skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the article over dramatizes the issue, but within basically acceptable bounds imo, and they do provide other more reasonable problems that can crop up as a result of conflicting naming schemes.

Also replying with a string of expletives, and "heaps of bloody merit", is so Australian it's practically charming.
Others have already chimed in here, but I honestly can't remember a CGP Grey video that I wasn't thoroughly entertained by, even when I already knew all of the facts presented.

For amusement's sake, I really enjoy his videos on geography, such as (his first video ever) this one on the UK (which I guess might need updating soon?):

https://youtu.be/rNu8XDBSn10

or this one on Scotland:

https://youtu.be/p3HnMLq8m9U

or my favorite geographical video, on the Vatican:

https://youtu.be/OPHRIjI3hXs

That said, they're all pretty great, so I'd just start with this list of all his videos in ascending order:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10&index=1&list=PLq...
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It's the capital of Croatia - a country that's part of EU so you get most of it's privileges, but still far enough that you can still live the slow paced life if you want it.

You can buy a house in the city or on the outskirts but still have the city centre about 30-45 minutes away depending on how far away you move. You can live by the mountainside or close to the lake. Our standard is pretty low so with a tech salary you can live like a king and the tech scene is booming so you can work in all kinds of companies. The night life is pretty good and if the clubs are not for you, there is lot to try in terms of bars and restaurants.

Tired of the city and wanna go to the sea? Take a 1 hr drive and you're at a beautiful beach with crystal clear water. Wanna go to the mountains? Ride for 10 minutes and you've got all the hills you want.

A lot of people here eat homemade, homegrown food and it's nothing special for them. We have our own specialties, but also a clash of turkish, austrian and mediterranean culture so you can eat sausages with olive oil and finish the meal with some baklava.

Lifestyle is usually pretty slow-paced for most and everyone takes everything slow. We drink coffee in the bar for at least two hours and if you go for a beer you ain't coming home soon.

Even tho there is a lot of politics and bickering, life here is generally really great.
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>“Detectable levels of [the plastic] bisphenol A have been found in the urine of 95% of the adult population of the United States.”

This implies to me that the plastic seems to not be biologically available, and passes through unaltered. Unless of course there is a large disparity in bisphenol in vs out. That could be one thing to attempt to find whether or not we are putting ourselves at risk.

I am not a medical expert though.

The thing that makes me most upset about all the noise about microplastics is that, for a lot of them anyway, they were completely unnecessary. They were often added to cleansing products as an exfoliant, completely ignoring the fact that sand is a fairly functional abbrasive, and silica has been used to that effect in toothpaste for quite some time.

And yet people bought into it in droves.
Relevant meme from over three years ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23yy37/how_china_s...

(This is not the first time, nor the second time, nor the third time, that we've seen the news "china bans bitcoin" or "china cracks down on bitcoin".)
Brazil is not much different. And to make matters worse, almost every Brazilian government agency that offers online services do so using their "self" signed certificates. Now imagine how hard it's to educate people not to click on dodgy websites and certificates, when the whole government does exactly the opposite.

I say self signed certificates because it's been 10 years that Brazil nic is trying to get its CA approved.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438825
That can be done easier. You don’t (or at least, you didn’t back in 1984) even have to write a function:

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(example is for Vax-11 or pdp-11, and courtesy of http://www.ioccc.org/1984/mullender/mullender.c)
Agreed there isn't evidence of a trend.

I'm just saying the number who will not is likely larger than the number who state they will not.
Why would people need new SSNs? It was the credit industry that misused them as combination of unique identifier and authenticator, and that is not the SSA's responsibility to fix. The government even tried to curb misuse of the SSN, but it was not binding on private entities, and they just ignored it.

The solution, whatever it is, does not include anyone continuing to pretend that the SSN is now or has ever been suitable for any purposes other than for tracking government benefits managed by the SSA, and possibly also for tax filings with the IRS.
Is it really so hard? Cost of a service like Equifax's own TrustedID or LifeLocks is over $100/year. Seems you could easily argue that you'd have to subscribe to said service for the next decade to guarantee your credit and identity aren't stolen?

(and I would think refusing to accept Equifax's "coupon" for TrustedID would be a similarly easy argument to make)
This will NEVER fly with a court.
> It's not a big exit, but if you are a luxe employee, it's the best of the worst outcomes.

This data wasn't in the article. It is probably the more likely outcome, but we just don't know (yet).
This is kinda cool, but it's also a little concerning. One of the ways our government protects our privacy is specifically by not centralizing information. Just because you pay taxes or have healthcare doesn't mean the police has that info, for example. The efficiency of connecting a large number of governmental agencies to a single account for you is pretty concerning, it puts all the data in one spot that can be extremely tempting to access.
It's a reach to imagine your scenario applies to snakebite emergencies generally. Copperheads are large, distinctive snakes, their nomenclature is stable and in the temperate zones where they live, there are a relatively limited number of other venomous species to distinguish, hence you being so assured of supplying remains for a nurse to casually ID. In contrast, many tropical habitats, where snakebites are much more of a problem, have a much, much higher venomous snake species diversity (particularly of those small, fast elusive ones you barely glimpse), and questions about ID and species relationships are correspondingly more confusing.

It's not so much about always turning up with a scientific name. The whole effort from doctor-patient communication, to animal control, to the production, supply and procurement of specific antivenins, needs to be conducted within as stable and precise nomenclatural framework as possible.

Snakes are just one example here, there are many examples of research programmes being derailed by faulty taxonomy, with big impacts on everything from crop production to theoretical work in ecology.
Don't disagree just some more thoughts.

The risk to the greatest number of people is the increase in interest rates if the lenders do not have the same level of trust in the credit reporting companies.

1% over 30 years is a lot.

Secondly, just taking preventative measures for say 10 years of credit monitoring, from not the company that leaked your data, would cost 15x12x10 $1800.
Countering your hypothetical with another hypothetical:

How would you feel if Twitter decided to ban all people of color from being able to use the platform?

Is that something you're totally cool with, because companies can't possibly affect your rights to free exercise of speech, or is it something you'd prefer they not do?
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Investors would get wiped out and many people canned. The signalling value is massive.
The problem is, US lawyers are ridiculously expensive. I'm not aware of any other country where one court case against you can ruin you financially. So it doesn't matter if you are innocent or guilty, if you are charged, you've already lost.

EDIT: Why not make it a law that when you are found innocent then prosecutor's office should refund whatever it cost you to hire your lawyer?
We are working on it. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Scientists-say-decline...
> Rectangle edits are equivalent to a tiny minority of what I use multiple cursors for

Okay, now THAT is interesting. Can you comment on some of the other uses you have for multiple cursors? Perhaps give some examples?
Organizations at the hazy nexus of the public-private spheres (e.g. public benefits corporations, regional transit authorities, FINRA, health insurance companies) appear to be endlessly prone to "disgusting" fallout like this, no?
Nope. Forced arbitration is perfectly legal. It's what they did under the cover of "OMFG Lawyers are AWWWFUL! Spilled Coffee == Million dollar lawsuits!!! :(" panic. Forced arbitration has been held up by the Supreme Court on more than one occasion. Some fast food chains have clauses that say it applies when you walk through their doors. Bonus: The company that injured you gets to pick the "arbitrator"... which are usually seleced because... they rule in favor of the corporation more.

Fascinating legal history behind it, actually: It was all based on a law from the early 1900s that was meant to apply only to two businesses in contracts with each other, but the Supreme Court allowed the creative interpretation that it could apply between companies and individuals... go figure.
Ok, my point is the country should be allowed to find its own way. Change will be slow, but it has to come from within otherwise were just creating another situation like the Middle East, which has arguably fostered even more terrorism, for decades to come.

Also the countries you mention from WW2 don't really apply in this case as they attacked first, and if NK attacked first I'd expect us to of course reply in force.
That's what the "or" is for in "wasn't spending enough or doing enough." It's evident that they did not do enough to protect the information. Spend is a proxy for action, but ultimately it's the action (or inaction) that matters here. I only see them exonerating themselves to a large degree if they engaged in routine third-party audits of their security and consistently responded to every identified issue.
Yes I don't understand attacking one AG at the defense of one of the three main credit bureaus. One has an oversized market power and the others a government official. One seeks profit and power at a scale few humans ever dream of and the others one of 50 such officials.
Quick! Apply it to 2 minutes of real video footage, so it implements real-life VR game engine!
I'd love a Kindle version.
YES!!!

I was playing Human Resource Machine and implemented a linked list in assembly without even realising it. Once I did, I first felt so smart that I had to brag about it, and I also thought, "that wasn't so scary..."
The court system is absurdly underfunded, but no one is willing to pay more for it. And, unfortunately, too many people have the attitude that if you're arrested you must have done something so you're criminal scum and deserve whatever you get.
Having subscribed to NOAA's alerts a couple years ago, I would say we might get an event like this once a year or two
Virtually all the wealth created in the world is because of unfettered trade. Trying to create an insular economy is just a path to poverty. Are they going to build their own iPhones, Teslas, LCD screens and microprocessors? Obviously not.

When a local consumer decides to pass on buying a local good for a substitute made far away, it's because they believe they benefit economically from doing so.
From that wiki link "Xinjiang - Anhui (China)" line is 1100kV, 10GW power! That's impressive.
Using ARPS when I helped launch a weather balloon while in college, we were recorded by a station in Las Vegas. We launched south of Phoenix so at least 300 miles.

We were transmitting at 3 watt using a small Yaesu hand-held connected to a micro-controller.
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And everyone's hours are treated interchangeably?
a) end the insane drug war

b) get rid of the distinction between 'prosectuor' and 'public defendant' - make state laweyers take sides randomly (With coin flip) and reward them more for wins on defense than prosecution.

c) make private prisons pay the state a refund when any released prisons commits a new crime outside. Watch recidivism drop.
Sort of / not really.

I guess treble damages are not called "punitive" but they're also not "actual".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages
Who said the hypothetical plaintiff was interested in _Equifax's_ credit monitoring services? They've already demonstrated they can't keep data safe.
The heading should be:

iOS 11 may increase privacy at border crossings
CreditKarma doesn't give info to Equifax, it gets info from Equifax.

The credit agencies (of which equifax is one of 3) get their info from credit card companies and other financial institutions. If you've ever signed up for a credit card or gotten a mortgage or car loan the information from that transaction was sent to the credit reporting agencies. That's how they get data to make their determination of how credit worthy you are.
Unfortunately that "moral obligation" doesn't pay for itself, and if you can't afford to fight you're SOL.
Its important to remember that login.gov isn't an account its an Identity Provider. It will allow you to prove to an agency that you are who you say you are, but all the account information will be stored by the agency.
Nope. Check the Supreme Court. Forced Arbitration is the law of the land, like it or not.

Here's some help: http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/333417-supreme-c...
In the 8 bit days, home computers where programmed in Assembly, Basic and Forth.

Anything else required being loaded from tape or floppy, including running CP/M instead of the ROM firmware.

Remarkable systems in these days Spectrum, C64, Tandy, Atari, MSX, Apple.

You can find a few programming books here:

http://atariarchives.org/

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/documentation.html

Then we moved into 16 bit, the major platforms being MS-DOS, Lisa and MacOS, Atari and Amiga.

MS-DOS was coded in Assembly, Lisa and MacOS in Object Pascal, Atari and Amiga used a mix of Assembly and BCPL.

MS-DOS and AmigaOS had quite a few UNIX influences on them.

Regarding my experience in Portugal, MS-DOS applications were being mostly programmed in Assembly, Pascal, C, C++, Basic and Clipper. Then there were some outliers using Prolog, Modula-2, Forth.

Microsoft and Borland were the two biggest vendors on the market and supported almost the same set of languages, with Borland ones being more programmer friendly.

Amiga were usually programmed in Assembly, Basic, AMOS, Modula-2 and C.

Mac OS was using Object Pascal until by System 7 release they decided to switch to C++.

UNIX started to be quite relevant by the mid-90's, and many wanted to continue the work on their home computers, that were doing at work or university on the expensive computer centres running some form of UNIX.

For example, I wrote K&R C code on MS-DOS for OS classes where the teacher would bring a PC tower into the class running Xenix, where each group would get a turn trying to execute their UNIX assignments.

Think a bit like how the Web influenced the desire to have JavaScript everywhere with node, it was a similar experience.

UNIX was being adopted by companies, the other contender being VMS (using BLISS as systems language).

With C companies had an ANSI/ISO standard ratified in 1989, while with Pascal, there was a de facto standard Turbo Pascal/Object Pascal with ISO being largely ignored, but they were confined to MS-DOS/Mac OS.
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In summary, it's another article about self driving cars and the trolley problem. How many of these have we had by now?

Eh, it raises some interesting points none the less. Like liability or how software updates should be delivered to vehicles. Those will raise interesting questions, with the latter needing to be really secure if the companies behind these self driving vehicles want to avoid disaster.

On another note... anyone who thinks self driving cars will be able to 'ease up' on safety because at some vague point they'll become the only option... you're wrong.

Not only is that unlikely from a social standpoint (you'd have about as much luck trying to encourage gun control in the US), but it's also unlikely given that roads aren't just for cars. And we're trying to make that more and more clear as we go. We've already seen the problems caused by trying to 'shape' society around cars (see jaywalking laws in America), we do not want to see self driving cars lead to even more of that sort of stuff.

It's an interesting situation.
You'll probably get nothing of note anyway from class action given the scale of this breach. If you are truly impacted in some way, you'll be better off in small claims (or a full suit if it devastates you enough.)
Obviously it's not going to get hacked or anything...I mean once an organization gets so big it's vastly better at keeping it from getting hacked...
which did you go to?
One of them seeks profit and power at a scale few humans ever dream of and the other is a business.
It's not clear to me. Care to elaborate? Seems like a good thing to know how many citizens are in the country, for keeping track of voters if nothing else.

In Denmark we have a government sponsored two-factor authentication system linked to the Central Person Register or CPR number which every citizen gets assigned at birth. The two factor authentication is used for all communication with state and municipal and for all banking. Works quite nicely from my point of view. Makes a lot of things a lot easier.
Grew up in Pittsfield. Went to South Berkshire schools. Also never heard of them.

But I still have a Berkshire Bank card in my wallet!
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You need to show a dollar amount that it cost you. If you can do that, you also need to show that had the leak never happened, you never would have had the issue in the first place.

Whether the debt "could have been yours" isn't relevant, what's relevant is how it showed up there. If someone fraudulently signed up for a Comcast account using your social, and they obtained your social via the leak, then yes the leak damaged you. You could go after the difference in your refinanced interest rate now v. what it would have been had you gotten it at the first request (are you paying 0.1% more because rates went up a week after your denial?) and possible the additional interest paid between the denial and the successful refinancing.

But if the Comcast account showed up on your report because someone fat fingered a social and there was no fraud, the leak didn't damage you at all and it was just bad luck.
>Statically type languages prevent a lot of bugs

Correction:

Statically typed languages prevent a lot of the bugs that total beginners to programming would make; while they are useful in preventing the one, two or tree trivial, easy to solve bugs that a seasoned programmer would make once in a week.

They are also not useful at all to prevent the real-life, critical bugs that have nothing to do with types at all, and that are the ones that will negatively impact the product the most and will take serious time to get fixed.

You know what static typing is good for? It has nothing to do with "preventing bugs". It has to do with performance and compiler optimizations.
Yeah he's an elected official. That's what you mean?
you know what I like about google+ if someone miss uses it I don't really care. I don't use it for anything Important.
The Supreme Court disagrees with the NY AG. Who do you think wins?

http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/333417-supreme-c...
> They "know beyond doubt" that the drives at least used to contain CP

If they even merely had sufficient evidence to know beyond a reasonable doubt, then they would have sufficient evidence for a trial conviction and the decryption would be a sideshow.

Either they are lying about their knowledge (unnecessarily from a legal perspective, so probably for PR), or lying about needing the decryption for evidence, or telling the truth about both but the source of their knowledge is itself illegal evidence (and any evidence they collect based on that knowledge is fruit of the poisonous tree.)
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In this particular case, I think the "both sides" argument may well have merit. Thanks for pointing that out. I really should just say a big chunk of Americans.
Just freeze your credit. It cost a couple dollars, but worth it. It is a hassle to unfreeze sometimes, but worth it.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16074742/google-chrome-ad-...

Now granted this is just a move by google and news corp and washingtonpost to create a "uniform" ad delivery format and to collect more data from chrome.

> They benefit way too much from fake news to shut them down.

Absolutely. That's why they joined news corp and washingtonpost in "Coalition for Better Ads".

Ultimately, it's all about money.
$500 may be high, but $100 would be more reasonable even for those that didn't have their identity stolen, I've already spent an hour researching the hack to figure out what to look for and whether or not I was included in the set of stolen identities.
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> Hey William, the reason Uber charges a cancellation fee is to compensate the driver for driving towards you.

Sorta? So one of the last times I cancelled a ride the driver was 8 minutes away which, not ideal, was fine. The problem was the driver was sitting at a restaurant. After 15 minutes passed he was still 8 minutes away but occasionally his car icon would move a little here and there (but staying at the restaurant).

I cancelled and it charged me a cancellation fee. Fortunately, after talking to a few friends of mine, it seems no matter why you get the cancellation fee (your fault or not) they will immediately refund it with credits if you complain.

Pretty aggravating experience, however.
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> "This is not technically money in that it is not backed by a government."

Being "backed by a government" is not a necessary condition for something to be money. From wikipedia: "Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context. ... Money is historically an emergent market phenomenon establishing a commodity money, but nearly all contemporary money systems are based on fiat money." Even though most contemporary money systems are fiat, that doesn't mean that all money has to be.
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