skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a programmer/analyst in a hospital. I administer several systems and have my hands in most of the databases. Outside of work, I consult and write healthcare software.

You store it the same as you would any sensitive information -- behind a locked door with a ridiculous amount of audit data. It's more about identifying improper access (nurse A looking at patient B when she's not in his "circle of care") than it is about preventing it, for legitimate users of course.

You do not need to encrypt the contents of the database or any such extreme measures.

Something else to remember is that there is no bulletproof "HIPAA-Compliant" stamp. It's more a set of guidelines and best practices that you're trying to follow. Most vendors do not provide a row-by-row audit table for every single action, for example, but they should.
ILoader Is A Must If You Have Facebook And An iPhone
Facebook has become notorious for many different things. It is by far the most popular social network today. It is also probably the most redesigned site on the entire Web with new Facebook designs launching almost monthly. As a result, it is also the most debated site when it comes to the design. Lastly, I find it to be one of the buggiest sites on the Web especially when it comes to uploading pictures and videos.
iLoader for iPhone is the perfect companion for your iPhone/iPod Touch and it completely changes the experience of uploading content to Facebook from the ground up.
Deletion isn't about improving articles. It is about removing them. If an article covers an obscure topic or person, what of it, so long as the article is properly referenced? There are many topics out there that are definitely arcane and of little interest to most people. Does this mean that Wikipedia ought to be a knowledge base for nothing but pop culture? I sure hope not.
"* isn't dead, it's just resting" is a reference to Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot skit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

By this the author means that "Ogg isn't bad, it's just different" is essentially a lie, because the author means that Ogg is obviously bad.
Alex Payne, a Twitter engineer, is shutting down his personal blog
"Keep your personal business to yourself, unless the customer asks about it." Sounds like a really good idea. He should have followed it himself.
Somehow I don't think you'll get much traction with that idea. You're moving against tens of thousands of years of human social interaction that means face to face is how we want to be.

Online forums have their place and they are efficient, but the sure don't create what most people think of as more value.
If any of this comes to pass, then the open-source aspect of android will become much more important: development will simply shift to countries that don't have software patents
Hey man, if there are a handful of creative people, there's got to be someone spending time appreciating it, or there's no audience.
We drastically changed the homepage of our weekly newspaper site (http://uweekly.com) and shifted it to a stream that combines, stories, comments and site activity. The past 2 months has seen a increase in uniques, but also a sharp dropoff in return visitors. We've had a tough time finding the right balance between fresh content and the stories from the paper. These are some great insights from Rob that will help us tweak this formula.
How about this: you prove that eating meat is justifiable? That would be something.
Long version: http://www.kalzumeus.com/start-here-if-youre-new/

Short version: Somebody asked me how to create bingo cards for class. I said "I'm sure there is a program that will do that for you if you Google for it." She said: "I Googled, nothing works." That was my first indication there might be a market for this. My second, which convinced me, was that when I made something to tide her over (hacked together in 4 hours and possibly the worst software in my life I ever inflicted on other people), I got fifteen thank you letters and fifteen "I really want to use this but I can't because it is broken!" letters from a mailing list with 60 people on it. That was my first, very unplanned, exposure to the Minimum Viable Product.

I estimated the world market for my product at 2,000 teachers and thought, with a bit of work, I might eventually sell as much as $200 a month. Turns out I suck at math.

I don't know what you consider interesting about the early days of the startup. Let's see. At the time I was starting I was on a severe frugality kick and had a rigid budget every month, the better for retiring my student loans early. My budget had $60 a month allocated for video games. So I skipped the game and gave the business a $60 lease on life: it had to pay its own way after that. It has.
I'm based in Manchester, and can code etc. If you'd like to meet up to discuss things I'd be happy to catch up for a hot chocolate or beer sometime. Email me.

Logically you've got 3 choices.

* Learn to code.

* Pay someone to code.

* Partner with someone who can code.

Which you do depends on which you're happiest trading for what you want - time, money, or equity.

There are some networking events in Manchester that may be useful to you - geekup may be of interest.

Are any grants available to pay for the initial coding? I know that there are programmes such as 'Creative Credits' that connects you with universities etc, so this may be a route to go down.
It's difficult to run an internet-based business in China. Not impossible, but difficult.

If you're hosting inside China, then you've got to get a license from the government to run a website. To get said license, you must comply with all of the regulatory restrictions, which basically means total governmental access. As the article says, you are liable for anything that your users do, so it's in your best interest to self-police. For extra fun, the laws aren't all published and can change at any time.

You've also got all the issues of running a corporation in China, which requires a very different skillset than the U.S. or Europe. Corrupt government officials combined with savage (and well-connected) competitors is the norm. Plus, rule of law is weak. Get ready for some real hardball.

Hosting in Hong Kong or Korea is easier, but then you're susceptible to the Great Firewall. If you're on the government shitlist for any reason, your website just goes poof for all your customers. You'll probably also have difficulty getting money from inside China to outside China.

There's definitely people that make it work, and my hat's off to them. However, for most people the U.S. and Europe has a heck of a lot less friction.
What's the tape mod? And why would I need to do it?
You're going to deny that the degree of something isn't relevant to its severity? Seriously?
well explained. :)
Biomimicry: Leaf Veins Inspire New Model for Distribution Networks
Bait & switch. Apple wanted these technologies to be adopted and define what a modern SmartPhone is. Now that it's established it's very unlikely HTC or anyone else will ditch these technologies. Easier to just pay Apple some royalties. Even if they do design around Apple patents there are millions of these phones out there already to ensure a good settlement for Apple and it will put their competition at a disadvantage. This is of course assuming Apple wins.

HTC was probably a target due to their relationship with Google and strong support of Android. HTC relies on Android for the bulk of their handsets these days so they might be more likely to reach a deal with Apple. Moto only has a couple Android handsets and likely has their own patent war chest to fight back with. Palm isn't selling enough handsets to be a good target at this point. They'll probably fall into line if HTC loses. (or they'll be out of business)
Almost every porn star has one. Why not software?
when we made tmedweb (http://tmedweb.tulane.edu), one of our initial goals was a high bounce rate and minimum time on site. We were simply tying a calendar held elsewhere to course material held elsewhere. The basic design was our interest. You know you're doing it right when your biggest detractors set you as their homepage. :-)
Well hopefully he reads hacker news, because redstar504 transcribed it above.
Solving a murder with Google Earth
I have a friend who's a doctor. A few years ago I read a few books about nutrition for laypeople, and when I had questions, I tried asking him. He couldn't tell me much. Virtually everything I asked him about, I knew more about it than he did, just from reading a few books. He obviously knew more about enzymes, metabolic pathways, and cardiac arteries than I did, but when it came to practical questions like how much protein I need to consume or how well calcium is absorbed from broccoli and collard greens, he had learned literally nothing in medical school. The closest he came to studying nutrition was when he took a special elective unit on diabetes in rural Hispanic populations.

The way he sees it, nutrition is a separate specialty done by people who study less than doctors and get paid less than doctors, and it isn't taught in medical school, so he isn't embarrassed at all by his ignorance. He regularly gives advice to people who have risk factors like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, but the advice he gives them (eat in moderation, eat more vegetables and less junk food, exercise a little) is pretty generic, and none of them follow it anyway.
Okay, I've had my surreal moment for the day. I was not expecting to see a thread I made four years ago when I clicked that link.
I think you have to have the headphones on otherwise the feedback will ruin it.
Well, some of the patents are hardware, and you still need to sell your device in countries that will recognize these patents to make it worth making.

I expect a settlement out of this, there just seems to be something else going on that is behind closed doors. It just doesn't quite make sense how it is being reported.
"Online videos can coach you in defensive driving, Rosetta Stone will teach you almost any language without ever having to meet another human, and I’m constantly learning new writing tips from Clippy."

... that's sarcasm, right? I sure hope it is.
alexa and compete both say the lasvegassun numbers are headed downward. I am slowly coming to the conclusion that those services can't do much better than provide order of magnitude comparisons between sites.
Blah blah, let's spin this so Jobs doesn't look like the hypocrite he is.
It could be as simple as mirroring wikipedia but never propagating the deletions. Trying to edit an article would redirect one to wikipedia; trying to edit a deleted article would instead edit the local copy (in the event of the article being recreated on wikipedia at a later date there could be an automatic upstream merge).
The quick-select algorithm is a really simple and effective way of selecting the k-th smallest element and one that would be nice to cover. It's especially useful in situations where you need O(n) selection of the median element.
Have you read the article? It reads like a blog entry rather than an entry to an encyclopedia. Wikipedia has been criticized before for not being well researched and factual. The problem with the article is it may as well be someone's opinion on the WM. I'm all for more pages but this does not read well. My point is if you care, make it read like it belongs in there. Wikipedia is not supposed to be an internet archive it's supposed to be factual.
Thanks I'll check both of these links out. I'm designing a little Google Maps based web app that has already had two major architectural changes due to issues I hadn't considered. Before I go forward with it I want to go through these resources and try to get the third iteration right.
Pinch-to-zoom predates the iPhone. (That doesn't mean you're wrong.)
Diana Eng's Fairytale Fashion Collection Debut at Eyebeam NYC
The Fairytale Fashion Collection uses technology to create magical clothing in real life. Electronics, mechanical engineering, and mathematics are used to create clothing with blooming flowers, changing colors and transforming shapes. Fairytale Fashion was created with the support of Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the United States.
They're hit or miss. I don't think the quoted line is particularly good, but some of his lyrics are very clever, or very introspective, or very funny, or all three at the same time.
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Just edited the first issue of the Copenhagen edition. Great response so far; people like the simple and readable format and the overall 'spirit' of the initiative.

I read the Silicon Valley edition, just to drool...
It is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164338
Hear, hear!

While we're at it, can we please add "At the end of the day..." to the list of pseudo-pithy (and indeed lazy) phrases to retire, too. JFK coined "in the final analysis..." which hung around for years, and years. "At the End of the Day" took its place, but has become just as tiresome, and meaningless.
No. The author provides counterexamples to the argument, "RDBMSes don't scale."

As for the "innovative work" versus "well-trod ground," there are still businesses who need better, more innovative solutions to well-trod problems, and I, for one, am not willing to ignore money on the table. The problem I'm working on works well with a combination RDBMS/key-value system for different pieces of the puzzle.
um, a CEO has an obligation to act in the financial best interests of his shareholders. software patents might suck, but them's the rules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capitalism
When you say "rubish", are you going off the description or the actual patent claim? Descriptions are always written in broad strokes and never really seem enforceable.
Voting me down for saying this:

"How about this: you prove that eating meat is justifiable? That would be something."

Whoever did it, you're realllly smart.
I bought a Sinclair ZX80 30 years ago - I thought about writing a commercial game app for it but I got busy on other things. Compared to the Apple II (I had serial number 71 of the original Apple II model line), the ZX80 was a big disappointment.
It might be human imperative to meet face to face, but I'd argue that those who can control the urge or are naturally inclined not to seek it will do better financially.

To give an example, Warren Buffet is an introvert and spends most of his day alone working, and he beat all his competition.

Even very successful actors such Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Clint Eastwood, are introverts.

Industries where extroverts rule also happen to be industries that create negative value to society - politics, traditional investment banks, sales.
Yes. It's why pediatricians recommend cutting hot dogs and grapes into pieces about half the size of your thumb nail for toddlers.

As cautious as my wife and I are, redesigning a hot dog seems absurd as long as you follow the pediatrician's recommendation. While day care providers know the recommendation already it's necessary to let the grandparents know if they care for your child.
"If Apple becomes a company that uses its might to quash competition instead of using its brains, it's going to find the brainiest people will slowly stop working there. You know this, you watched it happen at Microsoft. Enforcing patents isn't a good long-term play: it's the beginning of the end of the creative Apple we both love."

theorizing out my ass without thinking much about it here:
does anyone else feel like this is the long term lifecycle of every successful company? innovate, scale, stop innovating but keep executing what you know, scale, become too clumsy to innovate, die. But you made a heck of a lot of money along the way.
Don't have the patience to read the whole deletion policy page. Why would they want to delete such a thing? Is it inconceivable that some day somebody might stumble across the word "dwm" and look it up on Wikipedia?
I wonder if Joel Spolsky had some influence on Alex. I really enjoyed his blog.
I'd say the Nexus One and Droid are leaps forward from the iPhone at least in terms of hardware capability. Remember that this is a suit against a hardware manufacturer, not the software developer.

If Apple was confident of their devices' ability to outcompete HTC's in the market, they wouldn't have bothered to file this suit. They're suing because they are afraid of these things.
In dwm with Mod1-m. Mod1-b if you want to hide The status bar.
It seems like that would have been the killer Linux differentiator for some distribution. Design a decent UI that isn't Windows, OS X, etc. UI's are hard, but it seems like there are more ways to do things out there that aren't being explored.
I wonder if he'll last through the winter in Portland.
Well, some of the patents are hardware, and you still need to sell your device in countries that will recognize these patents to make it worth making.

Sure, but as long as someone is selling the hardware (perhaps even licensing the appropriate patents) the hacker/end-user would still be able to compile and load software to make it all work.

I expect a settlement too, if only because I can't imagine that HTC has enough money to invalidate all of the patents/show that they don't infringe on them.
Three Spaniards arrested in alleged global hacking scheme
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VII: ragtag.vim (formerly allml.vim)
Tell HN: next Silicon Valley Co-Founders Meetup is March 11
Maybe it's just an easter ogg.
I have been looking into the Apple II and IIe recently, for various reasons, and I get the impression that these computers were way ahead of their time, at least compared to the other "home computers" back then. They sure seem more powerful than the (very successful) Commodore 64; better BASIC, powerful other programming languages available, extension cards, disk operating system with subdirectories (unusual for the time), etc.
Google, Motorola, and Palm all have large patent portfolios to defend themselves with. Motorola literally invented the cell phone. Palm has a ton of important patents from the Treo days. Google has been gearing up for fights with the likes of Microsoft and Amazon.

For example, Engadget ran an analysis on Palm vs. Apple a while ago. They found that both companies infringed heavily on each other's patents, for things from list scrolling to three-way calling. Starting that particular food-fight would probably end badly for both companies.

HTC is a much softer target. HTC is relatively new in the business, with a smaller patent portfolio. They're also a foreign corporation, which may give Apple some home advantage in the courtroom.

At its core, this is all about Google. Every single Google developer phone has been HTC, as well as the G1 and Nexus One. If Apple prevails, that would be a pretty big blow to Google just as Android is beginning to spread its wings.
Exactly. Some analytics programs go by whether they viewed a single page, some go by visits that viewed page(s) and only stuck around for less than 3 to 5 seconds. Most, if not all, analytics programs measure "time on site", so it's theoretically possible to segment out the groups that only viewed a single page and spent only a few seconds on the site, it's just inconvenient to set up if that's not the default.

In Kaushik's book, Web Analytics an Hour a Day, he defines bounce rate as "The percent of traffic that stayed on your website for fewer than 10 seconds." So that's probably why he's so keen on bounce rate, using his definition you avoid some of the issues listed in that article.
I cannot agree with deletionists, but it's still important that articles cite reputable sources. Unfortunately, those same reputable sources are by and large the same ones needed for notability.

About a year ago, there was a mini-campaign on HN to save the article about Fravia. It narrowly avoided getting deleted, but look at it now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia - it's still a terrible, rambling mess, with almost every citation leading to Fravia's own website. The information in the article may or may not be true, and we don't really have any way of knowing.

It really seems like something has to reach a certain level of notability before it's possible to write an article of sufficient quality about it.
His beats are better than his rhymes. I generally like his albums when they first come out, but I don't feel they have much staying power.
I don't understand the snippiness of your submission title. Apple's attack is obviously focused on Android, which HTC uses and Google has spearheaded. Maybe I'm just reading it wrong?
But a researcher's grants/patents certainly do depend on proving a particular compound cures gout.
that's an excellent point. i see too many companies for whom the point is just to make noise. there's not a particular conversation that they're looking to spark or participate in, rather they just want name recognition.

i feel like we might be reaching a tipping point where name recognition is no longer a long-term objective. it needs to be name + value. for instance, youtube is valuable, but it's valuable because it's youtube, the place to find videos.
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What is Apple up to?
No, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_(window_manager) is the Father of modern tiling WMs
Qualcomm CEO Sees Company Driving Wave of Mobile Internet Innovation
I shut down my blog Jan 1. Privacy is the new sharing.
Indeed. It seems to me that using the term "evil" (at least in instances where there's no human harm being done... Bhopal disaster and such aside) about a corporation is unlikely to lead us to clear thinking.

Corporations are artificial entities that are set up with the goal of maximizing shareholder value. The corporations we're talking about exist inside democratic governance and regulatory systems. It seems to me that things would be likely to work best when we all think of corporations as what they are: machines to make a profit, and exercised our powers as voters (and as customers) appropriately.

Now, of course, a particular corporation's behavior may make one more or less likely to want to purchase their products (in other words, their public "persona" is part of their marketing), but to be outraged about legal maneuvers doesn't make much sense to me. Don't buy their products and/or work to change the laws, but let's not be angry at tigers for chasing sweet little antelopes. It's what they do.

I say this as someone who's been outraged before over Microsoft's anti-competitive maneuvers. I think that was probably stupid of me. They were doing just what they should have been doing if that's what they thought would maximize their profitability. Doesn't mean I like their products. But to call them evil was a mistake that I regret.
Your Logo Is Not Your Brand
How does he? (I feel a bit creepy stalking him like this on the internet.)
I can remember once representing the principal architect of the ScriptX language used at Kaleida Labs (a 1992 joint venture between Apple and IBM) and, when going for meetings at Kaleida, constantly being made aware of the role within the company of a team whose sole job was, day in and day out, to scour everything that was being done for patentability. Given such a focus, you can be assured that countless patents were filed from that effort, not so much because they were useful as because this helped build an IP arsenal to use against competitors.

Intel used patents in this way for years to intimidate and harass potential competitors in the desktop platform that it effectively monopolized for years. Apple is doing the same thing now with respect to its platform. What amazes me is not that Apple is being a jerk about this but that so many believed it would be otherwise. While Apple may in many ways be a rebel company (or at least has cultivated its image this way), when it comes to IP protections, it plays strictly by the standard script.