skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as someone who has successfully built undetectable bots for a large number of sites, including twitter, I can assure you, it's not that difficult to game (so long as you have the right skillset, which I agree with what I think you're saying here in saying that not many have those skills).

Even if only a handful of people have those skills, they can still do quite a bit in terms of spitting out massive amounts of real looking accounts.

If a user can do it in a browser, it can be automated.
He's ridiculing the article's use of the words "digital", "encrypted", "instantaneously", and "undisclosed" because the article's use of those words is in fact ridiculous.

To understand why, log out of Hacker News, and then log back in. Your browser and Paul Graham have conspired to instantaneously send sensitive encrypted digital information to an undisclosed location. I hope it's fortified.
The Trucker Who Reverse-Engineered An Atomic Bomb In His Spare Time
We are speaking in a context set by vi/vim (remember, that was the jumping off point for promoting yi here).

If you cannot think of at least one language which is older and a better common denominator than Haskell (both at the binary level and at the interface presented to programmers)... I don't know what to say.

What actual reason do I have for switching from vim to yi? Just because it's written in Haskell and that obviously makes it better, or what?
Hey logjam! Let me know what specialty you are and how many insurance companies you currently accept when you have a minute. To answer your question: No, we do not have access now nor plan to have access in the future to claims data. The raw X12 I am referring to is a 271 format only (eligibility) and will be generated by our own sample transformation tool. However; it will be based off data passed (with stripped patient identifiers) through the Eligible API so that it can give shape to the differences between payer (insurance) formats. As of 3:05 8/11 I have not shared any yet, but I hope to push some to production by the end of the day!
First paragraph:

> Sometimes you run into a situation where you have to extend/improve some existing code. You see that the old code is very lean, but it's also difficult to extend, and takes time to read.

Last paragraph:

> Is it a good idea to change such code if you have to touch a small piece of it either way?
I see. We certainly would not expose your patient's data. My reply at bottom should help clear that up for you. You forgot to mention what specialty you are?
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If Google reduced your pay as you got older, then that would be strictly comparable to the insurance agent who raises your rates as you get older.

Otherwise, it's not comparable
Something like The Pirate Bay or any of the dozens of torrent metasearch sites?
I really do love the idea behind these kinds of services - SMS from a desktop browser window? Awesome.

But I really don't want to pass all of my personal traffic off to a rndom new startup's server. How can you convince people to use this and trust you?
Does this kind of thing rely on the serial over sharers to just connect their Google account up, and willingly pass off their private messaging?

Maybe I'm being overly critical, but this is precisely the kind of thing I would want to run myself, not give to someone else to run.

edit
It seems I jumped the gun a little - their FAQ says that they explicitly don't store the messages on their servers, making them a dumb pipe to just send data.
Still, my instinct is to wonder who else can see my messages :/
This change only "demotes" search results, it doesn't remove them. So I don't think DDG would be affected much?
To be productive, your question should be about the political costs of being seen to destroy the TSA. This will also answer the question about the political motivation for keeping it.

Consider also the reasons it was created (the real reasons) and the context in which it was created
The high profile ex-NSA whistleblowers in the press right now are making plenty of statements about these new systems.

I don't recall anything about video surveillance specifically, but what they are concerned about is the database of dossiers on everyone that includes all of the multimedia information available. They have internet traffic, email, cell information (movements) but I don't know what else is collected.

Maybe someone who's done more reading on the subject can pipe up.
"Third Hand" languages ... for young teenagers who have nothing better to do and can't hack the real thing or think they are developing something useful. Been there, done that.
One question: What happens when a piece of middleware fails respond, becomes overloaded, goes out of business, etc?
How about WordBiLLY.com
First and foremost, deliberately or not, you are good at manipulating words. Yes, the website clearly _says_ what happened, but it doesn't explain [clearly] _why_. A doctor can tell you "the patient has died" and his statement "clearly says what happened". But it doesn't answer as of why he is dead.

Second, some other guys replied already that this petition expired prematurely and this is the purpose behind all the fuzz. As of me going bit conspiratorish way, keep in mind that we are talking about DHS here. Those are the people in government that are beyond and sort of control, regardless if it comes from "we the people", President of the USA, or Congress itself. I could imagine all it takes one phonecall from DHS for WhiteHouse petitions website to have a "down for maintenance" issue. They do not answer to anyone or anything. Just a reminder, as you know they ran Fast and Furious where at least one Board Patrol Agent died as a direct results of their actions. At the end, Eric Holder was indeed held in contempt of Congress, but who cares? He won't face any responsibility just like DOD said they are not interested in pursuing this matter. This should be a perfect example to put in a dictionary under the term "mob". Imagine situation where you witnessed someone killing your family member you call the cops and the oppressor turned out to be police commissioner's brother, and their answer is "we are not interested in pursuing this matter".

So if DHS is capable of pulling stuns like the one with Holder, you really think they will let "we the people" to petition against them without ability to stop the show anytime they want to?

edit: good read: http://townhall.com/columnists/edfeulner/2012/08/10/the_furo...

edit: actually Brian's birthday would be today... http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/08/11/remembe...
Nope, sorry we do not handle 837 or 834 EDI transactions at this time.
Have to disagree with this article. There are three qualities that override everything else for a good name:

1) Being memorable

2) Easy to spell when you hear it said out loud (and conversely: easy to pronounce when you see it written)

3) Not being cheesy or otherwise embarrassing to say when you introduce yourself to people

I just can't believe it every time I hear a company name that, if I remember it a few days later and want to go look them up, is impossible to spell. Missing a letter is fine. But having silent letters, with k's instead of c's and other non-phonetic spelling? That's just crazy.
It would be just as fair to get a citation for any claim that most people think otherwise...
I think the App.net client should just show a little warning saying "{{middleware_name}} no longer responds. [Disable] [Retry]"
Original date of this article: April 30, 2010. Too bad it wasn't April 1st.

Q: What is your mother's maiden name?

A: I never use my mother's REAL maiden name in a security question; that is much too easy to look up with Google.
To clarify, I'm not affiliated with App.net in any way (aside from being a backer). Just an idea I had that I thought would be cool, and make App.net really useful to me as a user and developer.
A Review of Fever
Totally! Aviary is an awesome service. I was just asking for UI examples of good-looking image editors/uploaders.
3D printed taco in the shape of you.
You'd almost think the mods on HN were more interested in screwing up useful titles than fixing ones that are actually broken.
You only the mistake of having a bad name once. I had a copywriting side gig I tried to name and got caught up with the idea of a red pen. So we ended up with RedWrit - not only impossible to say and spell (if you know how to say it), but the red pen allusion was completely lost.

This time I don't think we made the same mistake. GrassWire. It comes from grassroots newswire, but you don't need to know that - everyone knows how to read it, when someone says it you know how to spell it, it's unique and the domain was available. That's all that matters.
This is pretty interesting, and something a lot of people in the universities that recently partnered with Coursera have been asking: if we want to do MOOCs, why don't we just do them? Why do we need Coursera? The complexity doesn't seem very high, and Coursera doesn't seem to bring a lot to the table that isn't easy to replicate.
I find it astonishing that people actually consider it worse to have this petition website than not to have one, simply because the President will not toe the line of every petition which gets a few thousand votes.
From watching too many Fareed Zakaria shows,i got the impression that Canada,Australia and Singapore had the best immigration policies for skilled workers.I could be wrong,though
I never suggested the anti-tax arguments should be contained in the petition, I just said you were wrong in your claim that corporate taxes are irrelevant for entrepreneurs.
So actual patient data is being stored and manipulated, and manually "stripped" so that it can be posted (in effect) to the web? Again, I don't want to misunderstand you, but you feel comfortable doing this? I wouldn't.

Please provide your backup, retention, deletion, access logging, etc., policies on that data you are manipulating.

Am I understanding that an audit two months from now (you log your access and use of this data as required by HIPAA, right?) will indicate that this data was "stripped" and shared?

I would be very very cautious about thinking that "stripping" data like this isn't very prone to error, and to not realizing that storing and sharing this kind of data without a lot of care and thought could create huge problems.
Most people don't have an opinion on the issue either way.
Weird I was just discussing this while walking through Piedmont. I wondered if it was a viscous / virtuous cycle thing. The areas with nice trees attracted those with wealth who protected them with disposable income while those with fewer trees cost less to live in, attracted lower income residents who couldn't afford to protect them.
Will HPC Work In The Cloud?
Fake Gun, Fake Currency, Real Jail Time Figure in Alleged Runescape Robbery
I agree. This isn't a [citation needed] moment, anyway, because it's mostly our subjective opinions on the structure. While the core symbolic system is effective in many ways, I hardly imagine it's ideal. It evolved over the years out of the mathematical discourse, and is very organic and piecemeal. There are ambiguities and inconsistencies, unnecessary redundancies and linguistic inefficiencies. I hardly imagine that anyone commonly steeped in symbolic math thinks that the current system is perfectly ideal, even if they find it generally effective.

I find that linear algebra is particularly bad with having too many ways to represent objects and operations, along with many that overlap with algebraic symbols and lead to confusion. It also doesn't help that there are forty billion different ways to represent the derivative of a function, many of which overlap ambiguously with other operations and symbols. I remember having a single semester where multivariate calculus used f' to mean a derivative, modern physics used f' to mean the position of f after a time interval, and linear algebra used f' to mean a matrix transformation of f. There's also no easy way to represent the antiderivative of f other than with F, which looks like f is a vector/scalar and F is a matrix. Add to that that many professors have their own notational preferences, and it's a royal mess.
Interesting. What's painful about xmonad (compared to awesome)?
Yeah, it's not quite a HTTP server, more of an API-driven backend to a HTTP server. Still neat.
I am developing my own as most project management software stinks.
Can it be printed using human meat? Seems like the only way to do such a thing right.
> one Board Patrol Agent died as a direct results of their actions.

What happened to "guns don't kill people, people kill people"? Are you saying that ATF shot the Border Patrol Agent?

Oh. I see. The mistake was that some Mexicans got guns. Obviously, without the ATF there is no way that Mexicans would be able to get guns. Right.

But under that logic, failing to enact gun control makes the US government responsible for almost everyone killed with a gun in the US, since the relative lack of gun control both directly and indirectly results in more guns in hands, and therefore more guns in use, and therefore more people being shot. (For the record: I am against gun control, I just think your logic sucks)

You ARE allowed to petition, but that isn't the same thing as whatever your complaint is about whitehouse.gov ... petitions vastly pre-existed whitehouse.gov.

You seem to have forgotten the good old days when Reagan set up the Enterprise (an unaccountable shadow government with its own funding sources) and sold arms to our enemies, violating a US arms embargo, in order to fund a dirty war in Central America (another action violating US law).

What great democracy that was!
I really like the idea of the controller being a familiar environment with a high level programming language. I'm sure that Arduino can do all the same stuff, but it seems like the learning curve is far steeper.
My understanding is that a lot of the "responses" to those petitions end up being, "We considered it. The answer is no." There's no requirement that they do anything.

Given that, it seems unlikely there was some nefarious hidden agenda behind this TSA one being taken down.
I guess you weren't alive during the Reagan administration. (Iran-Contra? I don't recall.) Or the GWB administration...
"Dictate". I understand policy holders can now influence but not dictate results.

Am i being unreasonable in thinking this use of inflationary language is wrong?

If morally you're on the right side of the argument, which i believe the EFF is, then you must play everything completely straight and by the book - otherwise you just give up your advantage.

What language do we reserve for the really bad things.
Americans don't automatically lose their citizenship if they visit or move to Tokyo.
This book was used in CS246 -- here's the syllabus in case people were curious and wanted to follow it in a more class-like structure: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs246/handouts.html
>I'm rather impressed that search engines do it so well. I imagine the right approach involves examining the contents of the pages and doing checksums

Interesting point. Q: Is it possible for two different pages to give the same checksum? (Asking for my own info; I do know what checksums are, in overview, from way back, but haven't checked :) them out much.
All of these companies paid for a better domain name.

GetDropbox.com

TheFacebook.com

Twittr.com
No, actually your reply doesn't describe your security practices at all. Why are you retaining live data at all?

Forgive me, but just claiming "we certainly would not expose your patient's data" is hollow at best - I take the responsibility for protecting my patient's health information very seriously, as do most physicians, and it is ultimately our responsibility to do no harm in that regard.

Not saying this is true of you guys, but there are a lot of incentives out there for "mining" and even selling health info. At the very least, storing health data on multiple, geographically disparate servers, logging access, retention policy, etc is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Gross.
Just figure out how to culture the stuff economically and you can be the first.
From the article: This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites.

It's not as if they're trying to hide the source, and the content is presented in an easier to read format than SE. The only question one might ask is why most of hansbo's submissions are for arstechnica.com articles.
The people in Japan could be US expats.

More importantly, the site is utterly impotent. It's not like voting or campaign donations by foreign nationals, so I'm not sure why it matters. If some Japanese wingnuts want to embarrass themselves on the site, more power to them.
too bad it doesn't show album artwork for GrowlTunes
It's actually a positive sign when a media outlet makes a public retraction.

Which do you think is more corrupt, a country like the US that has imprisoned governors and impeached presidents, or a country which has never questioned its leaders?
Not long ago I read on HN that tptacek is always right about everything. I think we can safely say that Facebook used to be GETDROPBOX
Yeah, I think we're on the same page.

After doing PoC for that sort of thing the number of easily detectable bots are a bit annoying that they don't put in the relatively trivial amount of effort to make them appear as a real user, but I guess if they're able to get some money in your pocket with that level of effort, more power to them.
Stack Exchange submits these to Ars (or at least, has some sort of deal), everything is linked off to Stack Exchange, and it says Stack Exchange all over the page. I dunno if you can call it 'ripped off', just because someone didn't submit the original.
Ask HN: How do I find out what people will pay for my product?
I have spent some time developing a feedback widget for startups to use on their own websites to entice their visitors to record their screens and submit their feedback. It is a free tool right now but that's largely because I have no idea what to charge for it.<p>I know user feedback is something people desire for their startups but finding an affordable solution can be a challenge. That's why I developed this screen recording widget.<p>You can see it here at http://betapunch.com. Any feedback you have for me in terms of pricing and if it's a worthwhile product is appreciated.<p>Thanks
Speaking of names, can anyone identify the current trend of $arbitrary_number + $arbitrary_noun? I saw '80Legs' in a different thread, then there's stuff like 20Cans, 32Tractors, 99RedBalloons, and god knows what else.
Google Unveils Search Changes To Curb Access To Pirated Content
.profile is used by other shells, so if you ever used another shell it could be a problem to source .bashrc (unless you write .bashrc in portable way)
Drew Houston talk at Stanford: Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
If the deadline was "by August 9th", it's ambiguous whether that means "by 11:59 PM August 8th", or "by 11:59 PM August 9th".

If it's "11:59 PM August 8th", then it would probably be reasonable to hold it open until around noon on the 9th, to take into account places in the Pacific (Hawaii, UTC-10; American Samoa, UTC-11, etc)
Software Runs the World: How Scared Should We Be That So Much of It Is So Bad?
If the intent of those code optimizations are so damn hard to understand and there are such subtle bugs they avoid in very specific ways, why isn't there a comment to explain the intent and a unit test to ensure it's not broken?

Sounds like it's not those other engineer's fault that this kind of thing keeps happening to your code...
Most likely Signals and Folders? And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9whehyybLqU for the balloons..
Create cool collection posts on Tumblr - fast
Good point. (no pun intended.) I am right handed, but the stem goes on the left. I eat the bigger end first.
NASA Chat: Stay 'Up All Night' to Watch the Perseids
The policy used to arbitrate domain name disputes (UDRP or Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) dictates that building a company on a site like bufferapp.com doesn't give that company the right to the corresponding .com. (buffer.com) Attempting to sue to get the name is called "reverse domain name hijacking" and the arbitration committee is very very skeptical of those types of request.

Case in point: http://www.thedomains.com/2012/06/16/rick-schwartz-wins-the-...

That being said, the price of the .com will track the perceived value of your company. It would be an awful waste to have to use a significant percentage of some round of funding to buy a domain name. Also, it seems like a significant percentage of your type-in traffic would be lost to the buffer.com. Even 10% of your type in traffic is probably worth the $xx,xxx you will pay for a decent .com name.

The arguments against paying for a decent .com seem weak.
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You forgot to mention what specialty you are? Take a look at our privacy, terms of service, and security pages to answer the rest of your questions above. If you do not think the service is useful then you don't need to use it. That's the beauty of the free market. One man's junk is another man's treasure.
A/B testing your prices to find your most profitable price point over time can help you remove guessing from your pricing strategy.

The author mentions that A/B testing among concurrent visitors can get you bad PR but forgets to mention that A/B testing prices over time is the only way to confirm your price is the best. Anything less is just speculation.
Spivak and Sussman have made excellent cases as to the problem of notation in mathematics. I have long had much the same opinions as the grand parent so was delighted to see such luminaries in agreement. Now, mathematics is compact but that is not the problem. The problem is ambiguity. You can with time learn to pack the and unpack the extremely dense notation and the upfront costs are worth it but the ambiguity (not to mention differing conventions across branches) is an inexcusable mess. Calculus for example is replete with the abuse of variable binding which is just cruel to the beginner. Quoting: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicm/book-Z-H-5.html#footnote_Temp_4

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1 In his book on mathematical pedagogy [17], Hans Freudenthal argues that the reliance on ambiguous, unstated notational conventions in such expressions as f(x) and df(x)/dx makes mathematics, and especially introductory calculus, extremely confusing for beginning students; and he enjoins mathematics educators to use more formal modern notation.

2 In his beautiful book Calculus on Manifolds [40], Michael Spivak uses functional notation. On p. 44 he discusses some of the problems with classical notation. We excerpt a particularly juicy passage:

The mere statement of [the chain rule] in classical notation requires the introduction of irrelevant letters. The usual evaluation for D1(fo(g,h)) runs as follows:... This equation is often written simply...

Note that f means something different on the two sides of the equation!

3 This is presented here without explanation, to give the flavor of the notation. The text gives a full explanation.

4 ``It is necessary to use the apparatus of partial derivatives, in which even the notation is ambiguous.'' V.I. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics [5], Section 47, p. 258. See also the footnote on that page.
"
I... have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say. It's not worth ever using a language if there's an older one around? Are you saying you don't want to switch editors unless the new one is written in FORTRAN?
I hope they're going to open up the delivery technology, either to allow someone to commoditize it, and make it available to consumers (for taco delivery), or other noble causes, like rescue, etc..

Additionally, I'm somewhat curious as to what their plan is on Oakland.
http://collect3.com.au/hissapp/ already does this and it's been out for a while.