skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I have a tiny bit of experience with Python. What I think you're describing is a good representation of my experience: If you're not branching too much, or you unit test enough, Python can be really, fabulously, great.

If your logic is complex, the solace that having a really good type system (eg tagged unions paired with pattern matching) is that your edge cases are handled. Maybe not according to your business rules, but at least you'll find fewer runtime errors.

Python is a tool. I think of it similar to Legos: it allows you to build small units of work. But when the work gets more complex, it's time to look at something that can handle that complexity.

This was posted the other day, and probably communicates my point about runtime/compiler time identification of issues better:
http://samwho.co.uk/blog/2017/09/06/move-your-bugs-to-the-le...
He's the author of the Xi editor: https://github.com/google/xi-editor
Ehh, it's more of "I don't use that service, so why should I pay for it?"

We as a society have stopped looking at our tax dollars as an investment in the future. Public education is one of the best investments we can make, but you're right; it tends to be viewed as "liberal indoctrination" (because you know, the truth has a liberal bias).

Modern conservatives look at a problem and see the answer as "free market economics, let those who want it pay for it!" Hence the tragedy of the commons situation we're rushing headlong into. Modern conservatism is morally and intellectually bankrupt; and as a result 2017 will be known as the year that China assumed leadership of the world.
That is not the right Terms and Conditions. See this: https://trustedidpremier.com/static/terms

Note the retroactive nature of the terms. Open question: does this indemnify the parent company? (A CNN story says it may not, but is not definite: money.cnn.com/2017/09/08/technology/equifax-monitoring-services/index.html)
It's interesting that politicians make things illegal without funding the prosecution and imprisonment that comes as a result of making things illegal. I read somewhere that it costs up to $245K for a state to try a case in court.

In Florida, they actually charge the defendant the cost of prosecuting him. What the hell?!

https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/florida/statutes/florida...
Same thing basically, but there's a "Web" link underneath the title that will somewhat automate that for you.

Edit: Ok. I realised this doesn't really work for WSJ. My bad.
Yes, I agree, and I might have slightly misread what tripzilch wrote to mean that we should avoid the term here in this discussion, which I objected to. Towards the general public, it totally should be framed as an authentication failure, yes, I agree.
The drama of having too much opportunities but not being sure of which one will make you a millionaire.

Millionaires are already there, the poor have no opportunities to entertain the part of the brain that makes us anxious about failure.
C macros are text substitution, implemented in a separate less-expressive language (the C pre-processor).

Lisp macros access the input program fragment as structured data, and manipulate that using the same Lisp functions and data structures that you use for regular, normal Lisp code.

I think that both forms are technically Turing-Complete, but Lisp is more expressive. In particular, it's much more common to see Lisp macros that destructure and reform their inputs, where C macros tend to see their inputs as black boxes that can't be opened. The textual-substitution model of C also has some extra perils, because code fragments can be context sensitive (such as creating identifiers that are already in scope).

In both cases, Macros are well-defined "things" in the sense that they are thoroughly defined in their respective language documents, but in both cases they are not first-class language items because they don't exist at run-time.
Micro Front ends – extending the microservice idea to front end development
I understand the emotional appeal of overselling the problem, but you'd get much better response with a $50K insurance policy than an obviously absurd $5M. Even $50K is sort of generous and probably generally more towards the worst case end of identity theft than the average case. It is plainly obvious to everyone that when Bob the upstanding middle class guy is hit by identity theft that Bob may experience great loss of money and time from his point of view, but that identity theft was not the one thing standing between Bob and $5M.

At scale $50K still adds up to a lot, and we'd probably have to cap it some other way too because at-scale breaches don't add up that far, because the system does in fact react to them. This particular breach would be a seven trillion dollar payout if we don't cap it, and the simple reality is that this breach, no matter how much pain it may eventually cause us, is not going to cause anywhere near seven trillion dollar's worth of damage to consumers, or the economy, or anything else. But $50K makes sense for isolated cases that don't get a coordinated response.
Cost of repercussions due to lapse of security <<< cost of fixing it.

Until Equifax and the like get sued out of business, Equifax and its shareholders won't feel the heat.
I certainly agree with this.

~ Gary from Marketing.
And. Make it possible to do the process online for all three credit reporting agencies (one of them still requires a phone call). Having to pay and spend at least 20 minutes on the phone to lift your credit freeze because is just ridiculous.

Better yet, lets do away with credit reporting agencies. Why should any oligopoly or, indeed any non-government entity be allow to have the power to cause so much harm to is with effectively no accountability?
No, you don't. Please point out where you think it says that.

I mean, let's think this through. You're not the only one that can read a contract and figure out this "scam". You think a NYT reporter can't do the same? And are you assuming Equifax thinks no one will figure it out? Because catching them pulling a stunt like that would probably make the front page.

Regardless, I may not be a lawyer, but the agreement doesn't say that.
It is also a good number of people fear the indoctrination that takes place in public schools, hating the 'generally progressive ideas' in education. So they create their own home schools, bereft of standards and slanted towards whatever political flavor has captured the parents that moment. I've encountered and worked in 2 such home schooled, Fundamentalist raised tech developers. Both were smart developers; one is a genius whose home schooling enabled him to reach phd levels of knowledge in encryption and compression theory as a teen; while the other was a damn smart guy but so emotionally and emphatically crippled, he was nearly dangerous in social interactions.

The gutting of education has negative tendrils we'll be dealing with for generations.
Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
I've been using vue since it's conceptions (well, nearly) and it's been a joy. Initially, the templates provided the perfect path to migrate from angular 1.x. That, among other things, was the main reason I chose it over react.

Now, years later and having experience with JSX in Vue, state, and building large apps, I finally checkout out React and discovered that they're pretty much the exact same thing:

Define a component; add lifecycle hooks; add data and functions; render; done.

I think Vue's community is finally catching up and and it's exciting to see. The only thing I find myself wanting is a vue-oriented testing solution. React has Jest and I find myself sorely wanting a testing library/wrapper with good documentation for vue. React certainly has an advantage in that regard.

The article put it well: Vue if you still enjoy writing HTML templates (which I don't mind) or React if you prefer the JS orientation.
What's even scarier is that's the backup info most systems use to recover your accounts.
I was just making fun of the info highlighted in the press release. If I have it right, the Target breach affected 41 million people. Helping them put it in the rear view mirror for ~$10 million is quite a service.

Maybe it was a different Target data breach?
> I'm aware that the "Pharma Bro" was convicted of securities fraud after tripling his investors investments.

"Well you see, your honor, I did try to murder the man. But I failed, and the half hour run he took trying to escape me kick-started a healthy lifestyle that added years to his life. So, I did try to murder him, but in the end everyone benefited."

This post-facto justification is like something out of an SNL skit.
A fun and informative write-up.
No, making around 14-15k as webdev (italy) - the developers are the lowest-earning people in our company.
But they sure love their identity theft! ;)

I get it, most people aren't always rational about these things.
> I hate drm but I want to put money into things I want more of.

So you seriously want more of DRM? Buying something despite DRM gives the market a clear signal that DRM is not so bad after all.
And similar to travel insurance, they'll make it an option you pay for.

In fact, it's the best case scenario for the company, to make even more money by selling insurance for protecting the data you just gave them.
His first name is "Lotfi".
There isn't really any incentive for these folks though, It's not worth the hassle, bandwidth, and electricity to give up remaining disk space for a couple of cents / month.
If we end plea deals entirely, will we have to go to court for silly things like speeding tickets?
> But I guess the Framework was designed with consulting in mind.

I need a bumper sticker or T-shirt with this printed on it
Did the page receive a HN hug of death? I can't access it
True, but my point is that it might not be worth your time to. I can earn money by recycling aluminum cans but it's not worth the effort to me.

Is it possible right now to get some hard numbers on what a person would earn if they had say 1TB disk space and 25mbps available?
The just is FB added a clause that if you sue them and use their stuff, you immediately lose the license. So they could counter sue for breach of contract.
Yup. And when this happened to me with a bogus possession case, I fought the law and the law won. Sentenced with maximum jail-time and fines :)
Now I'm getting really worried. What's a good identity theft company/product that I should sign up for to handle any potential repercussions from this?

Would any of those [potential companies/products] have a clause where they WOULDN'T cover any problems because of known data breaches prior to signing up for their service?
>Non-authority-imposed regulation isn't 'regulation' in any real sense.

How exactly isn't it "real"? Even in the absence of a truly free market, plenty of industries have developed their own self-regulated quality standards.

Have you ever checked reviews about something before purchasing? Did a government mandate those reviews to be written?

> an absence of government regulation leads to collusion, anticompetitive practices, races-to-the-bottom, and consumer rights violations

Isn't it odd that we see more of those problems in industries with the most regulation? In a free market, collusion is ineffective, since any newcomer can undercut prices, forcing the colluding market players to compete. The same could be said for any other unethical or harmful practices; if consumers care enough about a problem, they'll vote with their dollars for better alternatives.
iOS 11 May Complicate Border Searches
Researchers produce images of people’s faces from their genomes
This has been exactly my experience after working for years in Ruby and returning to Java & Golang. It truly does take me longer to write code without my precious Ruby, but that time is more than made up for by not having to write tests for every single possible code path, purely to check for type safety.

I've also experienced an unexpected benefit in that it is a lot easier to read other people's code since types are explicit and easy to see.
Having a flawed legal system is what you call a first world problem. For comparison in China prosecutors have so much power that the conviction rate is a tiny almost immeasurable sliver of a fraction below 100%. Conversely with weak rule of law you get lynchings, vendettas and retributive violence. Incarcerating innocent people is terrible and I appreciate the sentiment that it's better that 10 guilty people go free than one innocent is incarcerated, but not that no guilty people are ever brought to justice.

Anarchic theories are premised on the idea that everyone would act as individuals and treat each other equally, but that's not what happens. People naturally form alliances, tribes, religious groups or out and out criminal gangs.

The prosecutorial assumption of infallibility is just one symptom of a wider malaise. IMHO what America needs to appreciate, as a nation, is that it's nothing special. It's just big and therefore powerful, but it really doesn't have any special moral status or exceptional ethical immunity. You see the ideological belief that it does throughout American History from Manifest Destiny to America First, both the isolationist movement of the 40s and today.

America is a great nation, yes. It's a bastion of democracy, true. But it's a very long way from moral infallibility. There's the perception that e.g. Europe is a corrupt den of elites, born from America's struggle for independence from and conflicts with European Monarchies such as England and Spain, but it's ludicrously out of date. The American allergy against Communism is a symptom of this. At it's root communism and socialism is about individual freedom and a caring society, but communism got infected with totalitarianism early on. Individual communists have often been as shocked and appalled by Soviet excesses as anyone else. George Orwell, who wrote Animal Farm and 1984 as critiques of Stalinism was himself as communist, but the distinction between Communists like Orwell and ones like Trotsky is lost on American ideological anti-communism. You really can have a fair and caring society, and real meaningful individual freedoms. They're not absolute, utterly opposed principles and in fact they need each other. You can't have guarantees of real individual freedom without a society that cares about making that guarantee and takes actual steps to protect it. Even Ayn Rand accepted welfare support when she needed it. You can't have a well functioning system of state care and support for individuals without individual freedoms to hold that system to account and drive change when it's needed.

What makes change in the justice system so hard, as in other areas, is this assumption of ideological purity in the American system, mainly by American Republicans I have to say. As a British lifelong Conservative voter I find this hard to cope with but in the post-Reagan era I find very little common ground between myself and mainstream Republicanism these days. It's a bit bewildering realy.
Not everyone in the olympics can get the gold.
Well, that's still lower than Japanese police conviction rate. According to The Economist, 95% of people arrested in Japan sign confessions, and Japanese courts convict 99.9% of those who come before them. You're practically judged by the street cop or prosecutor that makes the arrest.

Source: The Whole Story on Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate, and the Corruption that Follows - Confessing for Nothing

http://skeptikai.com/2013/09/28/the-whole-story-on-japans-99...
> A 10 year old kid in the 1990s could easily create and launch a website from scratch, which was the state of the art medium at the time.

I disagree, because i was that 10 year old kid in the 90s who fantasized about having his own website and domain - but had no idea how to go about the domain and the only way i knew for making a website was to keep my computer online all the time. So all i did was to make random "fake" sites in Netscape, pretending to be the real thing :-P.

Today it is so easy it is a no brainer. Of course at the same time, since it is so easy now, nobody is impressed by that anymore :-P.
And in what way have they proved that renting out storage is pointless? Is there no availability, are the prices to high, ...?
Can you describe the rules of the system? Most of the colors I see at the start go away quickly and never come back so I'm not sure what's going on.
But is this true, is US public education underfunded? These articles depict the US as one of if not the top spender per student [1, 2].

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-glob...
[2] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
> Why not just shrug and go along, if the roulette wheel controlled it in the first place?

notice how buddhism and stoicism is all of a sudden so fascinating to everyone in the 'scene' ?
Trying Out Ubuntu 17.10 on a Laptop One Month Ahead of Release
Google cache, as I'm getting a "503 first byte timeout":

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kM07g3...
I think the "risk" part of "ambition/risk" part of is what the OP was referring to, and I think not recognizing the relationship, in a kind of rampant survivorship bias, is a bit part of the problem with contemporary society.

I'm not really critiquing what you wrote, because I'm not sure how it applies to what I'm thinking, but to me it seems like there's a danger in assuming that degree of success in life or lack thereof arises from lack of ambition per se. I think as ambition increases, so does risk, in general, so lack of success could be due to lack of ambition, but many very ambitious people who just have been on the bad side of circumstances, in the wrong place or at the wrong time.

I worry a bit about an implicit assumption that we often make that someone could always have "tried harder," which seems to be the argument of the essay now that I think about it. If a failure situation arises, we tend to pick it apart and look for what the person did wrong, and then if we find anything, ascribe blame to the person. In some situations--maybe always, that sort of introspection is helpful, but often I worry it misses the broader picture, in terms of the value of what was given up, or why that person was put in the position to begin with. We also don't scrutinize success as often to look at stupid decisions that could have panned out very poorly, and blame the individual--often there's an implicit pass, like "oh this person is so lucky," as if that luck is an attribute of the person, and marvel at that luck instead as if it's something to reward.

This essay kind of hit hard, because at middle age I've realized that the field / career area I'm in is in crisis, a sort of house of cards, and at some level driven by fundamentally unethical or unsound phenomena. My choice is basically to suck it up and just go along with it, or ditch the whole thing and start over as if I was in my 20s. If I ditch things, I feel like I'm by definition a failure by many, and ignoring this compounding benefits idea, but if I stay with it, I'm just supporting a system that I feel resentful about and that I think is going to fall apart eventually one way or another, even if some are inevitably going to be remaining at the top of that rubble pile.

I guess one way to think about it is this: in life, for most things, that compounding benefits curve is accompanied by a compounding costs curve, and sometimes the difference doesn't look compounding at all.
Yeah, I wrote about it last week:

https://medium.com/@alexkrolick/writing-react-components-for...

"Overall it's not a bad experience. JSX makes HTML feel more at home, but tends to obscure the underlying Javascript. Composition and higher-order components are more obvious in plain JS. If I was writing a library using those patterns heavily I might be tempted to go JSX-free even if bundling with Webpack + Babel."
I feel this about Haskell compared to Ruby: Really easy to jump back in to code I set aside months ago.
Audi electric cars will come with solar roofs
I really, really like it. Thank you guys.
Hate speech, yeah, free speech. But you are not free of the consequences.
Then adopt saner system like the ones in most european countries.

It's such a silly mindset. Do what we currently do in US or anarchy. There are over hundred other countries on earth and significant fraction of them is doing way better than USA in most aspects.
The consumer tool (Backup & Sync) syncs everything locally (or you can sync specific folders). FileStream is meant for GSuite (business customers) that may have a LOT of files in their drive and don't want to sync everything.
You are correct that Apple claims that the opening "Hey, Siri" is trying to match against your voice specifically: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/11/apple-addresses-privacy-qu...
My personal opinion is that an overhauled education system[1] that brings us more up to par with other countries (China, Russia, etc.) will give the US a better economic advantage because, lets be honest, the US as an economic powerhouse is not going to change in the near future. But other non-super-friendly countries like China, Russia, etc are not irrelevant on the world geopolitical stage where soft power is huge. A better nationwide education system/standard could also help us beyond some of these social/societal issues we have (racism, social gender stigmas, economic inequality (have you ever attended an 'inner city school'? I spent a few months in one, teaching standards were ludicrous. Thankfully I transferred out asap.), etc.). If just a fraction of the money we send overseas was rerouted to use in our education system, it would pay dividends for years to come. Much more than buying some other fickle countries loyalty for the year.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/pisa/ (check out the Math world map for a humbling view)
Even worse: In a number of states, the DL number is deterministic based upon name and DOB.

http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html
Yes.

If someone fraudulently enrolls for credit in your name, the organization that issued the credit comes after you to pay it back.
I guess it is notable that the Romans didn't have tomatoes.
If it does, you need to link the tweet, 'cos I see nothing there that says that.

The Caixin report's Google translation seems to suggest it's just ICOs, though ...
It's not just storage, but content distribution too. So, locality matters a lot, and it will be favorable to have storage close to users. Also, even if it was 'centralized' only to few players, the economics would be similar to the current situation; it's more profitable to keep the operation running than to close it.

I'm not even sure what you mean by 'run off with the coins', as the hosts don't really have any coin to run with. They should only earn when they fulfill the contracts. I'm not sure about Filecoin, but in Sia hosts are required to put up a 'collateral' which they lose if they don't fulfill the contract.

Edit: Running multiple accounts from a single datacenter will increase the hosts risk to lose the files and money.
I think the word you are looking for is gall. As in sheer unmitigated gall.
Somewhat dichotomously, I agree with every position mark takes in the linked post, but at the same time, I'm quietly waiting to see where Daily Stormer ends up landing, so that I can start treating them as the 'real' bastions of free speech, and very likely start throwing them my business.

It isn't because I'm sympathetic to the nazis in this scenario, but if you're trying to position yourself as "the free speech registrar", but draw the line at white supremacy because you're in an interracial marriage, then the signal I get from that is that you clearly don't cherish all free speech, and gives me pause that one of my community sites might end up running afoul of whatever those arbitrary policies are in the future.
Request a credit freeze on the three major reporting agencies.

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