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I don't think physical security is an issue. There's usually very little of value on the devices the clinicians use, so there's no reason to break into one.

If you want sensitive patient data you go after the servers that receive and store data from the devices, or data entry computers. Hell, most desktops in hospitals contain sensitive patient information and malware is already on all of those because people are clicking on the 'INSTALL A VIRUS SCANNER ON MY PC' banner ads and admins are too lazy to lock down desktops.

If anyone ever had the technical skill to sabotage medical device just to hurt or kill someone, it would be an extremely rare event.

The real danger comes from automated malware that trawls networks or is attached to media and overwhelms or disables medical devices by accident. Malware that's just trying to find a home for a botnet can spread like wildfire and cause all kinds of havoc and is much more likely to be on the device right now.

Alas, medical device manufacturers (like most 3rd-party vendors) design their product to the barest specifications of their customers. If the customer doesn't ask for security or a hardened OS, they aren't going to go out of their way to make it so.
at least the super secret strategic plan is being displayed in chrome :)
I was very glad to see it was an article about spamming journalists rather than the general public.
How ironic given the first ridiculous software patent I remember was Amazon's one-click purchase patent that it use as a cudgel against many e-tailers in the late nineties (and may still, for all I know).

EDIT: Not saying there weren't other ridiculous software patents; just that this one got a lot of press at the time and brought software patents to developers attention in a way that hadn't happened before.
A tour of the product using the product would be great :)
Actually the reason his posts stopped making it to the frontpage is that the last 3 before this all set off the voting ring detector.

I don't know how accurate his other conclusions are, but it seems unlikely that new signups are down, considering the trend in traffic: http://www.archub.org/hntraffic-17oct12.png
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>> "News.me and Instapaper - Sync your articles to your phone as you leave your house, so that when you're underground on the train, you have all your content right there"

That's not really a feature, it's more of a hack. The only reason Instapaper does this (not sure about News.me but I assume it's the same) is to get around background downloading restrictions on iOS. It's the only was to activate the app and download articles in the background. I'm sure they would much prefer to just check the server every 5 minutes and download new articles without the user having to set their location.
I'd even say that the biggest contributor to this difference is the non-blocking nature of Node. Using e.g. EventMachine would probably close the Gap between Node and Ruby even more.
Well done Ben - I'd also add that CEO's are really good listeners. Conversations should always be 60/40 the majority being with the opposite party of the CEO.
Presumably it was downvoted (not by me) because it's refuting a claim I didn't make:

samstokes: I said you can't do it with COUNT()

guywithabike: You absolutely can do it without COUNT

Then we agree.
The non-exclusive sets may overlap with interesting results, if there is a multiplicative effect. That's a hypothesis worth testing, perhaps through a quick stratification of the data. There is also an issue about multi-colinearity. For example, if one were to consider modifiers vs nouns. Is it the specific noun that is of interest? Or the subset of that specific nouns, delineated by the modifier? what about the modifier generally, applied to a general noun? etc. Are there specific combinations that are significantly different from the average? etc.
I'm working on http://www.couchster.com

Currently working on resolving some CSS issues and a few other code problems.
This certainly helps, but if your indices are several GB in size, even an index scan is a nontrivial expense.
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"PHP is about getting stuff done."

This implies that the road not taken by PHP (and thus the roads taken by other languages) are somehow unproductive. That's not accurate. Most languages are about getting stuff done. A tool can be explicit, or elegant, or whatever, and also help you get stuff done.

You are basically saying that PHP's design is at a global maximum for productivity and this is simply not true.
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Alex, based on your kind reply to DanBC, you are tired of people calling you out for relying on Google University for your knowledge on controversial subjects. That may be tiresome, but it may also be good for the overall level of factual discussion here.

My general observation of what excites people on Hacker News is that negative metathreads get more upvotes, by two orders of magnitude, than positive metathreads. I would love to see more replies to the old thread "Ask HN: What do you like about the Hacker News community?"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399678

from 60 days ago, if people are so inclined. I posted that soon after a metathread that complained about comments that were insufficiently kind and affirming, from someone who has asked advice about external website designs in days past. I figure if I ask for advice about a website, people are very well going to give me advice, and I might as well man up and take the advice. But, yeah, one thing I like about HN is that people look things up in good-quality offline sources in many instances, and ask other participants here to check their facts. And there are other good features of the community here that help me learn and develop in my work, in my community citizenship, and in my family life.
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Really valuable article. As a junior employee I find I'm treading a fine line trying to practice these values, especially when the 'culture' isn't always trickling down. I'd enjoy reading more about this stuff from that perspective, which I suppose falls into the category of 'managing your manager'?
You have no idea how many times I've apologized to my son for the fact that English spelling makes no sense and he has to learn it. If I could wave a magic wand, we'd have a good phonetic spelling system. (And there is an example of a word that is not phonetically spelled...)

With that said, let me clarify a couple of potential misconceptions.

The words that I am teaching my son are not beyond his reading level. In fact they are taken from lists of words that he is expected to be able to read, and was asked to spell on tests in his classroom. His spelling winds up beyond his grade level simply because most kids his age don't know most of those words.

The only connection between the reward activity (reading) and the flashcards is that I use the first to make the second pleasurable. I'm not reading to him because it is good for him, I'm reading to him because he enjoys it. I'd be happy playing with marbles instead. I don't put words from the story into the flashcards - he has enough other stuff that he actually needs to learn which is higher priority.
From the article: "VCs right now are kind of weird. They have this herd mentality that's starting to look like a bubble," [Geoloqi CEO Amber Case] says. "When people celebrate taking in $5 million, it's like celebrating taking a bank loan to buy a banana."
Which patent did amazon need to "maintain their dominance"? Did they patent customer service?
I suspect that the investors thought the worst case scenario was an aqui-hire of a highly-credentialed team, at a value close to the cash invested. And likely with enough preferences to return the entire acquisition to the investors.

While this was an erroneous assumption, I can see how this may have contributed to a perception of lower risk to the investors.

What they seemed to ignore was that stuffing a very early consumer startup with a ton of cash and a lot of hype to live up to might have contributed to the failure. Instead of giving them resources to figure out the space, investors contributed rope with which the company could hang itself.
I feel that CloudFlare is similar to a search engine, DNS provider, hosting company, domain registrar etc. in that we are providing a shared service and inevitably some users of that service will be things that I personally dislike.

As I mentioned above in an EDIT, the problem with reddit is that reddit sees itself as a group of subreddits which are different communities; everyone else sees reddit as a single entity. So, I don't want to be associated with the single entity that's supporting this content that I find distasteful.
Just a heads-up: your site works really poorly on mobile. The text column is too narrow, while the charts are too big, and their interactive features make it hard to scroll the page. They also don't work right (touching a chart seems to mess up the y axis labels), but the impediment to scrolling is more annoying. I only ever read HN on my iPhone, so this is an upvote you're not getting simply because of technical problems with your website.
You do realize the "appearance" of a site has nothing to do with the underlying stack, right? A Django site can appear like a Rails site can appear like a Drupal site can appear like a ...

You can argue for differences in behaviour, sure; but appearance?
> "Please keep the door closed... Or I'll call the Bruce Squad" I guess that's an inside joke referring to some security guard called Bruce?

It seems to say "Brute", not "Bruce".
I utterly agree. I've found hospital IT staff to be negative, extremely unskilled, and openly hostile to even the most benign questions or requests. And I can't remember any other context where staff feel it's acceptable to hang up the phone on their contractors and consultants.
Thanks for sharing. Only for New Orleans right now?
He isn't learning to spell ahead of his reading level, he's learning to spell based on what his teacher suggests.

The reward is that he gets read to, read something he isn't yet able to read on his own because it's ahead of his reading level. The reward is enjoying some good fiction, nothing to do with learning how to spell words from this more-advanced text.
That's an interesting point.

Methane is sort of halfway between kerosene and hydrogen. No operational space launcher has used it, though, as far as I know, some engines like the venerabe RL-10 hydrogen upper stage work horse have been modified to run on it on a test bench.
So, if Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and all of the other or some subset of the large software companies came out today to say the same thing or completely endorse Amazon CEO's point of view, you would dismiss their message just as equally for who they are and their history?...
I'm not sure that getting 100% or perfect at anything is healthy. You have to learn that there is a chance factor to a success and you are not to blame about imperfect score if you really tried.

I had very hard time spelling words when I was at the beginning of the primary school. That didn't improve much but yay, we have spellcheckers now. And I have a Mensa membership and MA in computer science.

Also, algebra by flash cards? Is algebra something to remember and forget? I think you should learn it more like you learn to ride a bike not like the spelling. Physics obeys math. By getting math you are getting intuition about how world works and by remembering how to spell words you are getting a way of making yourself more understandable ... sometimes ... in writing ... without spellchecker.

Oh. And you might do well in a spelling competition (which is useless).

We have spelling competitions in my country too. They have written form. Most famous one had over 50 thousands participants over the course of 15 years. All competitors of given year write at the same time half a page of dictated text. Only 5 people in history of this competition didn't make any mistake in their text. Perfect should never be your target. Because even if task seems simple the difference between perfect and almost perfect is most likely luck.

You shouldn't overdo helping your kids. I know two parents who overdid this and their kids were doing extremely well but only up to the point when those parents stopped coaching them. One lasted till the end of primary school, other lasted till the end of the college.

Apart from all I said kudos for successfully helping your kid.
Finishing up integration of https://github.com/kstenerud/KSCrash/tree/feature/new-struct... into our app.

It does zombie detection in the wild now!
what is the salary range for the position?
(Reposting a comment from yesterday for background)

This is part of a larger government initiative to curb outsourcing of IT projects. Traditionally these sorts of things would be built by large software companies at enormous expense to the taxpayer. Gov.uk has been built by a (relatively) small in-house team, by people who genuinely care about what they are building. They embrace the fact that they are building tools for the good of society rather than just satisfying a contract.

Also as a citizen, I love that I can open a pull request on my government's website ( https://github.com/alphagov/calendars/pull/1 ). We've got the ball rolling in opening up government data on the internet, but this is a great example of how technology can enable citizens to get involved in government.
The Brute Squad is a reference to The Princess Bride.
The biggest risk is you get something that is not what you want, are out some money and have to delay the launch.

If you are really concerned about it. A css framework can help your developer eliminate a lot of pain points and make a designers job easier down the road. For example twitter bootstrap is really easy to customize the color scheme, uses a grid layout, and does responsive design. If you don't like bootstrap there are a bunch of other frameworks that do the same thing.
I believe that is Brute squad. Which probably makes it a reference to The Princess Bride ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v... )
Color was (and still is) a great idea.

Giving them $40M was not. Right there you killed the greatest force to do the undoable.

Motivation.
The article is a rant that misses the point that MVC is a description of the interaction between abstractions in an application.
I think your comment narrows down only to medical devices. While I have noticed this problem mostly in workstations used by hospital administration which are networked and more prone to viruses. In any hospital, communication between departments is as critical as life support systems.

Many times a malware infected system can cause minor but significant annoyances like sluggishness to random reboots. Thanks to a rich malware ecosystem, these systems are almost always based on Windows. So, I don't think that the anti-Windows sentiment is unwarranted. The visitors themselves see the ominous Blue Screen of Death on screens from time to time.
Computer viruses and malware 'rampant' in medical tech, experts warn
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Sure he's a hypocrite. What does that mean, we should keep patents around? So that.. everybody can abuse patents?
Reading does not always improve spelling. I read a lot and I still can't spell.
Yeah, New Orleans is our test market. Plan is to show proof of concept with some traction there, then get some funding to expand regionally.
That, or Monty Python's Bruce sketch :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA
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Opponents of patent reform will write off Bezos' message no matter what. That's the nature of "intellectual property" maximalism at the moment. The oppoents of patent reform have some "common sense" style platitudes in favor of patents as they stand, and for stricter enforcement. But no facts - the arguments always boil down to "but Private Property!" or something similar.
There was a rule for doxxing: it was something like "personally identifying information about a person who didn't want that information revealed."

And creepshots largely didn't meet the definition of that rule, because no one knew who the people in the pictures were.

Now, you can certainly wish the rule were something that would have blocked creepshots and doxxing. Like "information about anyone that they don't want a bunch of strangers on the Internet reading."

Reddit has tried to turn over the decisions about what to allow to a rule-based system instead of having to have any human discretion involved. I can see the appeal in wanting that (any google search for "technical solution for social problem" will describe why people keep on trying it), but it leads to things that obviously look absolutely crazy to outsiders.

Reddit probably needs to grow up and have some human discretion involved. It is going to collapse under its own weight without that.
Gotta agree here - I find Instacart easy (if not slightly tedious) to use. There are some UX improvements to be made, but those are more around optimizing the add-to-cart experience; both search and scrolling aren't a problem for me.

This looks like it switches to horizontal scrolling which feels unnatural after years and years of device use, and transitions to a slightly awkward skeuomorphic design ("arranged like the aisles of a supermarket") that doesn't really add value. Aisles are designed to be confusing in order to force shoppers to browse more and buy crap they don't need; Instacart wonderfully avoids all this by having a surprisingly accurate [1] search tool.

The real improvements, at least for me, will come from splitting the payment across multiple cards or combining multiple orders into a single delivery (housemates all shopping at once), and having the ability to modify an order that's been submitted but not fulfilled.

[1] Amusingly, I searched for "poison" and the only hit was some $5.99 half-gallon jug of wine. I think it was a close metaphone match on the name but everyone at the table was laughing their asses off.
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They might as well put up a sign that says "Management reserves the right to refuse service to anyone."

Or the more Orwellian, "All speech is free on Reddit. Some speech is just freer than others."

At least they'd be honest that they are just making the rules up as they go and your speech is as free as the next Anderson Cooper exposé or changing of the tides.
I LOVED the first Color, if it had gotten any adoption I think it would have been awesome. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) that's not how the world works, and it forces us to think beyond "hey wouldn't it be cool if everyone did THIS"
EXIF metadata is easy to automate. What if there is a logo of a local business reflected on a surface that most people barely notice.
Someone recognizes this, tracks the person down.
It's a bit over the top, but these things happen. If that exposes one of those underage girls, who is accountable?
Leaking real world information can be done in many and subtle ways. There are times where people think the image origin is untraceable, but it isn't. Will reddit take the heat? The poster? The mod?
Well, it's better than Google. Google just jumped right into the game, though they claimed to disagree with it.

Bezos has the cash to play the game. And he had acces to it early enough (remember the one-click patent) to gain a monumental advantage. Relative to the other big players, Amazon has stayed on the sidelines.

Not to say Amazon is an angel that sets the standard for fairplay, but they definitely (? prove me wrong!) do not pursue patents to the extent of Microsoft, Apple, Google and others.

You can either call them naive for not playing, or you can accept that they may have set a better example.
just put out a couple of those changes :) thanks!
While I share your sentiment, I've always struggled with proper spelling even though I'd be considered by many (maybe not by HN standards, but certainly by average joe standards) to have above average written communication.

Spelling is important for a few reasons:

1. It creates a good first impression, if that impression is delivered in written form. (How many times have you degraded your opinion of someone because of a misused "your"?)

2. It broadens your ability to communicate because you can now focus on the message rather than remembering how to spell a word, or limiting yourself to words you can spell.

3. Perhaps most importantly, the rote memorization of unruly spellings is a great precursor to the rote memorization that is required to be competent in math. You can phonetically/use rules to determine how to spell "computer", but you need to memorize "receive", "sufficient" and "seize".

Again, not suggesting that this requires spelling competitions per se, but that spelling should not be discounted.
I am not talking about controversial content.

Surreptitious, candid, compromising photos of minors are harmful. They put a very public spotlight on people who have neither the life experience nor the cognitive development nor the emotional stability to handle it. The photos themselves are fed into the random social eddies an currents these people have to live in, which currents are made of similarly dysfunctional teenagers making a whole new set of bad decisions based on those photos. Every snarky, gross, nasty, or salacious comment posted on the public threads in which the subjects of those photos are objectified also feeds into the drama.

At the same time, the practice of causing this harm solely for the amusement of groups of anonymous Internet commenters provides social reinforcement not just for the continued posting of harmful photos, but also for the fundamental sick ideas that animate those photos: that teenagers are not developing human beings with their own rights to privacy and personal space and well being, but instead objects for the amusement of strangers.

We are just now beginning to comprehend how harmful peer-bullying is among teenagers. It seems to me that it shouldn't be difficult at all to wrap our heads around the harm caused by the bullying of teenagers by adults.

How you know that there is at least some force to these arguments is, you're arguing on a thread that isn't simply about banning the posting of these photos, but rather about why it's inconsistent to tolerate those photos while banning the mere naming of the people who post them.
Thank you so much everyone for your feedback.
Agreed. As I've found out myself, it's very easy to over engineer your interface. Sure it looks great - it's a very high quality design with all the extras. But in this case you're not selling an interface.

I'd also agree with you that it has too much color - only the products themselves should have color. Look at the designs of actual supermarkets - shelves and aisles are for the most part bland and plain so that they don't steal the attention.
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That's not particularly surprising in a highly government-regulated industry. No one outside of IT is particularly interested in IT. The difference between the medical field and other non-IT fields that require IT is that those other fields are open to market pressures.

Simply put, most people are lazy until they get smacked by the invisible hand. In the medical field, the invisible hand has been tied up by the government.
v1 To me sounds more like a way to facilitate sharing. I suppose this could lead to fostering relationships between strangers but for example I would get immense benefit from just having additional/better photos for an event that another person decided to share.
txZMQ is pretty cool if you are going the Twisted route. It's nice to reuse twisted's event loop instead of rolling your own.