skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi zo1, its perfectly legal, in fact the entire program (HCUP) is carried out by the US federal government agency itself (Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research) for last two decades. We have only made the system available internally to a select group of doctors who sign agreements with the US government. Misuse of this data is punishable by a felony. I have personally met the director of the agency and they know about it, and have seen a demo.

Regarding your point second point, the patient ownership of the data is not very well understood legally. Since most of it is transactional in nature. E.g. consider the Sorrell vs IMS Health judgement by the Supreme Court few years ago.
Following paper in Harvard Journal of Law and Technology gives a good overview of the issues.

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v25/25HarvJLTech69....
Such a joke. Good luck to that company, they can come over to Canada and sue me as well, one person isn't solely responsible for a project so that's unfair to pin it on Forbes. I've never even heard of their lame product, make yourself look really bad, that will help!

Also (our) Jade has been around for many many years, do they really have the legal grounds to do this now?
Here are more useful numbers: containers moved in and out of the Port of Los Angeles.[1] That's where most stuff from China enters the US. Monthly and annual numbers are available. Here's this decade:

2010	7.8 million TEUs
2011	7.9 million TEUs
2012	8.1 million TEUs
2013	7.9 million TEUs
2014	8.3 million TEUs
2015	8.1 million TEUs

So 2015 was down 2.5% from the peak.

The discouraging number in this is that half the containers going out of LA are empty. Only 3% coming in are empty. That's the US export/import imbalance. And a lot of the ones leaving the US are full of paper and metal scrap.

(One TEU is a "Twenty foot equivalent unit", or a 20' long container. A forty foot container, the most common size now, is 2 TEU.)

[1] https://www.portoflosangeles.org/maritime/stats.asp
I think it is the opposite way around, so that rebuilding the system doesn't break a package.

Basically, they can switch system libraries or delete them entirely without the packages being affected since they will be using the non-private libraries from packages / ports.
Why don't they just set those accounts as protected?
Quantum Computing is not a replacement for general purpose computing. No one is going to watch 4k video on a quantum computer. They aren't useful or built for that.
The final feature set of ECMAScript 2016 (ES7)
Unless you set SELinux to run in strict mode root still has access to delete everything.
It's not used in production, it's used in "corp" which is totally disjoint from production at Google.
Best thing ever hahah
Interesting. Hadn't thought of that angle before. Be interesting to see the correlations between rail freight company revenues and Amtrak timeliness.
So I'm assuming you don't use graphics cards in your computer made by either NVIDIA or AMD, both of which use TSMC to manufacture them?
Sometimes I hate being connected to this "community" of people...
The most important line from the author is "it takes time to be a good programmer". Those nights of debugging and reimplementing will decrease as you better understand how to develop code.

Also I find open concept offices terrible to work in. I'm not the type of person who can put on a pair of headphones, blast music and pump out code. I like solitude as I think though the problem and code. Unfortunately for me, the open concept is here to stay it seems.
and IBM, Microsoft, Apple, MySpace, Facebook
I worked at a large company which in its quest to deploy agile everywhere introduced an innovation sprint. The actual concept went well, and we even had some great show-and-tell sessions from it, but absolutely zero things created during those sprints were allowed to ship. So in the end it was more of a blow-off valve for engineers before sending them back to another 10 weeks of normal engineering drudgery, while their innovative projects collected dust on a manager's shelf somewhere. If these were research spikes I feel like they would have gotten a little more respect from the higher-ups.
>>> Was that because you knew about interdiction or the fact that a 3rd party might have no security? ;)

Because the interception of data flowing between data centres was/is the backbone of the prism program. NSA has access to he fibre over which those backups will travel.
Linode Singapore data centers. Lowest latency for any cloud provider where I live. Been rock solid so far. One time I used Cloudflare for two weeks and had massive service degradation at random times, so not doing that again.
Often such links are posted by LWN staff, so I believe they favor the practice.
Like a transporter on Star Trek, I'm afraid there would be no upload without a copy. Could we really then delete the original?
Not that it really matters, but you have your terminology wrong, those aren't selectors. The selector is the whole thing, not the parts.
+ Real property. Nearly all research is driven by commercial concerns. Detroit and New Orleans show how brittle that approach is statistically for events we can anticipate because of the scale at which urbanization is occurring.

+ Ubiquitous production of computational artifacts. The analogy I started with was photography: that computing is in an age when heavy equipment, toxic chemicals, glass plates, and holding still for a long time are barriers. But I've since pushed the analogy further back: maybe to oil portraits, or paintings on tomb walls, or perhaps Cromagnon caves by firelight. Now the world is flooded with images.
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It's all the bad aspects of inline styles with half the readability and as an added bonus it's slower because the styles aren't applied until JS parses the entire DOM. Am I missing something or is this really the worst idea?
I'm really disappointed to see this happening. Studying computer science in Christchurch, New Zealand made Jade Software a well-known name to me. They've never been a modern or progressive company, but I used to respect them for their successes. Now I just feel like they're letting themselves and a big OSS community down with this petty trademark dispute.

Bad form, Jade.
"Celebrities use it" was the reason MySpace was here to stay too. If that's the reason why it's not going to fail, period, you might as well short their stock.

I assume this mini-rant only made it to the front page for comedy value.
To me, something like your syntax makes sense when there isn't a clear hierarchy among selectorPart1, selectorPart2, selectorPart3, etc. However, in every case where a method can be thought of as having a single primary action that is refined by arguments, I believe the action(argument1:value1, argument2:value2) syntax makes more sense.

I wouldn't want to see, for example:

collectionView.(dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:identifier, forIndexPath: indexPath)

because that obscures the primary purpose of the method, which is to dequeue a cell. To me, this is preferable:

collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(reuseIdentifier: "ImageCell", îndexPath: indexPath)

The long first component of the Objective C selector ("dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier") is just an artifact of ObjC's lack of distinction between method names and parameter names, which forces the API creator to use words like "With" to accomplish what Swift can do natively.

What are some examples of methods you think make more sense with your syntax?
rms doesn't think "free software" has anything to do with a responsibility for collaboration or openness. Those are slogans of the open source movement. He sees software as an ethical exchange between two parties. rms doesn't have a problem with privacy, secrecy, or refusal to collaborate. As long as Bob has the freedom to do whatever he wants with the software the Alice gave him (except, perhaps, restrict the freedom of others), rms doesn't think that Alice has any further moral obligations.
Your life is neither Tetris nor Chess. It's Go.
Yeah, that too. Good news is that CompSci and OSS have given us many ways to protect confidentiality and integrity of that data. Off-site backups are fine if one is doing that. I usually recommend a data diode or guard between the storage/crypto and transport parts of that use case, though. That's because just trying to do the off-site, online backups opens one's endpoints up to attack. One-way flows with error correction built-in or limited back-channels guaranteed with custom HW are traditional way to do it.
Please don't say “going forward”, say “henceforth”
Such use of language to appear important has become cliched and desperate-sounding. Please try to keep the English language alive and well, and keep a broad vocabulary. It helps to ehnance the creative thinking process.
You might want to check out Toki Tori 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084BUNlI7Gk
At a certain level, I do agree with you. However, the reason why we have such drastic differences in how people perceive and solve problems between different domains is because of specializations. They affect our abilities to communicate with each other and share ideas. True, we get stuff done and we are making progress but I don't think this is the ideal situation to be in. I don't believe any of the skills that we learn in the school are so ridiculously hard that some people cannot learn at all. I think with better teaching methodologies and more game oriented learning, we can do much better. We will be able to teach kids much faster and improve their understanding. As we push forward with our understanding of this world, having more people share a much broader base of ideas is good for the society. It's affects on the functioning of society are imperceptible but they are there, and they matter.
Because they are lazy. These aren't hardened security pros. Celebs are generally very young, poorly educated[1] impatient and impulsive. By the nature of their work they are also fashion conscious and eager to follow online trends. Tech-specific security features aren't a priority, until they are crying in their lawyer's office desperately pleading for him to to get that picture removed from the internet.

[1] Really. Look into your favourite stars. Many did not graduate highschool, or got an "on set" education for a GED. Child stars and models have to really work at getting any notion of a proper education. Basic reading skills are often an issue on set. This sometimes comes up when applying for work permits, say to work on a film in Vancouver. Immigration officials sometimes baulk at the notion of an uneducated 20yo claiming a unique skill warranting a special visa.

Google "on location education services" for a view of what many celebs grow up with.
Scala gets first-class coroutines that generalize async/await
I find these first-party interop libraries from Microsoft really interesting, in light of the fact that Oracle v. Google is still ongoing.

Depending on how that case finally comes back, I'd expect that could really affect Microsoft's strategy, here.
We do something similar. We precompute/aggregate exhaustively by following certain aggregation strategies. The aggregated statistics are further processed to ensure privacy.

Differential Privacy cannot be directly applied since the underlying assumptions are too strong. An important consideration is that the error/noise added is independent of the answer. Which means that the system becomes unusable for almost all queries other than general trends.

By restricting the query structure, we no longer need large amount of noise. Privacy of hospitals and providers is also very important and cannot be encoded in the Differential Privacy framework. Again this is still a hotly debated issue. But even the most vocal supporters of differential privacy agree that it might not be directly applicable for healthcare domain.

Following are some of the paper that discuss this:

http://www.openu.ac.il/personal_sites/tamirtassa/download/co...

http://www.jetlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Bambauer_Fi...
Never said it was illegal...
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It's made by google, used by google, blogged about by google, and hosted on google's github. it's officially google, it's not officially a product.
I agree. Celebrities only look at these networks as nothing more than distribution channels, and they're the worst people to target when you're building a social app even though in the short term it may look as though you're succeeding
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This is my first app in the apple store, it's for a business idea I started up while working for a Retail Real Estate Developer as a way to leverage their existing assets for ecommerce, rather than watch all their tenants shrink in size.
Psychology, naming & shaming, PR, politicking, and propaganda are important parts of any conflict. Just look at the cold war. It's not hypocritical; it's part of the game.
Housing is expensive because it's a positional good, not because it's expensive to produce.
But, but, but... The cloud! Social! Containers! Synergy! ScrummBanFall! Seventeen JS dependency managers, and a new one every week! We have all that stuff now! /s
MyTracks was never in wide use, and its source code certainly wasn't.
This data is available through Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality HCUP project. Getting access to it is straightforward if you are affiliated with a teaching hospital and/or a university. There might even be some researcher at your institute who already has access to it. Getting access to it as a private entity (E.g. a startup) is more challenging and often requires a stricter review.
By overheated rhetoric I meant stuff like this:

"Please stop before somebody gets hurt."

"If you keep this up, I bet you are going to see the insides of some American jail cells too"

"you have been warned"

"your whole setup has enough holes to drive a truck full of C4 through"

Active and engaged is great, but I think you crossed the line (a bit) into hounding. You repeated yourself, became shrill, and seemed uncharitably to assume that no one had thought of any legal issues before your comments appeared. The founders were admirably polite and focused on the substantive aspects of what you posted, but that doesn't mean you can't do the same.
The account of what's going on with the POS machines doesn't make economic sense. If it was true, it would be easy for one bank to capture most of the market simply by charging more reasonable POS fees. I think it's much more likely that it's the cardholder's bank that's overcharging, not the POS's.
This is basically the Atomic CSS idea [1]. Yes it violates separation of concerns, but it does a good job at getting the page weight down.

[1] http://acss.io
I love that line as well. I just told a friend of mine that if I spend the next 10years writing 3 languages exclusively (one per domain of systems, web/mobile application and high concurrency distributed systems) I would hopefully probably be a "good programmer" as I envision it. That might be a tall statement, but that's just my interpretation of how it takes time to become a good programmer, YMMV.
It's open source, it they loose interest in it anybody can pick up the code and continue supporting it.
> Until you reach middle age - and your back starts going, your hearing fades, your glasses prescription gets stronger...

Maybe that's also what the author meant? As you get older, life continues accelerating past you.
Over the past two days I've seen people hocking ad platforms, database products, push services, pubsub thingers, etc... But obviously there is a gap because nobody has the full solution in the package that parse wrapped up.

It's like the iPhone. Yeah the capacitive touchscreens, multitouch, and web browsers on phones existed but until Apple combined them they were just crap that didn't work well together.

Parse wasn't perfect either but what we don't need is everyone who has built a api that saved data to something claiming they can replace Parse tomorrow.
Well, you aren't learning body language and eye movement for one. Plus you only learn to socialize in context of having VR glasses on.

But even if all that was implemented... This seems like a cruel and unusual solution.
Look like nonsense. From the article:

> Johnsen's measurements show that the incidence of protons in the air increased with contamination beyond the 80s and 90s. When the air is positively charged "steal" the electrons from the sun's rays - and this is electrons that plants need to grow.

Is something about this invention published in a reputable source, preferably a peer review journal. (I've seen a lot of miracle water and miracle cures in mainstream newspaper, so they are very low n my reputable ranking.)
> GS likely said "fuck it all stock it is". They get paid anyway, in cash.

Massive category-mistake here. Investment banks don't have sign-off authority on these kinds of transactions, they serve as a advisors. And in this particular case, GS's defense was based on the fact that Dragon didn't follow their advice. Both in terms of the consideration and in terms of Dragon's option to hedge the stock they received as consideration.

By the way -- GS got 1% on this deal, when it's normally up around 2 or 3. The engagement letter didn't even make them advisors to the board, just to management. That's a much lower standard of care. If I had to guess, I'd say that the Bakers were trying something along the lines of, "Potential buyers won't fuck us over if we hire Goldman. What's the cheapest we can hire Goldman for?"

They hired the firm on an extremely limited mandate at a time when the tech M&A market was going haywire. They got a junior team that, while it provided substantively good advice, did not do remotely enough to protect the client from its own brash stupidity (this is not a formal responsibility, but is the kind of thing that partners like Gene, who was nominally on the deal but couldn't even remember it under oath, are good at). FWIW, I agree that GS does not come across well in this particular episode.
> This guy apparently hasn't used Snapchat before

I have, and I quit. For the same reason that I quit FB for. It wasn't adding anything meaningful to my life.

> There are hard numbers that tell us Twitter is losing people's attention

Can you point me to some, please?
But can the panels survive a snow plow? If not, you're limiting it to perhaps(?) half of France. Yet everyone in the entire country pays for it with the gasoline tax.
Not too long ago, "off-site backups" did not mean you used an internet connection, and in many instances, it still doesn't. Tape is still in use. Along with that, off-site doesn't necessarily mean "another company". It can be a separate office at the same org.
Yep, but you also need to sit down with a certain amount of money, otherwise you'll be playing a different game and at different stakes.
It may not have been expressed the most clearly, but the intention was not quite as you describe. Shelter, clothing, and modern medicine all confer enhanced fitness — I was attempting to suggest that increased lifespan does not.
10890548 didn't get enough attention to make this repost a dupe (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) but 10958399 definitely did.
You are right! I deserved the negative points! Lesson learned! ;)
Celebrities and influencers are two very different groups. I like the ability to talk to the latter.
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IP law firms use automated software to scrape the trademark registration filings at the USPTO and other national trademark offices (ex. [1]). These software services automatically assess filings for possible infrigement. This is the most likely way for a bigco's lawyers to find out about your logo or company name - far more likely than them finding out about your startup from techcrunch or some other source.

Unfortunately for me, this happened to me. I was able to negotiate a coexistence agreement for my logo, but I could have done without the pain. If I were to start over from scratch, I would seriously consider doing the Apple/Google offline foreign filing trick [2].

[1] http://towergatesoftware.com/

[2] http://blog.altlegal.com/tongan-shell-game-how-apple-and-goo...
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Have you heard of Uber?
Ask HN: Sender Policy Framework (SPF) Records – Qualifiers
RFC4408 defines the Sender Policy Framework (SPF).

SPF has qualifiers ("-", "~", "+", "?") which are defined as (fail,softfail,pass,neutral) respectively.

There is confusion amongst information online regarding the use of - versus ~. I need some assistance from an expert.

My assumption is that Google uses ~all instead of -all because their _spf.google.com resolves to a _netblocks host which is a dynamic record (according to Google's website since they use the word 'current' when describing the _netblocks) and, therefore, because of DNS propogation delay the ~ was used as opposed to -.

However, when I look stuff up on SendGrid support, I get examples using - and ~ for the same scenario (same hosts and so forth). The only difference is - and ~.

My guess is most e-mail clients are properly configured such that ~ softfail pass throughs result in a flagged message indicating that the sender may not be legit. Is this a safe assumption? It seems like the big smtp companies made that assumption.

https://support.sendgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/202517236 <-- says use -

https://sendgrid.com/docs/Glossary/spf.html <-- says use ~

Had to turn to HN because at the end its clear nobody has any idea what they are talking about on the interweb.

Thanks in advance friends.
I'm not from America, the project originated in Canada. I'm not seeing it in our DB (unless I'm searching wrong). Time for a foundation maybe? Sucks that open-source contributors have to pay for stuff like this.
The main reason that sort of model works for valve so well is threefold.

Valve is at best, a medium sized company so its more worthwhile for them to bother from a profit per employee perspective (hats make them a lot of money in a relative sense, but it wouldn't be a notable blip on facebook or twitters radar)

because...

Valves market is almost 100% heavily committed and "entrenched" customers, people that have steam accounts worth $100s/$1000s, there is a good chance that they are already capturing most of the value in the "games hat market" dispite being only a fraction of the total game market.

because...

Valve is an extremely well liked and trusted company by their customers, likely because other players in the gaming space have been exploitative and abusive to truely mustache twirling comicbook villan levels. People have less worry sinking a lot of money into their platform because they both like them, and are generally of the opinion that even if they screw up, they usually make things right. How many people love facebook or twitter as a company the way people love valve? not many id warrent.

It should be noted, hats started off as a thing at valve BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING THERE WAS NO EASY WAY TO GIVE VALVE MORE MONEY. How many people are lining up to shower zuckerberg with more money?

Its just not in the DNA of a company like facebook to engender that sort of rabbid fanboyism, maybe it was for twitter once upon a time, but they have burned community goodwill by the railcar-full.
Frankly i feel that way to many sub-projects within systemd is at this point "i can rewrite this faster than get patches past the maintainers". Often with the "hilarious" outcome that problem that was solved a decade ago crops up again in the new implementation within systemd.
Dude, you don't need to be so semantic. The headline had "atom" in the title, it had to do with Atom the editor, what more do you want? Do you think every headline should be excruciatingly specific and exact? Might as well just put the whole article in the headline.