skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we are friendly to immigration, Canadian citizens will need to work there too (in order for government incentives to be doled out)... Otherwise, the public will eventually demand those benefits rescinded.

As a ballpark number, if Amazon wants to hire 50k people, I'd imagine they'd need at least 20k Canadians. So I suspect they'll need to convince Canadian programmers to move there.

I can't pretend to speak for all Canadian citizens, but given the choice:

1. Move to the most expensive real estate market in the country, where the raise in wages wouldn't account for the price difference in housing costs. To work for an employer with Amazon's reputation towards employees... (that's the most polite way I could put that)

2. Immigrate to SV under a TN visa, with the chance of working on interesting valley projects.

Despite both options having a crazy housing market, #2 is much more attractive. The value proposition can be changed though. I'd move in a heartbeat if the same wages were available in Montreal. Same for any Canadian city other than Vancouver and Toronto.
Again, the one time Apple's financial position appeared headed towards bankruptcy was the one time they allowed clones. Their business model doesn't work with licensing, they learned that and will never forget it. They are very careful where they allow their technology to be used.
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Do you know how US fares in that regard?
That "other fact" would be greed.

"Many individuals grew suddenly rich. A golden bait hung temptingly out before the people, and, one after the other, they rushed to the tulip marts, like flies around a honey-pot. Every one imagined that the passion for tulips would last for ever, and that the wealthy from every part of the world would send to Holland, and pay whatever prices were asked for them. The riches of Europe would be concentrated on the shores of the Zuyder Zee, and poverty banished from the favoured clime of Holland. Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maidservants, even chimney sweeps and old clotheswomen, dabbled in tulips."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Mackay.27s_Madness...
A run-time check will work even if the compiler has a bug which mistranslated the code or neglected to do a check.
How is Datajoy better than competitors like ublock?
To add to this, their acts were intentional. Yes, you're very right that they were very much illegal acts. However, it needn't be intentionally spilled classified information in order to be illegal. Under certain circumstances, even accidental 'spillage' is a felony. Negligent 'spillage' is also very much a felony.

I've been through quite a bit of training and held my clearance for years. I was a victim of the OPM hack. Well, I guess I still am a victim. Mens rea doesn't really apply when handling classified material/data. If it is accidental AND you report it properly, it's not jail - you are so losing your job, however. You also lose your clearance. It has been a while, but I'm pretty sure you lose it forever.
Consumers don't use the credit reporting database, we have very little access to it besides restricted annual or paid for reports. The real users are the B2C companies like retail banks, cell phone companies, apartments, background checkers, etc. These B2Cs use the db in both read and write modes with little verification. The main incentive of the reporting agencies is to make it very easy for B2Cs to read and write to their db. Any strong encryption scheme would have to take into account the needs of the B2C's. Nothing is going to happen unless congress demands it because their is no market incentive to secure it. The data is already known to be frequently inaccurate but businesses don't care, they'd rather have a bunch of false positives than one deadbeat customer.
Ironic that https://login.gov does not have a login form located anywhere on it. Just a teeny and hard-to-notice "Manage Account" text link in the corner.
It really isn't genius at all. At least in my state, either party can object to the small claims status by simply sending a letter. Then it moves over to normal court with normal lawyers. Already you are out the small claims filing fee (yes, you have to pay the court to even bring a small claims case).

Once in normal court, you would need to hire a lawyer, and they would just find some local representation. At this point, you would probably withdraw the case because it isn't worth that investment.

But suppose you kept going. Their local council is going to proxy their attempts to change venue to where they are located. Unless you had a really compelling argument, they would probably win the change of venue. Now you need to find another lawyer somewhere else, and it is probably an expensive locale like New York or LA where they have a firm on retainer. Still want to push the case? Me neither.

By all means, try the small claims route. But don't think for one second that it is a slam dunk.
Or a nice jquery plugin https://github.com/jasonday/printThis
Less coal, more natural gas
Most of these texts were originally intended for graduate courses at Michigan. In any event, I think it's helpful to note that algebraic groups are to algebraic geometry as Lie groups are to differential geometry; it's not a primary subject, even if the name does not emphasize this.
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> Free speech works both ways

what does that even mean?
You mean, you’re going to stick with the one where you rely on a central authority, all your data is accessible to them and the intelligence agencies of their country?

There’s a major tradeoff to be made there.
haha, I was waiting for someone to point out that it isn't like this is a novel or obscure concept.
> If you use metaprogramming (i.e. Lisp macros, Scheme/Racket macros, Clojure macros), then the only way to have truly reliable checks is at run time.

That is a misconception. The macros output a target language and that can be checked. Plus macros can do their own checking before that. A macro expander can perform some static checks. In TXR Lisp, warnings about unbound functions and variables come from the macro-expanding code walk.
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I've always found the failure of large or complex systems failing to be interesting (e.g., the 2003 blackout of the Northeastern U.S. [1]). Are there any books you've read that detail failures like these and explain how/why they happened and what was done to correct the mistake(s)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
You find out whether you're affected before you enroll. YOu enter your info, get a result that says "no/maybe/you should enroll right away" and then it shows the button to actually enroll in their service. Until you actually enroll you haven't agreed to the arbitration clause.
What benefits does Wells Fargo give to veterans?
Prospects of this data used to hack the next elections are frightening.
I don't see how it would be different than any other insurance product. If you're an established criminal no adjuster would recommend you be insured. Or maybe the premium would be astronomical, like thousands per month.
Do you mean other than the famous "RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags" [1]?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
If the state can't afford it, then they should choose to prosecute more selectively. It's on them if they can't afford it, but instead it's pushed onto the poor instead.
Agreed; grew up in the Berkshires and these were just a gimmick. I never saw them.
I'm sure there's a lot of people who share the same last name and last 6 SSN digits.

For example, the last name SMITH matches almost any 6-digit numbers on Equifax's website.
I agree with what you said, mostly.

I say mostly because the world is complicated, and economics is something that applies at the it's complicated end. I think we do tend to go a little bit overboard about economic ideas. Local iPhones, Teslas, LCD screens and microprocessors is absolutely a path to poverty. Cultural and economic (I think these closely related) isolation is a path to poverty, of several kinds. Our isolationist instincts are often wrong, and closely bound with our xenophobic instincts. All else equal (including whatever you consider to be important), why buy local? Are faraway people not brothers and sisters? I am very comfortable making the case for openness.

Yet... There is still lots of room for experimentation, and oddities, and places where the rules are bended. There's some food bank collective that hired an economist to invent a fake currency and auction market for them. It needs some part time central banking, but supposedly works well. The market & currency has all sorts of quirks like negative prices to help with their specific needs.

Messing about with 5c on the dollar locally is totally fine. It's more than fine if it has a positive effect, and I wouldn't be surprised if that effect is something we'd see as "cultural."
So let me get this right, this company collects credit information and someone hacked into their web server and stole highly sensitive information about most of the adult american population. Then the executives sold their stock a day before they announced the hack to the public.
Besides the troubling fact that you still use social security and credit card numbers as any form of reliable authentication, how aren't there already federal agents searching every square inch of the company and interviewing key employees under oath? But no, nobody is securing this evidence and thus any lawsuit will probably either fail or end in a small settlement of an amount the company will not be significantly hurt by, causing no reason for stronger security in the future of this or any other company.

The kind and amount of information warrant strong regulation in the way the data can be stored and processed (separate monitored networks not reachable from the internet would be the absolute minimum), governmental regulation needs to ensure the security of sensitive personal information like this and regular checks need to be conducted to ensure their adherence, especially in the case of a breach like this after the fact, you can't rely on the company conducting a forensic investigation.

But no of course not. I can already hear Americans preach to me how the free market is great and solves all your problems.
It's strange, because the amount of government money spent on courts is pretty small relative to everything else. If we had to scale them up by an order of magnitude, it could be done without too much fuss.

I guess your second point causes people to be biased against spending any more money, no matter how little.
Re: your edit:

>but I am not your research assistant

Correct. Also correct: you need to cite specific examples to back up the claim, which you have not done. "A professor speculating" and the nebulous "others" are, again, not in such a prominent position as to speak for their "side" as a whole.

>For spokesmen, Al Gore didn't mention jail

Correct, which would make this not an example of "wanting to put nonbelievers of their view of the issue in prison," OP's only claim.
> Until this is fixed, the environmental benefits of EVs there will be limited.

That's largely untrue. In urban Chinese cities, the tailpipe exhaust is one of the biggest cause of the smog and air pollution. The anecdotal evidence is that I was raise in a small city that has virtually no major factories yet still have been suffered from air pollution and smog. While small factories were forced to be closed (due to environmental regulations in recent years) the number of the motor vehicles (cars, trucks and motorcycles) on the road has raised 10x. As a result, air pollution has been getting worse.

It's unrealistic to expect 100% of the power in the grid coming from green energy sources, let alone the idea of waiting till then to pushing EV adoption. Green energy transition should be gradual, one step at the time.
Taking money from russian trolls. Letting fake news slide. Hmmm.
this is classic survivorship bias. in order to reach incredibly high levels of success, of course you have to dedicate all of your energy to it.

Of course, this ignores all the people who dropped everything to pursue something and failed, catastrophically too, because they let everything else suffer in pursuit of this objective.

It's like singling out big slot machine winners and saying, "look! the common thread among all these people who won it huge is that they spent thousands of dollars, all day, every day, playing the slots, and eventually they made it. So if you want to make money playing slots, you have to just keep at it!"
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Buffett would agree with everything written here, including not trying to get rich by actively investing in the stock market. He recommends index funds.
Your comments are full of hyperbole. It’s counterproductive, unless your goal is only to express the frustration of it all.

Maybe that sentence prompts a knee jerk thought that I don’t want to consider how bad it really is, or that I don’t care about or have empathy for your friend. I assure you both are not true.

It’s just counterproductive to say things like public defenders want to do minimum work. Is that because they are lazy? Or is it because of a budget/management/legislation issue that would better deserve to be highlighted?

These are all not only complex topics but they vary wildly based on location and local vs federal government etc. The reasons may be different.

The point is it would be more helpful to try and identify root causes and motivations, because that shows where the thing is broken.
the US adopted a system that was good enough at the time, and since then there is little impetus for improvement, despite the now obvious flaws. Same story for US infrastructure.
Disadvantage of being a first mover
I'm hugely critical of Bitcoin Cash, but I don't think it's comparable to a 51% attack.
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Maybe I didn't understand the term but saying the whole country of France is premium medicore is illinformed to say the least. Theb saying Switzerland is the premium coubtry is just meaningless. Is it because of the nazi gold? Did I not get the joke?
I'm very worried about this.

I've done a lot to try and build my credit and protect my identity by restricting the information I give out. Now I can do nothing to protect it now besides hope someone doesn't target me.

Anyone have ideas on how to ensure an identity is not stolen?
I believe it stands for Marketing Funnel Automation. Basically sites that suck people in and point them to an affiliate link to earn a little bit. Could be wrong.
I prefer Lyft by far, but they do the same thing. With Uber it seems like an automatic $2 fee, whereas with Lyft you have to cancel a couple of times.
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They still have the death penalty for humans in the US, why not companies?
I tend to hold the opposing view, but appreciate that you made this point. It's definitely my experience that people who worked mastering at the performing arts, classics/literature, or even professional gaming have something that helps them persevere and navigate through a new field.

However the idea that "a true love of the subject emerges", "the help of fantastic teachers".. I don't think I've ever met anyone who had that path to excellence AFTER entering a field, find it difficult to imagine, and I've always disliked the uncritical use of "passion for x stable, responsible profession that their parents approve of". But I might be weird and blinded and I'm going to try to notice if such people exist. It probably doesn't help that most of these professions are made of people that have never done anything else.
Per the link above, this is the 8th most powerful CME hitting earth in recorded history. An X9.3 is not a yearly thing.
"may have been" -- well, maybe. Much easier to design this site in a hurry if you don't actually have to look anything up.
Many are good people. I talked to one through the whole ordeal who wanted to help, but he was forced to recuse himself from the case. And that's the issue: you are assigned a defender, and if it's an unsympathetic one there's little you can do.
I didn't mean they actively fight the US, but instead just kind of walk in to the nuked islands and say "hey, we'll hang on to this since it got nuked and nobody's here now". But yeah, it's known to be US territory so that really wouldn't fly. But I don't doubt they'd find some way to benefit if there is a conflict in the area that doesn't directly involve them.
Some info here: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electrici...

Quick summary: about 34% natural gas, 30% coal, 20% nuclear, 15% renewables, 1% other. Coal is on a pretty strong downward trend so expect that number to go down, and others to go up.

Of course, it's a big country so your local power generation is probably more relevant. You can find out about your local generating mix here: https://oaspub.epa.gov/powpro/ept_pack.charts
If you aren't exposed to bitcoin currently and view this instability as an opportunity to jump in at the floor of another boom/bust cycle, then that's a good plan (or at least not an insane one).

But that logic only works if you aren't exposed to bitcoin. I expect given your tone and defensiveness that this isn't true and that you're holding a ton of coins right now that you'd be pretty upset to find were worth nothing.
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Yeh, it's easy to use it like that for now. I hope they update it later on though. Seems like an missing feature in their otherwise nice firewall rules setup.
If there was a Law called "Phone Fraud and Abuse Act", my answer would be "probably yes."

Whether or not you like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, it is the law and Uber is likely to be in contravention.
That's what I got from my read of this text, I can't figure out how someone else drew that conclusion.

I didn't enroll specifically because I assumed it might waive my rights. I didn't notice any such disclaimer on the am-i-impacted lookup.

If it really does apply to the lookup itself (or was intended to apply), then it's worth some outrage. If not, it's worth significantly less outrage.

EDIT: The authoritative-sounding @pabloishappy says, "I spoke with equifax rep named Marvin. He said enterining your last name and 6 ss#'s DOES NOT constitute enrollment. Yiu neednto complete1/"

EDIT2: per https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/frequently-asked-questio... "The arbitration clause and class action wavier included in the TrustedID Premier Terms of Use applies to the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products, and not the cybersecurity incident."
On the other hand, I read a lot of things as PDF. I basically read: paper, kindle and PDF, roughly in equal measure.

I typically prefer kindle (which I read on a kindle paperwhite and occasionally on iPad, although I prefer PDF here), but if I'm reading on laptop or desktop, I prefer PDF. When possible, I like to have both Kindle and PDF formatted books, so that I can read whatever I prefer for the device I'm currently using.

But, besides all of that, if I can only choose a single of those formats, I would choose PDF.
Which countries do you mean? How do they manage their credit scores?
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People often forget that higher prices is the incentive that brings more product to market during a crisis. Demonize people selling bottled water at high markups and you disincentive people with lots of bottled water who were about to drive it across the country to address your shortage.
In 2008, the Federal Trade Commission created the Red Flags Rule, which required businesses and organizations to collect personally identifying information from their customers, even if not necessary for service. This put Social Security numbers into the hands of utility companies, telecom providers, doctors and countless other unreliable custodians.

This is the first I've heard of this, and it's a different characterization than what one finds on e.g. Wikipedia (excepting the last section of that page). Still, I believe TFA. It's remarkable how often the impetus to "do something" leads to precisely the wrong thing being done.
How much are you assuming these 50,000 are going to be paid? Even at a very generous $200k/year all-in (cash+cost of benefits) average (they aren't all going to be highly paid engineers or executives) that's "only" $10bn/year. It's steep, but would amount to only about 6% of their annual revenue.

Some of that 50,000 is likely to be transfers and lower wage employees.
I don't get why you downvoted. One phishing on your healthcare plan and you loose access to your taxes.
Top law enforcement official in a state with 20 million citizens.
Canada does unfortunately. It's called a Social Insurance Number (SIN) or Numéro d'assurance sociale (NAS) but other than the name, it is mostly the same. And Canada is on the list of the countries suffering from the breach. This should be interesting.
It doesn't. But you can grab Aporia (or some other tool) to quickly compile and run some code, it replaces a REPL very well in my experience.
Best quote: "Company lawyers descended on the warehouse, seizing everything. A tobacco company had just raided the A.T.F."
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> They may be imperfect, but they're a hell of a lot better than the alternative and have had a profound positive impact on our society.

No, it isn't better than the alternative. The alternative is to have regulators selected and overseen by elected officials regulate the behavior of companies. We instead of a system of regulation by self appointed ad hoc lawyer-regulators negotiating settlements they think will get past the judge overseeing their case and allow them to collect a fee.

The latter is perhaps better than nothing, but it isn't better than the alternative which happens to be in place in the rest of the developed world.
So since anyone who has access to the breached info can impersonate nearly anyone in the country...

1) Are we about to see the end of "Name, DoB, last four" as an authentication? (Damn well should if anybody can be me now)

2) Are the credit reporting agencies discredited as a business model? The other two are likely either hacked already or about to be, and given this standard of reporting we wouldn't know till months from now anyway.

Can't trust em, don't use em, don't trust anybody that does.

Oh joy.
I agree, and they are working towards it. In the meantime, there are shell aliases. That's how I ask rm to confirm deletion as well.
Gotcha. I saw you mention Nothern talent and SLC and assumed you meant relatively close to that area. I guess my mind was stuck on rational options. I drive to/from SLC and PHX a lot and there's a whole lot of nothing in between. :)