skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I don't mind too much. At this point I just want significant punishment for those who allow massive data leaks so there's a reasonable deterrent for other companies. Something needs to happen to make these executives take data security issues seriously.
There's a distinction between the government repressing speech and private businesses refusing to give the speech-maker a platform.

Further, certain kinds of speech have never been considered protected: "fighting words", certain classes of harassment,
fomenting seditious, the famous "fire!" in a crowded theater.

Note, too, it's easy to draw a line around advocating for racial supremacy and genocide without stepping onto the famous slippery slope.

Anyway. "free speech" is not a uniform perfect right that applies maximally in all situations.
From my reading of ToS it also apparently waives your right to be a part of a class action lawsuit against Equifax...
Others on this thread have suggested that storing information that can cause me to incur a liability should require insurance against such a damage. I'm confident that with the right incentives in place, commerce will proceed without getting bogged down.
that's not apples to apples. how much CO2 was naturally emitted in that timeframe? that would be an apples-to-apples comparison.
Do Nazis have a right to running water, electricity, fire department services, access to medical care, and police protection? Yes.

Do Nazis have a right to have their op-eds published in the New York Times? No.

Where does DNS lie on this continuum? It feels pretty infrastructure-y to me. Perhaps there should be a "public option" for DNS.
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Serious question, Who gets the proceeds of an eventual settlement? It appears that Lyft was hurt or Lyft investors and uber was committing essentially fraud. But I feel like these settlements are normally used to line the pockets of the regulatory and persecutory bodies.
Even worse, you agree to arbitration in case of disputes waiving your rights to sue..not sure if even enforceable.

You can check if you're impacted then just not proceed to click "enroll" and be able to check without auto-enrolling and agreeing to their 1yr protection + arbitration agreement.
You never have to make a statement to the police, and this is why it's part of the Miranda warning. There is no per se right to remain silent before a judge.

The fifth amendment allows one to not be whitness against oneself, but that doesn't allow you to ignore the judge.

And if you raise the fifth as a response and the court does not believe it applies, you get to argue why it does before another judge, which is where this man is now.

A forgotten password is not part of the current debate.
We just wanted to make sure domain owners were setting up a guaranteed unique file name which was unlikely to be needed by some other service.

Also, we wanted to minimize the amount of logic needed to start making payments which is why we ask that the HTML file name be a well known hash function and the content be a single email address.

If this content payment protocol gains traction, we would like to use some form of the ACME protocol which Let's Encrypt uses to verify domain ownership.
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I think a fund is a good idea, but how do you verify that the people claiming from the fund are the people who were affected? :)

Keeping my identity/online data safe just seems so hopeless that I don't think about it anymore.
Yes, the TOS does require arbitration (including for actions that occurred before signing the TOS), but it's not clear if it applies to just the child company that is providing the credit monitoring service or if it applies to the actions of the parent company, too.

I am not a lawyer.

https://trustedidpremier.com/static/terms
The regime is going down one way or another. They’ve backed themselves into a corner. While firing off a nuke would be insane, I would struggle to call it irrational.
A few decades ago turnover was much lower and it made more sense for a company to invest in a particular employee. We can debate about whose fault it is that turnover is much higher now and talk about what an individual company can try to do to reduce turnover (be a lot less reluctant to give out big raises for starters) but at the end of the day no individual company can completely negate a nationwide trend.

It simply isn't rational for a company to spend long periods of time on training if it expects that employee to leave not long after he is finally becoming productive.
I'd love to see the $70B number pan out (though $500 per person is less than the damages, I think) -- Equifax is a $17B company, and would presumably stop existing if that happened.

On the other hand, these things always settle out of court, and Equifax certainly won't settle the suit for more than they're worth.

I said it elsewhere, but I think the right response is to opt out of the class, and sue for $1000 in small claims court. If ~15% of the class does this, they are out of business, and lawyers don't get a dime of the $1000.

Also, I'd love to see a new non-profit website that automated the paperwork.
Great! one more thing to avoid leaving the house

/s
Preact https://preactjs.com/ is a good purely MIT licensed drop in replacement for React if licensing is an issue
The fear that most Free Speech absolutists have is that tomorrow it will be: "I mean, not being a socialist|capitalist|religious individual is an option..."

From an Ideals perspective, its a valid and valiant fear, but I don't understand the absolutist position. Legitimate verbal threats are still allowed under absolute free speech, but they obviously produce harm. Should we really allow anyone to threaten the life or livelihood of another human being without repercussion?

Absolutism in the other direction is just as dystopian as well. Follow the exact line of populist opinion or else.

So "Free speech on principal" people, where does it end? What ISN'T "Free Speech" to you?
A personal primary key that's semipublic, and when you do a financial transaction the institution performs know-your-customer identification checks - checking photo ID (with key printed), that sort of thing.

Some even have federated systems where you can later ask the financial institution to hand out a 2FA crypto token that you can use to identify yourself to other institutions over the Internet without ever showing up in person.
IMO, the best outcome would be to put Equifax out of business. I have had my identity stolen and they were complicit in enabling the fraud against me. Once you tell them you're NPI has been compromised, they get incredibly passive aggressive against you and refuse to allow you to manage the situation (i.e. they won't let you unlock your credit to apply for a mortgage).

In short, this breach of public "trust" is only the smoking gun that proves how horrible Equifax is. But, they have a long history of being a parasitic organization that will hopefully die soon.
Those images appear (just going by my perception) to be dominated substantially by a single person, presumably the person with the most extreme score on the scale. The gay male even has the echo of glasses on, which almost certainly can't be common enough in presence and shape to be visible over a lot of images. Anyone offer an explanation?
This is excellent. I'm starting up a coding school and would love something like this.

I think something like this is critical for persons learning how to code that don't have a strong math background.

Of course they'll need to graduate to more formal methods of learning, but this would help them to get an initial context before the more formal study starts.

I don't think this would be an enormous money maker, just because it would have a very niche audience.

But you might consider having it printed and distributed on Amazon and anywhere else you can easily distribute this in formal/printed book format.

If you want to do it anyway, you might as well get some residual income from it.

I could see people paying $30-40 for a book that teaches all of the major algorithms and data structures in this manner.

EDIT: I'd easily pay $30-40 per student of mine for a book like this. This is the hardest part, I think, of making the leap into programming, grasping the abstract concepts behind algorithms and data structures. Statements, expressions, and language syntax are much easier in comparison.

Also, if you did one that covers hashing, encryption, signing, and key exchange algorithms. That could even be a separate book on integrity and security concepts in programming. And I could see that being another $30-40 maybe even $50 buy.
One nit: "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" explicitly states that it is not a comparison of Pascal and C. "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL" was not a "bash" article; it was satire. It didn't advocate use of C, even in satire - it advocated Fortran and assembler.

I think blaming either of those articles is mistaken.
> That definition leaves room for what few would call science: self-publishing. (...) “No other field of science, other than taxonomy, is subject to allowing people to self-publish.”

Actually, the sharing of non-peer-reviewed works (preprints) is fairly common in STEM, and is spreading to other disciplines [0]. The main difference is that they usually on to be peer-reviewed - although not always.

That said, I'm not sure if the solution would be to only allow peer-reviewed work in the taxonomy, as defining what is proper peer review is difficult as well. For example, there are plenty of predatory journals that will arrange a rather symbolic peer review process for you as long as you pay.

But it's an interesting problem, to say the least.

[0] https://cos.io/about/news/six-new-preprint-services-join-gro...
Sigh. You have to deploy the new stuff before getting rid of the old stuff. If everyone had this impatient attitude, instead of taking many years to improve credit card security it wouldn't happen at all.
Again, your response is typical of incumbents in any sector. AirBnb founders weren't hoteliers, Uber founders weren't taxi industry veterans. Everything you know can be learnt from a book, or obtained by hiring someone like you - and there are PLENTY of your kind to hire.

Now, for every successful Uber, there have been 100 failed attempts at the same. Will HelloBloom be the Uber of credit reporting- can't say. But will credit reporting be disrupted by someone like Hello Bloom, definitely.
It is kind of a slippery standard (I think it is reasonable, just hard to draw a precise line in the sand.) I.e somewhere along the continuum of

down-with-fascists-and-that-sort-of-thing .com

ban-all-fascists-from-rhode-island .com

fascists-deserved-to-be-punched .com

lets-attack-all-fascists-in-rhode-island .com

list-of-rhode-island-fascists-to-attack-tonight .com

As it escalates in intent of violence and specificity, it becomes more of an issue for any service provider. And you can imagine imagine replacing "fascists" with different groups might get a stronger response earlier, i.e. "animal hurting medical researchers", "illegal aliens", "zionists", "catholics", and so on. But by the time you get to advocating specific illegal actions against specific people, I think you're pretty certain to get cut off.

I don't know if this is true for the daily stormer, but I think generally troll-right groups are going to keep getting cut off because they are doing targeted online harassment. When there are specific victims and things are clearly being coordinated on a certain site that gives service providers a strong motive to cut them off. Versus if someone is publishing some kind of racist newsletter that is only being seen by other racists no one is really going to know enough about that has a motive to cut them off.
Is there evidence that it has become ineffective?
Good. I hope they get sued into the stone age.

And then, I hope all of the other agencies take note, and start deleting their data.
I think this comment is missing the fact that Equifax will be financially punished as a result, possibly resulting in better systemic security overall.
Those salaries don't look unreasonable to me, but suppose one finds them high - according to this[0] study, NJ has the second best public schools in the nation. This support the theory that higher teacher salaries lead to better outcomes.

[0] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/
> That stuff is EASIER to learn than actual software engineering skills. All you got to do is spend a couple months cramming from the book cracking the code interview.

You have got to be joking right? Not only is the intro-level algorithms class in universities a known-difficult class almost everywhere, MS and PhD students continue to try and discover better algorithms and new data structures.

Sure if you're working on a CRUD web app then it doesn't matter, but if you're working on Postgres, it sure as hell matters.
That’ll be nice for some lawyers. I’d prefer to see severe civil and/or criminal penalties for the senior management folks who allowed this to happen on their watch. Expect many more breaches of this magnitude until C-levels start to feel the consequences of their negligence.
I doubt hard numbers but Backblaze B2 is $0.005/mo so if it was that much that would be $5/mo for the storage 22c/hr for up/downloads. I guess filecoin would be much less as B2 had 24/7 availability etc. So 2-3 $/mo ?
I think you're doing a bit of a dance around the ridiculousness of Shiva's claims. The handful of elements (inbox, outbox, Drafts, Subject, Cc:, Bcc: etc) to which you refer as UX were obviously and intuitively derived from the existing paper office mail systems of the day. These were completely obvious UX targets for any computer system that sought to emulate office mail, and I've seen no evidence that Shiva's EMAIL system influenced the evolution of the system we now know as email in any way.

He's not just self-congratulatory. He blames his lack of recognition on a "deep-state" conspiracy involving the military-industrial complex. And racism [0].

And let's not forget how he publicly disparaged Ray Tomlinson as a liar [1].

0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6lfinq/im_shiva...

1 - https://mobile.twitter.com/va_shiva/status/70667069971333529...
I don't really care where the money goes. I think that having one catastrophic event (huge lawsuits or fines leading to bankruptcy) for a corporate entity because of negligent security measures may lead other board rooms to move security measures up their priority list.
There are words attached to the article below the photo: "She teaches them to post daily on the class Twitter and Instagram accounts she set up."
Click bait title, article is not actually suggesting Kim Jong-Un will instigate nuclear warfare (or would be rational if he chose to do so), even though the title comes across that way.

The article specifically talks about retaliation against military attacks by the US i.e. the article never suggests it would be rational to fire a nuke off as a "first" move, but rather simply fire them before the US does. The title is quite unclear in that regard.
The OP asked if the daily stormer hosted content calling for physical violence and evidence was given. I'm sure plenty of other blogging platforms call for physical violence, whats the point? Are they EasyDNS customers? If they are, you should probably let EasyDNS know. If not, your comment is entirely worthless.
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Are you sure about this? In Canada we've had chip-and-PIN for almost a decade now (2009 I believe?), and almost all merchants have chip-capable POS terminals.

(Yes, really! I don't know what the delay is in the US.)

These terminals still have a mag stripe reader, and our cards have mag stripes as well. But they're just for compatibility: if you try to use the mag stripe of a chip-capable card on a chip-capable terminal, it beeps at your angrily and tells you to use the chip.
> Have you ever written a non-web program though? The default mode for almost all native GUI kits is for developers to define the UI in code.

Surely I have. I do understand that with JSX you get the valid template model, not the raw HTML that will need to be validated and converted into the template model then. That's actually what I meant writing above message - it makes React's life easier.
premium mediocre has the aspiration for money, but none of the money.
Bourgeoisie had the aspiration for taste and finer disposition, but they actually have the money.

The money is the difference, Premium Mediocre have none.
Of course it would. But their argument is that he might end up in a position where it may seem to him that there is no alternative if he wants to secure his own survival.

Consider Iraq. Hussein apparently believed the West would eventually believe him when he said he had no weapons of mass destruction. Instead he was killed.

Why would any future dictator facing escalation from the west play along? Playing along now has a proven risk of getting you killed.

The argument then is that to someone like Kim Jong-Un it may feel like the only alternative is to be so unhinged and so willing to escalate that the price of taking him out is too great for anyone to want to take it.

Of course it's a tricky line - overplay your hand and you seem so unhinged that nobody can afford to let you live.
I mean, it should give you pause. That's how civil society functions. You should care how your behavior affects other people, and you should be able to respond to immoral behavior without restricting yourself to a rigid core set of principles.

The reason the first amendment is so restrained is that the government is too powerful to be trusted with any more power. But people aren't, in fact they're expected to pick up the slack where the government doesn't have authority.

I don't want to live in a world where people feel comfortable doing whatever they want as long as it's legal.
How did you find out if you were affected?
Your favorite apps–now in Outlook on Android
I'm not so sure about that, the data they have just gets resold to some other party when they go bankrupt, possibly many other parties and shit gets worse.
> Secondly, the industry has changed. You need to know more things than you did previously. Even computer science grads aren't necessarily "ready" for the workforce.

Do you? I certainly wasn't "ready" for the workforce after graduating, but that's because I wasn't taught how to use version control software, how to manage a project, how to do proper estimates. I knew how to do Big-O estimates of algorithms, but in practice, this actually comes up rarely. (Although, admittedly, can bite you right in the ass if you don't understand what's going on.)

I don't know what sort of training bootcamps do, but if they offer practical training, it seems like there's a place for them.

Or do we want plumbers to take advanced hydrodynamics courses, rather than apprenticing?

On the other hand, if they're just teaching people to pump out code, then yeah, that's fairly useless.
I'm curious as to wether any lawyers here can chime in on how well this TOS would hold up in court. I know when I went to check I was never shown the TOS or even a checkbox that needed to be checked to confirm that I agreed to the ToS with a link to them. It feels like the ToS are what comes with the ID protection service and were meant to apply only to lawsuits that might arise from using the ID protection service, but IANAL.
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The bootcamp is followed by years of hands on experience at an actual job. Which, hopefully, has good opportunities learning and mentorship within it's own ecosystem.

(Meanwhile, there are a handful of Stanfords cranking out what are supposed to be the Navy seals, and not meeting demand...)
One obscure issue that ends with the comment "It's slow but I don't think it's the crippling bug I first thought it was." hardly supports a claim that " Angular4 suffers from the same slow down/performance problems as Angular 1.x."
> they won't let you unlock your credit to apply for a mortgage

So how do you recover from something like that? Are you basically prevented from using credit for the rest of your life?
White chocolate doesn't deserve a seat at the table.

Joking, but not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_chocolate
Awesome idea, I'd totally pay for this!

I think the best way to pitch this is to seasoned programmers, who want a "fun little break from coding" or a conversational item in their cube, etc. If you can also add in coloring for some standard interview questions (coding or otherwise, e.g. tree for missionaries and cannibals or the dripping two eggs problems) it would be a great fun way to study for interviews.
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Equifax terms of service may include binding arbitration clause
Simply referring to it as the 'sizeof operator' would be preferable. Otherwise ignoring the ability to drop the parentheses seems fine though.

That way the author presents a simple, useful conceptual model and hints that it's actually a little more complicated than they described. Seems like a good trade-off, as there's lots of stuff to learn, and sizeof's hidden weirdness is unlikely to bite any students. When writing code, there's basically no drawbacks to just following the simpler rule of always using parentheses and it makes expressions a little easier to follow [1].

[1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/11/103
Multiple class-action lawsuits filed in wake of Equifax breach
Thanks for positive words.

This couldn't have been done on codepen for two reasons, one is that I use service workers for offline capability (try disabling wi-fi) and service workers have strict requirements of domain (cross-origin policy)/host. And second is just professionalism, I think it shows visiters that I'm serious and careful about my stuff.
Modal editing does make macros far easier to work with...
> they were there for more than a while, they were there from the 700s to late 1400s, so more than half a millennia :)

Compare the period during which regions of Spain have been ruled by Latin speakers ;)
45k still landed her in prison though
A buddy of mine sent me this reddit thread, I'm reading through it still and don't have much finance/credit knowledge, but it seems legit and unbiased to me so far:

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6yv4gb/off...

Would be interested in hearing other opinions on what's being said there, especially regarding using the www.equifaxsecurity2017.com site and legal rights.
> If that wasn't your point

It wasn't; it is perfectly possible and normal to use C as one would any other programming language, i.e. without knowing much about the computer architecture. Even the pointers, often seen as something low-level, aren't really: the rules of their behavior and use are very simple, and they are easy to describe at a high level.

C is special in that, as I said, it has been, and remains, a very important programming language in its ubiquity and sheer power.
How can they justify that? This is 2017. It is stupid easy for them to send out reminders, once a day if need be.

At what point do we finally tell abusive companies like this that they're no longer allowed to be a company?
He is a child rapist and a bent cop who is in jail potentially forever so all in all a fantastic result well done everyone. I know some people around here care more about free speech for Nazis and rights for pedos but I hope some regular prisoner knifes him in the showers.