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I dropped basic cable TV from my bill just last month. I've been enjoying Netflix since. I am saving about $50/month. I watch more stuff I like, fewer commercials (re: none), and pay significantly less. There are tons of movies/shows that I haven't seen that will keep me busy on Netflix for months if not years. I now have a $30 internet bill and $10 Netflix bill.
I can second this with my knowledge of what my mother does for a living.

The hospital inputs their data into Epic medical software. The home care agency tracks their data in an 80,000-line Excel spreadsheet (less than 8,000,000, which is good, right?). My mother copies down the name and other personal identifiers like insurance numbers from the Excel spreadsheet, counts (with the end of a pen on the screen) the number of billable visits, and enters this by hand onto a printed form which receives minor changes as you noted. She then collates these forms into stacks for various insurance agencies, and faxes the piles to the appropriate numbers. She's an RN, has 20 years of experience, and this is what they pay her to do?

Oh, and her password for remote login to do this from home was (until last week when she told me because I was talking to my sister about password strength) literally abc123. This was the default set by the IT department about 2 years ago.

I will never work in medical IT due to real-life horror stories like this.
Isn't that only relevant if you skydive instead of driving? :)
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I think they come across as a little cold and cruel when talking about whether or not they will give the results to Google, but essentially they are correct. Google should be happy to have those results and the price should be small enough to be worth it. I just think it could have been phrased better, or not said at all.
DSL in 1996??
Very interesting, Colin.

Our central premise in #killswitch - the documentary, is that decentralization of knowledge is essential for democracy.

The Printing Press gave society this during the enlightenment period, halting centuries of oppression in the Western World. And the Internet is doing this today by revitalizing democracies in the Western world and helping ignite revolution in the Middle East.

We advocate a Constitutional framework that protects the integrity of the Internet. i.e. a separations principle, whereby content providers should not be ISP's and vice versa. (Detailed account of this in Tim Wu's, "Master Switch").

We are averse to any "Big Brother" Regulation by the Government or "Brave New World" Corporate take-over of the Internet.

The only way to combat oppression is to have accountable governance is to have decentralization of info/knowledge.

One of a demcocracy's central purposes is to protect this decentralized and accountable framework (by protecting the decentralized integrity of the Internet).

One way the gov. can do this by enforcing the 1st Amendment, i.e. Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech. But the gov. won't do this with out an aware and educated citizenry. Which is why we're making the documentary.

Check out our trailer on kickstarter when you get a chance:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akorn/killswitch-a-docum...

(for a detailed account of how our founding father's expressed the difference between Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech, check out Robert McChesney's "The Death and Life of American Journalism")
That's by far the easiest pulse to find. Though, from my training, I'm always feeling for breath while taking a pulse at the same time. For first aid reasons, usually the reason you take a pulse is to gauge whether you need to give CPR - and if they don't have a pulse to begin with, there's not really a point in CPR.

Plus, most people with existing medical conditions worth mentioning usually wear a bracelet. I feel this would fall into the same category.
This.

Juniper has always used a (heavily hacked) FreeBSD core running on an embedded PC platform (Intel-based Routing Engine) for JUNOS that did all (or most) of the protocol related stuff and left the actual forwarding of packets to a specialized core of ASICs (The Packet Forwarding Engine).

This has changed in recent years with some lower-level protocols being handled on the line-cards themselves on newer platforms. The vast majority of the protocols still run on the Routing Engine though.
On one hand he was pissed that Groupon didn't make changes so it would get a bigger audience, but then they could barely handle the sales they made?
The big question is why the structure of the IT department lent itself to doing something so stupid

You can fire the CIO, you can replace the offshore developers with onshore, or vice versa, but experience says it won't matter.

I looked in amazement at googletesting's dependancy graph test suites yesterday, and realised that the playing field is not flat at all.

Reading and writing code is the literacy of the 21st C.

And the end most big companies are like newspapers owned and managed by illiterates.

It does not matter how you rearrange the strucutre or the hierarchy, when the chips are down decisions will be made on
what the illiterate management understand is the best way to work.
As such it is infinitely unlikely that the decision then will be set up to support what a literate person would decide.

Until a generation of coders grows up, or all illiterate companies go bankrupt, this will merely be one of a myriad of pathologies
exhibited by large companies run by the illiterate.
A couple years ago I bought an SNES and a few games I liked as a kid: Link to the Past, Metal Warriors, Pilotwings, and Uniracers. I had no idea it was rare or even obscure. We played the hell out of it when I was in middle school. If you can you should get a gamepad and an emulator and try it out; they're totally right about how fun it is.
You can submit and vote, so people assume it's just like a reddit or something, I guess. The bigger problem is that it gets voted on, because it's "fun/cool".

But indeed it doesn't really have something to do here, it's more in the "sensational" tech news. Or not even.
I'm pretty sure I read that they were a bracelet. This seems like a small price to pay to have a functioning heart.
I think it's a time machine.
So the dispenser runs through the wells and dispenses fixed volumes of liquids per row

Such a thing could be used in the final detection phase of an ELISA protocol, or simply as a really really fast pipette

( videos to come :D )
I just realized that I'm agreeing with you and COMPLETELY misread your comment earlier. I apologize
This collusion between big government and big industry must end. The only way we can do it right now is through great art like #killswitch. Let's turn this hierarchy upside down. I really appreciate your sense of urgency in this post.
Supposedly (no way to verify) with US and Russian missiles there is now always a targeting step required before launch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_%E2%80%93_Russia_...
Yes. I think the LH001 is to biochem lab-grade liquid handlers what the MakerBot is to high-end commercial 3D printers.
My wife and I have been experimenting with reducing the content that we buy from Directv. Directv is a great service, great content, but we watch so many streaming Netflix movies that Directv is less relevant. That said, we are scaling back on what we purchase from Directv, but definitely not canceling it.
Quite cool, but the titles shouldn't be cut.
How does the advice adjust for increased oxygen demands, like when you're exercising?
Oh snap that's great. I'm buying something at Walmart at the next opportunity.
A naive question here:

Suppose I accidentally stumble upon a gaping security hole in my bank's online service (or any other online service for that matter).

Am I legally obliged to notify them of that security bug? Can I offer the bank my assistance, for hire, in solving the bug without it constituting blackmail? (i.e. I'd be happy to help you solve this at a $300/hr rate)
Thanks for replying and sorry I never got back to you
about your experiments,

No problem ...

The AskHN wasn't officially killed (more backdoor BS)
it just can't be found except by direct link. I stopped
looking thru AskHN at 300.

I suspect it was being flagged. There's a severe penalty on the rankings of items that get even a few flags. Your post has a hint of a rant, and no doubt people think it doesn't belong on Hacker News. It's not about startups, it's not about technology, it a conspiracy theory, and probably a few people flagged it as being "inappropriate."

That's HN these days.

Plus it had a ranking penalty already for being an "Ask HN" rather than the submission of a link.

If you do get an alternate site going I would love
to help in anyway I can.

Cool. Email me and I'll send you a link.

Also HN seems to think we are a voting ring because
when I upvote you it doesn't register.

<shrug> I've lost interest. I submit out of habit, read out of curiosity, and go elsewhere for most of my interesting stuff. You may, however, discover that if you wait 5 seconds and refresh the page then the upvote may count. It might not, but in my experience it usually does, even if it didn't register immediately. Just another consequence of the volume of traffic HN gets.

FWIW, here are the first few links after searching for "ice age" on Twitter:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110614/ts_afp/usspacesun

http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/06/14/a-mini-ice-age/

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/163264/20110615/sunspot-acti...
ha ... cant wait to get it up and running.. and yeah!

automation + high level, platform-independent controls

YES!
Rails reseller hosting plans. What’s the point?
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I feel the realization rate of most investments in the tech sector are already understood. If there's a bubble, it'll just be a function of poor investing, rather than poor understanding.
I agree. This is more of a proof-of-concept / demo of the url2png api. If the post looks interesting to you, just hover over the image thumbnail to view the title.
Some startups manage to get on Arrington's wrong side and he goes Perez Hilton on them.

This startup might have gotten too much investment at the wrong time but it is built by the same type of hard-working and brilliant people that apply to Ycombinator, only they had a good track record and contacts with more traditional venture capitalists. I'd like more in depth analysis than shallow criticism because there's as much and maybe more wealth in information that could be gained from what went wrong with their plan.
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Has anyone else used PVS Studio before? Looks interesting as a static analyzer, but curious how it stacks up against other options. It looks like it's pretty reliant on Visual Studio. This is the first I've heard of it. With a free trial and at only 1,600 Euro for a single-user license, I might actually try it out.
This news is nearly a year old.
This will be a short bubble.

- Greece is about to default any minute now. After that, Ireland/Portugal/Spain/Austria/Italy will soon follow.

- Japan is suffering -5% GDP per year

- China is starting to have internal riots in major cities because of high inflation. Also, lots of their high flying companies are starting to be investigated for fraud. Thus the recent 30-40% drops in their stock prices.

- US is about to default technically by not raising their debt ceiling.

All signs point to the second dip in the global economic depression.
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Still with all that knowledge I'm afraid it's almost impossible to slow down group dynamics (and that's all this is) to a point where everybody doesn't get hurt - again. People are going to try to outsmart the bubble, probably even accelarting it. Human nature, I guess. Still sucks. :)
Between OTA HDTV, Netflix, Redbox, and Hulu, I've been without cable TV for quite a few years now. Actually, I've been without a TV completely for the last year and frankly it's quite enjoyable. Just not having that TV as the focal point of the house is really nice, especially since I have a 1 year old to be a dad to.

Considering that digital cable is $50+ a month(not including internet), that's enough to buy new laptop or HDTV or iPad every year. Cable won't die, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are forced to eventually morph all of their offerings into a digital package like Netflix where you get Streaming TV + Internet for say $50. Right now I'm paying $35 for cable internet and $8 for Netflix, and a few dollars here and there for Redbox rentals, so $50 a month is just about right for what it should cost for cable companies to do that.
You still need to power it somehow and anything that affects electrical systems might kill you.

In sports your heart is a lot less relevant than your lung capacity. You are more likely to end up with not enough oxygen than your heart not being able to pump your blood fast enough.

Which is another problem, there is a reason your heart doesn't beat at full speed: How well does a pump regulate the blood flow?
Nonetheless, banks still lock their branches at night. That's about as basic as security gets.
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Its so cool. How about making gravity so that particles collide and form bigger particles and increase their gravity. Can this be simulated?
Facebook photo tagging: Cool or creepy?
Not after the first time it was fired.
Yeah, the NYTimes article really made it look like the hackers went into a lot of trouble to breach the bank's security.
In downtown where cars are bumper to bumper, the location of the green laser would require a sharp downward angle to see it; which begs the question, does this just add another spot that drivers need to check now?

I can see it working in more open roads where this would be easy to see up ahead, but when space gets narrow, the visibility angle becomes tough.

Valiant effort though.
The Asian Financial Crisis happened during the the last bubble:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis
I think you are fortunate to live in a place where bicycling is already a mainstream means of transportation. However, in many places in the U.S. (Massachusetts and New Jersey come to mind for me) it's not that drivers are distracted, but rather that many do not believe that bicycles are a valid means of transportation. If you are in the lane you will encounter real hostility and agression. In these cases, I think something needs to be done to reinforce to people that bicycles have just as much right to the roadway as cars. I'm not sure bike lanes are the solution, but something needs to be done to get the number of bicyclists up to a critical mass.
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Yeah, I wasn't going after the guy (this time), though I admit I originally learned that on the Daily Show and just did a quick confirmation-check before I posted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device -- looks like centrifugal pumps have existed for at least long enough for someone to write a Wikipedia article about them.
I never ran it with windows, so I only know about linux. At first I had quite a few graphics crashes (although, not full kernel panics, so I was able to still use the power button). These seem to be because sandybridge is still so new.

About a week after getting it I noticed a dead red subpixel, luckily samsung have a 14 day zero dead pixel warranty, so I was able to get it replaced from the store I bought it from. I haven't had many crashes since then, but I also updated the kernel to 39 around the same time, so I'm not too sure what caused it to get better (I used the same linux installation from my old laptop).

The touch pad is a pleasure to use, unlike the ones on previous laptops I've used. Battery life would be 3-5 hours depending on load. The keyboard backlight seems to stay on when the lid is closed, I haven't looked into ways to control it on linux yet. The mini-hdmi plug will be a bit annoying, especially because the one adapter I bought doesn't fit (need to get out the metal file, make the adapter slimer). I'm also not sure where I'd get another ethernet adapter (seems to be a custom job).
Strangely, not one word about probability.
They were able to paper that crisis over by massive printing of currency. Not this time (look at the high inflation riots in China)
Can't get a bigger patent troll than Righthaven. I mean, they don't even have the patents themselves. Their business model is to sue others. You know something is wrong when you can make money from suing others alone.
Eh I dunno. Google does this with its Vulnerability Reward Program [1] and people seem to be fine with sharing almost all of their private data with Google from all their e-mails to their credit card numbers (Google checkout), etc., etc.

Also Facebook has a form for reporting vulns [2] and people are still happy to share their personal info there. I'm sure there are other companies that have "hotlines" but these are just a few I can think of.

I don't think having an avenue for responsible security bug disclosure gives anyone the impression that their data is unsafe.

[1] http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/11/rewarding-w...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=white_ha...
I agree. Afraid it won't matter, because ultimately it's going to affect the entire industry and make it almost impossible for startups that just happen to be in the right place at the wrong time to get funding.
Very cool project. Some future features you may want to think about:

-If you add imaging it could be used for high-throughput crystallography.

-If you can control position of the pipette and flow speed of the liquid, it could be used for cell culture. Sterilizing it would be tricky though.

-If you add multiple liquids it could be used for immunocytochemistry.
V8, Spidermonkey, Squirrelfish. The sous chefs of the Internet kitchen.
So Groupon has been good for you, and so far you've been good for Groupon. I'm wondering what you think your long-term relationship with Groupon is going to look like.

A lot of the negative press over Groupon lately has been that they aren't building a moat and that all this money that they're spending to build a customer base is being wasted. Now that you've had a few positive experiences with them, do you expect to continue doing business with them? Is it safe to assume you'll be running another promotion at the end of this summer?

I'm also curious about how much loyalty they've gained. If another group buying site came along with a better offer (taking customer-base and margins into account), would you hesitate to switch?
This isn't akin to waving a gun at a teller.
This is akin to handing the teller a huge stack of withdraw forms with random account numbers on them, and the teller dutifully checking each one, ignoring the ones with invalid numbers (most of them), and handing over the account contents for all the valid ones. This doesn't work, because the teller acts as security: if something is amiss in the implied security checks, to wit there is no reason one person should be submitting requests regarding lots of account numbers esp. when most of them are invalid; she'll have alerted management & security within seconds of seeing the bizarre request.

Your subsequent analogy/justification/complaint is only valid if ONE doctored URL were used. My bank, Chase, does in fact implement security against such a "lots of random account numbers" attack: not only must the account match, but the MAC/IP address, browser/cookie, and other under-the-hood identifiers must line up; any mismatch between account number and access tools initiates emailing or texting a verification code to a known address/phone, which then must be submitted to close the loop of verification and, only then, allow access. Not running some kind of "one account per access device" sanity check is insane.

It's not about one rivet being out of place - such vulnerabilities are understandable.
It's about having an uncovered vent lead straight to the reactor core - that's stupid.
will show
Interesting from a DIY point of view.

Also interesting that the battlespace is being prepared for boots on the ground intervention by - among other things - getting the home front in the mood for intervention by showing plucky rebels with home built ordnance.
Nicely done but I find the default view much easier to navigate. A JavaScript-switch between default and with pictures would be nice though.
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I've always got the impression that it's more convenient and less risky to not tell anyone; when the flaw is eventually exploited, you don't want to be the one on record as having known about it.
Defacing is sometimes humorous especially when it's a braggart security firm. It'd be a useful public service if they'd reveal which specific vulnerability was exploited in each intrusion.

DDoS is lame and stealing or destroying server data is not cool.
The UK Government have never been good at IT. Whether it's poor security practices[1][2][3][4] or massively over-run budgets[5], they are really good at doing badly.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_government_data_loss...

[2]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/20/hmrc_loses_lots_data...

[3]http://www.itpro.co.uk/625459/mod-laptop-losses-continue

[4]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/20/uk_gov_lost_records/

[5]http://dioclese.blogspot.com/2011/06/nhs-computer-system.htm...
If I had realised this kind of stuff before I bought it, I wouldn't have got it. I don't run the windows that comes with it, but I've read that the software is a bit flaky and not many updates have arrived yet.
Anybody know what type of rifle is pictured in #25? Is it some sort of strange P90 variant?
One of the aspects of Groupon is not everyone that will view it will purchase, but they will at least be aware of their company. What's the point if they don't think you're a service they could use, regardless of a discount?
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Ah, but with space mirrors we don't get "temperature", we get temperature in locations. You don't just point the mirrors "at Earth", you point them "at Utah" or, well, engineering-wise there's nothing really stopping us from getting it down to a few hundred square meters or even tighter, which is why this can be such a weapon. But it's also why they really are the best solution, they have fine-grained control over many things and can even be used to do things like significantly increase evaporation in oceans or something, not just control temperature directly.
There are always people that haven't lost enough in the previous bubbles and the allure of getting a huge return in only 1 or 2 years is greater than life. I'm sure a lot of people recognize that evaluations are already inflated, but feel confident that they'll get out before the bubble explodes.
How do you up-/downvote?
I usually enjoy visual browsers like this, but here the previews are too small for it to click for me. Just to provide a counterexample, this one is pretty cool and along similar lines: http://news.peepcode.com/