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In case anybody else was wondering what LANG=C means,

> The 'C' locale is defined as the "default" locale
> for applications, meaning that their strings are
> displayed as written in the initial code (without
> passing through a translation lookup).
>
> There is nothing special about the C locale, except
> that it will always exist and applies no string
> replacements.

-Malcolm Tredinnick

http://mailman.linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2002-Novembe...
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Note that a few months back Microsoft and Nokia sold a very significant amount of patents (reportedly 2000) to a patent troll company.
To top that off, the company running the site is American, not Russian: XMLSHOP LLC.
Despite your personal issues with the guy (and you're certainly not alone when it comes to distrusting Dana White), he's not necessarily incorrect here. It's hard to evaluate the impact twitter had in the marketing world, but it is easy to see how it created new ways for brands to engage with their customers. Large success cases like Comcast or BA, and the fact that there's virtually no startup launching without a Twitter presence today to engage with their audience are good indicators of Twitter's impact.

I suspect twitter's given Dana and the UFC a huge vehicle to engage with people whenever they're not putting on events. It lets fighters, promoters, and the audience engage 100% of the time bi-directionally, and not just once every 2 or 3 weeks when the UFC is on the TV.
The article naysayers correctly point out:

Mobile technology presents providers "with a very long list of legal concerns," they point out. "Privacy and security of patient data, compliance with state and federal laws (including Stark and anti-kickback statutes), assumption of risk and liability, along with many other critical issues, should be addressed in the contract between the healthcare provider and vendor of such software."

Unless I'm missing something, this "certification" from Infogard doesn't appear to speak much to these concerns, if at all, which are the overwhelming concerns of physicians with these kind of non-hospital cloud-based system.

The "certification" that the application meets "meaningful use" just means that app use may allow physicians to qualify for the government incentive money for adopting an EHR.

http://www.infogard.com/resources/healthcare_it/meaningful_u...

Security, security, security is the real issue. The drchrono CEO says that a "security audit" was done, but the article gives no details. Who did it, at what level, and where are the results?

Does drchrono assume all risk and liability for patient confidentiality? Is that spelled out contractually? Unfortunately, the problem is that even with such verbiage in a contract, individual physicians would likely not escape the rightful wrath of patients and regulatory bodies if a data breach occurred. Frankly, even if physicians did adopt a system like this, they'd have to provide disclosure and go through an informed consent process with their individual patients about the use of drchrono, and get written approval from individual patients to store their info this way. What happens when many (if not all) patients opt-out? Maintain two systems?

"Tell the court, Dr. Incentive, what drove your use of drchrono? Were you convinced that the system provided any benefits whatsoever to the patients who now have their HIV status, mental health diagnoses, and street drug use information plastered all over the net....or were you more interested in the $44,000 benefit you got from adopting the software?"

But, he [CEO of drchrono] says, with the iPad connected to drchrono's cloud-based platform, "there's no information stored on the iPad except a temporary cache ... it's more secure than locally stored laptops and servers."

This statement makes no sense. We've seen countless breaches and releases of protected health information from cloud-based systems. How is highly sensitive information transmitted to and stored on drchrono and/or third-party servers possibly more secure than leaving patients' data on local systems which are locally controlled, physically fenced (easily quarantined from the net), easily whole-disk encrypted, locally backed-up, locally audited, with locally set retention policies, and locally destroyed when needed?
It's a great feature, isn't it? Apple's products automatically connect your devices to each other, and once they have authenticated, are allowed to easily sync and transfer files.
> If the locale value is "C" or "POSIX", the POSIX locale is used

- The Single UNIX ® Specification, Version 2

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xbd/envvar.html
I have a static IP, and I'm pretty sure that no-one at my home has downloaded the tv episode this service mentions. It's of course not entirely impossible that someone has hacked my wifi router, but I think that is less probable than it is for some random web service to show some made-up data.
I love the would-be prankster on the Facebook page, trying to sneak an alert("Delete C:/?") onto the page.
The (new-style) minutemen of the internet, these. Though this web site may have positive effects, all signs point towards RIAA / MPAA sellout.
How do you change your hostname in iOS?
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spotify

dropbox

sendgrid

skype

(app engine)
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Yes, during the Lunar eclipse, the sun is on the other side of the planet. It's like [sun] [earth]* [moon] in a straight line. (The * is where the photographer who sees the moon is)
I'll wait for the winner of NIST's SHA-3 competition: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/Round3/index.html
Sounds like a business opportunity for a "who is around you that is within 3 degrees of you on linkedin" app. There probably is one already.
In itunes, just plug in your phone, and on the left navbar under devices, click the name and change it.

Make sure to sync it afterwards
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It needs to be coupled with question votes, as it would be too easy to game by writing a terrible question with a false account, letting it sit for a long time, then answering it with your real account.
Not when you can't think about much else until you come back to it. I'm trying to get out of the habit of thinking about work 24/7. Leaving unfinished problems does not help my goal.
I thought POSIX regexes allowed back references (as in "(*.)\1"), so they aren't regular either.
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keep in mind that your data on this site is aggregated public domain

WTF is "aggregated public domain" supposed to mean? It's certainly not any copyright feature I've ever heard of, and I've done some reading.

Besides that, nobody asked them to "guarantee" that the info wouldn't show up anywhere else, just f-ing delete it from their database. Oh, but maybe not being able to control screen scrapers means that they don't know how to "DELETE FROM `user_activity` WHERE user_id = $foo;"

See? No preventing of screen scrapers necessary.
We built this game as a part-time project, to prove that it's not too hard for indie developers to make money on the Android Market.

Investment:

- 100$ design (template)

- about 200 hours of work for us, two developers

Since this is HN, some technical details:

Because of limitations on google's push notifications (C2DM), we rolled our own solution, with an xmpp server helping on that side. Every other web-service is built with plain PHP, residing on a different linode vps.
Where did you get a source for UFC fighters salaries? I'm not saying your wrong but I've never seen them publicly disclosed.

Also it seems like the big names make okay money GSP pull in $4-5 million a fight.[1] Some of the guys fight up to 4 times a year (Jones).

[1] http://www.mmamania.com/2011/11/9/2550462/how-much-money-doe...
Interesting, but doesn't the act of applying for a job itself guarantee to at least some extent that an applicant is conscientious?
Native Unity3D support is a huge thing. Right now Unity games run in the browser via a plugin. The plugin installation is a single click, fairly transparent and doesn't require administrator access, but for the average user it's scary. Who trusts a plugin? It's reported as the number 1 turn-off for users.
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He said non-cryptographic.
Daily scrum standup meeting that should last 15mins but ends up going over 30, plus cc'ing pm on multiple emails so hes aware whats sucking up mytime, part of a large corp but team is only 6 ppl
I think I read about MQL a couple of years ago. I like it a lot. Not sure how/if it fits into the REST paradigm.
I am guilty of downloading one episode of Pawn Stars after my DVR messed up the recording. My DVR re-recorded it the next day. If this is illegal, then I'll just get a VPN and cancel my satellite service.
GitHub - Code repositories

Springloops - Deployment

Pivotal Tracker - Agile planning tool

Podio - Get work done

New Relic - Server/Application performance monitoring

Pingdom - Uptime monitoring

Blame Stella - Speed monitoring

Sendgrid - Email delivery

CloudFront - CDN

Free services:

Groove - Support tickets & chat (groovehq.com)

Trello - Organization

Stripe - Payments
i hope this doesn't prompt more people to start using bittorrent through tor.
ASK PG: Did the home page algorithm change?
I'm noticing 5 days old stories hitting the home page again. Also "Ask HN" posts are hitting the home page again after 20-15 hours of being posted.
That's not true - you can't forward-declare types used in class member variables for instance.
fogbugz, dropbox, cloudapp
And so the next step in the cat-and-mouse game is predictable: A whole bunch of forged requests.

Bonus points if the forged IPs are from RIAA sites, DHS, White House, FBI etc.
> Right now Unity games run in the browser via a plugin. The plugin installation is a single click, fairly transparent and doesn't require administrator access, but for the average user it's scary. Who trusts a plugin? It's reported as the number 1 turn-off for users.

1. This is still a plugin. NaCl uses the Pepper plugin API. That it is bundled in Chrome doesn't make it not a plugin (Chrome also bundles Flash, and that is still a plugin.)

2. The Unity3D plugin will at least work in multiple browsers, while using NaCl will only work in Chrome.

3. It is true though that, as you say, having a plugin pre-installed as in Chrome is less scary for users. However, it still has all the other problems that plugins have, and as mentioned that it is Chrome-specific.
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Apps like these sound really simple and boring to me. It might be a success but what would be more interesting is to create an app that lets people create these apps with no programming.
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Two questions: First, may I quote you; and second, are you being sarcastic? (Because if you are, then I really want to quote you.)
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Just another layer to their trolling. I doubt they would get much money from MPAA/RIAA since I'd be surprised if those groups didn't have similar and more encompassing databases already. The point about making you acknowledge you downloaded the data is simply a framing of "Just because we have this IP that matches these files doesn't mean you actually downloaded them even if you currently share that IP; but we're only going to comply to take-down requests of your personal data, so if you think an arbitrary IP represents your own personal data, that's your mistake."
Microsoft didn't become an evil monopoly by having the top talent. If anything it was the reverse. Maybe if they'd have some talented hackers working for them, they wouldn't have sucked quite so badly at making software.

Success isn't related to having top talent.
This has nothing to do with WebRTC.

WebRTC is a work-in-progress effort by multiple vendors (Google, Mozilla and Opera, and possibly others) to create real-time communication capabilities for the web, like voice and video.

NaCl is a Google-specific technology for running native code inside Chrome.
Or, if on iOS 5, just go into Settings > About and change it in there.
It is possible to buy patents for defensive reasons while still working to dismantle the patent system. How is this so hard to understand?

I think I remember one of Google's top IP lawyers has even said that software patents probably shouldn't exist.

Claiming that a company must not protect itself from frivolous litigation in favor of working to dismantle the patent system is like claiming that an AIDS doctor shouldn't be allowed to use protection during sex and should instead focus on curing AIDS. You can do both at the same time.
Knowledge on these subjects is easy to pick up, taking you a few days of study at the most.

I doubt you can pick up a solid understanding of just the first 15 or so chapters of CLRS in a few months, let alone days.
It's how they get around labor laws.
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Some trackers inject fake peers.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tricks-anti-pirates-...
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Have you ever worked at a company big enough to have IT policies like this?
As long as the US is already doing so, so it appears you understand perfectly.
Coming from a pure math background, I find CLRS to be very easy to read. YMMV based on prior experience, but it's not at all unreasonable to learn the basics in a week or two if you're studying it full-time.
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The legal FUD you bring up would have some basis in fact if the government weren't mandating that all US physicians use EHR systems and passed laws/regulations defining their use and liability under HIPAA and the security rule.

The #1 source of patient data theft has occurred from stolen laptops which contained locally stored records. A cloud based solution with mobile access is much more secure since even if an iPad is stolen there is no loss of data.
Probably public trackers, it didn't find anything on me.
Works of fiction rarely disappoint, unlike reality.
Your fear is understandable, but I feel you would have less doubt if you knew more about the EHR space.

The government is laying out strict regulations on how EHR's should work and what data can be used (and by whom).

Access by patients to their own records is mandated as part of the certification and we already see widespread use of patients accessing their data from EHR systems via our patient portal and iPad app for patients.
well...I think creating a site like facebook in your dorm room as a college student and scaling it is significantly challenging (you are competing against myspace!)...but thats just my opinion!

But yeah I see what you are saying...Doug and Linus are pure technical problem solvers whereas Mark solved business and technical problems.
Ask HN: small startups, what do you use for health insurance? 
Do you use an HSA, or pay pricey premiums? I live in NYC, and (for me and my wife, who may try to start a family next year) am looking at plans of about $1.5-2K a month (assuming a child/children). As a couple only, it's about $1,300 a month. =/ What would you guys recommend in a situation like mine?
The camp that I don't think Apple is in is the one where they can not recognize good hackers or think they don't need good hackers, which is what my comment is about. Obviously, a lot of people are misinterpreting my comment or are not reading the whole thing.
How much time do you spend on communication infrastructure?
With the advent of the cloud, how much time & resources in %age is spent by an average startup to establish their connectivity infrastructure.
any ideas why, transmission on a mac is crawling with the same torrent that's lightning fast on vuze via windows?
i've tried a few torrents using trasmission, and they would either crawl or not DL at all..
Vuze seems to be more and more intrusive (in fact some malware detectors continually report malicious activity coming from vuze), but somehow they figured out how to make torrents fly.. it's not uncommon for me to get 1mbps downloads..
"Consider the source" is a perfectly valid heuristic for credibility, which is necessary when counterarguing major political topics like those surrounding Glass-Steagall/Graham-Leach-Bliley. Is HF the most credible source for GP's argument? If so, then that is part of the story.
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Anyone have any idea how they collect the data (what IP is dowloading what torrent)?
There's no way for any torrent client to hide itself since all this site needs to do is to have a program join the swarm of all torrents it can find and log all the ip's of the peers in that swarm, it doesn't matter what torrent client you use.

However if it's a closed tracker and they do not have access they can't join the swarm and log the ip's. I'd assume that at this point they are only logging ip's on open trackers but there's no technical reason why they couldn't join a private tracker (unless they don't accept more users) and log ip's there aswell.
You could learn it well enough to answer interview questions on it. I have my copy of CLRS here and none of the first 15 chapters are exceptionally dense.
Don't you think a proof of P=NP would be worth that karma? ;-)
How is this even slightly related to the problem of hard questions not getting answered? Stack Overflow isn't designed for the kind of questions that frequently get closed as "not constructive." There are plenty of other places on the internet to have discussions.
I read that, but if you say "this image won't change for exactly one year" and the client doesn't even request that resource from the server any more, how do you start that dialogue again?

pork has offered that you add a junk parameter to the end of a GET request and that should disrupt the cache, I'll need to read in to this. I'm interested in optimizing web speed as much as possible and this sort of thing and caching has always been something I've understood poorly.
"Oh, that's just rhetoric" is not a realistic critique. Actual people shape their perspectives based on what messages come from a) people in power, and b) people they agree with. They aren't just words.
I too agree with you....Your example does prove that it is possible from a finance background!...but I would still point out that your guy had a sound mathematical mind whereas most MBA's and "idea guys" run the opposite direction when they hear any advanced math.
Either my roommate has very different music tastes than I thought he did, or They've overestimated my ISPs lease time.
He did muddle around the definition of one way functions, but the information provided is useful.

http://home.comcast.net/~bretm/hash/8.html
This seems to indicate that CRC is not a good fit for hashing.

I have used http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/ before and it has worked very well for all the use cases I have thrown at it.
One might expect the research to cite previous work, but no: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2011-705.pdf

Related work: To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to reconsider traditional UNIX tools given the increase in higher-level languages that include non-regular constructs (such as blocks nested at arbitrary depth).
I see. I assume you would change the html code to say <img src="image.png?cache=no"> or something like that to force the browser to redownload it? What if the html page itself were cached for a year? Is there an Apache setting that can give a global "no caching" command, or something like that?
There probably has been an increase over most tags, but I strongly doubt that it's uniform. If you're at all interested, there's a SEDE query that shows which tags have the most unanswered questions (by raw count and proportion of questions asked) that you can use to find tags to follow that need more attention.

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1320/unanswere...
You know, there were actually good designers in the late 90s and HTML and CSS were reasonably mature.
That would incentivize waiting to post an answer. That's definitely not desirable.
Impressive, everything worked fine (Linux).
Examples? I'm a moderator and can delete non-answers. I also have a lot of rep to burn, so I can place bounties on good questions that aren't adequately answered.
Interesting, seeing that these /overzealous/ moderators do not actually browse the 2M+ questions. They respond to flags that are brought to their attention. Alot of these old questions are not bumped to the front page unless they get heavy traffic and when they do, new users take it upon themselves to answer the question. Thus resurfacing an old historic question which will be closed, but not deleted. The information is still there.

These are users flagging questions. Whether they are overzealous or not is a next question altogether. Moderators respond to flags not perfection. If 10 users flag a question as not constructive because of the new scope, then the moderators must listen to the community. The community at one time accepted these questions, now based on discussion in meta.stackoverflow.com , they don't. Communities change over time.

Also a flock of moderators cannot close a question. Ideally one. What you may have seen as a flock could be one of the following options

* 1 moderator (his/her vote is binding)
* 1-4 users + 1 moderator (remember a moderator vote is binding)
* 5 users

These users are ordinary community users not moderators. If their decision was wrong to close a question, it will be reopened by 5 other /regular/ users.

Additionally it would help to show these example questions that you feel were closed justly so that a /community/ user not a mod can tell you why it was closed or what chance it has to be opened.

So if you can reply with the question that was closed wrongly, maybe some of us /ordinary/ users can help you.

Otherwise I feel your accusations towards moderators are misdirected as most times these questions are closed by regular users just like you and me.
they sure have a lot of points in relation to the ewest items. Might be a devaluation of the amount of points due to an increase in users/votes ?

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824 points by fr0sty 2 days ago | 355 comments
Most questions that don't get answered are just poorly phrased questions that either don't get enough attention or aren't really answerable. These eventually get deleted. I like the current bounty system because any user with enough reputation can put a bounty on any other user's question. That means a human has to look at it and deem it worthy of a bounty, which I think is better than automatically bumping questions based on age.
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Can I get my data in a portable format I can take with me to another provider, as easily as paper records? Or can I _only_ get my own data through your proprietary portal / application?
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Disagree.

> Cavemen had to work together for common goal (survival) hence people usually root for each other.

How is that any different today? People manifest survival in a totally different way today, and the human being either choses to use other people to survive (bartering) or survive on our own (live off the land).
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It's the first non-technical book I've read in a while, and I am loving it.
We did have platform-specific bugs, but the fixes (if any) were not platform-specific.

In other words, we change the code so that it fixes the platform specific bug while adding no platform-specific code.

(Don't know if I made myself clear).
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