skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MongoDB servers with no password security got attacked, their data stolen and told to pay bitcoin to get the data back. https://twitter.com/0xdude/status/813865069218037760 There were reports that companies paid (the bitcoin address is open and so are transactions). Similar for Elasticsearch, Cassandra, CouchDB
databases. I think it counts as misconfiguration rather than exploit when no passwords were set (or default passwords).
Yeah, the peace prize has become a joke. I have to disagree with the author about the science prizes, though - I think it's pretty reasonable to award people for moving the ball forward even if they didn't do it all themselves.
Einstein was right (2016)
I am no so keen on the government issuing us other numbers either, but there has got to be a better way.

As for UUID, so now I need to remember a 64 character UUID?
Fresh Horrors from Equifax CEO Richard Smith's Congressional Hearing
We announced the product, that's a loud public commitment. Once it reaches general availability, it will be covered by the Cloud deprecation policy requiring a minimum of one year notice for deprecation.

I'm not sure what other guarantees would even make sense to offer. If anything, I'd look at this announcement as ongoing proof in the magnitude of investment Google is making in Firebase and Cloud.
Throw in Place of Birth and cross your fingers.
Starcity (YC S16) Is Hiring a Software Engineer
Now I'm wishing our business already supported crypto currency... I'd buy an ad for us then. (Completely non-tech, but this looks like it could get a lot of publicity.)
Hmm... Should we follow his idea how to reach his goals, or maybe we should follow his goals with our best? Nobel idea how to invest his money is based on the understanding science as it was at XIX century. But now science is different and is changing further constantly. So if we follow Nobel last will, than Nobel Prize would become irrelevant, having zero influence on science, just some tradition from the past to give money for good managers or for respectable elderly scientists choosed from hundreds of other equally respectable and elderly scientists by some qualities having nothing to productivity in science or revolutionary ideas. Alternatively we can try to adapt the Nobel Prize to new reality, allowing it to reflect current state of affairs and to hold its influence on science.

I'm not a lawer, so I don't know is it possible to change Nobel Prize principles. All I want is to point to futility of blind following the old rule.
And that's why we use quality-adjusted-life-years (qaly) as the measure of treatment success. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
Most national polls reflected a preference for her of a few percent. Her popular vote victory was well within that margin of error.

But you already knew about the statistical peculiarity that was the 2016 Electoral College result, so I'm guessing you're repeating this hoping for some alt-right points on HN? Or just to demonstrate that public policy polling and statistics are somehow a big snake oil discipline that you're too intelligent to fall for?
The alternating scrolling is especially bad on a touchscreen because the scrollable page area also alternates between the left and right sides of the page. You have to swipe on one side of the page until it stops, then deduce that you haven't hit the page end and then start swiping in the other side of the page.
Sure, at some point, a judge might need to make a ruling that indeed someone should submit to guardianship.

That point is not at an ex-parte hearing as the very first step in the process.
The Clark County guardianship commissioner, Jon Norheim. Seems to be at the heart of this. His bad rulings are how the system was not able to prevent this stuff from happening. Some blame also lies with the apparent lack of any appeal options against his decisions.
I think no one but a few moderately rich Canadians consider US hospitals 5-star. In my experience, most US hospitals, as soon as they find out you have a little money try to do services add. The ambulance ride, nurse, specialist, radiologist, MRI, bed, CATV, telephone, and meals all add up on that bill.

And once they've exhausted your insurance or personal finances then they kick you out.
Admittedly, I thought about applying, but then I saw this on your footer of the website:

"My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD." - Psalm 26:12

I have a strong feeling that I would not be welcomed here, for I am not Christian and no intent to be.
It looks like they did it on the Rinkeby Testnet for that demo so they wouldn't have to spend real Ether.
Now that I've visited this page once, I'll never visit it again.
This really sounds like "semantics" to me (not PL semantics! :).

For example, these days it's quite possible to ask GHC to defer type errors to runtime. Does that mean that the GHC dialect of Haskell is dynamically typed? This is basically a command line switch away, btw.

Retention of type information does not "dynamic typing" make. As a trivial example, consider C++ RTTI.

You really have just reinvented static (type) checking and a good runtime. There's no shame in that, but let's not pretend that these are opposing forces.
Writing extensive TODO comments for future features instead of actually implementing them. Never read a single ToDo comment afterwards. Ever.
Is that actually true? Why would cancer cells suddenly lose an ability that all the other cells have? Especially since cancer is not just one single disease, but a set of symptoms displayed by lots of different mutations.

Quick search showed https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ketogenic-diets-for-cancer-...
I kept getting email messages from Facebook after I deleted my account. They stopped after I lodged a complaint with the Australian Communications and Media Authority. It enforces the Spam Act (2003) which prohibits the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages with an Australian link, i.e. if it originates or was commissioned in Australia or originates overseas but was sent to an address accessed in Australia.
Why is there never a comparison to Japan? They are 1/2 the size of the USA, have a privatized health system, and it's pretty damn awesome. They also have price controls which make things a lot easier to comprehend.
Is there any good data on health service overuse?
Yeah, I'm so angry they awarded it to that notorious right wing professor Paul Krugman.
Correct, I was being a little bit facetious. All in good fun, obviously :).
Data Structures for Text Sequences [pdf]
I asked my dentist why and his front-office team said it's because it's easiest to sync with insurance this way. Since I had my insurance card on me, I just used that number and they were quite happy. It just seemed like a convenience thing.
If a person has 3-5 kids, you might think his/her reproduction doesn't scale. But what if their kids went on to have 3-5 kids, and so on and so forth. Population grows healthily. IMO, that's scaling with high quality.

The other alternative is: one person learns to reproduce and has 1 million kids. That person dies, population dies. That doesn't scale.
No, they're still using your computational resources without your (informed) consent for their own (financial) gain.
Does the identifier need to be rememberable? I don't know my national id or passport number.
How strange to see this on the day that a friend of ~20 years passed away. Breast cancer. She was 40.
Is "common enterprise" the only distinction between gambling and a security?
In many places in the United States, there actually are laws to prevent gambling.
Site is down; archive/cache/mirror/ctrl-f: http://archive.is/NHBkq
To add some color here on the difference between a type proof and a test: consider that you can never test all possible strings for reverse.

However, a type proof can show that reverse, reverses all possible strings.

It is possible to test that a function on 16 bit integers returns the correct value for all inputs. Doing so would be a proof by exhaustion.

Type based proofs let us prove things using other methods than exhaustion, which is the only possible way to prove things with tests. That is an important property.
My understanding is that overuse is one of the primary reasons health spending is so high in most countries.

No data to back it up, might be wrong.

I can tell you I absolutely loathe pouring money into health insurers to prop up an overused and wasteful system. I'd much rather something like this personal account idea.
It really baffles me that people are still suggesting this as advice for spam reduction. All it takes is a third of a brain and a couple seconds of thought to realize that spammers know this is a thing and can adapt.
Of course I do. But most don't bother, and it still works today.
Further into the article, they also mention that there are a lot of government regulations about proportions of high-class beds to lower-class ones, needing approval to buy expensive medical equipment, and the number of physicians.

From the end of the article:

> [American] Conservatives will point to the Medisave accounts and the emphasis on individual contributions, but ignore the heavy government involvement and regulation. Liberals will point to the public’s ability to hold down costs and achieve quality, but ignore the class system or the system’s reliance on individual decision-making.
> If you count the city limits proper that would be true. If you count the agglomeration or greater city area which is what you are doing by saying all of Singapore then no, not by a long shot:

Yes, if you said “Singapore is of similar size to a large metropolitan area in the U.S.”, rather than “...a city...”, then, yes, the comparison would be to a category where Singapore's population would be reasonably typical, rather than just shy of the biggest.

But when you say “city”, it doesn't communicate something bigger than a city just because the thing you are comparing to a city is, itself, not just a city.
What edge cases? JSX is basically just syntactic sugar over a function call.
I'm afraid I literally laughed out loud at your request for a simple standard algorithm for r5rs macro systems. However, it's a sympathetic laugh. Macro Hygiene is still very hard, principally because (I claim) there's not yet a clean and widely accepted model for it. Matthew Flatt's "sets of scopes" model is (IMNSHO) the current leader. Time will tell whether he or anyone else comes up with a simpler and more widely accepted model. But yes: as an implementor, it "feels" very heavy, and you keep thinking that there must be a simpler solution to this problem (aside from just throwing the problem out and giving up on hygiene and language composability).
Really? You don’t think middle or lower class people should worry about getting locked into an Internet where they have to pay extra to access the ‘good’ job sites or alternate media or where they have to pay $10/mo simply because everyone ‘has to have Facebook’ and that costs extra?

The rich can afford to pay their way around stupid Comcast tiers.
How much do you actually need to know about someone to serve up email to them?
This isn't reddit. Keep that meme-y crap out of here.
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This is because most people care about pop musicians much more than about scientists, regardless of lip service to the contrary. You can't make them care by creating more awards. There are already an uncountable number of awards in physics (e.g., the Dirac medal, the Sakurai prize, the Wolf prize, the Newton medal, the Breakthrough prize, etc., etc.).
> The Senate wasn’t designed to represent “the people” anyway, it was designed to represent the interests of the sovereign states

And over time it has evolved to directly represent the people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeenth_Amendment_to_the_U...

We have 27 reasons to think the constitution as designed was imperfect, and at least one reason to think the representation of DC was flawed. I'm sure we can add more.
Ruthless bureaucratic directives will simply
roll off the tongue like, "maybe your mother
should just take a pain pill", if you recall
that ol' chestnut from prez. Obama.

Death panels! http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/over75.asp
A heretic thought: Maybe the Nobel Prize only manages to ~"distort our perception of science" because the reporting about it can fill the void created by incredibly bad, superficial science journalism?
I was granted 5% profit in an early startup. There never was any profit. Big surprise
My great uncle was basically robbed by his own daughter, and his daughter had money to begin with. She had power of attorney and sold everything he owned out from underneath him while his wife (her mother) was dying in the hospital of cancer. It took everything he had left to defend himself from becoming stuck in a home. I don't know the awful woman that did this to him, but obviously my great uncle thought he could trust his daughter (his daughter!) enough not to steal everything he owned and sell it. You cannot trust family. Honestly, I would rather set up a trust of some kind that is very explicit about my elder care, which has this durable power of attorney even if/when I'm not there anymore mentally. Blood is a terrible reason to make any business arrangement in our culture. We are trained to be lone wolves from the beginning in American culture. I don't understand how people can then years later come around and act like their children can be trusted not to be lone wolves when it comes to their care.
As yes, the classic "I can outsmart the compiler".

I've been down the exact rabbithole, before, but with java. There are 2 different bytecodes for representing a switch statement: tableswitch, which is dense (has a case for every key from X to Y), and lookupswitch, which is sparse. Of course the dense one must be better, I thought: O(1) vs O(log n) ! Maybe if I added a few more cases manually to my switch statement to cover missing holes, my lookupswitch would become a tableswitch and my hot loop would be faster.

Turns out, of course, that not only is O(1) not necessarily any faster than O(log n) when n is small and the constant factor is large (see this article), but in fact its irrelevant since the hotspot uses the same function to generate the IR for both bytecodes (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/file/b756e7a2ec... ), and thus the decision about whether to use a jumptable or binary search is entirely unreleated to the bytecode that represents the switch statement :)
1) I asked for traits correlated with gender, 2) I asked for Traits correlated with career prospects.

1 merely correlates gender with career prospects and assumes traits exist biologically that performs the causative effect.

2 merely correlates behavior traits and assumes that there is a causative effect to career prospects 10, 20, 30 years down the line.

I do not want assumptions since they make a donkey out of you and me.
This has to be one of the most vile, appalling stories about the widespread abuse of power on the weak and helpless for monetary gain. The perpetrators have as much mercy and empathy for their victims as animal predators have for their prey, with far less justification.

And the punishment - if any - is likely to be far less than what is meted out to some afflicted person jailed for stockpiling prescription medications for self-treatment due to incurable pain (Richard Paey)[1].

[1]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prisoner-of-pain/
There are also single-use radon test kits, which should be fine if your home is in a relatively steady-state condition.
The article specifically says this is not the case, and that it actually increased health care spending.

Here's the quote.

In a 1995 paper in Health Affairs, William Hsiao looked at how health spending fared in Singapore before and after the introduction of Medisave. He found that health care spending increased after the introduction of increased cost-sharing, which is not what most proponents of such changes would expect.
This is hardly news; I pointed out as much in the comment I submitted a few months back. The fact is that Ajit Pai had decided to repeal net neutrality and only accepted public comment because the law requires him to do so. His NPRM is riddled with half-truths and outright falsehoods; cherry-picked examples; and false dichotomies. The commentary he sought was a litany of leading questions meant to support his decision to end net neutrality (ironically, some of the questions did not even accomplish that despite clearly being intended to do so, likely because his decision making process never involved a serious effort to understand the technical details of the Internet).
This is also the kind of law that makes people hate lawyers & judges. No judge should approve guardianship unless they have substantial proof that the family has been notified.

Facilitating fraud like this is blatantly unethical: if only 'legal ethics' actually stood for anything worthwhile
So, Google could spend the money to purge that political garbage. They kind of tried, with pushing "one touch make ready" policy. The stated goal of GF was to increase competition in ISP market. So far their service was while positive, far from sufficient.
It will probably build off the already deployed login.gov which appears to be a service built with modern technologies and practices.
Looks like both Equifax (2.5m additional accounts) and Yahoo chose today as a good day to bury bad news (the papers being filled with Las Vegas, Puerto Rico, etc). Slimy moves from their PR teams.
because the people that actually own the assets need to agree for this to be ok.
> You really do need user accounts to run an email service

Exactly, regardless of that companies keep asking users for a whole collection of personal data, not always making it obvious which fields are actually required because it's good business for them to get as much personal data as possible.

Average users are usually unsure about a lot of this stuff and naive enough to enter their real data for fear of getting caught "lying".

This happens because companies see this data as an asset instead of a liability, from the companies view not asking for that data/tricking users into giving it away means missing out on assets.

But if you instead make the personal data a liability, by enforcing standards for keeping/sharing it with hefty fines, then fewer companies will go out of their way asking users for personal information they have no business asking for in the first place because it would put them in a position of liability for what happens with said data.
If companies and universities tried to win Nobel Prizes like teams try to win the Super Bowl, the Olympics, America’s Cup, etc it would be more useful.

It does give visibility to science, which hopefully, motivates a few more people to grow up to want that achievement.

Personally, I think we need more prizes and “sports” for these endeavors:

https://www.xprize.org

http://roborace.com
Apparently the data was stored in plain text. Sorry, but if not applying a patch to your Web framework is enough to make it that vulnerable, there are other problems in your infrastructure, your architecture and your process.
> I’ve run a fair amount of email campaigns where we strip out the + if gmail is the domain to ensure it doesn’t end up in some weird filter.

At which point you should wind up in the "how widely can I advertise that you're a spammer and all your outbound email should all be routed straight to /dev/null for sending mail to an email address you were never given" filter.
Yahoo Triples Likely Scope of 2013 Hack to 3B Users
Year of Magit
Because it always costs more per widget when you order 10,000 widgets instead of 100, right?
The most astounding thing reading the comments are from people that are pretty well of condemning some poor folk that are making mistakes. These people have not seen success, therefore it very difficult for them to come out of these situations. Countless articles have demonstrated how a majority of poor kids going to college have a tough time graduating. I am so happy to be living in a state where these issues are getting discussed.
Nope! My Internet connection is less than perfect but better than the national average.

The local sandbox is still laggy crap on a recently-built i7 desktop with a 1-year-old NVidia card, though.
I'm not so sure.

Travis did a great job of building Uber, but he's become a massive public liability.

He's getting sued by Google for apparently blatantly stealing billions in IP. Maybe he's innocent, but the optics are bad.

He's going to be the public figure on which we will scorn for all those scandals.

He's tainted pretty badly - rightly or wrongly - and it just will not go away.

He's a little toxic to have around, especially when the company needs to wind up to an IPO - they need the opposite of 'scandals'.

I'm weary that there's really nobody that can ever replace a founder, but hopefully they've found a good CEO.

Travis's dragging out this board fight is just jeopardizing the company. He owns 10%, not 100%.

I don't know if Benchmark are good guys or bad guys in the grand scheme of things, but their position of wanting to Travis to move on is grounded and reasonable I think.
Stripe front end developers are a true inspiration. I know the linked project isn't anything revolutionary, but as someone with a decade of experience in the field, it's impressive to see such attention to detail.

Their work somehow manages to be the right combination of cutting-edge flashiness (think Apple product landing pages) and a very down to earth usability. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's rare to see interfaces that don't compromise one or the other at least slightly.

If any of you are reading this - congratulations, you should be really proud.
Well too bad? I'd much rather have a central authority holding the keys than "oh shit, my private key was compromised, lol guess I'm going to be paying off a lot of random credit card bills for the next 50 years."

The SSA that exists now would be able to validate public keys and reissue keypairs, which would absolutely be necessary. So we'd still have the same central authority, but the numbers they give out would actually be useful.
What % of ICOs are seemingly legitimate? I see advertisements for ICOs on reddit and other tech websites all the time, and I have yet to find one that doesn't look incredibly shady.
(Mostly just hoisting Noel Welsh's comment to the top level) How will the expected upcoming move of Racket to the use of Chez affect the comparison between Gerbil and Racket? I'm trying not to set my expectations too high. BTW: RacketCon! This weekend!
Ask HN: What are the best cross-platform options for desktop (and mobile)?
I'm interested in developing cross-platform applications. I know that it's not ideal and there are some shortcomings, but I want to support Windows, Mac, and Linux. If the solution offers some form of mobile support as well, even better. Electron is popular, but many seem to have a negative opinion of it. What are my best options? I'm flexible and can learn any language/framework required.
Rediscovering Modularity in Ruby
Sure, I like the thinking. In theory some of these costs will hit the errors and omissions insurance, which will drive up their costs in the long run (I know they are being absorbed by Verizon, but typically...). In turn part of the insurance evaluation would they assess the collection of the data as a risk as well as their track records in keeping it secure.