skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past side projects include: organizing arts festivals, and "The Canada Effect" - YouTube videos I produced after interviewing a few hundred Canadians about their healthcare - which spawned a full feature documentary "The Healthcare Movie" - narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. I then traveled to screenings and spoke on panels about healthcare.
From my Experience, Good Design and a good User Experience do not always go hand in hand. I've met Designers that were awesome at Designing Stuff, but did not really have any interest in User Experience at all. I've also met Designers that were good at both (which is what I strive for). In some sense, it may come down to what roles and responsibilities you assign to the Designer, how many Designers you have, and how that particular organization works. Generally speaking, bigger organizations tend to have more moving components, which means you may end up with multiple people fulfilling multiple roles. In this type of environment, it's possible that the people involved loose sight of the overall Project, instead focusing on their individual components. This could explain how you end up with a poor User Experience, even with a team of great Designers. Blame it on Management. (hehehe)
True, but presumably that would have been unconstitutional.

As it was implemented, the only option they had was to demand Lavabit's private key, since they use the same SSL cert per user.
Anything for a story.

Down 6% isn't a big deal for a volatile tech company like Tesla. They've plummeted to the same price they were trading at two weeks ago.
I have always love Flutter. Yes it made me feel like a superhero !. i always showed my non techie friends Flutter how can i change a song just by waving. I was hoping to see more updates and features from you. Anyways. All the best
....which would explain why every first world country uses it except the US?

I'd much prefer we don't devolve into a political argument. My question, I thought, was relevant due to ACA kicking in, which is the first step towards universal healthcare/single payer in the US (which would eliminate the business model in question).

In closing, here is healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP by country (almost all first world countries): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Internati...
The US leads in spending, and only spending.
That'd only be a problem if he had been stupid enough to send his LSD vendor his name & address in the clear. The whole point of buyers encrypting their info to the seller's key was to avoid problems if LE attacked the server.
So, this is essentially a less cool version of getclef.com , right?
I immediately flew out of the map after collecting some speed boost (I was just on a black infinite plane and the map floating above me). I guess the collision detection code needs to some refactor.
I wasn't able to get back on there. That's when I closed the tab, after ~40 secs.

Awesome QA for a company of that size & resources. Wtf.
alternate headline:

"Business" man who clearly has nothing better to do reports manchild to police for playing with RC toy.
or said another way , the government officialy wipes its a with the constitution.
is there anyway to prove that the post in the forum occurred when alleged?
While I have no idea what actually happened, and don't think that anything in the indictment should be accepted as fact, it's still an interesting situation if we assume that DPR knew that Alice and Bob (henceforth AB) were the same person. I don't know that DPR was acting stupidly.

Supposing AB had real information that would be harmful to DPR if released, it's in DPR's interest to prevent this release. One major risk is that even if he pays, he is still susceptible to future extortion. His approach sends a message to AB (true or not) that he is a casual killer, and that it would be an unwise risk to attempt this stunt a second time.

It also further implicates AB in DPR's crimes: in the same way that DPR will have great trouble explaining in court that he was not actually arranging a murder but deterring an extortionist, it would be unwise to try to argue in court that one accepted money to commit a murder, but is innocent because the murder was not actually performed due to a complicated backstory.

Also, the extended negotiation provides DPR more opportunity to discover more information about his adversary --- rather like the 'try to keep them on the line so we can trace the call' trope. It seems likely that if there is any substance to the accusation, that AB is a Silk Road seller and not a third party. Perhaps this dance helps DPR to gain more information so as to take future action against this seller? Or buys time so as to warn others that their buyer information is compromised?
Out of interest, what do you think it should be? IBM is offering £27k for most graduate positions.
Obv. mossad. Apparently, "light to all nations" means starting another cold war.
> In a work-around, Levison complied the next day by turning over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government called the printout “illegible” and the court ordered Levison to provide a more useful electronic copy.

How illegible? I'm really curious about this part.
A minor problem is that auth app has to return back to the browser with a new link which the browser may not be able to open within the original login tab.
One answer to this is that the DOJ can't in fact freeze the assets of anybody; they have to convince a court to do so, and it's for this reason among many that the courts are an entirely separate branch of government. To the extent that you can't trust the courts to be impartial, there's really no part of the criminal justice system you can trust.

It should not in general be in the best interests of the federal court system to allow federal prosecutors to abuse asset seizures to prevent defendants from mounting competent defenses. Among other things, such abuses set judges up for costly appeals.
Basically it already knows the system/ide classes and pulls them out, and does some code analysis to remove unused bits of code and so on. It's an interactive process, but it's generally pretty smart.
Great idea, I will add an email subscription box at the bottom by tomorrow!
My understanding -- admittedly grokked from watching The Wire -- is that criminals usually have lawyers on retainer, and they pay said lawyers before their assets are seized, which in any case makes a lot more sense. There is also the case of the Antiguan bank account under a fake name that the lawyer and defendant know about.

The Dread Pirate Roberts seems to have thought he was invincible and did not take such precautions, of course.

Another poster suggests "spending enormous amounts of money on prosecutions" to counter drug funds. This is problematic because the drug trade is massive, with the market for cocaine alone estimated at >$100B/yr; estimates indicate that the illegal drug market could account for as much as 1% of all global economic activity. For comparison the NSA's budget is about $70B/yr and the DEA is more like $25B/yr.
Laptop-camera Periscope
It is possible to give "Honest Feedback" with out saying something "sucks."
They're not. I think it stands to reason they would have blocked Firefox as well.
DIY internet-enabled bathroom scale
You make a great point. I just donated.
Silk Road collected 9.5 million bitcoin—and only 11.75 million exist
So far people seem to be rocking the test (except one person). More people taking it makes it more accurate. Scores so far (max 800):

720.790
752.193
717.623
745.300
739.371
694.710
706.695
163.612
724.569
784.664
iOS and Android developers too I hear!
I'd say that depends on the printer. Was it a nice laser/toner deal, or an HP 'inkjet' they found behind a dumpster 10 years ago?
I feel your pain, and I've experienced some of these problems myself. In my opinion, many of these problems relate to a (poor) assumption that Responsive Design = Mobile Design. So the train of thought is to fit the Old Design onto a Smaller Screen. Instead, they should be thinking about how they can re-design the UI/UX to compliment Mobile, and deliver a better Mobile Experience overall.
Congrats guys. Great outcome for a solid team.
Oh. Maybe I gave them too much credit.
Well I've set the bar low to mean exonerate the guy to the extent that he's only as bad as the youtube crowd:

"On September 23,2005, YouTube co-founder
Chad Hurley emailed YouTube co-founders
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, stating: "can we
remove the flagging link for 'copyrighted'
today? we are starting to see complaints for
this and basically if we don't remove them we
could be held lìable for being served a notice.

it's actually better if we don't have the lìnk
there at all because then the copyright holder
is responsible for serving us notice of the
material and not the users. anyways, it would
be good if we could remove this asap."

Their only mitigating behaviour is the moral dilemma they exhibit, I'm sure something similar could be pulled from Mega's email archives - again my point being the FBI/DOJ are better at making a case than Viacom.
I would like to point out we're also significantly more overweight, have higher rates of heart disease, have a quickly aging population of baby boomers etc.. Your argument is not logical as there are plenty of other reasons we have higher healthcare costs other then that we're not single payer.
My favorite part: The SSL certificate was delivered as an 11 page paper in 4pt font. This is so genius.
exactly what i was thinking, the amount of work involved despite some pretty horrendous slip-ups, implies TOR + basic common sense can be a pretty powerful thing
Probably not.
http://www.androidauthority.com/nexus-5-feature-mems-camera-...
I guess they weren't joking

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
How much has the shutdown cost? There's an app for that.
Congrats to the team. This makes me think that Google may be trying to incorporate gesture data manipulation into Glass. They should snap up Thalmic Labs too.
In other words, they did not expect him to act with integrity. They expected him to turn over the SSL key, then continue offering something that he knew he was no longer in a position to provide.

Their expectations of others reflect poorly on themselves.
Legal strategy is only partly about manipulating the perception of truth. The other, often significantly more effective tactic, is to drown your opponent in requests and subpoenas, each of which requires non-trivial resources to respond to.

It's incredibly cash-intensive, you effectively declare legal nuclear war and just go all out. It's virtually impossible to counter without special legislation already in place to counter exactly that sort of threat, e.g. anti-SLAPP laws.
> ....which would explain why every first world country uses it except the US?

Every first world country except the US has something approximating universal coverage, but not all of them use single-payer (or even a single basic coverage insurer with supplemental coverage from other payers.) Compulsory-purchase insurance models similar to those in the ACA (but, you know, actually universal) with private insurers are not unheard of (e.g., Switzerland uses that model)
This is a neat idea, however, I ended up avoiding this approach myself on the last big project I did because my personal bugaboo is mixing metadata (requirements) with data (code). Hardcoded dependencies between JS modules leads to front-end spaghetti -- to me it's only a marginal improvement over inline script/style tags. It forces frontend devs to know too much trivia about how the backend/devops code actually makes the sausage.

A JS module or HTML widget should be able to declare what it needs without hardcoding how that dependency gets fulfilled. (eg. if it's loading on a local dev box, do this, in production, do that, running server-side in a Node.JS setting or in a test suite, do this other thing.)

So the system I built allows devs to declare the resources needed by a feature, then the asset management system converts those requirements into LABjs script loader code that gets output -- more of a makefile sort of approach. That means devs can write more general, reusable, testable JS modules (and corresponding HTML templates) that can load through a script loader for better performance, but aren't tied to a particular deployment environment or how the script loader works under the hood.

I wish there was a more natural way for logical components on the page to declare the resources they need without mixing code and metadata. HTML Web Components, for example the [Polymer project](http://www.polymer-project.org/), are possibly a step in the right direction, but I don't think they address intelligently lazy-loading requirements.
I think this may be common among visionaries. It's almost a prerequisite, really.
Seriously? "I am not the first Dread Pirate Roberts" ?
Why Overtime Doesn't Work
Actually, the reason real reason US health costs are much higher is that the unit-cost is much higher.

Check out the unit cost differences here:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/11/an_insur...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health/july-dec12/medicine_09...

"But I think the biggest single driver is our fee-for-service system that rewards volume instead of value and quantity of medical services instead of quality. And as a result, we end up doing a lot of things that cause more harm than benefit for patients."

Also:

"What that dramatic variation tells us is that there's a lot unnecessary medical care that's being delivered and a lot of room to eliminate some of that wasteful spending."
UK enters global online university race
That lack of room for bias is a reasonable intuition, but at least one straightforward experiment contradicts it:

"In a randomized double-blind study (n = 127), science faculty from research-intensive universities rated the application materials of a student — who was randomly assigned either a male or female name — for a laboratory manager position. Faculty participants rated the male applicant as significantly more competent and hireable than the (identical) female applicant. These participants also selected a higher starting salary and offered more career mentoring to the male applicant."

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109

Graphs summarizing the results are here:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/09/19/...
Sure. paul.[lastname]@gmail.com
> I would like to point out we're also significantly more overweight, have higher rates of heart disease, have a quickly aging population of baby boomers etc..

Those are all, arguably, consequences of the poor access to health care in this country and the short-term incentives in this country to delay care. IOW, they are products of the system that we pay more for (per capita or even per GDP -- or even either way only considering public expenditures and excluding the private costs) than first world countries that provide universal coverage through government single-payer systems.
Internet Redundancy Bridging the Digital Gap in Africa
For a large scale website, where not every page would have a video player, gallery, or calendar, why load that JS and CSS, which can be very heavy. The benefits are definitely there without having to declare explicitly that a particular page needs a certain dependency.
You mean sarcasm , not irony, right?

Irony would be that there is a news tomorrow to the effect " Half a dozen new web sites sprung up after Silk road bust and FBI is struggling this time to catch the perpetrators. They wised up from Silk Road's mistakes described in detail by FBI"
By other cultures. Example: show a set of color swatches all identical blue with one bluish green. Ask participants to indicate the exception. Speakers of languages with a blue-green distinction get it right essentially instantly (< 1 second); native speakers of languages without a blue-green distinction can take as much as 30 seconds and actually get it wrong (I.e., indicate one of the identical blue swatches)
At some stage, there is a constitutional rights issue. An attornery is a representative of the person in court. Ie, he is the mechanism for the client to express freely his position (defense). Limiting this is a free-speach issue, at some stage. You are forcing the defendent to speak through someone paid for by the government. While this is arguably true today for people in poverty, it seems a bit more uncouth to force this for each and every citizen under all conditions. Even those without resources, for example, could in theory arrange for a pro-bono intervention. But such intervention must by necessity free-ride on fee-earning clients. And without a viable business, there would be no-one to do the pro-bono work.
Wow congrats to the team! I met them when they were interviewing at YC. They were waiting around to pitch pg and gave me a demo.. I was speechless at the time and I quickly began thinking of all use cases this technology could work with.
Show HN: Clojure Cup Application - What The Fn
Image pruning is really not a good way to do it, it's much better to take a clean base image and load your code into it as part of the deploy process. Pruning a development image is a very old fashioned way to create a production image.
Seems like a very interesting example to choose. Hiring a nanny for your child is one of those cases where you would absolutely want to fully vet each candidate. Are you suggesting you'd sooner leave the nanny's ethical and moral compass as a question mark than fully investigate what his or her ethics and morals are? This seems like a case where someone's ethics and morals are absolutely required to be known, not left as an exercise. Of course, most people rely on friends and family for such jobs for precisely these reasons. And if I had to hire a stranger, I'd absolutely be interested in knowing about their ethics and morals. Given my limited ability to get to know every last person, I'd prefer to hire from a reputable agency (so much as you can trust their reputation, in any case).

The reality of course is that every candidate will follow your orders up until he or she feels they violate his or her ethics/morals. Whether they're open about it or not is irrelevant. If you ordered them to abuse your own children (of course you wouldn't, but we're both being good-heartedly facetious here) you could reasonably expect them to turn you in, whether they were up front about it during an interview or not. Playing coy about the matter during an interview is a recipe for disaster on both ends.
Just some constructive criticism:

- You created a text post submission that only includes a link. Why not just create a link post?

- Your poll asks a question contingent upon conditions ("Would you ever") but then the only choices are non-conditional interest or disinterest. I don't think you'll be getting useful insight from this.
Jump to conclusions often? The MUCH simpler, obviously far more likely sequence of events, is:

1) June 28th: FBI/DoJ obtains lawful court order for a pen register trace on Snowden's email account.
2) June 28th-July 9th: Lavabit fails to comply.
3) July 9th: Lavabit held in contempt, which is clearly appropriate as they did not respond to a lawful court order.
4) July 9 - August 1: FBI obtains search warrant for Snowden's email. Lavabit challenges warrant on the irrelevant technical grounds that they encrypt all users' email with same key.
5) August 8: Lavabit shuts down, because it turns out that hosting email for the criminal class carries real risks and isn't terribly lucrative.

You can't wave off court orders just because you think the Internet is some kind of libertarian cyber-paradise where mortal laws do not apply. Court orders and search warrants are lawful means of investigation. Lavabit's business was not compatible with US laws or probably the laws of any country more developed than Zimbabwe.
> The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (bitquabit.com)

> 5 points by sebkomianos 25 minutes ago | flag | discuss

You probably want to put (2009) in the title somewhere...
My team created this application for the 48 hour Clojure Cup hackathon. It's targeted at hackers looking for a fun way to sharpen their skills. It provides an interactive REPL, code editor (Ace), practice problems, and a game status / chat window for testing the practice problems and collaborating with other players.

Please try it out and vote for us if you like it. Comments and feedback are also appreciated, especially about any particular features you would like to see added next.
It's ironic the shutdown is because of there being no money to spend and the shutdown is costing money which makes sense. But according to this calculator which references an NBC Business News link as costing $12.5 million per hour the current cost is approaching 600 million, crazy.
Small drone crash lands in Manhattan
How could that do anything other than delay the inevitable? Sooner or later you are going to be in front of a judge and a jury. They can spam all they want, it isn't going to stop the trial from happening.
Its interesting people forget that refcounting is quite cache destroying in the CPU, each upref invalidates memory locations in cache lines that are scattered throughout the address space.
Xtreme Labs builds mobile apps. Our portfolio includes the Facebook, Twitter, and MTV apps, to name a few. We are essentially a contractor, and work on all mobile platforms - Android, iOS, WP8, BB, and Web are the main ones I think.

Source: I work for XL (now part of Pivotal and Pivotal Labs).
> Hopefully they figure out how to stop it. Single payer is a horrible idea and generally lowers the standard of care for everyone.

Maybe if you live in opposite world; in this world, it does exactly the opposite.
Please not until we can get our hands on myo device and some access to the driver :-)
god I loved playing that game in grade 5 in the classroom.
The key question here is how much additional value-add does SimplyInsured provide over the online marketplaces being set up under the Affordable Care Act.

A significant part of the broker's value is the high-touch relationship and trust.

The market fit question to me is: if a state marketplace has a decent web portal (like California's http://www.coveredca.com ), what additional value does a private portal offer that NEITHER the official portal NOR an offline broker can offer?

(Don't mean this as polemical by any means; lots of states are not going to have great portals. Just interested in hearing opinions on this.)

[Edit: making CA link a real URL]
On Competition
I was doubtful at first, because of the need for both a computer (and Internet connection) in a part of the world where 25 cents an hour would be a decent lower-middle-class income.

The World Bank has some information about countries with people living on $2 per day. (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.2DAY)

Maybe there's a use for a "Fair Trade Mechanical Turk" - someone sets up an Internet work space for people in developing nations and FTMT sets minimum wages?
You can get the Fury3 demo here: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/Fury3/

On a related note, I didn't know about ftp.microsoft.com until today. It's full of all kinds of nostalgia.
Works fine on Firefox on Linux over here.

Do other WebGL demos work on your machine? Might be a driver issue or a blacklisting.
Isn't access to the internet already required to log into any internet site?
Our fridge has free beer and cola, so best of both worlds.
I think the motox looks better and feels better than an iphone.
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