skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked in healthcare for many years and I am extremely confident that this is not true, that the document is likely a more manageable three-to-five pages and at worst ten-or-so. I'm sure the receptionist said this in order to deter him from wanting to see the actual document that she clearly didn't have.
That looks horrible! Sorry - I trusted it because it's from Google's Web Fonts... :/ I'll work on finding a few better fonts that work across platforms better. Thanks for letting me know.
Absolutely. I've also seen a police car slowly enter a no-entry T-intersaction in the dead of night, the road behind being two-way. No other cars moving, and they were going slowly enough that even someone with a walking stick could have escaped their movement. Nevertheless, they still broke the law, something that would not be allowed under 'zero tolerance'.
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zut, we could still make it appear back with a tweet. I hoped to make it disappear for good.

But the conclusion is that it is easier to click reload twenty times than to tweet a single message.
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Yep. Some doctors have sued patients over bad reviews. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101110/19053611809/doctor...
Careful now. If your user base is "normal" people it might be substantially more than that.

One site I run is a local news site (East Coast, USA) that does a fair amount of traffic (~10M pages, ~500k visitors monthly), and IE8 is still hovering around 13% for us, with IE7 at just over 2%. In fact, IE8 > IE9, by a fair margin. The good news is that IE share overall is down substantially.

Jul 2010: 74%
Jul 2011: 65%
Jul 2012: 58%
Jul 2013: 34%
I saw two people looking back at me. The faces spliced diagonally across the face. Both were me, but there were two distinct people. One eye each. It was a challenging experience.
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I never thought about it that way.

Totally stealing that idea.
Some of us do. On our intranet will have lots of people on PPC Macs.
This used to be common in the US as well, but no longer. This is something that seems to have disappeared as the larger chain stores have take over the field.
> I just wanted to point out that cost seemed to be used by you as an argument in favor of the use of drones by law enforcement, when according to four Supreme Court justices in certain cases lower cost can make it unconstitutional without first getting a warrant.

The only way I would see it being feasible to forbid government from using drones just because they're cheap, is to forbid it for everyone.

That might not be a bad idea (it's what we did for phone wiretapping), but then we still end up in a situation where the government has more power, as they would then exclusively control the use of public airspace for drones. Cops aren't the only ones who could make productive use of drones (nor is the government in general), so I'm not sure we'd want to make that tradeoff, at least unconditionally.
We had tighter controls. It wasn't really an issue of "their work," it was an issue of what they were allowed to do with it under the law.

For example, one of the fake controversies after 9/11 involved NSA and domestic intelligence not sharing as much information as some believed might have been valuable in preventing the attacks, in retrospect. This sharing was prevented - very deliberately - by statute. Those statutes have been weakened since, in the name of security and with little consideration of why they existed in the first place.

edit: I was really only thinking of statutory control of intelligence gathering with my comments. Philwelch brings up an interesting point regarding (largely illegal) espionage, but I think the points still stand.
These are users on the free tier. They try the paid tier (free trial for 30 days), which definitely doesn't give any indication that deciding not to stick with the paid level will disable your company's e-mail for a day.
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Guns have been used as lethal weapons as well, and are far more pervasive, and can also be operated remotely. I don't see anyone calling to take the guns (remotely-operated or otherwise) away from the military though.
> it seems improper to say they're "selling entertainment" when realistically they're selling ads

SkyMall has four main assets, in two classes:

1. deals with airlines to put their magazine in the plane seat pockets (stable), and with companies to advertise in their magazine (ephemeral); and

2. cultural expertise in dealing with airlines (rare), and with selling advertising in a magazine (commonplace).†

Even though advertising is, of the two, the revenue-generating asset, the other one is a monopoly (it's an exclusive contract with a lot of venues, sort of like Ticketmaster.) So, if advertising stops working out for them, and they're going to pivot, I would imagine they'd keep the monopoly--their magazine getting put in seats--and try to find a new revenue-generating content-stream to fill that magazine with. Deciding to instead keeping the advertisers, and the advertising "business", and trying to find a new way to use them, sounds kind of braindead.

...in fact, if I were them, and I was pivoting, I'd sell off the advertising "aspect" of the business to a company that wanted some built-up advertiser relationships... hmm.

Here's some speculation: Xhibit bought SkyMall on a PE trading system, right? If Xhibit is internally thinking of itself as a PE firm in this action--and if SkyMall was frank with them about their worries that their advertising revenue-stream will go kaput--then Xhibit might be trying to split SkyMall: to absorb the advertising part of the company into itself (where they can use the advertiser relationships in digital-media industries), pivot the magazine into something else, make it profitable doing that something else, and then sell off the magazine, like any other PE firm.

This also, sort of, explains why Xhibit has so many nascent ventures; what could be going on is that, since they're absorbing SkyMall's advertiser base, they're just asking those advertisers what extra services (beyond just magazine ads) they would pay for--and then setting out to build them.

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† (Also, expertise in the logistics of getting a magazine printed and into the hands of airlines, but that's not much relevant either way.)
"Google Apps Authorized Reseller"? WTF?
What rules of law was broken with regard to the incidents in the article?

As has been stated elsewhere, none.

> get a warrant

A warrant is not needed to watch someone in public.
Hmm. Apparently it's legit: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/landing/partn...
I couldn't care less personally, but theoretically there are people who wouldn't want their treatment information shared. I suppose if they have diseases such as HIV or something. It's kind of a bummer it makes it so tough to do startups in the field.

I suppose I do like the provisions that prevent sharing information with marketers that came along with all the other laws, but would have been just as happy if that was left up to the free market. E.g. check this box for $50 dollars more expensive treatment or we might share your records with pharma companies that will market medicine to you.
I emailed an mp3 file for my friend to use as a ringtone. Turns out on iOS he needs to load it in through iTunes. On Android, you just save the attachment then go to your ringtones and choose the file.
> Our gaol was to build a company with combined strengths of design, development

What an appropriate misspelling - gaol is a British term for prison.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Agaol
Does this have anything whatsoever to do with the posted topic? There must be some connection, and I'm twisting my brain trying to figure out what it is.
Good points and they'd definitely need to be handled. I just think there's a big opportunity in making the inbox richer and the existing static email is limiting it. I don't really have good answers to how to deal with the security issues but I have no doubts we'd be able to solve them if we wanted to.
To provide some details that might not be immediately obvious, this is a piece of software that takes care of installing and setting up the various pieces one would use to run (in my opinion) the ideal mail system: Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL/PostgreSQL, OpenLDAP, spam filtering, webmail, etc.

All of the software is, of course, open-source/free software but the iRedMail-Pro "management" application is what you are paying for (there is also a free version w/ less features). You can certainly implement everything yourself from scratch without paying for it.

I'm not a customer and have not used it although I did look into it a while back. The few people I asked who had used it were satisfied with what they received for the price. YMMV.
Is it just me or is this narrower than a normal tetris playing field?
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“Nobody else was doing it, so we set out to be the first”
I'm guessing the binder she is speaking of is the HIPAA policy itself, not what they are responsible for giving to the patient.
>This is an entirely a false premise used to attack the author for his license choice

Well the author made a big deal of the licencing himself as a reason for the project.

>And they will be better off for it since contributed code wasn't due to some license prerequisite, but by willing choice.

I don't see how they are 'better off', if I release a program and say to people that you can pay me if you want to and no one or extremely few do, am I 'better off'? It's the code/money coming back to me that decides whether I'm 'better off' in my book.

Personally I'd rather take the code even if given 'because they legally must', then not have the code at all, if I am really interested in code contributions at all that is. If I'm not then permissive licencing is my preference.

There are many types of projects out there were code contributions are appreciated but not really sought, and there are many projects out there were contributions and cooperative development is important for it to bear fruit.

I personally think permissive licences typically lends itself best to the former and copyleft licences to the latter. The reason for this is that I think copyleft creates a level playing field for contributors, each participant are legally bound to offer their enhancements in source form which can be incorporated back into the project.

But of course there's no clear rule, and the nature of the project itself most likely has a huge impact, like if the project is meant to be a component to be used in other projects then permissive licencing is likely used regardless of the level of cooperative development.

Meanwhile if the project is 'stand-alone', copyleft is in my experience the widely chosen licence, this seems to be extremely typical for open source desktop software, regardless of platform.
This is 5 columns. A standard tetris board is 10 columns.
Research the United Fruit Company, MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, J. Edgar Hoover, the School of the Americas, the 1953 Iranian coup, and it doesn't stop there.
First, total warfare like WW2, in the sense that the majority of the global economy is directed towards people conquering each other, will not happen again. Nuclear deterrence works. Though I and I'm sure many others find this repulsive, it is reality. That means, realistically future armed conflicts are going to be regional border disputes fought with conventional weapons, increasingly delivered via drones.

It is clearly not the case that the NSA, in it's current form, is the lynchpin keeping global warfare at bay. There are strong arguments that it is in fact adding fuel to the ongoing smoldering economic and diplomatic conflicts. There clearly is a whole range of possible forms for the NSA between "no security" and "total global surveillance."

You also act like human conflicts are exogenous, that they just happen to us like natural disasters. Behind this is the idea that there will always be some other force or enemy that is beyond reason, engagement and diplomacy. That is a particularly ugly and simpleminded view.
Kind of interestingly, the government actually does use that mosaic theory elsewhere, when dealing with 'national security information'.

There is a concept that there are types of information which are unclassified individually, but which can 'become classified' if joined as part of a compilation.

Of course the law is not exactly the same as information security but I don't see why the government should use mosaics in one area and then claim they can't be used for similar concepts elsewhere.
If I've turned in a problem set but haven't gotten a response, at which level am I counted? b^)

Sorry, I can't resist being a dick. Ignore me until I'm up to two weeks like the guy above...
I don't see that the less verbose syntax of CoffeeScript buys you that much and it's another level of indirection to worry about. My problems with JavaScript are that you're flying blind when you could have an editor pointing mistakes and making helpful suggestions. I tried Dart as a replacement first (too far removed from the JavaScript) and settled on TypeScript, which is a dream because it provides the help I want without obfuscating the resulting JavaScript at all.
Nobody outside the HN community seems to care about the Summer of Surveillance. Everyone I talk to has the same "meh" attitude. I find the lack of concern from friends and family to be more troubling than a lack of concern from the main stream media.
me too. I've never actually taken shrooms with other people (yet). only by myself. I've done them multiple times, but the last time, I didn't measure the dose, and I took, easily what would be a VERY intense trip for someone (maybe 5g) and I was highly agitated and couldn't continue my meditation. I had to move around get into nature, etc. but then I had this great idea to go look in a mirror. when I looked into the mirror, I totally fell in love with myself, and felt so much calmness and security, I literally must have been there like a half hour.

I just kept staring at my eyes. they kept getting more and more blue, and more and more deep, and some sort of strange peace came about me and my body all over. I knew myself. from that experience on, my whole way of thinking changed and I decided to stop doing stupid shit. since then (been a few months now), I've only been able to focus on getting what I wanted out of life -- for myself and everyone around me too (no matter how awful they might be). I like to say encouraging and uplifting things, only rarely do I see the world in sadness. I can quickly get out of sadness now too. it's all perspective after you've seen without filters

I highly recommend shrooms. prepare though. be mentally ready for a mind expanding experience. if you do meditation, do it in a dark room, and try to get as deep as possible before the effects kick in. and then later come out if you want, but always remember you're still you, just you without a lot of those extra filters (that you yourself have constructed!).
Jaimie Mantzel is doing an AMA over at reddit.
You made some big claims that network effects should be hurting iOS already, when its obvious opposite is still true (iOS is a healthier ecosystem than Android in spite of its lower marketshare). According to your explanation, given how phones are not like cars, the iPhone ecosystem should already be in decay. Whether its tough for indies or not is irrelevant; there is much more money to be made for app developers in iOS than Android.

It is not obvious that Apple could win, or even survive, by going after the low end, or by being more general. Apple is great as a premium brand, but as a shoddy value brand like Samsung? Their attempt at getting a majority of phone profit share would wind up killing their brand and destroy the money they make in non-phone products. This is especially true in Asian countries like China where the iPhone is still a must have for the high end; where Google also happens to be less relevant (for better or worse).

How many iOS users even bother with iMessage? Just install WeChat and forget about it.
I can focus on it fast, but there's no tablet friendly controls. Looks great, wish I could play it on an iPad.
Speaking from personal experience doing similar things, that's really manipulative behavior on your part. How do you think the people working at the company will feel when you give them zero days notice and they realize they've been screwed over just because somebody forgot to check up on the paperwork?

If I was in your situation now, I would walk in there today and announce my intention to move out so at least they have some notice. I might mention that I never signed the document because I wasn't comfortable with the terms, and see if they'll let it go. Worst case loss is about $100.
If you supposedly know how it works why are you blathering on about pennies here and there? As the post I replied to shows a glaring lack of knowledge.

Plenty of VC funds are working exactly how they're supposed to work, don't try and wriggle out of it by claiming that 'of course you know' but somehow dropping a few million here and there on grocery suppliers is a meaningful loss to a VC or pension fund.

I'd have far more respect if you just said 'yeah, whoops, didn't know what the fuck I was talking about'.
As a surgeon I know says, "the last place you want to be if you're sick is in a hospital."
They should also add the intermediate levels as well

https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior/tree/master/towers/int...
The capacitive back button must be banished from all phones. What a horrible piece of crap, I don't know how many times I've accidentally pushed it on my 920.
Or another way to look at it is before no one knew or cared, but now some people do. Important people, with the technical capability to start fixing it.
"Nor would there be – finally – a serious debate between Europe...and the United States about where the proper balance between freedom and security lies"

Whoa horsey. The author is making the same mistake as he accuses the press of: missing the story.

If you want a good repeat-after-me line, repeat after me: "this has nothing to do with the NSA either" All intelligence agencies are either doing this or have plans to do it -- including lots of European ones which are breaking their own laws while doing so. That's yet another shoe that hasn't dropped. Who knows how long it'll take for our European friends to figure it out. Might be a while.

But the larger point is valid: the internet as a conduit between a person and the larger world is a cesspool of corporate and government eavesdroppers. We're not operating the net: the net is monitoring our thoughts and recording them for others to inspect at their leisure. This is not a good thing.

So the story isn't Snowden, and it's not the NSA either. It's what has become of the dream that was the internet, and the question of whether anybody is left that cares enough about privacy and anonymity to do something about it.
Sort of, from the Github:
"coinops is a repo for experimenting with optimization of freepascal code via x86-64 assembly language, using an iterated sha256 program (the hashing algorithm used in bitcoin) as a subject.

This junkops branch contains an experiment that shows how adding useless junk operations (moving the contents of an arbitrary register into ram) can increase the speed of the executed code."
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I agree personally, but there is still a difference between that and outright enforcing it as society. Also I'd argue a lot of things were created for the sake of creation anyway (or to be "consumed" on the spot, see classical music, much of it created as a one-off for a specific mass etc... people expected composers to constantly write new stuff, no touring with greatest hits) ... but then it's still up to the authors to license it accordingly, right?
Oh. Yep, I basically agree with you.
Them's the breaks. Companies give you no sympathy if you happen to overlook some rules, why would you want to give any to them?
The source file in question is in Pascal, and the author suggested downloading Free Pascal to test it.

https://github.com/tangentstorm/coinops/blob/junkops/sha256_...
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"Nobody else was doing it, so we set out to be the first”
Take a look at how interconnected the economies of the major combatants in WW1 were. You might be surprised. Even rational actors can be propelled into conflict that seems easily avoidable.

And if you don't think small countries can drag larger ones into war, take a good look at the Korean peninsula. If that goes pear shaped, it could easily drag the US into a war with China.
It's all well and good until you're immunocompromised. S. aureus itself is commensal. Ditto E. faecium, K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter. Meanwhile A baumanii and P aeruginosa are widespread in soil. Together these represent all of the ESKAPE pathogens, which are the primary superbugs: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter baumanii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter [all Enterobacter]. That is to say: the six bacterial strains [excluding Mycobacterium tuberculosis, guess what it causes] carrying the most severe antibiotic resistance and responsible for the worst infections are the very same strains present all around us naturally. However, in every case except S aureus, infection is basically unheard of when an individual has a functioning immune system; they are all opportunistic pathogens. This is a part of the problem: a healthy individual can carry a dangerous strain around with no idea of the risk they present to the immunodeficient.

So what is to be done with the immunocompromised? There are some heroic medicine case studies of an "immune system transplant", notably the remission of HIV, and perhaps this method could be made more viable.
The real issue is that Google/Android are out competing Apple in features, price and 'freedom' - Samsung won't even let me uninstall and get rid of their proprietary crap. So no, there's no freedom in the Samsung world, unless you root the device.
I highly recommend the Stanford EE380 video "Things CPU Architects Need To Think About". Even though it is from 2004, much of the material is still relevant. Bob Colwell notes that they had similar unexpected throughput slowdowns when implementing the P6 and Netburst processor cores, and discovered that adding random delays cleared them out. The cause for throughput hiccups could be traced back, sometimes hundreds or thousands of instructions, but were extremely difficult to address. They also found that manufacturing assembly lines had similar problems that were also addresses by adding delay.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0304.html (18 Feb 2004, site appears to be having issues at the moment)
if you have done mushrooms (or are considering it), and are a programmer, I really highly recommend this video by terence mckenna. it's called "Shamans among the machines." :D

he explores the next big step of evolution for humanity will probably be coming from, "programmers on shrooms" :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6P6Nq8JoY
Fax isn't an acronym.
if it was a PDF, she would have no problem sending it to him in an email.
I fully intend to walk into the office, hand them
the key, and point out that I never signed the
document and will fight any attempts to charge me
the next three months worth of rent.

I hate to break it to you, but that contract is enforceable. Pretending for a moment that this is something that would ever make it to court, you would be found in breach.

In reality, what will happen is this: You'll refuse to pay. They'll casually send your account to collections. You'll get some phone calls from a collection agency and it will hurt your credit report. Ultimately, you'll pay them to protect your credit score.
It's very useful for me. Thanks.