skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last time I saw a doctor -late last year- the payment was processed at the counter on the way out and I received payment from Medicare in to my bank account two todays later.

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Lifelock doesn't catch everything though. Neil Boortz, a former syndicated radio talk show host, had someone open a bank account and take Social Security distributions for several months and Lifelock didn't catch it. http://www.wsbradio.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2014/sep/04/my-so...
If the original comment refers to me, then that wasn't my intent to insinuate that at all.

The published data shows that only a tiny minority of petty crimes end in conviction, however. In my experience (5 times, including family and close friends), the police chose not to send an officer to the scene.

I'm sure some petty crimes get solved, and some serious crimes don't. But if you thought I was making either point, may I respectfully suggest you reread my comment.
I'm not saying it never gets investigated... Just all four times I have reported a crime, nothing happened after getting the crime number.
You don't have to register a business per se in the UK. If you're self-employed you have to tell the tax authorities even if you're making trivial amounts of money.
I'm waiting for the movie.
I get a completely blank page when js is disabled.
I find it hard to believe there are still people getting brought up under this kind of stuff.

http://store.iblp.org/product/ZHABE.html

Edit: I believe it, just find it really sad.
>I worked for a small medical company that had access to 20,000 PHI records, and I was explicitedly told, "why would anyone want to hack us, we are small potatoes."

I don't think we proactively pentest our stuff either. I've never heard of any security discussions but that may just mean I'm not being included. We have a few more zeroes after our PHI record count too.
And tons of cache to spare. They make more in a month than Google does all year around.
I've had a few home-schooled students in my college courses. The most memorable one was a fairly bright guy, excellent at math, and remarkably had never heard of the civil rights movement of the 1960's or anything at all having to do with race relations in the US. Between his lack of knowledge about racial tension, and other factors, he was definitely socially awkward; but everyone got through it unscathed. I don't think his parents were involved in tech. Overall, his HS education was probably not better or worse by a large degree than anyone else from one of the local high schools.
American billions or European billions?
Confessions of an Erratic Marxist (2013)
My wife homeschooled my kids and they are weird, not necessarily in a good way. I find it harder to relate to them. Also my oldest complained that it really held her back in College. I would say its kind of more similar to the vaccination argument than it is not similar
> It was a marvellous bit of well-made kit

Marvelous other than the 1500 dollar price tag for an unfinished product, the lack of software, the abysmal battery life, and the obvious privacy concerns of this device being constructed by one of the most invasive companies on the planet?

I agree with the fact that it's the first, but calling it marvelous is a bit of a stretch.
> he was told that "science is bullshit propaganda and we don't care if you don't do well in public school science"

To be fair, public school science is mostly bullshit. I don't think you can teach science to young children as anything other than a rote memorization of facts, and that actively holds them back when they study "real science" in college. Personally, I'd ditch science from the curriculum and replace it with courses in logic and statistics.
Py2C – a Python to C++ converter
Very interesting indeed. Thanks for the link.
DNA is discrete. It can be precisely represented symbolically.
I'm sure whoever is prescribing you estrogen has told you that synthetic estrogen is incredibly hard on the liver. The reduced risk of you getting prostate cancer is as far as I understand it FAR outweighed by the likelihood that at some point you will have liver issues to deal with. Also, I am on TRT and this is somewhat anecdotal (although many 'bodybuilder' types that use testosterone support this) I have noticed the effects on skin mood and hair are stongly related to estrogen, prolactin, and progesterone levels (meaning they should be in the normal range for male or female depending on what your goal is wrt testosterone). I also agree with the commenter somewhere on here that mentioned he feels the 'roid-rage' when he is low. Also anecdotal but generally agreed upon by the community is that the mood swings come from actual 'swings' of testosterone (and bad moods are when you are low, they should call it roid-affection instead). FDA approved esthers in the US (for injection) do not allow precise daily control to mimic the natural cycle, so there can be some very minor mood changes throughout the week (my dr is open minded and lets me pin the cypionate twice weekly) but I would honestly suggest that your friend had some placebo effect goin on there. As for his 'back-ne', I would check my prolactin levels if I had bad acne on my back (sometimes I do get it, and the levels are always slightly elevated... what to do about it is another story).

Anyway, all due respect of course and I have much admiration of anyone who goes through such great lengths to 'be themselves' but please do make sure you are educated on the risks and minimizing them (I remember hearing it mentioned that the patches of estrogen are much easier on the liver than injections but that was from a tv show I think so take it with a grain of salt) I do believe that you are correct in saying >A significant portion of the benefits are from the estrogen, I just don't think you realize how much. As someone who lost a fair portion of my natural production almost instantly I can say with confidence that even if one were considering to transition to the fairer sex, losing your test without boosting the estrogen has pretty much NO positives except perhaps the reduced prostate cancer risk.
>There is no way they would make enough from iPhones/iPads to pay for the costs of building and running a competitive web search engine. (At least not one built like Google and Bing are)

Well, they are like double the market cap of Google, and (where it matters) they have astonishingly higher profits and revenue than it, to the point that it's like corner-store vs Amazon.
Because my math sucks. Sorry. Edited.
He's running an arbitrage cycle, selling bitcoins for pounds. In order to get bitcoins he's buying them on an exchange with dollars.
Can you lie to them about it? Do they (or any insurance) actually verify your income?
Ask HN: What goes into a great startup blog? What do you like to read?
Recently we started a blog for our company, to share our experiences as we go through Techstars NYC.

It got me wondering-- what is worth writing about in a startup blog, considering every startup seems to have one? What would you like to read? What is missing from other startup blogs?

Would love to hear any thoughts.

(Specifcally for us, our audience is node.js developers who would be interested in a dev platform and next gen PaaS. Here is our first post: https://bitly.com/lsq-b1)
Oh, I'm in favour of him having a fair trial for the crimes of which he's been accused. I'm not in favour of a wham bam thank you ma'am extradition and media pillory.
The question didn't include "otherwise" (e.g from selling more iphones and macs due to better search services available only for them).

He just asked "why would they have to make money", i.e. directly from search.

If you don't mean that by "otherwise", then we can also ask: "Why would they do Maps if it didn't make them money directly or otherwise?"

Why would they do
I thought it had more to do with the fact that there was no way to know if you were being recorded.

Basically, think about the most embarrassing or terrible thing you've ever done. Now, imagine that that were a video on Youtube or Facebook and you were automatically tagged in it. Users were dubbed Glassholes because they chose to walk around with this kind of power in bars and public bathrooms.
Oh, and the reactions of Google Glass fans was very off putting, too.

The G word was like the N word for them. It wasn't possible to discuss this aspect of the product even if you reassured the fans that you don't like the word.
Type Hints
First you should optimize performance locally. By choosing an algorithm and implementation that gives you the best results at data size n you need to deal with most. Lowest O complexity algorithm is not necessarily the best. Worst cases and especially pathological cases also matter.

Then you need to deal with distribution between a large number of systems over network... This will likely force you to choose a different algorithm, but at least you'll have something the benchmark it against from local best case scenario.

When it comes to graphs, I think good partitioning is very important in order to minimize average case latency. So it'd greatly help if you can somehow partition the data to minimize the number of nodes referring to a graph node on a remote system. When walking the graph, instead of immediately sending a query to the target system, it's probably better to batch the queries. Or not if latency counts more. Either way, latency will hurt badly. On a local system it's 100 ns. When the data is on a remote system, you're probably talking about 1000000 ns.

To combat latency, maybe the best way is not to send the request in the first place? Maybe you can ensure nodes referring to a remote system are duplicated to some extent on multiple remote systems. It could help performance -- or hurt it more, like when you need to modify the nodes.

Maybe you should have counters on nodes with connections to nodes on remote systems. If some remote system is referring to it more than local system, migrate the node there instead. It's of course not hard to see how this strategy could blow up. :-)

Please don't take above ideas seriously if you're developing a graph processing system. I wrote those to illustrate the biggest basic problem of distributed systems, latency. Distributed systems are very hard.
As mentioned upthread, hello world isn't really representative. A more useful metric is probably what I'm doing -- a large, complex single-page business app with lots of specialized gadgetry.

Including the standard Scala.js prelude (100-200k), that currently clocks in at a bit under a megabyte. That's quite reasonable for a program of its complexity, and loads pretty fast. And once that is loaded and in the browser cache, the UI is lightning fast afterwards...
Quite true, I rather leave magic at Hogwarts.
Although the package nature of node etc. could be fitting for such magic behind some public facing API.

Also, I have some concerns over their performance but we will see in time.
"How did science come to speak only English?"

Did it really? In a place for discussion exclusively in English, someone references an article that claims English as defining the universe of scientific communication. Let's complete this a bit in order to make a little more sense, shall we? English is the language of anglophone universe of scientific communication, where by definition, every piece of science communication that's not in English is automatically neglected and the claim stands as tautology. Every further debate in English about English is weird, to say the least.
I mention this every time someone talks about small businesses closing in town centres. It's not the 1950s when wives would go to the shops. These days there's a bimodal distribution of society: couples working or commuting for >8 hours a day who have money but no time, and unemployed people especially single parents who have time but no money.
Anthem Blue Cross hacked, SSN, medical IDs taken
With aircraft the basic issue is strength to weight, not just weight. If the material is stronger you can use less of it. The trend today is to make aircraft out of really strong fibres embedded in plastic.
There are many, many laws, that if it cost £10m to catch one violator, would not be enforced (well, would not be aggressively pursued, it isn't like they'd say "no, you're fine, go about your life"). Police make priority judgements all the time about where to allocate their resources. The concern in this case is that the allocation is not being made on reasonable grounds based on the nature of the crime and normal policing priorities, but on political grounds because of who the accused person is.
Waiting for Google Wave integration in Google Glass?
Not really the same thing, scalajs is supposedly has full compatibility with Scala, but it doesn't try to go beyond that. Its embracing JavaScript as a platform.

100% code reuse across all platforms is unachievable. What a lot of do today is complete horseshit relative to the state of the art, but different platforms have different ui conventions and following their rules can't be abstracted away into some library, obeying these conventions requires some intuition about human psychology.

By embracing the JavaScript platform, the scalajs folks are leaving the playing field open as to how to deal with multiple platforms. Maybe we can hook up scalajs to react and react native, there seems to be a bit of hype around that.
Well, presumably they'll also have placed the VIN (or equivalent) on their watchlist. But aside from that – what do you expect to happen in the case of a crime like that?
You can actually have multithreading by running Scala actors in web workers: https://github.com/sjrd/scala-js-actors
It is absolutely unthinkable for UK Government not to prosecute sexual crimes, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_paedophile_dossier
There is a reason they take a cut of profits from App developers: Because they can.

They clear ~$40 billion a year that they can use for whatever.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL+Income+Statement&annual

They use a lot of it to issue a dividend and buy back shares of the stock.
I was the only one playing with the cover effect for about 5 min?
Sorry, my point wasn't clear. What evidence would be needed for 'social consensus' to see this as a 'valid' trial and not some made up charge?

Part of me thinks that if this was a made up charge to get him to the USA, they would want to ensure they had solid evidence to prosecute.
> I think that I don't understand the definition. Isn't encountering a runtime error precisely getting 'stuck' (in the "opposite-of-progress" sense)?

Sorry, perhaps I should have said "exception" rather than "error". Raising an exception is absolutely "safe"/progress-obeying, as long as your language specifies the behavior of exceptions. That the exception happens to be called a "TypeError" doesn't change anything.

Getting "stuck" means being in a state such that there's no defined next state - a state which the language spec doesn't cover. So most "dynamically-typed" languages are in fact safe in progress-and-preservation terms, because they have well-defined behavior in all cases. C, otoh, is "statically-typed" but unsafe, because you can write C code with undefined behavior.

(That dynamically typed languages can be (statically) typesafe should be unsurprising, since they're just statically-unityped languages. Nothing says a unityped language can't be typesafe, it's just a very uninteresting property!)
This.

Accusations should be taken seriously. Taking them seriously means investigating them, it means not blaming or shaming the accuser, and fixing the serious flaws in how our legal system manages to do the aforementioned things.

The goal here is that the legal system should be a safe and effective vessel for identifying valid accusations and punishing offenders, not that the accusations should be turned by society into a verdict.
Not sure about the flexible thing. Every month after seeing the orthodontist I spent two or three days laying in bed for hours crying, unable to eat. The pressure was awful, but mostly only when I had the time to focus on it.
It's a generic domain related to their brand. I'm sure they have thousands of domains.
Yeah, deleting is really a power user feature
I have specifically stated that people making violent/death threats are horrible. Please don't make up anything otherwise.

The person in question in this case is 'discussing the topic' with insults, simplifications and flat lies - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoucuL1jazI.

Their followers are also making death threats - and by ignoring their behaviour, you're allowing them to get away with it.
Exactly my experience. We had all the production passwords for servers and databases in a text file in the repository because the chief architect didn't like to remember passwords. When I pointed this out as a HIPAA violation the CTO told me they passed their audits so it didn't matter.
What's your opinion on using it for "serious" (i.e. things that might be used by others) open source projects? Say, using Shen as part of the toolbox of an operating system, as Barrelfish uses Haskell (http://www.barrelfish.org/ i.e. the Mackerel DSL to describe system details and the Hake build system).

This is not an idle question, BTW. I'd personally like to do something like Barrelfish and/or a "21st Century Lisp Machine" sort of system, having been part of the 20th Century Lisp Machine community in the early '80s. And my reaction to Haskell's syntax is akin to a lot of people's reactions to Lots of Irritating Sets of Parenthesis.

But Haskell has a very serious community, Shen doesn't, and I strongly suspect it never will.
http://xkcd.com/903/

"Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at 'Philosophy'."
That's not a reasonable argument, though. You can't generalise police spending over the population because criminals make up a relatively small proportion.

Is it a disproportionate response then to spend £10m on one guy? The fact that he's not been tried yet is irrelevant – there's a warrant for his arrest, and for a pretty serious crime. I struggle to see what the alternative would be.
I'm no cryptoexpert but I was under the impression that slow password hashes were best, as they are harder to generate rainbow tables for and brute force the algorithm. Many of these algos are put aside for being too slow or praised for speed, and CPU/GPU optimization seems to be a big goal.
It does work that way. If someone accused me of being a pederast/paedophile (acting not just medically) then I would very much expect the police to want to interview me, and either clear me of all wrong doing or prosecute if it was true. And that's how it should be.

How else would anyone ever get convicted of a crime if they can just say "I'm not going near the police or a trial until I've already been proven guilty"?
I'm just thrilled to recently be downgraded to an Anthem customer.

I miss my old insurance.
Nice perspective, Heinleins juveniles were VERY influential on me as pre-teen/teen. Plus my father shared the same outlook, that I was responsible for my education. I later came to understand that I had been indoctrinated with Libertarianism, unwittingly, and had to adjust my beliefs somewhat as an adult.
I don't think more testosterone will help if you are sitting all day. You'd have to make up for all that sitting time with gym time otherwise even low dose testosterone will do nothing but help you gain hair and fat (well and some muscle even if you are sitting but it will probably be negligible). When I first got on testosterone I realized why most males always envied my ability to eat whatever I want without putting on body fat. That changed immediately, within a week I had to watch what I ate bc I noticed some fat building on my lower abdomen.
It could and it has [0] Also I think you missed the part where he said he moved back to the US and continued selling Bitcoin.

[0] http://www.coindesk.com/florida-localbitcoins-user-loses-bid...
How to Land Your First Web Development Job
Edit: Reading another source suggests they can charge him in absentia, so the statute of limitations argument is probably moot.
I don't agree. In reality, there are very few situations in which ew are fully aware of a criminal's location, but for diplomatic reasons we can't actually apprehend them.

That's why this is different. Can you imagine the uproar if we allowed targets of arrest warrants to walk free despite knowing their location, and having it surrounded? This is an exceptional case.
New message app for iOS
A Hyper Island Student Project. A few weeks ago we received our first project for Mobile Design Module from our Industry Leader Tobias Ahlin. The challenge was to redesign a mobile application and make it #1 in Product Hunt or Hacker News.
Ejay Dagdayan | Sara Bernhardsson | Raquel Pisett

https://vimeo.com/118736731
Adjusted for inflation Glass was the price of an Apple One or the launch price of a Commodore 64 (which, if you preordered, came with a free cassette drive for storage: a $70 value.) It was priced correctly for for true early adoptors who wanted a prototype. Not as a consumer product. Google's stated target price for commercial release was "about the price of a smartphone."
Teamspeak v3† solves this in an interesting way: the program supports creation of anonymous (or rather, pseudonymous) identities easily,
each associated with an unique ID which takes adjustable amount of time to compute on users' computers.

The adjustable parameter, called "Security Level", is expressed as a small integer.

To protect from flood of new (spam) identities, channel owners / operators can select minimum difficulty allowed on the channel.
The higher the Security Level required, the more time it takes to create such identity.
Values around 24 represent a dozen seconds worth of computation, while around 28 is a few minutes.‡

This easily discourages casual spammers, while legit users have no problem with spending a few dozen seconds, or a few minutes to create an identity.

† VoIP team chat, used by gamers.

‡ more information: http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthread.php/47502-Security-lev...
That show is classic.

The Thick of It is another favorite.
Yeah, the Palm Pilot was a reasonably successful device for its time. At a prior employer, in addition to lots of the engineers having one, not a few sales reps and marketing types (including myself) did as well. The syncing was admittedly a bit of a pain (my model was pre-WiFi) but I wouldn't put Palm Pilots in the same class as Newton or Google Glass. By today's standard it looks pretty limited but it was relatively widespread consumer tech at one point--though nothing like Smartphones of course.
Package Signing
>I worked for a small medical company that had access to 20,000 PHI records

I can only imagine the data protection standards at small equipment manufacturers and old-school pharmacies. I'd guess their biggest security measure is keeping paper files in a locked office.
I .. wouldn't bet on Google's XMPP support.

They just (~now~) sent out messages to GTalk users, telling them that Gtalk-the-desktop-app support will be terminated on the 16th of February, like .. in a couple of days from now.

For me Google's xmpp support is nonexistent, I understand Jaconda's attitude.