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nomachine version 3.x did this brilliantly. In version 4 they removed that feature unless you get their enterprise version, IIRC.

I'm sorry but I've had all these problems and many more with traditional health care companies. As a diabetic I'm intimately familiar with the health care system. It's a hard space to work in and I'm happy to see startups trying to tackle it. But it won't solved soon. Unlike Dropbox, where they "solved" sync more or less there is no one thing in health care, but many.

It would have been nice to see R with c++. Using the Rcpp package you can write inline c++ for the heavy loops like a boss.

While spreadsheets are sub-optimal, the work was OPEN so people could find those bugs. We need to stop beating scientists who share their data because currently there is little incentive for them to do so.

Most scientists do not make their code and resources easily available. I'd prefer an open excel sheet to a closed python analysis which is only slightly less likely to be wrong.

I always thought it was interesting that Sanskrit could almost be a computer language: http://uttishthabharata.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/sanskrit-pr...

I used to think this was the case, but I use chrome in incognito mode ( and only for fb!) and I'm starting to get retargeted ads. I suspect they are using some sort of 3rd party on the backend. Moreover, it's not only ads now ... I'm also seeing suggested groups that seem eerily creepy ...

This sounds awesome. I've been looking to build an alternative to Mint, but getting banking data (in an automated way) has always been a pain. I look forward to trying it out.

Could this also be called "data twerking" ?

There is a company that is doing something somewhat related and equally cool. They use NLP to identify who may have written particular portions of bills. http://www.legcyte.com/

You can change what the default escape character is in the ssh config file.

This is interesting. Machine learning requires data. Will the app be sending back up anonymized data that then gets used to help the app make better decisions? Or how else will you make your app smart like Mint? Can't wait to see what you're doing.

Do we think that services like Mint are handing over all our financial data to the government (making it easy for them to have a picture of your entire finances)?

If so, are there any viable, offline alternatives?

If you have cygwin, you can install gnome-terminal. I use it daily and it is awesome. Way better than console2 or any other windows based emulator I've tried. You may need to install it using Cygwin Ports though.

If you have cygwin, you can install gnome-terminal. Works perfectly ... once you get it working ;)

So True. It makes me wish there was a list of high quality people who post rarely.... Or an aggregated twitter feed for slow posters.

Now that I think about it, it would be awesome if Google released stats from Google Reader since they are killing it anyways. It could probably be used to identify high-quality, but slow updaters, among other things....

Could a sort of escrow be setup to manage these kind of issues?

By this I mean that if the gene researcher finds something significant she can post it to a secure site with pre-established anonymized ID.

The anonymous donor can check this site with their special ID ... if they so choose so.

I'm sure there are flaws to this, but it seems like some sort of solution could be devised that allows sensitive information to be passed on to the anonymous donors without the researcher knowing who that donor is.

I'd like to see the Pebble watch serve as a way to view blood sugar levels and send commands to an insulin pump ... at one point I thought about setting up a kick starter project for this, but all the issues with bluetooth seemed daunting. Thank you to Scott for making these issues heard.

It would also help if Google's bouquet were a bit more fragrant.

In particular, I find Google+'s non-write access api to be my major stumbling block to using it, socially that is. I want to push twitter/fb to it. I want openness and I think it would help their adoption. That would be a bouquet I'd want to smell and I know many others as well.

I've often thought there should be an open code/data license that restricts usage and dissemination only to those who agree to make their code and data equally available.

Why? Because in many fields there is a negative incentive to provide code and data. It not only takes time, but it opens you up to criticism by people who wouldn't be willing to make their own code/data available. Perhaps something like this would raise the bar and encourage more people to share their code/data. Just a thought.

In DC we're currently trying to convince the library system to open up their meeting spaces for entrepreneurship / tech meetups. If it works, hopefully it could be replicated to other cities and be a positive part of the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Below is a talk about transforming part of the MLK library, DC's central library, into a meetup space, FWIW. http://www.robertvesco.com/2012/02/entrepreneurship-public-p...

Does fail2ban work against brute force distributed attacks?

I've noticed a few attacks that seem to be orchestrated from the same people but using different IPs.

I've been running a similar experiment. And noticed similar things as the author.

However, I decided to run an additional experiment to contact Amazon since the IP was originating from an EC2 instance. Amazon contacted me after I filed an abuse report and said they were investigating.

A week goes by and I'm still getting hammered. So I email Amazon and asked when it will be resolved. No response. So I email again, again, and again. I finally get a response saying they have resolved it, but I'm still getting hammered from the same IP address.

So I email them once more asking - what is it exactly you have resolved?

No response.

I presume it is not in Amazon's best interest to resolve such issues as long as people are paying for their instances....

I've been playing with byobu and I like it a lot.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/search/label/Byobu

You can use either a screen or tmux backend.

Agree 100%. I'd add it should be a separate score too... No one would want to be a high scorer in these areas...

"We're not going to fix this problem. I'm also fine with that."

Just thinking out loud here in terms of potential ways to stem this although perhaps this is futile.

What if HN had a checkbox for ad-hominem and/or off-topic comments?

Check boxing a comment as an ad hominem would add to your "ad hominem" score (separate from karma). Likewise for off-topic. This wouldn't stop a person from posting ad hominem or off-topic comments, but the idea of accumulating points for bad behavior could dissuade (some) people from making too many. Who would want to be branded the off-topic or ad-hominem gal?

Perhaps it wouldn't work -- but at minimum I think it would be an interesting experiment in promoting civility and thoughtful discussion.

DMVs across several states have improved drastically over the last 15 years.

I remember when the DMVs were utter chaos - prior to automated ticketing. It used to be a mob scene. One of the reasons why it has improved so much was that people were furious every time they had to go to the DMV. It used to be the prime example of everything that is wrong with government. There were frequent jokes and water-cooler griping about it.

One state, I forget which, started the automated ticketing and improved the work flow. The other states eventually followed suit because it was an easy way to score points with the public. I can say the last several times have been relatively pleasant experiences.

Regarding Telcos, they are still highly regulated, highly unionized operations and in many areas they are quasi-monopolies as mentioned by kgrin. My suspicion is that this contributes to many issues when dealing with telcos...

While randomized trials are a good thing (they help separate causation from correlation), correlations can be valuable too. Especially since we cannot always run randomized trials.

For instance, the first studies on cigarette smoking and cancer were done in 1930's and they showed a relationship between the two. They were purely correlational. They could of been spurious. Even if we could do a randomized trial, it probably wouldn't be ethical. However, these initial studies paved the way for more research. Now we know with a high probability that the two are related. If we followed the author's advice where would we be?

There are also parallels to start ups. If we always followed the "hard evidence" how many new innovations and insights might we have missed?