skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oxford Health Plan (3,200 employees) site is running Apache/2.0.47 and is down
I would guess this is highly insecure given that it was released on 10th July 2003 (It's obviously unstable given how the site is failing).

If you try to search for providers they work with here (As of 10/11/2014), https://www.oxhp.com/secure/providerSearch/content_facility.html

The site fails and spits out:
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, you@your.address and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

IBM_HTTP_Server/6.1.0.47 Apache/2.0.47 (Unix) DAV/2 Server at www-int.oxhp.com Port 80
The Quantum Thief is a really interesting book. I really enjoyed it.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Quantum-Thief-Jean-Flambeur-ebook/...
Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight
Microsoft's Android Wear keyboard lets you draw letters on your smartwatch
All profits to the NFL are distributed back to the teams, which do pay income taxes. All the players and staff also pay income taxes.
Definitely, Since it was all personal requirement It was designed like this. I will start cleaning it up. and of course the cheat sheet will reduce lot of my research.
Charging based on the infraction does punish poor people more than rich people if you look at how significant the fine is to the person.

Person A makes $10 * 40 hours / week -> $400 / week -> $100 ticket == 25% of weekly gross income

Person B make $100 * 40 hours / week -> $4000 / week -> $100 ticket == 2.5% of weekly gross income

Who is being hit harder? Who will be more deterred from future speeding?

Furthermore, the "robot overlords" won't care if someone is "rich|poor|black|white|smart|dumb". Can you say the same for a police officer?
I don't understand why the downvote though.
The NSA is not currently logging all my health data because there is no digital stream of health data on the internet which they could intercept. Perhaps they could break into my doctor's files if they cared, but all they'd be able to find would be an occasional snapshot from the occasional checkup. Most of the information present would have to be read and analyzed by a human.

This is very, very different from the situation which would exist in an "internet of things" world in which my toilet, coffeepot, toothbrush, and the like were all snooping on me and streaming their results. By intercepting all this data, which we already know the NSA is constantly doing, it would be possible to automatically construct a statistics-based picture of my health, and that of everyone else around me.

This is incredibly creepy, fucked up, wrong, and not even a little bit OK.
Same could be said of article about Alexander the Great's father article, also on home page.
Here is the chilling part:

What is next? Obviously, an international resolution on the control and management of encryption technology is a desirable goal, if not a lofty one. Critics of the Clinton Administration are right in noting that sophisticated criminals and terrorists will not use the encryption systems that that require key escrow registration. If an international referendum requires all encryption systems and users to register their keys, however, then criminals and terrorists will be forced into the escrow system. A worldwide key escrow system will not be put into place quickly, but with serious effort it may be attainable, and it is a worthwhile goal. The proliferation of strong encryption is already beyond control, but perhaps the continued monitoring of criminals and terrorists is not.

This view has probably evolved, but the goals are almost certainly the same. It is preferable to be able to keep track of you than it is to enable people in repressive regimes to communicate securely. Depending on whether you consider pervasive surveillance repressive, that could become a tautology.
It does not state that it makes it worse, it states that it does not improve it. i.e. that there is an approximate equilibrium that is reached regardless of road capacity in an environment where there is more potential traffic capacity for congested times than the roads could realistically be made to accommodate.
The active ingredient is "unknown" at this point. Work is being done to figure out which microbes are useful, and in some cases you may need an orchestration of many different types.

http://www.hmpdacc.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome
We use something similar when we go traveling, basically tablets made from feces (active ingredient is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterococcus_faecium), as a probiotic to prevent stomach infections and diarrhea. They are extremely effective and a very good alternative to having to go on antibiotics while on vacation. Available in pharmacies over the counter.

On another note I have a pet theory that the increasing prevalence of IBS is caused by the widening use of antibiotics everywhere, both as medicine but also in food production.
Thank you. It's disturbing to see so many people insist that the NFL doesn't "deserve" to be a non-profit, because they don't give enough to charity.

They're a 501c6, not a 501c3. C6 is not intended to be a charitable organization, but to act as a trade organization, business league, etc. They quite clearly meet the definition of what a 501C6 is intended to be, and it's also quite clear that they aren't "dodging" anything in the way of taxes.

If there's a discussion to be had on the matter, it's whether or not 501C6s even ought to exist, or whether there ought to be constraints on their existence (e.g., in order to encourage business development, a 501C6 may exist until captured revenues reach a fixed amount, or something to that extent) but it's clear that the NFL is not only eligible, but the very archetype for what a C6 organization ought to be.
Nobody seems to be working on a IoT toilet yet or has announced it yet.

It's an idea/thought I've always wanted to work on as I noted above for a few years now.

Overall the cost to create it I'm thinking is enormous and it's not something I or another could create/invent in a garage.
> If they distributed something under the GPLv3, then there's the chance that Samsung could have looked at that, said "hey, that GPLed package implements something that your patent license covered, that means that we now have a license to that patent."

The patent license only applies to derivative works so Samsung couldn't use it for its non-GPLv3 products.

> Or there's all of the patents that the license from other parties, like the H.264 patent portfolio. Those patents they can't relicense; so if any of those apply to any of the GPLv3 software they tried to distribute, they would be in violation of one or both of the licenses.

They could just not distribute that GPLv3 program.

Obviously this runs into the problem that you don't know which patents which programs infringe, but that has nothing to do with the GPL. Some troll could just as easily jump out from under the bridge and demand a hundred billion dollars for a patent on Safari.
Is There Any Truth to Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People”?
I guess I was mostly put off by all the mysticism. You know, the stuff with crosses and crucifixion and ancient religious orders and super spooky all-powerful enemies. It wasn't mentally engaging. I didn't find myself asking "what if" like I usually do with sci-fi.

I loved Fire Upon The Deep! Why did you choose to compare that to Hyperion? I don't see many similarities.
A 17 yo teen responds brilliantly to a horribly antiquated sex ed class
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Here (http://n.myrpi.org) is a project I have been working with on and off for almost a full year developing a news system that I wanted to use. I have a lot more ideas to develop into the platform but I like where it is at now. Let me know what you think!
"If you can just open a freezer and take out a poop pill, that’s wonderful.”
While the pills are not being marketed yet

Jee, I wonder why.
Selling a poop pill is a proper way to see if a marketer is worth their value.
For point 3, it really depends on the suburb. I grew up in a nice suburb and after school was always about getting together with other kids in the area. We could ride bikes all around the neighborhood, go to local parks, and go to a movie on the weekends.
Plain Win32 hasn't gone anywhere and with few days of work you can get an MFC-like framework up and running. Not the beginners task, but not a rocket science either. But the UI framework availability is not a cause of people writing less for Windows now than they did before. Far from it.

The problem was the high-level mesaging from Microsoft. They weren't about desktop anymore, apparently, but that's exactly where I make money being a Windows software developer. They were now mobile. They were Metro-shmetro. They wanted to leave behind everyhting that helped me make living by writing Windows apps and move on to conquer new domains. They neglected me and my interests. But I can say that I like how things are changing now. They put Start button back. They appear to be opening Windows Store to non-Metro apps. Good, excellent, they are on the right track... that's assuming they don't screw the hell out of Windows 10 with their Asimov telemtry bullshit, but it's an altogether different issue. At least they are paying a bit more attention to what people actually want instead of what Microsoft thinks they should be wanting.
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Here is a link to Part 1: http://doc-ok.org/?p=1095

Doc-Ok (and others) are getting closer to reverse engineering the Oculus DK2 so hopefully we can have an open source Linux SDK soon. Maybe even before Facebook/Oculus releases their official version!

We are looking for more help, so if you're on irc, pleaes join us in #openhmd on freenode.net
NixOps gets around this to some extent by allowing you to define keys to be copied to /run/keys when configuring a remote system. They thus never touch the remote store.
Most marketers are selling a load of shit already.
What's sad to me is to read that the writer is happy to have a permanently damaged knee in exchange for a few years of playing football. Personally I can't see how it would be worth it. I need to walk, run and cycle every day for the rest of my life. I don't need to play football.
This is great -- thanks for sharing :). But of you find these notes informational, I urge you to watch the videos themselves later when they're made available, since what will strike each of us as the greatest takeaways will differ pretty wildly depending on what stage of life we're in, which space we're interested in, etc. (Also, things like "they want to hire really smart 20 year olds) can be interpreted in a variety of ways since it's taken largely out of context of the greater discussion)

It obviously takes a much larger time commitment, but worth it IMO.
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"except when I live 20 miles from work and the public transit system has no regular schedule that will suit my needs"

That right there is the vicious cycle that has brought us to the mess we're in today. The answer is not to keep feeding the monster of urban sprawl with bigger and faster roads to encourage even longer hellish commutes by car. The answer is to encourage mixed developments where a majority of people live close to the business centers and have short commutes (so a mix of public transit/biking/walking is practical for most people).
Are probiotics bunk? Or do they only include a few species and not the complete biodiversity really needed in the human digestive system?
Some versions of ping have -a ("audible") option to ring the terminal bell on each response.
Interesting! Are there screenshots available?
Ok, so there is a parasite that happens to alter human behavior, and a significant percentage of the human population is infected.

Why is it that I

- have never heard of large-scale testing for infection

- have never heard of an effort to contain or eradicate this parasite (compared to e.g. rabies)

I don't know, it kind of seems like a big deal, or am I completely mistaken?
Just like it doesn't make sense to build expensive, high maintenance highways, largely at public expense to subsidize driving. But that's exactly what's been happening in large parts of the world (led by the US example) for the past 50 years or so..
I will say that I think the sport is the most interesting of the major sports for fans. The way the gameplay is structured is second to none for entertainment.
Do you care that you might be quite uninformed on this particular matter?
I missed the first part of the office hours. What was the first startup? The second was Kuons, the shopping list I think?
A smart toilet is not going to save you from cancer--don't bandy about this idea that things like that clearly are a good idea.
The predecessor of C was typeless as well.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/01/30/the-real-su...

"When you consider how many pro stadiums – like MetLife MET -1.23% Stadium in the swamps of Jersey – are at least partially subsidized by public dollars, a Federal tax exemption for the professional league – really a joint venture of 32 other businesses and their investors – seems obscene. As Nina Ippolito wrote in PolicyMic:

As a 501(c)6, the NFL isn’t supposed to engage in business “ordinarily carried on for profit.” Apparently, licensing exorbitantly priced apparel, granting broadcast rights, and running an entire television network don’t count as profitable endeavors."
I think it's http://www.kuona.co/
A better `cd` for bash
A Bride on Acid Answers All of Your Trippiest Wedding Questions
Some troll could just as easily jump out from under the
bridge and demand a hundred billion dollars for a patent
on Safari.

Sure, and that kind of stuff does happen. And Apple likely makes decisions based on limiting their liability to that kind of thing. They have publicly stated that they objected to Ogg Theora because they had a patent license for H.264, and didn't think it was worth the risk to ship something like Ogg Theora, which may be covered by unknown patents.

Now, H.264 may be covered by unknown patents as well. But based on the existence of the MPEG-LA and its patent pool, and the fact that they'd already invested in and exposed to any potential H.264 risk, they felt like there would be more risk to them to add Ogg Theora support than just sticking with H.264. Were they right? Who knows. But that is the decision they made.

Now, we are just speculating about why they hate the GPLv3 so much. But they obviously do, and they have both done a lot to use their own patents offensively, as well as being cautious about infringing patents as a defensive stance, so my best guess is that the patent clause is their concern.

But there's no way for me to be sure; there's not much point in continuing to discuss it, because it's Apple that has made this decision, not me. I'm perfectly happy shipping GPLv3 covered software; if you want to know why Apple isn't, you could try asking them, though are unlikely to get an answer.
You do realize that the highways that you, along with all those same "thugs and bums", are driving on are also largely tax subsidized.
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Having been a teacher (for one miserable year) I have too much to say about this. I'll try to make a few points and not rant.

There is a reason that classes are like this. In my experience it is because if you try to have more participation in a large classroom it devolves quickly into chaos. Which you you little angels remember making sport of the substitute teacher? Putting 30 teenagers in a room with one adult and expecting them to sit for an hour every day and "learn" is laughably insane. Teachers that make it work do so by becoming wardens of their own little compound. And this is after all effective tools for discipline have been taken away from teachers and most parents and the slimy administrative politicians siding against you. Maybe if you could beat a little psychopath once in a while you would not have to put 99% of your classroom effort to shushing and threatening and other emotionally abusive crowd control techniques.

Ever heard of Sudbury schools? These are schools were they don't make the kids do anything. There are no classes, standards or curriculum. Testing shows no significant academic difference with "normal" schools. Think about that: the effect of modern education is indistinguishable from a placebo.

Education is fucked from the ground up. It's a stupid idea poorly executed. I say let's just be honest and call school what it is: baby-sitting. At least then we can stop being so cruel to our children and let them relax and enjoy themselves.

Sorry, I failed to not rant.
http://www.dbms2.com/2014/09/15/misconceptions-about-privacy...

While I'm a huge Snowden fan, he's a bit wrong at times about encryption, in that it solves a smaller part of the problem than he sometimes suggests.
Pink Floyd would disagree that it's a particularly US centric problem...?

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

I can't really imagine that French or Italian schools are much better - but I may very well be wrong. And it'snbeen a few years since Pink Floyd was in school, obviously...
First one was divide.io, a backend-as-a-service for mobile apps. Super nice guys with a cool product.
ah, I spelled it wrong. Another user just posted the first one thanks.
To me, this is the best answer. I'll work for almost any company for a long, long time as long as they allow me to work remotely and always pay me competitively. The rest are just small, interchangeable details.
> When you consider how many pro stadiums [...] a Federal tax exemption for the professional league – really a joint venture of 32 other businesses and their investors – seems obscene

That's confusing distinct concerns. The tax exemption status is federal, while each of those stadium negotiations is done at the state level, and in cahoots with the league owners and teams of those states, not the "NFL" organization at large.

> As a 501(c)6, the NFL isn’t supposed to engage in business “ordinarily carried on for profit.” Apparently, licensing exorbitantly priced apparel, granting broadcast rights, and running an entire television network don’t count as profitable endeavors."

The "NFL" organization doesn't do those things. It is, basically, just a payment gateway for the teams and owners. By that same argument, you could assert that Patrick Collision and Stripe are selling televisions (assuming at least one of their customers is selling televisions). They aren't, they're just the gateway.

The league entity is funded by the teams and the board, not as a rake from those teams.
If something is placed over it, you can then remove the new block to show the old dust again, so you can undo even then. Dust only shows if the old block is considered established, which looks at ranking and time it was placed. The undo system kind of evolved over time...
I understand this, but it wouldn't be that simple.

The more people using PT, the greater the operating and capital expenses are
If he's getting anything near what his skeptics are saying with somewhat better than 50% accuracy after frame by frame processing and word analysis (which would be the rather detrimental portrayal given in the article), then he's doing a lot better than polygraphs. Polygraphs are a known pseudoscience.
What country are you in and what are they called? My googling is turning up pet products.
If you measure attendance, you will get attendance. However, there's no value in attendance.
When I hear that an animal can regrow its head, I think of a head in the chordate sense, as in "a hardened container of some kind with a brain and complex sensory organs embedded in it."

Spoiler alert: the creature in this article does not have a "head" in this sense. It's a relatively simple organism which does, admittedly, have some interesting regenerative properties. Exciting title, though.
And the fact that tabs exist isn't stopping window managers from getting better at it. They just haven't.

It seems that putting the application in control of its window-switching experience has just worked out better.
We don't even know the complete biodiversity needed for the digestive system
Or, you could take a photo of the screen, if you wanted to save images you already have access to (something snapchat is supposed to prevent). The good old analog hole.
It's a shame that Philip of Macedon can't get his own billing. He was a legend in his own right before his son overshadowed him.
So you are sad that someone else is happy because what makes them happy isn't what makes you happy.
Personally I find that modern historians tend to be "jealous" of old historians and are quick to accuse them for misinformation, prejudice and superstition. But again and again the "myths" are proving to be the truth. Obviously not always. We live in an age that we tend to overestimate to great degree of our technology and underestimate the raw power of human mind. The ancients had both the means and the method to produce high quality work. Moreover a historian that would lie most likely he would be discredited quite easily by other historians of his time and his books would fall into disuse. We should not also forget that the world back then was way smaller than it is now , news would spread fast and vocal accounts would have been much easier to be kept in memory for centuries.
Another Woman in Gaming Flees Home Following Death Threats
Share photos/thoughts with people around you. Hide your identity if you want
Knitr is super cool, I've used it for a few small projects now. Also love how R-Studio integrates it. R Studio, along with the greater R ecosystem, is by far the nicest programming environment I've ever used (although it is somewhat specialized - excels mainly in dealing with data as opposed to creating apps).
Well they are government jobs (not necessarily programming/creative but say registrars) where attendance does make a difference
Heh--I just spent the last few days going the opposite way, building a web interface for Pass for fun. Demo is up here: http://example.pw.less.sexy/ (the service and master password are both "pass") and source is here: https://github.com/johnswanson/pass-server

Nice job--I used to use 1Password and remember looking for a tool like this!
Anyone that studies history knows that without Philip , Alexander would not exist nor would have the means to be "Great". So I will have to disagree, at least here in Greece Philip is as big as his son , if not bigger. But then Philip would have to stand on the shoulders of previous leaders , who stand in shoulders of other city-states inside Greece who stood in the shoulder of other countries , etc etc and etc. Overemphasising historical figures is for people that learn their history from Hollywood movies.
Damn internet! Always cramping my style!

Blog posts are inherently short-form writing, optimized for getting to the top of Reddit. You have to make bold claims to attract readers, and avoid detailed arguments so they don't fall asleep. See Joel Spolsky's description of the Internet Pundit style of writing here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/backIssues-2010-03.html

If you want your writing to have value beyond the popularity game, and contribute to the state of the art somehow, I think careful reasoning is indispensable for that.