skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my knowledge of what my wife does for a living, securing a hospital's reimbursement from Medicare/Medicaid, I think I can make a pretty good guess.

It's a single person, or small department, using some off-the-shelf tool like Excel or Access to massage data into the format necessary to integrate it with one of the various third parties that must process it in order to get full reimbursement while ensuring compliance with regulations. The problem itself demands that huge amounts of personal data are gathered together, and the way the system works generally forces it to be handled by a regular person, on their workstation.

Obviously this data needs to be shared with the payor (e.g., Medicare). The thing is that the reimbursement regulations change constantly (not just every year or something, but literally weekly in the Federal Register), and changing regulations demand different reporting procedures and formats. The constantly-changing nature means that it's not a very good candidate for automation: every hospital (and every other healthcare provider) would need to have IT staff constantly active addressing changes, or at the very least, providers of hospital ERP/records systems would need to be constantly addressing changes, and hospital IT would need to constantly be integrating software updates.

And it's not just the payor that's a problem. There are countless third parties that communicate this data. Because cases are handled as cases rather than people, when a case is transferred to another hospital, or sent out to a specialist, that must be tracked. But frequently it's not the hospital doing the checking, it's the patient himself that checks himself out and goes to another hospital. That means that hospitals are constantly downloading Medicaid records to cross-check against their own data, and negotiating with other providers to determine who gets "credit" for the cases. Since all of these third parties have their own systems, and the number of combinations of transfers between providers is astronomical, the communication of this data tends to turn into one-off projects, demanding that a human compile the data in a way that both sides agree to.

So it appears that part of the need to keep human hands in heaps of personal data, is driven by the nature of our healthcare regulation.

(I know the article is written about the UK, but I'm assuming that much of what I've said generalizes across the ocean)
While I sort of see, marketing/wording of this could spin this as a positive (assuming it was even something that was publicized - perhaps hidden in the markup is good enough?).

We've popularized crime reporting as a social good - mcgruff the crime dog, etc. When will we start taking online safety and security with the same level of seriousness?

As much as I don't like the idea, being able to report issues to a state or federal agency might be a way to go.
If this phone had an LED notification light, it would be much more tempting. I guess I'll wait and see what others will bring to the table.
When the docs talk of "jQuery selectors", does it mean that the visited page must use jQuery?
Being honest here - I enjoy what they do. I do feel for the people who are being affected by this, but.... umm... I enjoy.
How many spam links has HN received in the last few weeks?

There is no way this is useful. For starters, it looks rather empty.

Second, everyone knows that stack overflow is a mine for almost every needs. Where is the link down-vote option?
Generate a Rails 3 app with RSpec, Factory Girl, Haml, and jQuery in one line.
I don't know about anyone else, but I felt this article had the vibe of:

"Guys! The internet is dangerous! We NEED a way to turn it on and off! It's for YOUR safety!"
MVVM and jQuery: Designing Maintainable, Fast and Versatile Sites
Of course, not being hacked is better than being hacked, but being lax about security is inviting trouble. Trouble coming your way can be more devastating than a potential public humiliation at the hands of LS.
Pandora's IPO
Coincidentally, there is a lunar eclipse tonight. If you're in the UK, take a look at 9:15PM this evening - I'm afraid I don't know how visible it will be elsewhere.
I was referring specifically to the cheaper "feature phones" (such as the Xpressmusic, which certainly isn't a smartphone). We often hear that they rule the low end market, but even in that segment, their design and quality seem to be slipping.
This one isn't especially well designed. For the "yes", it presents two fairly specific answers, ignoring the general case. A lot of biased Internet polls are made like this.
LulzSec and it's fans are not going to be happy if more Internet banning occurs
Walmart gives federal government a taste of its own medicine
Hi rkalla:

Thanks very much for your contribution to the production of #killswitch the documentary.

You're right, there is a lot corruption and sometimes it's difficult to make sense of it all.

In my opinion the most alarming part of all is the unprecedented corruption and concentration of the traditional media.

You can really get a sense of how corrupt and concentrated the media industry is when you check out these ownership charts on FreePress.com... You'd be amazed at how many television stations, Film Production Studios, Magazines, Online, holdings, etc. a company like General Electric or Walt Disney owns.

Here's the charts: http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main

Once you realize how much control over knowledge and information these six companies have and how few people in the US get their news outside of these six sources you realize we've got a major problem for a functioning democracy.

Now that these companies are threatening the integrity of the Internet (NBC-Comcast Merger)... Wait to see which major media conglomerate will be the next to merge with a major ISP... it's quite possible that in the not so distant future the Internet will look like super-charged cable T.V.
Citi has an internal web application pen-testing group. My guess is they were only ever attacking the outward facing apps and not the ones after successful authentication. Even if so, they may have hundreds of apps to test which constantly change, and sometimes attackers just get lucky and find a hole as soon as it pops up.
True. But then again, if the whole thing is about reusing code, I figure they didn't want to bother writing some minimal piece of software from scratch / tweaking something existing.

That being said, I think MediaWiki's default interface is rather cluttered.
> For example very few houses or business here have flags.

That's because you know that most of you are "not American" when you're in Canada.

Travelling Canadians outside the country tend to sprout flags.
Is there an issue with privacy concerns in Chromium? I thought the concern was just RLZ?
That works well in dense inner cities, not so sure about less densely populated areas. I think bike lanes work ok when the blocks are long and straight but there's always a problem at intersections.

Also, although shrinking, cars are bigger in the US and drivers seem to be more distracted.

Most close calls I've had were either with seniors, cell phone talkers, distracted moms or young kids, probably roughly in that order.
Hey there, thanks for comments. Prices of SMS termination outside the US are more expensive than in the US or using US carriers to terminate internationally, which usually don't provide delivery receipts and has poor levels of deliverability in general.(Nexmo is launching soon the US offer so that you can compare). The company is a wholesaler and pricing is more competitive than most incumbent aggregators such as mBlox and Clickatell. We can do that thanks to our direct to carrier model cutting the middle man. It starts at 0.006 (say in Nigeria) and most networks, over 500 are priced at 0.011 EUR. I recommend you to compare with the other incumbents. Let me us know your feedback!
Corina Vintan - Links Associates
Corina Vintan is one of the Romanian pioneers in the field of strategic communications.
I think that the main reason that C++ is so complicated is because they've had to maintain compatibility with C's model. The declaration/definition and value/reference dichotomies double up a lot of work. When you add the fact that they wanted to base STL on pointeresque semantics (iterators) and people started using template meta-programming to deal with the lack of reflection, well, it all got complicated.
I'd bet they used one of the hundreds of thousands of stolen accounts from other services to do this. You know somebody is sharing usernames/passwords with their SOE and Citi accounts.
I want to know more about the "smartphone" market in 1996. If I recall correctly, the smartest thing a phone had in 1996 was a contact list. Perhaps they mean mobile telephones?
How's that, can you explain?
But different cases. The picture you linked (and many other cases) have low recoil because the missiles are equipped with a small jump motor to get the missile away from the launcher before the main motor launches. This is to reduce recoil, and the blast (you can fire from confined spaces safely).

The "lack" of recoil in the rockets in the pictures (as well as most rockets used as artillery) is because there is very little of the launcher impeding the rocket exhaust. Nothing in the way for the force to transfer onto the chassis.
BBC, CNN and HN - Protecting you from information
For the record, enabling UUIDs in rails is straight forward. It's not the default though.

Why turn on UUIDs? They are not as guessable as normal IDs.
Apple videos
Get a closer look at a few of the over 200 features that make iOS 5 the best update yet for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch Now iPad is even more amazing and even less like anything else. With two cameras for FaceTime and HD
Consumerist isn't a Gawker property anymore. They are now owned by Consumers Union, who also publishes Consumer Reports.
Most likely this was discovered sooner. But people kept the vulnerability to themselves and possibly even profited from it.

These kind of vulnerabilities in high-profile sites can go unreported for ages, even up to the point that they are common knowledge in certain groups.
Interesting how on one hand people are claiming that the government is colluding to create internet censorship, and on the other hand the government is sponsoring a device to help circumvent internet censorship:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651245

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652169

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656074

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656816

Left hand? Right hand? What will the government do when people create their own mesh internet?
If anything, widespread random hacking underscores the need for correct software, so this should be good for those in the business of doing more than clicking shit in Eclipse.
Does that matter? Linux has a rather low market share, especially among Apple’s target demographic.
That's pretty minimal, all right.

Nice idea, though, young Skywalker. We shall watch your career with great interest.
Or the United States under count 3 for that matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War...
How about http://www.reddit.com/r/iama ?
Find someone who wants to sell an ebook and offer him to post it to lots of sites?
There are significant differences based on type of jump too. Most first timers do tandem jumps with an instructor on your back. Those jumps have a fatality rate around 1 in 140,000 where static line jumps are closer 1 in 50,000. And the injury (not fatality) rate for static line jumps is around 1 in 200.
All you need is curl:

curl http://example.com/user/[1-100]
Hopefully all this engineering ingenuity will be put to good use in peaceful times.
A couple of books on the topic: "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu, and "The Creation of the Media", by Paul Starr.

"The Master Switch" goes through the history of radio, where an initial period of experimentation was stifled by regulation, with big business (the large networks) being the major beneficiary; the two weren't necessarily opposed.

On the other hand, the former will show you that eliminating regulation doesn't necessarily eliminate the problem. In the absence of effective regulation in the 19th century, Western Union seized an effective monopoly on telegraphy. Having done that, they then made a deal for cut rates with the Associated Press whereby AP-affiliated newspapers (effectively, any paper that wanted to cover national stories) were forbidden to editorialize against the monopoly.
Depends on whether Ubuntu ships with Chrome or Chromium.
Is there one going to be in Chennai / Bangalore ?
5 Books that use ancient sage technologies to get you anything you want
Awesome vid. I'd totally buy this for my iPhone.
Since about the mid 1970s deregulation has been consistent. This empowers corporations to sort of do whatever they want so long as the free market justifies their behaviour. The point of view that regulation is a bad thing, and de-regulation is a good thing, has become increasingly popular, even being taught in schools.

In a publicly traded company it's practically illegal not to seek out any unfair or immoral advantage that may increase your share value. Being moral is not often in the best interest of your investors, at least not in the short term.

If you accept this as truth, then it kind of makes sense that large corporations lobby various governments to pass bills that directly or indirectly increase their share value regardless of the consequences. This is so profitable that over time this leads to massive deregulation and government corruption as companies try anything and everything to influence government leaders (or put their own people in these influencial positions). It's pretty blatent and not uncommon for a regulator later taking a job with a large corporation they were in charge of overseeing. In some fields it's an accepted and commonly known career path.

So I wouldn't say it's us against them or anything crazy. It just so happens that the interests of most corporations do not align with society in general's long term interests.

The problem with regulation is that it's subject to corruption than can produce fairly large consequences for society. It usually takes a while before a government body has been properly infiltrated (say 15 years or so?).

The problem with deregulation is it assumes corporation interests are often aligned with societies interests. That's simply not true the majority of the time.
Yes they do. It won't be Google Chrome in Ubuntu. It will probably remain Firefox.
Hacker Group Wreaks Havoc on Gaming Websites, Starts Taking Hack Requests
thanks for feedback! very well appreciated. Can you elaborate how we can improve on text encoding handling?
For bulk sending, we consider ourselves a pure API and don't want to offer software tools to send bulk campaigns. However, our developer community is active building tools and mashups on top of our API for things like campaign management tools.
COMPUTER VIRUS -- MOBILE SECURITY AND NETWORK SECURITY
I wonder where they got the account numbers from. Citi doesn't show them in the web interface, just last 4 digits.
I think the key phrase would be "Someone needed access to a citibank account..." If some Citibank account(s) was compromised in some way, such as phished, then a third party would have the necessary access. It would be bad enough to be a victim of phishing--imagine being a pawn in a large scale attack like that. It would suck.
Really? There's an official Ubuntu Chromium package. Its not installed by default, but its available in the repositories.
All those things benefit both web apps and native apps.
thanks I needed this too :)
Title fail. It's "!="
How to make a bot for Twitter
Hey there, I heard mBlox has an MMS gateway in the US, but not sure about the easy of access. PM me if needed so that I introduce you. I used to work there.
Lulz Sec Revealed??
I'm really glad that someone has the courage and determination to take the feds on at their own game.
But to get dazzled the viewer would have to be between the from of the bike and the ground in front of it. I don't imagine many car drivers would be there, but it a concern with children passing in front of the bike when it isn't in motion, say.
Good. We need more smart judges and good decisions like this.
Passcode-stealing iPhone app banned by Apple
2011's Angel BootCamp at MIT wrap-up
Well, I know in EVE's case, CCP noticed the DDoS and took down their servers to make sure nothing was being accessed. So, it seems like yeah, they were basically just pointing their botnet at random companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator
1/3 of top websites on an Android Tablet return the mobile version
Show HN: My open-source liquid handler ( biohacking )
Excuse my typing, I've just been up for a few hours and I've made my deadline for SB 5.0 =]

... but for HN.. you guys get it early

I present to you my fellow hackers:

https://github.com/delinquentme/LH001

....I call it the 'LH001' , it is: open source, arduino based, 96 well microplate, peristaltic pump, liquid handler

running: open protocol controls ( in browser or over wire ),
In Ruby on Rails

And here it is in person:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY5IY5CZ1es

Questions? Critiques? Thoughts?

So, do I have HN's permission to change my twitter bio to include "biohacker" ?
Wikipedia says that this is literally true (check the last sentence) - it's not some kind of "Dick Cheney is a heartless bastard" joke. So please hold off on the downvotes (parent was at 0 when I posted).
No, the visited page doesn't need to use jQuery. It actually means any CSS selector along with any additional selectors supported by jQuery.

See this: http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/

I should probably rename it to CSS Selectors :)
> Yes, they're funny. And they're making a serious point about security. More power to them!

Anybody who votes this should be slapped. Seriously. They have repeatedly stated their intent is to create "lulz" for themselves.
Dammit, that was the joke I came here to make!
Google Introduces Its Voice Search to the Desktop
Wobbles with respect to what?
"Eighty per cent of cycle accidents occur when bicycles travel straight ahead and a vehicle manoeuvres into them. The most common contributory factor is 'failed to look properly' on the part of a vehicle driver. The evidence shows the bike simply is not seen on city streets," she said.

This can't be true. The statistics in the US say that this is 7% of accidents:

http://www.johnforester.com/LAW/Bikeway%20Controversy.htm

The reality is that riding on the sidewalk and turning from the wrong lanes are the big cause of bicycle accidents. Being hit from behind is exceedingly rare. Being doored is probably the main worry that a cyclist riding correctly should have.

(Using the correct lane should be the secondary concern. Don't go straight through an intersection from the right side of the right turn lane. You're going to get hit by cars turning right.)
I was going to say the same thing about South Park, and I also find it funny, even if I'm not very proud of this fact. I follow the LulzSec Twitter account and I have to say that in the past few days of boring work it was a pleasant breeze to read their tweet and have a little laugh at something stupid. It changes a bit from the usual lolcats ;-).

So my answer to the poll would start with "Yes," but none of the proposed choices fit what I want to say. I certainly don't want "more power to them" but I don't disapprove everything they're doing either.
I bought one of these in Australia, ridiculously overpriced ($2500), but I got it on sale for close to US RRP. although I'm mostly happy with it, I think I would have waited or bought something else if I had the chance. It has some strange quirks, like the system not registering holding down the power button during a kernel panic. The solution seems to be putting a paper clip in a pinhole on the bottom while it is unplugged (otherwise it stays on). Then it will turn off and refuse to boot until you plug it back into the power. In all other circumstances holding down the power button works perfectly. The fact that they put the pinhole there seems to infer it was intentional or that they knew about it long before the design work was finished.

There has also been a lot of talk about how the broadcom wireless has bad performance, both in linux and windows. It is a half-size mini pcie card, and I have yet to find a good one to replace it.
>Given that Nokia is years away from launching a phone and they have to start over from scratch, it is going to be hard from them to get market share.

Aren't they releasing a new Windows Phone this year?
Semi-related I've had mixed experiences with Samsung computer monitors. I long time ago I purchased a 17 inch desktop monitor. Picture and durability seem right up there, I still use it at home. What's wacky about it is the drivers, which gave me a fair bit of trouble. I got another monitor, this time a HD TV/Monitor combo model. New driver problems, I can't bump the resolution over X by 1080 on my desktop (although I can in games). I've been so happy with the quality otherwise, I'm loathe to swear off the brand. Unfortunately if the next monitor I buy doesn't work as expected I'm returning it and looking elsewhere.
But nobody noticed it for a long time...

When was the first animation of Libration produced? For many people, there's a big difference between knowing abstractly and seeing.
Appcelerator Charging for Integrated Debugging
Are we now directing people towards reddit? HN works fine, methinks.
Taken on phone cameras?

I have a phone camera and a fairly nice, if not exactly pro, DSLR. I'd never consider taking anything remotely important on the phone; the quality difference is enormous.
Hmm, not really sure this is a reason to hate Pixar.

"But they also looked a little too much like the unicycle from the animated short film Red's Dream. At least, that's what Pixar thought."

I think it look exactly like bike from Red's Dream, which was released in 1987 so any similarities might not be accidental. Also, 1994 is around the time they were ramping up for their first movie release and an IPO so I'm sure they had to "fix this" incase there were any questions.
Firstly, it seemed to me that yesterday I heard nothing but people talking about "The Impending Ice Age." This isn't news to me, and it's not secret.

Secondly, all news sources have to decide what they will and will not report. Sadly, this means that the news is in the hands of media types, most of whom have no concept of what's important in science and what isn't. They constantly distort and mis-report news, so you should never believe anything they say anyway.

They believe they are helping their users by withholding
that information.

Thirdly, never ascribe to malice what is adequately explained by incompetence.

Which brings us to HN. PG wants to protect you by
withholding information about users opinions, comment
scores. I don't want protection. I want to know the
community's sentiment in and of itself, and as a gauge
of how the userbase is changing and where it is right
now. If civility is lacking in the discourse then the
community needs to step up and downvote and flag. WE ARE
NOT CHILDREN! The truth may be difficult but what is the
point of anything without it.

I don't agree with the hiding of comment scores, and I don't see that much has been improved by it, but it is PG's right to make the experiment. If he believes it will improve the community then it really is his place to make that decision. I'm playing my part by continuing to contribute, comment, vote and flag and I think are appropriate.

I'm also producing a site that I hope will cater more to my interests than HN currently does. No doubt I will soon learn of the problems PG is currently trying to control.

I wouldn't have posted this except my earlier post
was killed.

Was it? It's still there for me to see.

Here is the AskHN I posted earlier which started
getting traction but was killed by a moderator.

Are you sure? I have access to it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656651