skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have about seven repetitive manual tasks that would be easily accomplished by automation.

I will refine it further and translate with maybe visual snippets. I was thinking of maybe showing it as graphic novel strip because I feel like a lot of times farmer's and engineers speak a diff 'mental' language. But taking a ripper shank to compacted ground illustrated with a 'thwack' inside a serrated thought bubble can explain more than if I explain in English. The knives and rippers and v-shanks we sometimes use as implements is very difficult to explain in words. A lot of times, farmers just tinker together stuff in their shop to suit their particular soil condition or that year's weather challenge.
It's amazing that it worked given that it wasn't intentional. The US was originally envisioned as a system much closer to the EU than the modern day US. Overreaction to the failures of the Articles of Confederation due to an overly weak federal government pushed the pendulum the other way and created a much stronger latent federal government than was intended as it started to slowly exercise the full extent of the letter of the law over the next centuries.
I'm pretty sure the fact THEY potentially lost my data, that won't hold up in court. Many people are rushing to figure out if they included in the breach.
Oh, forgot to mention if you want me to notify you when the book comes out, I put together a simple mailing list at coderscoloringbook.com. Thanks
Yeah, but then they realised they could monetise it by selling your own data back to you with easy, constant, access to it via the web.
The article only says they found a "security risk". I wonder what that is, and how it would allow identity theft if they are actually using public/private keys. Did Estonia secretly backdoor their encryption?
I live in Colorado.

I think they are really blowing it by making the stores government owned.

In Colorado, the stores are privately owned but very, very strictly regulated. Plants are tracked with an RFID all the way to the products derived from them, with a full chain of custody all the way to purchase.

Only adults 21 and up can enter them, with a strict dual-check of identification (once to enter, and again when paying the cashier).

The various shops actually end up being very different from each other in surprising ways. They all adhere to the regulations, but some are much larger and more corporate feeling, with lower prices, while others are boutique, specialize in higher quality product, and priced higher.

The pace with which new products can be introduced is much faster due to potential producers not having to negotiate with a giant bureaucracy to get a product on the shelves.
Nutritional status, brain network organization, and general intelligence
Nope it's been virtualenv for at least 3 years.
Link: https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350532304896
I would not trust our government to implement this safely, efficiently or well.
To add to this, a US government site does not need this, because only the US government site can register a .gov domain.
Forgot to mention! if you want me to notify you when the book comes out, I put together a simple mailing list at coderscoloringbook.com. Thanks
The ability to repaint and punch holes in your walls. Having a lawn and some privacy from the neighbors. Not everyone is nomadic.
To do it correctly/completely is probably as hard as the halting problem. Unless foo.py is stipulated to be a leaf node.

You could come up with a half baked decent try by using the ast module to find foo.py deps and indexing pypi for provided package names. Complexity lies in where package names might intersect, but this is a half baked try after all.
I'm not seeing a reference to the UK, which is probably political tact. It would be tragically funny if this was all leading to "De Gaulle was right, accepting the United Kingdom was a mistake," but I should stop even thinking of the tragically funny things at this point.
Just use virtualenv
I don't understand the paper fully but the general idea seems to be, if an item like an anime don't have enough ratings from users for standard techniques to apply in analyzing it for recommendations, using metadata derived from its poster (e.g. a girl holding a sword) can help.
Well that sounds just as bad...
> I would bet, dollars to donuts, this is just terrible timing optically for the executives.

Difficult to prove, but I too suspect it’s just bad timing.

Note that the three executives sold relatively small portions of stock: 13%, 9%, 4% of their respective personal holdings.
This is extremely difficult for a single person to do without piercing the veil.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
At first i was going to challenge your FB responsible for trump
....but your 800 analogy got me really thinking. All !all! Those i know who voted trump didn't like lima beans. Never order them. Never taste them. Never buy them. Simply hate the taste of them. Hillary is a lima bean. Plus, they dont have FB. But their friends do and so does the tv humans they watch. So even the 800 is really more...

But... Isnt it simply the fact that its the many to many aspect? Today its trump. Tomorrow it can be [someonefamous.al]
Wikipedia contains a lot of political disinformation / "selective" content and should not be used when looking for legal explanation.
As I understand it, this type of scrolling map visualization is something designed and implemented by Esri specifically for arcgis.com. See https://storymaps.arcgis.com/en/ for more examples and details.

It may be that the author of this article on housing developed the analysis, maps, and text but not the actual web UI. That might be something provided by Esri that is common to all of these "story maps".
You don't have to trust them. Its open source

https://github.com/18F/identity-idp
There's a big difference between 15 and 30, and the choice between those comes down to all those other questions. Anyway that number is just a maximum.
From a balloon in almost 40km altitude. Still impressive but nowhere as impressive as I read this headline. I thought this was ground to ground...
Maybe you don't have trust in the people that run the current government, just like a good portion of the American population do.
Indeed, this seems only logical. I honestly have this thought every time I make a large financial decision: Renting a house? Would be much easier to break the lease (Should I ever need to) if my surrogate 'corporation' with few assets were the leasee. Ditto with many medical situations/other large expenses. Plus, much better tax deductions!
What is regulation if not law?
Or having certain pets. I had to buy in Tampa because no one would rent to me and my Great Dane, regardless of amount I was willing to part with as a pet fee (I offered extra insurance and $1000 and was still declined).
I've used it continuously for 6 years.
SWIM used to have access to Equivax data from home. In the early 90s, you could log into Equifax, type in a strangers address, and get their credit history, social, bills, and prior addresses among other things. Access was through tymnet using an <account_id>+<password>. That is it. The account_id was a ~16 digit number. The password was a 1 alpha + 1 alphanumeric. In those days it was security through obscurity, so I presume. Get an account number and after 936, you are in. Given this recent breach has nothing to do with how Equivfax/CBI was run years ago, it does make me cringe a bit.
I don't think it's FOMO, I visit frequently because I want to read interesting things. I'm not trying to catch every thing that might make the top page, rather I'm trying to fill each minute of boredom.

Anytime I'm unsure what to do or waiting on something to download/build/install/whatever, I reflexively hit "ne[Enter]" in my URL bar.
Also, don't forget outbuildings like garages or workrooms for all the maker hobbies.
The H1B's are not going to sacrifice their chance at citizenship nor should they.
Any idea why I get charged $5 when my ride circles the block a few times and never actually comes to pick me up?
Do you want to have pets?

Do you want to redecorate to your own taste?

Can you even find anywhere to rent? Not everywhere has a liquid rental market.

Moving only once every 10 years sounds great. Renting means maybe having to move on notice as short as one month. Back when I was renting I moved about every 3 years, although that was also house-sharing with other young professionals.

Rent is usually more expensive than mortgage payments, and house price appreciation is your only chance to make a leveraged investment that pays roughly 7% annually.

Edit: also, obviously, after 20 years you have no more payments. Frees up a whole lot of cashflow. Would you really want to go into retirement on a fixed income with a variable rent payment?

Note that a "20 year mortgage" just sets the amortisation rate of the payments; you can accelerate it, and usually will end up re-mortgaging every 3-5 years to get better rates.
> instead of once again heavily restricting distribution and sales to another bloated government monopoly.

Yes, yes, yes. Why can't they regulate it like cigarettes?

The argument about keeping it out of the hands of minors is bullshit. It's already illegal to sell tobacco products to people under age in Ontario.

LCBO and the Beer Store are stupid ideas from a bygone era that need to end. Legal monopolies of provincial owned entities should not be permitted.

I'm not saying full privatization is the right answer, because I don't believe the free market solution is always best, but at least allow private competition to a crown corp. LCBO has no motivation to innovate because there is little/no competition.
I recently found the following, and it just blew me away:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
I can say the same thing about the US Dollar, but we still have it.
It isn't underfunded; it's just being asked to deal with too much inane nickle and dime 'crimes'.

I really look forward to when self driving cars eliminate ALL traffic cases.
R3 had an options contract to purchase 5 billion Ripples for $42,500,000 any time until 2019

Ripple doesn't like that the same purchase would give Ripple Inc. $1,000,000,000 at today's exchange rates

Ripple doesn't know how options contracts work. ha ha oh well.

I wonder if there is another side to the story. Otherwise, easy case!
Crass incompetence at securing IT systems is not a criminal offense, no one is going to go to jail for that. But insider dealing is a criminal offense with a potentially heavy jail penalty.
You hit the nail on the head. Real progress can only be made by severely limiting the amount of data being collected.
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Such a mantra may not be true, but it imbues analysts with a sense of skepticism. The analysts are the very people Goldman expects to detect lying management.
I can't wait until the credit verification questions get even harder.

"What check number did you use to pay the 13,753rd dollar of your car loan in 2001?"

"In 2014, you signed up for an American Express Gold card. Which version of Firefox did you use to complete the application?"
Thanks for the valuable comments guys,
Maybe you would earn more and have the opportunity to donate more yourself if he hadn't monopolized the market. We can't know for sure but it's not obvious to me that he's such a Messiah.
Yeah, if this didn't light a fire under some butts, nothing will. Remains to be seen whether it is just lip service, though. Our government doesn't like to prosecute people in the financial sector anymore.
a one person corporation isn't going to work. you'll need multiple people to serve as officers.

that said, the strategy you describe is perhaps workable as a small, close-knit group of reciprocally trustworthy people who leave a sequence of bankrupt corporations in their wake.

it could be a sort of financial lobster: a ring-of-trust which occasionally sheds its corporate shell and then immediately grows a new one.
You don't even have to be that old to remember this time.

I went to a well-known university and they used SSNs as student ID number until roughly 2001-2002. The first half of my university career, my SSN wound up on every Scantron sheet, exam blue book, and term paper I handed in. It was printed on the front of my ID, and even after they recalled old IDs and replaced them with non-SSN cards, the magstripe track data still had your SSN on it because some old dining hall POS system or something like that hadn't been converted.

It was like fish in a barrel for fraudsters, just root around in the trash after finals week and grab people's term papers. I had quite a few friends who discovered that during the time they were attending college, someone had opened a cell phone (or a credit card, in one person's case) in their name.

This was before the days of the free annual credit report law. So these folks never pulled their own files, and only discovered the fraud years after graduation, when they went to apply for a car or home loan and got denied.
Sort of.

If you're a rider or driver with a couple hundred trips, we can be sure that you're legitimate... unless your account has been hacked. Uber accounts are especially valuable to hackers, so we can imagine some percentage of legitimate accounts are making illegitimate ride requests.

If you're a first-time driver, then Uber has done a background check and a vehicle inspection, but there aren't any rider ratings, accelerometer data, etc. yet.

If you're a first-time rider using https://m.uber.com/ to take a ride on a cash-payments enabled product... then there isn't a whole lot of data to go on.

You can read more about what Uber does to prevent fraud at https://eng.uber.com/tag/fraud/

If you have tons of cool thoughts on fraud engineering and are interested in implementing those thoughts on a world-class platform, you can find fraud engineering-related jobs at https://www.uber.com/careers/list/?city=all&country=all&keyw...
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First of all, congrats on your first website. It's difficult to actually launch something. But, why waste your time on something so petty? Why not focus that creative energy on creating something positive in the world? Just a thought..
If they realized it, they shouldn't make the customer do a chargeback to get their money in the situations posted in this thread.
I'm referring to identity politics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics).
pyenv with the virtualenv plugin provides the most sane default setup. what's missing is the buzz and the tutorials that utilize pyenv. pyenv is the best python interpreter management solution for me.
Impressive response to the HealthCare.gov fiasco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F
Some other interesting projects here: https://github.com/18f
You mean on the board of directors, not in the tech department.

Edit: people never seem to like it when I say this. The phrase "the buck stops here" has a meaning.
You can just use virtualenv without activate.
Ground-to-ground is limited by the curvature of the earth(unless you're bouncing things off the atmosphere like with HF radio). Generally even with a repeater on a mountain nearby the best you can expect is ~100mi.
But then what happens if that information becomes inaccurate? (if your credit report shows credit events that aren't yours as a result of a fraud). Doesn't it become a form of defamation?
You can also run queries and find which questions are most upvoted.

http://data.stackexchange.com
From a security standpoint, it seems like there's a problem treating everyone's social security number as if it's some kind of secret key.

Has there been any real discussion about alternatives to the present system? How else could authentication work for opening a bank account?

I imagine that the present system survives (1) because of inertia, and (2) because it doesn't require much infrastructure and so it's relatively cheap.

Maybe the next step is something like putting a chip into driver's licenses and ID cards nationwide?
Here's hoping an insightful judge might interpret this as actually strengthening a claim of libel.

Making you wave your due process rights, in order to "learn" what "they are saying about you". Or, "writing", as it were -- thus the potential for "libel".

IANAL, but it seems perhaps an unreasonable barrier to "setting the record straight". One that they are attempting to force you to enter, simply to learn what they are saying about you.

The credit agencies have gone to a lot of effort, including a lot of lobbying and influencing lawmakers and regulators, to minimize the risk of libel suits. I can only hope that, with continuing over-reach like that in the OP, they are ultimately shooting themselves in the foot, in this regard.
./venv/bin/pip install package

Best part is you can't accidentally install a package in the wrong venv this way.

I hate modal systems...
I personally found that the way pyenv conflated python versions and environments when using this produced confusing behavior around pyenv local settings and other features. At the time I tried it, there was also some opinionated behavior going on regarding shell prompt modification, etc., that caused it not to inform my prompt theming correctly.

Ultimately, I decided I didn't really want pyenv determining how I used virtualenv, I just wanted virtualenv to work well in pyenv.

The opinionated dynamic may have changed since then, but for me the happy medium has been pyenv-virtualenvwrapper. Instead of pyenv trying to take responsibility for my virtualenv behavior, it just takes responsibility for implicitly enabling virtualenv+wrapper on any given python version on first use. That's the right split for me.
If the insider dealing allegations are founded, jail time.
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It might not be magic, but sounds a lot like zc.buildout?

http://docs.buildout.org/en/latest/

Personally, I lean towards small, simple projects that are well-served by virtualenv - but for large, complex projects I think a tool like buildout will remain necessary.
>I think they are really blowing it by making the stores government owned

Considering that you can only buy alcohol through government owned stores, at least it's consistent.
At least they aren't "too big to fail" since there are two other major credit bureaus doing basically the same thing they do.
How can they say I did that check and not the person with my data? Seems counter intuitive.
There's still a _lot_ of trust involved here...
NSA has leaks, that is different, these guys were actually negligent with your and my data, probably underpaid their developers, didn't listen to them, didn't have proper security protocols etc, etc.
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I think they are really blowing it by making the stores government owned.

Why?

The largest chain of BC liquor stores is government-owned and operated. They do a pretty decent job of it.
It's not quite the same trick since this was a fairly standard use of DATA and you control the exact absolute location of the code. There are also no address space protections of any kind.
Equifax had engineers and coders building their hackable site, at the direction of Equifax, within the scope of the law (unless we discover they broke security regulations). Having regulations with suitable punishments gives the company an incentive to build the site securely, and it would have been skin flecks off their back to do it, but their profit motive and lack of legal incentive meant they didn't care to.

If you're really so terrified of the government that you're against security regulations for the website of one of the largest credit card information collectors in America, then you deserved to be hacked too.
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Hey Kris, I'm sorry to hear that you had a bad experience, but it sounds like you were able to get your situation resolved with the support team.

The situation you describe happens pretty rarely--Uber has done over five billion trips in seven years, and typically drivers are fairly intent on finding their rider quickly and delivering a five-star experience.

In the future, perhaps various improvements to the product can mitigate the situation you describe. For example, Uber uses accelerometer data from the driver phone to improve ride safety. https://eng.uber.com/telematics/

If you have any thoughts on further improving the Uber experience, feel free to reach out.
Equifax Chief Security Officer Majored in Music
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-cars-green debunks this myth.

As other comments point out even if the CO2 per kilometer were the same the reduction in urban pollution is a big win.
This thread seems a bit naive to me. The UK & US knew Iraq didn't have WMDs, but wanted to invade anyway. The intelligence that the invasion was based on was risible.

If you look at Bush's approval ratings, you can see the incentive he had to fight his reelection campaign in the context of a military response to 9/11. That was the reason for the invasion.

The West didn't care about the facts of his having WMD or not.

Now, we're paying the price of a capricious attitude to regime change in other countries: nothing that can be said will persuade NK that it isn't in existential danger.
In the 80's it was even worse. A credit bureau was available on telenet (a simple dial up service that allowed terminal connections to services) and there was no password, just an account number. You could query any social security number and see joint account information by simply adding /ty-jp or something similar. This being the 80's, you'd see the needed credentials taped to monitors.
> By the way, we don't have anything like a "social security card". Even kids have this ID card, their parents can (and ought to) request one for each kid.

Nowadays SSNs are generally issued at birth, particularly since the IRS wants one for each dependent listed on the tax return. I believe this has been the case for at least twenty or thirty years; certainly my card dates from when I was born.

> This ID number has nothing in common with your birthday or anything. It is mostly a sequential number.

If it's a sequential number requested near birth that would mean that most people with the same birthday have similar numbers, doesn't it?
Brazenness is already in evidence: Equifax's management thinks offering one measly year of credit monitoring, which will inevitably lead to huge sales of such a service, is an adequate response. What makes you think they are not at least as brazen about their stock positions in Equifax?
Our repos can be a lot to wade through. You can see examples of our specific projects here https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/ (and each project links to the right repos if you want to see the code/docs)

*I work for 18F
> So you just wanted to attack him personally without having any obligation to back up your opinion? Do I understand correctly?

Last time I checked, I posted useful information in this thread and only noted my opinion of Schneiderman after "josefresco" specifically named him in an attempt to divert the conversation. If I wanted to attack him specifically I would have picked a better forum than Hacker News where politically charged discourse is generally frowned upon. And moreover, I owe no one any further explanation of my opinion of Schneiderman; much less you in particular.

Do you understand correctly, now?
This is why data protection laws are needed. Data about a person needs to belong to the person. This would prevent these large collections without consent.
This is my thought too. Bonus: it's like virtualenv for every language/platform.
or get a deck of cards.
Assume that it was and act accordingly.
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You missed a few zeroes in that billion.