skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a time as a HIPAA architect so I know exposing patient information to the public is a violation and should be reported even if accidental. However reporting it and having someone actually investigate it and prosecute is unlikely. It was pretty rare that anything was ever done (been a few years), especially to a large organization. I also know that people inside companies that handle HIPAA covered information rarely care as long as they pass their audits.
If you read the article, it was already exploited.
I think I'm going to go for a third read :-)
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I have always loved Sam's work at Defcon. It is sad to see the world "turn" on a good security researcher.
The peculiar status of PhD-employees
Reading your post makes me wonder why bug-hunters aren't more cautious about this. Sure the sentiment is good, it is a moral obligation to expose a bug that could be harmful to users.

But if you suspect you could get burned for pointing it out, you can take steps to mitigate it. Anonymity for example. Then again if you are in it for the fame and recognition, getting burned is a risk you are taking out of vanity.
#startups is a terrible channel
Well, Buffet is in the process of engineering movement of Burger King to Canada in part b/c of tax considerations.

> who thinks taxes (on ... corporations) need to go up quite a bit...

Many US-based organizations are trying to establish HQ in places like England and Ireland b/c of tax advantages. e.g., Pfizer tried recently and AbbVie (another pharmaceutical giant) is in the process of doing so.
SpiderNotes is a small just-for-fun side project. The source code is available on GitHub. The bigger parts of the tech stack are Backbonejs and Python on Google App Engine.

It's pretty minimal and it only works on desktop-Chrome, so it's not for everyone, but it fits my needs. Hopefully it'll be useful to a few others too. Any feedback would be welcome. Thanks!
https://github.com/spidernotes
Ask HN: Wording for top tier plan: unlimited or a high quantity
Currently in my saas product I have two plans

+ light - 5 products a month

+ gold - unlimited # of products a month

The plans are monthly subscriptions to make nutrition facts labels.

Now I am wondering if any other sass owners out there opted to drop their unlimited plan to some high number like:

+ gold - 100 products a month

Has anyone experimented on how using the word 'unlimited' affects your sales?
If you only have a limited amount of willpower wouldn't the best idea be to wield it in the most effective manner possible? The app just gives you some tools in order to help you be more effective, it is still up to you to use them.

You are forced to come up with a concrete implementation intention. Instead of thinking I'm fat maybe I should exercise you are forced to come up with an actionable item. Jog at least 15 minutes after work on Tuesdays, make garden salad for dinner Thursdays. Through the course of playing the game you end up with metrics that you can use to further help yourself. If you are failing a task every time maybe consider that you set the bar too high to start and you should get back to basics. Likewise you can look and see in concrete terms how much progress you are making. Thinking about smoking a cigarette? Now you thin is it worth breaking my 3 day streak? A small nudge to be sure but sometimes that is all you really need.

The gamification aspect is brilliant. Increasing those imaginary numbers just feels good. Getting gold that can be used toward rewards that you previously committed to helps from making silly in the moment rationalizations. Well I parked my car further from the mall instead of finding a close spot that extra exercise earned me the right to eat this whole chocolate cake. Instead you are confronted with the best version of yourself who was not currently smelling chocolate cake. On top of all that the framework gives you room to fail. If you really need to smoke that cigarette it is OKAY. Those 10 hit points of damage are not a big deal just as long as you don't do it every day.

It's certainly better than the people who make new years eve resolutions. This is the year I'm going to exercise every day, start eating healthy, finally finish reading all my volumes of The Art of Computer Programming, start volunteering at a soup kitchen and finish that side project I have been working on for the past 2 years.
He has a decent shot at this being less expensive than prefab panels/modules, or even conventional poured concrete construction which requires building and removing forms.

There are several factors that could throw that off, though: How to do headers, thermal properties, plumbing and wiring, etc. At a steady pace, he's still years away from selling a house to anyone not able to sustain a total loss if Bad Things happen.
Why not just all jump into #hackernews? What does hackers mean again? Who's definition?

If you're actually looking for HN people, why don't we just participate on #hackernews on freenode.
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MSN MESSENGER IS SHUTTING DOWN IN OCT, 31
It will be interesting to see if their business model works or self-hosting will prevail.
MSN Messenger, the ubiquitous instant messaging platform of the early aughties, is no more. After 15 years of facilitating hookups between high school kids, Microsoft will finally pull the plug on its online chat program this fall.
All that really needs to happen is Op presence by some means of figuring out who gets that, some sort of management of the channel, and consistent reminders in comments, like:

Great idea: for X reason! Or, you are so wrong: for X reason. But why don't you pitch this some more on #hackernews on freenode?
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Why would you want to chat with hackers? Might as well just go into work and talk to coworkers.
While I don't disagree with anything you've written, depending on your risk appetite there is a difference between compromises that require physical access and those that don't - not that I think this particular product is a good idea at all, but not everything needs full local security.
For some users a secure messaging protocol that protects messages as long as Alice & Bob's machines aren't rooted is Good Enough, and I don't see anything wrong with creating a product that offers this (as long as it's made explicit that this is the case - Google's End-to-End is a good example of providing this level of security and being clear about this limitation).

Also, re: metadata, I really liked the work in Pond to massage the data stream so that it didn't look like encrypted data, which while certainly doesn't solve the metadata problem is one step along that path. And yes, it does use a TPM if available.

I'd be very interested to hear more about TPMs that are open, well audited and trusted, if such a thing exists.
Meet the Guy Who Makes $1,000 an Hour Tutoring Kids of Fortune 500 CEOs
Hey everyone, don't forget that copying commands from web sites and pasting them into a terminal window can be very dangerous http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
Because I am 16
Design Geek writes shit loads of briefs
It's not as simple as the right-wing boomers dying. There are a few things we need to keep in mind:
- People become more conservative as they age.
- The political right receives more support from crony capitalists.
- Crony capitalism is what's causing problems for these doctors in the first place.

It's happening all over the world. There's a general trend where the right-wing trolls are aligning themselves with the cronies. While the next generation wants to fight the nastiness in racial/sexist/homophobic discrimination, they're not too enthusiastic about doing anything besides paying lip service to structural problems in the way the world works economically.
Neither of those two threads are uncivilized in the least, so it's hard to see what point you're trying to make. For an example of an uncivilized thread, try "Why Doctors Are Sick Of Their Profession" from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246760
Though I think this document exagerates a little, by hacker I meant this: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
From my point of view this is what anonymous full disclosure is for.

Naming and shaming typically gets some kind of a response. Keeping quiet does not.

I know not everyone agrees with full disclosure but I assert there is a time and a place, and after a demonstration like this one, IMO this university is one of those places.

Edit: typo
freenode in general isn't a very friendly place :/

that said, i think #clojure and #reactjs are fairly friendly and helpful to questions, even the most basic ones.
It is dangerous to report bugs

A student in Montreal was expelled after informing the college where he studied that there was a security flaw
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/17/montreal-studen...
Ah, a candidate for the useless use of cat award.

The first command can be given more easily as:

nc -l -p 9999 < hugefile.ext

(which also mirrors the logic of the second, modulo nc's idiosyncratic argument syntax)
I just logged onto #hackernews on freenode.

My god, it's full of avatars!
That's a great interim step but ultimately people still have to learn to drive. There may even be an increase in risk as you become less skilled at the things you don't do very often (when the car hands you control, the cognitive load could be overwhelming).

It'll be great when we can do away with the need for learning how to drive at all.
Show HN: Tech presenters share info with audience through email address
Lessons from the Sharing Economy
"Cloudulate" sounds plausible.

Perhaps "Cloudulation" is what happens at the end of a successful project...
Radiology, Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology, and Dermatology ROAD to success.
Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, by E.T. Jaynes, is a highly readable definitive reference that builds the theory from the ground up. The first three chapters are all you need for your purposes and are available online for free (link below), but the entire book is wonderful and well worth reading if you are serious about the subject.

http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf
Atleast in areas where the laws permit, why isn't a competitor, e.g. Google Fiber, not taking advantage of this clearly prevalent customer dissatisfaction with Comcast/TWC etc?

Also, some people seem to say that laying Fiber/infrastructure has costs which may be the reason. Then what happened to the wireless technologies which were presented as options for covering a city with connectivity? There was so much chatter about Wi-Max and such technologies - why are they are not being researched/refined/pushed? One of the best example of the vast advantage of penetration of wireless vs wired in terms of speed of deployment and impact is in India - especially rural areas where one can't expect clean drinking water but the cellphone signal is strong. Everytime somebody complains that in smaller towns in US that Comcast is the only choice in such places due to their infrastructure, assuming there are no laws prohibiting wireless competition, wireless should be the best option, no? So what am I missing (seriously)?
Nowhere in the original article[1] is the professor accused of hacking and certainly not of having any malicious intent. The headline of the subsequent summary in scmagazine.com[2] is where the word "hacked" came in, and to be fair to the reporters, what the professor did would be considered "hacking" in some legal interpretations of existing laws whether that's right or wrong.

To be clear, we have absolutely zero evidence that the IT staff at the hospital ever accused him of anything or claimed he did anything wrong. Apparently they didn't respond and tell him thanks, but given that they knew who it was, if the hospital thought it was a crime, surely they would have contacted the authorities.

In any case, neither article named the professor until he came forward, so I'm not sure how even the extremely mild misinterpretations of the case could be called libel, exactly.

All in all, this isn't exactly a cut-and-dried case of curious white-hat smeared by the government and media. There are plenty of those to go around. We needn't invent more.

[1] http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/local/2014/08/19/conwa...

[2] http://www.scmagazine.com/professor-hacks-university-health-...
There should be some kind of anonymizing escrow-type service that allows people/info.sec researchers to help companies with security issues (or am I being woefully slow, and there already exists such a thing? This was just a OTTOMH/knee-jerk thought, FFTTMTFO..).
horse vs unicorn

US cable wants to keep monopoly over subscriber base and keep things as they always were. Nice steady revenue per cable subscriber per month.

High speed internet access is disrupting their business model. Pick any streaming service you like as long as you have fast broadband.
If you could build a 3d printer that could lay down PVC pipes to heating/hot-water spec, that would revolutionise construction in the way that a concrete printer seems unlikely to do.

If you could do walls/floors/plumbing/electrics in one machine in one pass, it would change the world in ways that are hard to imagine - this would completely change the economics of construction projects.

Nobody's done those yet, sadly. They seem difficult things to design.
I'm around the same age and started reading Anandtech when I was a high school teenager in the late 90s.

We scrounged together cash to play the latest version of Quake, upgraded to the latest 3dfx Voodoo cards, and overclocked our Celeron 300A chips till they burned out. Most of the info on what to do came from Anandtech and associated forum discussions.

Thanks to you, Anand, you'll always be a legend for our generation.
And it would help explain why the disclosure is being made - to help the company the disclosure is being made to, as a free gift.
I guess we don't know, statistically answer might be No. But whats your point?
So Flux is poor man's BizTalk.
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient. Osler. (Even more so for a lay person)
Ding ding ding we have a winner!

The end goal of all the BS arguments on this topic is too make sure the telcos stay on top. The message gets tuned to the audience no matter how hypocritical the tuning makes it.

"Oh it would be unfair to minorities" "You don't want to subsidize minorities" "anti-free market!" "it's too expensive for the private sector".

When rich people in industries start telling you what's good for the industry, at the end of the day the goal is always to do what's good for them.
Yup, agreed. I wasn't clear, but I was thinking/ass-u-me'ing that it would be an entity that would try to act responsibly.
How much is your privacy worth?
Absolutely. They don't realize they will hurt the other companies this way. There are companies and institutes follow this thing very closely and when you try to close the sell with them, they would drop this Bomb, where are your servers and how they are not feeling comfortable with all this things going on.
Because most of the time, the thought doesn't even occur to someone that it could be an issue. Here you are, going along, and suddenly you find information that shouldn't be public. So, you send a quick email. After all, it was probably an oversight, and it only takes a minute of your time to inform somebody.
Prefab houses already largely solve this problem.

All materials are delivered to the prefab factory, in bulk, the prefab house is assembled complete in about a week (including internal finish), and the house is delivered in a single delivery.

If you locate your prefab factories along convenient bulk shipping routes (railroads, rivers, canals) and order houses from the closest factory, you've reduced your shipping costs considerably.
...and now you have a naive version of frequentist estimation.
I think the first article is just an sponsored article by University Health Conway. By trying to convince public opinion that it was hacking, University Health Conway probably want to skip charges for negligence, reveal and distribute personal data publicly...
Sound exactly how my management want things to be in a couple of years
Steady on.

The journalists I know do indeed meet society's expectations for fairness and accuracy, and make calls and pound beats, but there are also a lot more people who project themselves as journalists who are a long way from this ideal. Sadly market pressures mean there are a lot of the latter about.
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The United States is an enormous country comprised of 50 separate state governments, where the powers of the federal government are extremely limited (both by the constitution itself, and by the fact that it is practically impossible to do anything at that kind of scale).

Hold on, if the U.S. is 50 separate governments, each of which have great power (since "the powers of the federal government are extremely limited"), then shouldn't each state be able to pass effective healthcare by itself? Only 2 U.S. states have populations larger than Australia, and none would make it into the top 5 E.U. countries by population.

Talking about solutions that work well in smaller countries is all well and good, but the reality is you need different solutions if you want them to work at scale.

But you just said each state is separate and the federal government has limited power, so why do they need to work at scale larger than anywhere else?
As someone who recently interviewed at a number of Boston area tech companies I disagree with #2 from a candidate's perspective. I agree that interview coding is "far removed from the real practice of writing code" - but that's okay.

If done correctly it can give the interviewer insight into the applicant's thought process - and for the applicant it can be one of the best filters for who you would actually want to work for.

Companies/interviewers that asked very specific questions that tested only my memorization of a particular language's syntax were a huge turnoff. More open-ended ones along the line of "how would you solve this problem" and allowed me to whiteboard in the language of my choice and/or psuedocode made the company much more attractive.
Sprayed insulation is already a thing. Additionally, there are additives (aerogels maybe? I can't remember but aerogels can do anything) you can add to concrete to raise its insulating value significantly.
> You can socialise and centralise healthcare in countries on such a small scale, but it becomes exponentially more difficult to do in a country like the US (pop: 313 M).

First, as with the EU, the US is divided into fairly independent states who already manage most parts of their own healthcare/insurance systems.

Second, the idea that 30 million versus 300 million makes a huge difference in scaling healthcare is pretty silly. Sure, a healthcare system for 1,000 people would have different challenges than one for 1,000,000 people, but on nation-sized scales? You have regional divisions to keep it manageable.

What exactly makes Australia or the UK's system unscalable to the size of a US state?

> It's the reason why if you look at a list of the world's oldest nations the United States is right at the top, and is one of the largest.

Massive amounts of minimally populated land to expand into likely played a more significant role, as well as a lack of aristocracy - if you look at European upheaval it's usually an issue of one of the two.
The biggest problem with this question is the breadth of the term 'hacker'. Hackers tend to clump into whatever projects they are currently working on. Try starting off in places like #ubuntu and other projects (that interest you!) that are very newbie friendly. Master a topic and try helping other newbies with that topic. It takes time but my personal experience is the best way to be involved in the 'hacker' culture is to be recognized as someone who brings value and contributions back to the group, regardless of the size of those contributions.
Well for one thing, there's a big difference between a 9.6kbps cellphone voice call (and thus data channel) and 20 mbps+ data.

Wireless sucks. It is a bad solution to everything except where some much larger problem exists (i.e. you are on a plane).

Wireless seems good in India because the networks are not highly demanded - and are expensive to boot so volume is managed. Wireless seems to grow quickly because you throw up a tower and declare "50,000 people now have access!", and telephone service is still kind of a big deal.

But that's all you get from it. You can't provide a 20mbps pipe to those 50,000 people - not even close.

But India is poverty stricken. The electricity grid is bad. And there's the lawlessness that comes with poverty (heard of copper thieves?). Wireless towers are easy central locations to power and protect. Thousands of miles of copper or fiber is not.
More, in fact.

http://ark.intel.com/#@ServerProducts

But your original point is a valid one: AMD introduced desktop 8 core processors a couple of years ago, while this is intels first 8 core desktop processor.
The scale argument is fundamentally a copout for folks who ideologically oppose national healthcare, IMO.
At floobits we use "actions" in addition to model events for our flux like implementation. Views trigger usually actions, modifying models triggers events on the model. Views in themselves do not usually trigger model updates.

So think about opening up a file in a web editor, that's an action. Many things might care about when a file is opened. The tab UI, maybe a log, other users connected to your session. Sometimes views correlate well to model updates, like a form, but many times they do not in which case a different event type can be useful.
... and test the prediction.
look at irc channel of different hackerspace ... as that one : http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/London_Hackspace
A few days ago I stumbled on Axios, an "Open Source Modular Ergonomic Keyboard". They are preparing a crowd-funding campaign here [0].

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/multiplxd/axios-keyboard
I presume that the content on your website is somewhat NSFW, otherwise you would be using Google Adsense or media.net to server the adverts. They give full reports, pay well, and in my experience pay higher for mobile browsers.

You say that they send you a cheque, with no breakdown of figures. This seems almost unbelievable to me.
The language is a bit exaggerated but I don't think it deserves such an offensive dismissal. There is plenty of evidence that conservatives have those traits, not to mention that it is a widely held belief, which is enough to make it an acceptable comment. See for example http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/jost.glaser.political-c...
It's entirely possible to get a job under the general label of "programming" - businesses everywhere need custom systems written to handle their shit and it doesn't really require any extra skills beyond being able to program.
Right now the demand is so high that anyone and with just 1-2 years of total experience as a programmer (and without a CS degree) will have no trouble getting hired, provided he knows the technologies that are in demand (like enterprise java).
Designer of the Atreus here. The post linked to the Atreus OSS project, but I am also selling kits for anyone who wants to put one together without tracking down the parts yourself. http://atreus.technomancy.us Happy to answer any questions.
> "It's the reason why if you look at a list of the world's oldest nations the United States is right at the top, and is one of the largest."

Really? Please can you elaborate on this as it makes no sense to me.
Pre-Iraq/Afghanistan the VA was considered quite effective and people were very satisfied with their treatment there. A massive influx of injured/disabled soldiers from those wars (where death has largely been replaced by wounds thanks to good body armor) without a parallel ability to scale treatment up probably hurt them more than poor administration.