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It may not be deliberate attempt to lock customers in, but just the first part of what you said: there is no incentive to make this any easier. It basically works, so hospitals/clinics that need to make a few simple customizations can do so with REST API calls but it isn't easy enough for third-parties to quickly and easily build large applications. There's so much going on in healthcare that it is hard for big vendors to justify cleaning up their web services over doing other things. Especially when the "interoperability" buzz fits in better with supporting FHIR, CommonWell, Healtheway, HL7, etc.
> Windows 7 ended mainstream support on January 14, 2020 and Windows 8 will end mainstream support on January 10, 2023

I'd like to apologize for the shoddy writing because this part should read

> Windows 7 will end extended support on January 14, 2020 and Windows 8 will end extended support on January 10, 2023

as you can see in http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle
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Thanks for the catch! We're still fine tuning our redirects from archive to the new article locations. We no longer have print pages so we'll need to redirect those to the new posts. At least the actual post (i.e. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels.ht...) is redirecting correctly at the moment.

Also you can see at the bottom of the actual article on WIRED.com we did add tags to archived magazine content, like the article you mentioned, to group content together a bit. Thanks!
I doubt it's a profitable endeavor so probably not particularly high priority.

Did you read the article?

> To Allied Artists and Lorimar, their producers, "these films were worthless and they said it's OK to let them rot," Feltenstein says. Instead, Warner Archives packaged them into DVD collections, "and they've all been nicely profitable."

> Feltenstein says Warners is releasing 30 more titles to its manufacturing-on-demand library every month. "It's growing precipitously and there's no end in sight."
Heh. My only contacts in Furry Twitter happens to be Infosec Furry Twitter. :P
Okay. I can assure you that I don't want to remain in the dark about things that are "completely broken", but I can't do anything to address them without specifics.
My understanding is that PLM very much translates to useable knowledge - just for the pharma and PHM folks who mine the backend (which is how they make money). Notably, this is all quite above-board: it's not a "secretly mine people's private medical details" situation, it's "overtly mine people's private medical details in order to help find treatments for their rare disease"...
Except that one way to game recidivism rates is to kill them.
He "blew up," yelling and cursing at Rasmussen. He remembers saying to Rasmussen, "I'm going to PDR [public disclosure request] the shit out of you."

And you want to say the PD could have handled that better? Go into your boss right now and do the same thing. Let us know how he handled that from the unemployment line.
Maybe we need some sort of unix on the web.
Well, it would have ended with the usual "but...but...but, that's just your opinion!!!1!!" anyway.
My hunch is that they see "show people fewer lame ads" is merely a side effect of interesting research.
That's not why he was fired.
If the author makes 2.5 matches per person interviewed (in other words, at least 60% were immediate mismatches), perhaps she's in the wrong line of work in the first place.
Linux Mint Master Race!!!!
Texas Forever: How I Found the American Dream in the Lone Star State
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478651
I'm a little confused. It sounds like there are two games here: one is to win by algorithmic trading, and the other is to win by hacking the virtual devices/protocols/systems involved in the algorithmic trading. Is that the case?
Last british detainee at Guantanamo goes home – Eight years after being cleared
" I presonally think that at their core they don't want to give this data to the NSA"

A philosophy teacher once told me "you are not what you think, but you are what you say and what you do".

Nobody cares what they or don't want, it's what they do that counts. And what they do is not pretty, in fact in think it's despicable.

And I'm not "one of those Linux guys". I'm a C# dev that would be perfectly fine with Microsoft products as they are now if they didn't fuck their efforts with "telemetry" updates.

I'm trying 3 Linux distro this week-end to see the one I can live with.
Would that help win an election?
Overwatch Launch Overshadows Major Competitors
My "favorite" thing is when you hit Ctrl-C, and Vim says "Type :quit<Enter> to exit Vim". Vim isn't dumb. It knows what Ctrl-C means, it knows what you wanted to happen. But it's gonna make you do it its way anyway, because fuck you.
I would argue that it isn't about how old the technology is but how good the developer tools and support are. Newer technologies (not brand new, ones that have a few years of maturity) often have better support in common developer platforms, more tutorials and answers on StackOverflow, etc. They are also easier to find employees to hire who know how to use them (or who WANT to use them).

If an older technology is so great then my preference would be to build modern tools for that old technology and then it would be like new. If you can evangelize this old-made-new platform a bit then you could find more people willing to use and learn it, which would fix the online presence and employee hiring problems too.

Note that MUMPS is one of those old technologies used in healthcare. It is basically a NoSQL database from before NoSQL was popular. Intersystems' website suggests that they've made a bunch of additions to it, but Intersystems charges a lot of money. GT.M is the open source one but as far as I know it sticks more to the ANSI M standard. That standard language is pretty old so it can get confusing to read/write it. I'm not sure if GT.M provides dev tools either. Intersystems does, but AFAIK they are not as good as tools like Visual Studio, XCode, or other newer platforms.
The Not-A-Wat in Haskell
> That's not true at all: you need interest and expertise.

I was talking about interest specifically from the computer science community. Ethereum can, at least in theory, provide proof-level security. Have you read about it at all? I don't mean to be insulting, but I am not sure if you are just defending yourself or if you really are saying you think Ethereum plays no role in this kind of project.

> Your proposal is that people without knowledge of secure voting systems or cryptography throw something together with a lot of press.

No, my proposal is that people build on Ethereum. Which is the target of much cryptographic scrutiny and will be more and more so as it (or whatever similar thing gets the brass ring) takes off.

I am not suggesting "just throw some crap out there and let the internet handle it". I am suggesting rigorous academic proofs to show that Ethereum has the general purpose computing properties that it has, and then rigorous academic proofs on the specific voting contracts people write for Ethereum.

I appreciate your dialog on this subject, but you are really putting words in my mouth. I would ask that you dial it back a little and please try to respond to what I'm saying, not what you think people in general often suggest to you.
Shrug. I'd take that option, too. Solitary confinement as practiced is not just solitude but a near-total absence of stimulation. Put a computer in my private prison cell and that's practically my life as it is anyway. But you have to understand that to most criminals, the general population is their peer group--perfectly enjoyable people to be around. They're effectively locked up with their friends.
React Contexts and Dependency Injection
So what: "falso in uno falso in omnibus" is a motto worth thinking about. If someone writes absolute hogwash in one book, how can you expect that anything he writes after that will have any trustworthiness?
The idea that DOJ was targeting based on something other than the crimes committed isn't supported unless there are people guilty of the same crimes -- not just the same number of crimes -- that were not pursued.
I joined GitHub and Hacker News here - how many stars after a front page post?

https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3qpyor/joining_ha...
Drake-back-to-back-concious-remix
Could Python 3 host the features you want? If it did, would you consider migrating your code-base to it? I'm positive that if your ideas have merit and you share them on the python-ideas mailing list, you'll get a good discussion out of it at the very least.
The sentence is close to literally true, but what I think you're questioning is the implied "[at a price close to the current price]" at the end of it.
He does seem to think that America is worse off because we're containing these prisoners' "entrepreneurial spirit," which is something I'm pretty solidly convinced we could live without quite comfortably, actually.
> Five months into the experiment, after some initial reservations, I gave up toilet paper. Now I do things the way hundreds of millions (including my extended family) in India do — with water and my left hand.

That's pretty gross. What's the delta for the energy cost of doing that, its use of extra water and extra heat and extra soap for the water to clean his hand, with the energy cost of a few squares of toilet paper and less water and heat and soap?
> Won't the deterrent effect of prison be reduced if we go too easy on them?

I don't think this is true. More precisely, it's obviously true that extremes can change how much of a deterrent effect there is, (e.g. if prison is a 5-star resort people might prefer to be inside than out), but your position is like trickle-down economics.

The Laffer curve certainly exists in the sense that governments collect less revenue from taxing either 0% or 100% than they do from some intermediate amount. But using this tautology to assert we should categorically lower taxes ignores the crucial question of where we are in that curve.

Importantly there seems to be a fairly inelastic response to changes in sentencing; drastic changes in sentencing seem not to generally change criminal behaviour (see a wealth of statistics on the death penalty, also the crime rate collapse since the 90's).

To decide whether we want to make prisons more or less humane we need to address the purpose of prisons.
If you think prisons are primarily for justice/punishment, I'd urge you to consider the numerous lapses of our legal system, the fact that ~95% of prosecutions end in plea bargains instead of trials, endemic prosecutorial overreach, and the severe shortage of adequate counsel/public defenders for the poor. Additionally, consider the "three felonies a day" complaint --- that laws are poorly and vaguely written, general to the point of absurdity, and opaque --- which means that you could
probably be convicted of something by a sufficiently zealous prosecutor.

If you think prisons are primarily about effecting good outcomes for the rest of society I'd argue that a system that focuses on rehabilitation and reducing recidivism will necessarily be more humane.

Finally, as others have said though it bears repeating, we (as society) should treat people humanely. Full Stop. Not because they are human, but because we are.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
Well, that entirely depends. You made a really strong claim, and those are worth taking seriously. But that doesn't mean that a response might come out that way. For example, if someone claimed that using four spaces instead of two spaces for indentation is "completely broken", then "that's just your opinion" is a pretty acceptable response, in my opinion.

But, I can assure you that Rust is most certainly not perfect, and that we roughly try to prioritize work alongside what people ask for. Part of what I do is gather this kind of feedback, so that I can tell the rest of the team "Hey, lots of people have started asking about x. Maybe we should try to bump x up in the schedule." And we do do that, though obviously, everyone has a pet feature, and you can't satisfy everyone. (My pet feature that's far off: HKT) But I can't take action against "hey someone on HN says Scala has some secret sauce and we suck, but won't divulge the details."

It's not your job to help us improve Rust, but making really vague negative claims doesn't help anyone, really.
How was Michael Lewis clueless? He gave a step by step description of how regulation in reaction to previous crises and the money gave rise to HFT and specifically that Banks get paid by HFTs to submit their orders to specific exchanges. HFT is a game of speed that arbitrages between dark pools and the various public exchanges that ultimately provides no value.
Lot of interesting comments about difficulty of IT integration. However, there is a much more fundamental problem with Healthcare IT. That has to with a lack of a functioning market. Thanks to HITECH subsidies, a bunch of money has flowed into EHR and related systems. It gives the impression of a customer paying for these systems, but once that fades a lot of these HIT companies are going to find that they are not in a market. People who think another 3-4 years will fix the issue are in denial.

Look, there are lot of industries that work in IT integration. If you take manufacturing, retail, finance, telecom etc. there hundreds of systems from the '60s and integration (and all the pain) is probably 80% of the work. 100's of billions of dollars are spent on IT integration. There is no magic 'one true IT system' but lot of hard work and slog. Nothing very special about healthcare. But, there is functioning market in these industries. Consumers of these systems have a very clear idea of how IT is going to help them run their business, it is sustaining system. They pay money, IT people build systems.

Not so in healthcare IT. Healthcare consists of bunch of fragmented and tiny providers interspersed with some large players. As such very few are managed as a business (as a retailer would for ex.), instead it is managed almost like a bazaar style haggling model. Try to squeeze out as much as possible from the insurance company, reduce the cycle time of payment, negotiate some extra tests, enter the correct ICD code etc. No standard business metrics that everyone can agree upon. If the value pitch is "we will help you get paid", then you have failed. My view is that this state of affairs will continue until there is some large scale integration and verticalization. Until we have these fragmented healthcare system in place I don't see a good future of healthcare IT.

I mean sure there will always be some people doing this, but people have working on healthcare IT since the '60s. Having super clean one true data model is fanciful at best but it actually will not solve anything. The $40 Billion of HITECH subsidies have managed to create a half assed EHR ecosystem with Epic taking a chunk of the market share. It will be interesting to see how the industry will manage to get the customers to pony up the next $40 Billion and the next and the next. In a fragmented system, the only IT system that can work is some sort of Slack type system (or communication tool) for patient/providers or between providers.
Why would it be evil? It is merely self-defense. Why do we need to treat savages like little princesses just because they happen to be human? I mean if a dog acts too aggressive it gets put down and nobody complains, but if it's a human then it's totally different? I just can't see any logic to it other than people wanting really hard to feel morally superior.

I'm asking rhetorically btw, I already know you guys don't have a rational explanation. You can downvote away now.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by block (in terms of size), but let's say you have a stock and the average number of shares at the inside (best) price is X. If you are trying to trade 10X shares, you aren't just going to aggressively trade through multiple price levels all at once to get the trade done, and if you just place an order for 10X shares into the book you will find that the price starts moving away from your order price pretty quickly. For a high volume ETF like SPY, X can be thousands of shares, but for low volume mid/small caps it may be only a few hundred shares, which is not something I'd consider "incredibly liquid."
NYC Marathon in Charts
I just flagged this because it (and the other post of the same thing) blows out the page width and makes everything else wrap to the full length of the string, which is considerably more than the average screen width. Hoping an admin can edit it.
Quickstart: Electron and React and Sass (+ Webpack)
> > Headlines like these are obviously created for sensationalism

> It isn't.

> [...] In particular, it implies that "fighting terrorism" with more and stronger law enforcement is highly counterproductive.

If police's only job was to fight terrorism, you would be right.
FWIW: I used to work at the predecessor to Virtu Financial with Peter Kovac, who wrote an excellent counter argument book to flash boys.

http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...

He's one of the most honest and intelligent people I've ever had the pleasure to work with in my entire career. He was at Madison Tyler while I was there roughly 4 years until the Virtu merger (at which point many of us left).
Great stuff. I'd be keenly interested in this both as a contributor and user. My email is in my profile if/when you do open source it I'd love to hear about it.
Again, I am not saying Clemans isn't wrong.

That said - I work for a private firm, not even remotely as crucial as the police dept. cops are trained to deal with all kinds of situations/personalities (my boss is not). The captain could've banned him for a month, instead of permanently. After both of them have cooled down, he could've sat him down and explained that shouting isn't going to help. He could've given him warnings etc. Instead, he seems to have gone on a power trip. Clemans is not some destructive guy, or some criminal. He is just a frustrated over enthusiastic young man. The real losers in this are the people of Seattle.

I hope some other police dept hires him and also he learns to control himself better.
Looks like the channel was closed, apparently "due to terms of service violations". Anyone else get the same error message?

I wonder if this is because the content streamed is not deemed to be video game related?
The Key of Hell: An Enlightenment Sorcery Manual (2014)
Then along came systemd....
This book, for what it's worth, is fantastic. If you're interested in nuts-and-bolts how-stuff-works, and less in the screenplay-friendly narratives that Michael Lewis wanted to peddle, it's a much better book than Flash Boys itself was.
That's what they tried for the previous decade. The only thing which happened was training users to either click cancel without reading or figure out how to disable updates.
Thanks for mentioning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant. It turns out that the Mac OS language extension to write 32-bit integers for file types and creator codes as, for example, 'TEXT' or 'FNDR', was inherited from fortran :-)

I always love to learn about stuff that has little to no use in real life (anymore).
I've been describing them as "tech trees" but am willing to hear any suggestions you have for making this more comprehensible.

Starfighter is divided into N tech trees, where as of the Chapter 1 release N = 2. Each has a distinct player-facing UI and, generally, some specialized backend systems, but they're all a part of the same product, behind the same login, running off the same message bus. Each tech tree has a series of levels: start at level 1, beat it and unlock level 2, etc. The levels do not necessarily progress linearly and trees can interact with each other in terms of level requirements, although I don't know if any levels requiring, etc, "passed $FOO in algorithmic trading and either $BAR or $BAZ from low-level programming" will ship in Chapter 1.

Each level has its own goals/victory conditions/etc. There may be interplay between levels, such that your past/simultaneous performance on one allows you to do X, Y, or Z advantageous thing in the other. Those interactions might happen across tech trees. I am saying "might" here because I haven't coded any level which actually does that but it came up at design meetings and our systems support it -- not sure if it will happen in Chapter 1 but I'd rate it as "highly likely" it happens in Chapter 2.

Chapters: we intend on doing a new content release (which adds to, rather than replaces, existing content) every 6~8 weeks, with a new tech tree introduced roughly every 2~3 chapters.

Would love anyone's thoughts on "How do I explain this succinctly such that I don't turn-off anyone who is less interested in a particular tech tree?"
Does anyone know of any good systematic studies of the waste / environmental costs of various activities, purchases, etc.?

I suspect that e.g. living in a smaller house or apartment, driving less and driving a smaller vehicle (more generally, living in an urban area with less pavement and other infrastructure per capita compared to suburbs), better insulating buildings (or constructing them with other passive heating/cooling) and scaling back the temperature control, using less hot water or heating it less, reducing water use on yards/landscaping, reducing use of energy-intensive gadgets (e.g. drying clothes on a line, using a smaller television), consuming less meat and dairy, buying local vegetables in season instead of shipped thousands of miles, and otherwise eating more canned food and recycling the cans, taking local vacations vs. traveling internationally, etc. might have more effect than explicitly trying to optimize only for quantity of personal trash generated.

One problem with our current economy is that our prices do a terrible job at signaling true costs, and the whole system is so complex that any individual person has almost no chance at guessing correctly, if trying to organize their life to reduce external impact. (So much of the price we pay is distorted by some clever company arbitraging international tax differences, cheating regulatory controls, defrauding poor countries and bribing their officials to cover it up, or dumping unlimited toxic shit in places without any oversight.)

It’s like trying to optimize code without a profiler.

As one small example, I’d love to see some kind of systemic analysis of the comparative environmental costs of ordering something online and having it delivered in a truck from a warehouse wrapped in cardboard and then recycling the cardboard vs. driving a single person in a large car to and from a store 10 miles away, including the land and energy costs of keeping inventory in the local stores, employing the cashiers, etc. Personally I little idea what the total impacts are of these two choices.
Obviously that's the wrong approach. He should have made systemd-busyboxd and everything would be OK.

Sorry. It was cheap but I couldn't help it :)
> don't need to look at anything else

You seem to have missed my comment earlier about Rust blatantly lifting features from OCaml. Here, in the Rust reference, are about twenty other languages that Rust was inspired by: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference.html#appendix:-in... Being presented with the idea that Rust wasn't specifically inspired by Scala should not be taken personally. :P
FFS! Did Success Academy really release the records of a 10 year old student, in all likelihood in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, just because that student and his mother were the only ones willing to voice their complaints about the on camera?
Photos of the Postcards That Brought Down him are available here: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2009/08/25/the-postc...