skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, some of us would love for the government to have one in an ideal world, we just recognize that the US government that exists today is not competent enough to be trusted to run such a database. Just think about the topic we're discussing - do you really trust the US Department of Identity to not have breaches like this every year? The only difference is that we'd never hear about them.
> "Did Bob graduate college?" "His educational background may improve in the future."

Your black and white reasoning is not how most humans think. What if the answer is "Bob graduates in a month."?
Note that just entering your social and last name (to see if your data may have been affected) does not require you to agree to waive any rights, at least as far as I saw.
Hilarious. EquiFax's incompetence is a gift that keeps on giving.
And yet, everyone knows it's those darn millennials with their avocado toast that are the "problem"

Why doesn't Beatrice just pay her housekeeper more? Then instead of shame, she could feel pride in helping bring up the world around her. Her shame is evidence that she can afford it and "knows" she could improve the life of another individual.

Also what benefit does the $6 bread confer? While I'm not sure I agree that $6 is "obscene" for bread (mine costs $3.50 or thereabouts), I don't understand how you can buy something without heavily justifying its cost.
Equifax execs sold stock before hack was disclosed
We had something similar in Tyrol, Austria called Freigeld (1)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl#The_W.C3.B6rgl_Expe...
What'd you learn in the bootcamp that (you believe) helped you get the role? And what was the application/interview process like?
My experience has not been as bad, but since moving to the north side, I don't use the interstates as much to get around. The psychos all seemed to use the interstates.

Or maybe I am one of the jerks.
So essentially three Equifax shares to every victim?
Would you rather him not? Maybe you're pissed about his other interests?
Touché. I went to Shakopee High School, so my Facebook feed blew up when Amazon opened there. I guess it is not as big of a deal as I thought. :)
> Boulder

Boulder is almost as bad as the bay in terms of vested interests obstructing construction and development.
Paddy's Dollars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyxxE1AcUSM
For example: dropping into a debugger (binding.pry / pry_remote in Ruby) to write code interactively in the context of the application, transferring that code to the source, and continuing on with my next fragment of functionality with a refresh of the web page, no recompiles or restarts required. You can do this with some difficulty and certain caveats in a statically compiled language, but only if things have been set up in just the right way, with automatic dependency recompilation and reloading,

You've been able to do that with ASP.Net MVC for years. You can change your views hit save without having to start over.

But on the back side, why is "restarting" such a heavyweight operation? If I'm iterating over a piece of back end code that takes a while to get to debug, I use the testing framework as a harness to run small bits of code - not a real unit test just an easy way to setup the prerequisites to step through a piece of functionality.

This opens up more avenues for declarative programming; construct a data structure that models your problem more directly, and then write code that interprets the data structure.

Even C++ has a level of reflection these days. But why wouldn't you be able to do that with c# and attributes or Java with annotations?

You want extremely lightweight literals for this, readable with minimal ceremony, including lambdas for when you need an escape hatch, a little pocket of custom code embedded in the bigger data structure. Statically typed languages have little context to infer types for such lambdas, unless they can generalize from the operators applied, but then you have a generic function, not a piece of data.

C# has had type safe lambda for a decade. And as far as a generic function, you can define a lambda/Linq expression that can be reused and that can generate c# IL code at runtime, a MongoQuery when using a the Mongo driver or SQL Expression when using Entity Framework. Ling expressions and the expression trees they generate are very powerful, versatile and typessafe.
I wrote that comment when I was really tired and went too far trying to make a point. I apologize for the flippant-tone, it was completely unnecessary. Thanks.
Here's my strategy: I'll sign on to the class action suit and see if I get excluded from it because my data wasn't stolen.
If suburban ATL is in the mix, what about the old GM plant in Doraville?
It sounds like copy/pasted boilerplate that may happen to be overreaching, rather than a conspiracy. Upon what do I base this? Not a legal argument, but a pragmatic one that it simply won't work to discharge them of liability in this case, because they'll be lucky if 5% of the affected people use this form to see if they were affected. (For instance, even before I heard about this legal stuff, I didn't even bother, because I'm just going to assume "yes".) I want to say they'll be lucky if 1% do, but the news story is pretty big.

But there's no way that anything like 100% of the affected people will, which is what it would take to even theoretically get them out of the class action lawsuit(s).

Arguing about the legal details seems pointless, this isn't going to get them out of this scrape even if it was 100% iron-clad and court tested, and I seriously doubt anyone at Equifax ever thought for a second this clause would be used that way.
I don't think they'll choose a metro with expensive real estate.
Probably this one on sorting socks. It perfectly displays the stack overflow community and the silly seriousness developers seem to have:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14415881/how-to-pair-soc...
glad to learn about him! i appreciate the artistically inclined visually explaining technical things. i also love randall munroe (xkcd author)'s thing explainer.
Info monitoring is what, like $29.99 a month?

Perhaps reasonably ask for 3 years of monitoring, so $980

But those aren't actual costs incurred yet.
This reminds a little bit of when people tell me we have to have undocumented workers getting paid below-minimum wage with, in practical terms, little protection from abuse because otherwise fruit or hotels would be more expensive. It seems so plainly morally bankrupt that I'm surprised how often I hear it.
US Attorneys need splashy settlements to brag about when they run for the Senate.
How do you enforce such things without being able to identify and validate that the parties in the dispute are who they say they are ? Example how do you make sure that the crime ends up being recorded against the right John Smith ?

The US government actually does have a a convenient and reliable way of proving physical identity (a Green Card for example serves the purpose of identifying permanent residents), they've just declined to deploy it more widely.
> Citing these bozos, would be a pretty good bozo indicator in and of itself.

You do know that good researchers frequently cite other research while discrediting it, right?
You can get the incremental security easily at home: swipe over your card with a strong magnet. Now card thieves (and you) can only use chip & PIN payments.

As a warning before trying this for real: most ATMs annoyingly check both the chip and magstripe, so you won't be able to get cash out even in countries where chip & PIN are the widely used in payment terminals. Found out by carrying my cards in a phone case with a snap-close magnet.

Eventually banks are going to stop issuing cards with magstripes on them. But this will take years, until everyone has both on their cards and both readers in their terminals.
Yeah this post would be a lot more interesting with a good editor
I don't think it's unlikely at all, however, it is unlikely they would disclose having it for such a meaningless case.

The value of this case to them isn't decrypting the data -- it's in setting a precedent on forced data decryption, which they can then use for other cases.

Someone quoted this in a post below: "Prosecutors said Rawls has a lot of "chutzpah" to even ask to get out of jail while he appeals the contempt-of-court order to the Supreme Court, which has never decided whether forcing somebody to decrypt hardware amounted to a Fifth Amendment violation.", proving the point.
Ironically, at most companies that use SSN's for ID, someone impersonating you doesn't usually don't even need to know your full SSN, just the last 4 digits will do.
Thanks a lot for the input. It's super useful to hear a different perspective on the idea. I have no clue how much something like this should cost and will probably wait until it's closer to finished before deciding.

I think your idea about providing colored examples is good and have heard it from a few people now so that's definitely worth looking into.

Also I am red green colorblind so thanks for keeping people like me in mind! I'll have to remember to stay mindful of that.

Cheers
It doesn't stand by itself, but when viewed in conjunction with what we know about the legal system and how defendants are strong-armed by all sides to accept plea deals, it's sickening.
This is based on a Caixin report, which is a reputable source. Do you have any reputable source to refute it?
You've got one in a pot? Care to share a pic?
While technically correct, I don't understand how this has any bearing to my earlier response.

I explicitly state that I do not condemn EasyDNS for choosing to exercise their freedom of (dis)association in whatever manner they see fit. I would simply prefer to do business with someone whom I didn't have to guess at the moral convictions of, and obviate having to guess at whether or not the speech of users on a forum I host are crossing a line that I can't foresee, and would prefer to do business with a vendor where that wasn't something I had to worry about, even if it means having shitty neighbors.
Do you have any example of something that is nearly impossible to do?
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but how many children are pushed through social services because their parent is waiting a proper trial?

FWIW, my point is not about drugs, that's just an opinionated example. It's about wasting time policing things that shouldn't be policed.
But then you would have to show $1000 of actual personal damage, which I doubt few if any can, unless you're thinking Equifax will just settle these one after another. But they're just as capable of multiplying out how many of these will have to happen before the losses devastate them like you just did and at some point will actually show up and make you prove your case.
The redirected URL in this case is another vulnerability on www.tax.service.gov.uk, so there'd be no tells from the domain or SSL configuration. If the email was well-crafted (spoofed hmrc.gov.uk, plausible contents etc.), it'd be very difficult to notice anything was amiss (unless you spot the obfuscated javascript in the URL AND recognise that it shouldn't be there).
Is there any reason the data in a national database would have to be confidential in the first place?
I suggest you add these comments to the IAMA going on right now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6yvpfo/iota_ama_septe...

Most of your points are completely moot.
Clojure is trying to do that with Clojure.spec and specifications being checked at runtime can get you closer to things you could have automatically proved correct only with languages with dependent types, nothing against statically typed languages but I feel that your sweeping generalizations hurt the point you are trying to make.

"Checking at runtime* is exactly the problem. Why would checking at runtime be more reliable than compile time?
Prepare to update, because Google Drive PC app dies next March
Not that I disagree with the NY AG, but I also think that his tweet was a bit knee-jerky and premature prior to his actual reading of the agreement in context (the tweet was posted minutes after Ars posted a story). He will probably stick to this, as well as pointing out that the agreement never said that to begin with, but I think it's a bit early for the entire Internet to be passing this around like it's truth.
Perl 6, for instance, supports subset types such as:

subset Positive of Int where * > -1

OTOH, while some Perl 6 supports some static type checking, subsets of this kind seem to support only dynamic, not static, enforcement.
Thanks for the input. For more experienced folks, do you think it could be a nice break from coding just for fun?
Social Security cards used to say they weren't to be used as identification. They took that off because everyone ignored it and did what they wanted to anyway.
Completely innocent people can still be convicted. Some even get put to death. One of the distressing things about the courts is that everybody can just "know" the guy is guilty, but in truth they know the evidence is crap. But luckily his defense is crap (good defense costs money) so they can get away with it. This happens time and time again and eventually the odds catch up to them and they've convicted a lot of innocent people.

Even worse is when the evidence is poor but they want to convict the guy anyway because he looks like a bad guy. "Even if he didn't do this, I know in my heart that he's guilty of other crimes."
I think we can probably all find a cap somewhere south of 1/3rd of the 2016 United States GDP for a single breach.

I mean, really, once you get past the amount of assets that Apple holds, it's all the same penalty anyhow: Instant corporate bankruptcy. Arguing about whether we penalize a company trillions of dollars or quadrillions of dollars is not really an argument.
Vegas. Land is cheap, the weather is less miserable than Boston although it is indeed miserable in the summer. A couple of hours from LA and a major airport.
What headache? Get with Capital One, Chase, Citi, or one of the other big names. They are very professional about replacement cards and zero hassle.
> Without cancellation fees, drivers would have to eat the cost of whatever progress they made towards you.

No, without it, Uber would have to eat the cost of whatever progress drivers made towards the rider.

You tell the drivers to go somewhere (And punish them when they don't) - it's on Uber to pay them.
>learning math is just really, really hard.

I'll accept the premise, but I still wonder if there are things that can be done to make it easier for someone. In my case, I've been trying to learn some more mathematics recently, and one of the most annoying things is coming across notation that isn't defined in a paper, presumably because "everyone" who can read the paper is familiar with the context and knows what the "skinny long arrow" means (good luck with that internet search). I wonder if there could be a wiki-like / forum / stackoverflowish site, which people could use to discuss and provide running commentary on a paper/book. Especially useful would be the ability for people to be able to annotate the paper by translating the formulas in to a formal language where you could track down the definition of the various operators, and try to figure out why the author used both of → and ↦ in the paper, when they both appear to be for functions/maps. (Just to preempt the easy objections, I'm not trying to suggest that each paper be formalized and proven in something like Isabelle/Coq).

In the ideal form, this website would allow you to see the paper or book page in question, and then see all the people who commented or had questions on each particular sentence (in the margin?). There could be filtering and voting so that experts could bypass the newbie commentary, etc..

I suppose part of my problem would be solved by getting a book like:

https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Notation-Guide-Engineers...

...(which I just came across when composing this message).

Maybe someone has a other suggestions for something like this? Maybe a site similar to this already exists?

And on a slightly related note to making things easier to learn, I think learning programming is much easier than math, because even though both are abstract, at least with programming you get a tangible, concrete thing (the program) that you can run and modify and extend, and the computer will tell you when you went wrong (e.g. won't compile, output result is unexpected, etc.).
And some companies hire bootcamp grads and only want to hire more.

There's no evidence for an industry trend here, just people letting their personal biases get the better of them (all around).
The cities are geographically close, but there is an international border between them. Canada has more open immigration laws opening up Amazon to a much wider talent pool. Considering that major difference, there could be a strong case made for having these major offices close by for in person collaboration.
I honestly don't care if I get a share of the class action as long as the damages are enough to destroy Equifax as a company.
Perhaps it's been implicitly ingrained in them that the answer to your question is "yes." They lie about their age because if they tell the truth, they are discriminated against and marginalized.
I find it interesting how many of these comments are sales pitches for their chosen cities. I don't have any preferences, since I have no desire to work for Amazon nor do I think my current city of SF is a good choice for reasons laid out in the article.

What I'm most interested in, however, is how you get around some of these problems. The article points out a number of issues:

Can even Amazon afford to pay 50,000 people on a New York or SF salary? That's going to be (almost) prohibitively expensive. They certainly can pay for a Michigan salary or an Alabama salary, but is the job market there in those places? The Philadelphia example from the beginning points out that while the city is large enough, the job growth hasn't been there for quite some time, implying that there might not be enough people to fill the needed jobs.

Could a city like Birmingham, AL or Gary, IN or Lincoln, NE support 50,000 new jobs? Are there enough available homes to house all those people? Parking spaces? What about the support jobs? For every N employees, you need M doctors or dentists or accountants or fast food workers or maids or auto mechanics to support the growing population. Are those jobs there? Are there people qualified to take those jobs? Can the new traffic be handled smoothly? I think the answer is "yes" to the above in the long term, but is Amazon going to put their HQ in an up-and-coming town and just deal with the growing pains in the short term? Or would they rather go to a larger city and skip those problems?

What about international airports? That limits it to a dozen or so cities around the country. Can Amazon survive in a place like Nashville, TN? Why or why not? Are there ways to mitigate potential problems of not being able to fly to London or Paris direct?

IMO, the potential cities themselves are much less important and much less interesting than the problems that moving a 50,000 person HQ to almost any city would cause.
Boulder is too small. The whole city only has a 100,000 now. It's got a greenbelt and height restrictions, so you can't build it out much more. And there's very little regional mass transit to get people into and out of the residential areas beyond the greenbelt. There's nowhere to put another 50,000 families. Plus it is on the wrong side of Denver from the airport.

Denver or one of its suburbs would be a decent choice, but not Boulder.
Any development Amazon did would be in KOZ (Keystone Opportunity Zones) which have existing tax abatements on most forms of taxes. Comcast was the initiator and argued for those tax incentives, so you know they've got to be pretty good. That means no fighting with state or local legislatures as the tax incentives are in place. Amazon would automatically qualify since they would be coming in from out of state.
What kind of experience do you have? Because the Supreme Court has held up forced arbitration multiple times. I know it doesn't "feel right" (and maybe that's because it isn't) but it's the law of the land.
I start in January right after the holidays when there's no vacation ahead, just a pile of work to be done:

Vision - I should be at the beach chilling right now

Strategy - Let me book a trip to the beach for Christmas today to get the best deals, when no one thinks about Christmas since it's January.

Design - I like to be free on vacation so I'd usually look for apartment rentals or even houses (airbnb or specific websites depends on the location). I try to avoid hotels so I don't have to leave the room every morning at the same time. I don't want to tip the hell out of my day as well while on vacation. I can make my own bed. I prefer having a kitchen where I can cook whenever I want. My own fridge, etc.

Execution - Budget is key, I start to look at how much I can afford. Then I split it into 2 categories - flight cost and room cost. If I fly very far I'd lower my room budget or look for places slightly outside of the tourist places, where I could easily get to whenever... If I fly domestic then I make sure to rent a very nice place. In terms of day to day expenses, I usually save a little bit of cash here and there from January until the trip. So it's not even budgeted and I have a pile of cash to travel with when the day comes.
CGP has a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Probably because the pilot didn't choose to make the flight, the pilot was just doing their job, and their name is irrelevant.

Edit: What I meant by "didn't choose to make the flight" was that the pilot didn't wake up and decide he was going to San Juan that day. He was assigned the flight, and presumably did have the authority to say it would be too dangerous. Maybe not though, I'm not an ATP.
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It's not the best alibi since your phone isn't physically attached to your body. Someone intending to commit a crime can easily drop their phone somewhere else to conceal their true location.
> If the lawyer wants to use my name (as a class member) for leverage in the suit, he or she should be representing me

If you're paying them they're representing you. If they spend a single client's or their own time building a case, they're not representing you. They are representing your class. If you want to be represented, opt out and hire a lawyer.
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Hilarious that there's not even a consideration that glorious Uber eats the cost. It's just that the driver would have to - obviously, who else? At some point it stops being spin and becomes some kind of ideology.
How do you prove your identity when freezing and unfreezing? Is it similar to how you "prove" your identity when you apply for credit?
The Link http://www.nolink.yet.com/ under xilften doesn't work :)
If the plaintiff's expert witnesses can be brought in to show convincingly that the nature of the breach - as we can see from the outside - suggests basic common safeguards were not taken, that could force Equifax's hand to show otherwise.
The fatal flaw here is that this guy lost over 90 days (I think that's the lower bound) of liberty without a jury trial. Under this scheme a judge could jail you until you produce the body in a suspected murder, or until you tell the cops where the money is in a suspected bank robbery.

Contempt is a quasi-criminal remedy with severe limitations. SCOTUS will rule from this that contempt confinement for longer than 90 days requires jury fact finding.
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Caixin report in Chinese: http://m.finance.caixin.com/m/2017-09-08/101142797.html
Gist: exchanges are banned, off-exchange one-to-one trades okay.