skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly.

If it were possible for all of the affected to individually sue Equifax, many of them already would have.

But the US civil-legal system requires "standing", which in turn requires proof of "damages". The sad fact is that loss of sensitive information is not quantifiable as "damages" for this purpose, even though that same information is worth well north of $millions when the FEC looks at the same kind of information transaction in election campaigns.

"The markets" that fiscal conservatives love to talk about don't work when our civil system doesn't recognize that there is value and a market there.

If the data breach had resulted in masses of data being traded on the black market, the Equifax breach may have ended in prosecutions and massive lawsuits. Because it didn't, it likely won't end in much.

Hell, not even the banks, retailers, and ID security services that did business with Equifax bothered to make a big deal about cancelling their contracts+relationships. The sad fact is that there's a tiny pool of companies with this data and cutting off one company gives the other players (who aren't much better at securing their networks) massive leverage.
That's a poor summary of the article you link, given that it says vegan diets are almost twice as efficient as the standard American diet. (It just also says that low-meat diets are even more efficient in terms of land use.)
I broke my hand when I was a kid. The fragment of a bone was near a tendon and private doctors didn't have absolute consensus on surgery or not surgery for my case.

A friend of my mothers worked in the ministry of public health. She got me an appointment to one of the most important hand doctors in the country. I went there and skipped a line of 100 people wanting to see him. He took a glance at my X-Ray and said there should be surgery with general anesthesia to prevent any damage to the tendon.

There was also no bill.
Sounds exactly like what FB would write. Thanks for the laugh!
If there's no official embargo, is it really secret enough to be considered insider trading? I mean a lot of people know what the secret is by now. And that blog post showed how much info is widely available even with the embargo in place.
Tsk tsk, I see you lowered your salary cap from 220k to 150k. I guess that's a step in the right direction (instead of lying to everyone). See this for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14240175

However, I still recommend everyone avoid this company like the plague. Read all of the past HN comments on them and their previously named company "Weeby.co" if you want to know more.
Forever 21: Hackers breached payment system for 7 months
Do you blame people for legally scamming the elderly?

That it is legal does not make it good.
Everyone is saying "don't blame the engineers", so I felt the need to post this.

I am a software developer at Epic. I've been here long enough to have gone on sabbatical.

This place has some of the most outdated software engineering practices I've ever seen. There are nearly no automated tests; a team of ~1000 people manually tests everything, including things like scaled pub-sub systems. The company actively maintains about 25 million lines of code. 1000 people couldn't possibly manually cover all of that each year. The majority of known bugs get released.

Internal builds are broken more often than not; there is no CI system exposing this fact. The code is mostly giant, unmaintainable monoliths. I saw a single class that was 50,000 lines long. Imagine trying to modify that monster with no automated tests to support you.

Nearly all of the developers that Epic hires are fresh out of college. Life-critical systems are regularly designed, built, and manually tested entirely by developers with <3 years of experience.

I've seen more than one bug get released that could have killed someone. It wouldn't surprise me if one has.

There is no incentive to change. We make so much money that the execs do not care. It makes me depressed.
Emergent behaviour.
While I admire your principles, it seems that by not getting physicals, you appear to be trading off your health for your principles. It is a choice for you to make but might I suggest that if the insurance/healthcare that you get is too expensive, it might be worth making an annual trip to a suitable country to get the physical done. Alternatively, consider paying a doctor with cash for a pre-negotiated price.

These are unsolicited suggestions on my part but my concern is that by not getting these physicals, which arguably have a significant impact in early detection of preventable diseases such as high cholesterol, you are endangering your life. Just my opinion.
Your advice is not actionable and kind of boils down to "just be good looking". If these "young nerds" had the opportunity to make great memories as awkward teenagers, why wouldn't they?
FDIC has a per-person insurance liability limit of $250,000 per bank. It's possible you could find an idiot with more than that in a single bank, presumably in CDs, with no other insurance coverage on it. You need some sort of strange reverse Nigerian Prince scheme to cash that out without a paper trail ("I'm executing his will and he explicitly stated to hand out all of his assets, damn the losses, as $20 bills and fresh turkeys to orphans and other passersby on Christmas Day." Maybe call it a "Christmas Carol scheme"?). It's unlikely to be worth the time investment in terms of being a useful bank robbery, but it certainly would send a weird message to someone.
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Exactly, this is a logical move to rebalance his net worth outside of Intel. Otherwise he's got a whole lot of eggs (including his career) in one basket.
Java can be compiled to a native binary now, thanks to Java 9. No bytecode, interpreter, or JIT left in the resulting file. (Only available for Linux x86_64 right now).
There are plenty of incentives to help care and improve: the better healthcare you provide the less they cost you long term. Vertical integration puts preventative care in the scale.
"we let men die younger"

Nowhere did I say that. That framing sounds incredibly bad faith.
This article adds a bit more context. Spotify claims that Wixen is overstepping their authority as music licensors and suing on behalf of clients who have not given Wixen that authority.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/spotify-hit-16-bil...
> This number seems closer to reality. It may be Tom Petty, Neil Young, and the Doors, but they're not worth nearly 10% of Spotify's valuation

Why not? Is there some plausible way to build a $19bn company that lets you listen to music without the works of major globally famous artists?

I am willing to agree with you intuitively that this suit is overstating damages as well, but it's definitely not a prima facie argument, you'll have to support that point of view with facts.
Indeed, it seems what we need to end poverty is more "heart" (empathy), rather than mind (intelligence)
How about comparing a hello world app to another hello world app? Or do you consider that comparison invalid because Electron/Chromium don't have ways to strip unused features? To me, a comparison of similar end results is reasonable. Arguments about whether hello world apps represent reality, or comparisons between WebGL/WebAudio apps vs LWJGL apps, would be more apt.
This doesn't make any sense. Netflix is already available on Apple devices. If Apple wants original content, they can produce it themselves for much less than it would cost to buy Netflix.

Also, IMO, original content is not going to sell more Apple devices if the idea is to restrict original content to Apple devices. The real reason Apple would want original content is to make what is currently their Apple Music offering more compelling to Google Play and Spotify customers.
Giant lawsuit filed shortly before the IPO to encourage a quick settlement.
True, there is a lot of middle ground where that higher standard for reversibility is useful though (e.g. compared to dealing with PayPal or credit cards, which are the primary alternatives for international/inter-currency transfers and provide very little in the way of security for the seller). Especially interesting for smaller sums though, and there the current level of transfer fees really gets in the way.
This article is a fascinating reflection of our current culture. It’s simultaneous power shaming and slut shaming.

It’s pretty sad that across all of the women interviewed they’re either portrayed as naive and disempowered or “merely” prostitutes.

Despite its semi-neutral tone, in the end this article is quite sexist.
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As opposed to Bitcoin, Ethereum and its ilk, whose problems have all (or even mostly) been figured out by the laymen people? Their PR consists of actively disclosing all their efforst in peer reviewed journals, demonstrating accountability and transparency and talking about their vision. They've already formally proved Ouroboros works, which is the core of their product. Proving means the math works exactly as intended. The proofs are available and published. If anyone with enough know how can disprove them, they are more than welcome to. No such rigor exists for ANY of the 1000 currencies.

Plus Charles seems down to earth and believes in working one's ass off, organic growth and hey, this is gonna be a favorite for all HN readers - FP!

I already bought some ADA...and will hold it. Never held Bitcoin nor Ethereum for any appreciable amount of time and I do not think they scale or can achieve massive, stellar success and assimilation into economies with their current architecture. Cardano is like Bitcoin 3.0.

Watch https://youtu.be/-zftnG6BYu4

What he says, particularly around the process of peer reviewed papers they're submitting to crypto conferences, makes perfect sense. No one has been able to bring this kind of rigor to cryptocurrency to date.

My only hope is they stay nimble, agile, responsive to the community's concerns and questions...... and deliver something iteratively instead of shooting for the stars. Their base is solid, they just need to build upon it now.
Designing a Multi-Language Live Programming Tool With Phoenix and Genstage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p58sFfgMvdI
Though that was from a beta and in an unsure time of how the service would turn out.
Just because a service starts by doing dubious things, does not mean it will continue doing so.
I would see it differently: The current logic and trajectory of McConnell's several Congresses as a leader would suggest the exact opposite. That if he believes his time as leader is short that he will push through more nominations and other policies as he can under reconciliation in service of his donor class and long standing political beliefs, it doesn't help him to give the other party any policy wins. Bipartisan achievements are likely to come only as conditions for Democratic votes necessary to maintain operation of government funding.
> Spark, Cassandra

I'm a former Apache board member, and I've worked with contributors to those specific projects on governance issues. I stand by what I said.

When it is possible for users to become contributors and gain a governance stake, projects tend to become more dedicated to preserving backwards compatibility. People who are counting on the software get in a position where they can raise a big, loud stink when their interests are threatened.

Sometimes projects break compat anyway, but only after traumatic debate. And depending on how the open governance is set up, it can be nearly impossible for the project to be sold out from underneath its users.
They should not be taking advantage of one of their largest customers and benefactors (weak anti-trust enforcement).
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Is this a shake-down? Or they asking for USD 1.6B, so they can settle at a convenient USD60m?

This way the lawyers get a nice 20% cut and Wyxen also gets a decent USD48m which is close to the USD42m that alehul mentioned above.
Why do you need to link statically?
Do you mean some IDEs like IntelliJ or NetBeans?
Ah I see, I don't have a background in finance, how do you calculate that price slip?
I'm bad for only having read the headline, so far. But the only way I see this playing out, is in a bad way, i.e. war on the impoverished.

Human history has a long and fairly consistent set of precedents. More and more, the domestic U.S. from 1945 - circa 1980, appears to be the exception rather than the rule. (An exception not equally shared and also purchased at the price of some populations abroad, e.g. with respect to natural resource extraction.)
Shake-down / quick settlement, 100% agree.
This was not a jab at scientists, but at people who eat up scientific factoids without having much understanding of science thereof.
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No rich person is keeping money unprotected like that. Most banks offer FDIC maximization solutions.
Original study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000689931...

Press release:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/lu-dd122017....
We have not declared a "war on murder" so maybe it is the idea of a "war on drugs" that is ridiculous.

As I mention down thread, the Vietnam (American) War was not ever a declared war. I don't think the USA has declared war on any country since WWII. There is a good argument to be made that it would be better if the USA didn't use military force unless it declares war first.

I am not arguing in favour of any of these ideas, but that we have never actually declared war on drugs so the idea of failure is meaningless
The Java standard libraries also contain a full web browser, and much more than what your browser can do.
> Even if you quit entirely, beyond straightforward maternity/paternity leave?

Of course not. The point is that there shouldn't be any economical or work-related downside (other than slightly less pay during maternity/paternity leave) for having a child.

(Obviously raising a child costs money but I hope you get the idea)

Developed is quite apt for any society that values its members.
There is stuff in the works (heard this related to Graal I think) where Java will be a compile-to-native language.
Sure, but it's going through your router, right? So if you were torrenting and someone else jumped on the xfinity wifi and started torrenting, it would affect your ability to use your bandwidth, right?
It's not a side for Silicon Valley. It's a side for Silicon Valley's most powerful and influential people.

That does mean something.
Any plans to add Gitlab support to roadmap? Dealbreaker on our end. Email in profile if you'd rather not answer publicly. :)
Please note that Native binary is not always Native API.

Does the app use the most efficient methods provided by operating system? Is the graphical user interface consistent with the other applications on the same system? Is number of syscalls predictable?
Doctors have learned through experience to mistrust data from other sources because it's so often incorrect or incomplete. So they often think that the fastest and safest course of action is to start over from scratch with the patient history, lab tests, etc. One partial solution is the growth of large integrated delivery networks which combine a bunch of medical specialties in a single organization sharing patient records. That way there's more trust and lower barriers to communication.
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Loopholes exist, because language is imprecise and imperfect. Laws have loopholes like code has bugs.

In this particular case, it's probably not a loophole, since the behavior in question has been known for many years, and the US government has made no effort to change how the law fails to tax overseas income of corporations.

In many cases, tax law says or (implies) "you pay $X to us, but you get credit for tax paid to other countries".
Scamming the elderly is punching down.
There's code going in to perform some extra work to workaround some CPU bugs. This disables that work on AMD, because the bugs are not present there. Intel will have to do the extra work still as the bugs are present in Intel CPUs.

The full details are as yet undisclosed, implying there are security issues arising from these bugs (also the name of the flag)
One thing I’ve never understood about the whole Disney/Mickey Mouse discussion is Trademark doesn't expire.

If Disney can hold a trademark on Mickey Mouse, all the old movies could enter the public domain but you still wouldn’t have a right to make your own Mickey Mouse movies or t-shirts.

So it seems what they are really trying to protect is Fantasia or whatever. Specific movies. Not iconic characters.
This looks interesting! How long does the internship last for, and what's the pay level? :)
Bad link. Remove the quotes.
This is a bit confusing. My understanding of how music publishing works is that the copyright is usually assigned to the publisher (for a limited amount of time), so any rights of the copyright holder are rights of the publisher. They wouldn't have to explicitly assign litigation rights to the publisher.

Disclaimer: IANAL, and with big artists, publishing deals can be very very different from boilerplate.
The Mastermind Behind Chase’s Sapphire Reserve Card Sets Her Sights on Banking
Are the elderly entitled to extra protection against scams? Why?
Well, if names are any indicator, one of them builds, but the other one actually works. ;)
Which is evidence that copyright hold back innovation.
Okay so take this bug for example. It seems to have to do with the CPU speculatively performing a load before checking that it won't generate a page fault due to user code trying to access kernel memory. Say you get rid of process isolation, etc. How do you protect kernel code from user code? You can't do any sort of static analysis I'm aware of that'll still allow you to run C code (which let's you manufacture pointers from arbitrary integers). And if you insert dynamic checks instead, you're talking about turning each memory access into many (memory accesses that in a modern CPU are hidden by the TLB).
Yea... and the background is so professionally readable. I suppose the arguments are as well, but I cannot read it. My eyes are bleeding.
>will be faster than involving ld.so as well

isn't this only true for the first time a function is used?

once all of the linking is done, the GOT will just contain the address of the function and it's just as if it were linked statically, right?
* Tinfoil hat *

Large music labels prefer revenue/relationships with Apple and Apple music and will use their monopoly to hurt or ruin competitors like Spotify.
What if medium goes out of business?
This is not going to be fun for the real estate market - the biggest risk in buying a house is your visa renewal if you're heading into a lottery every six years. Double the risk if both spouses are on H1-Bs & you need a double income to meet mortgage.

Removing the H4 EAD and forcing H1B lottery on existing tax payers sound like the opposite of Obama's "pen & phone" policy making.

California will take a huge tax hit, which will probably force it to increase SALT (though I hope they take the SALT and rewrite it as a payroll tax directly so that the corporations can pay it directly to the state, skipping individual income & becoming deductible again).

The only mitigating factor to this is if they go in with HR 392 (has more sponsors than the votes needed) and make it apply retroactively.

There were a large number of Indians who were pro-trump[1] during the election, but I'm not sure if their support actually meant anything or not.

[1] - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/us-elections-2016/Hopes-...
It's almost like we need community-level organizations for people to participate in weekly dedicated to helping people become more selfless, humble, and generally more loving humans so that their actions can then be an influence to everyone around them for feedback effect. Fix society at the community level, and higher levels will follow.
When someone else has a bigger stick.

A quip. But also, I think, how things like this work.
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That doesn't make it okay to flaunt the law, Travis.
Not if the CTO said he chose Lotus Notes and Tivoli because they were in Gartner's magic quadrant based on the long gone consultants he hired.

Yes, I know it's a circular argument, but that's how corporate America works.
So much scientifically important data. I hope this is overlap with previous surveys for a comparison. Or that they drop some sensor packs or markers for historical comparison later.
Really? I would love to not have to carry keys, or worry about losing keys. If my phone could unlock my door like I can pay for stuff with it, it would be great.
> But that's this particular blog post. Java can be native, if you compiled all the user code to machine code ahead of time.

Which the method described in this particular blog post is going to support very soon – today you still need to invoke subtratevm or jaotc separately.
In that sense and given the 3D nature of space, a true 2D display would be quite an achievement.