skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in Healthcare IT for a decade and a half or so, and I think there's definitely a reckoning coming with regard to the lapses in security.

I think honestly, the only thing that's kept this from being a problem with greater consequence is that to date it hasn't been clear that there's a real path to monetization of health data. It's been a lot more profitable to chase down credit card #'s and mass email/password combinations that lead to banking access.

I've long wondered when a solid monetization strategy for health data would show up and we'd see a quick rush to target these datasets. Trends that I see that make me think we're getting closer:

1. Systems are increasingly net-connected, obviously. In some ways it's increasing security (literally most hospitals I've been in you could plug into any ethernet port in the building and be on a network where pretty sensitive data is sent in the clear), but it's making these systems available to a larger number of interested attackers

2. Patients have accounts now. Health data is suddenly a not-insignificant source of email/password combinations for patients (previously just employees). Pretty reasonable to expect that health systems may be the source of future Gawker-style breaches for collecting poorly protected user credentials that can be used elsewhere.

3. The uptick and cost-effectiveness of encryption-ransomware, personal and corporate. It's been interesting to see cases where the data itself isn't monitezed because it has some broad market value, but solely by threatening the owners with it's release or exposure. I won't be surprised if Healthcare organizations or individual patients find themselves victims of extortion either by threatening to publish sensitive health data, or to destroy it.

There is (finally) an extra-linear increase in attention to this issue in Health IT, but there's also quite a large backlog of debt and an enormous number of systems deployed that were built for a different reality than current exists.
Australia has no guns. How could they be a threat to anyone?
> Today's mindshare is tomorrow's market share.

This is just nonsense. There are plenty of hyped startups/products who went nowhere. Unless you understand how to market and execute you're going nowhere. MongoDB has demonstrated they are seriously good at it and given how well 3.0 has been received (write lock gone, extremely fast performance, Call Me Maybe test fixed) they have a lot of momentum.

> They are working on it, but they are being very conservative

Conservative being the operative word. You would think sometime in the last 20 years they would've tackled it.
checkout udacity, they have a bunch of machine learning courses and also give general skills and prerequisites: https://www.udacity.com/me#!/
LOL. Yes, I realized this after pressing the submit button :-)
"In 1946 he married Marian Quissell, who grew up on a farm four miles from his.

He received his bachelor’s degree in 1948 from South Dakota State University, in Brookings, where his wife worked as a secretary. She had dropped out of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., after her freshman year to go to work to help pay for her husband’s education."

- What a nice story of love, sacrifice and reward given they appeared to have stayed together till the end.
I found cheap flights to Washington on flychecker at € 219. I arrive at 16:55
> You compare it to MongoDB (or really any of the newer NoSQL databases) and it's like night and day. It takes minutes to setup a replica set and there is plenty of documentation and official support for any issues.

MongoDB makes the operational side of replication easy, but handwaves a safe, functioning implementation: https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-read...
your about reads "Ops/infrastructure and web app development" :D
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Echoes of the DRC at Humanoids 2015
Medical services is one of the worst sectors with very poor 'right' investments in technology.

There are many gaps while some significantly standout compared to others.

* As highlighted in this article, Security is a huge issue. Given the sensitivity of the data, the sad state of infrastructure does not do any justice.

* A lot of the infrastructure is still paper based. The digital revolution is way behind its time in this sector.

* Medical sciences which is supposed to revolutionize has most of its spend in regulations rather than technology. The advancements in science are excruciatingly slow. Drug discovery has slowed down tremendously.

Not to mention, the poor patient-experience and lack of reach of medicine to the poorest of society.
The easiest solution is to raise the price so it's no longer a viable business to squat domains. Right now you can buy 1,000 domains for $10k a year, and you just need to a handful of those to be worth something to the right person, and you break even.

Raise the price of a .com to $100 per year. This remains a minimal cost to any profitable business, and it's cheap enough for new startups to buy a domain for a year or two while attempting a new business.

If you can't afford it, well, you have countless other domain extensions you can choose from at a cheaper rate.

I'd much rather pay $100 per year for a .com that I want, instead of having a domain squatter asking $2k, and then having to settle for my fourth or fifth choice that's actually available to register.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)
This is a good case for macros in Python, actually. Fraction('0.1') is usually what you want, so Fraction(0.1) should mean just that and if you do want the current behaviour, Fraction(float(0.1)) would do it. Same for Fraction(17/3) for example.
good to know. thanks.
They just needed to change the license how licensees are allowed to use Android.

If OEMs or Telcos would loose the legal right to ship phones with Android if the updates weren't provided within a specific SLA, then they surely would comply.

As an example how to put telcos in line, in the early days that mobiles started shipping with wlan support, Vodafone tried to sell N95 with wlan and VoIP support disabled on their firmware. Eventually they had to provide a full working N95, if I remember correctly.

I doubt that nowadays they would go back to develop their own OSes.
Microsoft's data is included in the PRISM documents:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...

It's not a huge leap to assume that any and all information they capture, including faces, is susceptible to government data surveillance programs.
In the next version, it would be cool if they could include "hotspots" where you can click and hear the audio that you'd get if you were there.
Good to see this piece gaining some traction here. I'm a big fan of your work and Robert's too
> I run ownCloud, despite some reservations about its security. I'm not too concerned about the data in ownCloud itself (if it's private, then I encrypt it client-side, but most things I put in ownCloud are not very private). I'm more concerned about it being used as a launching point for an attack on my home server. As a kind of compromise, I'm running it in a VM.

ownCloud does run a bug bounty program (https://hackerone.com/owncloud) and the company supporting the project also employs internal security experts.

You might also want to read https://statuscode.ch/2015/09/ownCloud-security-development-... which covers why comparing CVEs is not a reliably way to compare the security of products.
Maybe for accounts bookkeeping, but I doubt it is feasible, or even desirable, for financial statistical work.
Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs
There are many reasons I prefer Bittorrent Sync over Syncthing: identity based sharing (rather than node linking), good support for situations where you cannot poke holes in a firewall, selective sync support, and encrypted read-only secrets.

Moreover, it's much easier to set up, I share stuff with family and they didn't have problems setting it up.
What are you on about?

Person A: "I observe a bias".

Person B (me): "Please show me the bias. I haven't seen it."

You (to me): "Prove that you don't observe a bias".

Christ, the level of discourse in these conversations is abysmal. We've reached the point where asking for citations is met with the response of "citation needed".
Yes, it does. Also, I was once employed primarily to write HTML/CSS/JS.
Thanks for the feedback! We didn't realize the tone of the article was condescending. Will have to take another look at that. But it sort of is what happens on group chat (we might have gone overboard a bit with the emotions, but between friends such conversations are normal.)
- No but the key point is you will be creating this index in small steps. Adding an index is a change in schema, schema updates are always executed "per actor". This means actors who are currently not doing anything, will not perform this schema change. Once that actor is required to do something it will perform the schema update. This can be right after schema change, or it can be 10 days later.

- We are limited to what SQLite supports. If you absolutely must drop a column, you can only do it by re-creating a table. Again the above point stands. You will not be doing this for the entire database at once.

- There is a backup tool. It basically uses lmdb backup functionality. It will perform a database copy very quickly if you are copying to a second disk (at the performance limit of sequential writes).
Not everybody works at eBay, GMail or Facebook scale.

Most applications fit very well in a single server. For example, Stack Overflow runs on a single instance of SQL Server, replicated to a slave in another data center. In such a case, the convenience of joins and transactions is priceless.

And even at scale, it makes sense to rely on joins and transactions. The perfect example is AdWords that runs of F1 and Spanner:

"Our users needed complex queries and joins, which meant they had to carefully shard their data, and resharding data without breaking applications was challenging."

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Elliot in the Mr.Robot tv-series explains why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6gG-6Co_v4
Ok just realized the part where we say "You don't need Cubeit." might have come off as condescending.
There are no recordings, I asked.

There's this presentation at the IETF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp0Kr3B64tA

These are not the same slides, but it should tell you all you want to know about Multipath TCP.
> Remember that basic income displaces payouts from other social programs.

That's the marketing speech, but in reality, I doubt it.

There is a very large sector of government and GONGO employees who will argue how for each of them, the particular payout they are handling is very important and the basic income should not displace that particular system, or the sky will fall on all of us.

I don't believe the basic income system will displace the housing support, for instance. Same applies to many other kinds of social assistance. The trade unions will howl about the unemployment funds that they control but are financially maintained through taxes. Etc.

And there's a lot stopping a government making taxes more progressive. For instance, the fact that revenues might actually decrease. Finland is already having a very very high tax wedge.
It is a nice idea, but it does not work at least not in EU.

It is also a nice idea for personal freedom, but not for the benefit of the society.

Minimum wage is a way much better thing.

For a)
The EU has the property, that any citizen has the freedom to choose freely his work place and to choose freely his living place. People are using it and this is good for one and bad for others.

For example here in Germany, we have many people from Poland, Hungary, and other such countries working in jobs for cheap, at least cheaper than a German works for. Jobs are like health care system, construction work, butcher, and even in Amazon Fulfillment centers and alike. For them it is still a lot of money, because their and their families living place are their home countries. It is way cheaper to live in those countries than here in Germany. (I think the same is true for the Netherlands, Belgium and others.) So those people live here in Germany for cheap, because they consume here in Germany few to none services and goods. They bring their goods from their home countries with them. So that they can save money for the family support at home. That leads to the situation, that the money is removed from the circulation within Germany. Little to few services consumed means, no jobs for others, means also no taxes for the country.

That is not changed with BI. It is even more, local people (or people who decided to have their living place in that country) will benefit from BI and decide not to work for that low income. That is not a problem for the companies, because we have lots of those other people, who will work for that money, which will not qualified for BI. So basically, with BI you will introduce an even lower class/society.

Versus with required minimum wage the country, the society can set that to a level, which supports to live in that country. So that people are willing to work for that income. That means, that the money will no be removed from the country by people from abroad. The money will be used within the country to consume services and goods and as such will support other jobs as well. That will lead to an healthy economy.

For b)
BI is not for people with disabilities. Do you really think, that people with disabilities should have the same amount of money? People with disabilities have way higher costs of living. They need special support in terms of (medical) device, re-fitted living space, re-fitted mobility requirements, and much more. So that people with disabilities have an equal quality of living, they need more support. But all ideas, I have seen so far, consider also the budget dedicated to people with disabilities as budgets to be usable for BI. That is like a kick in the ass to the people with disabilities.
The market is efficient, but only on the long run. People making decisions like this make the market efficient by storing oil when it is cheap (or when it appears to be cheap).
I think (right now) there isn't a way to really mass-target people illegally if you have their medical data. Blackmail requires some non-zero amount of effort per user.

Compare this to getting a password dump from a social networking site and trying those emails/passwords in an automated way against sites like paypal/gmail/banks etc.

EDIT: from the article

"TrapX also found a bug called Citadel, ransomware that’s designed to restrict a user’s access to his or her own files, which allows hackers to demand payment to restore that access"
Google's self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
So... move?
Skylake NUC official
Best bit is the implementation: spacer gif in a table cell like it's 1999.
I wish I could downvote this a million times.
API Throttling to Protect Your Resources
It makes perfect sense. Each person has an income need, X. If they get B basic income, employer only needs to pay X - B whereas without basic income he needs to pay X.
> I'm still looking for a good self-hosted CalDAV/CardDAV option that doesn't require PHP or MySQL

Baikal is PHP, but can run on sqlite instead of MySQL : http://baikal-server.com/
I don't _need_ to host Owncloud (or any other service) any more than I _need_ Dropbox. It's convenient to have access to files while away, but I could make do with a USB fob if push comes to shove.

The reason I selfhost is this. We are on a rapid path towards home computing devices being nothing more than dumb terminals where some server in the distance hosts your OS, files and apps. All, of course, proprietary so as to make switching painful. I DO NOT WANT THIS. So, I use and root for the technologies that I want to see win. I want complete and unfettered access to my files.
Ethereum and Deloitte eye global accountancy blockchains
FWIW

scala> BigDecimal("0.1") + BigDecimal("0.2")

res0: scala.math.BigDecimal = 0.3

Or as I wrote in 2008 http://codemonkeyism.com/once-and-for-all-do-not-use-double-...
This is, to a large extent, scaremongering. While there are some valid points made in the article, the article fails to differentiate between security problems that can be exploited by trolls or single, untrained individuals, and ones that take a powerful team working on behalf for a government or other such group to exploit. It's the difference between the hospital being defended against your average thief, and being defended against a strike squad of ninjas. Despite this, the article does make good points when it comes to the lack of worry about the problems they found. Even though these vulnerabilities may be over hyped, they are real and the lack of focus on these vulnerabilities is chilling. The real underlying problems for this stem not from an industry that leaves bugs in applications designed for high security, but in the fact that the industry doesn't realize that security needs to be the default, whether or not you see exploits being used.
Cleveland Clinic to perform first-ever uterus transplants in U.S
We can hope they find hobbies, instead idle minds tend to destructive habits. Let alone all those idle people are ripe for exploitation by political groups and the like.

The hard part with a BI is finding incentive for many to do more than the minimum required to survive. We might be creating that dystopian future simply by defining through law the minimum required to keep people from rising up. In other words, we create a permanent lower class whom we keep just happy enough they don't take out stuff.

I think BI is an interesting idea but the dangers are too high unless you find something for people to do. Don't wait for them to find it, most never will try. BI needs to come with some public service at the minimum if not employed
WHO Officially Announced: Sierra Leone Free of Ebola – Infossible
Also Chicken Scheme:

(- 0.3 (+ 0.1 0.2))
-5.55111512312578e-17

Of course you can always (use numbers), but then you have to use (/ 1 20) and (/ 2 10). "0.3" is still considered "inexact", because of the decimal point. I don't like this - finite decimals are perfectly rational numbers and trivially convertible, why can't the interpreter treat them as such?
Jihadi John 'dead'
$70 for an internet connection is not cheap. The author just means that it's not a no-brainer for individuals currently on one of the big providers who are on a budget.
In this way, the mobile CallerFeel business
I think it's great.
I'm paying that for 70Mbps in Denver...
Exactly. But many of us do have apps that are beyond the capabilities of a single instance.

And in this situation the rule of thumb is to do joins in your application layer so you can store different types data (e.g. graph/document/relational/unstructured) in different systems and easily cache where needed.

The fact that so many new databases have been created in the last decade suggests that there are a lot of people who do fall into this camp.
SQL is fine, no problem with it unless you are embedding queries in a OO application and you are forced to hack mapping layer between the two interfaces, which gives you two options, either compromise performance for the sake of development easiness or vice versa.
> While this usually has an effect in the short term, as time passes things return back to the previous operating state.

Deliver results in that short time so the manager can actually see the benefits.
> I think (right now) there isn't a way to really mass-target people illegally if you have their medical data. Blackmail requires some non-zero amount of effort per user.

I'm saying that's not really true anymore. These systems have patient email addresses and their medical histories. It's doesn't seem to me a big leap to automate ransomware. Hell, there's plenty of encryption-based ransomware schemes active right now and they involve needing access to the target's local PC. This doesn't even require that. One massive healthcare breach and anyone who can pull it down on bit-torrent can start going to town extorting.

I think it's something that's been a practical possibility for a couple-few years now. Just hasn't happened yet.
I enjoyed the piece. It felt like reading an episode of RadioLab.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Surely it isn't bad to say you don't trust American companies. I live here and I don't trust them all.
> "Full stack engineer" is the new "Coding Ninja". It doesn't mean anything.

> Do you need DevOps skills?

Certainly, as the "DevOps skills" means the same as "full stack engineer":
nothing.
I wonder how many LOC are for dealing with emission tests...
There's a small memorial for Grace Hopper in Arlington: http://parks.arlingtonva.us/locations/grace-murray-hopper-pa...
Romania is about the only place I'm familiar with where 1gbps (consumer) is really cheap, but it's only cheap based on higher level Western incomes.

~$20 for 1gbps in Bucharest. That's the equivalent of around $80-$100 adjusted to US incomes.
Russia certainly isn't a subsistence state, but I'd hesitate to call it a "modern society" too. It's also a petro-state that enjoys the luxury of deriving around a third of government revenues from oil and gas. Most of Western Europe has to make up that gap with additional taxes even before it starts to provide its citizens with more support.

You can have a perfectly harmonious society where everyone within it voluntarily respects each others' possessions, but you're still going to need force (or the implied threat of force) to prevent outsiders who aren't part of that particular social contract and don't particularly want to be from making use of that property. The possibility that someone might not voluntarily accept a social contract over the ownership of property is an existential threat to property rights which can only be resolved through [implied] force. Hence de jure and de facto the basis of all property and trade is the coercion that enforces its rules, whether that's by a government institution or a group of friends with big guns.
>No matter their importance to their community, they can’t stay if they can’t pay

>Investors make money, franchises notch a new location, and the neighborhood suffers a significant death.

What are these businesses that are so great to the community yet don't make any money? If everyone's taking their business to franchises it's because they (the customers) prefer them and franchises provider a better service.

Seems like the author just longs for independent stores and the like simply because he dislikes corporate culture, and would rather pay more to avoid it.
I don't think anyone grows wine grapes indoors or hydroponically... Guess I could be wrong
There's also the GRISU algorithm: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806623
Five years of Scala and counting: debunking some myths
This Thunderbird addon does the same, if you prefer a local client:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/paranoia/
I grew up in Hazard, KY. Tourism would help, but it won't fill the void left by the mining industry. There was a massive amount of money in coal. Every profession in the area ultimately led back to coal. Tourism can help some parts of the area, but honestly, I think some of these towns are just going to cease to exist.
I said "1% of people" which is correct. You could also say "1.4% of working age people" or "3.9% of hourly wage workers" - these are correct too.

The only incorrect statement anyone has made is "most".
It is for the area.

Comcast charges $65.95/mo. to $78.95/mo for 70mb/s in the Detroit metro area. $70/month for 1gbs service and not having to deal with Comcast is a no-brainer