it royalty-free? Does Apple have to pay Microsoft for the ability to access FAT partitions?
My guess is that it was very rare but because of agendas, it'll be played up and mentioned to seem as though it was more common than it actually was. Just me guessing... knowing nothing about the subject.
you can balance both. the amount of sun you need is quite limited, apparently. see http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Summerhealth/Pages/vitamin-D-sunl...
> using several patent pending technologies.

One hopes these are their patents, that they aren't granted, etc.
Will the real Berlin please stand-up? State of the tech ecosystem - good & bad
http://givingpledge.org/pdf/letters/Buffett_Letter.pdf
Let’s have general solicitation as Congress intended it
Ask HN: Ever collaborate on albums, blogs or projects with friends online? How?
I don't think there's more room for growth. Demand is met, there's no shortage, that's my whole point.
This looks cool, but of course you can also use encfs directly with Dropbox or, if you prefer a graphical interface, Boxcryptor[1] have a fork of encfs specifically for cloud storage along with some platform-specific apps.

[1] https://www.boxcryptor.com
Ask HN: Intermediate Ruby or Rails exercises?
Hi everyone. I taught myself ruby and rails using some of the online resources about a year ago. I built a basic rails app that provides you with a workout based on the equipment and time you have (http://workoutx.nickkarrasch.com).

After that I thought the next thing to do was to just "build things", and this is what everyone recommended I do to keep learning.

The problem is I'd try to build things and then run into problems which were just too advanced for me. I'd try to utilize resources like stack overflow but I would always pick a project that had an element that was too complex for me. Don't get me wrong, I would do lots of research and spend hours trying to solve the problem, but the problem would just be too complex for my skill level. The most annoying part is I wouldn't know that until I got in. So the last several things I've tried to build I've just been unable to get over specific hurdles and complete them.

I feel like I need some kind of intermediate level ruby exercises, or alternatively need some guidance on what I should try and build. I want to try and build something that is a challenge but is possible at my skill level, and not take on something that has an element which is far too complex for me to complete.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to keep moving forward? How can I take on projects or challenges but know they are not going to be way too complex?
It's amazing that vitamin supplement market is not regulated at all thanks to Orrin Hatch. So many unsupportable claims out there among the products for sale that it makes me dizzy.

This market is truly caveat emptor.
0) I might use this, but not as is.

1) Do you see this as a direct competitor to Crowdflower and and 99Designs, sort of an MVP? How can you contrast your approach?

2) I'd say your terms of use are very problematic: http://koi.io/terms. It seems like you claim the right to use any of the generated content. So if I get someone to draw something for a project for a client, my client might see his unique art show up somewhere else?

3) Who is the intended user? Is it reasonable to use these illustrations for anything commercial?

4) The javascript links in your Terms don't work in my Chrome browser. The Privacy Policy link doesn't work (shudder to think what the privacy policy says).

5) I think I would have seeded this with more jobs.
> I honestly doubt that you are getting much
> real benefit from them either (unless you have
> a real, medical deficiency)

For stuff like Vitamin D, it depends on where you live. For example, in Portland, OR[1], it's very sunny during the summer months, but there is very little sun during the fall, winter and spring. I remember reading that even if you spent all day out in the sun during the summer months, it would be impossible to store up enough Vitamin D to last the rest of the year.

And on the 'real, medical deficiency' front, there are many debates as to what optimum levels are for some vitamins and minerals. Nutrition is the one area where some things seem very unsettled (e.g. All fat is bad! No wait only some fat is bad! No wait eating fat doesn't necessarily make you fat! etc). [ And even then a real, medical deficiency may just mean that your body is degrading vs. operating efficiently. E.g. maybe taking Vitamin X will help your body digest and absorb food better, but you don't need it to keep living so there is no real, medical deficiency. ]

[1] Used Portland as an example, because I remember reading about this.
"Multi-AZ, not "multi-region" outage. (Big difference.)
There should also be a setting that says, "Enable read receipts only if the recipient does too"
Systemic inflammation stops vitamin D synthesis or utilization, and a large fraction of the US population is inflamed due to lousy diet. You could be taking tons of vitamin D and getting daily midday sun and still measure deficient if you're living on cola and potato chips.
James Altucher is usually a good read. I have been buying his inexpensive books on Kindle, and when my wife and I are on long road trips whoever is not driving often reads aloud. He has a lot of good ideas for readers to think about, like, write down 10 good ideas each day. His advice on not multi-tasking is gold.
This thing looks awesome. Thanks for making this happen!

I'm sorry to hear that the Galaxy S4 won't work with this. That's the phone I'm most likely to buy next. Could you say more about why they're incompatible?
We've built a platform for social collaboration over stories (storystrings.com) and we're trying to make onboarding simple (ideally 1-2 clicks). To do this we want to help folks build stories automatically using existing behaviors. And these behaviors are what we're trying to understand now. Thanks for your help!
They were common in early 20th century as well. I have photographs of both my grandfathers wearing them as small children.
A well defined objective, successfully completed, is a well-defined objective terminated.

What a fantastic mountain of effort, focused dedicated enthusiasm, and skill-sets, left adrift and carelessly abandoned. I have read schematics of some Apollo entire sub-systems, have completely disappeared.

And then there is the decades long disappointment. We see few Shuttle posts on HN.
I used that combination before, it works really nice. But at some point I hit the storage limit and had to come up with a self-hosted solution.
Part of this is because of wealth distribution, and part of it is because of a lack of imagination.

When businesses use productivity enhancements to cut labor requirements without increasing price or output, then all the money saved by this accumulates to the business. That results in large cash surpluses, which we're seeing right now (Apple has $40B in cash and short-term investments). In order to capture and redistribute that cash, the rest of the population needs to produce products that appeal to the firms who have the cash - but there's relatively little of value that an individual or small business owner can supply to a giant company like Apple.

In theory, cash is non-productive and so companies should have an incentive to re-invest this money into new products to make more cash. However, that requires that they see market opportunities that have a chance of succeeding. Since consumers have so little cash, that's a tough chore right now; the bar for a new consumer product that people will actually spend money on is quite high. And so companies never make the investments that generate employment that give people cash to spend on the products the companies are investing in. Catch-22.

I think that the current seed-funding boom is a symptom of this. Cash piles up in the financial markets, some of it ends up with venture capitalists, they spray it across many little proof-of-concept ventures to figure out what the next big thing is. And ultimately this is a very good thing, because it's typically fear of irrelevancy that makes big companies spend money on investments anyway. It takes a long time to work its way out, though, because you can't just wave a magic wand and have a hit product.
Mobile phone game could find cancer cures
I think the biggest appeal of Detroit right now is that the people going there are trying to be a part of something bigger. They're trying to revitalize and reinvent a once great city. And it's working. Detroit is a hell of a lot nicer now than it was 5 years ago.

You might think that the tech sector can't do enough to turn the city around, but I disagree. This isn't just a collection of random startups. There are tech giants like Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon who are already in the area or looking to be. Quicken Loans (Intuit) is the biggest tech employer downtown and Dan Gilbert is doing everything he can to make the city more amenable to other tech companies.

And the auto industry? That's still there. It'll never be the blue collar manufacturing boomtown it was, but all the auto companies will continue hiring engineers. Both auto and software.
I agree, I didn't sense a big revelation in this piece so I stopped reading after I got this was a sympathy piece about young kids who expect to have a gold-plated career handed to them because they showed up at a college recruiting session.
I don't get this.

Focus on a healthy, balanced diet and make sure you include enough variety focusing on plenty of colorful vegetables, fruits and nuts. Exercise regularly and take good care of your body getting enough sleep and enough sunshine.

Is that not enough?
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Show HN: CollegeAnswerz
> Did you not read the thread on HN just this week full of 911 truthers?

You mean like the US head of conter-terrorism and the secretary of transportation? Or several of the 9/11 commission members themselves?
What's with the Google Derangement Syndrome on HN recently? Any change in any Google service prompts the same "I'm taking all my toys and going home" response.

Google used to have a separate profile system just like profiles.yahoo.com, and like Yahoo, having lots of disparate services with weak unification was a problem. G+ is that unifying profile layer. Is it really beyond the pale for a service to prompt you to enter some optional information about yourself? Yes, optional, as in, I have hundreds of followers on G+ with obviously bogus profiles. You don't have to use G+'s social feed, you don't have to friend anyone.

I personally barely use Twitter or Facebook, mostly as single-sign-on to forums and other sites.
Just released a major update for my site. What do you guys think?
Hey

I have recently released a new update for regex101 where I pretty much recoded everything; the entire explaination and colorizer engine. They are still not perfect, and I'm not fully satisfied with the code, but its way way better than it was before. I will probably remake it when I get more time on my hands.

A list of all that has been fixed would take too long to write up, but I have added some of the things I have most commonly been asked:

- Changeable delimiters

- Alternating color matches

- Bigger editor

- Wider and more accurate explanations

- Samples on how to use regex (automatically generated)

I am planning on adding more flavors in the future, so you can do live testing and validation of java, javascript, python and perl style regular expressions. I am also trying to create my own debugger (much like the one in regexbuddy). Once again, this will have to be when I get more time on my hands. Currently the only support is for PCRE which is achieved through PHP.

Until then I ask you guys to please tell me what you think of the current features, suggest new ones and please report any bugs you might encounter :).

If you want to help me out with the website, send me a message!

Thanks in advance!
I doubt even a committed frugivore gets close to the doses discussed in that article. Oranges, for instance, are quite rich in vitamin C, but you'd still have to eat about 30 to get the 3000mg dose described. And as ValentineC says, the sugar in all that fruit is probably more significant.
Being Australian probably makes it easier on the NSA, not harder. They're allowed to spy unfettered on foreigners.
I find that Americans hold the attitude that the government is not the picture perfect example of efficiency except in the case of the military. Spoiler alert: we have a quasi-single-payer system for the military.
It's a tragedy when anyone, anywhere, dies because he/she cannot afford or has no access to adequate medical care.

We have a very long way to go.
Everything is "poison" it just depends on the dose.
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.

Not sure I see that, mostly because not all side projects by developers will be pure code/apps. Quite a few developers seem to be creating e-mail newsletters but then are failing to monetize them or run them regularly long-term. I'd buy those on the right topics at the right price even if I could rip off the idea myself because there's still value there.
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