skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you lose interest/motivation after a long time of not launching or it just doesn't go anywhere and it could be valuable to another person.
Northern climes don't get enough sun.

Vitamin D supplements (at normal daily doses) are recommended.

This is especially important for pregnant women and children under 5. Also for people with limited access to sun ('cultural dress' for example.)
FUD. This is total nonsense. I've lived in and around Detroit for the greater part of my life. I've even lived in the Bay Area for a couple years. There have been tremendous strides to turn this city around even in the last 5 years. I don't live in the city now, but I do work downtown every day in the Ren Cen. Even in the last year alone, I've noticed things pick up in the downtown area. I'm glad you took your cranky hatred elsewhere.
Neat idea. A good spin on wearable computing.
> My personal experience is that older folks (>65) get stuck more firmly than younger folks.

Did you not read the thread on HN just this week full of 911 truthers?
Seems like an inefficiency and a chance for a talented recruiter to get better talent.
Perfectly worded. What I wish I had said.
Google login now requires Google+ Account
Today, I went to login to a service that I signed up for many months ago using my Google account. In the past, clicking the 'sign in with Google' button with authenticate against my Google account and immediately log me in. However, today, I was prompted to create a Google+ profile with no other option. In other words, either I could create a Google+ account, or I could fuck off and never use the service again... Anyone else encountering this?
It's not really efficiency, it's a lack of growth. Efficiency (producing more with each worker) doesn't itself reduce the demand for workers, because the economy usually just produces more in the aggregate to compensate. What's reducing the demand for workers is that it's just not attractive to expand within the U.S. If you've got some capital, you're going to get a much bigger return on that money in a less developed place like China or Brazil than you will here. There is just less competition and consumer expectations are lower.
It shouldn't be a problem if you have enough vitamin K in your diet:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/03/2...
Good diet and exercise is more useful than poor diet, no exercise, and supplements.

Some people (children under 5; pregnant women; etc) will need supplements, and many people benefit from Vitamin D supplements.
Owncloud client is based on csync, which a quite weak system compared to unison, in terms of file consistency.

No idea how well unison performs in constant Dropbox-like usage, but you shouldn't let the flaws of Owncloud deter you: file synchronisation isn't Owncloud's strong point.
IIRC, CP/M had 8.3 file names, ctrl-Z terminated text files, and drive letters, but its on-disk structures where totally different. That certainly was the case when comparing it to FAT versions that allow for subdirectories (CP/M did not have subdirectories)
Indeed. Some of us spend that extra time writing pithy comments on HN.
Existing flagging systems are adequate and 1 cent per use doesn't seem like a sustainable business model for anyone involved. It seems like mostly social networks would be your customer, but 5 minutes is a long wait and eliminates many use cases. A quick script hooked up to Mechanical Turk (or TaskArmy) does the same thing and could provide results in a minute or less.

You'd also be associating yourself with porn, which comes with all sorts of weird consequences.

What makes you think that this is a problem that needs solving? And if it needs solving, what makes it worth it to you? Are you uniquely qualified to solve this problem? What is your end goal?
Inbox is inbox.
An ERISA like system would just put major impetus for the movement from defined benefit to defined contribution for state and local governments. Which trend has already happened in the private sector.

I'm sure a lot of people are wondering WTF I'm talking about, and why it matters.

A defined benefit pension says, "You will get this much per year when you retire." A defined contribution plan says, "We will put this much into your retirement fund."

The problem with a defined benefit plan is that to do it properly, you need to set aside money today for that purpose. And then you need to invest it. However the most effective long-term investments are risky asset classes like stocks. But the downside of those is that there will be years where your pension fund loses money..a lot of money. If you are under pressure to guarantee that your plan is fully funded at all times, in those years you'll have an insanely huge obligation.

How big a deal is this? Consider well that governments around the country all have large pension plans that they have decreed should make about 6.5%. Which, of course, can't be done with safe asset classes. So they are pushed into risky asset classes, but not just any risky one, risky ones with a track record of stable returns. Like private equity. When private equity went belly up in the 1980s it caused the S&L crisis. If it happens again, the numbers now are 10x as large, and it is largely government pension funds that wind up underfunded to the tune of something like a trillion dollars.

By contrast a defined contribution plan just requires that you pay a defined amount into an investment plan, which is then free to be invested in the most sensible asset classes.
The difference is that The Sunday Times probably wouldn't publish a front-page story outing someone as gay.
Theoretically, it should be possible to have a web UI running on the server itself. You just need a decent AES implementation in Javascript to do client-side decoding of filenames and files. Any volunteers? :-)

Edit: Looks like someone is already working on it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10909500/use-encfs-with-j...
Introducing HybridKit for iOS
Also, the buzzfeed site has a relatively good layout. None of that overlay toolbar bullshit or popup shit. In fact, this readability link adds an overlay toolbar to the site (one of the main reasons why I use readability in the first place).
Alternately Social Security is projected to be solvent for decades if the US federal government simply pays back the treasury bonds which are invested in Social Security. I know, actually paying bonds that are owed to Social Security is a radical notion. As would be raising taxes for that purpose.
I think what we need today are competent generalists - super-teachers if you will - who have deep (i.e., at least post-graduate level) proficiency in what are currently considered separate fields such as Physics, Philosophy, Mathematics or Biology. There's a goldmine of new breakthroughs waiting to happen at the intersection of disparate areas of knowledge. Generalist teachers/professors at the first/second year university levels can help the next generation be more adept at recognizing the connections between fields of study. Currently unfortunately you are not recognized at higher-rungs of academia unless you super-specialize and churn out papers. We really need to acknowledge generalization as well, even when it happens at the cost of any original contributions.
The Daily Mail on the other hand...
you should have a landing page with an email sign up form that you can link people to.
They use some kind of heuristic to make change detection faster, see their documentation: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/...

Maybe that's the root cause of your issues?
We've reached a point where the limit of economic growth is no longer knowledge workers - it's entrepreneurs. After WW2, knowledge workers were the bottle neck, college degrees guaranteed jobs, and institutions, grants and MBA schools sprung up everywhere.

The key for new grads is understanding the supply and demand curve. Your career prospects are better if 1. your skills are in short supply or 2. if they're in great demand or both. When there's a glut of talent and it's cheap, form companies.
I would be with you if goods production somehow halted and we weren't able to get our hand on those very goods:
less workers->less production->scarcity->unsatisfied demand->soaring prices

that simply isn't happening. It seems to me that organizations that previously employed tens thousands of workers are now doing just fine with way less than that.
This may be scientifically unproven, but I'm a believer that the negative effects from fruits come from all that sugar in them.
Don't reuse the keys, just generate a different key on each client and add them all to authorized_keys
So it's OK to expose a person's secrets as long as that person isn't harmed?
Five minutes is a long time for said web services to have to wait for an image to be validated.

Also, you might (i don't know, ianal) have some legal issues when inevitably the child porn shows up, because then your employees are being paid to look at child porn. Which if they're not cops might be a problem.

Although, if i'm running a web service, better you than my own mods, I guess.
Texas oncology is a private practice. The $50K most likely paid for all the non-labor costs of the treatment. The doctors were working for free; i.e. they weren't compensated for their time
Feels good to be part of such a community.
If encryption is done client-side, the data is still encrypted server-side and chrooting does nothing.
Never heard that dresses were gender-neutral for small children in the 19th century. Seems I've seen plenty of old photographs that show boys wearing traditionally "masculine" clothing, though commonly with short pants, transitioning to long pants during adolescence.
What do you mean by 'vulnerable'? All encryption is done on your computer/notebook, so a chroot on the server doesn't decrypt the files.
It's time to dump Google. Alternatives: http://prism-break.org
There's not a lot of substance in the OP to back the claim "its Tech Community Is Going Strong"...and a lot of the individual assumptions/assertions made by the OP are kind of strange...

> By some estimates, the city owes as much as $20 billion. But the news is unlikely to halt the growth of Detroit's burgeoning tech scene, according to some of its entrepreneurs.

"according to some of its entrepreneurs"....if this is in the lede, I think it's safe to assume that the reporter isn't going to look at the big picture (i.e. the relative size of the tech startup boom compared to Detroit's job sector in general)...

> "We are the Facebook or the Twitter of the area," Gierak says. "We can get unbelievably good people who are extremely talented and think we're the coolest job in town, as opposed to being the 550th coolest job in town back in San Francisco."

I haven't been in the SF job market...but is the allure of being "Employee #single-digit" enough to outweigh a higher-paying job in a more amenable city?

> Neverthless, the tech scene in Detroit does face challenges. The most recent Census data shows Detroit has just 11,000 young professionals between 25 and 34 who hold at least a bachelor's degree, compared to Chicago's 250,000. Michigan is one of four states that had fewer young professionals in 2011 than it did in 2006.

"...does face challenges"...that's quite the buried understatement. Detroit has a relatively tiny pool of young professionals...at the same time, tech jobs seem to still be in hot demand in nearby Chicago. 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?

This is not to counter the actual achievements of the Stik team, but it's unlikely the tech scene -- especially with startups focused on online remote services -- will have much factor at all in reversing Detroit's deterioration. Not through any fault of their own, but because of the sheer size of local revitalization needed.
What a cool idea! I hope they think of a less generic name, because as it stands there's going to be a lot of mindshare/SEO conflict with NFC Championship rings.

I hope they can use the success of this kickstarter to figure out manufacturing efficiencies that enable them to test out more form factors. Personally, I'm crazy about the idea of a wearable NFC device but I don't like the aesthetics of a ring: a wristband (or, ideally, something I can attach to the bottom of my watch face) would be much more preferable.
I strongly suggest that you look at what happened in Australia when a similar system was implemented.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-30/in-australia...
Job hopping: How much is too much?
German intelligence used NSA spy program
Sunlight comes with increased cancer risks so even if it's more efficient and cheaper than D it's not nessisarily better. Also, studies have demonstrated that eskimos get significant quantities do D from there diet so diet can work.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this was already in place for quite a while. Google has slowly been trying to move away form pseudonyms altogether and force Real Name policies like Facebook and things like YouTube, Blogger, Docs etc... were all slowly tied to one login system.

This was a problem for me at first because I ended up with multiple accounts with no way to merge them together. But I believe they started with YouTube.

I got an email saying they will deactivate/delete the account without verifying it (in this case "verify" was to create a Google account). I'm guessing this was only sent to accounts that hadn't uploaded any videos and mine had none at the time. A friend of mine also got the same email and she had no videos at the time either.

It makes sense from their end to create one account, but adding Google+ seems to be a case of forced adoption. I've used multiple gmail addresses and they've all prompted me to create a new G+ account whenever I logged in just to check the inbox. If I wanted to add another service, I've been hit with some sort of conflict message. I think Google is able to tell when the same person uses multiple gmail addresses.
If you had an iPhone/Andriod app where you can take a picture of your sketch and upload it automatically, that would be awesome.
What it feels like to be sued by a Patent Troll
Disclaimer: I didn't post this thread but I'm the guy running this Kickstarter and trying to get NFC Rings into the hands of hackers to do beautiful and wonderful things.

Also worth noting one of the founders of this project is Matt Mullenweg, the creator of Wordpress.

Some cool things I made with the ring I haven't announced before but you guys might like..

* An NFC controlled Gun trigger (hold gun with ring in hand and you can fire it)
* Various hidden door locks (touch door in right place with ring and it opens)

A huge challenge I face right now is trying to use OpenCV Haarcascades to measure the width of ring fingers, I have a project up for it https://github.com/mclear/html5-measurer -- any input from CV guys would be great :) Also worth noting all of the software for the NFC Ring is under an Apache license.

Thanks @andrewchoi for the post! :) Appreciated!

Thanks Hacker News folks for the support and backing.

I'm heading out for some beers with my dad at 7pm(GMT) but when I'm back or tomorrow I'm happy to answer questions, in the mean time Tanya will be answering questions through Kickstarter.
I was reminded of this:
http://hybratech.com/products/orb

It is a different concept, but similar enough. After a couple of years still not available.
I bought a couple of tags for my phone new S4 this week. The issue I have right now is that the tags only seem to get read when my screen is on and unlocked which mean that I'm only one click away from running a command anyway, so for now, NFC tags combined with my phone seem less useful that I first thought.
Last Member of 65,000 Year Tribe Dies
Government funding a safety net retirement program has quite a short history. I don't think we've come anywhere close to establishing that it's a must-have.
Ask PostgreSQL App Devs: Best Practice for Product CP
If you develop applications using PostgreSQL we have a question for you.

We have a web-based, mobile-enabled application that helps Pg developers write their programs. It is not an admin tool and does not replace Pgadmin III.

We are a very small shop and the product represents a huge investment for us. What is the best practice for copy protection on such a product? The app is written in C and we plan to distribute binaries for Linux, BSD and Mac. We want to avoid license codes, or any action on the user's part at all.

Justin Tocci
Programmer
Good point, I fixed that.
Not directly about the article, but for anyone interested in finding out what actual research has to say about any supplement you might be interested in, http://examine.com/ is a great resource to explore for that.
Unfortunately that says nothing about people who are not megadosing on vitamins or who benifit in other ways thus offsetting the risks.
Gotta love the irony in that.
Which Universities Produce the Most Successful Startup Founders?
Its an interesting material but other than even more amazingly absorbent diapers, or better dessicants, I'm struggling with what the applications are. There are a list of uses for zeolites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite#Uses) which seems that these guys if they can make theirs cheaper and its better could jump into, perhaps I'll be getting a new Brita water purifier "Now with Upsalite!" or something?

Is there a materials scientist in the house that can help me out here?
I love the idea and design of this; it's beautiful.

But using storage-only NFC tags as an authentication token? This is not a good idea.
How much more do you want to produce?
Apollo 11 anniversary: Bay Area remembers Moon landing
I've looked into this before and concluded it was possible, although I forget exactly how.

I bookmarked https://crypton.io/ and http://peerjs.com/ . PeerJS is p2p WebRTC, which I believe I chose because I wanted to do secure, real-time p2p file sharing.

That isn't 100% relevant for this, but downloading the file over some socket into client-memory then decoding it there sounds like something webrtc could be a good option for.

Crypton handles the crypto.

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)

Edit: I should mention that I didn't research this extensively, and better libraries might be (and probably are) available.
I'm not saying that there aren't efficiency improvements happening. The economy is clearly producing as much as it did before with fewer workers. But efficiency improvements reduce production costs, which, in a competitive market, tends to be reflected as reduced prices. But when prices go down, quantity demanded goes up, so efficiency improvements tend to result in more overall production. I.e. the fact that companies need fewer workers per unit produced does not mean that they need fewer workers overall. We're not seeing that in the existing economy. Growth is non-existent, so companies are using efficiency improvements to cut workforces instead of using efficiency improvements to expand production while maintaining or growing the size of their workforces.
My gut feel, based on a BS Chem and then casual reading, has been that the occasional vitamin is best. Keep a bottle in the cupboard, take a one when you feel like it (no more than once a week). Replace the bottle when it expires.

Chances are you don't need it, and I think the body is really good at snatching up things it needs when that pill rolls by.

(I worried about the kidney/etc burden of daily excess, but the idea that daily excess could spur excess in the form of cancer does not surprise.)
A must read:
http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/54272-another-day-anoth...
>Request an sketch

>Post a sketch

Shouldn't it be "a sketch" on the first sentence too? To be honest, it hurts when I read it, but that might be just my OCD.

Also, is there anything preventing people from getting the sketch without paying its author? Perhaps you could give people only a thumbnail of the image and only if they pay the author, can they see the full original size image.

On another note, I really like how you explain the purpose of the website on the top header without many words.
Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop
NYC almost went bankrupt back in the 70's. It took a long time and a strong leadership to bring it back to where it stands now.

Granted Detroit does not have the population size of NYC but with strong leadership they can rebound. Well see if it happens. My bro in law lives near there and sells RE for a living. Said he feels optimistic that if Detroit cuts down on the city boundaries and focuses on areas of growth and potential they'll pull through.
FWIW, government officials admit to the hour-long 911 waits:

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/07/19/emergency-manager-sho...

> [Gov.] Snyder said it’s been a long period of decline in Detroit, and now is the time to do something about it. With “unacceptable” 58-minute emergency response times, he said the 700,000 residents of Detroit deserve better.

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20100916/METRO08/9160409

(2010)

> Most shocking, perhaps, occurred when a building collapsed on six firefighters, half of whom were taken to the hospital in squad cars and fire trucks because there were no ambulances on the scene. If that is how people in uniform are treated, imagine what it is like for the average citizen in the dark of night.

>> Mack made a claim to Fox 2 News a few weeks ago that the average response time in Detroit for an ambulance to arrive on a 911 call is 12 minutes -- even while admitting that often there are no units available to get to calls.

According to that 2004 audit, the two-year average at that time was about 12 minutes. And that was before the city cut its paramedics and emergency medical technicians by nearly 40 percent.

As a comparison, the city of Grosse Pointe reports its average ambulance response is five minutes. Dearborn's is four minutes. Warren's is 5:35.

In 2005, there were 303 paramedics and EMTs working the streets and the EMS division of the Fire Department had a budget of nearly $25 million. Today there are just 188 paramedics with a budget of nearly $23 million. With that many fewer paramedics, what happened to their estimated $11.5 million in salaries and benefits?
See The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...
New kid on the market: http://photographer.io has better features than Flickr.
Then go through all the convictions and look at it at a case-by-case basis. The details on the age of the people involved should be written down.

Or is justice too expensive?
Note to coldarchon: It seems like you are hellbanned..
a minimal initial investment in a cricket colony could absolutely feed a family of four

I've tried to raise crickets to feed a pet bearded dragon. I followed all the guidelines, but generally could never even keep them alive let alone get them to reproduce. I don't think this is quite as easy as it's made to sound.

It's odd because you see crickets everywhere in the wild, they must be pretty hardy, but I utterly failed trying to "farm" them.
Agree'd on generic name, we spent hours umming and arring about this. I wanted to go with "McLear Torus" but most people didn't get the joke, so that got shot down, it's something as an engineering company we are wrestling with, we have a marketing company working with us working on solving this problem.

Agreed on diversifying into other physical products but that's not in our road map so we're releasing the NFC Inlays onto the market for people to make their own items :) You can even 3d print your own NFC Ring!
holy shit, i've been waiting for this for years. couldn't believe it never existed before.