skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was doing some research today on the topic of RSS and stumbled upon his name. I remembered seeing his name before but did not remember who he was. Now seeing this pop up -- what an uncanny amount of coincidence. He seems like an incredible influential person with a story that must not be forgotten.
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Does it matter if it's willful or not? 100s of millions of people's data was exposed due to negligence on the Equifax side. These people aren't Equifax's customers so can't "vote with their dollars".

Having a C-level who knows nothing about the core practices of their domain should be treated as a liability for such an organization.
That it's followed up with: "likewise, 'The Wisdom of the Young: Salvation of a Nation'" is the clincher. Breathless pandering is still pandering, even (especially?) when your group is the one being pandered to.
"Brexit means Brexit", whatever that actually means.
Hot take: It's an unregulated share of the company.

Kucoin collects fees.

Holders of Kucoin "shares" get 15% of the fees paid back in crypto (monthly?). I believe Cryptopia and other exchanges did something similar.
If nothing else, relying on the courts requires funding for lawsuits. Most people don’t have the resources to bring a suit, especially if they can’t show a significant personal loss — and an increasing number of companies require you to waive your ability to sue or join a class action case in their terms of service.

It’s not the only way to address those problems but a regulatory agency doesn’t have any of them.
> EU legislation, which is largely corporatist, not individualist

What does that actually mean?

> now illegal to sell your home made jam in your local charity shop

I googled for this, and the only reference I could find was Mail and Express articles, so I suspect it's not true. The EU fake British news debunking site has this to say:

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/in-a-jam-over-non-existe...
>I'm removing my comments since apparently engaging in a thought experiment makes me an inhuman monster.

You really shouldn't use this cop out. I understand your fear of future employers reading what you've written here but if you have the gall to say that poverty is genetic and we should encourage the poor not to procreate at least have the gall to stand behind it.
"The way Aaron always thought is that programming is magic, right? You can accomplish these things that normal humans can't, by being able to program. So, if you had magical powers, would you use them for good, or to make you mountains of cash?" [0]

I feel this conflict also here on HN. When a point is made why a technology or development is bad because of it's political impact on our society, always there is the response that you gotta have profit. When for so many people profit is more important than what is right, then negativity towards that is not only understandable, but an ethical imperative.

We have powers we never had before. We transform this world, we shift power and open new possibilites. We must not let profit and money steer it, for this is much too important.

The masses meander around, wiping over shining tablets, consuming what gatekeepers let them see, using the magic they have in their hands only in golden jails their platforms force them in. We must never accept that, and fight it every day.

[0] around 24:00 of The Internet's Own Boy - The Story of Aaron Swartz
Seems to me that it’s another part of a fingerprint for a user that can locate them, and possibly place you with others in the vicinity who have ID’d the same audio. Retail outlets have playlists that could be ID’d, possibly with enough granularity to indicate your path through a shopping mall or your dwell time in a particular department.

I know the recognition is done on-device for some percentage of tracks, but it’s been unclear to me what happens to the running tally of times/locations/tracks identified afterward.
They are, however, insufficient for the whole task.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15060146
> The scale of today’s derivatives market is almost too vast to comprehend. It’s measured in trillions of dollars. Traders, aided by the most sophisticated software money can buy, place bets — billions per second — on the future prices of every manner of stuff.

My grandpa can’t comprehend how bitcoin has “created value out of nothing” but really the finiancial world has been doing it for ages.
Yeah, it’s not like these sites have stopped using jquery altogether: my site uses React components but I still write a couple lines of jquery here and there for basic uses.
From the article: "They settled on Supernova HB9, a star that exploded around 4,600BC."

It is possible from observed supernova remnants to have a pretty good estimate of when the star exploded, esp. when it is relatively 'recent', astronomically speaking.
That would be Carmen Ortiz.

Stepped down January of 2017 https://boingboing.net/2017/01/15/carmen-ortiz-the-prosecuto...

Joined Boston law firm, Anderson & Kreiger https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/09/05/former-attor...

The puff piece in the Boston Globe mentions controversy in the humblebragging-est way, "overzealous prosecution, particularly in public corruption cases." Please Ms. Ortiz, what is your biggest weakness? I just work too damn hard to defend the American people from criminals like Aaron Swartz.

No mention of her attempting (and losing) her illegal seizer of the hotel in Tewksbury [0]. No mention of Aaron Swartz.

[0] http://legacy.wbur.org/2012/11/14/tewksbury-motel-owner-figh...
Title should have been "ratios of compounds"
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> You can't find decent, healthy food in the city center (which is affordable and doesn't cost a fortune).

I'd say you can; we're spoiled like that, in that we take for granted that food should cost a fraction of our income. Historically speaking, the income was barely sufficient to cover food. What you're saying is that you can't find cheap sophisticated food and exotic items... yes, that's right, but you never could. We're improving on this, we're not getting worse...

> You can't find reliable housing in the city center too.

It's unclear what you mean by "reliable". For the right price, yes you can, most definitely. "The city center" is by definition a finite resource, so a limited number of people have access to it; if the city is very desirable, some people will always be outpriced (at least, for as long as we have a physical presence/ as long as the "limited number" constraint stays true).

My point is: as the system sophisticated, we did solve a lot of issues (not all, but that's to be expected). Did the bullshit increase? Yes, but so did everything else. And I'd much rather see an increase in bullshit than in, say, war. "Panem et circenses" - you have to keep the people occupied so that they don't become troublemakers. If you can find a reliable way to transform a bullshit occupation into a productive occupation, I'm pretty sure you're going to get extremely rich. This is a hard problem - we're not doing it because we don't know how to do it any better than we currently are, not because we don't want to.
> However the SureFly situation is likely worse than that. Typically the empty weight does not include fuel weight

Empty weight does not typically include usable fuel, but curb weight, which is what is cited here, generally does (though it's not a figure usually, IME, specified for aircraft).
My point was that by now not having experts on staff is knowingly ignoring best practice. They may have been able to get away with it but it’s still negligence which deserves no defense.
Note: I edited the title slightly to get it to fit within HN's 80 char limit while retaining the original's meaning.

This article does a good job of underscoring the need for healthcare reform here in the U.S. I first encountered these stats when we had our first child. Maternal death is also a lot higher here for a variety of reasons[0].

[0] https://www.npr.org/2017/05/12/527806002/focus-on-infants-du...
> That’s only how it works in right-wing propaganda.

No, it's not. That's how it looks to everyone who has ever been on the receiving end of a bureaucratic nightmare. I believe part of the reason the Democrats have done so poorly in the last few years is because middle class America wound up on the wrong side of Obamacare and it woke them up.

> In terms more familiar to HN, your question is like asking why your company needs an IT department when you can hire consultants.

No, it's like your company hiring an whole new, separate IT department, with minimal oversight, every time they hire a new contractor, instead of training up the existing IT team.
Surely Greco-Roman culture was pre "Western". So it's like calling Boudica an Anglo-Saxon.

Better would surely be the "Hellenic astronomer", or just "Alexandrian astronomer" which places things reasonable well in geo-historical context. Would you call pharoahs "Western rulers"?

If you say Western I'd assume it's after the downfall of the Roman Empire.

Worth noting that Hypatia precedes the Qin dynasty by 200 years so there was no "Far East"/China in civilisation terms as such.
Neuralink is certainly on my radar as a company to watch but I thought it was more in an invite only Ph.D heavy theory stage than a hire and build board stage. The idea to use an acoustic radio for transmission in a mostly water media is very clever even if I worry about the safety margins of the power density involved with transmitting that much data.
@kypro It's not 'racially preferenced'. The UK is a member of a club of nations with certain rules, which it seems to be ignorant of - such as the ability to restrict free movement within the rules of FM.

The way the UK treats outside EU migrants is down to the hateful politics of the daily mail et al and has no basis in fact - look at Germany and the Blue Card for a contrasting example.

FWIW, I voted remain (as a Commonwealth citizen, ridiculously, I could vote, but UK citizens in the EU couldn't, despite the referendum affecting them greatly!)
housing today has already recovered. In fact, many homes today are worth more than they were in the peak of the bubble
Can anyone explain why it is not on the front page of HN as well? The post is 3 hours old, has over 500 upvotes and yet still is not to be seen on the front page.
I'm not sure if I agree with the tone of his conclusion - don't worry, that we always evolve defenses. It doesn't matter we evolve defenses. They're always in lock-step with new attack vectors. Which means the only thing that changes is the players. Yesterday it was Zynga and Upworthy, today it's Cambridge Analytica, tomorrow it will be something else. Bad new for individual attackers, yes, but it's also bad news for all of us too - because we don't know and can't predict what the next attack will be and where will it come from.

Basically, the defense can't outpace offense, and we're doomed to forever be pwnd by manipulative people.
Didn't the author of uMatrix stop using it himself in favor of uBlock origin?
The guy on the right was throwing dogs into the air for the archer to shoot, the two suns are actually dog gibs. How shooting dogs with a bow caused them to explode is still a mystery, but the deer was trying to save the last dog by attacking the archer.
Yep! Same for React. It has a much smaller API surface area than Angular (and goes wrong it mysterious ways less often!), so fewer people will be asking questions about it.

From my perspective, it appears that React is still very much in ascendancy.
Please don’t spread conspiracy theories here. Anyone who wants Breitbart propaganda knows where to find it.
Wait, so it's just buying shares in the company Kucoin itself? Which itself is just a bitcoin exchange? By trading on Kucoin you are investing in Kucoin? I don't see how this is anything like buying stocks in real company. It almost sounds like a multi-level marketing scheme.
Reddit's founders have stated that Aaron's story about his history at reddit isn't truthful so it's no surprise they're snubbing him.

Here's a 10 year old thread about various Aaron's claims regarding reddit and Wired.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_co...
Thanks for the tip. Bought an X1 pre-owned yesterday and am planning to try native Mint on it.
>information wants to be free & media calls for an audience

That's a nice bumper sticker, but also a bunch of shit.

So the nudes you take with your wife, demand to be free and an audience? The photos of your children in the tub demand to be free, and an...audience? Reality doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.

"If you are depriving someone of a basic foodstuff, and their only means of procurement and providence is legally labelled as theft, then you are perpetrating an unjust society."

Oh right, so every society that's ever existed. Gotcha. Glad that doesn't happen on whatever planet you live on.
Since we can't continue the older discussion, I'd like to comment here on the new thread.

I'm discouraged by the topmost thread. In every case of (anecdotal?) experiments, the researcher was attempting repeatability with the same group of dolphins. I'd like to suggest that, given the 'negative' results and the predictions of dolphin keepers, repeatability should be attempted with a different group of dolphins.
> Earlier in this thread you said "this complexity only yields at best marginal increases in the extent to which these languages aid software verification. Effort would be better spent trying to figure out how much verification you can wrangle out of relatively simple type systems like ML's"

Substructural types are a much, much, simpler addition to a type system than rank-N types, rest assured. For instance, substructural types don't impede global type inference. In fact, adding substructural types to HM require minimal changes to how the type checker works. Read ATTaPL, chapter 1!

> The Scala type system can implement Turing-complete computation, you can do arithmetic with type-level numbers, so I don't see that the array design would needs to anticipate anything?

By itself, a Turing-complete type system does not give you the ability to enforce arbitrary program properties. It only guarantees that you can wait arbitrarily long for the type checker to complete. Kind of impressive, but not useful.

> Um, I do say this. In a language that has first-class functions[sic] etc. I don't need any language-level support for sum types (e.g. pattern matching); Either#fold covers all the same use case. Language support is a nice syntactic convenience but nothing more than that AFAICS.

Encoding data as particular higher-order procedures only works in an effect-free language. (Nontermination counts as an effect!) Mmm, like Scala:

trait ChurchBool {
def pick[A](x: A, y: A): A
}

object ChurchTrue extends ChurchBool {
def pick[A](x: A, y: A) = x
}

object ChurchFalse extends ChurchBool {
def pick[A](x: A, y: A) = y
}

object ChurchWTF extends ChurchBool {
def pick[A](x: A, y: A) = pick(x, y)
}

Sorry, did you say anything?

> I don't see any qualitative difference between having the (outside array of unknown size -> array typed as being of a given size) function be part of the system versus implemented by me.

Here is an important qualitative difference: A runtime check that checks something that is statically knowable introduces an unreachable control flow path.

> I don't prove everything, but I feel like I could

Whereas I actually prove everything, and in the process have found a practical boundary between what (IMO) is reasonable to prove with types, and what I'd rather prove using other technology.
Thanks, added to my trading list. There is also a movie apparently with large Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Just as Futurama predicted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSDb-oI808
Not to rain on your parade, but the last "European" war almost bankrupted the UK. And back then European countries didn't have nukes while the UK still had an empire.

I know you're being sarcastic :)
>That is the choice made by the company you're doing business with, not the CRA. It's up to them whether or not they feel the need to use CRA info.

This is true, but the CRA is the beneficiary of this behavior and I would be surprised if they don't encourage it. But yes, the CRAs are not solely responsible. They just benefit from the widespread practice of making housing availability contingent on credit score.

>So those notices from web sites about cookie tracking, or the Terms of Use from social media companies, aren't enough to warn you about information collection? They can't collect it if you don't visit their (or affiliate) sites.

I don't use social media (aside from here and Reddit). That doesn't stop Facebook et al from placing tracking beacons all around the web and building shadow profiles on people. Regarding the cookie notices, by the time one has been displayed you've already landed on the site that uses them so it's presumably too late to avoid.

I go to great lengths to not be tracked. I generally browse without js enabled, I block ads and third party tracking requests. I do my best to not consent to bring surveiled. But should not these things be opt-in rather than "desperately struggle and still probably fail to opt out"?
Right, jQuery is good and mature, and I can usually find what I need in the documentation. It will never die.

I don't use jQuery by itself these days, of course. I'm using it in combination with mithril.js (not as popular as React, but similar in concept) at the moment.
Yes, because of Atom many developers probably won't be giving money to e.g. Sublime Text or any other commercial alternative.

This is why good tools are only available to enterprise customers, the only ones willing to pay for their tools, just like in other professions.

There is nothing in Atom that I can consider state of the art.
It would be easier to get the board to agree to spend money on security if it was required by law, with serious consequences for non-compliance. Technically, accessibility is required by law, but the law has no teeth.
Dolphins are expensive. I assume it was due to insufficient research funding.
Did you plug "intellectual property theft" into Google before you came to this conclusion?
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And some countries manage to achieve proportional representation while still giving each district their own choice of representative (e.g. Mixed-Member Proportional Representation in Germany and New Zealand).
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Just made me think about a great metric as a developer: understanding how popular each SO page is about your library. Ie. "X is still catching up everyone, it's a very busy page. We have done a good job making Y more obvious, people aren't searching for it anymore."
This intuitively makes sense, but I'd like to see some control data. Has the volume of PHP questions (for example) fluctuated much over time?
Is there an appeal/review process? So the primary issue the have is that their measures, whatever they were, were insufficient to prevent the hack. The definition of "accepted security standards," I think, is debatable in review if the defendant wants to argue that what they had was reasonable. Then they could actually argue their measures vs the Commissioner's ideas on their merits.

Otherwise it reads -- to me, a layman in these things -- like the standard pontification you get out of a prosecutor when they're showing off to the press.
It seems to me that automation is not an issue besides for income inequality, which you can solve without some tax on 'automation' that would likely stifle real productivity increases (also I don't understand how we would tax 'automation'). When their job can be replaced with a pretty simple touchscreen it seems a little silly to keep that job
You're right, Wikipedia says 510 Million. The former figure is Google's quick-info for Europe. Thanks for the correction.
Sorry, I wasn't clear.

It wasn't if the software functioned the way that we wanted (is the business logic correct), so much as did it have the effect on the business that we wanted.

The criteria would have been something a long the lines of:

"By adding this ad banner to this page template we will increase revenue by 5% per page view", or

"By adding this widget to the on boarding page we will reduce drop out by 50%".

If your feature didn't have the business impact it was supposed to, it was pulled. Maybe the widget actually increases drop out? Maybe increasing ads reduced page views?

But it prioritized being to answer those kinds of questions. Very neat.
Looking at the regex tag would suggest this logic doesn't necessarily hold.
Surely they could have used the number of times questions were viewed rather than asked.
The article is by a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins, not a journalist.
Flagged for untrustworthy source.
Yes, and they operate a decent amount of mining farms. However mining comes with a certain risk (eg. Bitcoin could crash) which is eliminated when selling the hardware right away. They can also manufacture hardware a lot faster than they can deploy data centers.
Price is dictated by third parties (the market) in any economy. What OP is referring to is the ability to own or trade the asset without reliance on any third party such as a bank or exchange.
See https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
What If Everyone Got a Monthly Check from the Government?
Make sense. Then, it is because of the complexity we want to use the makefile. The include files is a mess for c/c++ because it poses no restrictions and people do abuse it. In my practice, I never put header files in the makefile. They are either stable or I need deliberately ponder on its design. When necessary, I simply touch the c source to trigger rebuild. So my makefile remain simple and I always need know roughly how my header files are used, which is a necessary responsibility.
South Korea to ban cryptocurrency trading amid fears of tax evasion
Indeed! In fact, after I spent time using react and angular for two separate products, I actually switched back to mostly rolling my own JQuery (usually).

It just works, and takes up much less of my mindshare than trying to learn various frameworks every time I roll a new site (which incidentally is every 3 - 6 months). There is always more support for it (with all the questions being answered), and the API never changes. I actually develop faster, although typically I’m using web frameworks with templating backends - such as Rails (Ruby), Django (Python), Flask (Python), and Revel (Go)
GDB tricks
I doubt that. Thursday afternoon/evening tends to be busiest for business travellers, Friday is more leasure.
They usually accumulate old cryptos or whole-buy them at ridiculously low prices (almost 0). So their biggest expense is actually marketing.
From the article:

"The agencies already comply with the same rigorous data protection standards as banks," said Francis Creighton, President and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association, which represents Equifax as well as Experian and TransUnion.

Well, clearly it's not all that rigorous.
That's right, at current diff (1931e9) you need about 19 S9s (14 TH/s each) to mine a block in a year:

19 × 14e12 × 3600 × 24 × 365 / (2^32 × 1931e9) = 1.01
It's not illegal to 'sell your home made jam in your local charity shop' in many EU countries, so if it is in UK it has either nothing to do with the EU or is a rule misinterpreted by local legislation (which happens quite often).

"EU legislation, which is largely corporatist, not individualist"

sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. But UK also wants to leave the jurisdiction of ECHR which is a very corporatist move.
Simple: don't implement an "open plan" office in the first place. They're horrible in almost every regard. Anybody in a cognitively challenging job (a "knowledge worker") should have a private office, with a door.