skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to agree on the no fine-grained control. My point was that it is easy to opt out of the notifications by email in general. I'm positive that there is an option where you receive a notification when someone send you a message, but I don't think it is possible to get event invitation notifications only.
That is not "more units."
He wants someone to digitally sign it, like for the notary or the USPS to act as a certificate authority.
Jack Baruth wrote a great article a few years ago about how owning cheap used cars is a privilege reserved for people who have the skills and time to fix their own cars: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2015/02/no-fixed-abode-gott...

It seems that he was partly inspired to write this by "the TTAC reader whose response to Bark’s article on subprime buyers was to straight-facedly suggest that a working father swap his own minivan transmission in his apartment parking lot."

I used to own beater cars when I was in college and shortly after. I never paid more than $3k for one, and I did all of my own work, including replacing all of the brakes on one of the cars myself. But I like working on things, I already owned the tools, and I had access to good public transit when my car broke down. I would not recommend beater cars to most normal people.
I spent 2 years of my life in Singapore as an excange student 10 years ago.

>What Makes Singapore’s Health Care So Cheap?

I think they missed the most obvious reason: China

Singapore's public health system does not shy away from purchasing a lion share of pharmaceuticals, disposables, and medical equipment from China.

And about C class, the 'conveyorised' healthcare is one of biggest cost cavers when Singapore's medical specialist salary is approaching Western levels. Doctors focus on throughput. The goal is to fix the person and kick him out of hospital as fast as possible, and not to make everything possible to extend his stay as '5 star hotel hospitals' do in USA
Which David Attenborough documentary you are referring to?
For your amusement--why doesn't this compile?
And thanks for the feedback! :) We're actually thinking through the documentation overhaul right now (today and tomorrow) and large datasets are a top priority use case, so your post is really valuable.

I'd say at this point private networks and the filestore are unlikely to change significantly, but we're not 100% satisfied with the respective test suites (and the docs, oh my) so it'll be a bit longer until they'll be elevated out of experimental status.

About the object patch command, you can also call it through the HTTP API if that makes it easier. The CLI is essentially a 1:1 mapping of the HTTP API to a console command.
Very valid point and I earnestly hope that they see your post and take full advantage of the opportunity.

I am/was unfamiliar with these specific researchers and only know the research through popular science. So, I am unable to give them specifics.

I'm a mathematician, not a physicist. My interest is purely curiosity. Well, that and I like to encourage the citizen scientist.
If that's the case, I think the bigger news then is that yahoo actually had 3B users!
The article mentions this:

> The number of individuals affected by the 2013 attack is smaller than 3 billion, because some people​ have multiple accounts ...
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Jared and Ivanka’s secret email addresses are hosted by the Trump Org
How about an active, closed loop, control solution?

When someone wants to confirm your identity, or otherwise interact with your 'financials', you get sent an email with a quickly expiring link that you click on to view a page where you enter the name of the org or person you /think/ is checking your data, and if it matches things work.
I know many mention facebook or google being hacked will be an even bigger deal. But I wonder, with all the online spaces google/facebook has under control (ads, analytics, cdns, dns, crawlers, your phone, etc.) if they suspect a breach, they could literally disable any website or device that tries to share that information.

If it happened in the past, well, who will know?
So we should push out half-baked solutions?
It sure is frustrating that a site whose only purpose is to serve documents, and is created by people who advocate Tor, requires JavaScript for all navigation. Even the "about" anchor in the footer has an onClick instead of an href. What were they thinking?

Heck, a vanilla Wordpress install would have been sufficient for this, if they don't have resources for anything other than a free off-the-shelf solution.
When I saw the original tweet I hadn’t either and had to Google it.
When I was on Facebook today, I saw an ad with a photo of a minivan, and some copy about finding a new vehicle. The ad was posted by Yahoo. When I clicked it, it took me to the search result for minivans. This company feels like an AI experiment.
True, but not something I'd considered until I'd read the list and saw the numbers.
You know that if you actually ask, "Daddy, what are the career paths that minimize my education expenses while maximizing my expected income and security over the next 40 years?", the best answer is going to be something like, "being rich and well-connected", right?
I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
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Parent is certainly wrong about the details, but absolutely right about the challenges that cryptographic currencies face. Scaling is a huge issue that is very much an open question.

If you're interested in scaling approaches, Vitalik Buterin has written a lot about this issue in a very thoughtful manner, both as it applies to Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The Corpus Callosum isn't the only interhemispheric commissure though, there are several more. The anterior and posterior commissures, as well as the Fornix etc.
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Does everyone really need an unique digital identifier?

My feeling is, "this is probably you" is good enough for nearly every transaction people will perform. And we've long had a system in place to deal with the special cases in which this is not good enough: notaries.

Financial companies need to come to terms with this fact and accept insurance against its exploitation as a cost of doing business.

For taxes and other government documents, we should all move to a tax id system, like businesses use.
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What would you have a private company do, exactly? Like many after this recent Equifax disaster, I've thought about taking some action - but I'm pretty unclear on what that would mean exactly. What private solution could address this? What product would help?
My guess would be because it's been done since the dawn of electronic computing.
Simple, 65 is the standard retirement age and has been for a long time now, while longevity patterns have shifted.
I explicitly addressed this.

>the government is no longer legitimate if that threshold is broken

The 2nd Amendment exists because the writers of the US Constitution had just finished overthrowing a government they did not believe represented the people, and wanted to ensure that if the replacement government ever ceased to represent the will of the people, that the people would have the means to forcibly remove it.
> I believe the first step to fixing a problem is to identify and admit there is a problem. Namely, there are a LOT more gun deaths in the US per capita than other countries that it is supposed to be a peer of (OECD countries)

Using gross per capita measurements to justify federal policy affecting people's rights is bad strategy. Homicide is the problem, and it is concentrated among major subsets of some ethnic groups, and around certain forms of crime. If you look only at whites and asians, you see a similar picture to western Europe.

The homicide problem in the United States is largely culturally isolated. When the response to these culturally isolated problems is further restrictions on rights (particularly of a kind that has been shown to be ineffective) rather than community outreach, social and mental health programmes, and controlled substances policy reform, you shouldn't be surprised if they feel unfairly treated.
Yahoo says all 3B accounts affected in 2013 hack
Hi I'm highly interested, the description matches all my experience perfectly. See my last entry on my profile for short resume.

I don't see your email advertised here, could you send me one instead at {Carlos.Dollarman @ gmail}?
I'm totally open to trying again if I can get to success.
Despite massive hack, Equifax wins IRS contract for fraud-detection
As a user above stated, use an oAuth service from the government. When at a business you could "prove" to their system who you are by authenticating with the govt service with your private key (most likely on a smart card like the military's CAC card). The business then gets an oauth token that you could revoke.

If you lose your private key you would have to go to some government services office and bring additional documents to prove who you are just like a passport.
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Plenty of leaked stuff (like credit cards) moves around on the "dark web" via TOR sites, which most of those won't impact. Not unless they went as far as to make the Android OS check that you're visiting onion sites and scanning for leaked information to block them, which would be pretty extreme.
I think that's part of the point though. Politics is the way by which you achieve peace. So the Peace prize is also a political tool. "We're giving you this prize and now you have to live up to it.".
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Nobody ever said they are active users or unique individuals. I know for example I personally created hundreds of accounts on Yahoo! over the years.
OpenSSH 7.6 has just been released
Private companies could generate their own identifier and then use that instead of an SSN. Here in MA, driver's licenses have a code generated by the RMV.

I think most cases are companies that use software that just assumes the SSN will be readily available.
From what I've seen, the systemd developers are interested in going into this direction. They established /run/ as a tmpfs that is available very early during boot, and built systemd such that it never needs to write to a persistent filesystem during its operation. (It does, by default, write logs to /var/log/journal, but you can switch it to non-persistent storage at /run/log/journal instead.)

Many programs can be made to work the same way. There are still plenty of programs that need to write longterm state to /var/lib, but you will probably need a writable partition anyway for /home, so you can just reuse that partition for /var/lib as well.

OS updates would then be handled via an A/B partitioning scheme, where you have two copies of the system partition, and when an OS update is ready to be installed, the inactive one is mounted read-write and the update written onto it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15395946
Hardware-accelerated machine intelligence library for the web
Nothing would stop someone from being able to share it via the darknet. Tor, Freenet, Zeronet, etc. There's no way that news would be able to be stopped.
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White House wants to end Social Security numbers as a national ID
You didn't so much as step onto that slippery slope as strap on some ski's and make it an Olympic event.

> An insanely complex and thorny issue, maybe.

So are most major issues society has to deal with.

> I would argue that once preserving life is negotiable, a debate on the utility of the elderly and infirmed soon follows.

Perhaps but we already have that debate every time the government decides how much money to put into elderly care (hint: In my country (the UK) not as much as they should - Social Care for the elderly is critically underfunded)

> So, if you want to institutionalize murdering inconvenient people.

Not sure how you got there from my post but for what it is worth, I don't - I want the opinion of the person in sound mind backed up by competent medical professionals to be respected as a matter of body autonomy, We don't get to force surgery on adults of sound mind for example and here in the UK other things are regulated in a similar system - I can choose not to have surgery that will kill me if I don't have it, that's fine but I can't choose the manner of my death, it seems contradictory to me, We put animals that are suffering to sleep because it's humane but we don't extend the same right to humans who are capable of asking for it and yes there are arguments against but nothing is perfect, the question I always ask is "in aggregate does this benefit people" if you wait around for the perfect solution you end up not implementing a 'merely' better one.

> If you do get your way, don't be surprised when you're powerless and some bean counter unceremoniously pulls your plug before you're ready to go, just to free up a bed.

And if we don't, don't be surprised when the secret Martian master race turn up and harvest your essence....
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It does not use CRDTs as they cannot be used to handle all the update requirements of this system.

It uses Paxos as the consensus algorithm, along with internal systems like the TrueTime API to enable us synchronously replicate across multiple data centers.
So i've become super interested in lung cancer, and recently found that radon gas is the most common cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.

If you want bang for your buck, buy a radon detector and mitigate [slab vacuum treatment or regular ventilation] where you find levels > 100bq/m^3 [probably your basement]
Just say you were born abroad, are not a US citizen etc and therefore don't have an SSN, you just happen to speak good English because you went to American school.

But you're happy to give them your national ID number from your home country. Bonus points if you actually have another passport to waive around while claiming this.

This doesn't work all the time, but it's surprisingly effective in like 90% of cases.
Here's a bookmarklet I use sometimes:

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Eh, I still think the best thing for the gov't to do in regards to SS numbers is just publish them all in an open database accessible to anyone. That would put an end to banks and such trying to use them as a way to verify identity.

SS are useful as a unique identifier for Americans. But the weird process by which they've become some sort of "password" for accessing credit and such in someones name is crazy, and pretty obviously not working.
You can't, but it's useful nevertheless. I have several Orange Pi's running as servers for various things, having HDD connected over USB, etc. I'm very glad it has a micro switch that can initiate a proper shutdown of the system.

I certainly wouldn't want to just unplug them from power.
Many operating systems that use manual memory allocation and/or reference counting techniques are nevertheless unsuitable for real time.

Modern desktop and mobile device operating systems often exhibit embarassing lulls in responsiveness that resemble pauses in a rudimentary garbage collector.

Real-time operation can be "bolted on" to a non-real time operating system as a small specialized kernel which has higher priority access to the CPU and its own, separate resource management.
Depends on how half-baked.

From a PR perspective it's a definite "no". Even a single self-driving fatality would lead to global news headlines and a lawyer feeding frenzy.

But from a protecting people perspective? If making it "live" quicker would speed development and adoption... then maybe.

E.g. the first 5 year increase fatalities net by 1.1x. After that tech is actually dialed in and fatalities drop to 0.5x. Holding off gives you 400K fatalities whereas pushing earlier adoption gives you 320K. That would be 80K lives saved. (Under the assumptions of this shoot-from-the-hip model).
Thanks, I'll write you tomorrow.
Wait, Cmd+R... you don't have HMR enabled?
I think it's safer to supplement the precursors than testosterone itself...

This comment is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15290462
Perhaps you could consider persuading the powers that be to make a loud public commitment.

After all, if they are truly confident, there should be little cost in doing so.
It depends. It's possible a company could catch a breach while the data is being dumped to s3/russia/wherever and cut it off before everything is extracted.

Another possibility is that only one particular system is breached, which wouldn't actually affect all users of a given company. If Facebook were hacked, it's possible that only the ad-buy system is compromised and not their entire user store, for example, thus exposing only people who have purchased ads and not all users.
You don't have to care, though you might be grateful that they are profitable and thus able to pay your salary. Given that you're on HN, you're probably paid quite well and better than you would be in other countries.

So, it's in your best interest that they continue to be profitable. Your benefit is contined employment and the benefits that go along with that.

If you want to get more from a business profiting more, your best choice would be to buy shares of that business through the stock market. Even those that don't pay dividends can increase in value and increase your wealth along with it.

You are, of course, perfectly entitled to not care one iota. You don't need my permission to do that.
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Ask HN: Why are companies seemingly always reporting incorrect breach numbers
I am starting to become skeptical when a company first releases breach numbers. We have seen now on numerous occasions Equifax, Wells Fargo and now Yahoo revise their numbers upwards. My question is: is this because the company is generally giving a good faith estimate before getting the actual number, or is this an attempt by the companies to publicly minimize the extent of the hack and then revising later.
I'm not seeing any mention of WhatsApp on that page. I see WeChat, however, along with Telegram, Line and [FB] Messenger.
Not SSH-based, but GoTTY works really well in my experience.
That's what I meant: P(data | H0). So there is a 5% probability for the data to arise by chance (being noise) given H0 is true.

The whole terminology with values being "extreme" is just unintuitive and unwieldy, IMO.
Hundreds? Are you sure?
"Moral revulsion" seems reasonable to feel at Kissinger's win.

Obama's is meaningless, even if you believe he did contribute materially to international peace (he didn't) he hadn't done so yet, with less than a year in office.

Giving it to the EU is just farce, in the same sense as "corporations are people." The EU is the result of the process the prize is supposed to encourage. It should be going to the people responsible for that institution's functioning - but good luck convincing anyone that its leaders have done a particularly good job navigating post-sovereign-debt-crisis, the period the prize would usually be awarding.

(I agree the award is necessarily political. I think it's better to say many recent awards have been tactical - moves in an attempt to bring about better relations, mostly unsuccessfully, rather than recognizing those who do really encourage them.)
Do you turn off your computer by pulling the plug? Anyway, I was just reminded of 90's. The times before ATX.
Couldn't you get a durable power of attorney that only comes into effect once you become "incapacitated?" If you can, I'd imagine that I'd protect against this kind of abusive guardianship without being vulnerable to the problems you outlined.
Tor Browser makes it practically one-click these days, doesn't it? You can even get Tor browsers for iOS/Android.
How many of the Howey test questions must be "yes"? All? Any? More than x number of them?
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You already have the opportunity to bankrupt yourself with lottery tickets and casinos, yet most people don't.
I never expected it to have 3 billion in the first place :)
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Yes. When you're reading, don't rush ahead to the author's answer; stop and think whether you can say what it should be. Maybe close the book and go for a walk. (This didn't come naturally to me, at least for well-written works.)
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Yep. Look into Funfair (https://funfair.io)
On a related note Equifax stated yesterday that they identified an additional 2.5 million accounts that were breached:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/business/equifax-breach.h...

Is proper audit capability just not seen as important at these companies?
If he gets elevated to the Ninth Circuit and participates in hearings along with Judge Kozinski, the courts will need a burn unit on standby :)
Who doesn't think they are? Their entire business is based on evading laws, regulations, and the people who enforce them.
Doesn't the birthday paradox/pigeonhole principle apply here? If we assume that there are 1,000,000,000 unique values, then the square root of a billion (31,622) is all you need for a 50% chance of collision.
That looks pretty handy. I'm at work (maybe I shouldn't be on HN at all, haha...) and Facebook is blocked. But I guess that's my problem. :) I'll check it out when I get home.