skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like it's 1992 and a bunch of Luddites are bashing this new thing called the internet because it's unregulated. All the while, failing to realize that the underlying technology has the potential to change the world for the better in a major way.

What happened to the maker spirit of HN, I wonder? I used to think it was the paragon of technological discourse, rather than simply a bunch of white collar workers all cozy with their barely six-figure incomes who think they are the beginning and end of innovation simply because they know how to string API's together and use google.

It makes me think of this community's nearly unanimous stance that code schoolers/bootcampers are bad hires and that a compsci degree is the end all be all when it comes to making a hiring decision. It's obvious that the devs who took a more traditional route feel threatened by the fact that learning to build applications is not as difficult as they think it is. If it was, code schoolers wouldn't be finding jobs in record numbers like they so obviously are.

And sure, ICO's are risky. It is probably not wise to put your life savings into one. So how do we make them less risky? What sorts of netsec lessons learned over the past 30 years can be applied to them to make them less so? How do we bring about the next major technological revolution and insure the future is something to look forward to rather than fear?

This community as a whole needs to climb down from its ivory tower and realize that innovative technology and ideas are what put them there to begin with.

I'm not saying we ought to blindly champion every new idea that pops up, but I do think we could be using our experiences to contribute rather than burying our heads in the sand and pretending that things can't or shouldn't change.
If there were zero supermarkets ten years ago then this analogy might make sense.
He needs to add Detroit to his list. Amazon already has two large warehouses and a small developer office there. The only negative on the list is a less than overwhelming public transport system.

But they've got lots of cheap land, and both an international airport and an international border as well as three world class universities within an hours drive. Not to mention a metro area with a population of 4.5 million.
Except the federal government pumps money into those AAU universities in research grants, therefore they are more prestigious and have better job prospects after you graduate.

The system is stupid. But it won't change. You won't see the public university in Memphis or Baltimore get more money federal money than a school like Stanford.
Consider the possibility that the hackers were agents of a sovereign power, such as one who has been hurt by economic sanctions and has a history of cyber warfare. This state could decide to respond to US economic aggression by using the compromised information of hundreds of millions of Americans to engage in fraudulent activity.

This event is leading me to about how social security numbers can no longer serve the role that they have with
establishing trust in identity, although they can continue to be used to uniquely identify a US citizen. This hack may
push markets, and government, to widely adopt biometrics and other sensitive, personally identifiable information.

What won't happen, unfortunately, is the political will to regulate how uniquely identifiable personal information is managed and stored.

Suppose that rather than Equifax, Facebook were hacked. What kind of intelligence and reports does Facebook have on people that would eclipse that of social security numbers and credit history?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
So, you can't find out if you're information was leaked if you want to join a Class Action lawsuit. But presumably won't be able to join unless you can attest that your information was leaked. Quite the catch-22.
Today’s Kids Could Live Through Machine Superintelligence
https://www.nytimes.com/section/travel
65°N 26°E last night: http://www.taivaanvahti.fi/observations/show/66829

I live at 61°30'N or so and there could have been a great show around these parts as well but of course it had to be completely overcast last night. And will most likely be the next couple of nights as well. Frustrating.
To expand on this from the perspective of a student, I primarily study mathematics but will be pursing a double in math and cs, and I actually enjoy very rigorous (what some people may call dry or intimidating) textbooks in both fields because I am generally quite pedantic. However, that being said, I would love a book like this not necessarily as a main source of the actual information I am learning, but rather as a fun visual aid or activity because I like coloring and actually do it rather often. Further, I think active engagement could provide other kinds of benefits. As the parent comment noted, pictures themselves may not teach you the algorithm in its entirety from scratch, but in interview situations, I can see the possibility of getting tripped up on things that you maybe "kind of" know the answer to, and having vivid diagrams or models in mind that you can jump to (e.g. these pictures) may help with things like recall. I actually find things like this to be immensely helpful in every class, from using mnemonics for memorizing Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji to breaking down complex proofs of math theorems into discrete memorable steps to give me an intuition for why and how things work, etc. I think this could both be a great supplemental tool for certain kinds of students as well as a very fun book to color in! I will certainly buy one if this idea comes to fruition.
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ImageSoup: A Python library designed for quick search and downloading images
There's also the eclipse preceding these events.

Of course there are relationships, I just don't think most of us (scientists or scientifically inclined) know how to see them, since some of the links are not in the 'rational' space.

Shamans still have better answers than scientists to these kinds of questions, but I don't think that most people want to hear the answers.

Either way something extraordinary is taking place, hopefully it will lead to something positive in the end.
Some of my tax dollars go to the city I live in.
It's funny, until recently I thought boot camps were for people who already were working in a field who wanted to sharpen a particular skill in that field.

Right, same with MOOCs. I am a pretty experienced engineer already, I recently took a course on EdX[1]. I wanted to round out my R (mainly a Python guy but there is some cool stuff in the R ecosystem), revise some of the maths from undergrad 20+ years ago, try out a MOOC, and take a peek into an area of computing I'd had no exposure to. I enjoyed it and I got a lot out of it and would recommend it to others. But could I have been a non-programmer, completed that course, and been adequately prepared to begin a career in industry? Absolutely not.

And to be fair that is not how that course is pitched, but there are some that are, that have even less content in them. $200 is a bargain for a working engineer who wants a new skill, or is even just curious. $20000 is a massive scam for a beginner who thinks they can kickstart a career that way.

[1] https://www.edx.org/xseries/data-analysis-life-sciences
There's no network between all the systems.
>>They just heard that computer programming was good money, and they enrolled.

I think this is the biggest possible problem with them. I've known a few people who've gone through it and done well. The different between them and others is that they want to be programmers. The 12 week course didn't teach them everything, but it taught them enough to go and figure out what questions to ask and search for. Those people who are in it for the money are going to burn out, because it takes a lot more dedication than a 12 week course.

When I interview interns for the upcoming summer, I always ask the same question, "Why do you want to do this?" They always get this puzzled look on their face, and then I explain to them that dollar per hour, this is one of the lowest paid fields if they want to be successful. You'll end up working nights and weekends, not because of the company you work for (although maybe), but because a lot of developers want to know more. They go home and think about what they did and how to make it better. People who are strictly in it for the money won't do this, and so many of them won't succeed.
I would definitely not go so far as to say that. I don't have any experience with ng2+, because I was turned off by the initial complexity and monolithic style of the framework (the Front end doesn't need to be that complicated). So I can't comment on its merits.

But, having used both Vue and React, I wouldn't say that either has a clear advantage over the other. They do the same shit in similar ways. For me, it just came down to coding preferences, and the amazing documentation the Vue has. React can fill the same roles equally well.
If it's a local currency this can be considered a local Consumer Price Index. If you peg the local currency to it, the local currency is always available to buy the food, based on the local CPI of necessary goods, regardless of shortages etc. (if the pegging is daily).

I had a similar scheme for local based UBI here: https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/09/the-future-of-money/
> fired over Japan

To put it in context, it was fired into space, over the part of the world where Japan resides. Changes the narrative quite a bit.
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I don't think so, I think it sounds like people abdicating their ethical power to the government. I'd rather live in a world where people are willing to break unjust laws sometimes, and uphold morals that don't exist in law. The government should not dictate our morals and culture.

For example, we have a culture that (rightly) discourages lying, but making lying illegal would be a disaster.
I'd say this is non-enforceable. They're trying to make it impossible to sue them, including withholding the information that would show proof of our standing to sue them in the first place.
This is speculation, but I assume there are fewer employers willing to hire bootcamp grads.
You can save emacs macros in a file as well. No need to rewrite them in emacs lisp.

This feature has existed in Emacs since before GNU Emacs.
When your cabbie/bartender is telling you about ICOs...

That's a line from 1929, when a financier (Bernard Baruch?) made a similar comment, and decided it was time to bail.
Does anyone know if there are insurance policies for this? Something like life insurance where you pay monthly and if you need a defense attorney because you are accused of something you will receive a capped sum of money for that purpose.
At this point I think it's rather safe to assume no SSN is secret.
I almost wish EMV-capable ATM's would stop holding the card captive until the magstrip is abolished, they're one of the best targets for skimmers so only inserting the card partially would help deal with magstripe readers attached to the machine. It's increasingly rare I go to a store that doesn't have the chip reader or NFC enabled, but every ATM I use still insists on eating my card.
"remember that the original question was: ...moved to Java/dotnet/python platforms...Is there a reason to use C++ any more?"

^ Yeah, and I specifically addressed that possibility in my original response to you.

I was just trying to clarify whether you were referring to that comparison, or a comparison of C++ vs all other languages. It was not clear to me which you meant. Perhaps it was just the way I read it at the time.
"Worth more" in the sense that they probably charge more for it, but I doubt it would cost Equifax as much to provide that service as it would if they actually were forced to cough up real money.

They've already built out the infrastructure necessary for the monitoring product. The marginal cost of every additional person they add to it is probably quite low.
Ok, since now you're crossing into personal attack, I've banned this account until we get a commitment from you that you'll follow the site rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You can email hn@ycombinator.com if you want to do that.
I don't see anyone claiming that the government is preventing speech here. Just because it's legal for the company to deny their services, doesn't mean that said company can't be criticized for it.
Yeah, I'm not sure the arbitration language is applicable here anyway. The claims would arise from Experian's failure to secure their data, not from use of the "Products" offered by TrustedID (namely, the website allowing me to check) or the subject matter of the Terms of Use agreement.
Really? I graduated this year from a state school with a degree in CS and we covered a lot of this stuff. Software Engineering was a required junior/senior level course where we had a semester-long group project where we had to self-organize using Agile methods, and we were grade on our user stories and . I took a senior-level elective course on product management, and we covered cloud and warehouse computing in computer architecture class. We also started using git in our very first programming course, where we had to turn in our code using a central repository.

What year did you graduate, out of curiosity?
One scenario would be SSN being massively used by pirates, so companies would stop trusting SSN altogether. Let's hope a startup creates a "proof of identity" service with a photo ID with a chip, a code, and an online certificate for tax purpose.
These all look to read beyond the end of the string, which can cause a crash. Don't they need a scalar handling of <16 byte suffixes, or at least aligning to avoid crossing a page?
Don't forget the Emacs point stack. I very frequently jump between the current and previous point.

You can also manipulate the point stack explicitly though I got out of this habit over the last decade or so.
I am claiming that a significant number of people who would make great teachers probably don't want to be one because pay and quality of life is much greater in other lines of work. If we, as a society, want the best teachers, then we have to make that a viable option for the best people. An uncertain school budget, beaurocratic school administration and myriad legal and funding issues don't make for a good working environment. I haven't heard any parent proudly claim or want their children to become teachers.

of course, maybe I'm wrong about increasing quality of teachers will increase quality education, but I think it's a good place to start.
Rectangle editing does not cover 99% of my use cases for multiple cursors in Sublime Text.
should just shut up and get mine.

Shutting up and getting yours isn't at odds with doing things the "right" way, if you allow for a decade or two of phase shift.

When you are on an airplane, you put on your oxygen mask first, then you assist others.

For about a decade, I despised Bill Gates. Fast forward to today, and he now gives away far, far more money to social causes than I will ever earn in my entire life.
I don't see myself coloring the pages in; primarily as I wouldn't want to use up any resources. Granted, I'm a 30+ PhD student, so I might not be the targeted market. The only things I have of differing colors are dry erase markers.

For a (much) younger audience, I could see the teacher buying this, but in that breath, they are always looking to not spend a lot (or any) money on supplies, so a $30-40 coloring book for something that they could find a free alternative online isn't worthwhile. But, $1-5 per concept might be worthwhile.

I do, however, love the visualization of your coloring of the page. This could work via writing the book in a visualized "worked example" format, which is how I worked through the data structures course I taught over the summer.

In that light, I can see it being very similar to something like Grokking Algorithms [1], which I did buy because I enjoyed the idea of visualizing the algorithms (for my students and my own edification).

Final note if you went that route is be mindful of colorblind customers and look to include something like a pattern difference as well (maybe angle of coloring the block?).

Overall, I love the idea; my research focus in effective means of conveying concepts to students, so I'd love to stay informed as you work through it and might be tempted to use whatever you tricks you provide as additional exercises when I teach again.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Grokking-Algorithms-illustrated-progr...
Rectangle edits are equivalent to a tiny minority of what I use multiple cursors for (and are generally just rare overall), so this doesn't make much sense to me.
Fascinating this is a POV I have not seen before and it reads rather positively. This should be a book in the vain of 'Bobos in Paradise'.
I'm not familiar with the R[x,y,...]^G notation, but I'll assume it refers to the group of polynomials that are invariant under rotation of their inputs. I'm not sure whether the rotations of discretely sampled images really do form a group, since intuitively two 45° rotations lose information compared to a 90° rotation, but maybe you can fix that by assuming the right kind of periodicity.

Even assuming that rotations aren't lossy, I get at best a reduction in the number of parameters by a factor of √(number of variables), by fixing the rotation of a set of variables (representing sample point) so that one of them lies on a specific axis. In other words, this reduces the exponent by 1/2, which is still not small enough to make even second-degree polynomials feasible.

However, that doesn't mean I think symmetry priors like this are useless, so if you can point out further literature on this topic, that would be great! (It might also help me understand how exponentiating a group by another makes sense.)
All of the identities have been stolen. It’s a matter of whether they’re used at this point.
After thinking about the situation I always fall back on the realization that China continues to support them. Imagine if they used nukes to attack the US bases in the region. China steps in to stop them and takes the islands that were formerly US held. It's all a major incident that can be blamed on N.Korea, but China gain territory and less US military presence in the region. Plausible?
There isn't the same demand for European software engineers though. Obviously part of it is the value proposition, but I think a lot of said proposition is about the time just as much as the cost

I didn't want to waste 2-3 years getting an additional degree, and a bootcamp filled in nicely (simply a personal anecdote but it worked fine for me)
Actually, we have lots of ID cards. There's just a distrust of one card for everything controlled by the Federal government. Which is inevitable.
Any data on the outcome? Would be great to know how effective their model is.
It is still the same people teaching the courses probably.
It's small claims we're talking about, the defendant will not have a lawyer, right?
They should be driven out of business. Their #1 commodity, the only reason they exist and they don't spend the time or money to protect it?
The tests for stress/mental health damages are very stringent.
The average American doesn't have their finger on the button of the US's nukes.
I use travelocity. But, I usually already know where I'm going.
SSNs are not even supposed to be used as identifiers in the first place -- that it is being used as the key identifier to determine your creditworthiness is already mind-boggling.
Because being a junior dev isn't very hard. And certainly doesn't require 4 years of education on computer science minutiae
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Interesting anecdote, Thanks for posting.

But, presumably Castro was still playing the game even in 1992 ...at least in his mind. What was he going to say? I was bluffing.. I had to do what The Secretary told me to do.
No, the article lays this out quite sensibly. If NK could reasonably assume that their long-range missiles would continue to pose a threat to the US mainland or military bases after a foreign aggression, then they could and would have to use nuclear weapons against any local aggressors first - their military would not stand much of a chance in a conventional joint attack by SK and the US.

However, they do not (yet) have the ability to safely make this assumption. Their missile launchers and nuclear weapon facilities would be obliterated immediately by the absolute air superiority of any possible aggressor (SK, USA, China, Russia).

I believe that their nuclear weapon program has the simpler goal to prevent limited SK and US aggressions such as aerial bombardments by continually threatening to retaliate against Seoul. This threat is fairly irrational, because it would likely trigger a nuclear response, so they seem to currently follow a "mad dog" strategy.

Not that I would know, though; I'm not a military analyst.
This is my favorite part about the classic game. Many more people have experimented with the old one, though, most of the patterns in that may not have been clear early on either.

Regardless, there is something to be said for the simplicity of the classic rules.
The history of non USD goes back way further than that. Historically, the Federal Government was in charge of the coins but banks issued paper Banknotes which circulated. Then during the Civil War the federal government issued notes with which you could pay tariffs and land taxes. These became popular. It was only a few years later that the Legal Tender laws were passed, making the Greenback the most-accepted banknote in America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback_(1860s_money)#Pre-...

Having said that, most of our money today is credit money in bank networks, like VISA or Paypal. In China it had a meteoric rise with WeChat etc.

My company is working on a platform that will allow ANY community to issue its own currency. And no, I don't think there is any requirement to have it pegged to the dollar.
don't forget libertarians too.
I believe there is still a tax on private bank notes along with some federal regulations that make it extremely unattractive for banks to issue their own currency.

State governments are prohibited by the constitution from issuing their own currency.

Otherwise private entities are free to issue whatever currency they like. Nothing requires it to be pegged to the US dollar as far as I'm aware. You're effectively trading the "full faith and credit" of the US government for some pretty paper. Whether that pretty paper is worth something depends on whether you believe you will be able to purchase things of value with it, or in this case because banks guarantee a fixed exchange rate with the dollar.
Ah, another attempt at monkeysphere bullying.

But really? So do you personally reject the concept of the universal set, or do you just not take yourself seriously?

Do you deny that they're both in the category of "things that happen" ?
Historical reference: For example, there was a pretty big blackout in '89 due to space weather https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html
We've been a few moments away from world destruction a few times. This was of course one of the biggest but so was that one malfunction when the Soviets believed we had launched a nuclear strike and ordered the same but the soldier declined to do so. Turned out it was an error. Many don't realize just how precarious a world is with ICBM technology. If they did I don't think they would hesitate for 1 minute to destroy NK years ago before they were first able to create mid range missles
It turns away more potential customers. The DRM has helped absolutely nothing to protect against copying. The book is already out there on the net as a now "DRM-free" PDF. It's a shame that illegally downloading it is currently the only way to get the format that many customers would be happy to pay for. If I were the author I'd hurry up and quickly put a DRM-free version on a service like Leanpub.