skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forget the exact numbers, but a single year's worth of Medicare part D claims data will be on the order 1TB. That doesn't include the beneficiary and provider datasets (which links patients and doctors) which you'll need to join against. Also when detecting fraud like this, you may want to include the other Medicare parts (A, B, C) which are oftentimes larger than part D (being that D is the newest). So this leaves you manipulating on the order of 10TB for single year analysis. Finally, since Medicare bills can be corrected up to 3 years, you may end up joining multi-terabyte datasets.
Well, to me it's not that it's IT consulting that's the problem. What seems distasteful to me is the impression I have that it's a wealthy, corp-jumping exec starting a company selling buzzwordy, trendy services to another wealthy exec who spends freely from his corporate budget, then writing short, vague articles about entrepreneurship to sneakily advertise his company. It seems like a new old boys' club scratching each other's backs and gaming the system.

But maybe it's just me.
I know many union members who work very hard to promote the interests of their employers.

My father and grandfather were union carpenters. They took pride in doing a good job.
I think the warning should be parsing complex domains with regex libraries, not a restriction to regular syntaxes. There are simple cases where backtracking (or some other extension) plus regex makes sense. Something like

(\w+) \d+ \1

is simpler as a regex than any other common tool available.
No, but you will have to throw away all blood products from that donor and you will have to pass the message back to the collection point so they can alert the donor.

So yes, you need to be able to track the provenance of the blood but the final recipient of the product should not have the ability to contact the donor directly, nor should the donor have knowledge of when and/or where their blood was used.

This can all be done without having a phone number or other identifiable data attached to the blood product other than a serial number which goes back to the collection point.

Centralizing this data is a very dangerous thing and could have un-intended consequences for the donors.
Makes sense to me! (I would interpret it to mean 20-30% of projects have <3wk lead time, fwiw)
The nurses' union are one of the only few political forces opposing the TPP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUKlBejOlTU

That's in the public interest.
Yes, plus some sort of analytics-focused data warehouse (Teradata, etc.). I am almost certain though their analytics team is outsourced to a major contractor like Lockheed Martin.
This is a good introduction to Rust, regardless of your Clojure background (I read a few articles about it when it was trending on HN, but never wrote a line of Clojure).
VTB is KGB's bank. It's common knowledge in every post-soviet state. It is hard to speculate what their end-game might be. Anything from protecting Russia against foreign interests through offense, to world domination and everything in between. My guess would be in the "everything in between" realm. Former USSR borders are desirable to the Russian president, it seems. Adversaries, troubled by domestic problems are easier to fend off. I'm afraid, or I should rather say, happy that those endeavours are proving to be quite expensive and without much meaningful result on the horizon.
Yeah, I am also not happy with the choice of words here. The reason for it seems to be that, while the court in question is national, the legislation which it cites as the base for its decision is European.
Your assuming all capital can be invested which seems unlikely given <1000$ investments and significant capital.

Assuming a limited 'deal flow' you want to tailor things so you get the maximum total returns not just highest return on invested money.
Just this week, I had to perform some maintenance programming on an application written C++ in the mid- to late 1990s. It required Visual Studio 6.0 (!!!) to build. I do not know what features were supported back then, but the application only made use of classes (no inheritance, though, except for GUI stuff derived from library components) and new/delete. (I was really lucky, the code I had to look at was highly readable.)

C++, where it goes beyond those simple basics, always gives me mixed feelings. On the one hand, C++ has its good sides (Qt rocks, or at least it did the last time I used it (around version 4.8)), but every time I approach C++, I seem to succumb to the temptation of making things overly complex. I sometimes think the biggest problem with C++ is not learning the language but developing the discipline to use it properly (where "properly" might mean different things to different people).
I hope you're right! A lot of the assumptions surrounding scarcity are so deeply-ingrained into the way we think that it's difficult to speculate on what would happen otherwise.
Ask HN: Best physics book / what should I tell my children?
At school quantum physics was mentioned, but I have no real clue about it. Bonding between atoms was explained with the Bohr model.

I fear I might be doing my kids a disservice by explaining the world to them in those terms, so I'd really like to get up to scratch to the current knowledge in physics. I don't need to be able to calculate stuff, but I'd like to have a general idea what is going on.

Possible? I already have the Feynman lectures, but they seem a bit long-winded to me. I never made it past the first book...

I have "The Road To Reality" by Penrose but I am not sure how current it still is?
I actually sold it twice to two different companies. The first time was when it was just an idea and when they passed on it (but after they had given me enough money to prove it) I sold it to the second company for 100x more. At no point did I ever have to give up any equity.

The rather ironic thing is I actually came up with a much better idea [1] to solve the same problem, but I was never able to make any money from it. I am far more proud of the later idea, but it did not have the same magic.

1. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/344
The facts of the given case notwithstanding, a lot of what happens on the EU level is quite undemocratic, IMHO. The reason being, that most of the power in EU institutions still lies with the Commission, not with Parliament. Commissioners are appointed by the national Governments, and not elected, and so twice-removed from all democratic processes.
'Fallout Shelter' Is Apple's #1 App, but Embodies the Shallowness of Mobile
You and some other commenters miss the point completely.

Now the "rights holders" will have right to tax every storage medium you buy. n% of what you pay for your HDD goes to them.
(And I don't know who is that, since everybody I lisen to won't get a cent)
Often this sort of leakage comes down to timing, you can infer what a person is doing by the amount of time it takes you to do something. In the simplest example (and only slightly related to the linked article), imagine we have an API end point that allows you to log in using a password. A naive implementation of authentication might look like this:

if ( password = "hunter2" ):
return True

This in a lot of cases will be vulnerable to a timing attack. If the user submits the password "huntducks" it will take the function momentarily longer to return than if they had submitted "whalehorn", due to the underlying comparison exiting at the first non-match. With a bit of trial and error they can deduce the password one character at a time by altering their guess to take longer and longer to execute. To avoid this security sensitive code needs to be time constant, which is a lot harder than you'd imagine.

Attacks like the author are performing are a lot more complicated and use tricks like coercing the victim into signing distinctive plaintexts, but the example also works for more complex systems like ECDSA where people can derive the signing key by just knowing how long it took.
There should not be a profit motive involved with incarcerating people. That's just plain immoral.
Am I missing something or are they not both linear?
Taking the BRICS Seriously
The EU Commission is regularly abused by any plurality of national governments to push for Europe-wide legislation that those governments want, but would not be able to enact nationally without significant voter backlash. So, they use European law as an excuse to say "See, we also do not want this, but we are forced to do so!". Same process as happens with international treaties like TPP or TTIP, which when signed would force numerous unpalatable changes to national laws.

Ed: And there's much of the reason for the bad rep of the EU inside of the EU. The rest (mostly in the UK) is due to Murdoch's personal interests, obviously.
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I'll have to steal more then to get my money's worth...
This is a chosen ciphertext attack, so yes, you have to decrypt the attacker-provided payload.

That being the case, there are a lot of systems where that is easy to achieve. If you have GPG in your mail client, it will decrypt anything anybody sends you.

Another thing to keep in mind is that attacks always get better, they never get worse. So today's chosen ciphertext attack is tomorrow's zero-knowledge attack.
Sorry, this wasn't publicly available for download. After arm-wrestling the senior administrators for months and months, a reporter and I literally drove to pick it up and were given a set of DVDs by the State of Maryland health department, Mental Hygiene Administration, and a ton of other acronyms these people fall under.
This article is very poorly balanced and reads like an attack on a politician rather than an honest investigation into what is clearly a very complicated issue.

I'd love to see some historical comparisons between the prison industry prior and the rise of their lobby. Does anyone know of a more in depth analysis?
Doesn't it? Did you check Switzerland?
The author positions his pitch about being all about the product and the value the customer sees in it, when I think a large portion of the potential client's decision to pay 35k is based on this guy's ability to actually bring it to market. If the potential client has no idea who you are, I think it'd be crazy difficult to sell them on a 35k "idea". They'll need to get to know you, and the author doesn't really touch on that point.
> The most wildlife they have are a few deer and wild boar. Even squirrels are rare.

If true, that's a symptom.

Your very small list is not self-sustaining. Every living thing evolved in the context of every other living thing around it. While the current mix is not the only essential configuration, a large mix is essential for there to be anything from your list.

At the least: it took millions of years to get the all but uncountable list of life we have today. Why destroy it when it's not at all necessary to do so. We can never put it back, or create anything even close to it. The best we can do is to not fuck up.
I made a demo video (and updated the sw) now its pretty easy to do multiple end points!!

http://t.co/UzdVt7uiWR (youtube vid of it in action)
English Court takes step towards making private copying illegal again
Lisp is more like the Velvet Underground than the Pixies ;-)
This was on the front page few minutes ago. Why was it removed?
Futures model async tasks, there's no reason you couldn't write an executor which uses OS threads using this framework (as they say in the post...)

>we provide a flexible mechanism for explicitly controlling the execution context of callbacks, using a simple Executor interface
Android mobile browser requires the full signature chain of authorities who signed the site certificate[0]. It is done to avoid calls to CA servers and reduce network use on mobile devices.

If a person does not concatenate authorities signatures to their site certificate, Firefox and mobile Chrome will alert, desktop Chrome and Safari won't.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling
I'm one more person who had the same reaction to idea of a panic button. After spending a couple of minutes on the site I merely felt confused about what it was supposed to be.
Don't forget that politicians of every country tend to take the credit when the EU does something popular while they're quick to blame Brussels when poorly-received reforms are made.

Not to say that everything's great in europe's current state of affair but be careful not to be too influenced by political propaganda. Remember that the political direction of the union is set by the council which comprises the various head of states of the union. It's not like the parliament is this rogue extranational body that unilaterally dictates its will to the members of the EU.
Likely because it got flagged, as anyone who wants a bunch of "let's whine about evil SJWs" resources can just check Reddit's /r/all.
Not always; ask any hospital if their anesthesiology department operates at a loss. The answer is almost always yes. You can't have surgery without anaesthesia, yet the cost of the service (including the market price of anaesthesiologists) outstrips the reimbursement.
Interesting. In the US you can donate plasma twice a calendar week as long 48 hours separates the donations.

I use to do red blood and double red as frequently as a I could, the day I became eligible again was the day I donated.
When you do something like that you can't worry if you are donating enough - you know that you are doing everything you are allowed to do.
While I share much of your sentiment, I cannot share your optimism. Never underestimate the power of corporate rent-seeking lobbyism. Where I live, we do not only pay surcharges for blank CDs and DVDs, but printers, mobile phones, CD- and DVD burners, hard disk drives, etc. Practically, for any and all ways of storing data, both the drives and the media.

And it all vanishes in the huge, bottomless maw of corporate greed, with little ever reaching any actual artist. It largely divides into shareholder value, outrageous manager payoffs, and.... errr... "investments" (meaning, money for more lobbying and bribes).
What I don't understand about the Blockchain hype (and I say that as a fan of Bitcoin): isn't the primary problem it solves the avoidance of double spending?

Or in the case of Ethereum, perhaps double contracts. But still, the issue seems a bit overblown to me: to double spend (or present fake contracts, or more generally, fake data), you somehow have to isolate the victims network before injecting the fake transaction into it?

Sharing data in a p2p network was possible before the blockchain. Maybe a lot of applications don't really need the bullet proof security of the blockchain to exchange data?

I don't see the real advantage for a self driving car company, for example. Why couldn't it just as well live on a server - maybe in the cloud so that it has backups? The issue of cheating could be countered with trust, just as normal businesses do (screw over your customers too often and they'll stay away).

The real problem seems to be political, I don't think it is legally possible to instantiate a business without human background?

Suppose I launch a contract on Ethereum that tries to buy a self-driving car and rent it out to passengers. How would that car get a license plate? And without it, wouldn't the police quickly remove it from the street?
> Centralizing this data is a very dangerous thing and could have un-intended consequences for the donors.

Such as...?
This is likely to start more flames than stop future ones, but I have an inkling that enforced, codes of conduct could encourage less participation and diversity as the enforcers have their own prejudices. (For example against developers with limited english language commnuication skills).

It could also, and I've seen it happen before, been used to exclude users who can be subjectively labeled by the leaders as 'toxic' when they only challenged the leaders.

However, the vast majority of times Codes of Conduct are there to keep people happy and only in the largest projects or rarest times are enforced. This no code of conduct effort would likely cause more strife than stop them, and I wouldn't be surprised if this thread is flagged.
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I believe they are only required to disclose financials of it in their next quarterly update if the transaction has a "material" impact on the business. Which is open to a lot of interpretation but generally has come to mean that the information would have an impact on whether the average shareholder would buy or sell the stock.

This is why you see Apple buy dozens of companies quietly without disclosure all the time. Because most purchases would not really change whether the average person invests, if for no other reason than the sheer size of Apple.
Codr is a collaborative text editor - like a lightweight Google Docs for code. Codr enables software developers to code together in real-time from anywhere. For web developers, Codr also doubles as a shared reactive work surface: every change is instantly visualized for all viewers via Codr's integrated HTML preview pane.

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It doesn't hurt if your mom is on the national board of the United Way with the President of IBM.
There's a long running (century old) joke among First Nations people about everyone having their own personal anthropologist. It's a way to ease the pain of having scientists poke and prod into every little aspect of Natives personal lives and culture. When everything is taken from you, your women are sterilized (or just plain go missing), and every aspect of your life is examined & analyzed.. you tend to not trust white men, the government, or scientists.

And you are generally correct, science is incompatable with First Nations culture & society. Though that is changing somewhat with all the people who were forceably (& coerced) into moving away from the reservations to the city. There are also more young Natives going to college now. Though those young educated Natives are not going to go back home and teach their 90 y/o matriarch to trust the white man..
Sorry, user logicallee explained this better than I did. You're looking at 4-5 graphs put next to each other for comparison. The nearest flatland with the huge towers is the one troubled clinic.

Here's an annotated version of that, drawn by a child apparently: http://i.imgur.com/1dcuuXI.png

As you can see, data of the clinic we were investigating is the first 6 long rows, and ones behind it are clinics we were not investigating. We asked to compare a number of clinics so not to tip our hand, and the administration took half a year of paranoid data checking before giving it to us.

I know, not the most intuitive graph, but the graph was meant to be a diagnostic for only me, the person who composed the data. As you can see, a single glance at the graph revealed the problem, without involving any numerical analysis.
I actually enjoyed reading his review of the watch from the standpoint of a business traveler. As a few at work have mentioned the battery life is only good if you are not wholly reliant on the watch itself throughout the day. Show off days while good for the ego weren't good for the battery.

He is right in that the technology is all so close and acceptance is truly waiting on the right apps, apps done right, but most importantly battery life
For context, ImageNet does have a sofa category for labels :/

http://image-net.org/search?q=sofa
> Age-related disease kills ~100,000 people every day

People die. In other news water is wet.

Now, I'm all for making people live longer, with quality of life

> and causes horrible day to day suffering for hundreds of millions of others

Because doctors prop up the sick (often with family support) and artificially extend their life while costing a lot of money in 'treatments' for unrecoverable conditions.
Thanks for interpreting that while I slept. Excel's 3D graph feature was just the quickest way to render this, since I was already tired of waiting for data to get reformatted.

Believe the original data was just a set of forms, each printed page stating prescriptions for a patient session. Basically nothing you could perform frequency counts without recomposing into a database, and that took days.
7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia
this is laughable. WikiLeaks claims that "A document listing the subscriptions that needed renewal by 1 January 2010 details a series of contributory sums meant for two dozen publications in Damascus, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Kuwait, Amman and Nouakchott. The sums range from $500 to 9,750 Kuwaiti Dinars ($33,000)". The actual document shows that a Saudi ministry is buying subscriptions to newspapers. The "9,750" is actually 9 dinars and 750 fils - an amount equivalent to $35!
>Rust is statically typed. The upside is, you will curse it at compile-time instead of at runtime. The downside is, "exploratory programming" means exploring how to convince the compiler to let you try an idea.
I can't explain completely, but check out http://blog.tsunanet.net/2010/11/how-long-does-it-take-to-ma....

Relatively speaking, I don't think context switching is _that_ expensive compared to other areas you can focus on like doing smarter memory management.

I don't know exactly what they mean by threads having heavy memory overhead, but possibly they mean cache interference mentioned in that link? I'd be curious if there is an actual large memory chunk other than stack/scheduling details in play here too.

On modern cores too, there are a decent chunk of registers, including floating point registers. I've looked into timings before for embedded applications and the performance hit here isn't trivial when looking at interrupts and the like; but I'd be surprised if it was that overwhelming on servers.
Victory against Uber won’t reverse the decline in labour rights
Actually about 15% of all state/federal prisons are owned or managed by for-profit corporations. There are really two classifications of "for-profit" prisons. One is where the company owns/operates the entire facility. These are the ones that receive the most attention even though they are the minority comparatively. The big for-profit companies usually try to buy first before moving to option 2.

The second option is where the state/county builds a prison or jail, owns the facility, possibly supplements some staffing, but contracts out the day-to-day operations to a for-profit company. This is what is more common as many states won't sell the actual facility and/or land. They just want someone to takeover the day-to-day operations so they don't have to worry about it.

Both are just as bad and both have occupancy based contracts.
Iain Banks audio interview
Wow. Codr is a must for long distance pair programming.
I'm almost done with seveneves and the thing that gets me is how defensive his wrighting has become.

He explains every semi-technical concept in excruciating detail as if he expects an army of angry nerds to tear the book to shreds if he doesn't explain early research into how whips work or the theoretic underpinnings of how swarming algorithms work.
> We thank Werner Koch, lead developer of GnuPG, for the prompt response to our disclosure and the productive collaboration in adding suitable countermeasures.

"[...] If you are using a GnuPG version with a Libgcrypt version < 1.6.0, it is possible to mount the described side-channel attack on Elgamal encryption subkeys. [...]"

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q3/0003...
Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk – and your job
Would love to find out more about how it was made. Can you point to a small example of how to accomplish this? seems so cool!