skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't take financial or healthcare from online forum comments ( in other words the parent is full of shit).
> Can you imagine every piece of software checking for every piece of esoteric hardware and having some special behavior?

This is what MS Office does. A Microsoft engineer told me once that because many printers lie to the OS about their capabilities, they built a giant lookup table into the Office, that basically consists of "if printer model X, vendor Y and firmware Z, then don't trust it about the fonts onboard, render the text before sending instead".
Dell support and policies are utterly broken. I had a Dell Vostro which worked fine except at one time it started emitting fumes when running a CPU intensive task. I was denied warranty because I was running Linux!

Since then I have vowed never to buy Dell.
The developer of Flappy Bird has removed it from the App Stores.
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We find jobs for our more experienced players and collect placement fees from the employers.
It's a bit old, 2005. Please add it to the title.
What about cases like this: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/aug/24/avastin-too-e... ?

I'm not a fan of the US system either, but I live in a country with State-run healthcare, and cost decisions like those are made every day.
That's not exactly accurate - he's blaming Obamacare for them having to provide new insurance products that have a net higher cost going forward - the incident of distressed babies happened before the ACA, which means they did have that choice, and chose to pay the costs.

Regarding what most insurance policies cover, there are actually several scenarios that would leave AOL on the hook. First, they could have a policy that has an Annual or Lifetime payment limit, which would leave the company (or individual) responsible for anything over. Alternatively, if the number of incidents was significantly higher than average for the carrier, AOL could see a significant premium increase due to the higher utilization of their plan. Or, they could actually be running a self-funded insurance program, which means they are managing the risk instead of relying on a separate insurance carrier.

Either way, there are several situations in which AOL's costs could be significantly impacted by the situation.
I explained it in my last post. It is the ease of getting started. You can just copy Ospari on your server and start to blog. Installing Ghost is not easy.
Second it is also about alternatives. Why Ycombinator started HN, although reddit existed?
> This. There will continue to be improvements to AOSP, but only as that makes driving Google's proprietary apps easier and faster.

This isn't remotely true, work continues on the platform in a number of areas beyond just feature requests from other teams. Having application teams able to explain the pain points they feel in the platform and then having the platform team come up with solutions that work for the general use case is a good thing though, it improves everybody's experience. It isn't like there are hidden "makeGmailFaster" APIs that other people can't use.
I suspect that a simple game like Flappy Bird will help us tremendously when teaching kids to make games in Scratch.

While this particular game might not be that important or different, I think the amount of game clones and interest in them is good.

One of the ways to perfect your skill is to mimic and clone something that you care about. Kind of like musicians play and make their own covers of their favorite music.
Could you post few screenshots of the admin panel? A functional demo of admin panel would be even better.
I hate it when people mix tabs and spaces

https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird/blob/master/js/ga...
http://valleywag.gawker.com/tim-armstrongs-salary-in-distres...
Desired features:

* track high score

* Use full screen on mobile (or lock the rotation)

* friendly mobile URL

Edit: Also, not sure what score is compared to 'steps' or how to increase it.
"StartPage protects you from NSA surveillance and spying": And how do you save me from NSA owning CA's and decrypting the SSL Traffic from you? Please explain. (I wish https was any good against NSA - is it?)
Ask HN: Is there a reddit equivalent to "Show HN"?
I am not an expert redditer and want to promote a new site I am working on the same way you would do a "show hn" post would do. What is the best way to do that in reddit without being "spammy"?
When you build a skyscraper you don't need to design ever brick, but that is the wrong analogy. You do need to understand the properties of the different bricks so you pick the right ones, and use them properly, otherwise the building will crumble under its own weight.

If you write a heap sort algorithm you don't need to understand it in assembly... Except if you need to optimize performance. If you ignore the network stack while you write an HTTP app, you might not know how to protect from a man in the middle attack, your particular app would not need it... But maybe the next one does. You might not understand how chrome and Mac OS works... But then if pop ups start to appear you will not know what to do.

While some levels of abstractions make things easier to deal with, programming is more about process building than specific tools, and I feel that the original article got right
No one will see the value in doing what you're doing and want to clone you until then. Even if someone saw the genius in your approach early on and decided to clone you and start competing with you, you have to be confident that your version of your idea will continue to be better than their version. You still have all the advantages of branding, community, and users, whereas their version has no advantages except perhaps a lower price (which doesn't apply to many products, like your AirBnb and Youtube examples).
... And the UK, but not many other places, which is why I explain it and expand the initialism.
This guy is a walking disaster. How is it anyone is willing to work for him?
But, mine goes to 110%! (with apologies to Spinal Tap)
No it doesn't, I have no idea how such utter rot makes it onto HN.

Peter is a tabloid journalist, he stopped writing interesting balanced articles a long time ago and now just posts linkbait.

His points are thoroughly refuted, but I guess you didn't bother to read them.
With a compressor or limiter. These are solved problems in both analog and digital signal processing.
What is OpenStreetMap?
wow, that's a strange stuff, i use VIM with 2 spaces for indentation for js code. Will try to fix that. Thanks man!
Helping Those In Need/Working Together
Why not ask this on Reddit or Quora?
Nice! I am putting some sound as well. Thanks for the feedback!
>> 10/20 years from now, everyone will have to learn how to write parallel algorithms to a degree not even imagined today

> So you could learn about low-level code and compilers.

No, you could learn mathematics and algorithms (which I already said). A least-squares curve-fitting regression method works the same in all languages. A Fast Fourier Transform works the same in all languages. Quicksort works the same in all languages. These examples have in common that they are all expressed in universal mathematical notation, and they all carry out the same basic algorithms in the same way, regardless of which language they're expressed in. But all of them would need to be modified to take parallelization into account and exploit it to its fullest.

> As far as I know, there have been developments for more than 10 years that aim towards better parallelising compilers.

That's true, but it's also true that the real challenges of parallelizing algorithms have yet to be addressed in any meaningful way, for lack of suitable hardware. One example is the problem posed by race conditions among independent processes, which is a big argument in favor of immutable variables and functional languages. But these issues have to be examined in light of specific hardware -- they can't be fully worked out in advance of the existence of the target hardware.
> The "Android is an open platform" is just a fallacy.

No it isn't, you're just lying. The response lays out in detail how Android (ie AOSP) is more open than any alternative.

Stop talking crap.
> And to be honest, I'm surprised that his statements aren't "suable" in some form in the lawsuit happy country that is the United States of America. A friend of mine immediately pointed out to the numerous healthcare privacy laws in place; and another HN commenter pointed out on the original thread the possibility that the employees with the distressed babies would get discriminated against by their coworkers, after Armstrong's statements, due to the fact that they're probably identifiable internally by their team members.

It very well may be a suable violation. HIPAA laws prohibit the "misuse and disclosures of PHI", and PHI includes a person's payment history, not just their medical records[1]. Such a breach by a covered entity is a criminal offence that can result in jail time by the offending employee[2]. As AOL isn't a covered entity (e.g. healthcare provider, insurance company, etc), I'm not sure whether it could be applied directly to Armstrong. You can probably push a HIPAA violation to the insurance company, however, as Armstrong most likely was told of these cases as the basis for group rate spikes during their insurance contract re-negotiation.

And those are just justifications related to violating patient privacy laws. I'm sure a lawyer could also make a pretty strong case against Armstrong personally for defamation.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_health_information
[2]: https://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/solutio...
There's already https://github.com/C0deH4cker/FlappingBird
I'm currently making a clone as well. Expect it to be out in a week: https://github.com/grant/flappy-frog
If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is
So how is this better than a page with an iframe form? (http://www.wufoo.com/)
There appears to be a bug where you can get caught in a "death loop" on game start. Click to start the game, but let the bird fall and immediately die. Every subsequent restart of the game will lead to an immediate restart loop when you try to start clicking to play as the intro rises.

I'm using Chrome version 32.0.1700.107.
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It is. drone.io is open sourced and can be ran on your own servers.
Secunia reports that I need to update VLC Media Player on a computer from which I recently removed a lot of malware (with the help of Malware Bytes, of which I have a purchased copy on that computer). I installed Secunia on the same computer, and it has not been able to do its update of VLC Media Player, nor have I been able to get an update of that to install by going directly to the VLC Media Player website and downloading the latest version. That is worrisome.

Would I be better off just completely uninstalling VLC Media Player?

AFTER EDIT: I might have considered a direct answer to my question (whatever the answer was) more helpful than a silent downvote to what was, after all, just a polite response to a question that someone asked me.

AFTER FURTHER EDIT: After some more rebooting of the previously infected computer, the operating system and Secunia both report that VLC Media Player version 2.1.3 is installed, and that is not reported to have any problem by Secunia. So I will leave that alone. The computer from which I usually post to HN, a different computer on the same home network, does not have VLC Media Player installed. I try to keep a close-to-bare-stock set of installed programs on this computer, but other users in my household (= teenage boys who aspire to be hackers) tend to install programs I've never heard of on the other computer on our home network, and my wife, who has other things on her mind, occasionally doesn't notice installations of crapware or adware or bloatware that tag along with legitimate program updates on that computer. So that other computer tends to be the vector for malware attacks on the home network here. Thanks for any further comments participants here have on how to keep a home network safe when not all users follow strict quarantine policies.
The Secunia security issue SA51464 was never proved, never reproduceable and never fixed...

We did a lot of fuzzing with 2.1.x though and we've fixed all the security issues that were reported.
Life after when you loose all your data stored in hard-drive
Come on, sticking with only one language is never a good idea. Exposing yourself to different paradigms and ways of doing things is almost certain to broaden the way you are able to approach problems in the future.
Flappy Bird is shutting down.
Tim Armstrong has an incredible ability to say the wrong thing.

The underlying topic, however, is fascinating. I do healthcare analytics for a living so I see how often a single neonatal ICU incident can consume 30% of an entire company's healthcare budget for the year (note: if you don't really understand healthcare, e.g. what self insuring means, please don't respond with comments that the insurance company pays the bills, this is what insurance is for, etc.).

The economics of healthcare combined with the inability to have a rational discussion on how to allocate resources means that doctors / researchers will apply their research efforts where they will be rewarded. The race to keep younger and younger babies alive is fueled with ego and dollars.

No one wants to talk about scarce resources and how to allocate dollars to have the most impact. I wish conversations stemming from idiotic comments like Armstrong's ended up being productive but they always end up with non-actionable ranting around taking executive pay and giving it to sick people. Unless someone proposes a mechanism to achieve that, it's just a dream / rant.
Hi dmbass, thanks for your comment. I found this project interesting on showing people with no knowledge of game programming that we can do a "complete" game in less than a day. If you have some feedback or improvements to show, feel free to made a pull request!
My first FOSS code contribution
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I love the idea as well but feel as though there should be some sort of free option
Just as an aside, I think AOL had the highest stock price increase in 2012 of any comparable company. I wonder how much of compensation was due to capital gains.
Adrian left Netflix:
http://www.battery.com/our-team/member/adrian-cockcroft/
> With Android 4.4 I felt disappointed that it was just an excuse to integrate more the platform to google services, so, google become the real an unquestionable controller of Android.

What parts of the platform became more proprietary in 4.4? The only thing I can think of is Hangouts for SMS, but even then the SMS app still works and is updated to use the new messaging APIs introduced in KK, it just isn't the default on Nexus devices any more.
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Somebody should do a graph of all the clones that will flood the market.

I've got twenty bucks that says there will be 50 clones across all platforms within the next 30 days.

Having said that, hell, I'll give you an upvote. Best of luck to all takers.
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130k here, I feel lower middle class.

I can't buy a house in NY. I'll have to move upstate for that.
I have only one car, second car would be a little bit hard.
Flappy Bird is now GONE - FREEDOM
Mozilla's Gecko team is incredibly interested in both uncompromising performance and strong security. Rust is the first language in industry to offer the zero-overhead abstractions of C++ while retaining memory safety (with the exception of perhaps Ada, which has never taken off outside the government sector).

You seem remarkably uninformed as to what Rust's goals are. Allow me to enlighten: reliability is a big, big deal to the Rust developers. Security is a big, big deal to the Rust developers. Speed is a big, big deal to the Rust developers. Memory efficiency is a big, big deal to the Rust developers.

As for your mistaken assertion that such efforts at memory safety are unnecessary in real-world code:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.servo/ufJM...

>>> * Do we have data showing how many security bugs we could be avoiding in
>>> Servo in comparison to Gecko? Is the security benefit truly as valuable
>>> if expected performance benefits don't pan out?
>>
>> We've been talking to some members of the security team (Jesse, Brian). In
>> general the main class of security vulnerabilities that Rust offers a layer
>> of defense against is memory safety problems in layout, rendering, and
>> compositing code. Use-after-free is the big one here, but there are others.
>> I'm not in the sg so I can't run the numbers myself, but I am told this
>> constitutes a large class of security vulnerabilities.
>>
>
>A quick scan suggests that all 34 sec-critical bugs filed against Web Audio
>so far are either buffer overflows (array-access-out-of-bounds, basically)
>or use-after-free. In many cases the underlying bug is something quite
>different, sometimes integer overflows.
>
There are 4 sec-high bugs --- DOS with a null-pointer-deref, and a few bugs
reading uninitialized memory. The latter would be prevented by Rust, and
the former would be mitigated to the extent Servo uses the fine-grained
isolation Rust offers.

There are no sec-low bugs.

Web Audio is an example of a feature which has very little security impact
of its own. Its security impact is entirely due to bugs where violation of
language rules can trigger arbitrary behavior. Rust prevents such bugs. A
lot of Web features are in this category.

TL;DR: Firefox's Web Audio component, which in theory ought to have practically zero attack surface, contained at least 34 critical and exploitable security vulnerabilities. All of these were a result of the lack of safety afforded by C++. Rust would have made these vulnerabilities impossible.
Nice one! But this is a javascript, i guess is more easily to play/install/etc..
Really? Why do you think that is? Do you have some examples?
Re points (1) and (2):

Ha, that sounds like bootstrapping would be necessary.

> So my feeling is that, by all means, we should be teaching anyone and everyone how to code, to lay the groundwork for teaching computer science.

Yeah, but which knowledge - coding or computer science, is more important? Both can be aimed at solving problems. It depends on the context, especially regarding the language and associated libraries etcetera being used.
SHN: grunt-uncss on a rails landing page in 
Took less than 15 minutes from npm install, doc reading, conf, and heroku deploy. Cut off ~100k. Worth it for the one off page we send the majority of our PPC traffic to. Will follow up with google page timing stats once it goes to prod.
Curious that AOL had to pay millions of dollars for insurance claims. Isn't that the insurance company's responsibility?
Actually, he is claiming they cannot do this. How, exactly, would we verify this claim? I'm sure he would have made the claim that Snowden could not have done something like this before Snowden did it.
because HN is my "home" and where I get the most answers to my posts. I wouldn't even know what subreddit to post to!!

I never used Quora before other than occasionally landing there from a google search.
Which uses an Android kernel, and Gonk is mostly based off of Android userspace code (input, rild, most if not all of the HALs, etc.)
so wait Tim's Logic...

1. Baby born Medical cots $1 Million, INSURANCe COStS $250,00 and yet Tim decides to eliminate 401ks to balance benefits costs over something that does not increase insurance costs? You have to have a significant amount of $250,000 in an insurance pool of AOL employees before that happens..one is not the number that triggers it.

@. He also cited Obamacare. Obamacare is by design to get businesses to pay healthcare for those at-risk employees in the low income brackets so that that preventive health care spent on them decreases the huge medacaid expenses seen later by THE FEDeral Government.Lets not even mention the productivity studies that state employees are more productive when not worrying about uncovered medical expenses.

Seems tome the AOL board shold remove this CEO for gross lacking of clear thinking skills
I wanted to buy a ZipCar/FlexCar fleet vehicle. Then any one (in network) could use it, helping me offset my capital expenses.
I've watched a number of films on a Macbook Air without that particular problem.

They are still terrible speakers, though. I almost laughed when showing a friend Star Wars for the first time; it doesn't even come close to doing the soundtrack justice.
Here is a quick screen short http://awesomescreenshot.com/04e2brbo81
We a basic and clean admin interface. Ospari uses Markdown. You have a live preview as you type and everything is auto saved.
What developpers don't understand is that people don't actually like/want that game.

It's an inexplicable trends, even if your clone is super awesome no one will want to play it (it apply for every clone it's not an personnal attack).
AOL could've chosen a 3rd party insurance company instead of self-insuring. Self-insuring was probably a decision intended to save money compared to getting an external health provider.

The CEO could conclude that these outlier events create too much unpredictability for the bottom line, and thus move the company to an external healthcare provider. Heck, they could even fire the CFO or whoever made the cost-benefit analysis if it was wrong. But blaming the employees, who didn’t create this situation? Unacceptable.
My daughter had a similar birth and hospital stay, which also produced a million dollar insurance bill. It costs about $10,000/day to stay in the NICU. I was never able work out why it costs so much, except that this is a major profit center for hospitals, and they use the money to cover other, money losing, departments.

Fortunately Google is run by good people, and they were never anything other than supportive. I'm grateful for having had access to the best care for her. I do think our medical system needs some rethinking though.
It is not hard to hack a human, it happens every day - we know it by the term radicalization these days. There are people who abandoned comfortable Western lives to fight jihads and become suicide bombers. Another term for it is brainwashing. In the Cold War people became defectors. You can hack a human by speaking to them or by showing them some text to read, techniques thousands of years old.
Occupy leader now works for Google, wants to crowdfund private militia
I didn't read it that way, I read it as encouragement.
Follow us on Twitter @Ospari for updates. We would post more detailed docs in the next days.
Cloudflare offers transparent IPv6 support for the sites using it. It's just not enabled by default.
Wow this game is really hard. 20 minutes in and my best score is 3.