skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am skeptical of this claim.

Maybe standard rooftop solar panels lifetime is too short as they are exposed to the elements all the time. But as a general rule? Seems wrong.

Solar panels will generate power for as long as there are cells still alive.

Both are recyclable, but batteries are specially so. Therefore, how can't they beat diesel, which also has to be extracted, processed, transported and finally burned (at low efficiency)?
I have done netpens. Almost always it is as you describe. Sometimes someone has their shit together and it is not.
That's exactly what I did. I also gave myself a ridiculously complex password to further discourage myself from logging in randomly.
And let me guess. Those services give the webservers...the data that they ask for?

Once you've compromised a server, learning how to ask for the data you want is not hard. You have access to all the webserver's code, can make full dumps of communications occurring normally in the app, etc.
I was about to post the same quote. I'm pretty skeptical of this claim until I see real data rather than the estimation of someone who has some skin in the game (he's written a book on diploma mills). It seems to me he could be making scary sounding claims to encourage sales of his book.
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> The stock has been slammed

Equifax's stock hasn't been this low since... oh, last November. Hm. Not really sure I'd call that slammed.
Some developers at my workplace are very resistant to change ("why learn ES6 when ES5 works fine" is a classic line we used to get). Trying to move onto a module based CSS approach (whether thats CSS modules, CSS-in-JS etc), and literally one of them went "but you can handle that with namespaces, why not just do that".

Don't understand why people will willingly do far more work, with more risk, and more prone to error and bugs, than "learn" (using that liberally given how trivial it is to pick up) a modern approach that solves problems for you, so you can get back to making features, rather than dealing with quirks of older approaches.
For someone as big as Amazon, isn't it cheaper to just get an EV cert than spending significant time figuring out whether it's worth it?
I like at least making the attempt to earn the title "engineer".
The linked article is very poor. The photographer didn't win the case, he and Peta settled:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-monkey-selfie-20170...

Secondly, AFAIK, the case never ruled on whether Slater held the copyright to the photo, just whether the monkey could. The lower court said animals can't hold copyright, PETA appealed, then later decided to settle. When the US Copyright Office weighed in on the subject a few years ago they declared that the photo was not eligible for copyright:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/monkeys-selfie-c...

As far as I know, no court has overruled that position.
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Thanks for responding. IME, the types of things you discuss are things "corporate" and executives talk about and sometimes believe, but often are not reality on the ground.

Without evidence, why do you believe it? If you were given that sales pitch about something core to your job, would you buy it at face value? If corporate actually cares, why isn't this issue taken as seriously as other Amazon projects? Wouldn't they be collecting data to evaluate the results? Why is there no regular, quality, anonymous objective survey of the warehouse employees?

For all I know, there is, but there's no evidence of it in the article (the NY Times dropped the ball on it too - and they are supposed to be the skeptical journalists). If not, how do I, the NYT reader and Amazon customer, know if it's not just feel-good stuff that eases hearts and minds not on the factory floor, but in the corporate offices and in the customers' homes.
I don't think so? Germans have less credit cards, but they are still borrow money in the form of overdraft loans on their bank accounts.
Interesting. I wonder if this works with rxvt-unicode.
At some level I think the banks are stuck in a conflict of interest with regard to risk. The reason we need banks and credit agencies is precisely because there is risk. If transacting parties could trust each other without an intermediary we could all just trade directly and all would be fine. So banks are actually disincentivised to create a world where risk is very low. They also don't want it to be very high. They need just enough risk that it is both (a) too big a problem for us to ignore and (b) small enough of a problem that they can solve it (for a fee, of course), but finally (c) still big enough of a problem that they are relatively insulated from competition.

I think it's no coincidence that the current state of affairs sits right at the sweet spot of these intersecting interests. And the problem is that the model requires an element of risk which is quite hard to control. Every now and then it flares up and becomes much bigger than they want. So we have incidents like this where the insecurities inherent in the system get exploited on a massive scale and the risk threatens to cross from profitable to massively unprofitable.
It wouldn't have changed Equifax's situation at all. Everyone would still be just as outraged.

It occurs to me that maybe it might seem like pivoting is a big process that takes months. In reality you can map out an internal network within a few hours. Most people keep the servers at the edge of their network meticulously up to date. Once you're inside, you find way more old software. Not to mention creds just laying around the system in many cases since the devs don't expect anybody to be able to access them.

I feel like the worst offense Equifax could be accused of is not getting regular pentests. A netpen would have caught the outdated Struts issue, and they had money to get monthly tests. But very few of us get regular pentests.
My email capturing workflow
It's still a bit game-y for me. What else do you put in the burgers?
I suspect it will become a priority soon. Somebody is likely to pastebin the data for some cabinet members, Congresspersons, etc. Then the matter will make it to the front of the queue.
> deletion actually removes your data

Keeping in mind that this is Facebook we are talking about, I doubt the data is actually removed.
No you have to use other architectures for defending against that. Equifax sells queries to this data, they also use queries to that data as a trigger to change your credit rating. It seems like you'd want a very tightly audited mechanism for issuing these queries to make sure they are properly billed. Referring to it as a struts issue makes it sound like someone popped a web server, fired up a dub client and started dumping unencrypted tables.

It seems amazing that nothing tripped up some monitoring or something.
I think you're wrong about the uphill battle part. Most users don't bother with new apps at all.

https://www.recode.net/2016/9/16/12933780/average-app-downlo...

Keep in mind this is in the US. People in developing countries, on older and slower devices with limited bandwidth, are even less likely to download new apps.
This article made me giggle. The truth is the real degrees are just as worthless.
So, supply and demand curve is still relevant it seems.
IOS = Closed Source, Therefore only their word there is no backdoor
They actually did tweak the /r/all "heat" algorithm partly to prevent /r/The_Donald from dominating it (because T_D users were gaming the old algorithm by mass-upvoting a firehose of shitposts).
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Those links are to the complaint and the district court's order dismissing the case.

Edit: See above for link to LA Times article reporting that a settlement was reached between PETA and Slater, not that the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion.
> Chromecasts: You can give those to grandmas and they'll just work.

Having tried to train several "grandmas" on streaming media, Roku absolutely trumps chromecast for ease of use. They can understand an on screen interface and a remote. The paradigm shift of using a mobile device or a computer to drive the TV is a pretty big leap. And that is assuming they understand how to use the mobile device itself. That assuming they even have eyes that can see the phone screen, distinguish the very subtle visual elements and the dexterity to tap the little icons.
Write-up by the creators at [1]

[1] https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/09/11/blocksci-a-platform... ]
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I agree, minced is the way to go otherwise it tends to be really stiff, perhaps slow cooking could solve the stiffness problem but I've never tried.

Roo burgers are the easiest solution and can be found at any Aussie supermarket or butcher.
Even just how to behave as a passenger of an emergency is valuable training.
I wonder if the legal concept res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself) could apply here? It's one foundation of tort law.

The argument would be that the very fact that PII security was breached demonstrates defendant's negligent data storage/security practices. If those practices had been adequate, the breach would not have occurred.
I appreciate the thorough response. It did make me stop and think about my assumptions. You present some convincing points,but I still come to the same conclusion because:

1. The sales stop showing after the first load and the values are saved in application storage. Why would they hide them if they are so valuable to the user. My guess is that users would be annoyed to constantly see these values and the users would catch on that they are only "recent" and not "realtime" sales

2. Why are the recent sales randomized in their location on the list. If it is such valuable info, why are they not placed at the top every time. Again, b/c users would ignore them and quickly learn they are not real-time sales.

3. If it so valuable to users, why not present it in a special location such as its own list. Why would useful pricing data be randomly put into the top of the list. Again, users don't really care so much about what recently sold as much unless it affects what is available now.

4. As SH, you have the option to show people recent sales, or how many tickets that are left. But to only show two recent sales and do it in a way that blends with other tickets is a deliberate choice to manipulate the user in a way that does not coincide with their expectation that those tickets shown to them on load where available when the page was loaded.

Basically, this "feature" was a combination of many design decisions and all of them lean toward cues to the user that these items are "real time" sales that just happened since we loaded the page, and away from helping the user realize the true nature of these sales. And of course it is done in a way that benefits stub hub and not the consumer, which is upsetting from a place that presents itself as a "marketplace", since users expect transparency from them (the price you list is the price, what I am told is available is available).
First I thought no way, but turns out minors can hold copyright (https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/17320/can-a-minor-co...). Their rights to sue may be limited in particular states, though, it seems.
You! You didn't pay a small bill 4 years ago because you changed address and a debt collector marked you as naughty. No loan for you! Hahaha! ... Oh, we just leaked all of your information. Ah well, today is a new day, ... dum diddly dum...
Here's hoping they stop donating.
In 2016, after being acquired by private investors, we were given the green light to triple our engineering team as fast as possible. In this article (part 3 of a 5 part series) I focus on all the preparations required before starting to hire.
> I have no interest in using an app that by default broadcasts my transactions to everyone

This is such an astounding deal breaker for me. I'm honestly more than a little surprised it's even legal. It just sounds like one of those things that wouldn't be because of course it's a bad idea and everyone agreed on that like 100 years ago or something.
And it does a poor job in that regard too.

- CSS modules promote more re-use if structured correctly - BEM and the like exist to do the literal opposite, to isolate styles to minimise regression and site wide issues at scale.

- Visual consistency is enforced in CSS usually through variables to make sure spacing, colours etc. are the same, with a default set of global styles. There is literally no difference in a modular approach - you can easily have global styles to theme, and then isolate and import the more specific rules as needed.

This article reads as "I learnt how to do CSS this way so anything new is scary and wrong"
It took me a bit to dig through the fringe cases to find the combination (or maybe an additional combination?) to pull that off.

x = ''

y = '-Infinity'

z = -1

x < y // true: '-Infinity' (y) doesn't get coerced into a number, so '' < 'any string with at least 1 character'

y < z // true: '-Infinity' (y) compares with a number, so it coerces to -Infinity, which is less than -1 (z)

z < x // true: '' (x) is compared with a number, so it coerces to 0, which is greater than -1 (z)

Thank you for the brain exercise!

P.S. - No one ever use crap like this in production code!
> whether you like it or not, the companies are still technically the victims here

Wait, what?!

What does whether I "like it or not" have to do with Equifax's profound negligence?
Exactly. The costs to EFX will likely be <$100M all out, after all the torch-waving and yelling. Equifax net profit in 2016 was $488M.

Longer term, this is actually quite possibly revenue-positive for Equifax - they will trick a non-inconsiderable number of people into signing up for their credit monitoring service, and everyone who wants a credit freeze gets to pay $10 (in Illinois at least). That's $1.45B in potential revenue right there! Once Transunion and Experian see the success of this ploy, they may have strangely poorly secured border networks of their own set up invitingly for the retail hacker...
These fake contracts are the bigger problem.
I would measure temperature directly, rather than continuity or voltage. It's what you really care about.

Duh, of course. That's why they don't let me design things. :-) (Though in my defense, it was an "off the top of my head in 500ms" thought.) Plenty of power available, the only issue would be connectivity, as there's about a 50% chance that any festival we go to won't have a cell signal. Which makes me wonder how hard it would be to rig something that sends an APRS message over amateur radio frequencies when a the alarm has voltage, or something.

Anyhoo, this is drifting way off topic. If I get around to making something, I'll post a Show HN.
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See original comment:

> I'm the author. I was definitely lucky to work for an organization that was flexible.

> Take my story for what it is though: a particular story. Particulars aren't meant to be broadly applicable.
Is it really a choice if it's necessary to participate in our economy? No bank or loan will offer terms that don't involve the use of one of these credit reporting agencies.
Hardly irrelevant. It's the very people who do worry about food, safety, survival for whom app binary size matters the most. Your users live everywhere on Earth that has a network connection, and in some of those places there are millions or more who consider that connection a scarce, valuable resource.
Starting w/ version 60, go to chrome://flags/#show-cert-link, click "Enable", and restart your browser. Ta-da!
If you start shooting a video on a phone, and hand it around from person to person, does whoever was holding the camera own the copyright on all of the frames shot while they were holding it?
For a different perspective, I studied economics at a quarter school with 4 classes on micro and macro that all were expected to take, two intro and two intermediate.
No, they don't, just as most Americans will always pay their credit cards in full. Overdraft loans have terrible APR, as does credit from credit cards.
They probably asked your friends if the picture was you or not; they'd almost certainly be willing to do the verification if told it was to "prevent someone from impersonating you".
I bought a car by check in CA and I'm 99% sure I didn't get a credit check. I did have to prove to the seller that the account from which the check was written had sufficient funds, but that was it.
Sure, but if your econ class was like mine, highly competitive markets received the most examination, discussion, and general attention, while low-competition markets were relegated to a paragraph or perhaps even a footnote. The relative prevalence of the two in the real world suggests a different allocation of attention.
Knowledge based authentication is crap and therefore worthless. I look forward to it being marked to market.
Credit management is big in Germany through SCHUFA and other companies and queried much more liberally. E.g. every time you purchase something online the store will likely check your credit and determine available payment instruments (this is pre-purchase) based on the response.
http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents....
Yes, many times. It is not that hard to not base your entire banking system on a single number anyone can use.
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Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics book was a great introduction, too, though I didn't always agree with some of the politics.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...
The interesting part with all this is that Peta’s argument actually won: The photographer has no rights to the photo, and can not collect any royalties.

Because you don’t have any copyright to photos made with your camera, but only to photos made by you.
She's blaming the software industry and software failure. That's Apache, and Struts.

If she wanted to lay it on Equifax, she might go into the fact that the Chief Information Security Officer at Equifax holds a masters in music,

https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/equifax-chief-security-offic...

The people that actually "do" are Chief Peon of Cube Farms, doing whatever the boss with a music degree tells them is priority.

>You're right in that this seems to be zero-day which are more difficult to defend against

There's no nuance. It is under-reporting the facts to make her hit piece look stronger. It's never the leadership's fault when there's a failure in the US, but they happily take credit when there is success.

>but there are practices

Which don't help at all against a zero-day in a dependency.
Having never had the pleasure of trying kangaroo you make it sound like venison or bison here. VERY lean, so you must eat it rare to medium rare or you wind up over cooking the crap out of it and it winds up like tough shoe leather. Ugh.

I hope one day to make it down there and try some kangaroo steak, or some braized slow cooked kangaroo. I bet it's very healthy red meat, unless its farm raised. What is the natural diet of kangaroo? Grasses? Leaves? I doubt it is grain.
Context: I work on a large CMS powered site

We have a company wide rule of no IDs in styles - we actually lint for them. As a front end team, we can't be certain that there will only ever be one of a component on a page at a time. Sometimes we can be mostly certain, but the content authors can theoretically do anything, and our job is to provide them flexibility whilst keeping the site looking good.

Modular CSS would be a God send for us, would be able to handle a lot of things much cleaner but sadly the current build of the CMS doesn't allow for it.

In small sites, or anything with static content, IDs are more than valid. But it becomes a lot harder when dynamic content, especially dynamic components, come into play.
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I'm not sure how that data changes my points in the GP.

> White men were 38.52% of the civilian noninstitutional population

That's pretty close to the 33% number I gave for the entire population. Also, non-white Americans are imprisoned at much higher rates than white-skinned ones, so that would seem to corroborate my number closely.

> White men were ... 43.14% of the employed work force

I'm not sure how that applies. It may demonstrate the high degree of discrimination against people who aren't white men. Is your point that there some discrimination is further down the pipeline than hiring and promotion of lawyers? That is a certainty.

> 88.6% of lawyers are white

Regarding racial discrimination: About 66% of the U.S. population is white-skinned, and I believe the proportion is lowest among children and therefore higher in the workforce. Given white-skinned people's great advantages in access to education and to the social connections that are so valuable to success (as we know, people tend to hire other people who are like them), the 88.6% isn't a surprise, but it's a serious problem.

Regarding gender discrimination: That number represents all white-skinned people, not just men; it says nothing about gender discrimination. The numbers in my GP comment and another comment quoting the same data are pretty shocking:

> white men represented about 74% of all partners

> over 80% of equity partners are male
It also just takes a wave (due, for example, to terrain movement) to go overboard and it drastically erodes the crest of the dam, starting a chain reaction between erosion of the crest and more water going through.
Out of curiosity, what has Amazon actually "invested" in the community?
Just tell the Chinese it has some sort of medicinal value or is a wild aphrodisiac and your Kangaroo problems will be solved.

Chinese demand for this kind of medicine or sexual stimulation is insatiable as we have seen with Ivory and Rino Horn. The animal may require protection at some point to avoid extinction.

With careful marketing and some convincing it could very well be a billion dollar industry.
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Gamey'ness is usually bad meat. People say the same about Lamb.
It tastes "gamey". That's because you are eating tough old lamb. I bet it's the same for kangaroo.

If it's very lean I would add some fat to it. Pork fat :)

I bet that would make a killer sausage.
And yet California insists on continuing to ban all kangaroo imports into the state.
Why not calculate the unchanging intermediate results in separate functions so that you can pass them as arguments to the final function?
It is effectively not a choice, and they take advantage of that
That really sucks but I've heard points to one of the issues of why we can't have high-speed rail in the US (outside of politics): freight always gets the right-of-way.

I guess in LA we're somewhat lucky that Metro can pretty much do whatever they want.
I feel like it's worth pointing out the the internet was a better place before people started using it for PII.

Credit agencies were about PII before the internet, but internet companies that collect all this PII toxify the internet.
I'm already buying everything I need from Amazon other than food... and since Amazon Fresh I've been buying food once per month, sometimes twice per month, as a Friday morning "no shopping trip for this weekend" move - in fact I spend less than I would have at Harris Teeter based on past experience.

I would have done this with Peapod etc but their website was lacking in 1) choices (Amazon will get you pretty much any food item) and 2) delivery window and 3) unattended delivery