skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech is the easy part. Integrating into a 24/7 high turn-over environment where all employees, IT included, are stretched to the max, is the real issue.
> One of the biggest WTF moments I had when I first started was realizing that fax communication is HIPAA-compliant whereas email/SMS are not

That's not exactly the case; fax communication can easily violate HIPAA and email, appropriately secured, can be compliant, even for PHI (SMS is more problematic because it's unsecurable).

The issue is specifically that there is precedent (or, at least, a widely held interpretation, not sure there is actually directly applicable case law) that fax is not an electronic communication mechanism for the purposes of HIPAA law and regulation, so while general rules on disclosure and communication apply to it.

> even though in theory anyone could walk by a fax machine at any time and take medically sensitive information sent over.

Not having appropriate safeguards to prevent that at a HIPAA covered entity is, itself, a violation of HIPAA.
>These people are mainly relatively unskilled

Not only that I agree with that, but I'd like to add the fact that after 2 years of working in a team splitted in Romania and India, the working experience with Indian programmers is relatively difficult. It's not something isolated to an individual, all of my colleagues have been complaining that they would really like to work with someone else, but not from India. I think it comes from their culture, they are not used to work hard or to do something willingly. They are doing it if they must, if someone tells them that they have to do it.
Haml or Slim are a better bet than Pug then.

Nb: pug aka Jade used to convert direct to HTML, I also lament the "everything the JavaScript" silliness.
Why enigma (ENG) is an undervalued crypto altcoint?
It’s an intriguing subject for sure.

What’s missing to me here is “Why start with CP/M”?
Oh man. The subtle spinning of her tenure at Netflix and the omission of her involuntary firing makes the irony rather palpable.
And yet they managed to save the program and avoid the lithium battery issues of the 787 all while not being anywhere near as overweight as the 787 was upon introduction.
I am a big believer that we have already discovered a safe, free, plentiful lever against some of the most high profile diseases (cancer, Alzheimer’s, some mental illnesses) out there in fasting/calorie restriction/keto.

I highly doubt it will ever become mainstream for the simple reason that no healthcare or big tech co can make money from telling people to eat in a way that induces ketosis.

Science of Fasting doc:
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fasting-Sylvie-Gilman/dp/B075...
I suspect it is more likely that the bubble was way overestimated by the media in the past.
It looked like a way to make a closed ecosystem where there were only a few entrants (users) and the cost of entry was high both economically and in terms of the learning curve.

It is nice to see that I'm not entirely wrong.
Can't really see standardization settling on something that requires ~1,000-10,000x overhead from its competitors. 1mb public keys would mean things like IoT devices and block chain type usages, not to mention local caching taking possibly gigabytes.

Hybrid secret-sharing schemes do a lot to mitigate both future quantum risk and present broken cipher system risk.
That's not all! Try inserting a Go variable within a script tag, and Go will automatically convert it to JSON. Makes it possible to easily do this:

let msgs = {{ .Messages }}

Where .Messages is any slice. Same is true for structs -> JS objects.
Wait until we train speech bots to fumble at tongue twisters

Uncanny valley
IBM's Watson is a brand, not a product - and there are certainly good and bad products under the brand. I wonder on which side this particular instance is at.
But this isn't fail-closed. The specification allows for newer versions. The problem is, you are supposed to spit back the version you actually support instead of disconnecting. I don't understand how this can be interpreted as anything but non-compliance of the standard.
Sounds really cool! I can't wait to charge my phone just by setting it on my nightstand at the end of the day. And my smart watch, and my headphones.
Jerold F. Lucey, Innovator in Premature Births, Dies at 91
> I'm sure the engineers reading your comment appreciate your suggestion they the many late nights they've spent finding flaws in their proposals and those of others were all some kind of fever dream.

> ...but these days, "evaluating ideas...for flaws" is the process of finding logical contortions that, in the death-of-the-author spirit, twist texts and make them say the opposite of what they say.

Wow.
I really don't think there should be a way, frankly. This shouldn't be tested from a webapp.
EOMA68 dev is trying to raise funds through MLM
> The day will come when we no longer can opt out.

That day already came a long time ago. Even those of us who do everything we can to avoid the surveillance end up being sold out (often inadvertently) by those we know when they share information about us or have their contact lists harvested. That's without even getting into the data Google/Facebook/Amazon/etc collect from public records, credit card companies, etc.
Some of the best developers I know have bad soft skills and they have had trouble holding onto a steady job because of it. Being fired often makes them more bitter, less trusting and further damages their soft skills which turns into a vicious cycle.

Part of the problem is the increased intolerance to conflict in the workplace. Employees these days get fired for merely having self-respect and conviction.
I imagine another large factor is economies of scale.
e.g. if a machine that makes 1000 widgets an hour is only 10 times the price of one that makes 10 widgets an hour, then you'll get centralisation.

The other factor I imagine is proximity/availability of raw resources, and refineries of raw resources: if you're not shipping those shoes across the world, you still have to transport the plastic, leather, rubber etc to make them.
Uncanny Road
Thanks for the clarification. This reveals a couple of other points.

This flaw is that the fingerprint/PIN auth for their TOTP authenticator app can be bypassed by manually launching one of the app's activities. This is a separate auth layer over the phone's screen lock. The first exploit path here is thus that if a malicious user gets access to your unlocked phone, they could install one of these activity opener utilities and access this app's TOTP code screen. That gets them the current TOTP codes, but not the secret for generating them. Note that this is currently the security level that Google's Authenticator app already has.

The other, which I'm a little less clear on, is that a malicious app gets installed somehow, it launches the activity, and manipulates the UI to hit the buttons and read the screen to get your current TOTP codes. I think Android apps' abilities along these lines have changed around several times between Android versions, and I'm not sure which version does what, but I think the current version requires the user to set a special checkbox in settings for an app to be able to do these things. If you can get a user to do that for your malicious app, it can do all sorts of bad things.

In both cases, the attacker would be getting current codes, not the secret, which would still be locked away safely in the app's storage. So while this flaw is kind of bad and should be fixed, it doesn't have me running for the hills, esp. since I don't even use this app.
Absolutely right. Tech people have always been soft targets: just look at the awful nerdface of The Big Bang Theory. Most tech people are, in reality, just ordinary people doing what they love. While of course there are programmers who embody the "brilliant asshole" stereotype, there are managers who embody the Patrick Bateman and Bill Lumbergh stereotypes.

Let's agree to just treat people as people and stop with this idea, implicit the whole conversation, that we need to value people who aren't technical more because they automatically possess skills that these technical nerds lack.
Funny how Medium started out being branded as the one clean template alternative to all the others, and has now devolved into just as cluttered as all the rest.
You're thinking of non-competes, which are very different. I would suggest talking with an employment lawyer if you work for a BigCo in Silicon Valley.
That’s pretty weird. Why wouldn’t you just not visit the store.
> It's not really about "can I keep from seeing opinions I don't like on Twitter?"

No, it’s 100% about this. You do know that violent crime is at an all time low, right (at least in the US)? There is no problem other than the audience for technology is using it in a way not approved of by some if its creators (the OP, not me for instance).

If you’re not unhappy with the state of the industry, these think pieces lamenting it read as really self-centered and out of touch.
This would be a better link :

https://medium.com/@marlene.jaeckel/the-empress-has-no-cloth...
Nah, it's deflating in a relatively soft landing, though returns for most VC funds in the next few years are probably going to suck.

Most bubbles only really affect the people who buy in at an inflated price (the 2009 mortgage crash was an exception because there was so much counterparty risk that it nearly took down the whole financial system). Dot-com bubble made several retail investors lose their life savings, but if you didn't invest in dot-coms and didn't work for them, you probably weren't affected. Web 2.0 bubble meant that several young founders (myself included) had to go get real jobs. The mobile bubble is going to hurt the funds & accelerators that invested in these companies, and they may not be able to raise again, but outside them most people will go on with their lives.

Crypto bubble will likely be the same - folks who buy in at an inflated price now can expect to lose everything they invest, but losses will be limited to that. I know a bunch of people who have invested (again, myself included), but don't know of anyone who's put in money they can't afford to lose. I've heard it's different in South Korea.
Going to be interesting to see what happens to all those in the country as well. since all this goes back to India it won't be long before the state side people run into issues
> Tech isn't inherently evil, neither is a hammer or a gun but both can be used for good or bad.

I see this meme everywhere, and I just can't fathom it. Not all tech is perfectly neutral, just because it's "technology". An iron maiden and a wheelchair sit on different places in the good - evil spectrum.
Public sector municipal... doing what exactly? That doesn’t sound like a traditionally high tech market. Maybe your use case is atypical.
Thank you, you articulated my exact feelings.

The stereotypical manager is often classified as the failed engineer. I’ve certainly seen it happen where managers are the smooth talking bullshitters who can’t cross the street without help while the more introverted types continue to do all the heavy lifting.
If I visit a site for the first time without any ad blocking enabled, and realize it provides no value, how do I reverse my exposure to those ads? How do I claw back whatever data their tracking scripts collected about me?
Bubbles, like Recessions, are designated with certainty as having occurred, only a few months after they have occurred.

Mainstream media will always have stories like this every few months, because it creates F.U.D (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) which is a beast that feeds itself, with the end result that the stories get 100s and 1000s of pageviews in a matter of days = ad $ converted for said media outlet.

This is very similar to how the sports section teams of major news outlets declare that "Boxing is Dead" after every top boxer retires. They did it after Ali retired, after Tyson retired and most recently, after Floyd Mayweather retired. But Boxing is still alive and well to this day, even if viewership has dwindled from that in the 80s.

Related: Larry Merchant still writes letters to the local paper. This one is to the LA Times after their "Boxing is Dead" Article https://twitter.com/steveucnlive/status/779413847102722048
Thank you for the quick overview.
I also got interested in Lojban. I am trying to incorporate the learning of the language in to some of my routines.

For example, for software projects, where I can, I use Lojban named classes, functions, test strings (instead of 'lorem ... '), and even comments.

There are some youtube clips of songs in Lojban, I played them for my family and, unfortunately, response was negative (music was not that nice, and it sounds harsh as you noted).

I think Lojban might have an interesting future as requirements specification and STEM-papers language.
Because it is purposefully unambiguous to interpret.
May be like a modern day Latin, or something...
The same user posting nothing but NYT articles and working for NYT and for me posting too frequently.
Did you read the article? It’s proposing a way to prevent websites from detecting that an adblocker is in use, effectively breaking their ability to selectively paywall.
It doesn't feel like a tech bubble really. The recent crop of unicorns may not be as successful as FB/Google but besides theranos they're making good money. Most are busy burning free cash so there might be layoffs when/if that runs out. But these aren't the vaporware companies of the 99 bubble, they all make a lot of money.

Except magic leap...

Cryptocurrency sure as hell feels like a bubble. My friends grandma was asking him how to invest over Christmas....
"The sneakers' trip from a southern Chinese footwear factory begins on July 5, 2036, and ends on Caitlin’s doorstep 18 weeks later"

18 weeks? Stuff that. The sneakers will be printed on demand at a local fab and delivered by drone within the hour.
It’s also the law that prevents doctors from telling their friends about your hilarious medical conditions, or selling information about you to pharmaceutical companies to market to you directly.

It’s a very thorny law, but it’s like that for a reason.
> No kid deserves having his life destroyed by a screwed up education.

And yet it is not uncommon.

Where I live if you look at overall education homeschooling provides the best results, followed by private schools, and then public schools bring up the rear.

> Creationism, for example, is not education

That's neither here nor there. Millions of people who went through the public system here believe in creationism and it certainly wasn't taught in schools.

Like I said in my original post the curriculum is still determined by the state for homeschool and private schools.

> Violent assaults are nothing exclusive to public schools, they happen at private schools too.

Of course they do.

I guess my point is the media will focus on teacher related scandals etc.

However, the overwhelming majority of physical and sexual abuse is student on student.

As such the likelihood of physical or sexual abuse while homeschooled is likely an order of magnitude lower than at public school.

> At least I would give the state more authority than the churches or religious nutjobs.

The authority belongs with the parents.

If your parents are horrible and abusive then you are in for a rough life.

It is horrible and true regardless of whether you go to public school or not.
> If you want more free conversation, you can and should go elsewhere.

Just like people who don't want Trump to be their president should move to Canada, right?

Run from the problem instead of trying to fix it... always a good choice.
I'll compare the tool with two of my sites that run advertising.

#1. The tool estimates 1.5 million a month in revenue. Actual earnings are 6,000.

#2. The tool estimates 6,600 per month in revenue. Actual earnings are 400.

I get those numbers while using conservative prediction options. With the first site, the estimate is 250x higher than actual revenues. It's hard to even call it an estimate at that point.

I'm confident my sites are well optimized. I run header bidding with most of the major ad networks (Google, AppNexus, AOL, etc). I've done countless A/B tests. I've sold direct campaigns to Fortune 500 companies. I frequently Skype with other well known people in my industry (they're pulling in millions annually on advertising) and we talk numbers for our different projects.

In short, I just want to caution people these estimates are likely incredibly inaccurate.
Interlingua is the most intriguing conlang for me. It just seems incredibly practical. I'm a native English speaker with only high school french, yet I can pretty much read interlingua despite never having learned it. I imagine native romance language speakers are fluent readers right off the bat. That's huge.
Speaking as someone who does just that... it’s a good site for the quality of the minds here, bad for the degree of censorship. Having said that, it feels more honest than FB. This is YC pursuing their own best interests very openly with HN... it isn’t “social media for the people.” I might prefer differences, but it’s easy to accept what’s offered when that offer is very clear at the outset.

You also have to understand why draconian measures are in place... it’s weakness. This is a site full of people who could never be banned, only whichever account they use at the time. Tons of moderation online depends on user ignorance, and when that fails you have to roll out the dirty tricks.

It is literally all they have which works at all. It’s this, or hiring a few hundred mods to sift through absolutely everything, which comes with its own issues. I’m not sure how you would improve this system without radically changing it, especially while trying to minimize the impact of bad actors.
Life is just another thermodynamic process following a gradient, and all things tend to entropy.
The worst I've seen so far are posters with mindless and vulgar motivation propaganda such as "Bullshit-free Zone" and "Get Shit Done" [1].
These seem to be popular with a customer of mine who went all-in on SCRUM last year (believe me, you haven't seen anything yet if you haven't worked in a German team throwing around everyday or pseudo English terms in an attempt to appear cool).

[1]: https://www.startupvitamins.com/
The global financial system is in the midst of an everything bubble, and so in comparison to everything else, the tech bubble looks less significant than a year ago.

The current regime wont last long if US inflation picks up in 2018, which is likely but not certain.
You interacted with a few people, and now you can say that a culture/country of 1.3 billion people "are not used to work hard or something willingly"! Wow!
That, or we have a time-based economy. Physical goods may become accessible to all, but time is still a limited resource, and collaboration with others can save us time, and help to strengthen communities.
The issue is they don't want people driving tax exempt diesel trucks all over the place on personal business [1]. This is the cause of the low 25-mile max range limit though I doubt it's strictly enforced. It's not too unusual to see farm plated trucks in urban ares upstate where they are unlikely to be from a nearby farm.

[1] https://dmv.ny.gov/registration/about-agricultural-and-farm-...
But LHR does 30-50 flights per hour. 60 seconds is a lot of time...
I eschew 'reaching out'. It can be replaced by more honest and/or accurate terms. The big problem is that it is part of the problem - people that use this phrase tend to use other occluding language. And people that speak or write that way - as per TFA - tend to do it a lot.

Btw, 'intending to help' I don't think is implied. Naturally you may 'reach out' to provide or offer assistance, but in a business context there should be a business driver for doing the actual contact thing, and then you can choose to specify the context or not.
The errata page: http://www.charlespetzold.com/code/ which is pretty small. It seems to already be getting traffic (HN hug?) so you might need to reload it a couple times.
This would be a start... ;) https://dood.al/pinktrombone/
Given that I've just found a PDF copy of this book on the internet archive and it hasn't been taken down from there, I'm going to assume the following is okay. If there are any issues, I'm happy to delete this, or a mod can. Hopefully it's all good.

- archive.org PDF (9.2MB): https://ia801607.us.archive.org/7/items/CodeTheHiddenLanguag...

- The seemingly-legit-looking account of the uploader who put it on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/@archiver849271

- The front page for the item on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/CodeTheHiddenLanguageOfComputerH...

- The directory the item is in: https://archive.org/download/CodeTheHiddenLanguageOfComputer...

--

I also found a 176MB scanned copy of the book as pure images: http://learning.caitlinmorris.net/sfpc/CharlesPetzold_Code.p...
Come on these are real people trying to get by. Have some empathy. It sucks being at the low end.
How affordable urban housing can remain affordable
Definitely not mobile friendly.
This was submitted and killed earlier...
7 Modern BBSes Worth Calling Today
Did you read their post? They didn't say selectively paywall.
I was only skimming the article, but it seems they were comparing against benchmarks form this contest:

http://maxsat.ia.udl.cat/introduction/
they did experiments on the 2016 Max-SAT challenge, which seems to me like a legitimate class of problem instances.
In my final semester at Uni I applied for jobs, and for half my second semester I worked a flexible 15 to 30 hours a week and still finished with all As.
Not necessarily. You can still provide decent services collecting anonymized data.
If you have a concern that something untoward is going on, you can contact the mods directly via the Contact link in the footer. If there's abuse, they want to know about it.
No, it is a centralized ledger (there is only one unique, central ledger that can't be partitioned) which is processed in a peer to peer way.

Compare this to actual currencies, that have millions (or even billions) of independent, parallel, distributed, ledgers.

Or compare this to DNS. There isn't a single, unique, central DNS record, it is a system of distributed records across he entire internet.
You weren't banned, but your comments were caught by a software filter. Sorry—new accounts are subjected to extra filters because of past abuses by trolls. We've marked your account legit so this won't happen again.

All: it's much better to email issues like this to hn@ycombinator.com, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's pretty random what we do and don't see on the site, but we see all the emails.
> I think it comes from their culture, they are not used to work hard or to do something willingly.

Cut the crap. India is a country of 1.3 billion people, don't peddle bullshit stereotypes. Not working hard doesn't come from the culture; it's quite the opposite if anything.

>They are doing it if they must, if someone tells them that they have to do it.

Maybe the firm you are dealing with doesn't pay the employees well enough, which in turn causes demotivation?