skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Would you file a HIPAA complaint against a new competitor?
If a new competitor launched that facilitates the violation of HIPAA (shares protected health information with a clinical team via email), would you file a complaint through the official channels? What if your motivation was purely commercial?

Fines for violating HIPAA are crippling - I just want them to compete on an even playing field.
At least when I test the code it's not like half of it is gone afterwards like all the cake dough.. and everyone else crowding in to test it too. Cake dough requires rigorous testing, it does.
Continuous Delivery - Part 3 - Feature Toggles
Yahoo going after Hulu's subscription revenue
I think the politicians here are just trolling for campaign cash and other favors in kind. When Google greases the right palms the spotlight will shift elsewhere.
Infrastructure as Code - ABUG Session
If your grandmother only uses Safari... why not buy her a Chromebook instead?

More and more general consumers are using their computers as internet terminals. A Mac or any fully-fledged desktop machine is overkill for that, and the Chrome OS interface is very, VERY usable for a grandmother. My grandma picked it up with little difficulty, and learned how to use an iPad without any assistance either. She's now downloading applications, buying music, and emailing plus surfing the Net on it.

A 13" MacBook Air just doesn't seem like the right option, especially considering it's $1199 when a Chromebook is less than a quarter of that ($249).
Theft is taking something away from someone. Since EmailOnAcid didn't take OP's "possession" of the original template, therefore no theft has taken place.

What has allegedly happened is that a copy was made without permission. A violation of copyright law, much different than actual theft.
Proper occupation can be and has been done many times in history, but it takes a force at least somewhat proportional to the population; which the west doesn't really want to afford.

Controlling a territory has been done many times with a very small force. The key is set up a hierarchy and have locals do the door-to-door ground work. Flying in the imperial marines to patrol every village street in backcountry Afghanistan is completely insane.

Historically, the way to control a territory is as follows: you go to each region and you find the local strongman with the best combination of reliability and strength available. You say: "We will support your control of this region, if you provide security and support our imperial policies [those policies could be anything, depending on the desires of the imperialist. It could be providing natural resources, converting people to a certain religion or even spreading woman's rights]. If you support our policies, you will otherwise have freedom to rule according to local custom. We will provide you money and resources. If you fail to support our policies, we will violently remove you."

Under such a policy, you do not need hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers patrolling the lands, you just need enough soldiers to remove any local warlords that get out of line.

This raises the question: why hasn't the U.S. done the above? My theory is that the U.S. leadership are actually True Believers in democracy. The above method of rule makes it impossible to spread democracy, because the occupying power must choose the strongman - the locals cannot choose the leader via elections. Since the U.S. wishes to spread democracy, it cannot use this method of rule. Furthermore, such overt imperialism contradicts the U.S.'s founding myth as being born out of resistance to imperialism. Few states can overtly contradict their founding myths. So instead, the U.S. has chosen to maintain security with its own forces, so that the locals can have elections and choose local leaders, as part of a transition to democracy.
:/ https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tesla.im

I thought this looked familiar. Seems like the third time you're just linking to the homepage. Why not share something you've learned rather than just re-posting this?
Tesla? I love Nikola Tesla too, but nowadays that name is also Elon Musk's company, and it's getting a lot of press, so you'll have a hard time with SEO.
Ouya and "Early adopters as beta tester"
I meant in humans.
What else are you building with this engine? Did you build the Tesla engine yourself? How did you build it (i.e. what languages) etc?

Pretty cool. I'm not inclined to sign up now since I'm worried that you will abandon the service within X days/weeks/months, but I bookmarked it :)
And no guaranteed health care. Makes for a "wonderful mess" where if one person gets sick, it wipes out the workplace, because they cannot afford to not be on the job.

But hey they are trying to bring back indentured servitude so these are the least of the average person's worries.
Alright, you really are just trolling, got it.

So unless you are setting up multiple subsidiaries in tax havens and funnel the money around in a way that lets you narrowly avoid the laws that otherwise quite clearly determine what your fair share to society is, there is no way to have a proper business and in the end, the children get hurt and poor little Rebecca can't afford to pay for lunch at school and everybody points fingers at her. Boo, boo, haa, haa, money, money. Understood.

This kind of strawman argument really used to make me sick, but these days, I'm mostly bummed out about how I've become so used to seeing it.
At first glance it looks very nice and professional, inspired me to dig further.

You have a lot of competition: Flowdock[0], Hipchat, Basecamp, IRC, even Skype. What sets you apart from them?

I like the look and feel, it's different but still clean and simple.

I don't like that returning to the site takes me back into my room. Especially for a new product. I want to go back to your home page and read up more about the product.

Do you have threaded conversations? I'm mostly experienced with Flowdock, and their threaded conversations feature does work but it's a bit awkward. I think really solving this problem would let someone excel above the others.

[0] I work for the company that bought Flowdock.
Airbnb is legal. It's their users who may be breaking the law. Like Craigslist and users who aren't paying use taxes on the stuff they buy.
Android Native Development Kit Cookbook | Book Zone
awesome it would be more cool if you give embed option , so we can chat it from everywhere . anyway, nice start
Privacy breach: Xbox One a 'twisted nightmare'
Well, then sell the Air and get her a Chromebook! $329 for the HP model, and it comes with a lower-res screen (no blurriness) and a very, VERY easy-to-use interface.

$1199 for a Web terminal is just way, way too much.
The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation.

You can guarantee it yourself when you accept a position somewhere. But once again we have leftists in the media assuming that everybody is completely incompetent without the government intervening in every aspect of society. You can just see those so-called journalists over at the Washington Post looking at the "social democracies" like a starry-eyed school girl.
Google homepage has always been good.. You are immediately drawn to a big box in which to enter text.

The problem with guys site is it isn't optimised for getting purchases. Too much is going on. The user isn't guided through the software or pushed to take a trial or purchase. Instead the visitor is hit by everything at once, doesn't know where to look and is somewhat overwhelmed by stuff.

You don't need to be a graphics designer to make a successful site. Good content and a clear call to action is the important thing. Beautiful design on top is just gravy.
And when you are lucky enough to get paid vacation, it is usually 1 - 2 weeks less than the norm for many european countries.
I think you're misunderstanding me. It's my claim that any sufficiently profitable colony sufficiently far away from its mother country will inevitably cease to be a part of said mother country. The how is irrelevant.
My point was that such trust is misplaced and baseless. Since the distributors of the original DRMed media don't trust the average person (thus the DRM), there is no reason to trust them in return (and even are reasons not to trust). Though most people just don't realize it.
Or something that happens by accident. I fully agree with you that it's probable that the HTML was copied, but it was substantially altered in any case. And I must admit that that's a crime that I'm guilty of as well and I doubt that there's any web developer out there that never did something alike, just as there is no designer out there that never copied an arrow-icon.

My point is that the whole article smells of "we wanted to be insulted", name calling and call to action included. Writing a blog article to call out copying is the nuclear option, setting up a blog and writing a single article, just to play the nuclear option is just not warranted over such a minor case.
Is there a future for Google?
the site looks severely broken on FF 23 OSX 10.8, http://i.imgur.com/ivd6bYK.png?1
Another reason to not miss a day on the job: half of your income is confiscated by your government for the "social good" + massive regulations prevent a lot of people from getting work, so it's much harder to change employer or start a business than would otherwise.

And of course, 80 bln dollars printed per month raise prices making every USD holder poorer everyday.

Definitely, we need more welfare mess on top of it.
Yeah that darn minimum wage and pesky anti-slavery laws. Who the heck does the government think it is anyway. And why do responsible drivers need traffic lights.
Following up the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773831.

I posted something a while back with a crazy idea for Google - charge me $5/month for Search and remove all ads/your products unless I opt-in.
Yeah, during my stint at NASA I was looked at funny because I said "I am going home for Christmas as per tradition, and I will be back on January 7th" whereas they wanted me to be back on the 30th. According to that logic I'd have spent almost more time on airplanes than being home.
Types.js: Faster Type Checking with JavaScript
> Here's a real case study; a mother, two children under six years old, mid-twenties, high school dropout, only has a bus pass and foodstamps.

This is just as disingenuous as the parent and isn't even close to representing the most common situation. The majority of people don't live next to a market that has proper fresh produce, but demand drives supply and there's a reason they don't.

Most upper and middle class families have largely abandoned the concept of fresh produce. When the poor become not so poor, they follow the same pattern. Not because they don't have a choice, but because they choose to.

My parents live a very affluent area. Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Pathmark (large local grocer), Mitsuwa (large Japanese market). Four choices within 1 square mile. All walkable. Not a single one of them has any significant fresh food selection. Not one. Oh, they have a ton of prepared food that you can buy by the pound, but not a whole lot if you want to make it yourself.

I live in a less affluent area (putting it mildly) and there is a farmer's market 5 minutes walking distance from my house that has only fresh produce, absolutely no prepared food. It has more fresh produce than all the the other 4 combined. Why? Because the people who live here can't afford prepared food. It's that simple. They would, if they could.
30-second overview leaves me with 1 question: Why would I use this? Sure, you tell me that it's awesome and geeky under the hood, but what exactly is the value proposition to make me want to use it?

I think it would make sense if tesla.im had a single, very clear selling point that elevates it above other chat things. For instance, can you make me feel very VERY confident in the confidentiality/privacy aspects of your product? Since Google just dropped XMPP, you could pick that up as a value proposition as well.

"Realtime" isn't valuable to me if everything already feels realtime - it just sounds like a buzzword (even though it's not). This may be valuable to people who don't know anything about IRC or Google Chat already, but it feels a lot more like reinventing the wheel that already works pretty well with different technology.

Some general comments:
The design is decently executed, but there are some points that could use some work. Specifically, there's a lack of imagery that leaves it feeling a bit cold. The copy sounds a little unpolished in places.

If you'd like a further/more in-depth review, you can reach me at jonathan[at]whiteboard.is
>German media report that each drone will cost about 60,000 euros and fly almost silently
German police should look through kickstarter. This whole thing should not cost more than 10,000 even with IR video equipment added. Looks like some company is going to make a healthy profit
FYI here's the original report: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/no-vacation-updat...
IF you are trying to change the world with your App..go Android, you'll reach more people. If you just need to make some side income definitely go with IOS.

If you want to change the world AND make money...I'll be rooting for you, let me know when you make it, and how.
Makes for a "wonderful mess" where if one person gets sick, it wipes out the workplace, because they cannot afford to not be on the job

So is everybody that is getting sick and bringing it in the workplace got the plague?

But hey they are trying to bring back indentured servitude so these are the least of the average person's worries.

It sounds like you're another victim of indoctrination from somewhere.
Here's my logic:

1. Your "fair share to society" is determined by the law.

2. These companies are following the law to the "t"

3. If you don't like it then change the law.

It's that simple. Case closed.
I was going to say the same thing. Allow screen sharing for his user so that he can easily jump in and do updates or fix problems.

I'd also add in disabling all the function key buttons, especially Dashboard since the author was correct in assuming that any button/gesture that changes the screen you are looking at will only lead to mass confusion.

Oh, and lock the dock so that they can't easily move, remove, or add new things to the dock.
"Really the Islamic countries are about 500 years behind the history of Western Europe... Moving ahead 500 years is not easy.Net, Afghanistan is going to be an Islamic country, some version of an Islamic country, but still an Islamic country, likely run by a king, strong man, or cleric. Sorry 'bout that. We won't like such a 'culture': Some of the men use boys for sex."

Taliban-style regressive Islam is not 500 years old in Afghanistan, it is only a few decades old. Check out these pictures from Afghanistan in the 1960's:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/01/28/podlich-afgh...
So you're saying that the United States is right and every other developed country is wrong?

Morals aside, that seems like a bit of a stretch.
Increasing it may not help that much- don't we have a chronic problem of people not actually using their vacation?
They mention a single space on a single line. Which, in the "stolen" version has removed the width=100%. Their evidence is not very good, and could even point in the opposite direction. Notice the different layout at the bottom (two lines of text instead of one centered), yet they call it "identical". Notice the extra classes added in the stolen version.

As far as an extra space, it seems very plausible that whatever editing process resulted in a single extra space at the end of a line could have happened to two developers. I know in my own code, and I'm usually very careful, sometimes I end up with extra spaces that I only catch via diffs. If the "typo" had been something like "plu_s_icon", that'd be much stronger evidence.

The result is much like you'd expect for someone copying the design (i.e., looking at the template and saying "we can do that"). It's possible someone did copypaste it, then changed the HTML and CSS, but that isn't what they're claiming.
I appreciate that the example can be distasteful. However, I have looked into the astro-turfing dismissal argument as well.

Generally, astro-turfing (the use of a PR engine to create the appearance of grass roots support) is designed to get a candidate elected (or issue passed) that favors the money financing the campaign. We have seen a number of these in California and there has consistently been a strong correlation between benefit and later funding source analysis.

However, some really earnest but ineffective people were elected under the guise of the 'tea party'. Much to the disgust of the Republican Party power infrastructure (the speaker of the house cannot count on all of his own party's votes for that reason). Generally, power interests that are trying to manipulate the system don't throw random people into the mix like that.

My conclusion after looking at the folks who were elected that way is that a large number of them, perhaps the majority of them, were elected by people fed up with the system and not an interested third party.

But lets set that aside for a moment. Lets say you and your friends can get elected to city government. If your city runs well, and you don't put up with the baloney that sometimes passes as politics these days, you can parley that into county government. And that into state government. Assuming that you are good enough to learn the skills you need to make that trip. It can take you 6 - 10 years to go from city supervisor to state representative. Once enough people around you know who you are, you can chose to focus on local elections or national ones.

The starting point though is that in order for this to work someone with the idea of doing public service to serve the public and not their own interests has to step forward. Waiting for someone else to step forward has never been a good idea, either seeking out people and supporting their efforts or putting your hat in yourself are the workable choices.
Ah so what you are saying is that if there is no victim and it's not stealing then it's ok?
It's a factual claim. Whether you think of it as a positive or negative is entirely up to you.
Why We Need to Fight for Tesla
Turkey is a secular state. While the population is muslim, the state has historically resisted attempts at islamification. That resistance is being eroded, however.

Off-topic: You seem to be using the word "net" a lot in a way that seems odd to me. Net as in "the net effect of which is"?
As a front end developer doing a lot of UI work in AngularJS, where does Haxe fit for me?
Who made slavery legal to begin with? And your typical leftist tactic of acting like we're calling for anarchy is boring
If you decide to go the PHP route: http://www.phptherightway.com
New features: http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features
its built with node.js, redis, firebase and elastic-search (still not in place).

Thanks for the bookmark. I understand your concern. But based on how things are now, we'll be here for some time :)
Google doesn't sell searches, it sells advertising. They do much of that sales process for UK advertisers (effectively all of it according to one whistle-blower) in the UK, and 'close' them (and declare them) in Ireland.

Nobody is suggesting double taxation, but google does a substantial amount of (profitable) business in the UK, and (at least morally) that portion should be taxed in the UK.
And you're saying that there is a right answer?
Half? If anything is half, it's half the budget is going towards war and military welfare.
I think what worries me the most is reading between the lines. As in, "we've already been doing this, it should work, please make it legal." Would be interesting if the bill had retroactive legalese.

Additionally, can consumers claim DMCA violations?
Why wouldn't updating the website make a dent again? Landing page optimization is a huge forcus for any online commerce company because updating a website (design, content, flow) does make a dent.
Saying stuff is hard is easy, and as far as I can tell, very correct about cryptography.

More useful would be actual suggestions to enable average developers to do more things with some degree of confidence. In other words, libraries, recipes and other documentation, and so on.

"Hire an expensive security guy" is probably not a feasible solution for many small startups, nor very scalable in any case.

Also, out of curiosity, in his timing attack example, the difference in time caused by the string being equal seems like it'd get absolutely swallowed up by the random nature of the universe - do those things actually work in the real world, on real servers with varying loads and numbers of users and network traffic?
In my experience with my own grandmother, gesture driven interfaces are significantly harder for older people to learn. Think about safari where you have double tap to zoom in. My grandmother does a bit of a hesitant tap when I give her my iPad to play games which sometimes leads to an accidental double tap. It would be disorienting to have it zoom in to a random spot.
> "Another reason to not miss a day on the job: half of your income is confiscated by your government for the "social good""

Taxation is not spread evenly. The portion of the population most at-risk (i.e., lowest levels of health insurance, lowest levels of paid leave, etc) pay little to no taxes. Tax rates only become high in populations that can afford to take a day off (i.e., good health insurance coverage, paid sick days, etc).

So no, the people who are afraid of missing a day of work do not have "half their income" confiscated by the government.

In fact, I'd be interested in seeing anyone in the US who pays an income tax rate of 50%. This seems like an interesting feat, considering the highest marginal rate is 40%.
EU pledges 5 bln euros funding for electronics research
Thanks Jonathan. I have your email in my contacts list now.
When he is saying

>Save yourself the trouble. Don't use cryptography. It is plutonium. There are millions of ways to mess it up and precious few ways of getting it right.

I am sure he means don't use your own homegrown cryptography solution. Use something established and well tested. Good advice, probably can't be repeated enough. I liked the exampled he gives, I didnt know for example that you can basically extend an MD5ed string and keep the original MD5 value. Then again, I know that MD5 isn't a secure cryptographic hash function so I wouldn't have used it from the start. Nice to know why thats the case.
"German railways to test anti-graffiti drones"

Yes, take every bit of freedom and artistic expression in the urban environment -- just because there's technology to enable it.

When there'll be technology to enable having people zapped if they do or think anything those in power don't like, they'll employ it too.
I'd say get something up on your own gh-pages (http://pages.github.com/) using Jekyll. It may be difficult to garner readership at first, but if you have an abundance of material and you own the copyright to it, why not put it up somewhere and then take paid writing gigs when they come along?

The Tuts+ folks are quite good about bringing in outside authors (they've long been blacklisted here on HN for some reason, even though folks like Rey Bango write over there), but I'd check that out as well.
Interesting, does China have mandatory paid vacations and holidays?
The Falklands are British. The British forces did not "take and hold ground", the repelled an invasion force.

Desert Storm: The US did not hold any ground for a long period of time. They defeated the Iraqi forces and withdrew.