skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps? In August 2014, they registered stanfordanthemfacts.com on which they've posted the November 11. 2014 announcement that they have continued their contract with Stanford Health Care: http://stanfordanthemfacts.com/

Maybe after the Stanford (and other such announcements), they had decided in mid-December to snag anthemfacts.com and then, after learning of the breach, decided to put it into action for this monumental event. However, what are the chances that it took one week for a health insurer, upon discovering the breach, to launch its PR campaign, nevermind fully understand the nature of the breach to be able to publicly announce it. Given the delicate nature of the situation, as well as its historic size, this is not something that a health insurer would want to prematurely make an announcement on without being very sure that the damage is contained. And they contained it within a week? I realize that I'm slightly begging the question here, but yes, part of my skepticism comes from how quickly they were able to move...One week would make it one of the fastest discoveries-to-announcements, which given the scope of the breach, is pretty amazing.

Edit: It's worth pointing out though that there would be records of them contacting the FBI and Mandiant, and I would give them the benefit of the doubt that they would make such contacts upon discovery of the breach...so if the FBI confirms that the contact happened a week ago, I would take Anthem at their word.
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Who links to Wikipedia?
Yes, after closer reading of the news articles it does seem that they only mentioned "store brands". However, I couldn't find anything where it said brand names were "OK".

My Google foo is failing me, I can't seem to find an actual report, just news articles. Help a fella out with a link?
Thanks! We're excited to be focused solving state problems for containers. As they say, watch this space `:-)
Thanks, that was a great answer!
> Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...

...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of iterative advances), it all still somehow comes full circle.
At the very best it would have been uncharted territory. Given the civil unrest that's been seen in parts of the U.S. without overt financial system collapse, I really don't see it as a huge stretch.
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Oh man, I'd love a Ruby gem version of this. Hmm, maybe a weekend project...
Are you really trying to say not having health insurance is better than your info potentially being breached?
Welds can be stronger than the HAZ. See this video from Lincoln Electric on welding chrome-moly: http://youtu.be/W5dVAT9PTmw?t=7m53s
There are quite a few applets demonstrating chemical reactions/bonds or physical equations etc., and as such applets are relatively common in teaching materials for high school (/secondary education) physics and chemistry, at least with teachers (I had or) I have substituted.

They are obviously years old and rarely signed, which is a shame because quite often there are plenty of demos, none of which I can run with modern default settings of a PC (and sometimes I wouldn't have enough credentials to do anything about it, anyway).
Seriously, this shouldn't even be an issue.
Nathan Myhrvold former CTO at Microsoft had this to say about the differences:

So if the ousted dilettante[1] head of a struggling division of some fading megacorp says it, it must be true?

[1] See, for example, his positions on patent trolling, and his quack cures for global warming.
s/node/Sindre/

node and the npm ecosystem have a healthy amount of modularity. Sindre Sorhus releases modules for single regexes[1].

[1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/filename-reserved-regex/blob...
Compare the Watson text-to-speech voices with Nuance ...

Watson http://text-to-speech-demo.mybluemix.net/

Nuance http://www.nuance.com/for-business/text-to-speech/vocalizer/...

I prefer the Watson version voicing a sample paragraph. Both are good enough for an application that selects on price. For a voice-first application, maybe Watson is better for TTS.

For speech to text, Nuance has been the leader, e.g. Apple's Siri. Has anyone compared IBM speech recognition to Nuance, Microsoft & Google?
Well the "synergies" or "cost savings" associated with mergers like this are when they shutter stores and lay off the employees. Post merger there will be less retail stores.
In Scala one can perform reflection purely at compile-time using macros [1]. This lets you to generate code that would have required reflection in other languages with a much better performance. For example pickling [2] library uses macros to statically generate highly efficient serialisation and deserialisation boilerplate.

[1] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html

[2] http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/pickling/
The text-to-speech is actually a little nicer than Siri or Cortana, but not groundbreaking. This was the only one of the 5 that I thought did well. The rest might have been better without demo pages.

For visual recognition, I used a picture of a snowmobile from http://www.1888goodwin.com/2013/11/14/what-do-you-need-to-do..., which it identified with 73% confidence as "Invertebrate".

Speech to text is a parody twitter account waiting to happen. Here's me asking it how it does with technical transcription:

How do you doing technical words.

If you were going to have to talk about get an jute cushion pull.

And you wanted to discuss the impact on a file server memory.

Issues that cross processes talk about home forks rivers slowed difficult.
To be fair, if your systems relied on your chief architect not being hit by a bus, that would probably be worse than having the passwords stored someplace.
This would be a lot of fun in the Oculus Rift...
And you'd be hiding the blocking on the require call, the primary reason why on-demand loading is an anti-pattern in node.
Slow to the extent affordable (thus, must be tunable) yet highly efficient on defender's hardware is best. (warbiscuit is correct on this.)

"Hard" is a wrong word to use - we're not trying to make things hard to do (as this would only increase the initial investment needed for attacks), we're trying to increase the attackers' cost per candidate password tested.

"Rainbow tables" are made irrelevant by proper use of salts. It's kindergarten stuff, as far as PHC is concerned.

"Too slow for its memory usage" refers to some of the schemes that claim to be (and possibly are) memory-hard (see the scrypt paper). For those, it is desirable to be able to tune them such that their memory usage is maximized for a given running time or hashes per second throughput. For example, a scheme that can be tuned to achieve 1000 hashes/s at 16 MB memory usage per hash computed might win competition over a scheme that only achieves at most 10 hashes/s at the same memory usage on the same server. The latter happens not to be usable for password authentication on a server at that memory cost setting.

Of course, there are also applications where the absolute maximum memory usage is not desirable - e.g., 1 second of running time might be affordable for deriving an encrypted filesystem key, but only e.g. 256 MB of free RAM might be available on a mobile device. There are PHC finalists that can be tuned to limit their memory usage as well, even if tuned to run for a long time, or that don't use much memory at all.

Disclosure: I am the submitter of yescrypt. I also participate on the PHC panel (non-voting, because of having my own submission), along with many others.
Can you create a new book in a few milliseconds? Go ahead, enjoy it. Why do you need to copy someone else's book?
We just had an article about how countries were creating land.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940235
I tried using Watson a month ago without much success. I wanted to do a classification of some random text, and say that this text for example is this category. But as far as I could understand it only allows using their own datasets.

It's not possible to train their service with your data, unlike wit.ai for example. Seems obvious to me that people would want to train with their own data.
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Base jumping!
Created my first small web page with ReactJS, which will be (hopefully :) ) developed to a bitcoin market watching graph tool
It is not like we voluntary did either the removal nor being silent about it.
Hyperthymesiacs generally don't have this problem/solution (however you look at it). Personally, I'd rather not remember things wrongly. The only problem with hyperthymesia is you need to have the right personality for it not to be a burden to you (very high emotional stability, for instance), so it wouldn't be great for everyone.

Since human beings are still evolving, I don't think there's any reason to believe we're meant to do things one way rather than another.

Edit: I should note that hyperthymesiacs are not immune to false memories, despite their superior memory: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/52/20947.abstract
Hey, Luke here, CTO at ClusterHQ.

As well as being proud of this company milestone, I can't wait to get powerstrip (https://github.com/clusterhq/powerstrip) and flocker (https://github.com/clusterhq/flocker) working together so that we can start composing flocker with other docker ecosystem tools.

It will be a great day that you can have a docker swarm with flocker and weave. Or kubernetes with flocker and socketplane. Or even mesosphere with rancher and calico ;)

We've got some pretty neat demos of powerstrip prototypes up here, fwiw: http://clusterhq.com/blog/powerstrip-prototype-docker-extens...

Any questions just shout!

Cheers,
Luke
The Constitution itself offers an empirical justification for copyright "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Emphasis mine. Is a copyright term that is asymptotically approaching infinity actually "limited"?
This is absolutely the type of system I've been hoping for for quite a while. I even started drafting up a spec to build it. I wanted a federated, http based message passing pub/sub type system with device synchronization - and (here's the kicker) - encryption optional.

So why don't I want encryption? Simple, my intended use is in amateur radio, where encryption is in fact restricted (basically, you can only use it to control a satellite).

In amateur radio, we have been developing this mesh network (basically wifi mesh, but we can use much higher power and alternate, non-line-of-sight frequencies like 440Mhz). With the HSMM-Mesh system, we have built in dhcp, dns, ability to advertise services (web, irc, etc) on systems that are usually completely isolated from the Internet at large. We run this on re-purposed routers, laptops, raspberry pis, etc. So you can setup an IRC, FTP, or web server on a pi, someone else can bring a node up within range of your wireless signal, see your node, get a list of services you offer, and use them.

An issue with this is that you want to make multiple "field nodes" and deploy them

So matrix would work really well here. Since each node has its own DNS name (based on our call sign), you could run a matrix server, set people up with the clients, and if we learn of another matrix server on the mesh, federate with it. The two matrixes become consistent eventually. If we bring a node (these would all be battery powered portable) into range of a more permanent fixed station, all the days activity could end up on that fixed station. The fixed station could federate with an Internet instance as well (which would require more extensive validation to ensure users are licensed operators).

A few issues would be user registration - we'd have to disable verification in the field as there won't be email. I don't think we'll have username conflicts. USER1@SERVER1 won't conflict with USER1@SERVER2. Since all users are government issued call signs, identity will be consistent across each matrix server.
The search definitely needs work. The food database is from the USDA so the descriptions are wordy. For what its worth, when you're searching you can use an exclamation mark to negate a term. For instance "!baby !cere banana" gets me all banana related foods that don't have "baby" or "cere" in them (which for some reason is a lot).
I believe that the Nuance technology is built on IBM Speech research: http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-solution/customer-serv...
Well, I'm talking about three levels of "understanding":

The "physics for poets" level I graduated high school with (including a great book on quantum chemistry I checked out from my local college's library, I think). This is useful, albeit dangerous as I've been saying, and enough to thrive at MIT with.

The cargo cult algebra based physics, only used in "education". E.g. the difference between Sears, Zemansky and Young's University Physics vs. College Physics

And calculus based physics.

My claim is that if you were to rank order their usefulness, it would be calculus, poets and then algebra way behind. I'd like to hear from some people who went from algebra to calculus based physics how that worked for them. I certainly found learning physics for real with calculus to be a joy....

ADDED: As for programmers and systems types ... yeah. While electronics intrinsically does nothing for me, I've always studied hardware to know how to build programs and systems better, and that's done me very well.

And the level of understanding can be appalling, we've had several discussions recently about big clusters failing at load and being replaces by a single system, often a surplus desktop, because the programmer had a clue.
Then there's yield strength, ultimate strength, magnetic properties, heat/cold compatibility, toughness, ductility, density, weldability, modulus of elasticity and aesthetics.
> it only deals with bytes and cannot process any complex data structure.

Just FYI. Microsoft tried to address that problem in Windows a long time ago when it introduced Powershell.
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Not even remotely the same thing. Those are cases of the police failing to investigate and file charges.

The Assange case is about the enforcement of valid judicial warrants. The police don't have the same discretion.
If I had a nickel for each time I heard a guy bitching about "hydrogen embrittlement", I'd fund this space program myself!
So the "isomorphic" refers to that JS on both the client and server?
Twitter isn't alone in this. Facebook and Snapchat both have issues with harassment. YikYak had a bad case of it too. I think that if these companies really care about curbing harassment, they would approach each other and tackle the issue together. If someone is trolling on facebook, they probably do it on twitter too.

Riot Games (League of Legends) has The Tribunal, where players who harass get judgements handed down from other players. Perhaps social media needs a tribunal of sorts, with participation from Twitter et al to enact "sentences".
Will you kindly stop referring to the United States as a whole as "torturers"? Not everyone here agrees with our government's use of torture and there is a continuing debate going on here on its usefulness and the need to prevent further abuses.
Visual recognition has some room for improvement

http://i.imgur.com/V59IeQH.png
You may think you did a lousy job of it but I wonder if your kids think differently.

My mom taught herself the multiplication tables along side me. She missed a lot of school when she was younger due to hospital stays because she had contracted Polio.

She took that weakness and turned it into a strength even though she may not have felt qualified to home school me at the time.

I think it helped that the School System had thoroughly angered her though :-). There's a story there that I won't go into now.
Ironically, the last time I ran into this issue personally was discussing with David Friedman (son of Milt) access to several of his referenced papers. One (of which he was the author) had been published in a collection by (the now deceased) Julian Simon. Friedman wrote:

"The optimum population piece was published in one of Julian Simon's books, and he, unfortunately, is no longer alive, so I don't know how I would get permission to web it."

https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/fsYycWa8...

This suggests a few things to me (a lack of clarity on the part of an author over rights to his own works, a surprising lack of knowledge of copyright or rights management, generally, etc.). But it's a quite tangible instance of an author of a work stymied by the question of copyright status due to the death of a publisher / editor.
What does the ease of copying have to do with the moral justification for protecting something? Creating a new book certainly isn't an act that happens in a few milliseconds.

As for creating land--the majority of land came into private ownership in the U.S. via one of two means: 1) granted to wealthy people by European kings; or 2) annexed by the sweat of the brow (i.e. clearing a patch of wilderness and farming it). Those acts were sufficient to morally justify a perpetual property right, passed down from generation to generation. In a way, authors do something very similar to (2). Every sequence of bits is already out there in the aether--authors do the hard work of cultivating a particular sequence of bits into something valuable. It's no different than putting in work to bring land out of the wilderness into civilized use.
No, he can create a copy of it. Which is what copyright is about.
Saw it used on other sites too.

Here is original: http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedHeaderBackgrounds/
Title should be prefixed with [ASK HN] :)

Also, Always. Especially if the want to change their contract.
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I also wanted to point out that it would be easy to use something like twisted to write an IRC or XMPP gateway to a specific matrix server. Then you can utilize a common IRC or XMPP client (though message ordering might be a major issue in an occasionally connected environment).
This is a great list. I appreciate this. I have to add that your last entries are really important. Elixir is great, but I'm finding more and more that I have to dig into Erlang to do many, many things, because Elixir doesn't have that many libraries yet. Things like basic hashing have to be done using Erlang, so knowing the Erlang standard library seems to be pretty important right now.

And yea, you're not going very far without digging into OTP, and Martin Logan's book is pretty excellent. Great entry on this list.
Make sure you use a headset, not your laptop's microphone.
I hope I didn't misstate myself, but I was not claiming that the linked book was an example of new pedagogy. I was just pointing out that it's not sufficient to consider whether the principles of the subject have changed but that one must also consider the pedagogy. It doesn't excuse all price gouging nor necessarily this particular book (I haven't read the book, so I wouldn't know), but it was an aspect of the discussion missing from the rant.
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That story has never made any sense to me. The U.S. and Britain are far closer allies with a much longer history of extradition. If the U.S. wanted to extradite Assange they would have done it from Britain. Extraditing him to Sweden first only to later extradite him to the U.S. is non-sensical.
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In other news, Watson will be RA'd at the end of the month.
> High Netflix usage on an ISP's network shouldn't kill voice calls or interactive applications.

Net neutrality violations are not necessary to ensure this. On a network that does fair queuing/flow queuing, the first application to suffer from congestion will naturally be the one using the most bandwidth: Netflix, not VoIP. No explicit and subjective buckets or classification needed.
Yeah, I don't know much about the auto industry. The basics of stiffness driven designs, though, I suspect would be the same. As would the desire for lower weight. The obvious difference being that when we made a single satellite, material costs were negligible. When you make millions of cars, they're not. That said, there are probably quite a few steel parts in a car that are not stiffness driven, so that could be a big deal if this material works out.
> A shell is a REPL.

Only when it allows the same expressive power over the OS as Lisp Machines, Interlisp-D, Cedar, Oberon have over the running environment.

The only mainstream modern shell that approaches that is Powershell.

Edit: forgot to say good luck for your project
Has anyone tried a titanium-iron-nickel alloy?

I would have thought every alloy combination would have been tried by now, but I guess there's still new things to be learned.
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Those decisions come the people in the glass room in the security office. Not much I can do to change global security policy.
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Is Scala.js recommended for small apps? Say something like Hello World?
I imagine the multinationals get to play both sides of the negotiation — they can lobby it to both governments. Hence it's probably mostly all carrot ("Sign and you'll get lower barriers to your own products"). I can imagine there may be some stick too: Sign this or you'll lose access to Disney and pharmaceuticals.
I feel most for those who have young children. If you consider the long term viability of SSN over the life-span of a person who is under the age of 5 today they'll likely have been exposed to a breach that will contain their dox a few times over by the time they reach a legal age - that is likely a conservative estimate given the frequency of these events. SSN is broken and we're going to see a lot of push back going forward as these people come of age.

TL;DR
If you're a parent, monitor your child's SSN for activity. Especially considering this is a healthcare breach, nobody is immune.
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The evidence is incredibly flimsy and has changed throughout.

The most significant reason I believe these charges aren't true is that the government essentially revealed its hand in trumpeting them so loudly at the bail proceeding and in public at that time, without yet charging him (the narrative is laid out here: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross-...).

To me, I now need to see overwhelming evidence in order to buy this. And that does not exist, or at least hasn't been presented yet. So now, we have to look at what evidence does exist: the ludicrous alleged email exchange (here: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-boss...).

I don't know about you, but this seems flatly unbelievable to me. And even if the dialogue weren't so Hollywood, let's not forget that the alleged victims don't even exist.

And most importantly, if this is the only evidence, the government was obligated to say so a long time ago rather than the song and dance that occurred during the bail proceeding.
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Is a copyright term that is asymptotically approaching infinity actually "limited"?

The Supreme Court ruled[1] (correctly, I think) that it's up to Congress to decide what "limited" means, and as long as any copyright bill they pass has some limit on the term, it's Constitutional.

Don't like it? Vote for a different Congress. It's not the Court's job to say Congress can't decide how it wants to balance a tradeoff when lawmakers are explicitly empowered to do so.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft