skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving up your right to sue in exchange for Equifax providing you the monitoring service would seem like consideration to me.

Whether the term highlighted in the post is valid or not is another thing. Not sure about the US but in England I would hope that would be considered an unfair contract term in a consumer contract.
I'm always impressed on how high quality these screens are. Despite the fact that they are on 24/7 and run under extreme condition, snow New York, and excruciating heat in vegas.

You really have to see them up close in person to appreciate it, then realize you are watching a commercial.
I honestly thought this was a joke. The dancing model in the videos helps perpetuate this fallacy.
I don't think Have I been Pwned will be of much use unless Troy's able to get a dump of the leaked information from somewhere.
From what I read this morning, there are two types of freezes: one needs renewed, the other doesn't.
It is a mistake and perhaps Pollyanna-ish to believe a governmental entity has not and cannot exert control over a blockchain ledger system of any kind either by means of protocol or other methods.
In any case, I find it highly unlikely blockchains will not be implemented by various governmental agencies. As a store of auditable data, they would certainly be more trustworthy than some papers filed away somewhere or in some given database.
Facebook has decided that keeping the React patent grant as-is is in their best interest. I respect their right to do so.

At this point, there are two reasons for companies and individuals to avoid React: legal reasons, and philosophical ones.

Legally speaking, it's probably true that the patent grant and possible revocation of it is unlikely to impact the majority of companies who might want to use React. But even the potential uncertainty that the patents file introduces could be a decent reason to avoid React, depending on a company's risk tolerance. I'm not a lawyer, though, so don't count on any of that as legal advice.

The philosophical objection to using React is a valid one too, I think. I don't personally find the patent license too objectionable, but I respect the view of those who feel that it's not in keeping with the spirit of open source and/or Free Software. This, too, is a perfectly fine reason to choose something like Vue, or Angular....or Elm, or Ember. Fortunately, there are plenty of pleasant options to choose from when it comes to front end development these days.
This was my first initial thought.

It will be interesting to find out who they think is responsible.
Vulnerable, not dead. BTW even a 51 pct attack doesn't "kill" a coin, it just tricks users temporarily into honoring a double-spend. Networks can and do recover.
<tin-hat>How do I know you're not working with "mrrsm" to steal my info?</tin-hat>
I mean the problem is that doesn't always go down well in an interdisciplinary environment.

Generally Markup works well for coders, but if they're non-coders it can sometimes be a challenge to get people using it I've found.
Yes, that's about $200 nowadays, Gadget costs $299 (I think they reduced it).

It definitely has fewer features compared to Logic, but it's also significantly easier to make a song with it. Since it got started on the iPad, the UI is simpler and cleaner compared to a traditional DAW.

It's also packing quite a few synths, such as Korg M1, Wavestation and ARP Odyssey, all of them useable as plugins.
Exactly. People complain about how the lawyers who managed the case (sometimes for years!) take most of the payout, but so long as the company's risk/reward math is tipped towards the safety of their customers I have no issue with not seeing much of the settlement.
Equifax’s stock is plummeting after it reported a massive security breach
Will you please share the languages you thunk are up and coming?
I’ve been refreshing Fabien’s twitter for years waiting for this book. Just ordered the physical edition from amazon. Feels good to finally get my hands on this :)

I already have the wolf3d source code building in dosbox with borland c++ 3.1. Great fun awaits!

Thanks for finishing it Fabien.
As someone who has no time to deal with lawsuits or anything of that sort, what's the best course of action here? According to their website, it seems I'm affected?..
A "fraud alert" is valid for only 90 days. A "security freeze" remains in place until you lift it with your PIN code, which is provided when you place the freeze.

FTC: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

Experian: https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html

TransUnion: https://freeze.transunion.com/sf/securityFreeze/landingPage....
Right, that is why companies like google and Facebook who do a ton of research in hiring play such an emphasis on academic achievement, especially in younger employees.

I think saying that being good at achool doesn’t make you good at your job is something we say to make ourselves better.

You can’t be good at your job if and only if you do well in school, but if you do well in school, especially at tough universities, chances are you will be good at your job.
High Performance Clojure: General Linear Systems and LU Factorization
That wasn't clear.

But it's going to end up sucking up a bunch of private photos even if restricted to that (kids, wild parties, whatever).

If not, think how many businesses exchange moderately- to very- sensitive documents privately in person, if too private to put on-line? Hmm, USB sticks...

Anyhow, I hope you're right. Have you found documentation to that effect?
Pretty sure that's the entire point :)
Do you mean something like the Privacy Act of 1974?
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> I'm not against personally prosecuting those in charge, but it's often extremely difficult to prove that specific individuals are responsible.

But isn't that the whole reason CEO's get paid so much, because they carry so much responsibility ? Most corporations have a clear chain of command, should be quite easy to figure out who is responsible (which can be separate from who actually committed the crime).
> That said, I think only ... could absorb the extra demand for skilled employees without sucking the wind out of the other local businesses' sails.

This is a bad thing? Wouldn't that work in favor of Minneapolis-St. Paul where they would outbid their top retail competitors for tech talent?
> the courts cannot afford

Most countries in the world manage to have due process. Also the US is one of the wealthiest countries.
And there is zero financial regulation of "services" like there is financial regulation of companies.

It's the equivalent of speculating on the value of an item in World of Warcraft (Or some other mmorpg). At any point in the future the company will just change the game logic rules to make it worth less and forge a new item out of thin air worth more to raise more funds.

"Oh yes you have our A coins, but you need our B coins to do certain special transactions. Convert at this rate that's highly favorable to us. Or buy in to our B coins ICO and get in on the ground floor before we begin to phase our A coins out."

Don't purchase things where the other party can redefine what you own as it suits them.

"Buy this property from me, but at any point in the next 50 years I can come in and redraw the property boundary lines and keep what I carve off."
Show HN: Kreighter – A utility for generating Redux action creators
This is a space where I think the id theft protection industry misses. A large chunk of the space revolves around the 3 bureaus, but there's a lot more to it than that.

A credit freeze is only effective if the entity using your information actually checks your credit/talks to the bureaus.

Tax fraud, healthcare fraud, shady car dealerships that don't care about your credit, buying a house where the seller 'holds the papers', etc, are all attack vectors that can be used with this sort of information.
Yea I really want clarification on this before I fork over $30 to the mafia families, I mean credit agencies, to lock my credit score.
‘I Smell Cash’: How the A.T.F. Spent Millions Unchecked
> Yes but there are no mainstream or production-ready dependently typed languages, so I didn't mention that.

(For a number-type that is limited to eg be between 0.0 and 1.0):

Ada?

http://www.adahome.com/rm95//rm9x-03-05-07.html
I've always enjoyed Matt Levine's explanation of an ICO:

It's like if the Wright brothers wanted to sell you airmiles to fund their invention and development of the airplane.
You can't have nothing. Something will fill the power vacuum.
Making insurance obligatory also would force companies to implement proper security to drive insurance premiums down.
Facebook May Have More Russian Troll Farms to Worry About
You may call ZCash sketchy (and I don't like premining, either), but the people behind it surely aren't.

You're derailing.
I don't get the rage here.

This is awesome news -- this type of functionality could save a big enterprise like mine millions of dollars, plus the benefits of search!
Could get pretty sci-fi with this. Repeatedly send "Hey Siri" with a custom message in a crowded area. Watch people shake heads whenever they check their phones.
Well that's how we got into this mess in the first place. The only people who seem to work in it are incapable of doing the right thing. Doing nothing isn't going to fix it. And burning it to the ground isn't a realistic option.
When you freeze, they give you a PIN to unlock it. You can't unfreeze with just your hacked data alone. Of course, the PIN is probably in the next column over, so...
"appropriate force".

I'd contend that an electric shock across the heart is too much force for stopping someone accused of spraying graffiti.

It seems to me that this is the grey area where the officer's humane discretion should come into play: "is it worth risking another human-being's life in order to prevent their evading capture for a crime of this level?"

It seems like this grey area often gets flattened into "is this human being complying? If no, pull trigger."
When will filcoins be available for purchase at exchanges?
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And half the C-suite sold their shares in the intervening MONTHS between discovering the breach and disclosing it.

I'm sure Jeff Sessions will be all over that one. /s
If we're lucky, this will be the best leak of personal info ever.

The primacy of the SSN in American society is idiotic. It's a "secret" that you have to hand out to dozens of different organizations. I've long thought that we should phase this out by committing to publish all SSNs (and the associated info, obviously, so it's not just a list of most 9-digit numbers...) which would force all these companies to stop treating it as confidential.

The system is dumb and works poorly, but worked will enough that there was no impetus to fix it. Some people got affected by breaches, and it sucked for them, but it was always a small enough group that most people didn't care.

Now that a majority of people's "secret" info is no longer confidential, maybe they'll realize they can't rely on it anymore.

OK, the odds of this actually coming to pass are not great. But I can hope.
I apologize for making a meta comment, but I had to modify the way the article is displayed because it's an all too common example of this: https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/

Which is very annoying because the article about CSS can't get it's UI right.

They call Svelte "The magical disappearing UI framework" and indeed, their fonts look like they are written in an invisble ink about to dry up.
Incompetence?
Ask HN: Customizable Desktop Messenger?
Are there any highly customizable desktop messengers either cross-platform (maybe even a web app) or for mac?

Right now I use Signal which is great but it's missing a lot of features I'd like, many of which are so specific to me it wouldn't even make sense to contribute them via PR. I want to be able to transform the messages directly, add new buttons, toolbars, etc.

I'm looking for a kind of chrome-extensions-for-messenger type thing, ideally not tied up with some kind of social media, or ad-network, or gaming, or with a bunch of business features (like Slack etc.). Just a vanilla, extensible, desktop messenger.

If worse comes to worst I could whip one up for me and my comrades but maybe y'all have a link that could save me some time.
Python is very developer productivity friendly, but degrades performance in weird ways and the methods to increase performance don't always make lots of obvious sense and often are the "idiomatic" way.

I haven't looked into the guts myself, but I'd bet that for similar or equivalent operations, the way the different syntaxes are handled under the hood are wildly different. e.g. function calls are much faster than method calls on objects.

Optimized pure python can look very ugly and non-idiomatic.
Wow! I like it.
You can follow the chain from Equifax.com, at least.

Phishers are going to have a field day with this, though.
When I write a new function in Python I immediately evaluate it in a running REPL and test it. There's no eventually about it. A function either works or it doesn't.
In "What if CPU time is an issue?" we could also mention the nim language (and not only cython) because it compiles (not only) to C and feels like python.
Public defender offices are funded by the state and they are terribly under funded.

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_gideon_revolu...

Because not much political upside to helping criminal defendants exists, many jurisdictions end up with a perennial funding problem ... In both cases, the committee heard about extreme funding shortfalls, excessive caseloads and insufficient pay.

After years of cuts, his budget was down from $9 million to about $6 million, and he had just eight investigators for 21,000 cases per year.

This matters because the majority of defendants—a 2014 study put it at 80 percent—use some kind of indigent defense. That means most Americans charged with a crime are at risk of bad outcomes partly caused by the quality of representation that they can afford.
> And why the hell you have to write code in JS that will be ultimately represented as HTML?

I only use React for React-Native, so my JSX gets turned into native objects.

Have you ever written a non-web program though? The default mode for almost all native GUI kits is for developers to define the UI in code.

I've never, ever seen a UI designer or a high level DSL (like HTML) that works better than code for non-trivial programs. With JSX, HTML has finally caught up to the rest of the GUI programming world.
OVERWATCH: A Pro Player has signed a contract for $150,000 per year
I have just finished setting up a new front-end for a few services (we are just about to start migrating production systems to it).

I was aiming to use static IPs (for client firewall rules), and simplify networking configuration, so what I ended up with is an auto-scaling group of HAProxy systems that run a script every couple of minutes to assign themselves an elastic IP from a provided list. Route 53 is configured with health checks to only return the IP(s) that are working.

The HAProxy instances also continuously read their target auto-scaling groups to update backend config, and do ssl terminating, also running the Let's Encrypt client. Most services are routed by host name, but a couple older ones are path-based and there are some 301 redirects.

I think NLB could replace the elastic IP and route53 part of this setup, but I'd still need to do SSL, routing, and backends. It's too bad, because my setup is one that could be used nearly anywhere that has more than one public-facing service, but there's not much built-in to help - I had to write quite a few scripts to get everything I needed.
Yeah, I won't be holding my breath.
In the article, I saw a subtext about what we view as valuable. While there were some good points (being above or below the API, for example), this whole article sounded like it was stuck in scarcity thinking.

What if everyone has enough to live a comfortable life? Do we still need to keep score? Can we be happy if we're basically all okay, and we don't stand out as belonging to a superior social class?

Personally, my children will probably be able to make a decent living. They won't be 1% rich, but they will likely have skills and coping abilities. What I want most for them is to help make the world better -- to do things in their professional and personal lives that help other people and move civilization forward.

For my children to be happy with that, they probably need to measure their worth by how they help other people, rather than by the "quality" of what they consume or other social signals they emit.
Static types and tests check different things. Tests are for making things function as desired. Types are for making sure they actually connect sensibly where desired. Sometimes you can use them for the other purposes though that often produces ugly tests/types.
Wow, sounds like a real paradigm shift.
Glad filings are being made already, I wonder if it will be possible for someone to also seek relief/guidance for individuals checking to see if they were breached on trustedidpremier.com and may be inadvertently waiving their rights to class action suits and instead being forced into individual arbitration.

Based on the fact their privacy policy and terms of service were just updated on Sep 6, this seems pretty blatant. Browserwrapped agreements haven't held up in most cases, but having the arbitration clause at the very beginning seems to be point of the entire thing. Pushing a notice 41 days after a breach (just in time for the 45 day requirement in most states) and directing individuals to check if they are impacted all while tricking them into waiving rights. Seems deceptive to me.
Is that what ethereum is?
DMCA Servicio de Protección de Contenido – Proteja su contenido
It unclear if you are introducing a new variable to the scope or mutating an existing one.

# Am I defining foo for the first time or am I mutating
foo = "stuff"

Python if I recall in the OOP sense combats this with requiring self.foo but this is not the case with other forms of lexical scoping such as loops with in loops etc.

And of course you can't define constants.

IIRC for lambdas its that they can't span multiple lines and I believe they are getting removed (I'm not a python 3 expert)?
Why are identifiers being treated as passwords? It's 2017 and my mind is boggled that we continue to use SSNs and thumbprints as passwords. These are more akin to usernames. Why is our most important information not protected by passwords, or better yet, 2 factor authentication?

If I try to spend $1000 on my credit card at IKEA, my bank usually calls me to confirm the transaction. However, we don't have such a system when handling our most important information? Why is this allowed to happen? How many people have to be damaged before they stop watching Tom Brady throw touchdowns and get out there to make a difference?
" Say goodbye to time-consuming file syncing and any concerns about disk space. With Drive File Stream, all your files are always ready for you and your colleagues."

Say hello to having no files when you are not connected to the network?
Unity's value prop is not that it uses an Entity-Component architecture, it's that it has a comprehensive asset pipeline and relatively accessible editors for it. EC is just trendy in gamedev. There are lots of other ways to build software.
Reports: Chinese authorities plan to shut local Bitcoin exchanges
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Certainly a lot of banks seem to be interested, and if banks can find a use for them I can't see why not governments as well.
Obligatory New Yorker cartoon: https://condenaststore.com/featured/he-feels-he-can-do-more-...

Out of curiosity, are there good examples of fundamental/systemic flaws -- where it's not that the system needs to be fixed, it's that a new system is needed -- being fixed by people working within the system? The success rate of violent, armed revolution is low, but it has produced some concrete successes (e.g., the existence of the US and more generally the fall of monarchy).
The absolute fastest way would be to do a Machine Learning Bootcamp like Galvanize or Metis.

Source: I did not know anything about how to use Machine Learning in my code just 4 months ago, and now I have just started as an AI Engineer.
That's a good point. Others have answered that and I agree with them. But we also have to work with what we have. Petty things like drug possession should be decriminalized. However, good luck getting Congress or state legislatures to decriminalize minor things that aren't en vogue like marijuana. Taxes should be raised to fund the courts and other vital services. But everyone hates taxes so I doubt that will happen either. I'd really like to avoid the Judge Dredd style enforcement that we seem to be slowly approaching.
There's a lazy optimism to this that I don't like. Educated, non-technical people, 30 and younger are struggling to find meaningful, well paid employment. That is a recipe for massive social change occurring rapidly. I'm 40 and a programmer, but I have a lot of non-technical friends in their 20s and 30s. Most of the smart ones are, at this point - intellectually - communists. Contrary to the general view, most of these people are not flaky. They're able. I honestly think the distraction of the internet is the only thing preventing them from lining me up against a wall.
It matters a great deal, because the company is saying, in effect, "We will help you mitigate the consequences of our failure, but only if you indemnify us against being held accountable."
Yes and lets lose the ability to trace any and all criminal activity. Underground crime will love that - bring on the golden years!
You can't have "nothing." Humans are social animals - we naturally organize ourselves around families and into cultures based on common geographic, linguistic and ideological heritage. We create power structures to more efficiently organize labor, manage resources, create and interact with markets and form economies, create myths to entertain one another, wage war, marry, etc. Apes form systems, they're an emergent property of our being, baked into our DNA.

So, what then? As soon as a system emerges, burn that down as well? And the next? What about the system that allows you to destroy all the others, is that an exception to the rule?

I get the feeling you haven't actually examined your beliefs beyond wanting the catharsis of seeing the status quo overthrown.
These prices are very regional. New York State spends ~60,000$ per prisoner per year. So, a teen spending 60 years in prison (ignoring inflation) = 3.6 million directly + plus lost wages.
Exactly. Storj is another company with a working product in this space
He gets nearly no money from the dead tree version (4%) and about 35% from the eBook.

I hate drm but I want to put money into things I want more of. So I held my nose and paid for the eBook. I hope drm free emerges later though.

Source https://twitter.com/fabynou/status/905856105003155457 and https://twitter.com/fabynou/status/905857276174413824
There was no mention made that unfreeze PINs were leaked. When you freeze your report with the three CRAs, you are given an unlock code or PIN needed to unfreeze it.
Can you expand on how this law is supposed to help but doesn't?
Gotta call out the DS and 3DS synthesizors they've published: http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/korg_m01d/ In terms of just adding to the "weirdly cutting edge" vibe.

And, you know, on the one hand, they're synths running literally on toys, and on the other hand... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Dogq8g35c or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ixQvm7t_F0 .