skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

This is also an argument against doing a PhD where you are expected to focus on a very narrow field. The problem is that we want to measure academic progress by numbers in form of papers so scientists need to publish a lot otherwise they run out of funding. But if there is always this pressure to publish there is less time to step back to see the big picture.
Detroit hasn't had 'strong leadership' for a while though. Mostly people that care about using public funds to prop up their friends/family with jobs.
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Sorry if I came off as condescending, it looked that way when I read it again. The rfcs are 1034 and 35 and are very interesting reads. 5321 is good too. For example, did you know that you don't need an mx record for email? If none is present, it will default to the a record. DNSSEC is in 4034, among others.
Also, I think maybe more explanation about the main benefit of CNAMES, a virtual host based setup where many domains point to the same IP.
The stunning video game resume that took 2,000 hours to make
FYI the new Windows 8 mobile platform is better then anything I have used running Android so wishing harm on employees in MS for "stiffling innovation" is quite funny.
While this is a great and heartbreaking story that makes me proud to be an active member of HN it's also a symptom of the totally broken US healthcare system.

From wikipedia:

The United States life expectancy of 78.4 years at birth, up from 75.2 years in 1990, ranks it 50th among 221 nations, and 27th out of the 34 industrialized OECD countries, down from 20th in 1990. Of 17 high-income countries studied by the National Institutes of Health in 2013, the United States had the highest or near-highest prevalence of infant mortality, heart and lung disease, sexually transmitted infections, adolescent pregnancies, injuries, homicides, and disability. Together, such issues place the U.S. at the bottom of the list for life expectancy. On average, a U.S. male can be expected to live almost four fewer years than those in the top-ranked country.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States spent more on health care per capita ($8,608), and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (17.9%), than any other nation in 2011. The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among similar countries, and notes U.S. care costs the most.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_State...
Most people buy crappy vitamins and supplements at Target, Costco, etc. There are many forms of Vitamin E, for example, and 99.9% of people just take one of the 8. This is just an example. It's a similar situation with Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Folic Acid vs Folate, etc. I usually ignore those as it's similar to read studies about beef when those are done with antibiotic and hormone rich meats and if you eat pasture-raised, organic beef - it has a different quality and nutritional profile. All these studies aim to scare people away from preventive medicine and send you back into the drug-dispensing MDs. Yes, you don't need supplements if you eat a healthy, traditional diet, but even organic foods don't have the same quality and properties as those freshly grown, picked, etc. Supplements are an insurance and people need to very, very carefully select theirs as there are tons of scammers in the field! Just got a mailer from Walmart and it's 2/3rds ads of supplements! Same with Costco!
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Like this? http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/day_23...
There's also study showing vitamin supplementation reduces cancer risks:

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1380451
I'm not sure you actually understand what's going on here. The zone file that you're looking at is only used internally by the DNS server - it is never sent across the wire, so the verbosity of the format is largely irrelevant.
Magical thinking
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Sunk costs are sunk costs. You quit and move on to something that doesn't incur more debt. One option is joining the military where you can get real-world experience and they'll pay a significant portion of future education. Another is taking base courses at a significantly cheaper community college until you understand what you want to do and whether you have the natural ability for it.

The core problem is taking on 30k of debt without the commitment and/or natural ability necessary to complete the degree.
"when a handful of HN celebrities post repeatedly about raising rates"

Exactly. An similar example might be me. While not an HN celebrity I do get referrals for what I do from people who are celebrities (could do an entire post on how that went down actually). I do it because it's a) fun (it's not the main way I make money - very time consuming) and b) I do it to plant seeds for future things (contacts with important people) as well.

Consequently I am able to say "I want $x for a strategy and research fee and $y upon successful completion of the task". So far I've had no kickback from anyone so I just have to evaluate and try to maximize x and y perhaps and raise to make more iic. The "research/strategy" though appears to work even w/o the celebrity connections because of my other obvious qualifications and what I do.

There are lessons to be learned from how I operate but they would probably be more centered around how I got to that place rather than "here is how you can charge what I charge". Otoh if I wanted to become an HN celebrity (I don't at least not now for sure) I could spin this any way I want. I could make anything the "thing" that should be paid attention to.

There are lessons to be learned from all of this of course but I fear that someone just starting out may have a much harder time seeing the 50% they should pay attention to and the 50% they should not.
I suppose the point is, analysis of storytelling elements isn't new, there's many more books written about it than just the Cat one.

An interesting question (and one that the article IMO does not quite attempts to answer) would be: the Cat's description of storytelling-elements is quite formulaic, descriptive and precise. did the explicitness of this particular book cause (or play an important role in causing) the explosion of formula Hollywood plot-lines[0], or is it merely part of a general movement, flavour of the times? in short, is this "beat-sheet" literally used as a "cheat-sheet", or does it just continues the tradition of storytelling deconstruction?

Maybe this is what you meant by the article not really selling you on it, though.

(there's a couple more questions along this line that I would think are interesting as well, but you can probably guess them)

[0] in particular, the part of phenomenon that is real and not based on selection bias.
The version live right now is just a proof of concept more than anything, once I've got a few hours spare (hopefully sometime this week) I'm going to rebuild it to operate in a sane manner and will benchmark the load it can support, the Linode itself shouldn't have problems supporting millions of requests a day, it'll be cnamer itself that causes a bottleneck if there is one. Worst case if it turns out there's too much usage for the Linode to support (unlikely...) I'll upgrade the server / move it elsewhere. I was hoping to rebuild + benchmark it before mentioning it anywhere but this blog post seem super relevant heh.
I think you are right in assuming that the buyer side of the market is not going to consist of developers. However, there is certainly a market here if the right people are targeted and the projects are presented as businesses in a box as opposed to abandoned side projects.

Potential buyers include MBA's who can't code, or don't have time to, and all of those many people who tell you "I have an idea I just need you to build it and we will split everything 50/50". If the grand vision was presented to them properly, they just might shell out a few thousand for it.
You can customize it but the UI isn't particularly obvious. You can drag emails between tabs to teach gmail which is the most appropriate tab, you can also designate inboxes as a filter action.

Personally I think it's a great feature but one I won't be using because I already have a labyrinth of filter rules that perform the same function.
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On my second pageview I was greeted with a big alert saying "this website is not very secure."

Kind of ridiculous.
I cannot find any informations about size of data that can be stored in NFC Ring. I hope this is not one of this with 137 bytes.
Anybody knows the memory capacity of a tag?
What about shaking hands with people? The video really didn't convince me it was secure. You use the bottom of your hand to, for instance, hold stuff - so what if someone passed you a phone configured to scoop up data?
I'd never heard of Backupsy before, looks very cool!

What is special about their VPS offering that makes it so cheap? I mean, from what I can see for an extra $2/month they let you host websites and install anything you want (except torrents, TOR or anything illegal).

I've been wanting to have an affordable VPS solution so I could be host my own stuff, and have the freedom to experiment with various development tools, and this might be a decent deal.
I'm afraid I think that video just misrepresents how ISO14443A anti-collision works. Most reader devices (like phones, door locks, etc.) will select the tag with the best signal (usually = the closest) and deselect others during the anti-collision protocol. This /doesn't/ rule out a malicious reader selecting the other tag, subject to being able to power it.
Where do you get the drops? I'd add potassium to your list too. The rda for potassium is huge like 10 bananas worth a day. I don't know how anyone can be getting enough potassium.
Seriously, this is not an unsolved problem. The US spends more per capita than the rest of the world but has huge swaths of people denied basic care, and poor outcomes overall for an allegedly developed nation. There are a range of options available - look at any of the varied options successfully implemented by every other developed nation on Earth. Americans may choose to reject them based on ideological grounds, but it's ridiculous to approach this like a problem that has never been tackled. Governments exist to address precisely these problems that require collective action without profit motive.

One note on efficiency - something like 30% (yes yes, citation needed) of American health dollars go towards insurance administration. A family member of mine works in Canadian health care and had a recent arrival (a physician, IIRC) from the States ask where the "billing floor" was because an out-of-country patient needed some sort of paperwork done. Well, Canadian hospitals don't have floors dedicated to processing payment. There was a small office.

On a second note, having your healthcare connected to your employment situation seems like insanity - I can't fathom anything that would argue in favour of that, unless you're an employer looking for additional leverage over your serfs.
Looks like someone went with a SQL injection [0] (right after I read this!)

[0]: https://cloudup.com/cttFEZd2cL6
Black Girls Code: A cool campaign to reduce gender/race imbalances in coding
Let's face it, coding is full of white dudes. These guys trying to change that
Vegetables are a better source of protein and healthy fats, and they're more efficient. Insects are just animals that inefficiently convert calories into animal protein. On top of that it's not ethical to eat animals.
> Am I missing something?

It's a normal food in many parts of the world.

Apart from that, you're right about it having a big "yuck" factor for most people. At the moment it's going to be brave early adopters, finding out what's nice, and what's got too much exoskeleton. (Chitinous legs stuck in your teeth is off-putting.)

Cereal volume 3 has a nice article about the various types of bugs and where they're eaten. (http://readcereal.com/magazine/)

I might be about to raise and eat insects, but my child definitely will. (Consider that children often eat bugs from the garden, and it's only the reaction from horrified parents that stops them doing it!)
Often the least mentioned and discussed approach to solving the healthcare morass is the customer driver model of healthcare.

David Goldhill is the author of Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

He advocates restricting the insurance system gradually and phasing out eventually, to increase accountability and vastly improve delivery standards.

His father was afflicted by a series of hospital infections that compounded his condition and eventually killed him.

When admitted in hospitals, he was thrice subjected to medical procedures that were meant for other people.

This Atlantic article is eminently readable.

How American Health Care Killed My Father

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/09/how-americ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_7qCpiS_ZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9y_FttOGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0OAj9J_HW4
systemd's syslogd replacement supports JSON output
Not only is the result impressive, but so is the presentation ("reproduce the results" / "get the code"). Every CS academic paper (that proposes a new construction) should learn from this.
Check out the UPC database. They probably have a lot.

Also when you let people scan it it if you can't find a matching game then you let them enter it manually. Eventually you'll at least have the most common games covered.

I went through a similar thought process with a site I made a while ago. grocist.com

Btw. Let me know if I can help out at all. I have a bit of free time lately.
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Pretty nice post. I hope to be able to follow all the math tomorrow.
> It's brilliant and hilarious; at one point they describe "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley as the perfect pop song because it plays so deliberately into schoolgirls' fantasies.

Oh I didn't catch that part, I only read it half-way. I should pick it up again :)

BTW anyone interested can find several plain text copies of this book with a simple search query. The KLF (Discordians) were pretty big on Kopyleft afaik, so I doubt they mind either.
Interesting idea. I have an Android game that I've been working on for a while and I think it is pretty interesting but I just don't have the time to continue to polish it and market it. Maybe there's somebody out there who has the time to finish up the project and likes the idea of skipping the early development phase. There must be a lot of side projects like this.
Nope, because even if you do all those things, at some point your body will start to slow down, you'll get aches and pains you didn't used to have, and some time you will suffer illness.

At that point many people are keen to see great benefits from placebos, and the door to quack medicine is open.
I've been taking similar quantities in years and my WellnessFX labs and annual physicals are perfect. Even if supplements are not help me (much), they are not hurting me (much) either although it's hard to tell as often damage accumulates over years and labs only expose a few pixels of the whole picture.
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The website is currently broken from hosting unsafe JavaScript directing back to this story. That's not a very friendly greeting from HackerNews. :-\

[1]view-source:http://koi.io/briefs/view/or-1-1

[2]http://koi.io/briefs/view/or-1-1
The Twiggy Macintosh prototype is alive...
> I'd rather they open up the entire OS and software though. People need to know this is secure and not just trust someone, again

With open source software, too, you have to trust someone. In this case this someone is the people who review it. Of course it's always possible to check the source code yourself, but I doubt that most people would invest the time to audit a codebase that has been worked on for two years or more, by several developers. And even if they invest the time, chances are that weaknesses are overlooked (see, for example, Cryptocat). And even if the source code does exactly what is claimed to do, how do you know that the compiler works correctly? Does the machine code really correspond exactly to the source code?

It always comes down to trusting _some
one_. With open-sourced software, that person is usually "someone on the internet". With Plug, you have to trust the people who produce it. It is their business interest to provide a relatively secure product, and from kickstarter they got a lot of resources to put into this.

I for one would rather trust a company with a financial interest in providing a secure product, than a couple of volunteers who are in it for other reasons.

Edit: Grammar
It's presumptuous to assume that because the founder of the project was unable to make it profitable that someone else couldn't. Many engineers have no sales / marketing skills at all. Also, a service might be useful for a preexisting user base. And maybe a service that is making someone $50k a year isn't worth it for one person might be perfect for someone else.
Read the book Voltaire's bastards by John Ralston Saul where he writes about persecution of authors and cartoonists throughout history. PEN Intl also keeps a current list of authors targeted by the state, lawyers, or media. Rowling probably wants to be able to write adult content without it affecting her children's books so used a pen name, because phony conservative media can easily freak out and pressure stores to rip it off shelves. Happened before with other authors.
You'll be okay

Until you realize half your outbound mail isn't getting delivered because the person who had your VPC's IP before you was a spammer, or because you didn't correctly navigate the labyrinth of DKIM, SPF, feedback loops, and arbitrary recipient mail server policies.
This is of course exactly the killer feature that would convert me into a true systemd believer. The only thing better would be to have an ASN.1 representation of the logs as the native format, for the sake of portability. After all, if you don't have tools to analyze your logs for you, you might as well not even have logs.
and also - how long until Side Projectors is listed on itself ;)
RailsCasts is great for individual features, but I guess I'm looking for direction on whole projects I could do that were at a good intermediate but not advanced level.
As a Father of four, this makes a whole lot of sense to me. I'd guess they'd potty train faster in a dress than in pants.
Agree with you entirely. I've completely switched to Nokia/WinPhone 8. Had a Lumia 710, now got a 620. The latter was dirt cheap (sim free), smooth as anything and it just works flawlessly.

This is after a history of Symbian, iPhone, various androids and a blackberry. The symbians were pretty good, the iPhones (3,4,4s) all had minor annoying bugs and to be honest felt like surgical instruments rather than phones, the androids were all buggy, slow and unreliable (HTC desire, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Ace). Blackberries are fiddly and odd and mine smelt like poo after a week which was odd (9310). Apparently something to do with the glue they use.

I'm literally relieved to use a windows phone!
You thought most people lived in the USA? You thought most people worked for US companies?
Aaaand it's off the front page. It's actually inaccessible now, someone used XSS to redirect here whenever I open the home page. lol
A few notes on Backupsy from their website:

>Will you backup my Backup VPS?

> Unfortunately, no. Even though we use a RAID protected setup, there is still a slight chance of data loss due to RAID controller failure. For extreme redundancy you can order 2 backup VPS in different nodes and we can mirror them for you ("Configure it for me" addon should be purchased).
Nice numbers. Would you like some for France? Or Germany? Or even some relevant ones?
He meant the benevolent kind of empire.

Since the US doesn't annex territories for itself and keep them as colonies as part of some Commonwealth Realm.

Although the US could have if it tried, with the slightest flex of a myoblast, in the last great war. It still can.

Pretty sure that's what he/she meant.
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On a positive note, the front-end design is pretty good. I like the sketch on the header; it explains the concept pretty succinctly.
Most of the page is responsive, but the menu isn't visible on small windows.
Other than that, just fix your security issues (sanitize all inputs server-side) and you should be good to go.

Good luck!
Look, they're just shitty movies. Shitty movies with one dimensional characters. If this was a masterpiece I might be willing to debate--but the second movie in particular was illogical nonsense full of groan-worthy action sequences and a few tits.
NAC could be a problem. Some suggest it should be taken together with high doses of vitamin C and there are some studies that it increases oxidative stress if you exercise much. I've also read that NAC doesn't really increase Glutathione levels, but concentrates it into the liver helping the detox, but reducing levels outside of the liver can't be a good thing. Just eat avocados, garlic, and take Milk Thistle and you won't need NAC.
Perl is an interpreted language, so there's no compilation stage.

Perl claims to have a compilation stage, by which the documentation means that the lexer and parser produce an optree, which the runtime phase traverses. During that compilation stage, it's possible to run code which changes how the parser will treat subsequent syntactic elements.
If Google just wanted me to add a few relevant details to my primary account for some obvious useful purpose, details that would be kept private, I would happily oblige. However, this goes beyond that: Google is asking me to share information with no apparent application use (birth date?! gender???) to ANYONE who stumbles upon my G+ profile. I am not against unifying their services - in fact, this is what Google's basic authentication service should and could have done - but that is not the full extent of what is happening here, as far as I can tell.