skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| Legally, once you hand your communication over
| to Google, it's their property.

If I put some of my belongings in a storage unit, I don't lose ownership of them. If I accidentally leave (e.g.) my sunglasses at a restaurant, the restaurant doesn't own them now. If I give a package to DHL, they can't decide that they don't want to deliver it, and it's theirs now.
Since title changes are being done anyway, this one should be changed to "Aaron Greenspan". There's only one famous Greenspan, and it's not this one.
It's not possible to look at a password and determine how long it would take to crack it, without knowing how it was generated. All you can say is how long it would take _you_ to crack it. But just because a password looks hard to YOU, doesn't mean it's not a dictionary word in Bulgarian or something. There's no way for you to know.
Probably should add the first name to the title. That family name is usually associated with somebody else...
Reason for including YC in this nonsense:

The YCFunds share common management and are venture capital funds invested in a number of unlicensed money transmitters.

Can that really hold up? Can an investor be held liable for the decisions of a company they invested in? By that logic, what's to stop someone from suing Facebook shareholders?
Vim is usually fairly efficient in what it makes you type, just not always as consistent as I'd like.
Wow, this is insanity: I priced some NY (10024) and MA (02139) zip codes on ehealthinsurance and the coverage looked approximately 5x CA or WA rates. I'm not sure if that's specific to the site and their mix of carriers, or if insurance really is that much more expensive on the East Coast.
Presumably if individual Facebook shareholders had real influence over Facebook's actions you could sue them. I would guess the justification here is that YC's partners/etc have a real, tangible influence on the companies they invest in so they do bear some share of the responsibility.
Pretty weird. On the one hand, there clearly went some effort into this. On the other hand, they are not represented by counsel (p.36), which makes the likelihood of the case being thrown out for procedural reasons regardless of the merits around 99%. All in all I'm leaning more towards publicity stunt...
That feature is limited to the device you told it to 'remember' you on.
Meh, Teslas are boring status mobiles now. If you like your electric cars to be interesting and exciting. Order an Arcimoto [1] instead.

1. http://www.arcimoto.com/
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The most amazing thing about your post is that 95% of your post went right over my head. And I consider myself a fairly intelligent person. :P

(There's probably some interesting commentary in there somewhere about the complexity of financial markets and how it is probably bad for society to have a vast portion of our economic growth riding on something most people don't get.)
I got several paragraphs into this writeup before I realized it wasn't just an Onion spoof of the once-a-day "anatomy of a hack" articles that come through here. :P
oh, thanks for correcting ;) English isnt my native language so i might be forgiven :)

I dont really get why the U (which stands for universal) is a y sound. What is a y sound anyway ?
Didn't exactly that also happen with HMOs from 1973 onward (once they had a federal regulatory framework)?

It seems like an underlying problem is that whenever a "cover somewhat less, save money, charge a huge amount less" plan is put in place, there are incentives in individual cases (through lobbying or whatever) to add coverage, killing the cost savings.
It always surprises me to see to see my state (Arkansas) in a headline.

Just wanted to throw out there that Arkansas actually has pretty good hospitals and whatnot. There are a strangely high number of multinational companies (Tyson, Walmart, Axciom, JB Hunt, among others) based here who donate lots of money to various institutions, most notably UAMS (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences).
I think the only thing relevant about this article is the linked dataset.
It's regulated by criminal law, not civil code. The complaint quotes the law:

"Whoever knowingly conducts,controls, manages, supervises, directs, or owns all or part of an unlicensed money transmitting business, shall be fined in accordance with this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
I thought it would be something interesting given the title..nope just something you see in your email everyday .. Maybe the Onion's next move should be to invest with a Nigerian prince.

I will forward this post to my grandfather with "Don’t let this happen to you" in bold.

/onion
Just over $100k/month.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/25/buffer-scheduling-service-n...
Does this have anything to do with this patent (listing Greenspan as the inventor), which has a publication date of March this year? http://www.google.com/patents/US8396808
If someone gave JBox2D the same amount of attention box2d.js got to win this benchmark, I suggest that the results would look different. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like box2d.js was made and optimized just prior to this benchmark, while JBox2D is an old project that was never meant to win any benchmarks.
I fully agree. But only because an American colony on Mars would be aesthetically preferable to a SpaceX corporate colony on Mars, where colonists'd predictably work fifteen year sentences as indentured servant miners to pay off their voyage.

Also, an extension of our country on another planet would probably be the first move toward humans getting past statism entirely. But that's just a guess/hope.
I think Amazon will still be able to compete in this scenario. They can (and will have to) calculate sales tax. Plus, the tax will be based on the state that I reside in, not the state that the merchant resides in, so there won't be any "gaming the system" to find the lowest price.
> Wrong. The point of the network is to transmit data.

Data is mostly transmitted one way with those access network you're talking about. It makes me think of a tv or radio or cable network. That's the reason p2p does not attract anyone, because the current network is designed for people to focus on download instead, because that's the simplest software model. It only consists of supplying data to the consumer, like watching a tv channel. Internet is a mesh network first. That's how data flows.

> Who cares about most efficiently getting to systems that work? Grandma, Aunt Tillie, the engineer, his boss that pays his salary, his boss's boss, his boss's boss's investor, and everyone else who matters.

I was talking about product research. Technology does not invent itself. The boss you're talking about had no clue he could sell those things, and he did. I'm talking about lab rats, the people you fuel and inspire to make new stuff, not just use technologies in a way that has been done and done again. Facebook is already using the mesh paradigm for friend, but it requires a very high amount of computing power, and only facebook can access the data the way they want. That's a waste of good data. Other than that, facebook has brought zero new things to the internet. And it should not stop there.

> Who cares about p2p? You and a couple of other people who don't matter, don't pay anyone's salary and don't get to decide anything.

>You sound like a teenager. Maybe you should try to learn how technology decisions are taken in real life. You could start by getting a job in a technology company, but first here is a reading list for you:

Yes, I don't have a phd, I don't have a well paid job at a silicon valley company, so that's the #1 reason I'm wrong. I mean everything's its right place, why are there websites to talk about stuff, right. Let's just watch what nerds are cooking, and when it's sellable and usable, buy it and never modify it again, and lock it.

No surprise there was a net bubble.
I was referring to what you could practically survive with as an application developer who didn't control the databases involved; for the reasons prodigal_erik states in their reply, DELETE + INSERT, while you can do equivalent transformations to UPDATE with them, aren't going to be a general-purpose replacement for developers of real-world applications against real-world databases that they do not control.
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It's relevant mainly because HN covers almost anything of interest to the hacker community, including medical issues.
Short levels have been that high for much of the existence of TSLA. Noone was expecting the price to go down with this announcement specifically.

What you are describing is a short squeeze, and it's still unclear if that is indeed what we are seeing. Many shorts have been unwilling to cover, even when having to pay up to 85% lending rates for stock. A proper short squeeze would not only spike the price, it will make it explode; Volkswagen became the most valuable company in the world at a share price of 1k$ through a short squeeze (even if only for a short time).

Remember also that a short squeeze depends on long investors not taking profit. It only worked in VW because the majority of shares were held by institutions unwilling to reduce their stake and of course Porsche, who manufactured the squeeze.
It seems strange to me that he would have standing to sue for the state to enforce its own laws, but IANAL
Elon Musk several days ago:

EDIT: My mistake, this was said much longer ago (September 2012). I just read it recently. Thanks to batbomb for pointing this out. My apologies.

“It’s doing pretty well actually given that we’re such a huge short position. In fact I think the short position may be as high as one can actually go. They literally hit the ceiling on the short position. The shorts are in it to the hills. I think it is very unwise to be shorting Tesla, it’s very unwise. There is a tsunami of hurt coming for the short."

http://www.siliconbeat.com/2012/09/13/video-elon-musk-tells-...
The Direct Project is solving this problem for the medical field in America right now. Hopefully the technology will trickle outwards.
Another way to put it,
I suppose you could say,
is that the difference
between prose and free verse
is the number of lines.
And setting hard limits is the best way of ensuring that your bigger problems ARE elsewhere :)

Anything you don't have a limit for will become a problem. I don't care how fast computers are, or how much memory they have, or whether you have fibre-optic broadband. If you treat the resources in question like they're infinite, you'll find out the hard way that they most definitely are not. And that's so silly, when you can just set a reasonable limit that guarantees you won't have any problems, and then... not have any problems.

Realistic limits aren't so hard to stick to if they're there, and enforced, right from the start.
Yeah, but libertarians are a pretty small number of people. Most of the "small government" crowd is different, sadly.
Everything but engine sound. I will miss the deep, throaty growl of a large V-8.
This is almost verbatim to the spear phishing email that allowed the AP twitter account to be compromised.

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/04/23/ap-warned-staffers-just-b...
I don't think Greenspan actually cares about winning anything. This is about making everyone play by the same rules -- bringing attention to the fact that California makes it near-impossible for a startup to get licensed as an MTA, essentially shut down his company for trying to get licensed, while all these other startups just ignore the problem and operate illegally.
This might be a stupid question, but as a Tesla stock owner, and (becoming more apparent ever day) naive investor, how do you find out this information and/or digest it so well? I'm mainly a google finance guy and had no idea so much of the stock was being shorted.
I see what you mean, but I find it also helps protect traditional regions that came up with the thing first, so I'm for it for that reason. Sometimes other places can duplicate the methods/contents, but they still lack the definitive knack than the region that invented the stuff has.

And since the product was also named in the region, it's only fair for them to be able to use it. Now, the French might not get feta but they get Champagne protected, and generally everybody region benefits somehow.

And it's not like patent laws, where you cannot put out a competing product. It's merely like a trademark: you have to name it differently. So, if the french feta is OK, it still has a chance to catch on, just under a different name.
BSE has nothing to do with a digestive system that can't handle animal protein. After all, the human digestive system handles animal protein just great, but we can catch BSE by eating contaminated food even so.
Somehow I suspect suing everyone, including those who would otherwise be your friends/allies, isn't in the Dale Carnegie book...
I'm quoted in the article and would be happy to answer questions about this. Our firm does a lot of this kind of work -- U.S. citizens and green card holders cutting all ties to the United States.
The real point is that even if they have, they aren't going to tip their hat to the public (and other countries) by lending the tech to the FBI for some random violation of federal law.
The 'fans' angle is just a marketing bullet point used to seduce people into backing the project. I don't have a problem with it, because IMO you get what you back, but let's not get ahead of ourselves by thinking Zach is in this for the fans.

I would have much more respect for him if he offered copies of the movie to backers, instead of asking them to back it so he can sell distribution rights. Make the fans your distributors. After all, they're paying for it.
Ahh, is this why all these tech giants use a non-money credit system for their stores and networks: Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon(?), ... there must be many more.
This is not actually true.
The insane part is that the hospital only receives a tiny fraction of the billed amount from the insurance company, yet uninsured people have to pay the full amount.

The US healthcare system is broken on many levels, and I don't think anyone has the balls to really fix it.

Some ideas:

[1] Free basic medicare for everyone, but allow people to pay for faster/better service. This is the way it works in the UK, and it works very well. The basic service is fine for most people, but if you want a room to yourself or you want to jump the queue, you can pay to get US-style service. Overall it works out much cheaper and fairer than the US system.

[2] Set up a system that allows uninsured people to get the same rates as the insurance company. It's a bit of a scam at the moment - basically the hospitals seem to be out to screw you if you're not insured.
> Our heroes are heroes because it takes something more to innovate than it does to join.

"Heroes" have vastly greater impact on the imagination than they do on the GDP.

> You also use the hyperbolic phrase 'loners, outliers, and dropouts'

That was click's phrase, not mine.

> innovator, an inventor, an individual

None of those things are coextensive with anti-authoritarian/anti-establishment, which is what this thread is about. Most innovators and inventors are nonetheless perfectly happy to work within the established power structure and take orders when necessary. Picking a random example, Tim Breners-Lee. You think a guy who has spent his life in government-funded research and academia is in any way anti-authoritarian?
This seems like one of the many other sites out there like pinterest etc. What makes it different?
That was the first thing that came to mind as soon as I saw Intel's thing on security.nl. Then someone commented it even sent a request to the server with every check and I nearly fell out of my chair
I wonder if HN user thinkcomp (i.e. Aaron Greenspan) is willing/able to comment here. It would be interesting to know his motivations for doing this.
Because most people actually received a game at the end.
Did you mean to qualify your first statement by saying "electric car"?
What really bugs me about Mars how much of a political opportunity it is for a president to reverse the economic and scientific atrophy that plauges the US.

The president that will get credit for landing a man on Mars is the president 20 years later, not the president that initiates the program in the first place.

If you were to ask any person what they thought US's most notable achievement was - it's not unlikely they'll mention the moon landing. The moon landing was such a milestone, such a landmark achievement - it sent nationalism through the roof. That kind of pride and fervor would be extremely over the next few years, not only in economic recovery, but in growth and expansion of tech related fields.

Other than at the height of the lunar landing program, most Americans think it's a waste.

The only difference between Kennedy's speech and the Mars speech would be that Kennedy's was used to win the cold war, and the mars speech would be used to fix internal economic strife.

I don't think the space program alone is going to fix our underlying maladies, but it will help.
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The straddle on May 10 announcement was something like 15%.. people were definitely expecting some movement.
is the idea that the defendants pursued unfair and illegal business practices, promoting their services, while a law abiding service got swept behind? anyone know what the precedent is for this sort of thing?
I want to hear about the economic viability of Mars colonization. I support colonization, but without some kind of economic interest it is going to be no more viable than our colonization of Antarctica-
When an email looks like it came from someone you know, and says something like:

"hey, check this out: http://blah.com "

and has their name at the bottom, it becomes very easy to make a mistake.
There is in the law the idea of trusteeship of personal property (the law of bailments). There is no such analogue for information.
"Fake it till you make it" as unfair competition? Interesting theory, but it seems like it would cause a lot of damage in the startup world.
No problem :) Because it is pronounced youneeversal :) Also, same reason you should write a hospital (or a hotel, they are aspirated, not silent) and not an hospital (or an hotel) no matter what people try to tell you!
This group of people knowingly broke the law and profited from it. I chose to obey the law and forgo profits. I would like some profits, hopefully conveyed by legal means, to make me whole.
I have a friend who goes to i think 3 different doctors pretending to have various mental illness to get a variety of prescription pills he then sells with a huge markup.

ADHD --> adderall/vyvanse
anxiety --> ativan/xanax/etc
insomnia --> sleeping pills
I'm pretty sure all of those companies also take $'s for digital goods. Microsoft is the most famous for having a credit system, but you can still buy retail download games using $'s.

AFAIK, the only reason these companies would use a credit system is so that people need to buy credits in bulk, reducing the hit received from processing credit card transactions.
Same thing about the Washington Post article from earlier today. I'm not sure why it wasn't a direct link to the data with a headline of "Feds release huge hospital cost data base".

I don't know if there is a useful service to pull out of the data (other than analyzing it for journalists) since most people don't have much control over where they are hospitalized and if they do have control, they shop by doctor, not price. Insurance coverage means that I have no skin in the game when it comes to price (unless the insurance company puts a hospital on the out of network list).
I think it's reasonable to assume, by this point, that anything he does should fall under the rubrik of

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/christ-what-an-asshole

Except, unfortunately, without notably increasing the humor value, so far.
Things like Google results that go through a redirector for click tracking.
Probably legal reasons why he won't. Most companies make it a policy not to comment on ongoing litigation. Usually nothing good comes of it. Although there are exceptions...
I think most larger companies use non-money credit systems because it gets more lock-in and is slightly harder for many people to parse how much they are truly spending.
In the future, I suspect we'll see aftermarket outfitters touting externally facing audio equipment to imitate the sounds produced by high-powered combustion engines.

I also suspect the majority of them will be sold to teenagers with fairly under-powered vehicles ;)
I fully agree. But only because an American colony on Mars would be aesthetically preferable to a SpaceX corporate colony on Mars, where colonists'd predictably work fifteen year sentences as indentured servant miners to pay off their voyage.

I prefer that we look at those colonies as societies of their own, not an extension of some country into outer space. Otherwise, the inevitable will happen, and we will have an ugly civil war 200 years into the future. It's better that we look at this as an altruistic enterprise that will eventually yield a shitload of benefit to mankind 200 years down the road.
Amazon Japan works well and is quite popular there, at least in Tokyo.
If you've been in Silicon Valley for the past 6 months, this was obviously going to happen -- virtually everyone I know who could afford virtually any production supercar, and cares about cars, has or wants a Tesla. Not an R8, not a GTR, not a California, not a Panamera, not an M3, but a Tesla. As they ramp up their production (I think it's down to a few months wait),

The only rich people (who own cars) not getting Teslas seem to be either totally non-car people (or just cheap on capital costs vs. cost-efficient on total costs), or those who live in the City without a garage parking spot. Solving the Tesla street parking charging issue would be the next big win -- you could probably get away with 480v supercharging at work for 2-6h/day and street parking at home, although weekends might be tough.
Yeah but that's true of most things that're not obfuscated. I used to use the Amiga Action Replay on my Amiga to alter memory on the fly in games like that.
I imagine a large difference is the number of patients with health insurance - if Arkansas has significantly more uninsured, then they need to recoup costs on them. If California has enough insured patients, then their "cost" is a figure they expect insurance to bargain down from.
Interestingly enough, Stripe and WePay are not named while Balanced and Square are. Can anyone comment on why?
Joe schmoe doesn't really care. What this speech would target is people who were borderline between a STEM field and something like law or finance. There's a lot of brain muscle that's on the fence on whether they should choose STEM or choose a field that will make a lot more dosh. If STEM could be evangelized through a Mars program, I'm certain that there would be a lot more minds heading off into STEM.

Not to mention, national pride has plenty of interesting side effects; people are more willing to invest in guv bonds, less unrest, everyone doesn't jump down the president's throat when he makes a mispronunciation, etc.
Maybe Abby is Abby Beck, Designer Extraordinaire who makes user friendly products - http://founderdating.com/about/who-we-are-2/

On various meetup pages, Abby also describes herself as a designer.

I am sorry now I signed up to unlock my city.
Wait, did did The Onion actually get hacked? I just assumed that was a joke. Now I'm confused...
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It's not a zero sum game. People fund what they personally see value in.
Wow, yeah, I was very confused until I read this comment. Guess that's what I get for paying too much attention to the comments before reading the article.
My first thought was why Alan Greenspan would do this and what his incentive would be.