skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i would say true, majority of hospital environments are unaware of what the devices are running.
disclosure I am a Solution Architect for a PACS Vendor for 15 years, knows the ins and out of hospital equipment and networks/systems at many of the largest hospitals in USA and some international.

malware infections in hospitals has risen and definitely more targeted to harvest patient data or take down the system. never heard of a device like they mentioned getting hacked like an insulin pump in the "field"

the better systems are already locked down and are treated with limited access, following HIPAA, ISO, FDA compliances.
IT/networking monitor the equipment as any other equipment.

then again many old modalities (ct/xray scanners) are running old versions of windows NT or 2000 or XP that have never been patched with MS updates nor have they ever had any AV installed.

and sometimes you need to import data from small facilities, these have potential to be malware infected. this data is usually imported directly into the system, so if precautions arent already setup on that system then you just infected your system
Hold up. Are you actually claiming that mainstream news sources are the reason why HN front-pages every little detail about Snowden's whereabouts?
> ...there's no "model" layer to work with

There's certainly not an Active Record -esque ORM for Go, but that doesn't prevent you from writing a very simple model layer. Write a few structs to represent your models, and use database/sql (or another DB interface) to unmarshal your response into the struct as needed.

i.e.

type User struct {
Id int
Email string
OAuthId string
Created time.Time
Active bool
}

user := &User{}

err := r.Table("heroes").Get(user_id).Run(session).One(&user)

fmt.Printf("%s", user.Email)

Obviously the example above is very minimal, but you can see how straightforward it is to describe "models" and query against them.

I'm finding that the code to do this is no more verbose (if at all) than writing out my models.py in Django.
It's good to see human capital being utilized, even if it is ont he cheap.

Chillingly spoken like a true, cold-blooded functionary. Are humans mere "capital"? Is their worth decided by being "utilized"? Is that what the meaning of our existence is reduced to? Perhaps our robotic overlords will agree that such a determination fits each and all of us. Tarpaper shacks, dirty water, food scraps and, every now and then, a glance at the Sun when the heat and clouds of pollution part for a short moment.

Either that or our future could be much less deterministic and free-form through the elimination of such de-liberate prognoses. One way or another that viewpoint of humanity is doomed to extinction. I'll keep my fork packed, friend.
What you said is sadly true for many subreddits. I can offer up /r/askhistorians as a counter-example though: a very well moderated subreddit with excellent historical discussions.
So either the NSA wanted a backdoor, in which case we learn that even the NSA can't build a backdoor that academic cryptographers can't detect.

Or, much more likely I think, it was just a project that some NSA employees had sitting around and they wanted to get something out of it. In that case we learn that the NSA isn't so far ahead of academic cryptographers that their designs will always be better.

Either way I don't find this as scary a story as Schneier does.
Saw YAF there too, also written as a PHP extension:

http://www.yafdev.com/

At 40% overhead ratio, between phalcon at 50% and phalcon at 20%.
The federal government does still utilize the death penalty, but it's very rare these days. Only three times since 1963, whereas Texas has executed 500 people since 1982.
Adding to this, we are questioning the basement temperature in an urban environment. A city like Boston or New York has electrical and steam pipes under every street, surrounding these basements with a constant heat source.
My memory of the Stockholm Subway is that the air is cool. The Stockholm subway is built in more natural-style caves so maybe there's something to the concrete theory http://www.visitstockholm.com/ContentStoreFiles/Entity/1158/...
| People aren't thrown into prison for
| protesting the government.

Depends on what you are protesting. Look at the police response to the Occupy protests. Talk to anyone that's worked in the animal rights movement. Sure you don't get thrown in jail for 'protesting the government' directly, but you'll get things like selective enforcement of laws brought against you because you've stuck your head out.
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I second that. You just can't get the same quality level of comments that you can at HN, and I'm often shocked and horrified at what's going on there...Not to mention the whole /r/creepshots thing. I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan...
Also, this idea that we don't have to worry about stuff because the market with help us adjust is idealistic wishful thinking at best.
Err, so I found myself asking what exactly is this Albert Einstein institute, that goes around translating things to such languages as Kachin (that's the Burma (Jing-paw) mentioned)?

The most translated item is From Dictatorship to Democracy, a book by Gene Sharp. Who is Gene Sharp? On the face of it, someone who following their youth as a conscientious objector made a career out of the academic study of nonviolence, with some strong help getting started when Albert Einstein agreed to write the forward to his first book (way back in 1960), a 316 page book with a paucity of visible reviews entitled Gandhi wields the weapon of moral power; three case histories. After that a career in academia, lots of writing, and - well - the founding of the Albert Einstein Institute (whose primary author appears to be himself, and whose primary output appears to be From Dictatorship to Democracy, the book translated in to most of the aforementioned languages). An interesting situation.

I looked at the book but found it pretty dubious as a sort of distant, light touch, waffling approach to someone else's vigilance, hard work, and disciplined struggle, often at great cost... strung in to a simple, bite-size, easily digestible, ten-part recipe. Its main references are other works by the same author. Sorry, not convinced.
In those instances, you might spend a few hours or the night in a jail cell, that's true. It's a bit different than what they do in Venezuela, or say, Egypt.
It really depends on what you're looking for. Subreddits are communities, not TV channels. I could give you my top 10 but you might them all inane. I think one of the fundamental problems with is the on boarding process. Without a lot of dedication and searching, you probably won't find subreddits that interest you.

I recommend starting with your local community. Try your former college and the city you live in.
Can you post this path ?
The heat is substantial, although it may not be enough to explain it here. My own personal garage, at least, has an elevated temperature for many hours after I park. You have a ~400 pound block of steel heated up enough to boil water, that's going to contain quite a lot of heat.
Plutonium is manufactured in a reactor, not processed from ore. The dominant source for plutonium for deep space missions was the US government, and they dominant reason for producing it was bombs.

However, the US govt. doesn't need to produce bombs anymore - they've done enough work to know how to extend the life of the bombs they do have, as well as how to go about reprocessing the plutonium in warheads that are too old into new ones (I think). They are reducing the number of warheads in service, so the US has shut down domestic production.

The Russians seem to have caught up to the US in the warhead lifespan tech and they seem to have shut down their breeders too?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238
It's interesting how the Reddit hivemind tries to reconcile images and low-quality content.

Case in point, /r/atheism recently banned direct links to images, requiring users to put links to them in self posts instead (where they would earn no link Karma). A mass exodus ensued due to these "two-click memes" to /r/atheismrebooted. Which subsequently imploded due to low-quality content and bad moderation.

Reddit drama is actually quite revealing.
More about YAF from a kohana framework forum thread:

- - -

The author Laurence is a member of PHP development team.

The manual is in

http://yaf.laruence.com/manual/index.html,

the workflow of the framework is in

http://yaf.laruence.com/manual/yaf.sequence.html

the benchmark is in

http://yaf.laruence.com/manual/yaf.bench.html#N20171 (yes, it's very fast).

The problem is the manual is written in Chinese, because Laurence is a Chinese programmer who worked in Yahoo and Baidu(the second biggest Search engine around the world).

- - -

And this from Laruence, YAF vs Phalcon:

http://www.laruence.com/2012/09/16/2791.html
NodeConf2013 Video
http://engineering.yp.com/post/nodeconf
I'll let physorg handle themselves on that. I am sure you know more about their content history here on HN then me. Either way, your "crap submission" comment was to me so I responded, as you no doubt would yourself to a similar attack. You will be seeing a lot more science from me on physorg, and elsewhere, since I just got started http://hewitt123.com/blog/?page_id=45 Blocking it hurts your community here a heck of lot more than than me, so chill out and tune in. Pharngula made a nice composition, did his post start this thread? If he was honest he would have said what I did, biology and genetics can't prove or disprove this right now, and that is among the reasons I raised it for intelligent discussion in the first place. Until we can watch, and sufficiently understand, chromosomal translocations, pairings, matching, splittings etc. during meiosis/recombination, criticism from ignorance best shut up and learn something. Professional scientists calling this guy an idiot, or pig, or saying, like pharygula, that this guys pants are probably full of semen, are those that you would be better served in blocking to improve this forum. Pharygula calls for an experimental cross between a human and swine, that's not even what was proposed here as an explanation of human origins.
The problem is that Reddit encourages low-quality content (/r/funny, /r/AdviceAnimals) because it generates more engagement (the picture bias). And as with many social networks, discovery is nonexistent.
_NSAKEY discovered two years before patriot act is passed? coincidence? i think not!!1

said another way, what relates the two events in the editorialized title? Just an end of the innocence type vibe? Trusting the sigint guys to design your crypto has always been a well acknowledged double edged sword.
The only way I see a flight being successful is to have it be a Russian airline that gets him there directly avoiding US airspace. Call me cynical, but I could see the US attempting what was done w/ Bolivia on any other smaller country...
I find it very hard to argue that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy (business records exceptions notwithstanding) in a public Twitter or Facebook feed. You could possibly allow for it in tightly restricted Twitter or Facebook feeds where a small number of users are allowed access, such as Close Friends in the case of Facebook.

Sometimes getting the public to accept a particular argument is not the hard part, it's laying out the alternatives factually in a way that shows the public how they contrast.

I find it very difficult to argue positions that take extremes of the type you laid out. I would also agree that vague notions are a waste of time.

Even with the revelations in 2004 and '05, it was clear that the focus of the program was traffic analysis by completely automated means, and we should have been willing to legislate the extent to which we will allow that activity in public laws in the public domain. The role of the FISC should be to allow for warrants in very uncommon cases of foreign espionage or international terrorism, not as a general mechanism to allow the presentation and consideration of secret evidence. And it doesn't end with that court, the state secret privilege has been used commonly and repeatedly (see the work of Steven Aftergood for more details) to quash cases that the government considers inconvenient, and the Congress has essentially wiped away the complicity of common carriers in violating their implied assurance of the privacy of voice communication. The President called, after these revelations, but nonetheless, for a renewed and expanded debate of these tradeoffs. Do we consider this over now that the broadcast and print media (of all political stripes) have left it alone? Have we now decided that the American people have accepted this as the new normal and moved on?

At every opportunity we conflate the mostly benign traffic analysis and ignore the very real threat (by those we call government) of a persistent and permanent archive of all of our most private conversations. These tools in the wrong hands would be devastating to any free people, placing so many of us in deadly danger of a government that may take our past words as proof of our treason. This is not theory, this is history. (The traffic analysis would also contribute to the ends of such a government, where guilt by association may be sufficient for punishment.)
You're right, that looks quite clean!

Still, C++ is not my particular cup of tea. That doesn't diminish my desire to see Wt and CppCMS added to our benchmark suite, though.
Don't bother. I quit reddit twice in 6 years due to its low quality. The only subreddit I still might read is /r/nosleep which is for horror/suspense stories. Even the quality there is going downhill fast after 1000vultures and bloodstains stopped posting.
Because even if a web framework had a multitude of security features, there's still so much a developer can do with the framework that would introduce unforeseen security gaps. This somewhat makes it a liability to advertise security. The first security breach of a system built with the framework would completely undermine one of the differentiating features of the framework.
>There is nothing wrong with admitting you do not understand something and asking for clarification

To be frank, that's not something I don't understand. It's just a resource constrained environment use case that anyone can understand. What I don't understand is how common those use cases are today given my home router runs with 32Mb RAM and can use PHP instead of C++, never mind the fact that it doesn't need a full fledged C++ Web Framework to begin with!
I don't think that application behavior would be a good source of entropy, since it is, at least in theory, predictable. The others are probably good, although you need to be sure to only use the least significant bits, and make sure that the sensor doesn't have some weird behavior which makes the least significant bits predictable somehow.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say that this isn't often done simply because computers didn't typically have a lot of sensors until recently, and now you're likely to have a good-quality dedicated hardware random number generator built in, e.g. Intel's RDRAND instruction.
I would think you'd get a bigger rat's nest with a distributed router, it just wouldn't be as apparent.
It's not a long book. Take a look. Download the PDF (~600KB) at http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf
I love the puns :)
I do like 1) and I agree with your final point. However, all the error handling code, etc is pretty brutal. I imagine someone will put a few scripting languages on top of it at some point.
I believe they use induction generators which do not use permanent magnets. I have not seen one, but that is the old school way of doing AC power.
Yeah but we're not facing down imminent extinction as Neanderthals. In this hypothetical situation, we are facing imminent extinction as humans. When it's happening to you it's kind of a big deal.
The NSA's efforts against Russia and China and other geopolitical enemies of the day are probably not much influenced by wholesale surveillance of American citizens. If the question is what the NSA as a whole is doing, the answer is, "a lot". I was concentrating on this one particular bit.

As far your IRA example, the US doesn't face anything like that, and shows no prospect of doing so. Even if it did, I'm not convinced that efforts like the NSA's would be very helpful in combating it, and given the example of the last 12 years, I'm quite sure that the US government's reactions as a whole would be far more damaging than the terrorism itself.
This sort of thing is used, e.g. [0].
It collects entropy at a limited rate, though, so for demanding applications (SSL servers, say) you want dedicated hardware: [1], [2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RdRand

[2]: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
Agreed.

I actually find the await/async model of C#/.NET 4.5 less hideous than the callback hell of Node.

That said, there is an attraction to tipping up a basic server in a dozen or so lines of code.
Yeah, the PDF is not well written. I can't even tell if it means worldwide, or just in the UK. But it is probably accurate to an order of magnitude or so.
Every time you do a Diffie-Hellman key exchange you need to generate a random number. Which includes any time you open an https connection.

A busy webserver does this much more often than it can easily generate entropy for. So you have to take shortcuts. That's where a pseudo-random number generator comes in.
You the man!
/r/askhistorians and /r/askscience are some of my favorite subreddits if only for the way that they emphasize level-headed discussion instead of just memes and overly-polarizing comments.

Just yesterday, /r/askhistorians had a question about Mother Theresa and it was one of the most level-headed discussions of her and her legacy I've ever seen. Especially since her death she's been almost the definition of a polarizing figure: people see her as either a saint or a sadist. They rarely acknowledge any middle ground.

Also, the hottest threads on those subreddits are almost always fresh things that you've never thought of before and it's very interesting to hear the answer from someone who studies the field in-depth (and provides sources!)
Making wealth by trusting people
Thanks for the answer. Their AI tech is quite amazing and with their 10M funding, they might be the next big thing since Siri.
The Mystery of the Intergalactic Radio Bursts
> I feel like it used to be a much higher standard, but is quickly becoming the new 4chan...

I joined Reddit seven years ago (http://www.reddit.com/user/adrian/) and I started finding it stupid and annoying approximately five years ago. Until this story got posted I can't even remember the last time I bothered logging in. It's terrible.
Jay-Z is a media star and therefore, he's going to say whatever is necessary to keep his fans around, until he doesn't want to be a media star anymore. However, he's also going to do what he needs to make money and if it's at odds with what he says, well, most of his fans won't even notice.

It's not that they're stupid, nor is he. He wants to make money and stay in the spotlight, his fans want music and fun, not a lot of deep political thought for which they don't even have the background.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3hmz55qthbg0o7/83Dri-_zQH

I doubt it's the shortest possible. I bypassed the Lesser Antilles rather than ensure I was in international airspace trying to go between them.
SpaceX Grasshopper 325m Test
Ventilation is a major factor, at least on hot days.

How does the outside air temperature affect the temperature of underground parking lots? Are they as hot or less hot during the winter?

CO is deadly; air must be recycled very quickly. All else being equal, it seems like ventilation would bring the facility to outside ambient temperature quickly.

http://www.mobilecalibrationservices.com/Ventilation_for_enc...

"For enclosed parking facilities, ANSI/
ASHRAE Standard 62-1989, Ventilation
for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality specifies
a fixed ventilation rate of below 7.62
L/s·m2 (1.5 cfm/ft2) of gross floor area.2
Therefore, a ventilation flow of about
11.25 air changes per hour is required for
garages with 2.5 m (8 ft) ceiling height.
However, some of the model code authorities
specify an air change rate of four
to six air changes per hour. ..."
Call it "framework throughput". Then explain that it is the portion of the raw performance of the nominal underlying platform that is available to serve pages.

In a footnote you can point out that frameworks can do things like offload work to specialized components to get throughput above 100% on your tests.
The THTR-300 ran into trouble because of operational difficulties with its unconventional pebble-bed design. In contrast, this is a very conventional reactor design. The difference is that the fuel is initially made of about 90% ThO2 and 10% PuO2.
Yes, I agree. But I'm interested in areas like machine learning, weak AI areas in which your computer can make smarter personal or business decisions for you, which might actually be helpful the largest possible group of people.
Where he ends up is very important to the goal of ending these programs. If a democratic country like Iceland or France were to take him it makes it much easier for a US Senator or Congressmen to agree that he is a whistleblower and not a traitor then if he's taken in by one of our so-called enemies. Getting some more Senators and Congressmen on his side would add tremendous energy to stoping these programs.
Reply to your edit: then just show negative overhead.
I understand your analogy to interesting TV channels but I do not think it applies to inane chatter. I might not enjoy cross stitching but I could still be impressed by the vibrant discussions about new sewing techniques and a lack of comments with nothing more than "This!" or "MOAR" or a link to an animated gif of a happy kitten and a ball of yarn. Being interested in a subject is not enough to keep me coming back if the SNR is low.

What are your favorite subreddits?
In aviation, we call that the "swiss cheese model". There are holes distributed within it, and accidents happen when all the holes are aligned.

The corollary is that you must fix the holes as soon as you find them, so they won't all align in your path. And you do find the problems before a disaster, but people don't like to fix things.
There are regular commercial flights between Moscow and Caracas.
Glad it's not just me. I never even really got into it back in the day, but at least I wasn't wary of it, and now it's just...wow. I made the mistake of checking out my local city's reddit IRC channel and was greeted "hey faggot lol" or something like that O_O
Depends on the math in question. I don’t really believe that the real numbers, for example, correspond to a physical phenomenon. They’re just a convenient tool we use to solve problems.
That's my exact thought. Instead of building "dumb" if-else web app, maybe we could build the next-gen of web apps enhanced with AI that might prove to disrupt incumbents. I just wanted to see some examples of some of them at work to get a rough feel of the state of this prospect.
/r/programming is good in that most of its links you've already seen on HN - there's less churn, and it's less ephemeral than HN. (Links persist at the top for days rather than less than 24 hours) Not better than HN, but if HN had a "best of the week", it'd closely mirror /r/programming.
vibe.d - Asynchronous I/O and Web Framework in D
Samsung doesn't need all of this data because it already has it. Looks like Jay-Z's people pushed this as a term in the giveaway to get more value out of the deal. i.e. marketing to 1 million fans.

That said, there's nothing really nefarious here. Users accept a standard dialogue to access the app that exchanges their data and contact info for music. Making someone tweet for lyrics is kind of lame but it's still the user's choice to do so.