skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I misspoke a bit there. What I was trying to point out was that

> If you choose to enroll, that is when you waive your right to join any class action lawsuit.

Isn't true. Just by using the site to check, you're waiving your right to participate in a lawsuit, as expressed in the site's Terms of Use linked at the bottom:

http://www.equifax.com/terms/

> THIS PRODUCT AGREEMENT AND TERMS OF USE ("AGREEMENT") CONTAINS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UPON WHICH YOU MAY PURCHASE AND USE OUR PRODUCTS THROUGH THE WWW.EQUIFAX.COM, WWW.IDENTITYPROTECTION.COM AND WWW.IDPROTECTION.COM WEBSITES AND ALL OTHER WEBSITES OWNED AND OPERATED BY EQUIFAX AND ITS AFFILIATES ("SITE").

> No Class or Representative Arbitrations. The arbitration will be conducted as an individual arbitration. Neither You nor We consent or agree to any arbitration on a class or representative basis, and the arbitrator shall have no authority to proceed with arbitration on a class or representative basis.

Further detail from an actual lawyer in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15203185
A month before this vulnerability was discovered by these specific security researchers.
If there were something better than Unix we would replace Unix with that something and keep the name. But yes, that was the joke, and no, it was not a very good one.
I've looked into this and I see many banks experimenting but nobody seems to actually use it commercially. Did I miss something?
Lifelong Ontarian. I always thought our logic of having a provincially run liquor store was limited in practice. Like, why aren't LCBO stores open 24 hours? Generally, most are open from 10 am to 9 pm. Making them 24 hours could nearly double their workforce.

I've been watching closely the way government will carry this out, and its unfortunate they aren't choosing to franchise dispensary permits out to small business. But I suppose Ontario's government would botch that, too. Hell, they're attempting to roll out the opportunity to purchase beer and wine (woo!) at grocery stores — but so far, only the franchise chains are able.

Finally, Liquor in Ontario is dumb expensive. I expect them to milk the price of marijuana for all its worth when this finally comes out.
Here's the thing, though. If you refer to an "initial round" of legislation, you're probably assuming another round isn't far away.

You have a real-life experiment with which to compare, in the LCBO, to see that progress will extremely slow, and limited. How long did it take to get beer into grocery stores (and even then with some restrictions)? That's beer. How long will it take with weed?
Yeah pretty much. Menu consultants always try to apply some sort of arcane knowledge they think restaurant people don't have, that's the only way they justify their fee.
One aspect no one seems to mention is just how absolutely terrible the selection is at the LCBO. They want consistency at every location, so if you're looking for small-batch or a wine that isn't grossly mass-produced, you have no choice at all. It basically means that unless you have a small producer locally, you only have access to huge corporate producers. It is hugely boring compared to the scene I see in most of the US.

Personally, I make a point of maxing out my alcohol import limits every time I come back.
Is it? I believe it can be done in like a line or two of bash.
Is it even possible to use this for a private business? The title literally says that it is "to simplify access to public services"
Yep. Another reason to disallow private prisons.
> It's probably more difficult to coerce a private company into hacking its users, than it is for the NSA/FBI/IRS/Whatever to hack it's own system.

This is a fantasy. I'm shocked to find people parroting this argument mere years after Snowden.
No, I did not. As the quote you've excerpted clearly illustrates I noted a correlation only.

You've made a mistake.
Texas also has no state income tax, though. And property taxes are based on the value of the home, so lower values means lower property taxes.
Credit card number is the last thing you should be worried about.
It's definitely a trend forming in the part of my city and it feels centered around gentrification.

The part of the city outside downtown is generally poor and has serious crime problems. But downtown, older properties are being converted into nearly unrecognizable modern high-end apartments priced out of the range of (most) locals and have reached a pricing ceiling so high they can get away with 50% occupancy and simply compete on amenities for the people who don't care about how much they cost. To top it off the city is practically giving away the properties to the developers to try drive growth.

I care about the price but there's a state fund I jokingly refer to as the "Gentrifcation Fund" (I forget the real name) that will pay a part of your rent in certain properties if your income is under a certain amount.

The problem is unlike most assisted housing the limit is based on making more than most people, not less. It's defined as 150% of the local median income. Combine the income limit based on people making 2.5x the median income with the high rent, and you essentially have a fund that's paying well off people (poorer people can't afford the apartments even with the subsidy) to live in expensive apartments, feeding the gentrification of the area. I'm conflicted because it allows me to live in a very nice apartment, but I know that money could be better spent elsewhere.

It's funny because I see it as "trickle down economics" in action. For example, while I might be able to afford the apartment otherwise, the fund frees up would could be disposable income for me. The hope is probably I'd spend that money in the local economy.

Except instead what it does is give me more money to save, I sure don't feel any urge to go and waste it on expensive overpriced Downtown restaurants every night.
I live in Oakland. Oakland is composed dozens of distinct areas, with wildly varying crime rates. Adjectives like OK and sketchy don't begin to describe its complexity.

If crime is your major fear there are several places with crime rates that are low. Conversely there are areas with very high crime rates.

If you don't know which is which, ask a local whom you trust for advice and maybe a tour. It's an incredible place to live but one that will challenge any simplistic description.
I sure hope it will be restricted to public services... I was reacting to other comments on HN
Look, it's not inconceivable that competent prosecution could prove that every murderer wasn't acting in self-defense, either. What's conceivable has little bearing on courtroom procedure.

What matters for procedure is, what's reasonable. It's reasonable that someone who claims they killed in self-defense would have to present evidence that they felt they were in serious danger. It's reasonable that someone who claims they were not sane at the time they committed a robbery, should have to explain with evidence the causes and circumstances of their insanity that distinguish their mental state from other mental states that we'd treat normally, like that of simply being greedy. These are routine situations where the burden of proof is on the defendant to mount the corresponding "affirmative defense." They arise because of a more fundamental principle that if you did fail to obey the law, but you want to argue that it's OK that you failed to do so, then you should be able to tell the court why you failed to do so, so that we can indeed evaluate whether it's OK.

The only difference here is that insanity, self-defense, entrapment and the like -- traditional affirmative defenses -- are self-evidently very exceptional circumstances. Forgetting is, by comparison, quite routine. Therefore the courts are actually incredibly lenient, putting only a weak burden of production on you so that the question of "why can't you?" is answered up-front, and then this reason will be evaluated under the assumption that you're innocent until proven guilty.
Well parent comment was complaining that it would be more work for the end user. I was just noting it would be less work to include that convenience in the tool itself than trying to make the algorithm parallel for less benefit.
Confused. Some sources are reporting this was a zero-day vulnerability only recently discovered.

I'm as emotionally upset as anyone else, but if in fact this was a zero-day, I also lose the basic lack of security practices argument.

https://qz.com/1073221/the-hackers-who-broke-into-equifax-ex...
The code is the contract! /s
If it was not a zero-day, it means the attack was preventable, which points away from a world where a hundred million people's private information is unavoidably vulnerable.

In either case, it's a very small amount of evidence anyway, but in that respect at least, hoping it wasn't a zero-day makes sense.
Don't you think it's easier for the government to hack its own code than someone else's ?
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Nice viewpoint, but still - why couldn't they engage some artists to do some really beautiful stuff with this setup instead of nonstop-plastering their default imagery onto it.

It's a missed opportunity to show off even bigger dick in that regard.
A perfect application for blockchain.
"If you want our business, charge us less."
FYI:

The USA isn't a monolith. Walking into a 7-11 and seeing alcohol and cigarettes everywhere is dependent upon the state you are in.

In Colorado, the only alcohol that can be purchased outside of a regulated liquor store is "Mormon" beer. This is beer whose alcohol content is less than 4%.

In Virginia, liquor can only be purchased at stores run by the state government. Same goes for North Carolina and several other states.

My experience with private liquor stores vs. the state run ones has been that the private ones were better stocked, had significantly better variety, and lower prices. However, that can vary depending on the state.
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Yes, that is what he means. You can see a combined order book for most of the large exchanges here:

http://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/books/USD

For example, by looking at this chart one can calculate that if one sold 10,000 Bitcoins right now with simultaneous market orders across all exchanges, one would receive north of $40M and the price would drop to $4,000.
Luck is part of it, but not all.

I know people who bought homes at similar times who have refinanced every 3 years and now owe way more than they started with. They don't care about debt. They continue to spend more than they make, year after year, live pay check to pay check despite their high salaries...
I get that the point is to be an introduction to the libraries and whatnot, but was I the only one who immediately thought of just using Counter?

from collections import Counter
import re

[word for word, count in Counter(re.findall('\w*', text.lower())).items() if count == 1]
Why is that chunk of Wyoming so expensive?
Yea they are more affordable, but the jobs went overseas for most of us.

I've gotten so desperate, I was thinking about the whole living off the grid thing. A step above Homelessness?

The property taxes nixed that pretty quick, along with all the other restrictions and fees one needs to pay just to live with respect. We have people in jail for fishing without a licence. Crazy?

All this wouldn't bother me if America had a viable safety net.

We decided Globalism was fine. (Allowing China to live like we use too, and build up their defence. I just don't know?) We are now allowing technology to eliminate jobs.

We are going to have a group of wealthy people who live like kings, and the rest of us will be the beggars. In my world, we are already there.

The other night I saw something about the countries with the highest taxes, or countries that taxed their wealthiest citizens the most. I believe France, Switzerland, and Germany were near the front. Just happened to be the three countries I admire.

Don't get me wrong, I love America's system of checks, and balances, but this is not the best country for guys like myself anymore.

Sorry about going on, just in the gutter today. Don't feel well. Plus, I'm detoxing from a prescribed drug I was on for 10 years because my physician got cold feet.

(If any doctor prescribes an addictive medication--think twice before taking it. They change their minds for the wrong reasons, and they will drag you in for mandatory office visits. Visits that have no real purpose.)
Hey HN - I'm the creator of Idyll, it is really cool to see it here! To respond to the other comment - I did post it a few months ago but it didn't get much traction then.

Happy to answer any questions about the project, or why you would want to use something like this.
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The real opportunity cost is not living somewhere else. Run the math and SF is best avoided.
It's 16/3 bytes per cycle.

The newer SIMD stuff seems to be factoring it out into bytewise compare and CLZ on a mask.
Even with an 0-day, why was consumer data not encrypted at rest with segmentation for access?

If you have the most sensitive information for millions of people, maybe don't only worry about perimeter defense?
> points away from a world where a hundred million people's private information is unavoidably vulnerable

Regardless of this specific situation, we already live in this world. We all just need to get used to it.
> That shade is a reference to the Equifax execs who sold around $1.8 mil in company stock after Equifax discovered the breach — but before it alerted the public.

According to CNBC, this is false information. The insiders who sold claimed to be unaware of the breach at the time of the sale and also the sale was scheduled beforehand.
The public can also sell a BerkShare to the bank for $0.95. I don’t see how the bank makes a profit from this, other than using it as a way to acquire customers. (EDIT: Or some interest on the float, I guess)
Rooftop solar is vastly cheaper than 0.29$/kwh. Assuming you own your home it's a massive savings.
I like the concept!
Small suggestion: you should hide the emails of the owners and use a contact form.
Yep. This is what's so depressing about the cannabis stores in Ontario being state run. I LOVE the fact that depending on the store in Colorado I'm in, there will be completely different strains from different producers present. They are all subject to strict and rigorous testing mandated by Colorado's government, so you get the best of both worlds.

The real shame is that this is going to encourage a few large, well-connected producers to seize the market. As in all things regulated, the people who stand to benefit the most from influencing the agency in charge of Ontario's cannabis will be these same producers. I hope I'm wrong.
I work with Big Data, and some buddies were working with WalMart on their secret facial recognition software for all their stores. They told my buddies that it was to catch shoplifters, but the news stories about WalMart at the time were about Union-busting -- since WalMart preemptively fires anybody they see talking to other employees who might be involved with union organizing. Basically, the software will search the entire internet to find all associated information on everybody in their stores. Obviously, they are trying to keep the entire project secret (as well as all their hidden cameras throughout all their stores and properties.)
There's definitely a political platform here. Economic models claiming suburbs are beyond bankrupt and destined for failure. [1]

Apparently my property taxes can't even cover the cost of pavement and water mains, and yet we just built a new school, and are in the process of planning a $20 million library.

[1] - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
I always wonder why it is an unknown fact for many that in Texas houses are still very affordable, even in metropolitan areas. I follow the market there closely, and you can get quality homes for the cheap. Is it that the high property taxes work their magic in that they hold the upfront purchase price low? It would have pros and cons - while keeping your house when retired gets more difficult, buying one when still young gets a lot easier.
They had olives, bread, cheese, mushrooms, and sausage, though. Imagine being stuck in a dystopian Italy where they were one ingredient away from being able to make pizza.
Do you know if there's any way to "notice" these new accounts without having to freeze your credit or otherwise mess with the normal process for getting new credit? I just want a notification, nothing else.
Wait, but this is for accessing data that the government already has about you. So while sure they could impersonate you, the NSA/FBI/whomever could also just access the government database that stores the information.

The only way to fix this is with something like per-user encryption of data, in which case a master password wouldn't help, although I'm not quite sure how you'd implement oauth and have an encryption password. Maybe the oauth system uses your password to decrypt a personal encryption key, and that is then sent to the client services. That way a master password doesn't get access.
If it was not a zero-day, it means the attack was preventable, which points away from a world where a hundred million people's private information is unavoidably vulnerable.

Working in the security industry quickly cures you of this illusion. It is unavoidably vulnerable in most cases. If someone wants to pop your network, they can usually find a way. The most clever code won't prevent someone from strolling in and plugging a raspi onto your network. Nobody notices an inconspicuous black box amid a pile of cables.
Apple slices with cheese. Mmmm.
> I think the property owners of SF are well within their rights to tell people who want to build affordable housing towers to get lost

Technically correct, first amendment and all. But really you are pro-NIMBY?
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I didn't much care for his politics, but he wrote some good stories.
"They do a pretty decent job of it."

Compared to who? You have no frame of reference, because they have no competition. They could do a terrible job, and it wouldn't matter. They're a monopoly. They can do it as good or bad as they want, and you'll still go in and buy it.
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Don't feel diminished by comments like that. From a technical point of view the issues are great, but I think the parent comment was referring to the overall 'jist' of the issues - no SQL injection, RCE or other 'stupid' findings that indicate serious underlying problems with the site. The issues are 'alright', which lies between 'silly' (banner disclosure) and 'everything is fucked' (db access)

Also, more generally, don't take internet comments personally. You know how much effort you put in, and your writing reflects that. You're on BBC news for god's sake, congratulations.

Also 2, amazing writeup. I love your style, it rings a bell. #ezbake ?
Best pay up, Equifax. Even if it is a scam, $2.6m is a drop in the bucket of the total potential damage.

Though suppose this group does have the actual data and does get the ransom. What is to stop them from holding onto it to milk it for all it's worth?
Don't know for sure, but definitely think having some high-quality projects helped out:

+ Notational (https://notational.co/) (https://github.com/tmm/notational)

+ Gifsearch (https://github.com/tmm/gifsearch)

+ Some others on GitHub (https://github.com/tmm)
I prefer places that have only a few items on the menu. I especially like restaurants which only have one menu item, and focus on making that one dish the best it can be. Too many menu options just causes anxiety and analysis paralysis.

If you go to a fancy restaurant like the French Laundry, they only have a prix fixe menu with several courses (usually at least 5). You get what you get (although they usually have substitutions for vegetarians).
Vacation homes for the wealthy, compared to incomes of service workers who provide services for visiting Hooli employees.
I was amazed when I heard that Copenhagen had a government department focused on Quality of Life. And that the bike culture of Denmark was created when they decided that cars were harming their quality of life (it was a 30 year project.) And Finland decided to focus their University on improving life - rather than just generic research. Considering those examples, I would say that cities need to reflect the needs and desires of their citizens - as opposed to the business leaders, the rich, and their politicians.
I find their behaviour overall rather abhorrent and against people in general. Justice should be served, but I hope it goes very poorly for them. Sorta like one might hope something bad happens to Oracle.
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Sorry to hear that, just out of interest which country are you speaking about?
Do other countries have this? It would discourage nuisance suits if this also applied to civil cases.
Never pay ransoms. There is a great book "American Kingpin: The epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the silk road". In it, Ross Ulbricht said every time they paid hackers, they came back increasing the attacks and demands.

"If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. When you give him the milk, he'll probably ask you for a straw. When he's finished, he'll ask you for a napkin."
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but will the ER know what to do with that name?
It's an old craft that died somewhere around the dotcom hype in 2000.

It works with SQL, using language elements like VIEW, PROCEDURE, ROLE and GRANT

SQL Databases can still do it, but people who know how to use it are all retired or work in management now. :-)

Also: no web framework knows how to deal with it.
> although they usually have substitutions for vegetarians

Here in Montreal I only ever got "we'll make you vegetable stir pasta". I mean it's good, just gets a bit repetitive.
They build a lot, and the flat cheap land goes forever..
The market cap of Ripple (and many of the premined coin/token supplies) is very misleading as often %70 or more of the total supply is in the hands of the founders or an anonymous presale/ICO "purchaser"

i.e. Ripple co-founder owns ~9,000,000,000 Ripple units, and is selling them off en mass:

https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-jed-mccaleb-settle-suit-over...
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I was going to ask if anyone knows whether these storms affect the accuracy of GPS systems. Then I found this:

> In calm conditions, single frequency GPS systems can provide position information with an accuracy of a meter or less. During a severe space weather storm, these errors can increase to tens of meters or more. Dual frequency GPS systems can provide position information accurate to a few centimeters. In this case the two different GPS signals are used to better characterize the ionosphere and remove its impact on the position calculation. But when the ionosphere becomes highly disturbed, the GPS receiver cannot lock on the satellite signal and position information becomes inaccurate. [0]

I'm going to try to figure out whether the navigation system on my boat has a dual frequency system or not. I'd hate to be "tens of meters" off when trying to navigate between submerged rocks, and there are lots of submerged rocks around here.

If anyone wants to share anything more about how these events affect the accuracy of GPS systems, I'd love to hear it.

[0] - http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/impacts/space-weather-and-gps-syste...