skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why does Anthem know your income? It doesn't seem relevant to offer you health insurance products.

Your income is strongly correlated with your health. The lower your income the more likely you are to suffer from conditions such as obesity and diabetes, and the higher your mortality rate will be. Health insurers can use income figures as one factor when calculating the overall risk of a policy.
Oracle Paid More Than $1.2B for Datalogix
The security industry/products seriously need a make over. So much money spent and yet, hacks just keep getting bigger and worse.

[edit]: Disclaimer - I'm CTO at @menlosecurity.
You think it can't destroy lives?

You seem to think it's a good idea to summarily believe accusations with no evidence and no attempt to involve the legal system and convict someone in the court of public opinion just because somebody said something. People lose their livelihoods over this. People could get kicked out onto the street.

Do you think that nobody could do that to you?
On the Launch Festival (Jason Calacanis Event)
Thanks for the feedback. I am not always good about getting bills out on time, only because I've been treated well by clients. Fool me once, shame on you...

This was a very unique situation in the sense that my client's client apparently dropped the project before any payments were over due. At least that's how the information was disclosed to me. My hope is they were honest about this when explaining themselves.
You want to avoid price inflation before the deal has been completed.
>>But do you think AT&T and Co. will like that?

No, I don't, but I'm not an AT&T apologist. It's networking I care about.

>>but how exactly would you do that without causing ire of the same monopolists who hate competition?

Fuck the carriers who are fighting against competition. My concern is that in 2030, we're going to live with regulations that were established in 2015. Do you remember what the Internet was like in 2000? Do any of the rules that would have made sense then apply now? IoT, M2X, etc. are changing how everything works.

I don't want a bandwidth hogging technology like video to overwhelm innovation in machine learning based m2x spaces. I want video to work- but I also don't think we're done innovating.
I am guessing you went for a graduate degree in math. How hard was it to get admission? Would you like to recommend some good schools for doing something like you did. I am just a little younger but hungry for math knowledge.
MyFitnessPal Acquired by Under Armour for $475M
Movie company spends big in Australian politics to stop you ripping GOT
In Finland, at least in Helsinki, they have a "home hospital" system (http://www.hel.fi/www/Helsinki/en/socia-health/health/hospit...) for "patients who do not need the services of emergency units or specialist care". In case the patient is "healthy" enough to go home and has somebody to look after him there, they arrange for a nurse to visit e.g. even four times per day, to give meds, provide IV, and even take blood tests. Also sometimes a doctor visits the patient, though not as often as the nurses. Staying at the hospital is very expensive (for the country), so I have heard that the outpatient care ends up being cheaper.
I don't think Twitter realizes the value of their own search engine. If Twitter could dedicate more resources towards approximate string matching, and put Twitter search as the main attraction on the logged out homepage, it could drive adoption of Twitter among casual users. I should be able to search "new Mugabe meme" after hearing about it, and Twitter should show me pictures of his recent fall, with real-time updates.

But as of now it's pretty much an exact match search, which is frustrating if you don't know the exact term you're looking for(in my example, the exact term is "Mugabe fall"). On to of that, it's hidden away from the logged out homepage. Rather than tackle this problem themselves, they've outsourced the heavy lifting to Google. What a MySpace move
Back to Math – Game and Education
You will learn much more with Scala. Go is quite an uninteresting language.
Women.com (YC S14) is hiring full stack engineers
Incentivizing competition almost certainly cannot be the best solution given that last-mile connectivity is a natural monopoly. It would take a lot of regulatory overhead to overcome the cost of digging three or four trenches to every house instead of just one.
"Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is taking personal responsibility for his platform's chronic problems with harassment and abuse, telling employees that he is embarrassed for the company's failures and would soon be taking stronger action to eliminate trolls."
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/4/7982099/twitter-ceo-sent-me...
That's not exactly true. While its true that there issues with Perl. Its still by and large a language widely used by developers across the world. There is a also a huge and a very active community which does amazing things with it. Now taking away the name means re doing some 2.5 decades of marketing all over again. No body needs to go over that all over again.

There is a set of programmers with whom this won't go down well. Enterprise programmers and the hipsters.
He tried to murder 5 rivals. To me, it seems like he demonstrated almost the exact opposite.
I like the author's attitude---math really is power[1], and everyone can get into it. Also reviewing high school math was a good move...

Another thing that can help a lot is using a computer algebra system to solve tedious arithmetic steps or to verify one's calculations[2].

[1] http://nobsgui.de/

[2] http://minireference.com/static/sympy_tutorial.pdf
I don't think ad free or privacy is a big winner for sales or user experience. However the future of the platform involves more and more search like actions and iOS's current answer of 100 different services spaghetti'd together under Siri (or use Google in Safari) is kludgey and half-baked today and certainly not a long term solution.

Apple likes to control all the parts of the user experience and search is going to get bigger every year.
Do you consider any function which may raise an error to be "dynamically typed", then? (For example, any function which performs an array index; or any function which performs I/O; or, to be absurd, any function which allocates memory (since memory is a finite resource that may run out).) If so, I understand the distinction you're making, but it's a very strong position; most people do not mean that when they say "statically typed". If not, I don't understand the distinction you're making.

Admittedly, gradual typing does not mean that calling into untyped code from typed code is "safe" from runtime type errors (although it is safe in the technical preservation-and-progress sense). But it gives you a partial guarantee: if a type error occurs, you know that the fault does not lie in the typed code. This aids debugging, and helps you port over existing codebases gradually. So it's still quite useful.
Refuse to do business with anyone mentioning illegal activity.
I coded in Rails for the last 3 years or so and jumped to Go for a new project since it seemed like a better fit.

From my perspective, some things are more verbose and others more annoying at first, but overall I have come to love it. I couldn't really pinpoint a specific reason why, but I simply enjoy it.
you never seen the pictures at the end of the article? hum, maybe browser adblockers actively remove them from the page. nice.
If you want improvement you need to regulate monopoly to prevent its abuses, I see no other way.
Thanks! I wrote this a bit hastily and didn't get to proofread it. I'll update it in the AM when back at my comp.
Assuming you mean big risk, how so? It's very hard to counterfeit modern currency. Color changing ink, watermarks, and the embedded strip are all hard to counterfeit especially in tandem.
It's not 'just the tip of the iceberg' as you've described about all of the potential problems.

Social gracelessness is just natural introversion, which is wonderful. The biases of the parents certainly do affect their children, though. In place of lazy teaching I would say that homeschooled children do not gain early experience coping with difficult systems. This is a strength and a weakness depending on where life takes them.

I agree with other commenters that we are nearly living in a golden age of being able to self-direct traditional education as well as educational experiences. It's interesting to compare the current generation of homeschoolers with those 20-30 years ago, when it started to become more popular. At the time, the concern was that a rigorous education could not be obtained in a public school as they were pursuing non-traditional education. Now, public schools are obsessed with academic rigor (to the degree they've embraced Common Core), and the advantage of homeschooling is the flexibility and non-traditional approach.
According to the media, even their CEO's records were taken: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/business/hackers-breached-...
"Why does Anthem know your income?"

Possibly Affordable Care Act compliance? Calculating income-based health care subsidies appropriately?
"A very sophisticated external cyber attack" which is a "security vulnerability"... The more "sophisticated" they claim this "cyber attack" is, the more I think it's a garden-variety SQL injection fuck-up.

They've done a bad job of protecting their customer's data, and an even worse job of explaining what actually happened.
There's Invisalign, but it can easily cost twice as much as braces.
I will be the cynic and say it right away:

this is all good and dandy like jabber was. Then someone like google will provide a massive, free*, always-on server. take control of everything because it will have all the users. and dictate when features are in or not (e.g. jabber federation)

Or is this harder to happen with matrix?
A "free market in law" is either (a) not a free market (as participation in a transaction is not fully voluntary for all participants), or (b) not law.

Most likely, both.
ISPs can still sell sub-broadband; it just doesn't count for the broadband map ( http://www.broadbandmap.gov/ ). This map is also used to determine how much competition there is in the market. So basically DSL no longer counts and many locations now only have one "broadband" provider.
> North vs South, Red State vs Blue State, liberal vs conservative, religious vs secular. Whatever you want to call it, Americans - it seems - are separating themselves into two (or more) distinct and ideologically opposed groups. This is nothing new, of course, but what IS new (at least in my memory) is that there are fewer and fewer opportunities for common discourse.

It's... honestly not as new as you think. Not even the lack of common ground bit.

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/09/phases-of-american-civ...

Creating common ground is the actual job of politicians. They're just bad at it. (Which isn't that surprising, given the sheer scope of the task and that a good number of them don't appear to realize it.)
I like the two Anthem job reqs that were very recently added:

2/4/15 (umm, today): http://www.careers.antheminc.com/jobs/cloud-encryption-secur...

1/30/15: http://www.careers.antheminc.com/jobs/checkpoint-firewall-ex...

Could be a coincidence, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were compromised several days before this press release.
This guy is extremely lucky all that happened to him is that he got his bank account closed. With the amounts of money he was dealing in, what he was doing could have easily gotten him arrested.
> Is there any possible evidence anyone could show you which would convince you this position is wrong?

For the "fanning the flames" part, you'd have to either show me that entrenched media and political organizations aren't exacerbating existing, previously rather benign, divisions in society. And creating new ones. Or, you'd have to convince me that I'm interpreting what I'm seeing in American politics and public life, the wrong way. It would be a tough sell, but is theoretically possible.

For the other part, perhaps I overstated my case with the "320 million groups", but with regard to the contention that there are two buckets in direct opposition that Americans are naturally sorting themselves into - no, I don't think you can convince me of that. At least, I'm not sure how.

> I don't know, do you think people choose to be straight or bi? Do you think a straight person could choose to be gay, or either of them choose to be bi, or vice-versa(-vice-versa)? Because if you can't really choose to be another way, it isn't a choice the way the term is used in this context, and you're being obfuscatory.

I think people choose to be straight or bi or gay in much the same way people choose to be good at math, or enjoy science fiction. Which is to say, some of it is innate, and some of it might also be upbringing, or other environmental factors. I guess 'choice' isn't the right way to put it as you say, I'm just not convinced it is 100% genetic in every case. And, I mean, you often hear that sexual orientation is more of a continuum rather than a binary choice (or ternary, or whatever). And if that's true, then it seems there is an element of choice involved. To what degree, I can't say.

But, I will remind you that you're completely ignoring my point on that, which is that it doesn't fucking matter. Even if it was 100% free choice and a straight person could choose to be attracted to the same sex instead, or vice-versa[0], it should have no bearing on anything at all, other than what happens in that person's bedroom. And that person should be able to come out as gay, and marry their partner of choice, etc etc., and suffer absolutely no social or legal or workplace or whatever repercussions at all. Obviously.

You're demonstrating my point here. I am quite confident that when it comes to LGBT issues, you and I would agree on just about every single item of actual consequence. But, because I apparently hold a few guiding principles as opinions, which you don't agree with (which, by the way, are absolutely open to debate and not set in stone at all), instead of looking at me as an ally, I'm an adversary instead. So it goes with much of America these days.

[0] (for the record, I do not believe this is the case, but for the sake of argument...)
+1 on the "sophisticated" == 'SQL injection', though it's all speculation at this point.
I went significantly out of my way to find a dentist in my city who accepted my insurance and worked on Saturdays. I finally found one and have gotten a lot of important dental work done since then without having to take any time off work.

The sad thing is that if I hadn't found this dentist I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten the work done. My teeth were in bad shape and needed two crowns (two visits each), two fillings, and I ended up getting four veneers as well (totaling three visits).

All that said, I'm extremely skeptical of the approach outlined in the article. It's going to work safely for the majority of patients and probably cause serious harm in a minority where the lack of one-on-one consultation causes significant dental issues to be overlooked (such as periodontal disease). We need more dentists and orthodontists in general to keep costs down, and in particular we need more who practice when patients are most readily available to see them (i.e., not when their patients are themselves at work), but we don't need DIY kits.
Since you already know C and are comfortable with it, start with Objective C. The hard part of app development is Cocoa and the other Apple frameworks (because they are huge), not the language. Because Swift is so new, most of the documentation and open source code are in Objective-C.

Additionally Cocoa was designed with Obj-C in mind. There are current learning pains with Swift on trying to understand how to best bridge Cocoa.

And Swift is a more complicated language than Obj-C. There are a lot more concepts to learn in Swift. (It seems like every other Swift article I come across is something about optionals.) Brent Simmons just posted this which expresses this issue:

http://inessential.com/2015/02/04/random_swift_things

And the performance of Swift is not at par with C in most cases. And debug build performance is terrible for anything realtime/multimedia/game centric. This was recently discussed by David Owens II:

http://owensd.io/2015/02/01/the-optimization-game.html

As for resources, I recommend Aaron Hillegass's (of Big Nerd Ranch) Cocoa Programming books. He has trained generations of Cocoa programmers well, since the NeXT days.
The whois[1] records for http://anthemfacts.com was registered in December. It took them months to create that PR report and prepare for damage control. They should have notified victims much earlier.

[1] http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=anthemfacts.com
These are anonymous tweets directed at a known troll who likes the attention is gets her. The things she has said publicly are much worse. She sexually harasses people to get a rise out of them and then takes pride in their reactions. Sill waiting for that video $50,000 kickstarter video she was supposed to release two years ago.
I don't understand. What would he be arrested for?
> My concern is that in 2030, we're going to live with regulations that were established in 2015.

In the areas that the FCC regulates, it regularly makes updates to those regulations more often than every 15 years. (This would be more reasonable of a concern if highly-detailed rules were being written into statute law.)
The security products arent great, true, but the ppl working as security engineers in companies are often quite decent.

It seems to me that its the usual issue. People don't see the need for protection until they've been hit. It seems to be a cost that doesn't make sense to them. They don't even care anymore.

Then they get hit hard. But it can take years.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a couple of excellent fact sheets on identity theft

https://www.privacyrights.org/how-to-deal-security-breach covers situations like this where there's been a security breach - how to order and monitory credit reports, put in a security freeze (which makes it harder to open up new credit cards or credit lines in your name), etc.

https://www.privacyrights.org/content/identity-theft-what-do... covers when you've actually been the victim of an identity theft
If you bake pies at home and sell them to friends, do you have to register yourself as a business? There might be benefits to it but he could also just be self-employed. As long as he declares his earnings and pays taxes on them there shouldn't be a problem.
Check out the MVC in https://github.com/elcct/defaultproject
True that about the security engineers, but they are at the mercy of products that claim to distinguish good from bad and this has never worked, IMHO. How the hell can you write signatures against malware/documents/web-sites/files/attacks/blah when there's so much diversity and quantity of stuff to keep up with?

Disclaimer: I built the first IPS to be commercialized and yes we used signatures amongst other things.
I just moved back to the US after living in London for three years. I opened a local Lloyds Bank account when I got there, but was advised by my accountant to be paid into an offshore account for tax purposes. This turned out to be surprisingly easy to do through Lloyds International, and was facilitated by the local banker though they have no direct access, they were able to get the Lloyds International bankers on the phone and verify my identity, etc. It's actually a very sweet setup because the online banking makes it seamless to transfer money between the accounts, so I can have all the convenience of local UK banking when I'm there, but all the convenience of the International Phone Bank with its extended hours and designed to be used by customers anywhere in the world. I'm not sure of all the implications for UK citizens, but if you spend a lot of time abroad I'd say its definitely worth looking into.
True, but only now is getting static compilation to native core.

There were Bartok, mono -aot, Cosmo OS, but it seems if it isn't part of the reference platform, developers tend to ignore them.

I have meet a few .NET devs unaware of NGEN.
It makes me wonder. For several years the US government, Medicare, and private insurers have been pushing hard for health care providers to adopt Electronic Health Record systems. Now in the current phase "interoperability" of EHR systems is the catchword.

A question to ask is how secure is a large network of EHRs going to be? I don't know of data showing the frequency or severity of EHR security breaches but it would be surprising if there were not at least some. In any case, this kind of info would probably not be made available to the public, even though it should be.

Anthem's poor job of keeping confidential info private is especially distressing given the fact that many health insurers are also health care providers (e.g., hospital systems). Computer systems are very hard to operate securely, and after what happened, it's hard to trust these corporations will take the task seriously.

I've been quietly predicting that security of health information is going to become the Next Big Privacy Issue as the Internet of Medical Records grows ever larger.
My single biggest problem with Ruby (really, the Rails ecosystem) is churn. The team in charge of Go maintains full backwards compatibility for both language and core libraries. Rails, in contrast, churns so quickly that if I let a project sit fallow for even six months, the entire packaging infrastructure has been swapped out from under me, the version of Ruby on my shared host is different, and my project no longer runs. Ain't nobody got time for that.
What is a second chance car loan
>Some data services do not go over the public Internet, and therefore are not “broadband Internet access” services subject to Title II oversight (VoIP from a cable system is an example, as is a dedicated heart monitoring service).

Am I missing something here - VoIP isn't part of broadband? I've a VoIP/SIP provider (Anveo) which I use as a home phone - entirely over broadband.

To what kind of "VoIP not part of broadband" is this referring to?
easypostage.com is $3k per https://www.godaddy.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?ci=83269. I could have saved you $12k!
Looks like they misled the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/business/hackers-breached-...

> Anthem learned of the hacking last week and called in Mandiant over the weekend. The company was not obligated to report the breach for at least several more weeks but chose to do so now to show that it was treating the matter seriously.

As user jakejohns has pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9002003), the WHOIS points to a creation date for ANTHEMFACTS.com of `2014-12-13` with GoDaddy.
As someone who spends 40+ hours a week working with Python, I really like Go as a whole. I like being able to explicitly declare types, I love channels. It's way easier to deploy my Go apps than my Python apps (statically compile and toss that bin on prod).

There's little point in trying to directly compare the two, they are two very different languages. Knowing both leaves you well-equipped to handle a wider range of projects. More tools in the toolbox.
For me being able to compile to an executable with zero dependencies is a big win. And setting up the go dev environment is also trivial compared to my experience with rails.
Ultimately, the web is an attack vector that no one is immune to. Did you read the Syria hack recently? Just a skype chat with an attractive opposite-gender is enough to download a piece of malware masquerading as a picture you really want to see. While the human aspect has always been a key element of getting hacked, products that claim to distinguish the good vs. bad are failing big time. And this has been the pillar of enterprise security (classifying good against bad) for the last 20 years and is starting to show its age.