skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP sites don't typically ask for patient data (and should not, given the budget they are purchased on), they're usually sites with opening times, a few paras about the GPs etc - if they do ask for patient data it would be by giving a link to a booking system off-site typically, I'm sure you could find an exception, but most of them are fairly harmless. The sites are not exclusively https either - anyone handling patient data should be, that's also a serious flaw if you're going to start talking about sensitive data being transferred.

I'm not sure that surgeries would ever be able to adequately protect patient data on their own sites, so they mostly use externally purchased systems and the NHS provided IT for handling that (from what I know second hand from people in the NHS, I don't work there) - those are separate systems from their brochure websites, which are typically bought from and hosted at some low-budget shop which churns out WP/drupal/PHP sites for £100 a pop and would hopefully have the sense to advise surgeries never to collect private patient data on their website.

The biggest problem here is that these sites have no business being subdomains of nhs.uk, and should be on something else like gp.uk or whatever, and the NHS should make it crystal clear that no patient data touches an informational site (to patients and GPs). It's either that or they need to set up a secure CMS which all GPs/Hospitals can use for their brochure sites, but that's likely to be a big budget project and is of questionable value.

You could say the same of most hospital websites - they will not be secure as they are fire-walled from the actual patient data, and thus it is less of a priority to keep them secure. Sure it's not nice if they are hacked, but it is not as important as what happens to patient data.
All hail the global superintelligence known as Market. From Him all purpose and justification floweth. There need be no other.
It seems like it is geared towards building Ads instead of a generic design tool.
Kroger uses infrared near the checkout lines to similar effect: http://www.timesdispatch.com/business/retail/infrared-techno...
I agree, it's a stupid idea to create millions of altcoins.

However, it's possible to do the same idea within Bitcoin itself. See Mastercoin, and in the future 'colored coins'. Currencies within currencies, a bit like how the Fed is the world reserve.
Late, but - while it's not optimal, it's far superior to the submitted one, if for no other reason than the continuous scale reference.
He's facing 100 years the same way I faced a 75000 calorie lunch when I went to McDonald's a few days ago seeking a burger, a side, and a drink.
tldr; Flipboard is paying CNN 60 mil to do custom magazines for CNN shows.
At the end of the article, in the first comment, he says:

"Note that as a rule I do not publish my F2P monetization models. In this case, I am publishing the methods used by others to make money games, and since I only make skill games, I'm not creating any competition for myself. While the information I have provided here should lower the barrier to entry for commercially effective money games, I hope the discussion will lead some of you to consider making skill games instead."
This is one of those rare times when Android's inherently insecure system is an advantage.
On one hand this makes me wary of the quality of GnuTLS source in general, and on the other I know I am guilty of similar commit messages.
I would find it very difficult to find any sympathy for the prosecutors and FBI agents in this case. They are bullies, and they have gotten far less blowback than they deserve for doing shitty unethical and likely illegal but for their immunity things like threatening prosecution of family members and intentionally inflicting financial ruin on a defendant's whole family.
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really cool? yes.
Impractical? probably?

Scanning earth using satellites is really cool. Maybe they're outsourcing this to a central company, and paying a hundred bucks per store per month. fine. But to be honest, there are some more effective low tech ways to catch these numbers, for example by looking at the number of transactions, or installing sensors on every entrance to count the number of people entering.

Seems like they're shooting a pigeon with a cannon.
Google invest plenty of resources in JavaScript as well - they're active in helping define ECMAScript 6, they created V8 and Angular.js, and they employ a bunch of the world's most talented JavaScript programmers.
>> "A little creepy? Yeah. Smart? Definitely."

Is it creepy? They're only looking at car park occupancy in aggregate. They're not tracking car number plates.
Reflections on Zite Being Acquired by Flipboard
Compare equivalent accuracy. "one hundred and eighty three centimetres" is not noticeably more complex than "five feet seven and a half inches". And you have the option of "eighteen decimeters" if that's the level of accuracy you want - try inventing an intermediate unit on the fly with imperial.
It doesn't. I wrote a whole section on non-WordPress vulnerabilities. But, yes, patient facing sites aren't quite as critical as some of the backend stuff.

I spent the last two months trying to contact the people responsible. When I finally did, they said they wouldn't / couldn't do anything :-/
I'm not sure how addressable that is. While math could be modeled as a DAG globally, I think it is inherently linear locally (no smooth function pun intended) and incremental. Sure you could jump around, but I think at the end of day, if a student is going to progress to advanced math, they can't dodge tricky concepts.

But maybe I'm misinterpreting your point. Do you have links to what you've written?
>Legos are priced at what people are willing to pay for them.

I wont argue with that. But you can raise prices by raising demand for your product. Perhaps by aggressively marketing (and meta-marketing) a movie based on your product...
In a lot of cases the source code did not really exist in a meaningful way - lots of people on 8-bits wrote source code in a machine code monitor, with no comments or labels of any kind - rather than in a macro-assembler.

And even when they did, the source often stayed with the author rather than with the distributor, and may only have been "archived" on a single floppy in their personal collections, which may have stopped working, ended up in an attic or gotten thrown away.

Keep in mind that many of the early games were "throwaway" projects of a few weeks or months of freelance work for the people involved, and often conversions from other platforms where the lack of importance ascribed to source was demonstrated in that many conversions were done without access to source code or even design documents. E.g. some arcade conversions were done by playing the arcade game a lot to figure out the graphics and level designs and overall musical style....

For a lot of these games, your best bet is to crack out a disassembler and reverse engineer them. On the upside, most of the ancient games are tiny and fairly easy to figure out. E.g. for C64 games, use a freezer cartridge, and check the address stored in $EA31 and $EA32. It contains the address of the raster-interrupt. Almost everything in most C64 games hangs off the raster interrupt. That + 6502 assembly + a book explaining the C64 registers is all you need to get a good start at reverse engineering the workings of 90%+ of C64 games, and most of them will consists of at most a few thousand lines of code (The rest includes various oddities - e.g. Sid Meier's Pirates for C64 consisted of high level logic written in BASIC plus a bunch of asm subroutines to speed things up and/or save space).
There's absolutely nothing stopping them from using the iPad with a fresh OS installation, so I don't think useless is actually an accurate description. (Indeed, the BBC title is less linkbaity than this one and acknowledges the subjectivity of that description.)

Without a provision in the will to permit Apple to unlock the device, I can see why it would be hesitant to do so. Certainly, if I bequeathed my phone, computer, or tablet to relatives I would most assuredly not want them to also have access to the content on it.
That would be pretty much like asking why the dollar as value while the others don't.

For example the Botswana pula is a real currency, but is pretty much useless -for you- because is not the one they use where you live.
Soon there will be a "make your own crypturrency" kit and every little retailer will offer them like giftcards. It's almost like the rise of money all over again, expect this time instead of nationstates, it will be large multinational corporations likely to dominate. What's the Target/Walmart rate today on the forex?

I'd be surprised if Paypal (or the people likely to kill them) aren't secretly chewing on this as we speak.
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Can't do that without the password.
The font rendering at least on Firefox for Mac is atrocious. All icon fonts bleed by about 1 pixel near the font edges.
I was in contact with the people who claimed to be responsible. They were unable to find out who actually runs the site.
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As an aside, it's a shame about the political snipe partway through this piece. It might have been a useful citation to give for those of us planning to write to our MPs in light of the recent disclosures, but I imagine making an overtly political statement like that would seriously damage its credibility.
Yahoo is Ditching Facebook and Google Login Features
I can assure you that we made it abundantly clear how bad the problem was - including sending link, screenshots, etc. Had phone calls with them where they did sound genuinely concerned.

Sadly, it didn't transform into action.
I am completely missing to see the point in this ban.

You have e-cig's that do not create "smoke" so no second-hand smoking, they don't contain additives and other crap, it's almost pure nicotine and no tabacco, only water vapors.

It looks more like a push from tabacco companies than a state concerned for it's citizens well being.
Wow, plunker seems really nice.
You really do make a strong case with the package catalogue.

Some questions though:

Would you consider adding automatic server-side proccessing in the future based on file-extension? For example, compiling .less to .css on the fly?

I think, one of the more interesting directions of a web-based IDE is that they can stop pretending to be a file-editor on a file-system.

I also notice streams. Is this true collaborative editing?
The creation of a new coin has no bearing on the scarcity of another.

Scarcity is just one requirement for something to act as a currency; another would be that it can be exchanged for goods and services (read: other things that people value, and for which they want things that they also value).
How about simply "fuck off Google". We shouldn't have to do that and then reconfigure our piles of client devices.

Also isn't it about as useful as the do not track header? What about other vendors mapping it and data sense etc?

I moan on behalf of others as my network is ethernet due to things like this.
Powerful image processing services fully integrated as cloud-based add-ons
Because there aren't enough willingly naked people on the Internet already?
I guess it's the same as with paintings. Bitcoin is like a Picasso. There are just so many and you have to pay a lot of money to get one.

On the other hand, if you go to the next university and visit the art classes, you'll find enough talented people who'll sell you their own pictures for a lot less.

It's a demand thing.
The benefit to the user is that it establishes a social convention. You are unambiguously asking your friend not to share something around. It provides enough technical protection to prevent people sharing in the heat of the moment. In that sense it is like a changing room curtain.
Apple's "Activation lock" keeps devices bound to a specific Apple ID even in the case of a device firmware reset.

This little bit of extra information I've given shows the senselessness of the article.

The device can be reset with the mother's Apple ID. Her Apple ID can be reset through her email address. Her email address controls tons of important accounts that must be dealt with by her successors.

If her children did not get access to her email address, that is poor end-of-life planning, and the iPad problem stems from it.
There are quite a few amazing image processing solutions available out there. Cloudinary has started partnering with these companies to offer their services via the its cloud-based platform. The result of this work is the new add-ons solution, enabling automatic image moderation, categorization, smarter cropping, advanced compression, face attributes detection, screenshot generation and more, through a single click integration.
This blog post describes the new image processing add-ons. Detailed documentation is included with sample code for Ruby on Rails, Python & Django, PHP and Node.js
Well, consider that a government agency would still have to keep a database of what captcha tags were assigned to you on any given day at any given time, then it wouldn't be difficult to tie the two together. At that point you don't need to decipher the captcha, just compare pixels.
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It's hard for me to want to blame Apple for this. The fact of the matter is, they should not have lost those security tokens.

I'm getting pretty sick of the externalities of people's unwillingness to manage their information. You lose your password, you lose your device, unless you know how to hack it or can pay someone to do it. If it costs you more to recover your device than it's worth, tough shit. That password is designed to keep people who don't know it out. Don't lose track of it.
You can, it just requires putting the device in recovery mode.
Why should I have to ruin my naming standard for them? Personally I don't mind them mapping my SSID.
Activation Lock prevents them being able to activate the device after restore without the mother's Apple ID and password.
Ok so let's launch HNcoin
Engineer duo from Google, LinkedIn join again for InnoDB talks
lol you can't be serious
AMD touts new low-cost desktop chipset, calls Intel’s a “dead-end”
Is there something that makes this newly relevant? To be honest, I don't really understand the objection to mapping SSIDs.
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The biggest problem here to my mind is that these sites have no business being subdomains of nhs.uk, and should be on something else like gp.uk or whatever, and the NHS should make it crystal clear that no patient data touches an informational site (to patients and GPs).

I think it's the "making crystal clear to patients" part that is important here, because if GPs don't have sufficient security and their sites are compromised, what they were supposed to do with those sites no longer matters.

The idea that there can be privileged domains like nhs.uk where unmaintained and potentially insecure sites are hosted and no-one even knows who's responsible for them is genuinely quite shocking. What next, file your tax return with izurrevenewzuncustomz.gov.uk (t/a HMRC Ltd)?
I think the real interesting thing about this isn't any of these questions but really, much like with the internet, when does an IP become a person (or in this example, when does a license plate become a person)?

Is there a legal distinction? As I understood it, the reason you don't lose points on your license if you get caught by a speed camera in an automated fashion, is because technically, legally, they have to prove it was you in the car (but to charge a fine, they just have to prove it was your car and it violated a traffic law).

So if you think of it in that context, then how can I be sure it was you at all for those "sensitive" situations? If I can't be sure it was you, and the information was public (where you had no expectation of privacy in the first place), then is that information as protected as say, your medical records? (No really, I'm asking).
While true, I would imagine it is much easier for a good number of people to go cash only to avoid that, as opposed to never driving a car again.

Then when face recognition kicks in, never going out in public. Might be an opportunity in there somewhere for selling comfortable face masks.
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Shit. This story is nearly 12 months old.

It's a fake.
>I still think the killer app for Google Glass type products is face & license-plate recognition, aggregating data and pulling it up for you a la augmented reality all the time. The devices & services would be cheap unto free by companies accumulating that data.

I've thought about this a lot (because my startup wants to move into this space in a year or so, depends on the progression of wearables like glass) and have drawn the conclusion that the reason the facebooks and googles of the world while being technically capable of executing such an idea, they might see as even trying to do such (based on them basically creating walled gardens around information of which one needs to create an identity to access) would amount to a public flogging of them and maybe no clear way to monetize such capabilities now (just look at foursquare stumbling along trying to do such, and that's without facial recog).

But as you note, the technology is here, it's only a matter of time before someone can adopt such and gain usage by the masses. I personally think that the data collected from such if made publicly available, will make the the outcry over surveillance state moot since such capabilities are slowly creeping their way to the masses… I can only imagine the outcry from the church when the printing press started to take hold in its abilities to spread information to the masses…
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How the “world’s first Bitcoin bank” was robbed blind
Did you even read what this does? It's used to aid geopositioning. No data from the network is logged, other than its SSID/MAC address and its approximate location.
If one's going to include Pluto it would be nice to have Ceres, which was also cruelly stripped of its planetary status.
do you work for the NSA? (Silhouette)
Anyone know a way to query the API for your BSSID and see if you're in their database, or do they just respond to queries with a location rather than per-network confirmations?
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Yes I understand it entirely.

There are enough AP's around me for Apple Maps to know if I'm in bed or having a poo. You can see the marker move.

More services like this are bad.

They already know who I am.

What could possibly go wrong?

Edit: when I say more services are bad like this I mean we should be opt-in for both collection and usage rather than opt out.
At least in the community of practitioners that I am a member of, that doesn't ring true. Many people, including myself, did not connect with the faith they were born into, yet found something that spoke to them in Zen practice, which is deeply rooted in tradition (albeit one novel and unfamiliar to most Western practitioners). To say that 'these people aren't really practicing eastern religions' is a sweeping statement. Again, it may apply to some folks, but not generally to members of the communities I have experienced.

I'm curious about your connection of self-hatred to 'the social dynamics of this meditation stuff.' Could you expand on what you wrote?
You are correct that groups in the United States have had an enormous impact on Mexican politics. In 2003, Choicepoint was busted buying the secret Mexican voter files for the George W. Bush administration.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/05/colombia.usa

While Mexico does not have the resource curse, they are close by, in our time zones, and can provide massive labor exploitation if policies are tuned to make Mexicans desperate.
That sums up nicely why I loved LEGO as a kid and why I'm so happy that my son loves it now.
They don't. It isn't real time imagery, they are correlating the number of cars in the parking lot with the transaction counts from the store to estimate how many of the people that showed up at that particular time actually bought something.
My friend pointed out:

"When pressing the right arrow key, the digits at the bottom are spinning really fast apart from the most significant numbers at the front and the 3rd digit from the right which, curiously, slowly counts backwards without missing any digit"
From simple automation to proactive orchestration
Bliive.com: A social network for trading time.
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I wish I talked to you sooner. I just didnt' have the time to experiment. I didn't have a spare computer either.
This is a good example of how being correct is completely irrelevant if you can't communicate it well. That said, I still maintain that you're thoroughly misunderstanding the position the OP was arguing for.
in a past life I spent a lot of time concerned about how M&A would unfold in this space... This is interesting as we never had the sense Zite had particularly innovative tech, whereas Flipboard needed a 'horseman' to acquire them.

This may ultimately be more of a licensing/ partnership between CNN & Flipboard... In hindsight I wasted a lot of that time.
> "how shall I maintain my faith that bitcoin has a value these others don't"

If you believe currency value derives from scarcity, you should never have believed bitcoin had any particular value. If you believe value derives from the network of other people who agree to use it for transactions, then scarcity was little more than a marketing bullet-point for the early adopters.
GnuTLS considered harmful (2008)
How about you only opt-in people who add "_map" to their SSID?
Funny, this title is the same as a recent thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7331791
Did you read the article ? They register the plates of everybody not just the offenders.
Cyberattacks Rise as Ukraine Crisis Spills to Internet
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Opt-in instead of Opt-out: Append "_map" to your AP's SSID! Idiots.
I wouldn't trade stock per se, I would trade LEAPS or use a combination of options and stock trading.

For example, enter the market by writing Puts, earn a premium and if executed you then own shares at a discount. Then turnaround and write Covered Calls on the stock for out of the money strike prices. Earn a premium on your stock, and earn dividends, and capital gains. Protect your capital by using part of your Call premium to purchase a protective put on your stock (in line with your risk profile). If executed on the Call repeat by writing Puts.

Of course there is a lot you need to know, Google is your friend.
There's a difference between a bank finding out where the car is when you default and knowing where the car is at all times before you default.
No, there are clearly real problems with market based economies and issues of social responsibility. Selling plastic block toys, for which there are cheap enough alternatives, doesn't really seem to fit in this picture though.
The article says they cost 10,000-17,000 which surprises me. Surely an iPhone would be enough technology for this?
In the past, kings were buried with their swords and food for the afterlife, perhaps now we'll be treated the same.
The icons are the planetary symbols - e.g. the "female" symbol for Venus, the "male" symbol for Mars, and so on.
This post is already a few years old:

Posted: Monday, November 14, 2011