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Patent Troll Can't Stop People from Accessing Medical Records Online Anymore
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This is super cool technology. However I worry how advertisers may use this.
You call the police and they arrest the person. WiFi is short ranged.

Yes, but it doesn't need constant attention. A small router can be dropped anywhere and route the information to the attacker long after (s)he's gone.

That said, finding the AP and disabling it is better than randomly throwing deauth packets.
It worked because it's a simple, quick, ultra-low friction way of sharing photos. Take or pick a photo, type a title, press send, voila. Couple of extra taps if you want to send it to other places as well.

(Even in 2015, it's easier to get a photo on Flickr via the Instagram app than the official Flickr app. Madness.)
Yes this code is exactly the problem I described above - you are not supplying the required Closure externs file for Knex.
Well then ignore your power users and lose the non-power ones along with the money they bring. That's exactly what Google has been doing in the past years. They lost me on almost everything except GMail which is also hanging from the cliff already.

Speaking of GMail, it's the same attitude basically. For example they added these automatic labels with some nonsensical heuristics, which don't work most of the time and are impossible to remove. One more "smart" improvement and I'm closing my GMail account for good, seriously.
Unfortunately, like I say, I've tried that (using Thunar - the otherwise fantastic file manager in XFCE). I'm not sure if it's Thunar's fault, or it's the FUSE layer beneath it, but I've always found it to be a little unreliable. Plus I like to be able to see connection logs and manage the activity queue in the same way I do with FileZilla.
Quite right.

Maybe the best approach is to use a modern IoT board to prototype the design and then port it to a PIC microcontroler/ASIC for the production design.
I don't think I'm on a high horse. I'm actually extremely critical of the US. Rereading my comment, is it possible you attributed viewpoints to me that I didn't actually express?
Really, saying that "maybe you might be ignorant" is breaking the HN guidelines? I think the more likely explanation is that I'm breaking the HN party line and quite clearly pointing out that the ethos that the author was referring to is quite rampant here in Silicon Valley. If we're both engaging in unethical behavior, where are his downvotes?

This place is a circle jerk of anti-intellectualism and smug arrogance. Juvenile phrases about how anyone suffering these days deserves their fate. "Why didn't they just learn JavaScript!?".

Oh, but if it's the poor and blue collar there will be some pity for their fate, barely masked contempt for the unwashed masses. But the middle class? Eviscerated and this forum spits on their grave. The story goes that they squandered their privileged position in the world.

No one can write a proper response. No one can address the content in the author's essay because there is no respect nor understanding for what has been written. Like frothing lobotomized acolytes of McLuhan the only mantra is that the "median is the only message".

Human subjectivity is reduced to a cold bowl of porridge. Everyone's opinions are equally dismissible. The only thing that matters is what can be quantified. The size of one's paycheck takes precedence. Further irony is that everyone thinks they are "creatives" and better than those mongrels in finance or law. This is just our generations version of the Wolf of Wall Street but in the lambs clothes of the globally cultured. "We teach people to code so they can better their economic stature and increase their quantifiable measurements and therefor become a better and happier person!".

Downvotes and upvotes... those ARE part of the problem! They destroy dialog. It turns what could be healthy discussion in an American Idol like popularity contest. "Vote next week for your favorite asshole!". You think it is an ethical device? Have you ever noticed that tptacek, the holder of the most "karma" on HN is basically a troll? My language is in no way more inflammatory than his. He's just got the foot soldiers to put people in their place.

All that these things do is turn forums in to an echo chamber. The other approach is to use active moderation to get rid of the trolls. But that's not the agenda. That's not the belief. The church of quantification must attempt to remove all subjective and therefor inefficient human biases.

Label them "gatekeepers" and convince the world you're doing it a service when you instead shift the power to secretive algorithms that are controlled by a small cabal of wealthy elites.

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Really, saying that "maybe you might be ignorant" is breaking the HN guidelines? I think the more likely explanation is that I'm breaking the HN party line and quite clearly pointing out that the ethos that the author was referring to is quite rampant here in Silicon Valley. If we're both engaging in unethical behavior, where are his downvotes?

This place is a circle jerk of anti-intellectualism and smug arrogance. Juvenile phrases about how anyone suffering these days deserves their fate. "Why didn't they just learn JavaScript!?".

Oh, but if it's the poor and blue collar there will be some pity for their fate, barely masked contempt for the unwashed masses. But the middle class? Eviscerated and this forum spits on their grave. The story goes that they squandered their privileged position in the world.

No one can write a proper response. No one can address the content in the author's essay because there is no respect nor understanding for what has been written. Like frothing lobotomized acolytes of McLuhan the only mantra is that the "median is the only message".

Human subjectivity is reduced to a cold bowl of porridge. Everyone's opinions are equally dismissible. The only thing that matters is what can be quantified. The size of one's paycheck takes precedence. Further irony is that everyone thinks they are "creatives" and better than those mongrels in finance or law. This is just our generations version of the Wolf of Wall Street but in the lambs clothes of the globally cultured. "We teach people to code so they can better their economic stature and increase their quantifiable measurements and therefor become a better and happier person!".

Downvotes and upvotes... those ARE part of the problem! They destroy dialog. It turns what could be healthy discussion in to an American Idol-like popularity contest. "Vote next week for your favorite asshole!". You think this process is an ethical device? Have you ever noticed that tptacek, the holder of the most "karma" on HN is basically a troll? My language is in no way more inflammatory than his. He's just got the foot soldiers to put people in their place.

All that these things do is turn forums in to an echo chamber. The other approach is to use active moderation to get rid of the trolls. But that's not the agenda. That's not the belief. The church of quantification must attempt to remove all subjective and therefor inefficient human biases.

Label them "gatekeepers" and convince the world you're doing it a service when you instead shift the power to secretive algorithms that are controlled by a small cabal of wealthy elites.

You want something to downvote?

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I'm not using GNOME. I'm using XFCE, and unfortunately in my experience Thunar (the XFCE file manager) doesn't handle those sorts of connections too well. I think it's more to do with the FUSE layer beneath it (possibly the same driver that's used by GNOME).
> They all allow sharing pretty much the same (some content, whether it is text or photos) yet they are each hailed as the next big thing and the best thing since sliced bread

I think the difference is that with each iteration it became easier for the end-user to publish/share something. With GeoCities, they removed the need for a user to figure out hosting, running a server and purchasing a domain name (very expensive at the time). However, with GeoCities, you still needed to know how to write HTML/CSS/JS and use FTP. MySpace took it a step further from that point and did most of the HTML/CSS leg work but allowed for some minor alterations. Facebook took it even further and basically said, "we'll do all the leg work for you, all you need to do is type in a thought or upload a picture."
Not sure why you got downvoted. Thanks for the perspective on usage of Closure at Google.
I created a videotutorial course to teach people how to design and code trading robots - udemy.com/build-your-trading-robot.

It's doing about 1.5k/mth. Launched it 2 months ago. Took me 6 months to create it. Still adding content to it though, will probably take about 1 year more before I complete it.

The site that hosted the course did most of the marketing for me so I just focused on the product. Startup cost was about $150. Spent it on microphone and digital writing pad.
> Imagine if even 5% or 10% of the 61,179 people who signed that petition instead organized rallies in their cities, or a kind of Leave The Internet Alone rally in DC. That might or may not accomplish something; it surely would accomplish more than signing the petition did. (You could wrap in a bunch of related topics: DMCA/copyright reform, NSA reform, CFAA reform and more.)

Because Slacktivism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism
Cisco sell a Wireless LAN controller, which can
send disconnect packets to "rogue" APs [...]
this would help to encourage the other AP
providers to turn their boxes off.

Perhaps I should make a product that detects controllers sending fake deauth packets, and does the same thing in return.

This would help "encourage" people who buy the Cisco product to turn that feature off :)
The Economist describes the incident here: http://www.economist.com/node/149797
There is little to no scientific backing for any particular cognitive training games/tool to be any better than any other activity that would be put under the "enriched environment" heading if we were talking about mice. It is an area marked by long claims on short evidence, and commercial products that are borderline fraud.

That is very different from the effects of altering clearly identified protein levels in the blood such as GDF-11 [1], which produce robust and defensible effects, clearly demarcated and measured.

It is the typically sad state of things to see the primary source, the university, shackle these two things together in the name of promotion.

[1]: http://hsci.harvard.edu/news/functioning-aged-brains-and-mus...
I don't think so.

I'm using Cloudflare as a CDN for my website for 3 months now. All my traffic (~98%) is from Google and it is consistently increasing every week.

It saves 20% of my bandwidth serving static resources and some of most visited pages.

I don't use SSL, it is not important for my pages.
They are widely hated by Europeans who do not even realize they are a vassal state. Most of the rest of the world would do anything to get to America.
The article is a little light on detail. However I see a cardiologist every couple of years due to a strong family history of isochaemic heart disease. He's been putting off more invasive scans since nothing in my medical presentation suggests I actually have a problem, but he said that this sort of scan where they'll be able to look for blockages on moving arteries will be a game changer for cardiac diagnosis - it's the very fast scanning on moving tissue that will be the big improvement. It's not clear whether this new machine actually provides that from the article, but he was expecting it to be developed and in use within the next couple of years.
Image processing from multiple webcams with a database backend.
It's been my experience that people who are quickest to say "Titles don't matter here" are the ones with the nicest titles. :)

In fairness, I don't think most founders set out to create political organizations. (Politics is more of an emergent phenomenon -- a "god of the gaps" that arises to fill informational voids and power vacuums.) But saying titles don't matter is either being very naive, or being intentionally misleading. Naive: when someone high up in an organization (a founder or VP, say) isn't aware of the extent to which titles matter, because his title has ensured that people always listen to him. Misleading: when a boss or hiring manager tells a prospective employee that titles don't matter, in order to get that employee to accept a title below his expectations.

That having been said, I do occasionally encounter the "Entitled" anti-pattern the blog post talks about. You see it in employees who feel marginalized. Sometimes you see it in new employees, especially those who have recently come from a much bigger organization, and who are used to formalized hierarchies. Sometimes you see it because your organization really does care a great deal about title, and you've been blinded to the extent to which it does. In any of these cases, I tend to think the burden is on the organization/boss to try to understand the source of any title hangups. Sure, some people are just wildly insecure, and they'll never be content with any given title. I tend to think these people are the minority of most "Entitled" scenarios. And at any rate, it's more productive to assume that the person feels marginalized in some way, and to attempt to diagnose why -- rather than to blame his fundamental psychology.
Java. I'm serious.
It could be done at sea, but it would add too much time and time is extremely valuable with ships this expensive. These ships make money transporting goods, if they aren't moving containers they're losing money.
This reminds me how much of a hole there is in my knowledge about statistics and such. I built myself a Twitter client that sucks users' geolocations into a DB so I can do all kinds of analyses on their movements. Makes me wish we had Statistics classes back in school. That should come right after learning the ABC.
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Considering the 1 minute interval wouldn't it be better for the battery to use a clock implemented in hardware that boots the chip everytime it's needed?
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In a similar context, title is often used by management as something that incurs little or zero cost to give to employees to make them feel better.

Beware of "I didn't get (much of) a raise but I got a promotion"
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It stops people from uploading the 200 photos they took on a night out, by not having a bulk option. Rather they just upload one or two making the viewing more pleasant.
Ah - how do I make sure that cpp file is safe before running a shell script which I am not supposed to read with it as an arg? (I mean this in practice - not in the course of this game)
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Exactly. Use Perl (or maybe Python).

sed is bullshit.

Do you know it is not actually possible to get output from sed that does not contain a newline?
Columbus was awful and we should be ashamed for celebrating him. We also learn way too much about native Americans, in some weird cultural guilt trip for past misdeeds. That isn't new--much of my childhood was wasted on learning native American history in the early 1990's.
Apple Approves iOS Game That Tips Players in Bitcoin
Better yet, choose your public key depending on the server you're connecting to:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#Managing_multi...
Guns, rainstorms and concussions: not your normal bike ride
> Obviously we have to assume that public wifi is compromised in any case and require transport-layer security, but I can certainly see there's still a gaping security hole there.

Agreed on the security hole on public wifi, though it's probably about less "sensitive" data as HTTPS is becoming more of a standard, especially after the Snowden revelations.

Most services/apps speak HTTPS nowdays and a lot more will (hopefully) follow: https://letsencrypt.org/

> Is there any reasonable way to deal with this issue?

So, yes with HTTPS
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Are ota updates being pushed out slower for Lollipop then Kitcat? I ahve a 2012 Nexus 7 and still have not gotten the 5.0.2 update. I'd install it if I got it but don't want to have to go the factory image rout.
The key point is "any other activity". For most people, the cognitive games on their phones are probably the most accessible enriched environment tools. The blood, on the other hand, seems to be fraught with complications, from basic health concerns to economic issues. The Red Cross is almost always calling for more donations to blood, I can't imagine the situation improving if richer people start buying the blood of younger people.
They should also teach that Native Americans owned Negro slaves, but that doesn't fit the narrative.
I thought that 6-MP did the same without making the patient starve. Only "bad" cells starve.
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That is typically what you do, microcontrollers have timers and low-power mode(s) which keep the timers running even though the processor core isn't executing any instructions.
Does anyone know if these R packages (AnomalyDetection, BreakoutDetection) are to be used on large scale data or they more intended to be used in lab work?
tumblr is blocked where I work, here's an imgur link of the image in question http://imgur.com/9XZgzGv
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Not defending Marriott, but the primary use case for rogue AP mitigation is not fueled by corporate greed. I recommend it to clients to keep employees from standing up insecure AP's on their internal network, which is a serious security concern. I encourage you to write the tool, though!
Because it isn't like Google love to share data between services and cross reference user activity or something, is it? Oh, wait...
Note that this paper is heavy on theory, not so much on the evidence. The only "proof" of this conjecture is right at the end where they mention 10 people tried starvation before chemo and reported feeling less side-effects afterwards.

I'm actually trying out an intermittent fasting diet right now for weight loss. I'm just always skeptical of new fad diets when they start claiming all sorts of health benefits beyond weight loss.
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IOW, it happened to be one of the few cases where the White House's intentions were already aligned with the public's wishes.
I know this is petty and on a slight tangent, but for some reason I get a bit irritated by the constant use of software development-specific terminology (e.g. Anti-Pattern) in articles talking about psychology, human nature, and other general topics. In this case the author could have simply used 'stereotype' or 'personality type' which would have been perfectly fine.

It provokes a similar reaction to when I see people using 'grok' unironically in general conversation: it just feels a bit awkward and almost forced.

Commenting on the actual article, I agree with others who have pointed out that this article isn't particular helpful. It's a gross simplification of human behaviour and makes me wonder what the working culture is like at an organisation that would be 'disheartened' by a newhire asking questions like that.
I'm not an expert on power optimization, and I don't know how this is done in micro-controllers. But I would think that the hardware clock would be implemented using integrated analog components (capacitor + resistor circuit) rather than digital logic, to avoid repeatedly switching on and off even just a few transistors.
So since we all develop cancer cells at some point doesn't this same logic hold to not "feed" them? And we might not be able to starve constantly but we can avoid producing insulin. I hope more studies can prove the links between dietary choices and cancer.
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Vaguely reminiscent of maps of Israel and Palestine. Of course in the case of Native Americans, they are primarily to blame for obstinately refusing to accept the very generous division of 1807, in which they had the majority of the land. Instead they attacked the European settlers, leaving them with no choice but to expand for the purpose of self protection.
It's a bit slow and inefficient, and also dangerous to do it at sea. So this is done only if space in the port is at premium.

Which means only Hong Kong still does this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-stream_operation
The words used to describe three of the anti-patterns (thinker, talker and owner) were not chosen very well if you want people to think, communicate and take responsibility.
Ask HN: Could any iOS Developer Give me some pointers?
I'm quite new to iOS Development and wanna get stuck right in :) I'm just looking to find the best practice for this:

I know I can use CLLocationManager to get the users location but I want to create an app that does this:

User logs in > app checks web server for online users in specified radius in miles/feet of the current users phone > displays users.

What is the best way to go around this? much appreciated for all your help.
Time series analysis comes quite far into most statistics syllabi. I did quite a bit of statistics at school and it wasn't until my third year of Mathematics & Statistics at university that we touched time series data. (Although it could have been taken as a second year module I think).
There's a cohesive social element to "many small modules" that fosters a community.

Module authors work with and respect each other.

Most of the time, the effort that you save by using 3rd-party code is exactly equal to the time it would take to write & debug the library to get it to its current state, minus the time spent hunting for, learning, and integrating the library.

There are plenty of small functions that might be a little trickier than is first imagined. Time isn't the only issue. There's also much less cognitive overhead in the two minutes it takes to search npm, figure out the interface, install the module, and use it. I'd much rather outsource my yak shaving.
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Even the original twitter blog seems to have gone out of its way to make this seem more complex then it is...

Decomposition of time series is done with STL (stl function in stats package) and this is the first part of what they call "Seasonal Hybrid ESD (S-H-ESD)" (sounds impressive right?) which then apparently just involves taking the max absolute difference from the detrended sample mean in terms of standard deviations, remove it and repeat until you have your collection of x outliers. If they wanted to this could be explained in a few sentences, and the underlying code is really simple [0], but for whatever reason it's been written up as advanced analytics — as if decomposing a time series is a major challenge.

[0] https://github.com/twitter/AnomalyDetection/blob/master/R/de...
Couldn't the "rougue" operator turn the tables and use the same technique to shut down the official WiFi?