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I have friends who are women / Jewish / black / brown / trans / gay / queer, etc, and because I feel it's somewhat implied, no, I do not have any friends who are nazis, neo-nazis, white nationalists, white supremacists, etc. I do have a co-worker who voted for Trump though.

I think anyone who knows me already knows that I value speech a great deal, and I consider it to be almost certainly the greatest ideal that we have. It is, as almost all my friends have probably heard me say, the one thing America gets more right than anywhere else. I've had a couple of websites utterly ruined by the fact that I refused to impose censorship upon them.

I dearly understand the position that EasyDNS is in, and I'm sorry that they are in it. On the flip side, I'm glad that they decided to announce to the world that their 'Free speech' principles have limits instead of quietly refusing service. That they felt the need to broadcast the limits of their respect for free speech is, to my opinion, a good thing, just not in the way that they might have expected. I'm sure they'll get lots of business out of it. People often like to ally the businesses they deal with to their own moral interests, which is almost certainly why they posted it, and decidedly why I'm turned off by it. If I see another company who respects speech enough that they'd be willing to do business with nazis, then maybe I'm on to something... or maybe not. I dunno. I'd still expect it to be a good DNS service, of course.

I feel where people get mixed up on this is that while I can totally and fully condemn nazis doing nazi violence, I have zero problems allowing nazis to talk about whatever nazis talk about. Sure, it's up to whomever owns the business they have to decide whether or not they wish to do business with any particular person or company or whomever, but I dislike the precedent, because it's not too farfetched for me to imagine Antifa, Black Lives Matter, The NRA, or even the ACLU on the wrong side of that line if and when public opinion ever gets codified into law.
South of Chicago is suuuuper cheap and has lots of available space.
The hell? What training exactly does a Shaman undergo to receive his authentic certificate of Shamanism, and how is this superior to the specialized academic training received by scientists in the fields relevant to this phenomena?
In the US "engineer" among developers is just a word - there are people with one Javascript framework and killer Stack Overflow copy-and-paste skills calling themselves "software engineers".

As I said in a thread about this very topic, I feel that a better title is "software technician" (in the same sense as a automotive technician or a dental technician)
If by "people on Twitter" you include the New York State Attorney General than yes.
Scott's cheap flights send me daily emails about mistake fares or good deals. I've already got a list of places to visit so if there's a match, I pull the trigger.

From there, Airbnb, atlas obscura, and google maps to find green areas nearby
Oh, that makes sense. What do you guys use for passwords?
I know both Nashville and Memphis Tn are making a bid on it. Lots of business moving into Nashville area, and lots of room to expand.
Could be an odd 'public service' for people with the list/similar lists to write a bot that signs EVERYONE in their database up and publishes evidence of doing so, to invalidate their argument that any particular user signed up.
Is it time for a Federal Department of Verifying Whether People Are Who They Say They Are?

Veryifying identity with SSN is broken. The right way is probably more or less how big webapps do it - MFA + a password that the user can reset by providing a bunch of info. The government has the necessary private info to do this in most cases (e.g. DL# plus your income from last year's taxes), and can fall back to "Show up at a police station/DMV/other office and talk to a human" in disputed cases.

I'm sure there are lots of private corporations that would love to be the One True Arbiter of who's who, but none of us would trust them, or want to pay the price. An open source solution (something like Keybase?) seems possible, but not without government backing.
That exceeds the $$ limit for claims is many states.
Isn't Equifax protected from the class action by a few levels of arbitration clauses?
When I entered my info I got a message saying they do not think I'd been affected by the hack. So if you get a different message, its probably safe to assume you're affected.
Exactly. It's hard to measure the value of class actions without knowing how the behavior of companies would change without them. I expect we'll see that natural experiment play out now that arbitration clauses are commonplace.
the fact-checkers say they have no way
of determining whether the “disputed”
tags they’re affixing to “fake news”
articles slow (or perhaps even accelerate)
the stories’ spread.

Gee, why doesn't facebook employ the popular downvote-flag-and-hellban tactics that work perfectly for HN?

Simply marking something as antithetical only attracts your antithesis. As a benevolent dictator, you just have to black hole the things people like, that you don't like.
It is, and is related to some of the discussion in the main Equifax hack threads.

The idea is that this information shouldn't be so sensitive because it isn't really secret in the first place. It also cannot be changed, so it doesn't really meet any reasonable criteria for authenticating information.

To quote the relevant top-level comment I had in mind:

>mikeash 2 hours ago [-]

>If we're lucky, this will be the best leak of personal info ever.
The primacy of the SSN in American society is idiotic. It's a "secret" that you have to hand out to dozens of different organizations. I've long thought that we should phase this out by committing to publish all SSNs (and the associated info, obviously, so it's not just a list of most 9-digit numbers...) which would force all these companies to stop treating it as confidential.
The system is dumb and works poorly, but worked will enough that there was no impetus to fix it. Some people got affected by breaches, and it sucked for them, but it was always a small enough group that most people didn't care.
Now that a majority of people's "secret" info is no longer confidential, maybe they'll realize they can't rely on it anymore.
OK, the odds of this actually coming to pass are not great. But I can hope.
I did indeed. Switched to Chase.

Still, my point is. Equifax has the same conflict of interest as Wells Fargo. It feels scammy to me.
Ask HN: Need Help with Microcode on Motorola/Freescale/NXP MPC5200
We're seeing network errors under heavy load on an implementation of the MPC5200. We've isolated bad behavior in the microcode, but all attempts to get help, either with debugging or with the code itself from NXP have not yielded results.

Any guidance from HN for how to get access to that code, or someone at NXP who can help us, would be awesome.
Same Castro in 2010: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703865004575649...
Article in typical fashion [1] confuses what something currently is (a city) with what it could be if they won the bid.

One only has to look at Orlando Florida and Walt Disney World as an example of what can happen to a region over time.

[1] By a publication looking for page views.
New York has both state and city income tax, it's expensive, and it doesn't need Amazon the way some other areas do. I doubt the NYC government would make it worthwhile.
I'd think the massive calamity known as Atlanta traffic would be more off-putting than "living in the South". I know I'd love to find someplace warmer to live.
Social media platforms like Facebook have more political power in the US than the president, and should be just as accountable for their actions as any political organization must be. I don't think the full extent of how much control social media has over our lives has reached the popular imagination yet.
Roger Kaufman's FORTRAN Coloring Book was published by MIT press in 1978.
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Yeah, I could see this turning into a nightmare scenario where you waive privacy rights and carry a tracking device everywhere so they know you have an alibi. Sort of like how car insurance companies offer those plug in things to monitor your driving habits to lower your premium.
Ask HN: Better HTTP client library for PHP
I'm looking for a good library fro making HTTP requests in PHP. Ideally, something that comes with support for mocking. A quick google brings up some options, but many of them seem outdated or maintained.
This makes no sense.

I think the author actually just wanted to play with and show off the gap-buffer animations but for some reason only came up with this weak excuse to do so.

I do quite like the gap buffer animations.
I agree, but are you willing to pay higher taxes to fund that?
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This would be interesting just for the Amazon vs. Target vs. Best Buy show down.
Meta: Don't be fooled by a target audience saying "I'd buy this!" Get real numbers with pre-orders.
I'm not sure how you come up with $10. Drives regularly last 5+ years. A single 1TB drive at $60 saves me $240 over Backblaze if it lasts 5 years. Throw in the safe, and I still save $180. Two drives and a safe? Still saving $120. I have drives that have gone well beyond 5 years too - so the longer they last, the more you save.

And, what kind of connection do you have that allows you to upload 1TB in 5 minutes? That's spectacular. An ideal gigabit connection is going to take you a good two hours. Even that would be pretty amazing.
I think a lot of CS guys could benefit from a bootcamp. A lot of the guys we hire have almost no practical skills so a few weeks of real development would benefit them enormously.

When I studied mechanical engineering we had to work in a shop for 8 weeks doing a lot of manual stuff, welding and using a lot of machines. You don't learn this stuff in university and it was immensely valuable to me.
You're just assuming that though. You don't have producible evidence of this. It's the conclusion that you want to draw, so anything that might provide your conclusion evidence, you take as evidence.

What I can tell you is that I know many, many bootcamp grads and virtually all of them got good jobs, at good companies and not always junior. I still don't take that as proof of anything and am willing to take evidence to the contrary where it exists though.
Depends how badly China wants this stopped. I have a feeling that China is quite a few times worse than IRS--when they want to. Never underestimate what they can do, when they want to.
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I don’t think that’s a generally accepted legal standard. It seems similar to saying that Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning only released information, which the courts can’t remedy. If anything bad should happen due to that leak, then the courts can remedy that in the case of the people who committed those acts.

The government is clearly of the opinion that they can and should prosecute people for leaking information which could cause possible harms.

I’m clearly not a lawyer, but these scenarios seem pretty similar to my untrained eye.
This probably explains why Uber charged me $2 last time I canceled a ride with them. They need a billing paradigm that prevents them from being taken advantage of by strategies like those that they employ against their competitors.

Nevermind that the ride I canceled was 10+ minutes away, and was canceled immediately upon being booked.

Advantage: Lyft.
I think Philadelphia is a good choice. Center City is a 30 minute drive to Philly international airport. Land is relatively cheap, much cheaper than NYC, Boston, or dc. We have an ivy league school in the city, with another less than an hour away, as well as many other schools in the area. We have a large metro population with a good size technical and business industry already. We also have rail and sea shipping available. and there is also a convenience factor being nearby to NYC and DC both being a hour and a half train ride.
NAT is still ultimately a kludge for security, a stateful firewall is a much better solution and doesn’t interfere with the assumption that an IP address represents a device and not an entire corporate/home network.
Your first point is only sometimes valid as damages do depend on the severity of the injury, just as in any other case. See http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/08/business/fen-phen-maker-to... for a class action suit involving serious injury.
Given Equifax is locking access to whether you're a victim behind an agreement that forfeits civil rights to act on that information, this looks like a textbook unconscionable contract.
Not necessarily:
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NYC has a huge Amazon presence already. They own a huge building across from Empire State Building and have more space elsewhere in Manhattan.
Could try a little bit further up 85
Ask HN: What are your favorite stack overflow posts?
Ahh, if you use an intermediary, that intermediary has to be a broker dealer
> Are they more susceptible to being drawn into these than any other cohort?

There's a weird form of mysticism in the modern economy today. "Follow this secret method to make a million dollars."
Facebook fighting fake news is like Google developing ad blockers. They benefit way too much from fake news to shut them down.
he literally admitted never having dealt with the court system. Fuck you. (There's your personal attack)
How hard is it to sue in small claims court?
This seems like fake news. Maybe created in an attempt to manipulate markets? There's a lot at stake.

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AFAIK, one of our attorneys was involved in 2 with Target, one for $10mil and one for $13mil. We're also involved with Home Depot and other data breach cases. They scope of those breaches is much smaller than this one, by the way.
I'd say multiple cursors are strictly more powerful than rectangular edits, since every rectangle can be outlined using multiple cursors, but they can also cover non-rectangular areas. Macros are of course even more powerful.

What I like about multiple cursors is the immediate feedback, although I have yet to see an implementation that can emulate search-and-replace with capture groups.
It's always seemed odd to me that Experian and Equifax have the upside of being both arbitrarily in charge of so much data and wield ridiculous power, and yet somehow they're still largely independent and profit making.

I'll watch the outcome of this breach with interest. It strikes me that at the very least credit rating agencies should be non-profit and very closely monitored by government. This will include ensuring security best practice is followed.

As others have rightly pointed out, they even have the audacity to call us customers. Like somehow we turned 18 and signed up for their service. I certainly didn't, and it annoys me that a company whom I have no control over can make or break my credit history.
Family court isn't much better:

https://www.divorcecorp.com/the-film/
Perhaps they are uncomfortable because subconsciously they know that they don't deserve their wealth. The discomfort stems from another root emotion... guilt.
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SSN's need firewalls.
Depends on if you care about the semantic difference between Neo-Nazi and Nazi.

Outside of historical discussions: I do not.

> Wouldn't "actual Nazis" be members of the German National Socialist Party?

No more so than to be a libertarian you need to be a member of the Libertarian Party. Or that said National Socialists were socialists.

Post-WW2 the term "Nazi" has been widely recognized to refer to a grouping of people that idolize or share the ideology of the Nazi regime and it's descendant movements.
Fun examples have been old telegraph operators having their lines work without power connected.

As for recent things I didn't even know long range DC still existed.
Yes, what a win it would be to simply transfer ownership of Equifax from one party to another in the event of bankruptcy. The business itself would continue and nothing would change.
I gave you an upvote, but how overwhelmed will our social services become if personal drug use goes unchecked by policing? (orphaned children, neglected or abused children, poverty/welfare of possible increase in drug use)

I'm not saying I agree with the war on drugs, but we may just trade one problem for another
Does anyone know how the hackers got in?
Free speech protections are even more important when the speaker is labelled "extreme" by the powers that be.
I have always wondered why they have tolerated it for so long. My theory was that high ranking party members use bitcoin to move their bribes out of the country.

On the other hand, high ranking officials might have alternative routes.
Who wrote that analysis? I'm aware that the answer is "I don't know" and "likely several people", but that's my point. It's less reliable than a random comment on HN. Wikipedia is good for some things, but an analysis of research on the Japanese legal system isn't one of them (IMHO).
A lot of techies already do.
Satoshi's design for the minting of supply to himself and the few individuals who scooped up the first 6-12 million coins is part of the design, for others to consider regardless.

As mainstream adoption took place, we've now seen large capital holders acquiring BTC in proportion with their current wealth.

The hodlers play a game of chicken prisoners dilemma, and it's worthwhile to consider what beanie baby they've acquired and how the sausage was made.
Considering that Social Security numbers are not secure, and were never intended to be secure, I favor this approach. Unless you’re the federal government, you shouldn’t know or care about my social security number. Idiots are always going to think SSNs are a good UUID, and I’m always in favor of punishing idiots.
Do you have a link to Julia's stuff?
Seems like Denver would be good choice, considering how alike Seattle and Denver are. There's plenty of hiking, biking, camping, etc in the area, and it's central location is convenient for any travel to both the east and west coast.

Denver also has an excellent craft brewery scene. Denver / Boulder are already tech hubs in their own right as well.
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Warmer but more humid. The Deep South is definitely air conditioning country.
pay facebook to mark positive news about your oponent as false news. GG.
>That's because change didn't come from within, it came from external forces in the shape of bombs and weapons that killed millions.

Uh, yeah, that was pretty much my whole point. I was refuting your statment, "change is slow and has to come from within." Major changes in a country are not necessarily slow, and do not have to come from within.
There are a lot. I thought this one was really funny [0]. This one I found very interesting [1].

Somewhat different, is the Hello Internet [2] podcast, which is by Grey and Brady Haran who you might know from the Numberphile youtube channel [3]. It's basically the 2 of them chatting about random stuff, but I find it very entertaining.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc

[2] http://www.hellointernet.fm/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww
In my state that costs $10/bureau, plus another $10 to temporarily unfreeze or permanently unfreeze. The fact that they can leak my information and then charge me to protect myself just seems wrong.
Why not both?

If you support modern nazi talking points, causes, rhetoric, actions, or regularly give them money (via page views, donation, or merch) then you're almost certainly a nazi. Doesn't matter if someone is white, poor, rich, disenfranchised, privileged, whatever.

Note - I am not making a distinction between historical nazism and neo-nazis because we're talking about the present day not WW2. Modern Nazi's are the Daily Stormer and their ilk.
Reminds me of the ludicrous idea of medical savings accounts. Hardly anyone below the top 0.1% could ever hope to "save" enough money and put it away to cover a medical or legal disaster or a really bad accident involving personal injury or destruction of extremely valuable property.

It just isn't a realistic proposition. Insurance with all its flaws exists for good reason.
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If you've ever opened a bank account or a line of credit you signed something to the effect that you agreed to let your institution share your data with these agencies.
>equifaxsecurity2017

It's so phishing-sounding that I want to believe it was chosen after a quick focus group with the "people who are most likely to become fraud victims" demographic.
Started out my career during the dot-com boom in Atlanta. The only reasons I left were proximity to family, and the traffic problem.

Also, the "I'm not quite going to snow, so have some 35-degree rain" or "Hey, how about an ice storm?" winter weather.

Never really had much of a problem finding a gig down there.
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Nested updates are always a problem, not just with Vue. Just avoid messing with attributes below the first level of nesting.
Usually costs money to freeze and unfreeze (might be free or reduced depending on state).