skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an incredibly important issue.

The fear that one will be sued and possibly lose their license is one that factors into the way many physicians practice, and at the end of the day, the patient's suffer both financially and physically.

For example, appendicitis is largely a clinical diagnosis, meaning that a diagnosis can be made solely on the patient's presenting symptoms and lab values, and subsequently rushed to the OR for surgery. A CT scan is not necessary, and should be used if the patient's presentation is not a typical one. However, at many hospitals, CT scans are performed as part of the routine work-up. CT scans can cost $1500 a pop, and the radiation received from one is at least 10 times the dose you'd get from an x-ray, which increases your risk for cancer.

In 2007, there were 68 million CT scans performed. We perform 5 scans for every 1 in France [1]. We perform the most MRI scans, which range anywhere from $2k to $5k [2][3]. Do you think we're on the whole healthier than those in France? I would hazard a guess and say that we aren't. In fact, with the amount of radiation we're giving our patients, we're likely hurting them quite a bit. Japan, our rivals for the gold medal in imaging volume, recently conducted a study that showed that 3.2 percent of cancer cases were caused by imaging radiation [4].

And I'm talking about just one largely unnecessary test performed to diagnose one condition. You can imagine the bigger, sadder picture.

Many, many physicians don't even think twice about the amount of radiation they're giving to their patients, or how much they're costing the system, or the incentives they're giving companies who are a part of this chain of inflation to continue to sell scanners and charge exorbitant amounts. They order the tests because they don't want a lawsuit at the expense of patients' health and pockets. I don't necessarily blame them. Out of the thousands of patients a doctor sees, all it takes is one minor slip-up to drag them into a legal battle that may very well tarnish their record, cost millions of dollars, and result in losing their license.

[1] http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2009-en/04/...

[2] http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/health_glance-2009-en/04/...

[3] http://www.newchoicehealth.com/MRI-Cost

[4] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/6035.php
If anyone wants to test this with me, you'll find my contact details in my HN profile and on https://grepular.com/

Both of which contain my PGP details. So by sending my your handshake message encrypted with my key, I'll reply with my handshake message encrypted with your key, then we can test.
When I make bread at home, I put sugar in it to help the yeast grow.
Problem - device monitors your activity while being worn.

Solution - take it off.
This is the beginning of the plot of the movie Strange Days. Essentially the ability to record the thoughts of people during extremely intimate periods of their lives. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ It only took us 18 years to get to that point.
>That Twitter would hand over your identifying information because they don't like the contents of your tweets?

Twitter refused to hand over the data until the French court forced them to.

>The idea that governments can prohibit the written expression of thoughts and ideas?

I have no problem with governments prohibiting hate speech. I have never felt suppressed by these laws because I have never felt the need to express hate speech online or offline.

> "But others who have just as much rights as you and do want to send out distasteful tweets DO feel suppressed."

Good. The majority of people in my country agree that living in a respectful society is more important than having the freedom to say things that you wouldn't want to say. You can find that overly restrictive but then so are traffic lights, queues at the supermarket, clothing, and doors.

>Or was it the distasteful tweets of some bigots (or perhaps more likely, just unfunny and immature people) about the jews?

That's just being willfully ignorant.
> It does, however, form a structure which when evacuated of air has a lower average density than air.

Yet apparently it collapses at that point. Unless that's solved we might as well be talking about birthday balloons here.
Lastpass does encryption client side. The difference is that would require an active attack (pushing new code in an update) with a chance of being spotted by a reverse engineering attempt.
Ah, I see. Yes, X-for-Android makes more sense in that context.
Alex Petralia specified he was prohibited by PayPal’s privacy policy from divulging information on accounts

I love how the companies use the "privacy policies" as excuses to not answer question even when the question is asked from the media on behalf of the person asking.

Do they think we are idiots?
The first thing that crossed my mind when I read this is that it would be a huge and tragic disaster if that person would get hit by a car. It just doesn't seem safe enough.
All my 'needs' are met so here are some wants. Rendering pdfs was solved long ago, so I'm not sure what distinction you see between Mendeley and 'the reader itself'. It's been a while since I used Mendeley, but it wasn't perfect.

References would be best done a la Wikipedia, hover to see details, click to follow [the coup de grace here would be taking the pdf footnote text, extract a URL/search query, attempt to download a pdf, auto-parse it, file it, open it, browse back and forward like a browser, maintaining scroll position].

A scroll marker that helps you keep position, a la Readability. Better integration w/ file managers would be good, but replacing features is okay. Managing pdfs is a more specific workflow than managing 'files': a tree-explorer to see all pdfs in which folders (no other files), a tree of recently viewed items (+ nesting for reference-hopping, etc). All the auto-parsing magic (Title, Author..) is great but I would not reinvent it.
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If you use forward secrecy, you shouldn't have any key to give, right? DDG recently announced support for forward secrecy.
PayPal's model was "signup get $10 oh and for everyone you refer we'll give them $10 and you $10". Which is all well and good when you've got venture financing and a land grab market, but we aren't in that market and we don't have that financing.

If I could pay $20 and be 100% sure I'd get a new customer, hell, if I could pay $500, I'd do it every time. You can find marketing channels like that, but finding the repeatable marketing channels of that nature is the gold mine hunting of marketing. When you find the repeatable channels, your viral channels, that's when your pour on the gas.

Hope that helps :).
So all samples of unknown languages are alien?
There's a mob of religious (and some non-religious) activists waiting around for any excuse to raise hell as soon as one of these companies makes any attempt to legitimize porn.
Aerographite is NOT lighter than air. What they mean is that a vacuum-filled cubic cm of aerographite is lighter than a cubic cm of air.

A piece of that material will NOT float up on its own, because it's heavier than air.
This must be the first time their team has done any professional work. You don't just shutdown your site in the middle of a craze, you see what happened to mtgox. These guys are way over their heads.
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I wonder if that means people the US considers fugitives. As he is regarded by most of the world as an asylum seeker Cuba might decide they can let him in and they are still honouring that agreement.
> I think that a common misconception of the current discussions is that people still expect NSA to obey some kind of law.

I realize that, and I know many things they are doing are extra-constitutional, and even extra-legal. But that was precisely my point. How can the companies just stand to being bullied by law enforcement like that just because "they say so", especially when they think that what they're asking them is at least unconstitutional.

And I know there's a difference between how easy this is in theory, and how easy it is in practice, but come on - what are they going to do? Put Ballmer or Larry Page in prison for not obeying them? The companies would have the best 100 lawyers in the world fighting for them.

It just pisses me off that some companies seem to cooperate way too easily with the mass spying, either because they find no problem with it themselves, or they're just too scared to try anything, even as big corporations.
maybe drivers? I had lot of problems with 4 screens and proprietary AMD drivers. Open source drivers solved all problems.
How about the article writer test this before writing? Do DDG-searches about:

- A violent political/religious subgroup.
- Politician XXXX's opinions about said group
- The future travel to your locality of XXXX
- How to build bombs with YYYY.

Just make certain to wear a bullet proof jacket while reading... :-)

But seriously:

Sure, the NSA probably index searches on DDG. Of course. It is fully possible DDG isn't aware of it, too. It is too obvious to be at the top of HN.

I might have followed the subject too shallowly, but it really surprises me that I haven't seen the responsible politicians talk about the real problem here.

You can make a good argument that pervasive monitoring is a good thing in the short perspective (which the supporters do), but over a longer time?

After a long time of military or economic problems you get paranoid tendencies (see McCarthy, Putin, 9/11). I have no idea how likely a 1984 scenario (or a present day Russia!) is -- and neither do anyone else.

The people responsible should have answers to these questions before making the decisions. And now they should discuss that. (Or doesn't a risk exist if it can happen after they are out of office? Or do they really think there will never be any political/economic bad times again?)
Basis has a heart rate monitor built in... that would give more information (not sure it could tell orgasm or not, unless there is some unique heart signature after orgasm...)
What do you mean by "their" two factor authentication keys? There are no "their" keys.

TOTP/HOTP is an open standard and Google Authenticator is an open source app. You can audit it, or write your own. It's not even that hard to implement.
A latter day Sinclair C5.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5
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Tree Style Tabs is cool! Have you got any other recommendations? Besides AdBlock+, NoScript, HTTPS Everywhere and Chatzilla?
I'd guess the majority of anti-porn activist are not religious in a traditional sense but feminists. But thats just what I think and I live in Europe.
The NSA collects everything that passes through US cables, both unencrypted and encrypted data. They usually don't decrypt most of the stuff themselves, because that would need too many resources, which is why they go to the big services companies and ask them for the keys.

And I wouldn't assume they only look into the data of the "criminals", but also for commercial espionage reasons.
The link is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.cryptography.ran...

You get to that by clicking on the subject in the bottom frame.
The article is completely missing the point. Of course the NSA can get information from DDG, the point is that there is not much information to be earned there in the first place, and the searches are not associated with your google account, let's say.
If you are using the .COM zone data (note this is different from the root data), then it is an incomplete list of all the TLDs that are registered. It is only a list of domains that have been delegated.
More illegal crypto T-Shirts: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html

This was one of my favorite shirts, but it finally gave up the ghost a few years ago.
That is true, I'll add a note about it
I have no idea what you do by looking at your website on
an ipad.
It's possible companies run an NSA module on their servers and let backdoor hacks happen based on an understanding the NSA will get pissed if they investigate.

This provides full PRISM access and allows for deniability of direct access.

Oh what's that? There is an NSA module most big companies run on their servers? Right, it's called SE Linux. The question that remains how do you build a backdoor that cannot easily be spotted in the source code. Maybe a weakness in a random number generator used for encryption. Oh what's that? The NSA does that too?

On Backdoor in encryption standard:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...

On SE Linux:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-03/security-enh...
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That's an argument from ignorance fallacy.

"I can't imagine how that (potential) backdoor can be abused, therefore it doesn't exist".

Random generators controlled by a third party are ABSOLUTELY a problem for any crypto system based on them.

Your (b) argument is even more ridiculous, considering the NSA events that just unfolded.

Your (c) argument makes zero sense, considering it got detected.
I'm an atheist and I still think porn may be a valueless, happiness destroying exploitation of the way the human brain works in a way that makes zynga appear to be an angel of virtue. The less of it there is, the better.
Porn is legal. You are thinking more of any attempt to make porn non-censored and relaxing regulatory restrictions on the distribution of porn. Yes, feminists & the religious "right" will raise hell because they're the primary reason porn is so inflammatory in this country.
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The internet, web apps, than mobile ... at the time i wasn't prepared for any of those, at all. So, today 2013+, i want to work hard to not be a foll when a new trend is emerging.

Based on some researches (basic) looks like the next big thing is about Big Data. But maybe it's just noise.

So, what you thing will be the next big tech trend and why. Thanks.
Read up on the Clipper chip: A chip which sort of being promoted to be the "official" way to do crypto in the US. Specifically designed to be decryptable by the NSA via "key escrow".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

It died when Matt Blaze figured out a way to trick the clipper chip doing encryption that the NSA could NOT decrypt.
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The wrong person doesn't just produce less value than the right person, they can actively create negative value.

They can do shoddy work that negatively impacts the ability of other employees to do work, they can cause reputational damage to the company if they're public-facing, they can create a toxic work culture that disincentives other employees.
Problem is, even if DDG would be hosted in, say, Europe, the NSA would still be able to snoop on the traffic. As has been recently revealed, the German BND may siphon off up to 20% of the traffic at DE-CIX (Internet exchange in Frankfurt) and on average siphons off 5% [1]. The BND closely cooperates with the NSA. As we've seen in the last couple of weeks, Europe is basically a US colony and Germany in particular is not a true sovereign state. [2] What to do? Host in Russia, Latin America?

(Disclosure: I am German and DDG is my default search engine.)

[1] http://h-online.com/-1909989

[2] http://sz.de/1.1717216
I'm following them right now. If you're afraid to do what is perfectly legal because you may come to NSA attention, they won.
As a rule of thumb, if you need to move a horse-like weight at horse-like speeds, one horsepower will do.
It's not so much that inflation is good (though it does tend to be as long as it's, say, single digit), it's that a fixed money supply is really, really bad.

Unfortunately, the type of people for whom a fixed money supply is an article of faith don't even see the distinction. They basically argue as if the definition of inflation were an increase in the money supply, which just doesn't make sense.

If you want to get an idea for why a fixed money supply is bad, a good exercise is to look at the actual money supply data on a daily basis. You'll see that it fluctuates quite strongly in certain rhythms, especially weekly and monthly. This is clearly related to thinks like paydays, and it reflects the fact that flexible finance allows the economy to function more efficiently. With a fixed money supply, this would not be possible.

Another, perhaps even stronger, point is that the monetarist experiment of the 1970s and 80s failed badly, in the following sense. The attempt to control the money supply by central banks resulted in wildly fluctuating short-term interest rates, which made it very difficult for the real economy to plan properly, leading to inefficiencies. As a result, central banks gave up targeting the money supply as a policy variable; they now target the interest rate as a policy variable, and allow the money supply to grow and shrink as needed to hit the interest rate target.

So, in this sense, Bitcoin is simply not needed as a test of a hypothesis, because the test has already happened!

It is only the (sometimes genuine, sometimes willful) ignorance of a small group of quasi-religiously motivated people that makes it look as if a test were still needed.

In a way, this is a fight between two systems: A decentralized, market-based systems, where money is created and destroyed decentrally, mostly by financial institutions on the one side; and on the other side, a system where the money supply is controlled by a central entity (either the central bank or, in Bitcoin's case, the Bitcoin developers).

It really shouldn't be surprising that centralized decision-making can be much worse.
Were these features of DDG ever it's purpose or merely an incidental feature?
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One of the world's oldest democracies? You mean Switzerland? Well, hosting a server there might be a good idea.
Come now, valueless? Everything else in there I can see a defence of but valueless? Most of everything is shit but there must be porn that is artful.

I presume you feel the same way about the female equivalent of porn, romance novels, eh?
Do you think that is true of all porn?
If there are companies who are the zyngas and EAs of porn, can there be a Valve of porn? What about small independent amateur producers?
How do you view smoking, drugs or alcohol?
Overpriced = the mark up of the price over costs is very high. Then, you can think that mark-up pricing isn't a good reference point - or even possible, for non-physical goods - but the meaning of the word in that context is clear.
How do you think phone taps work?
You may also enjoy http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code. They have hundreds of smaller problems which you can solve in your favourite language.
A foreign intelligence agency like the NSA actually needs less of a legal framework to spy on a foreign company as opposed to a domestic one. It's sort of the whole point of a foreign intelligence agency, not respecting the laws of other countries.
Data for such services leave your computer encrypted with SSL.

Bugging your computer (and/or phone) is probably the best way to track your communications clandestinely.
>Come now, valueless? Everything else in there I can see a defence of but valueless? Most of everything is shit but there must be porn that is artful.

If the main idea is crap, then there's no "art" that can save it. That's like saying "there can be artful snuff films".

>I presume you feel the same way about the female equivalent of porn, romance novels, eh?

100%. Also for action movies, and a lot of sub-par crap that people are served.
I wrote a real dirty domain name scanner for this, too bad the results have been incorrect so far.
https://gist.github.com/jackdwyer/5994001

/edit: note it is just getting all 4 letter combinations at the moment.
My favorite is when I read about litigious porn companies suing for copyright violations (like Perfect10 vs Google image search), calling their copyrighted images INTELLECTUAL property!
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What happens if I tune my DVB card in, sample /dev/video0 or whatever it is now and use that to add entropy? Is that even possible?
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No, but they don't expect us to matter to their bottom line.
Sure. From an overall welfare point-of-view, I would argue that society should discourage people living off monetary savings, anyway. Yes, this includes retirement, which is better served by a tax-funded system.
That's right, HFCS is slightly cheaper than raw sugar in the US because the government has extremely protective import quotas against world priced sugar. The invention of HFCS in the 1980s is a direct result of the U.S. sugar program. But if you allowed a free market for sugar in the U.S. the U.S. raw sugar price would equalize at the world sugar price, and it is likely that HFCS would disappear.
> And I know there's a difference between how easy this is in theory, and how easy it is in practice, but come on - what are they going to do? Put Ballmer or Larry Page in prison for not obeying them? The companies would have the best 100 lawyers in the world fighting for them.

There are many ways to destroy people's life's besides putting them in prison. Dictatorships teach that quite well.
Care to explain your reasoning?

Some values I see for porn:

1) reduces the number of sexual assaults (because horny people have an easy "out") (what supposedly happened after the fall of Soviet Union, after which porn became legal in the eastern block)
2) enables lonely people or others who don't seek companionship an easier way of sexual release
3) historical value: record yourself when you're young, so you can easier remember your sexual joys when you're older.
If I could upvote you 100 times I would.
that would make obama score points in the public, but it is his second term as president already.

this would also encourage more whistleblower activity that may get out of hand.
If you had a company, how would you feel if PayPal shared the information with the kind of business they do with you?
I think that connections to hidden services on the Tor network are encrypted end-to-end.
Killing people good, fucking people bad.
It's great, but it was a little greater before they added copy/paste protection (https://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/issues/detail?id=461).
I think nobody doubts that the porn industry is a very exploitative business.

However, an easily overlooked aspect of porn is that it canalizes and binds a lot of "useless" energy. A few years ago I heard this tongue-in-cheek hypothesis about male sexuality: Once they manage to reliably eliminate all porn, it will take two days before mobs with clubs and pitchforks roam the streets making political demands.
This was really cool and informative, thanks for posting it!

Was expecting some discussion about photoshop tricks and techniques but maybe people in HN are not that into photography.
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The "family farm" defense of agricultural subsidies is dead wrong. In fact, most programs are price subsidies, so the more you produce, the more you benefit, and as a result most of the subsidies go to the largest producers-- we actually subsidize agribusiness over family farmers, relatively speaking. Further, the value of the subsidies gets capitalized into the land and makes it impossible for young farmers to get started in the business.
"Now why was this planted in front of me..."
That's an implementation detail. You could pack the handshake into automated email messages handled by a proper client. Obviously this would not work with any old client since you're effectively layering another protocol on top of email.