skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you replied to, but while I see your point, there should not be a cap to prevent companies from taking consumer trust for granted, especially at the scale and magnitude of companies that handle almost all American's information. If a person's SSN is pretty much a key to screwing that person's financial life up is not worth protecting correctly by these companies, these companies should be financially screwed too. In the current state, will Equifax be held liable for any identity theft that occurs from this breach?
Yes, which would have the effect of cutting down on speeding tickets issued since it's an extra court date for the officer. Many can't be bothered already when you take a ticket to court.
Ah I see - working remote would be nice, but that would also not check one of the boxes of employment for me.

I _really_ enjoy being surrounded by intelligent people while working, and being able to bounce ideas off of them and working on a team. (I also enjoy working alone once I'm in the zone too)
>> 1. No, it will not necessarily happen. You can focus on one thing and still fail. See the story about the guy who dropped everything to try and be a professional golfer.

> That guy will still be a very good golfer if he focuses on that.

From what I read somewhere, he retired from golf because of back injury. So if
my memory serves right, it renders your "[he] will still be a very good
golfer" ridiculous, because no, he will never be a golfer anymore.
You shouldn't feel guilty for being able to take leisurely lunches. That's part of being a human being. If anything it's people who cannot who are in need of a better situation. Even now, you likely spend at least half your waking weekday hours in an office, plus you have to commute.
I agree about the drawbacks of threads as "another layer of indirection".

But if you don't have threads, and the number of participants in the same chat room grows, how do you manage the intertwining of messages belonging to different subjects?
At a basic level, it is 1/280th the market cap of BitCoin.

So just a bunch of people holding BitCoin selling <1% of their holdings for diversity would cover it.

It is an error to compare it to an investment in a product. It isn't. ICOs are different.

I reckon it is a lot of rich early crypto investors who will happily throw $1 million into each of 20 different new cryptocurrencies that look the most plausible.

This one looks plausible, solves a real world problem, and covers a different set of use cases to Ethereum or BitCoin. It has VCs watching over it for management mentoring and control.

So worth the diversification of portfolio. Esp for someone whose crypto portfolio shot up a load this year.

Why are ICOs different? Because anyone (in this case, anyone acredited) can get in early. How many people in 2003 would have invested in 20 promising social networks if they could have?
Good point. I was thinking similar. The context matters, in this case a lot. Certainly, there are signals people want to send on dating sites. Evidently the algorithm picked up those signals and then from that created a pattern (because it has more and finer capacity than mere humans).

Still quite an accomplishment (maybe). But they pretty much already led the horse to water, yes?
The author hints that they bought in early to bitcoin and have made some money that way, although obviously they don't go into detail. Perhaps they do not quite believe the gains themselves, and certainly can't work out how to explain it.

The author is slightly too old to be a true Millenial.
insuring for the "average case" defeats the entire purpose of insurance.
Consider the consequences if it is the same/cooperating state actors behind the 2015 OPM breach. At that point there would be mountains of blackmail data.
F-35 firmware patches to be rolled out 'like iPhone updates'
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Who cares about fairness? This isn't about whether you like Go, or like its creators. It's about the performance characteristics of the language. And there the question is whether the comparison is representative, which sounds a bit like "fair", but isn't really the same thing.[0]

The point about 20 years to optimize only matters so far as it gives you some reason to believe that Go will improve, and catch up or surpass Java. If your timeline is a decade or more, that's quite important. If your timeline is this year, it's not.

[0] I think there's a lot of room to criticize this benchmark's representativeness. It's literally one case.
I am pretty sure to not be able to read a DRM PDF file. I don't know if my e-reader supports that (never had the Adobe DRM account needed for that). I definitely think my Linux workstation won't like it. So, it's more about being able to read it now and in the future. DRM is a pretty strong guarantee that I won't be able to read it.
Meh, unless it's strongly and statically-typed I'm not going to use it in production.

/typical HN response
This is truly low: Equifax gives the affected victims a "special offer" to protect their identities. In the fine print is a waiver to any class-action lawsuit.

https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/90612079459342745...
This is exactly what happens in enterprise software companies. I've been part of a team that built a $100m ACV SaaS service from 2010 to today. Recently our sales have been taking a big dip and I've been trying to workout what is going on.

What I discovered resonates with this blog post...

1. I compared powerpoint decks from 2010 to 2017. The pictures got better but the fluff and high level descriptions got further and further away from what our product actually does! I think this is due to multiple marketing leaders taking over and putting their veneer on the marketing message rather than sticking with the current message in order to justify their role.

2. Current sales reps are taught the high level benefits and problem the solution solves but they had no idea of the basics. So again when they speak to potential customers they sound like a Deloitte consultant using words that are so far away from the basic issue a customer is trying to solve.

3. R&D also became focused on the high level benefits and forgot that we sell technology and features DO actually matter they just shouldn't be the only focus of a sales/marketing team.

Its interesting to see that most sales strategies today imbue this idea but I think what happened is most of us have gone so far off the map that we end up with Meltwater problems.
Agree. The best thing that can happen here is the entire 149 million gets published online somewhere - that will force change. Overnight, companies will have to stop assuming SSN is secret.
insurance doesn't mean "pay out the max if anything happens", it means "cover damages up to limit"
On Equifax's site you can check to see if you are "potentially" impacted without enrolling in their service.
You're a good capitalist I guess.

Hopefully after making your million bucks ripping off desperate people you can sleep at night.

The reality is that profiteering in a short term crisis is just a scummy thing to do. In the majority of cases basic supply services will be available in days anyway.
Yeah, I've hoyed it into a wide variety of dishes, especially when cooking 'under the influence' and found it goes with a wide variety of foods.

I think "if a dish would benefit from onions or garlic, then a pinch of fetid ass would go as well"
> I suspect you can forward these to scam@netcraft.com to get the upstream providers automatically notified and the site monitored until it's down.

This is accurate. Source: worked at Netcraft until recently.

Also, if the automated system rejects your report (Netcraft handles an awful lot of reports, false positives are unavoidable), reply to the rejection message explaining that you think it shouldn't be rejected and your message will be read and handled by a technical human.
I think $1000 is a lowball estimate for the per-person damage done by this breach. At $1000/head, they would be looking at $137B of liability with a market cap of $17B. Good.

How hard is it to opt-out of whatever class action settlement is offered, and take this to small claims court?

Anyone want to setup a website to automate the paperwork? I'd love to see a not-for-profit do this moving forward when things like this happen.
Do you find "I want a completely overhauled education system with higher standards nationwide" and "I thankfully got myself transferred out of teaching at a bad school immediately" to be at all at odds with each other?
I'm not sure I'm explaining this well - would love to see a proper psychological and economical analysis by someone.
For a little more obvious notification, I like noti.

https://github.com/variadico/noti
Why would you cap punitive damages? Sure, it won't be collected, but that's okay--this sort of failure should destroy a company that betrayed the societal trust. It should be a smoking crater when all is said and done.
I check it at least 90-100 times a day, and I don't know how to quit!
For the same reason that there is net neutrality. So that the few unelected officials don't decide what the mass is allowed to see.
This is where I'd love to see rappers that care about their community out there money. Increase public defender funds. So many predominantly black folk go to jail because they lack the resources to fight the corrupt system.
Random page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170516210944/https://www.daily...
Asking people to be beaten up.
Right. Societies without a government, or without an effective government, have no succor for the despised minority: If the majority hates you, nobody except the government can push back on that hatred.

Racism is like pollution, in that being the first to stop doing it has disastrous downsides, even if you don't like the end result. It's a Nash Equilibrium.
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But that's the basic point: premium mediocre represents the belief that three weeks in Europe is the right choice when you're young and near broke. It's this part of the millenial value set (whatever their economic prospects) that starkly contrasts them from past generations.
Does being jailed for refusing to cooperate count as coercion?
John Deere spent $300M on Blue River Tech, a company that murders weeds with AI
Computation is much harder because it's not possible to do it in private and secure way. You could only compute public datasets. Even in 3D rendering this is the limiting factor. Still, I think such a network would be necessary for the creation of autonomous AIs.
https://twitter.com/yhaiyang/status/906166588251844609

was retweeted by ViaBTC, but then un-re-tweeted I guess
Golang Concurrency Design Considered Harmful
Even if they have newer terminals, they are still going to accept signature, so essentially there's zero security. The only way forward is to stop accepting the magnetic strip + signature altogether.
> At the contempt hearing, you are allowed to testify that you do not remember your password

Isn't it the government's job to prove you remember it? Shouldn't the right to remain silent apply in contempt hearings as well?
They're Canadian.

Notwithstanding that, there might well be similar laws in Canada.
if they switch to an Equifax ID, then you'll have to submit an Equifax ID when applying for a loan and a fraudster could do the same they do today.

If you switch to dozens up separate IDs, the entire system will get bogged down as everyone forgets all their ID #s
I have a very strong feeling that this article is covering the same ground as "traditional" sociology and philosophy, but without using any of the same vocabulary. The bits about performative lifestyles sound very much like Baudrillard, although I'm not quite qualified to say.
In none of those cases did the government actually step in and do anything to break up those "monopolies" (other than perhaps an insignificant "slap on the wrist" in Microsoft's case).

So if the government didn't solve those problems, what did? Answer: innovation and competition from other market players.
pretty sure the responsibility of announcing that sort of thing goes to chief risk officer, or legal -- not usually technology. though clearly they failed in some way (security training, sdlc process, m&a due-diligence, or whatever)
The Money Machine
I feel like it's 20 years ago and we're seeing the golden age of RAD again. Doesn't it feel weird to anyone else that we spent so long on the web reimplementing basic visual components with spaghetti code, as if desktop UI software never existed? I suppose hindsight is 20/20.

Things are just now starting to feel maintainable and reproducible. I think it's great.
I demand you serve me a product to help me not serve your kind here!
If you don't mind me asking, because I'm genuinely curious how it works in other countries. Does your country have an equivalent of a 'credit score' like in the US, which would be used by financial institutions when they judge whether or not they can loan you money? If so, how is this score calculated, how does it aggregate all your financial information without a specific identifier, and how do you secure yourself from identity fraud/theft without having a 'secret' number to id yourself?
I'm not seeing any of the patterns[0] (e.g. gliders) you see in the original game. It just looks like noise. Which is, in some sense, Life as I know it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Exampl...
Yeah, macros can do everything multiple cursors can do, but if multiple cursors is easier for people to use it's worth supporting.

Gap buffers are an implementation detail I don't care about as a user, I care about the features of my editor, so it is strange to suggest that I can't have a feature in order to preserve an implementation detail. A better argument would have been that speed is a more important feature, but the article didn't argue that multiple cursors are necesarily slower, just that a gap buffer would be slower with multiple cursors.
I think it's not I don't use it. And more of a is the money better placed elsewhere. Education is a large percentage of the budget today.

We can also spend all the money in the world and we might not have any better of an education system. Just look at Mark's Zuckerbergs millions he gave to schools with no results.
Why Kim Jong-Un would not be irrational to use a nuclear bomb first
UTRUST Payment Platform gathers $1.5M in 90 Minutes, gears up for ICO
This comment seems unrelated to the parent comment, as the parent makes no mention to government interference nor to any imagined requirement for a business to serve others.

I understood "free speech" in the parent comment to mean an unwillingness to censor for any reason except those related to legal matters.

It is one thing to say "we won't accept any supremacist or terrorist organization" outright; it is another to say you'll take anyone and then actually subject them to an arbitrary and unpublished terms of service.
First amendment protections derive primarily from the fact that the Government has a monopoly on force. It's monopoly power that is the ultimate motivator for the protections.

In this particular case, when every private entity with oligopoly power (de facto, not de jure, per the capital and other ICANN approval hurdles) denies your platform, then you're in effectively the same position as if the Government was denying you speech.

It's why we have antitrust and labor relations laws - we recognize that monopolies or effective monopolies approach the power of Governments in ability to deny rights.
Ember doesn't have a PATENTS file.
Well that's cool - digging around a bit, I found out that he runs a hacker group right here in Bend: http://bend.hackersguild.us/#page-main
Show HN: A coloring book of data structures and algorithms
I'm making a coloring book of data structures and algorithms for programmers and students. So far I have a prototype page for a sorting algorithm (albeit a rather simple one).

Here the Selection Sort coloring pages you can print.
https://coderscoloringbook.com/selectionsort

And here is how I colored mine.
https://coderscoloringbook.com/selectionsortcolored

A coloring book is not quite enough to teach algorithms on its own, but I really get a lot from visual reinforcement of what I learn from books/lectures.

Do you think having coloring pages like this could be a helpful addition to the usual studying approach of textbooks, lectures and online coding practice?

Or is it just a fun little break from coding without too much educational value?
We need to reinvent our criminal justice system. The wrong people are punished.

If you get arrested the best thing is if you are clearly wrong rather than innocent. Trying to defend yourself will only get you in four times more trouble. It appears Judges will through the book at people for having a trial by jury.

Plea Bargains are also given to criminals when they are caught red handed on video camera.

My adopted children's mom was murdered with a baseball bat by one of my son's biological father. He then knocked on my door at 8 AM but thankfully I was out of town with his biological son. He got 20 - 40 and can have parole in 16.

Then I have my friend accused by someone with zero evidence except a changing accusation over 9 months. He was offered 18 months I begged and even cried telling him to take the deal. "Why should I take the deal when I never did anything wrong?" 18 month plea became 12 YEARS!
Also of interest would be whether any popular x86 libc's actually leverage this already.

I did a quick skim (disclaimer it's sometimes hard to rule out that an SSE optimized version is in there somewhere).

* musl 1.1.16: no

* glibc 2.26: yes (also an avx2 optimized one)

* Apple Libc 1158.50.2: optimized (non-SSE2) versions of several str* funcs exist but strcpy() has an >=SSE impl
If you notice that it's there and that it's on.

Which I didn't immediately.

It's tucked away at the end and without a checkbox like other items in the same view. Indeed, it looks at first glance to be informational.

Someone in the UX team may have thought that they were being clever, but like the W10 'cancel means upgrade' debacle, it'll cause trouble.

I do hope that this is just unfortunate design and that USB item is only enabled if the checkbox above it is on also. Perhaps I'm just having a bad hair day: I don't normally do conspiracy theories.
You have a number of comments that advertise this but never offer any reason alongside it.
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Please provide us with some examples of the "unfettered free market," thanks
That's how class actions work. The lawyers extract a fee from the perpetrator as protection against larger settlements/judgments.
Perp limits their downside, law firm gets paid, consumers are left holding the bag.
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Then its too late and you have a shit storm to deal with
(At least for Equifax) you can get a new pin if you provide a basic form of identification. Guess what they accept? The very things that were stolen.
Hell, if nothing else the company is cash rich after the first round and less desperate for funding. You need a better offer just to convince them to dilute themselves further when they don't really need to.
Certainly if you expect to have good economic prospects. I don't think it's a new phenomenon either; "Europe on $5 a day" was the classic Boomer travel book.

https://www.smartertravel.com/2017/06/19/56-years-later-euro...
The chip implementation in the US provides zero incremental security. It was done as part of a liability struggle between shops and credit card providers, not to improve your life.
It's not clear cut. You have to decide if you want to support the author or avoid DRM. In this case, it's hard to do both.

I dislike DRM as well, but as long as I could easily remove it I was okay with it.

I've bought a lot of ebooks from Amazon for my Kindle. Now that their most recent DRM scheme (KFX) has been uncracked for a long time, I'm having second thoughts about ebooks.
In fairness, Tom Brady had zero touchdowns last night.
Page says "Created 9 years ago", so this should probably say (2008).
One thing at the time is never really just one thing in real life, specially if you have a family. But lets say a few important things, and doing it for a limited period of time (weeks, months, a few years), then I can accept this as a solid advice. Otherwise, IMHO life is just to damn short to waste it all on a single goal, even if you make it in the end. As they say traveling is not about destination, but what you choose to do along the way...
Aren't they Canadian?
These two Australian dudes are awful, no doubt, but the whole "you might get the wrong antivenin" disaster scenario is a reach. How many people go to the hospital with a scientific name? If I ever get bit, I'll bring the the remains of the snake with me, and the nurse will say, "Yep, looks like a copperhead."

Academia's blockchain-like pyramid of citations is charming, IMHO. The researchers who matter, know what's going on. Citing these bozos, would be a pretty good bozo indicator in and of itself.
I love it when a publication using WordPress dings another site for using WordPress.
Except maybe the reason the web flourished is because it wasn't stuck in the desktop paradigm?
I'm not all that surprised. The biggest advantage to a Coding Boot Camp is the intense, focused study for the duration of the program - and possibly any industry experience any of the teachers bring (although I'm sure the quality of that experience varies greatly from camp to camp).

The biggest downfall I see in the idea behind the Boot Camps is that they are great at pumping out entry level coders, but don't seem to offer much in terms of career growth or learn trajectory outside of the basics. I'd be much more inclined to pay for one of these programs (which is another issue when you add the cost of tuition on top of regular living expenses + time away from work) if they offered some sort of career mentor-ship for a designated time period after landing that first role. They could offer counseling for career growth, additional classes, etc. I think that would create more return on invested from a student prospective.

Overall I think the boot camp space got way too crowed too quickly, which is understandable considering the amount of people trying to land that entry level paycheck.
Hehe. I could be wrong but I think the pink chocolate mice are made with food colouring rather than coloured by the bean.

They do seem rather cagey on how they process the bean though.

A cacao pod sometimes looks slightly reddish, I wonder if the colour could come from that?
As neat as the underlying tech is, the end result here is, to my eye, essentially the same as default wipes/transitions from #homeMovieEditingSoftware#, rendering all that effort fairly pointless.

Mind you, it's Time Square, so gimmicks got to gimmick!
Don't fall for the "credit monitoring" bait they're offering then - accepting it nullifies your class-action rights.
"Lost"? It was saved in globally distributed backup!