skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with you, the city is turning around. There's a spirit that wasn't there eighteen months ago. There's a vibrant and growing tech community. If you're not there its easy to miss it with the constant bombardment by the national media of what's called locally 'ruin porn'.

A group of us is having a civic hackathon this fall at the M@dison Oct 4-5 to celebrate the state's release of open API's for five themes: jobs, tourism, safety, veterans and foster kids.

If you want to see the real Detroit please join us:

http://www.codemichigan.com
The scary part is that the coercive push for Real Name, single identity is advantageous to both private sector (Google, Facebook, etc) and government (NSA, etc). The former get better tracking and ad revenues. The latter improved surveillance and control of the public.
Vitamin D is a useful, necessary nutrient that many people are deficient in. Supplements are useful for those people.

(http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vitamins-minerals/Pages/Vitamin...)

That GP should be reported. They're not following NICE guidelines for CFS, and they are failing their patients. It's easy to mock people with chronic fatigue and laugh about sending them away with a placebo, but that's abuse and should be stopped. That GP clearly doesn't want to treat them, which isn't fine but understandable. But that's why we now have primary mental health teams to refer people onto.

(http://publications.nice.org.uk/chronic-fatigue-syndromemyal...)
its good its hacked now so I know to fix it
I.e., "Health care is good enough, when you least need it."
From your article:

"However, in 2009, the US CDC issued a report that stated that the American rates of infant mortality were affected by the United States' high rates of premature babies compared to European countries. It also outlined the differences in reporting requirements between the United States and Europe, noting that France, the Czech Republic, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Poland do not report all live births of babies under 500 g and/or 22 weeks of gestation.[34][35][dead link][36] The report concluded, however, that the differences in reporting are unlikely to be the primary explanation for the United States’ relatively low international ranking.[36]"

Your argument, will perhaps partially correct, fails to properly explain the disparity in infant mortality (mostly due to unnecessary premature births) between the US and similar industrial countries.
The UK has notoriously poor cancer outcomes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1560849/UK-cancer-sur...
A quick look into systemd reveals that it's comprised of multiple components. For example the journal service is a separate daemon. What part of this does not align with your vision?

EDIT: looks like the "monolithic" myth has already been busted: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

I would say the distinction between systemd and older systems is that systemd follows the "better is better" mantra of design, while older systems follow the "worse is better" mantra of design. Older systems often feel like quick hacks. For example SysV init is a collection of init scripts. Yeah it is "simple" in that the init service itself is simple, but writing the scripts themselves is anything but simple, and they are brittle as well. How often have you seen init scripts failing during startup or boot? And why must you write daemon management code over and over again your init scripts? All this does is pushing complexity out of the init service and into the scripts. Systemd is taking complexity upon itself so that the scripts can be simple.
its an RF license so they can, a RM license is exclusive
I'd use it but I don't like working with Java nor projects that require compiling a large, complex GUI - that just makes portability even harder. My vision of a Skype clone is something more like pjsip, but much smaller and simpler.

It should be separable into parts (like UNIX userland tools), and each part should be reasonably small, self-contained and open source. Operable from a command line. Developers can put parts together to build featureful applications. They can add GUI's on top.

Under my vision, VOIP is a very basic functionality that should be part of every OS. Or at least every decent OS (UNIX-derived).
It's because of "American Exceptionalism." Single payer health care was not invented in America, therefore it could not possibly work in America. Education is similar. There are always at least 20 countries ranked ahead of the USA in primary and secondary education. Yet none of the successful approaches used in those countries can even be experimented with in the USA, because they "would never work here." Things are just different here, you see.

Knowing this, if one really wanted to implement single payer care in America, it would be more likely to succeed if the program was marketed as something like "Super Patriot America Care, just like our boys get in the US Military!" rather than calling it single payer care, which is some Euro/Canada not-invented-here thing that can't possibly ever work, because of America.
Looks like you are good with apple as they extended your account's renewal date due to the outage.

On another note... This is getting strange now.
I remember reading somewhere that due to how the vitamins are compressed into tablet form, you actually absorb very little of them anyway. But I can't verify this, because I can't find a citation right now...
we are working on that too
I have a hard time believing that the potential conflict of interest situation that emerges from a fixed-price engagement, where the customer ultimately can accept or reject the work, would be worse than the elemental conflict of interest that emerges from hourly billing, where customers have little control or even insight into hours billed.
Just another guy who talks about SSL without knowing the basics. I don't know what annoys me more: Someone how completely ignores cryptology and its security features or these guys who have such a dangerously low knowledge that they spread bullshit the whole day.

In fact, you don't have to trust StartSSL at all. They securely give you a valid cert while you don't have to reveal your private key at any time. Your private key is either generated manually on your sever by yourself or within the browser, on client side.

The important points are: StartSSL is trusted by all modern browsers and systems and they are cheap. There is nothing more to care about. In fact, _any_ trusted CA could be attacked and generate certs for man-in-the-middle attacks.

So, stop your stupid prejudice here. Actually, a CA from the Netherlands got known for being corrupted some years ago.
Before this thread devolves into the same arguments all over again, maybe everyone could read the following:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html
the problem is that I may want a gmail account or I may want to use google hangouts to videochat with friends or I may want or need to use google calendar ... but I do NOT want to have a social network account. Google has made it so I have no choice.
not sure that things really are getting better

nothing in that list of new features jumps out at me. and in terms of javascript support it looks like things are still worse than nb7.2 (they gutted their language model because of licensing concerns and the new model is terrible). they've added some bells and whistles, but still don't have the basics working (ie, JsDocs, which provide the typing info for javascript)

http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaScript2

so i'm still using nb7.2 (and purchased webstorm for javascript). i've been using (and loving) netbeans for 7 years, but from my pov, the project appears stalled (even though they're putting lots of work into it)
Seriously, can anyone in the Ann Arbor area speak up on this? My family and I have been mulling over a move from North Jersey back to MI for a while, and I know there is a tech scene there, but what's it like?
TELUS drastically raising prices
Take a look at how much Telus is raising its rates!

http://about.telus.com/community/english/news_centre/news_releases/blog/2013/07/15/telus-offers-canadians-clear-and-simple-two-year-wireless-plans

Look how much data will now cost! Any chance Hacker News will help Canadians out by spreading the news?
Hopefully not to distract too much from the valuable utility of this tool, but in case anyone else feels that the site design seemed uncomfortably similar to http://rubular.com/ (e.g. the three colors in the welcome box are identical), the site author mentions that regex101 is inspired by rubular in the about page http://regex101.com/about/:

I would also like to thank the creator of rubular for inspiring me to create my own service with extended features. I have from rubular recreated the regex quick-reference table (with some slight modification). The same goes for the welcome popup used on the index page. If there is any concern, feel free to send me an email and I will address the issue immediately.
if you use vim and vundle

Bundle 'mileszs/ack.vim'
Very good points. I use a third party TLS SMTP server for most outgoing stuff.

Realistically, DKIM, SPF, and other overbearing qualifications should only triggered if you're doing mass mailings. Ideally, you shouldn't get denied delivery if you're using an unqualified personal server (that, as you mentioned, hasn't previously been 100% blocked due to bad behavior by anybody in the past ever).
Refocusing the private sector cybersecurity mindset
Diet and exercise/lifestyle go a long way, but individual variation is still large -- perfect example: my wife and i have identical diets and eating habits, and my vitals are all "normal" -- yet she is b12 and vitamin D deficient, because her lower intestine doesn't absorb those into her body as effectively as mine does.
What The Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming
There is nothing particularly special about Backupsy as far as I can see. Just cheap simple servers with a bunch of disks in them. This type of hardware is very cheap. The software layer is equally simple - seems like just KVM and a dashboard, nothing fancy. So then low cost, low price right. Good combo.

However as you can see from the SLA (99.9%), you do have to pay something in the form of reduced redundancy and availability. If, for example, an HP RAID card freaks out and all the VM's get corrupted on your blade, well you are out of luck. That data is gone forever. It's a small risk, but it is a real one (in fact with the P410 they are using, that's actually happened to me before in production). There are lots of other things that can go wrong too. Virtualization is not all rainbows and unicorns.

In the end I think it's still a good deal if you need a backup target with phat storage in it. But if you are interested in just trying out stuff, I think Digital Ocean is a better call since they have a higher SLA (99.99%) and probably a better dashboard and it's around the same price. Backupsy, as the name implies, is made for backups.
I'd like to say the good people of Manchester (UK) got through something very similar in the XX century, and have been on the up ever since 1992, when the IRA demolished half the rotting city centre and unwittingly kickstarted a ground-zero regeneration campaign that's been wildly successful.

Maybe Detroit needs a similar "let's get our shit together" turning point; maybe it's already happened and we just don't know yet. It's clear that local geeks have produced positive media coverage for quite some time now (I'm sure I've seen quite a few features on this "Detroit rebirth" in the last 24 months).
Which is easy for you to state, were it not for the fact that the "simple service" is broken in various ways.

Let's start with the implementation-specific brokenness. I configured a log host with rsyslog. Rsyslog's configuration format, as well as documentation, is completely abysmal. And once in a while, rsyslog would use 100% CPU for no reason. A quick strace reveals that it keeps reading or writing to a file descriptor, but getting EAGAIN as error. Looks like a bug to me. And oh yeah, there's a race condition in rsyslog with regard to privilege lowering, so that sometimes it would great directories owned as root, and then it would lower its privilege, and then it would be unable to write to its own created directory. Just great.

The above are all fixable. But what bothers me more is that syslog is entirely unauthenticated. Any process can write to syslog, claiming that it is any process. A malicious user can write a syslog entry saying that "init[1]: the system is unstable. please reboot now!". As an administrator, you will not be able to tell whether the message actually came from init (or PID 1) or not. A quick look at systemd's journal mechanism reveals systemd at least has thought about these problems: http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.jour.... It would log the process's PID, UID, GID and more, and the sender is unable to fake that.
Puerto Rico, US Vigin Islands, American Samoa, CNMI, Guam, and most importantly Hawaii are all annexed territories of the United States. Not to mention California and most of the west really.
You must be replying to the wrong post. This post is asking whether others have been asked to create a g+ account in order to log in using Google, not "I'm taking all my toys and going home" or whatever childish way you want to characterize people who are "deranged" about Google.
Yes will definitely try Firefox phones when they are available in quantity! Its the most interesting proposition so far.
That's essentially what "third world" means. You think there are no billionaires in the third world?
Pff Evil things. Are you a saint now?
Very good points. I would add that one's relationship with customers is much more unpleasant when doing project pricing. The "out-of-scope" discussions are difficult and can make collaboration strained.
I disagree.

As a counter-example: I am 36 years old and have worked professionally creating software since I was 20. Sure, I tinkered with BASIC programming on my first computer (the fabulous ZX81), but I first really got into programming in the early 90s with Turbo Pascal/Turbo Assembler in MS-DOS. In my world, Microsoft was completely dominant at this time.

My own little pet theory on why younger people don't seem to do as much programming:

Being online and having so easy access to so much information, entertainment, communication etc has generally made people more impatient and less willing to really commit to the kind of single minded focus that is needed to get into and really develop programming knowledge.
I'm not sure if Rubular[1] or your site came first but the design is very similar.

[1] http://rubular.com/
The supplements he listed (D3, Omega 3, Iodine) actually all have huge amounts of empirical data from a diversity of sources over a long period of time associating them with positive outcomes and improved health. These are not considered "miracle cures", in fact they have gained widespread acceptance amongst medical professionals including GPs as standard best practice to recommend to patients, even if they have no specific medical ailment. It would be unwise to not take these 3 supplements, period.
Ask HN: Structured consumer product database
Would there be any interest in a structured consumer product (electronics, gadgets etc.) database/website? Similar to wikipedia - users would be able to change/rate content.

The database would contain neutral information, pictures, reviews and videos.

So HN readers, what are you thoughts on this subject?
Figures should be normalized based on size of graduating class.
Email verification with a newly generated local password. That's what Meetup did after I quit Facebook, and it was only 3-4 minutes of friction.
In addition, if you limit the data to single child births, eliminating twins and other multiple births, the US actually ranks number one for child mortality. Multiple child births are inherently more risky, as are births to women over the age of 30. Due to wealth, cultural, and lifestyle factors the number of multiple-child pregnancies in the US is much much higher than in other countries. More American women choose to have children later in life and sometimes this includes fertility drugs which results in more riskier twin pregnancies.

When you remove car accidents and suicides from the death rates, factors that are largely independent from the health care system, the US actually has the highest life expectancy in the world.

A good source of info on this is the work of Scott Atlas. This econtalk includes a good look at the statistical biases in the micro rankings that get so much undue attention in the media.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/07/scott_atlas_on.html
It's certainly "enough". Anyone who takes supplements beyond that is no longer "satisficing" they are "maximizing".

I'm mostly vegan, and I tend to just try to focus on eating a good diet, but I do also try to supplement with things that are harder to find in my diet naturally: some kelp for iodine, B-12 since I don't eat much eggs (or meat for that matter).

I recently ordered some D3 spray, for reasons I can't really remember. Every now and then I go online and try to learn as much as I can about the research and make a judgement call.

A balanced diet is enough, but it's hard to know what "balanced" really means in this world where our food system has been so skewed towards processed foods and meat.
To be honest, I don't get your comment. Neither does GetSSL use a EV cert nor is the usage of EV certs limited to resellers.
It's monolithic because you can't pick and choose the components.

You have to use all of systemd, or none of it. You can't replace bits of it, or use just parts of it.
Lennart, please add the f*ng mail reader in there already and be finished with it.
see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdHGhSeYcq0
But what if it's used for evil? :0
No, it won't be. Polling the filesystem is not a scalable solution. OsX will hit the file descriptor limit on mostly anything you want to watch. Of course, you can up the limit, but thats a losing battle because poling 10K files per second doesn't work.

The correct solution involves using FSEvents (which blows), and system poling when you get an event. Inotify is good enough to get away with no poling. The native windows change watcher isn't bad either.

Even if this weren't the case, the value that dropbox provides is far greater than this potential solution for most people- ie, there is quite a bit of room for something to go wrong running your own duct tape dropbox. Syncing 99/100 files is not OK. Syncing 100/100 files, but only after 2 weeks isn't OK either.

source: I built my own ducktape dropbox (sortof).
https://github.com/Floobits/flegmatic
The Unfortunate Case of App Piracy
Intuitively I want to agree with you, as I've had similar thoughts , but is it really the case that younger people don't do as much programming? I'm around your age and almost nobody did programming when I was a kid, or even when I was first getting into the workforce. Now it seems like there are hacking meetups everywhere, millions of people posting their code to github, and more young people than ever to compete with for work.
Here's the # of Graduating Founders graph as a proportion of # of Undergraduates at the University: http://i.imgur.com/tawHy2e.png

The order is not much different (Stanford is still way at the top), although a few of the Ivy League schools are higher.
This basically tells us that the people investors fund are most likely to get funded. It tells us nothing about their success.

Cargo cult success metrics are bad for everyone.
>Hard to image a tech community "thriving" when basic city services and personal safety are so lacking.

when you're young, your hormones is off the chart, you have several people like you around - you're thriving and you don't need basic city services like police coming to quiet down your party, and "personal safety" is for old, like 30ish - 40ish folks.
I used to think like that, and it used to piss me off, until I learned about market segmentation.

If SIAI approaches me to buy $WIDGET and Google approaches me to buy the same $WIDGET, I'm charging Google an order of magnitude more than I'm charging you.
Insects can feel pain and it's unethical to kill animals unnecessarily.
And how exactly does Xorg allow you to use parts of it? More importantly, what parts of systemd do you not want to use or do you want to replace, and why?

EDIT: what you're saying appears to be untrue. According to http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html, they provide configure switches for enabling or disabling many things, not unlike how the Linux kernel allows you to enable or disable features.

You know, there are so many people here bashing on Lennart, I'm wondering whether any of you have done your homework at all or because you just bash Lennart for the sake of it. I'm not even using systemd and I found these things in 5 minutes.
Watches files and takes action when they change
And how would you suggest that he reply to a growing trend that occurs as an aggregate across hundreds of disparate comments?
Mostly because Americans are terrified of foreigners and have absolutely no concept that the rest of the world isn't just a figment of Hollywood's imagination.

I'm living in Budapest partly for low tuition - my wife is Hungarian, which makes it less random than it seems.

Also, very few people in America can understand that life outside the United States could possibly be fulfilling. Or that tuition in much of Europe is free - I tell friends and family and they just boggle. There is such a strong feeling in the States that we have everything better than anybody else in the world.

When we were talking about moving to Budapest last year, I was asked by the plumber, "But is there enough food there?" He honestly believed, apparently, that everyone else in the world is starving except for the well-known massive foreign aid we provide. (That's tongue-in-cheek; most foreign aid is money specifically earmarked for the purchase of American industrial output, so it's really a handout to American industry, not to foreigners - and it's a tiny fraction of our annual budget to start with, but many people in America think that's where a substantial portion of their taxes goes.)
It never fails to amaze me how many gigantic companies are still headquartered (or have a major presence) in and around Detroit. Despite Detroit proper being a famous mess for decades, the greater Detroit area seems to be doing very well.

If bankruptcy is whats needed to turn city politics around and fix the basics, so be it. I hope it does work, because in my experience, Detroit is a fantastic, gritty, historical city with character like none other.
ha this reminds me of the time I wanted to start a Youtube channel for a niche website I own. The crazy part, when signing up for Youtube, they also sign you up for Google+ and then force you to use your full name as the channel's name. That means, if your company name is ACME, your company's official Youtube channel is "Ron Burgundy". After failing to find a solution using Google Search, I decided to go with the next best option, change the real name to something sensible like "Acme YTVideos". BAM! A day later I receive a email from Google asking me to submit documents to verify that name or they will forcefully revert the channel's name to the Youtube username (ACMEVideos). LOL!