skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can, however, put whatever amount you want (up to the small claims limit) in the initial paperwork. It would get reduced to actual damages if you won. But...big companies often try to settle with you before the actual court appearance. By padding it, you set an expectation that might help. They are likely to settle if the amount is less than the cost to have someone appear.
I don't know how many times you have been to Small Claims Courts but there are multiple ways to enforce penalties in Small Claims; a judgment from a judge, a till-tap, levy their wages, place a levy on their bank account, placing a sheriff in their area of business (for a fee) and will stay there until he's collected all the funds, submit to a collections agency etc.

Don't speak on something if you don't know what you're talking about.
A superior system.

1 hour = 1 hour of work (rather than a USD equivalent). Or at least, that is how it started.
You had to enter your lastname and last 6 digits of your SSN. So there's a high likelyhood that it would be you.

On the other hand, you might be able to make a case that since they leaked your information, they couldn't prove it was you anyway.
I've already Tweeted at a Katie Lobosco of CNN Money and Maria LaManga of MarketWatch. They're pushing credit reporting products and the Equifax link in articles instructing people to take action. They're actually hurting way more people than they're helping. Anyone wanna help let them know with me? EDIT: And Chris Brook from Threat Post too??!?! I thought they would have done more homework than that.
Every year, the IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by 1.5 points.
I agree. Also, I think using nuclear weapons would affect the willingness of NKs allies (at least China, but probably also Russia) to assist them in the war. China has already said that much.

I think it's much more likely NK will try to last the first couple of weeks while China and Russia move hardware into the region.
> If you like building things, I would suggest a text editor or a GUI layout engine. For the latter, think about an intuitive declarative way of describing layout (like HTML/CSS or TeX or Tk) then implement it on native win32 API or GTK. Focus on the simplicity and in-control aspect; do not get distracted by feature completeness.

Both of these sound like great learning projects - but are they too far in the "deep end" for a beginner?

Just curious :)
I had a similar issue with my bank dealing with an identity theft problem I had a while back.

Ultimately, I had to resort to sending them letters via certified mail.
Yes. It's a silly premise. But almost equally silly is the premise that, a system where so much money and power relies on its insanity can be gradually turned into something different, saner.

You need really a lot of disregard of previous system and power to make any significant changes. You'd need either revolution or invasion. Obama inaptitude shows that the system can't be touched from within even by smart person in position of highest legal power.
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That's awesome - if you don't mind me asking how did you get into that area of work/expertise?
Fair point. "Should" is pretty opinionated, even if I'm inclined to agree with the opinion.
The miner has to serve the "scrambled" data (or derived proof). The "scrambling" is slow enough that the miner cannot do it in realtime. It's in the whitepaper.
It's probably encrypted with the owner's public key, just an educated guess though.
That's basically what you do—you send the correspondence via certified mail, and keep the certified mail receipt. That doesn't prove what you mailed, but it gives verification that you sent something. (You purchased something from Equifax on the 1st, sent them a certified letter on the 10th. You claim it was the arbitration opt-out; they had better have some evidence it wasn't, or the judge/jury is probably going to believe you.)

Honestly for this (the Equifax thing), you just keep record of when you sent it—it's only an issue if you litigate, and then I'd expect your record of when you sent it + your testimony would be sufficient. But IANAL, and you should of course talk to one if it matters.

For your HOA, hopefully you have some record of when you sent the request (e.g., you kept a copy of the ARC application with a note that you mailed it on $DATE). (Of course, the HOA should be maintaining records of when applications are received.) Depending on what it is, this is something that may be worth paying for legal advice on.
Don't forget the odd US anti-fed/anti-state bend

What do you find odd about it?

Had the US implemented a proper citizen's registry

Thanks, but no thanks. We don't need to do even more to enhance the ability of the State to monitor and track out every activity.
Just like most things in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

> I like to think that bootcamps are just an extension or tool to employ as an autodidact.

If you are an autodidact, a bootcamp isn't even required. The Internet is chock full of resources for learning programming that makes it extremely simple to learn on your own. I look at a bootcamp as paying for connections. A Bootcamp should help get you in touch with prospective employers or connect you with other developers with similar goals. Learning how to program is the easy part when compared to learning the soft skills required to be part of or build a successful company.
I think it's unlikely you'll actually be damaged. Any real financial impact would have been reversed by your bank. Maybe a fee or two that two parties argue about who should reimburse your for it, however I can't see stuff like that adding up to $1,000 (or even $100).
Might want to drop the 'just' there, since the warning was over as of 11am EST on Sept 8th (today).
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Scott McCloud is the Marshall McLuhan of Comic Art!

"McCloud" is congruent with "McLuhan", as "Understanding Comics" is congruent with "Understanding Media".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
Thank you for the link, now I know at least how to search for more information.

Can you confirm or refute my calculation of the growth of the number of parameters when the input variables are the sample points of an image and the polynomial has to be rotation-invaraint?
I feel like anyone with a functional brain can see this is a fifth amendment violation.
Couldn't Lyft also file a civil suit?

And would that make redundant a class-action suit by Lyft shareholders?
What a load of crock.

Eclipses have nothing whatsoever to do with solar flares, Shamans are con men and have no answers to anything relevant that scientists could not answer better and most people do not want to hear the answers any more than they want to hear other random bullshit.

If the links are not in rational space they do not exist, period.
Probably 80~90% of the time I already know where I want to go, so I hit the usual travel sites (Expedia etc.) to see how much flights are. Sometimes I plan something rather last-minute (travel within a week or two), I go to flights.google.com and enter my home airport, and use the map view to look for cheap flights anywhere. I managed to make a few good trips that way. One time I did exactly this like 3 days before X'mas and flew out on X'mas day and it was actually relatively cheap, to a place in the Caribbean.
"This ID seems just as insecure as a SSN"

There is a big difference: that ID is being used as a username whereas our SSNs are (usually) used as passwords.
It may cause security to get tightened to prevent these types of incidents, but I doubt that it will improve security culture. Going forward, we would theoretically be protected from a breach of this type in other companies, but proper security is a continually moving target. New methods exploits are discovered all the time. That's what I'm worried about - are they going to be proactive in securely protecting information against future threats, or will they just check a few boxes to continue with business as usual?
What I've been able to piece together from the fragments of this case that have been reported by non-technical journalists is that he used some sort of P2P software like BitTorrent to download the files. This P2P software kept the checksums of every downloaded file on his unencrypted drive (basically it stored the torrent files somewhere). The FBI compared the checksums in those file to ones of known CP images and found some number of matches (how many has not been reported from what I've seen).

So it really looks like they've got plenty to convict this guy on the evidence they have, but are refusing to bring the case to trial until he unlocks his external hard drive for some reason.
You mean folks who already decided they will commit crimes and take out insurance for "free" money?

That's a good point. This is where working with experienced actuaries to build risk models will be important. This idea would not be a tech startup per say. Just a good 'ol insurance policy with a shiny iOS app wrapper :)
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So if someone purchases my stolen social security number and my last name, both leaked/stolen and enters it into their site to see if it was a good ID, it would waive my rights?
In theory. In practice, extreme punishments, along with penury from the costs of a defense, have to be threatened because the CJ system has lost the ability to deliver justice at trial.
Facebook's model is social rent seeking. Fake news helps this by keeping people involved and by increasing time spent on the site/app. Efforts to curtail fake news are lip service only. Seeing a disputed tag will make a user do what exactly?

They will likely seek out more confirming opinions from their own "trusted" networks of friends, sites, and bloggers and their own already echoing facebook feed.

I don't know this for sure but if I were doing a study I'd assign very low probability to the null hypothesis.
>Put another way, if your local theater won't allow you to show "Triumph of the Will", that's not a restriction on your speech, because you can start your own theater.

Legally we agree, but I can also choose to not support those businesses.
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Uh, you sure you are "scientists or scientifically inclined"?
>Elon musk says he doesn't care if somebody has a college degree.

So he says, but I have yet to see roles in Tesla's core business units that don't require post-secondary education.
> Bootcamps are providing a route to jobs that doesn't involve taking another for years it for a university degree; it's a massive gain in efficiency.

Problem is they aren't teaching enough in bootcamps. You're not going to learn enough in 3-6 months to be hirable. There's too much else to the job, unless you can go to work for those magical companies that use a STACK that is a 1:1 match for what you learned in bootcamp. Most companies aren't interested in hand-holding.

If bootcamps would partner with companies to bring in bootcampers at $30k/year and let the real learning begin, it would be a successful model. Unfortunately, the bootcamp marketing is selling something far more grandiose.
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Ask HN: Can readers of HN organize something in response to Equifax breach?
Petition to Congress etc? I'm outta water here, but the situation legitimately pisses me off and am wondering if this can be a tipping point toward a more private world. I would love the input of more informed people.
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My book [1] is available in print, Kindle, EPUB, and PDF versions. I sell many more EPUB versions than PDF, and way more Kindle (which is basically EPUB) versions.

Most of that likely has to do with visibility — Kindle and Amazon are highly-used storefronts and platforms. But part of it is also I think fewer people actually do want a PDF version.

PDF does look much better than EPUB — it has the fonts and layout that I carefully crafted for the print edition. But it's less flexible and responsible to the device you're viewing it on. That quickly takes its toll. A beautiful page layout that you have to keep pinch-zooming and scrolling around on to see everything isn't really "beautiful" when you consider the whole user experience.

[1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
What's wrong with their SSL certificate?
How could we 'require a customer to just fix their anti-abuse system'?
"Even the ones who do have their identities stolen will likely be made whole by the credit card companies."

Fraudulent charges on a credit card are the least of my concerns. This opens us up to a lifetime of identity theft and insecure accounts of every sort. I'm not even sure how they can approach remedying the problem. Coordinate with the SSA to get 150 million people new SSNs at the least.
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That's because the US government doesn't provide a convenient and reliable way of proving physical identity.

And that's a Good Thing. Government should exist to protect property rights, provide rule of law, and maybe to enforce contracts. Managing everyone's identity is clearly not something that the State should be involved in.
> That is an odd position for a man in a mixed-race marriage with a mixed-race child to take, because not too long ago it would have meant his child might not be served or seated.

That's not an odd position at all. Would I want to force some white supremacist line cook and their inbred waiter to serve my wife and child in their restaurant? No thanks. I'll go somewhere else.
yes in this case with the amount of people affected the idea would be to do a one-off website 'Sue Equifax For The 2017 Data Breach' each person would pay a fee $ and get a package they could use in their state to file the SCC complaint. Would this be possible? I think there's plenty of people willing to pay $100 in order to sue for $1,000 if it is even possible
http://quakewatch.net/ attempts to predict earthquakes using solar factors (and things like outgoing longwave radiation). https://twitter.com/thereals0s has some snaps of their alert maps leading up to the quake (this one happened to be in their alert zone).

Edit- Also related-site http://spaceweathernews.com/ has a lot of pretty graphs to look at if you're interested in this stuff
Your bank gives it to them.
That's because change didn't come from within, it came from external forces in the shape of bombs and weapons that killed millions.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast is a nice resource.
That's not clear from their help article about it [1], depending on what, in their definition, constitutes "proper identification forms":

"If you lose the PIN that was issued to you when you added the Security Freeze to your credit file, you may request a new one in writing. Please provide proof of identification, such as a copy of your driver's license, passport, birth certificate or other proper identification forms."

[1]: https://help.equifax.com/s/article/ka137000000DS9XAAW/What-d...
Or zucchini, peppers, eggplants, chillies, and coffee which are all staples of Italian cuisine now.
It's nice to sell off a project and move on to whatever really interests you.

Regarding the tech stack, it slipped my mind but I will be adding that to the listings so you can buy projects with code written in a language you're comfortable with.
Sure.

https://qbix.com/blog

Feel free to get in touch - the email link is in my profile.
Crazy not to add NYC to the list. Huge Google office there now, Facebook growing. Would be a good fit.
It's reasonable to look at their RFP as a wishlist (like all RFPs). My guess is that something like good public transit will have to give among all the attributes that they'd prefer (including cost).
HN is consistently negative when it comes to this subject.
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Or spend five minutes uploading to the cloud and be done with it.

This is such a ridiculous premise that wastes tens of hours (at least) just to save $10 that I'm pretty convinced you're trolling.
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Plea bargains should be eliminated. It's insane that people are basically punished for insisting on their right to a trial, and everybody is OK with this. If somebody wants to avoid a trial by pleading guilty, that's fine, but it shouldn't affect their punishment.

The typical argument in the other direction is that requiring every case to go to trial would overwhelm the courts. I think that means that we either have too many crimes or not enough courts, or some mixture of the two. A society that pretends to have the rule of law must be able to afford to give every accused person a trial.
Did git exist at the time you were in school? Or are you using it as a generic term for an SCM?
It wasn't implied for me. I put in my SSID (6 digits) and last name. It then told me:

" Based on the information provided, we believe that your personal information may have been impacted by this incident."

It then had some button, I forgot what the button said. This led to the screen about "save the date" for protection.
I cast a +1 one-upmanship spell and invoke the line printer. Those things probably had lead ingots in the bottom so that they wouldn't walk across the room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403
> Why do people think a 12 week course will make a non-technical person ready for a junior developer role?

The cynical answer is because they saw an ad telling them that the bootcamp would get them A SIX FIGURE JOB!!! and they want to believe it. It's an incredibly attractive pitch.
File stream is a Kernel module reimplementing NFS or Samba? Or they are killing standard FS access achieved via Rsync and are trying to position a webapp bundled in chrome its place?
Apologies for my ignorance, but what is the best method of recourse here? If I need to freeze my credit by necessity of covering the asses of other credit companies whose bad security practices lead to being hacked, I'll be damned if I will be paying any sort of fee to freeze my credit. That should be covered by Equifax.
1) using channels + goroutine to implement a map doesn't seem like the most sensible thing to do; even golang's new sync.Map type is implemented with mutexs (eg https://github.com/golang/sync/blob/master/syncmap/map.go#L2...). Idiomatic doesn't mean ALWAYS do this no matter what; it is the natural thing to do if it feels like the right approach.

2) Don't use "considered harmful" so much; it is considered harmful.
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Ooh, nice a discussion of complex multiplication. I first heard about this a few weeks ago during the Mathematical Congress of the Americas, and I was a bit embarrassed to admit (to a group of number theorists) that I had never even heard about this. They were happy to explain the basic idea, although I still need a lot of time to digest the mechanics of it.
There's also straight lawsuits, which is what lyft will probably doing to Uber.
I hope they pick Atlanta but I doubt techies want to live in the South.
4 hours in, and nobody went for "if they have trouble with this, wait until they try cache invalidation…"?

Very disappointed.
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What are "Ken gardeners"?
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They can, the idea is that they can mine more efficiently by storing the scrambled version rather than storing it unscrambled and re-scrambling when they need to generate a mining proof.
Aren't the reads aligned? Is it possible for an aligned 16 byte block to cross a page boundary?
From 2011: http://business.time.com/2011/06/06/homeowner-forecloses-on-...
I don't want to rely on it. I just think this would be one of the best public works rappers can do. "Fuck the police"? Sure with good lawyers that don't just cut a deal.
There still doesn't seem to exist the political will do to anything real about this, or to hold accountable in any real way the companies that leak. These stories happen pretty much every week now, often more than one a week. I think companies will continue not caring, simply do a blog post after they get owned about how sorry they are and then proceed with business as usual, unless that changes.

I don't think the issue is SSN, though it is absurd how we treat SSN as both an identifier and a secret at the same time. The problem is we don't really care when secret info gets leaked- even when it's actual secrets and not something sort-of-secret like SSNs.
One of the requirements was lots of available cheap land for expansion.
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Absolutely. There are even studies [1, plus another recent one I can't find atm] suggesting that piracy can increase overall revenue due to larger exposure.

[1] https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=5550640311191070...
The Twin Cities are looking at courting Amazon for this. IMO, Minneapolis would be a great location for it. We fit the RFP criteria.
I normally have an idea where I want to go. And then I check youtube videos or blog postds of the places.

Google "top travel destinations Christmas"

I think Thailand is a good one

Youtube "Thailand travel"
It's not tied to equifax.com, it's an off-the-shelf cert you get from Amazon with no official verification.

Banks and financial institutions generally opt for the expensive EV certs that formally verify the owning company.
That's true. I wouldn't necessarily agree that it's easy. One of the biggest difficulties when learning programming is just knowing where to start. Looking for mentors or resources isn't difficult. On the contrary, you are inundated with varying opinions. Making decisions about which technology to employ is an exercise in futility. A bootcamp helped me to not only learn technologies, but also how to make what at first seems like arbitrary choices. I credit this to my world-class instructor. It doesn't sound like everyone was so lucky.

Without initial guidance and a firm commitment, we end up with questions like, "Should I learn Java or Javascript?" or "Can I learn Go in a week?" Is it possible to self teach completely? Yes. But you would need both discipline and analytical rigor as well as the humility to find help when you run into issues. I went into the bootcamp looking for both a mentor, which I found, and connections, which I also found.
> -fno-stack-protector

Enough said.
How does allowing exchanges to operate give them control over domestic cryptocurrency activity?

Chinese capital controls are focused on people trying to move their money overseas. If they can't control a certain pathway, they'll rather shut it down completely.
you might be interested in https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-algorithms it is illustrated and very approachable
case class Probability(value: Double) { require(value <= 0 && value >= 1, "probability must be between 0 and 1" }