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The Coders Who Built The Obamacare Website Knew It Had Huge Problems
The sorry state of medical IT and medical device vendors is not Mozilla's fault. It is especially not Mozilla's fault if medical organizations and their vendors are rolling out updates they haven't tested themselves.

You're probably aware that in many, if not almost all commercial EULAs, you'll find an all-caps passage like this one I just pulled out of Apple's OS X license document:

> E. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE NOT INTENDED OR SUITABLE FOR USE IN SITUATIONS OR ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THE FAILURE OR TIME DELAYS OF, OR ERRORS OR INACCURACIES IN THE CONTENT, DATA OR INFORMATION PROVIDED BY, THE APPLE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, LIFE SUPPORT OR WEAPONS SYSTEMS.

It's stated clearly and at length because absolutely no one writing general-purpose software wants to bear this responsibility. FOSS no less than commercial, but FOSS is generally a less-attractive lawsuit target.

Trying to foist this responsibility onto Mozilla is just evil. They didn't ask for it. They didn't offer their software as a solution to medical IT's woes. But you want to blame them for obvious misuse of their software causing harm to patients.

If I were to die of an aneurysm tomorrow, would it be your fault for not being a competent neurosurgeon and healing me? No. Nor should it be Mozilla's fault that it does not produce a medical device, but a piece of software someone has decided to misuse as one.
OpenText is a web pioneer that went a different route to search engine monetization. We can nitpick on exactly how successful they are, but they are undoubtedly big and a website company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Text_Corporation
notice you can _match_ json with systems based on oniguruma/onigmo (ruby, sublime text, textmate, julia etc), and the syntax is quite readable.

Sadly, I couldn't find a way to access the nested matches, so it's quite pointless :)
Whonix — Anonymous Operating System
> If Java-based UIs are no longer readily available to clinical staff the way they were last week, then effectively their instruments just got broken.

Would that be a failure of Firefox (or other browser vendors) or a failure of hospital IT staff to manage the medical devices / desktops / network effectively?
Profit is taxable, whereas share price rise incurs taxes that are easier to avoid.
I don't usually post comments like that, but I thought yours deserved it. I've never seen a whole list of specs like that being copy pasted on HN. It just comes off as a desperate attempt to promote a product. The specs were already in the linked article for crying out loud...
"Ultra Agile", the illusion that you have a plan
Can I look at the source code ?

The source code will be released by the University
of Washington under the Apache 2 license after
the trusted tester phase is completed .

This is the important part.
You're really digging in on this aren't you? I wrote very clearly that it was only a suspicion clearly in an attempt to explain why they are so much slower at improving their OS kernel than Microsoft is. So any time somebody makes a suspicion you'll arrive and interpret it as though it was a statement of fact? Noted.

Meanwhile, you make woolly justifications of their slowness by making contradictions like this: "They're not slow to add features. Some may arrive after a competitor" Comments like these are not helpful and do not add anything to the conversation.

They're slow. The reasons why this is the case is still not entirely clear. But even OSX fans get frustrated sometimes at how slow they are to add features that other operating systems got years before. The most vocal recent one I can think of was probably the TRIM support for SSDs.
Kate's Law - 16 Year old girls advocates a new Anti-Bullying Law
Simply want to join my voice to others by saying this is amazing and the design is very inspiring. It is simple, informative, and feels personal. Kudos!
And it works with MSIE6, too!
I'm actually considering designing a Bootstrap admin template myself. Do you have any suggestion or example of the kind of data interaction you need from a template like that?
Great point, if something like this is done and students gets into learning and contributing to open source it is going to have a tremendous improvement on the quality of software.
I like this idea. If there's some benefactor to the Open Source community (or even if they pass along a collection) for the VID, that could even work. They just need to properly implement the standard and the VID can effectively be the Hoover or Kleenex of VIDs.

Edit: On second thought (after I actually read it), this bit...

Please immediately cease and desist raising funds to purchase a
unique USB VID for the purpose of transferring, reselling or
sublicensing PIDs and delete all references to the USB-IF, VIDs and
PIDs for transfer, resale or sublicense from your website and other
marketing materials.

...rubs me the wrong way on so many levels, I'm tempted to say, the hell with the forum.
I am not accountable to you. People liked it, they voted it. You do not like the comment and the tablet, hence are throwing blatant allegation of astroturfing. I am just a simple engineer trying to make a living from engineering surfaces. I come on HN because I like some tech, and have used it extensively. But wow you are just throwing allegation that I am being on payroll of either Nokia or MS, just vicious man. I do not need to tone down my language to appease you.

"This is not your average forum, we aspire to higher standards."

higher standards? Like you throwing accusations? Yeah, because you collectively represent HN. There are posters which post high quality content making it a good forum. But making yourself out as a torch-bearer of some sort while on the same time passing caustic remarks.
For the scanning of photos and serial numbers, you could use mechanical turk.
Am I the only one who doesn't like this? IMO for an administration site its pretty bad.
Uh no. That is not "malware". Unwanted software yes but not malware.
I recently read Crucial Conversations. It is big on finding a shared purpose in a conversation, and maintaining a feeling of safety. I recommend it strongly.
I wonder how many of my compatriots actually live with those restrictions and how many find ways to circumvent them.

By blocking so many Youtube videos, GEMA has done a huge service to internet literacy in Germany. It still surprises me that, every now and then, I overhear complete laypeople discuss among themselves the setting up of proxy servers.
What Does ‘DevOps’ Mean to You?
Allowing java to run is not very intuitive. I predict a lot of people believing It can't be run getting frustrated and using a different browser.

I know it's to protect the users from themselves but if you're going to warn on all versions make it easier to allow the applet to run.
The NSA's problem? Too much data
Startup Lets You Print Your Own Dinner
I'm not a pedant. And the core developers work for the University of Washington and Brave New Software, not Google. [1].

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/new-free-expressio...
I think Prime is amazing. It's driven me to purchase things that I otherwise normally wouldn't have; that says a lot because I'm not usually one to buy a lot of "stuff".

It's incredibly convenient, I often buy stuff from mobile and it'll be on my doorstep in two days. It's literally magic and I love it.

I can't even begin to comprehend the levels of logistical wizardry it takes to make all of that happen.

I'm inclined to think Amazon knows exactly what they're doing here.
I think this sort of analysis misses three important elements:

1. Control. Absolute control over a huge chunk of worldwide B2B and B2C transactions is extremely valuable per se, in political and commercial terms. It's power that can be leveraged in a number of ways which are not necessarily reflected in the balance sheet. Bezos just bought the most influential newspaper in US political circles; this guy knows a thing or two about setting the agenda.

2. There is corporate profit and personal profit. Amazon employees are themselves turning quite a bit of personal profit. Does that make Amazon a No-Profit ? That's debatable. As someone else mentioned, pure profit is easy to tax, while "operating expenses" and share dealing can be shuffled around.

3. Industrialism. Many XIX-century industrialists saw their companies as agents of change as well as sources of profits. Amazon is pushing the envelop in commercial infrastructure (fully-automated warehouses, software-enhanced packaging, customer-seller variable relationships, etc etc) as well as creating whole new markets (AWS). As long as they don't start bleeding money, they're running a self-sustained engine of change, which is an achievement in itself.
Counterexamples:

Microsoft (desktop OS), standard oil.
and who are they? Serious question.
They have:

"There are a number of ideas to get around VTM Group that include squatting on USB VID 0xF055"
That is correct. The short story here is the FAA simply can't keep up with the innovation so they certify a group of people that can certify a repair as safe, and effective. It can than be used, while the FAA eventually full approves the change. The DER assumes full responsibility for the repair, and it's safeness. There have been stressful Christmas eves when approving the duct taping of a loose part of a V2500 so a plane full of troops can make it home for Christmas. Don't worry, it was a single flight one direction approval (but it happens all the time)
To back you up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
The way these things normally work is that you're only allowed to use the name and marks if you're an official licensee.

So if you put the USB logo on your marketing and claim to have a "USB Mini" connector in your specifications then you could be in trouble on two fronts: (1) the usb folks can sue you for using their IP and (2) purchasers can claim the product is not "as described" which may given them certain rights dependent upon the location.

Not using the official logo shouldn't be a problem in hobby market. Everyone will recognise the connector. Not being allowed to identify it as USB2 or USB3 or whatever, that could be a problem. I'm sure there are creative ways around it though.
Trouble with Google Experiments and the Multi-Armed Bandit Method
These are the exact opposite of the kinds of places you would expect an untested Firefox update to show up. You are being inconsistent. Is it a tightly-controlled environment or not?
The experience with multiple accounts and having to cancel via support to avoid a credit card charge also happened to me.

His list, especially the multiple accounts issue, makes Microsoft sound like a government, in the worst way. It's a good thing they don't have weapons.
What I have never figured out is why they don't color coordinate which side is up or down. Green is up, red is down. It would give a instant visual idea of which way to plug it in. Can't image it would cause the cost to go up.
Show HN: Anechoic Dashboard, an iGoogle Replacement
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the side with the USB logo faces up. Less useful when you can't see where you're plugging it, or the socket is at an angle, but it helps.
This story line is so incredibly hackneyed. It's boring. You either believe that Amazon is a giant non-profit, some kind of cosmic joke that Bezos is playing on the world, or you believe that Amazon is one of the most unique and brilliant companies ever and that maaaaaaybe their true profitability shouldn't be judged by our ever-increasing myopic standards.
I agree that in Amazon's business it's hard or impossible to establish monopoly pricing practices.

That does not mean there's no such thing as a non-government enforced monopoly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
When I argue about things with similarly-minded friends, we all win all the time -- the aim is never to make the other person agree with yourself, but for both parties to agree on what's correct (which is sometimes what you think, sometimes what they think, and sometimes a third thing entirely).

It's a shame that my "similarly-minded friends list" is in the single digits :(

(It's not even that most people are stubborn and loud - quite the opposite - it's that they interpret constructive criticism (sometimes even neutral discussion) as conflict and shy away from it)
You are the one crying out loud here, and massively. Also does this mean, toshio, janezstupar and you are on either Apple or Google's PR team.

The list was not copied in the original comment, I was looking for videos, but could not get a hands-on, hence posted nokia youtube videos and the spec list. I left the computer, and when came back to see it, could not edit the spec list out.
My history knowledge is shaky, but I don't recall Standard Oil being "government enforced".
India Mars launch stokes Asian space race with China
I think this is the worst day to release a new tablet. You end up directly challenging the new iPad to be announced.
We had a similar post recently for a new Apple phone. I don't remember seeing any accusations of astro-turfing on that occasion.
My list was just a set of random things that popped up while I was typing, there is so much more where this came from. I wonder how big it would get if we would setup and collect all of it. Like, have a startup that just focuses on collecting hate and redistributing it to quality programs in these enterprises.
That's scary, but it sounds like something that could actually work. Very good.
The car makers use two kinds of active noise reduction. One is the injection of inverse waves into the car's stereo, to reduce road noise and body panel vibration. This is controlled by a microphone in the cabin (probably the same one used for hands-free phone calls).

The other one is in the engine mounts, where they have a liquid inside the rubber mount that can stiffen up on command (maybe magnetorheological[1], maybe some other kind), and this is used to counteract the vibrations the engine would transmit to the body/chassis. This is controlled by the ECU because it knows when the engine is on a power stroke and can thus apply correction on a timing basis.

I would think the latter would be what the MRI makers would want to investigate -- they've got a huge spinning mass[2] with components that vibrate. Much like an engine. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetorheological_damper

[2] At work, so can't post a video link, but if you look for "cover off mri" it's really scary/impressive how they work.
What people miss out on when they’re online
PODS are expensive to drop off, pick up, and keep on the street (roughly $75 pick up/drop off and $50/day in Los Angeles). After that it's the same as storage places or slightly cheaper. I looked into it a year ago and decided against it.
MIT-developed bike wheel will make your bike faster, smarter, and connected
One should be able to say "Compatible with USB2", in the similar way 3rd party companies made cartridges for the Nintendo.

And about squatting on a VID.. Well, they should have thought about pollution of their namespace on their anti-hobbiest policies. They frankly deserve it.
It's way easier to run a company if investors aren't expecting a profit. They don't complain about how you spend your cash, or that your operating margins have ticked up or down a percent this quarter, or that you missed your profit number in the latest results. Setting that profit expectation is the tricky bit, so why would Amazon give it up now?
Good timing as nyud.net seems to have stopped working.
Is this for scenarios where there's no shared storage medium, so IO fencing isn't a solution? I can see for a DRBD solution how you need some real way of ensuring only one node is up. It just feels like STONITH is a really ugly hack and would be better solved via other quorum solutions, even if it means adding a witness system.
The original report is remarkably well-written. It's nice when you get someone with the domain knowledge to understand an issue and also the language skill to explain it clearly.
I really don't understand why they have reused the Lumia brand. Do they really think people are going to talk about the products using the number?

You can walk into an Apple store and talk about their products more or less like a human being: iPhone, iPad, Mac Book, iMac, iPod, etc.

Can you imagine walking into a hypothetical Nokia store and trying to get your head round the differences between the 1320, 2520, etc.?
Americans Fall Behind In The 'Getting Older' Race
Well,

Suppose we want a web based UI for editing an email compaign to promoting an app of yours

For campaign: title, content, etc.

For recipients: you have to design something like Django's admin inline, user name, email, maybe facebook/twitter id.

Here a simple demo for inlines: http://admin:admin@demo.xadmin.io/host/hostgroup/add/ from the project https://github.com/sshwsfc/django-xadmin which is basically Django on steroids

Now recipients are growing, you can't hold them all on one page inline, you wanna filter the inline, but only on the client side.

Then you need pagination on the inline.

Then you need grouping recipients like folders

Next folders suck, let's re-organize them by tags.

Soon your product line expands, you have to support Android platform as well. Each user has installed either android or iOS app, or even both, so each user as associated one or more `device_type` attributes. Filter the inlines. Don't send iOS emails to Android users.

Then you want to set the campaign to iOS version with greater than 5.0 users. (How to design greater than or equal to logic visually?)

Now you want your message to be i18n supporting more languages, e.g. more collapsable textarea on the form

Now you want your message to be selected randomly from a pool of messages for A/B testing.

Then your messages are provided by a third party. You need a review board for external messages, as well as supporting inhouse messages.

I didn't even mention marketing feedback loops from real-time statistis, and that requires much more blood and tears making dashboards.

How to make a admin UI like that? The associated information grows with your business. Generic admin templates are not enough.

The basic problem is that those widgets, are not composable, nor nestable. even if nestable, not sortable.

Even if all goes well, widgets not splittable, but we often split data horizontally or vertically. And much more complex transformation like from a collection of items to uniformed array, nested array, dict (for grouping), sorted dict, nested sorted dict, dict with local & remote values, etc.

How many inline widgets can automatically support re-open itself in new window and communicate back with window.opener? What about switch from new window to in-page lightbox via history.js and ajax?
Natuurlijke middelen tegen een vervelende hoest
Or, people so thirsty for tablet news will eat up an announcement like this all morning until the folks on the west coast roll out of bed to hold their event.

Granted after that event your tablet announcement gets thoroughly buried, but it's better than releasing it in the 2 weeks after the Apple event when they dominate the tech news.
I don't understand.

I use lots of hobby stuff with USB ports. I have to lookup the vendor ID to make it read write in linux by default.

Presumably getting a proper ID makes this pain point go away from consumers somehow?

What's the gain I don't understand it?
So Google helps building a proxy for by passing their own censorship, Bravo Google, Bravo. (I'm being ironic of course)

This is what I get any time I try to download anything from Google Code or Android sdk or even read something hosted on GAE.

http://s24.postimg.org/gr0lto1l1/work107.png

I'm in Cuba but the same should be for Iran and others "bad boys".
This will just email dowhile@fade.li in the end.
How can someone say, "You own an operating system brand (Windows) that 91% of all computer owners in the world have installed on their system (June 2013). How is this not awesome?"

The customers do not even make the decision of buying Microsoft Windows operation system, but that is the only thing being sold to them alongside the Personal Computers they want. Personally I have pretty much only hate for Microsoft, but I can not argue if this statement is awesome when the statement is at least in my mind absolutely wrong.
Wow, pretentious much? You want his posts catered directly to you so that you don't become suspicious, and you call him out asking him to meet your "higher standards"? You're right, we do aspire to higher standards. I wouldn't say your posts always fit that bill though.
I sling code. I'm not a biologist. YMMV.

Not all calories are the same.

Doing the Four Hour Body, paleo, troglodiet (tm), I can't eat enough. In fact, the more I eat, the more body fat I lose. It's crazy. I even managed to convince my gf, who now eats with abandon, and she's lost 30lbs so far.

Ferriss warns in an early chapter that you will eat more than you've ever eaten before. Chomping thru 3 yummy kale salads (or equiv) per day, I stop eating when I'm tired of chewing. My salads are stuffed with calories, like bacon, turkey, avocado, tahini, craisins, etc.

Back to the fructose...

All I know comes from Lustig (sorry, I'm still not a biologist), why refined foods like HFCS are bad. The different metabolic pathway for fruit juice vs fruit. The sucrose splits into fructose and glucose. Body needs glucose whereas fructose is poison (just like alcohol). The fiber found in fruit et al blocks digestion of the fructose.

Sugar, the Bitter Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

I don't have any cites for how fructose is crack for cancers. I assume it's true. Diabetes, hypertension, and obesity are reason enough to avoid fructose.

(Further, I vote with my dollars. Screw the corn lobby and their market distorting subsidies.)
Both vorbis and flac are open codecs and are supported in a wide range of devices, like every Android device for starters, same goes for webm which is also open source and royalty free.
Sad times when we have to choose between being censored or lacking privacy. Where did that talk of the global village take us?
Just do what all the $1 Chinese USB devices on ebay do - clone an existing VID
"government-owned" is misleading, it's not used for "every online consumer money transaction performed", and, if I understand it correctly, it's just one extra click ..
I'd agree with all this, and if you don't have financial experience I'd suggest doing some Coursera courses that cover the relevant areas and putting those on your CV. At the very least it would show willing.
Left and right puts a spanner in the works.
Read the article again. That's not the Forum, that's the VTM Group, which handles their marketing and legal concerns. The USB Implementers Forum itself didn't make a statement.
You are right that Airbus had a hard time figuring out which plane to make, rushing a couple of A350 concepts before settling on the so called A350-XWB.

But once it was settled the engineering went smoothly. Or, should I say, has been going smoothly so far.

The skills involved in designing a plane are vastly different from that of figuring out which plane your customers will want 5 to 30 years from now.
People walk into BMW dealerships and wrap their heads around the 3 series, the 4 series, the 5, and 7 series etc. Each with their own confusing combinations of models numbers (535xi etc.) And BMW is even making it harder for folks with the new-ish even models (4, and 6 series).

If you hammer it over consumers heads long enough, people will learn your crazy naming schemes. I don't think Nokia has that kind of time.
Uh, I am stressed at work -- but most of that looked like a discussion of cryptological algorithms, not generation of random numbers?

Your point is obviously true, then. Sorry if I was unclear?