skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have all agreed. We gave permission to any company that extends credit. They give our information to these credit reporting agencies on an on-going basis, personal information, including what our payment behavior and history is.

All of this comes down to trust. We trust our banks and credit card companies. They trust Equifax. Equifax's customer is your bank or credit lending company, not us. It's actually very similar to Google, et al. We aren't the consumer. They collect our personal information, vastly more than credit agencies. And the real customer are the advertisers who pay Google. The difference is, we probably trust Google more than Equifax (even before all of this).

A month ago, my mom said she wanted to start using Uber on her phone. I explained how to install it, and when she did (as well as the Lyft app for that matter) it wanted access to her camera, photos, contacts, a list of information on her phone. And she said fuck no. And refused to give permission. So she still uses cabs and pays cash.
At the end of the day it's a liability issue. If a plane crashes due to a software issue there's going to be civil suits to recover damages, very possible they'll also sue for criminal negligence.

Why is software immune? You ask yourself about cost of the Office of Personnel Management hack from two years ago, and before that it was the biometrics database from the USCIS.
> For those who are only going to and from work, maybe doing a bit of shopping, electric cars can make sense. For others, at best they'll be a secondary vehicle, or only used for going to work and back, with something else in the driveway for longer distances.

I'm trying to think of how often in the last year I've needed more than 200 miles round trip in a single day where I didn't spend a significant % of the time that day in a metro.

Zero times.

Last 5 years, maybe once.

I live in Seattle, a rather remote city when it comes to Getting To Things To Do, but a 200 mile range brings me safely into another country with over 50 miles to spare. With less than 200 miles I can get to the next major metropolitan city (Portland), in the other direction. ~80 east or west get me to two of the most popular camping spots in the state.

Heading to Spokane is a problem however. For that I'd need almost 280 miles.

For reference, my compact 1.6L ICE gets ~250 miles out of a tank of gas. (Fill up is a lot faster though!)

For road tripping width-wise across the US, ICE is superior. But for the majority of commutes (30 miles round trip), an electric car can be plugged in a couple times per week and leave plenty left over for other activities.
I'm pretty sure it's meant to be used over two semesters.
If we're talking about economic incentive, having no downside for not doing thing A is equivalent to having no incentive to do thing A. Re: opportunity cost.
There's a fine line of volition that is arguably crossed when involving tested social constructs that leverage human weakness better than many chemical addictions.
why does "caffeine" look different to "caffiene"?

(I wanted to see how it would handle typos)
I'm eagerly awaiting the technical details of the attack. If it turns out that their web server has 100% unfettered access to the database then I'll gladly pick up a pitchfork as well.

I'm wondering if Equifax is using Struts-provided REST for its entire architecture. If that's the case, gaining access to the web server was only the first step. From there the attacker could perform RCE on sensitive services.
Some of the ones near me even have small wind generators.
Erm, china has more than a dozen well funded self driving efforts, some of them by very big companies (baidu). Those are being tested in places like Beijing, you never hear of them because you aren't looking outside of the USA.
I was adding to, not arguing with.
Serious question for those in software development, Have you ever had a debugger/problem solver's block? how do you get over it?
Imagine a wildlife photographer trying to get a picture of a bear at night. Maybe she would set up something to attract the bear, then use a motion sensor to trigger the camera. Clearly she is the author of the photo, even though the bear actually triggered its taking.

I feel a similar argument could be made for the monkey selfie: the photographer didn't push the button, but he created the circumstances.
Hm, well, I don't know that I'd call those "tribes," and I (reasonably, I thought) interpreted "tribalism" to be ethnic or racial based on it appearing in a discussion of "Friends Are Genetically Similar."
Although, in the case of identity fraud, they don't have your approval. Someone else signed the paperwork.
Do you think it'd fit will into two semesters?

Currently, you usually take one semester of microeconomics, and another of macroeconomics. This book seems like it covers both micro and macro. But this book also seems to introduce new material on top of the things typically taught in micro and macro classes today. So then it seems like full coverage of the book wouldn't fit into two semesters.

(I intended to make this point in the original post but completely failed to, sorry.)
> They made the first fully electric sports car (Roadster).

Does the tZero from AC Propulsion that inspired the Tesla Roadster not get the credit because it was just a kit car?
Only for seven days at a time though, no? Either way, that affectively means anybody can sideload if they have a Mac.
Since when does Uber ask for use of your camera or access to photos? And for what?
With a market cap of $18 billion for Equifax, it seems like they had the resources to get this right. I see the difference as who shoulders the cost. If you pay $400 million for a defective plane, you have one company whose toes you will hold to the fire. If you lose data worth $400 million for 138 million people, you have about $2.89 average per compromised person, so no single person will really go that far out of their way to crucify you, and if one does, they have perhaps tens of thousands of dollars to use in the legal system holding you accountable, not the millions one large wronged party may spend on it. In aggregate economic terms, in actual loss and negligence, I don't see that much difference. If you want to steal a lot, steal a small amount from a large number of people. It looks to me more like a matter of the feasibility of getting away with it.
If it turns out that their web server has 100% unfettered access to the database then I'll gladly pick up a pitchfork as well.

You may want to think twice. Try to design an architecture that doesn't have that. If you think it through, you'll realize the best you can do is not to deny access, but to monitor access so that any statistical deviation in requests-per-hour will trigger an alarm. Yet nobody does that, so why should Equifax have been a pioneer in this method?

This is the uncomfortable truth that everyone is obscuring here. There wasn't a solution. Equifax got owned, and they happened to have a trove of data. Everyone now wants to see their heads roll, but you too would find yourself in the same situation if you have an RCE on your servers.
Tribalism is sometimes used as a descriptor for general in-group/out-group behavior as well.
There's an important difference: consumers choose to fly with UA just like they choose to walk into Chipotle and buy a burrito.

The vast majority of EFX's profits come from services that consumers (effectively) don't choose to participate in.
I am aware. I don't know why I phrased it the way I did. I meant I would rather use that feature of the longer passcode instead of facial recognition. Bad grammar for the win.
On the other hand, Android services everyone, whereas Apple tells the developing world to fuck off. Apple's privacy is only for the social elite who can afford their expensive toys, and they're not interested in providing service on a global scale.

Let's not get too hippy-feelgood about Apple's intentions regarding its users here.
What about iOS and others? Are we going to have to make multi versions of an app to make them look native?

For that matter, what does a native android app look like? I've never seen any consistency between apps at all, let alone the sort of consistency you can get with gnome, KDE or older windows.
Tufekci is a national treasure.
If the photographer had set the camera to be operated by a remote control, and clicked the switch, or set up a shot with a lightning sensor, or dropped the camera and it landed on a pebble which triggered the shutter release, few would argue that the photographer wouldn't own the copyright. The monkey might be analogous in the situation.

Ultimately it's just a place where the judge has to have an opinion because the law doesn't really have a plan for such an improbable situation.
Encryption can't save you, but other practices can.

Specifically: if you're working with a lot of very sensitive information, you structure your application such that there are multiple layers separating that data from the outside world. In the case of Equifax, that might mean implementing the "credit score check" as an internal service exposed through the public web servers (or whatever).
You don't have to own an Apple computer to run Mac software, so your statement is factually false and his isn't.
No, those apples are fresh. They're cheap because it's apple season. The gala apples on sale are probably too small to do well in long-term storage. Whole Foods isn't the only grocer selling those, either. I bought a bag and just noticed today that my office (a big Silicon Valley company who sources commercially) put out bowls of the same apples (they're conspicuously small and yellow for gala apples).

I don't get all this business about Whole Foods being expensive. I went to Costco, Safeway, and Whole Foods this past Sunday. Per usual, the packaged, vacuumed-sealed ground beef was <= the cost elsewhere; $4.99 at WH, $7.99 at Costco, and $6.99 at Safeway. The chicken wasn't on sale today at WF; it was $2.99/lb for a whole fryer that they'll chop up, though often it'll sell for $1.99/lb. But Costco's $1.99/lb packages were sold out, and Safeway is rarely less than $2.99 either. (WF did have organic whole fryers on sale for $2.29/lb, but pre-packaged so they won't chop them up.) I forgot the exact price because I didn't buy any, but the steaks at WF were no more (and perhaps less) than the Costco steaks. You can buy cheaper steaks at Safeway, but they're not worth the money.

Generally, for staples (meat, vegetables, canned goods) I've found Whole Foods to be no more expensive, and often cheaper, than elsewhere, unless I'm buying in bulk at Costco (e.g. a case of canned beans). Whole Foods can do this precisely because people blindly buy their premium products, like prepared foods. Whole Foods sells a huge volume of high-margin items. By contrast, regular grocers make their profit from low-margin staples. Thus, for staples Whole Foods will always be competitive. Moreover, because Whole Foods is upmarket their staples (especially vegetables and meats) are often of better quality if only so they don't detract from the overall feel of the store, and in any event they move quicker off their shelves and are thus often more fresh. Compare the butcher counter at WF to your regular grocer, assuming the regular grocer even has one. I can often get freshly butchered, hormone-free chicken for $1.99/lb (never more than $2.99/lb) at WF; at Safeway the only way to get that price is pre-packaged Perdue chickens.

Don't get me wrong--I've walked out of Whole Foods having paid plenty. But it's knowingly and by choice. And there are plenty of times where I've walked out of Safeway thinking, "WTF!?".

I'm not looking forward to Amazon's cost-cutting measures. If Whole Foods moves down market it means the premium shoppers will go elsewhere and stop subsidizing my purchases. Amazon can subsidize the prices, but I suspect quality and selection of staples will go down.
When you say “recommendations”, do you mean word of mouth or personalized based on your preferences?
So, if I don't want to give them my approval, I must: not sign up for a bank account, never open a credit card, avoid getting a mortgage, buy only in cash, stop renting [0], only apply to some jobs [1], not take out student loans...

[0] Some landlords require credit approval
[1] Some jobs check credit
Hacker news is the best mobile performing website I use. Would rather it not change.
Yes, but you really have zero choice. Unless you decide that you can live without a cell phone, rental car, credit card, mortgage or bank account the rest of your life.
It's entirely possible to be in favor of open democracies supporting democracy-friendly candidates in other countries, while being against autocracies supporting autocracy-friendly candidates in other countries (including your own).

That's really the danger of whataboutism, it basically asserts that any two actions must be considered morally equivalent, regardless of the intended aim. That is simply not the case.
> After some time the changes in the ADN make the two population incompatible for reproduction, so they become different species.

The time scales being discussed here are orders of magnitude too short to even consider speciation, evidenced by what we know about our human/Neanderthal hybrid ancestors, and the fact that a Pygmy or Khoi-San person can have viable offspring with any person of the opposite gender in the human diaspora today.
It is more:
- Critical remote execution bug was discovered in Struts2.
- The vulnerability goes public too quickly.
- Hackers start scanning the Internet
- Equifax is found vulnerable.
- Vulnerability is exploited.
If an app wanted all that just to call a cab, I’d say “fuck no”, too. (Not an Uber/Lyft user, can’t confirm.) GPS, that’s all you need, and that’s all you’ll get. If you need more, ask me directly instead of digging through my shit.
But actually shipping a product that can operate autonomously in a subset of areas and conditions is more satisfying than not shipping a product at all.
It happens all the time. Usually, you get past it by taking a break. I can't count the number of times I've solved the problem I've been stuck on all week while showering or driving to work. Sometimes you just need your brain to slow down and stop over thinking everything.
I don't know of many countries outside the US where you had to pay for receiving texts or calls.

Most everywhere the cost was always borne by the sender (except when roaming)
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In games ideas are almost never original. I used to work with a designer who said if you think what you are doing is new you probably haven't been paying enough attention. But ideas matter very little and execution is golden. So I wouldn't worry too much if someone tried your idea.
I'm pretty sure I stumbled on a map that was linked through an article I read before we left. I believe the article linked to HarveyRelief or HarveyRescue. It may have been a Buzzfeed article like this one:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/crowdscourin...

The maps are down now as I believe the website went dark once the main flooding danger in Houston was past.

The map appeared to show markers all over the Texas Coast color-coded based on the type of request. The user was able to select a marker and in the left pane a descriptive entry gave information about the address, the number of people requesting rescue including a breakdown of #adults versus #children or elderly. Many posts had telephone contact numbers and each one had an entry from the person requesting assistance granting permission to post their request. Something like an "I Agree" entry after their contact info in the post. I visited the website while it was up and looked at the help request submission part and it was a pretty simple dialog set collecting the needed information along with an "I Agree" or a "Yes" button at the end granting the website the permission to post.

Early problems were predictable. Some of the posts should have been expired because the people had been rescued. Handling the updating of the information required the rescuers to confirm that the people had been rescued so that marker could be cleared. We ended up following several leads that had to be from the previous day. When we arrived at the target address the streets were dry, families were walking pets and kids were riding bikes in the street in one case. A couple of others also involved places where waters had receded and one involved a non-existent address that turned out to be along the beltway between two businesses.

The website did clear many of the older posts and altered the color-coding so it would be clear what you were heading for - medical problem needing assistance, people trapped needing rescue, etc.

It was quite handy. I know there were other maps including one maintained by the Cajun Navy that was similar to the one we used.

There is room for improvement in the maps and in how they coordinate with rescue assets. Timeliness is important and older posts in neighborhoods known to be heavily visited by rescuers should be cross-checked using contact info provided. A lot of traffic on the Cajun Navy channels was people confirming that a rescue needed to happen or that one had already occurred for a particular address.

I believe that the actual requests for assistance on the map I used came from those needing the help since many of them were from someone who was posting for a person needing help who had no access to phone or other communication network. I don't know who had the ability to remove the markers once they were placed but I know that feature by itself needed improvement in tracking rescues that had already occurred.
I don't get it. If you don't like facebook or how they operate their platform, don't use it. Surely every person in your life has one or more of a). a phone number you can call them on or send an sms to, b). whatsapp/skype, c). linkedin, d). email address, e). instagram/snap, f). postal address, e). slack/irc channel they hang out on?

I gave in to "big blue" and created an account in 2009 when I moved to a new country. I deleted it about 4 months later and am happy to report NOTHING IN MY LIFE CHANGED (other than feeling happy with myself for calling facebook's bluff and deleting the fucking thing).

If you don't like the crack, put the pipe down. It's that easy.
Great. Now do /r/The_Donald. PLEASE.
while I will agree this is a great example of how USAians, esp Texans will band together as others have pointed out, being a human is not really something we have a monopoly on here..

as for 'the south':

see also sandy recovery efforts

see also people getting shot when they shouldn't have in nola for being in the wrong neighborhood and having the wrong skin color..

that said, we do have more boats, monster trucks, jetskis, and guns, and arent afraid to use them (even to rescue national guard trucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAvNd7eH9MA)
Dr. King thought the same thing:

>We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

-Dr. King, Letter From a Birmingham Jail
The credit system sucks. But has anybody created a better alternative yet?
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wow that totally fails to explain what nameof is. It seems to be a tiny bit similar to the C preprocessor's stringize,

#include <boost/preprocessor/stringize.hpp>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
puts(BOOST_PP_STRINGIZE(3)); // will print "3\n"
}

except that it can take a qualified name (like person.address.ZipCode) and return just the last component (this is documented by Microsoft as resulting in the string "ZipCode") https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31695900/what-is-the-pur...
Thanks for your efforts. We ended up using a different map that was very similar to the one you linked.
Because you can just create a new account when your old one gets banned from too many places.

Or dozens of new accounts. It's utterly trivial.
Over the last few years BMW strategically chose to shift investment away from their current line-up into their electric line (and I think Germany's and Europe's charging infrastructure, which they have a standard for and are backing). They had nothing to show against MB's 2016 generation and haven't had a good year for car sales in comparison. Now that MB has got that '16 release out of the way looks like they're going 100% into competing with and catching up to BMW's electric line up. BMW already has the super-hyped up i8 and the i3 (and depending on your taste they may the most beautiful or the most ugly cars ever designed). MB just discontinued their only electric. BMW should have one more ICE refresh 2018-2020 and then it will be electric/hybrid all the way.

they are probably concerned too about tesla but at the moment bmw, mb and vw's audi are probably the three auto marques who can each crank out a couple million electric cars a year by 2020 if they wanted to. it's that volume that makes them competitive.
They are showing tickets that recently sold. Just regardless of whether or not they fit in your searches and whether or not they knew they were already sold at the time you loaded the page.

They are going out of their way to insert previously sold tickets at the top of searches to make things look busy. I never timed how long it could be from sale to "simulated sale" but there were a few that stuck around for probably 10 min (guesstimate, but it was long enough to grab my coworkers and discuss and look at the code and refresh a number of times).
I think where it excels is "dumb" Word docs, terminal, etc. since it's just text.
I did. I made bank on that one (I bought calls, but same difference.)
Not just refugees. The way Alan Kay describes it, PARC was essentially in the spirit of ARPA, one if the last great efforts that could be said to come from that culture. Part of the reason, he claims, is that Bob Taylor (veteran of ARPA and IPTO) managed to convince Xerox to make such a lab with minimal interference just as the old guard of ARPA funders saw their resources begin to dry up.
Why is it politically sensitive? I can't see any obvious political implications ...
>Is that the only thing that's different about Tokyo and Paris?

I'm not claiming that. I am claiming that multiculturalism plays a role, which many people refuse to acknowledge.
> The vulnerability provided full RCE, and I know of no info-sec magic that inoculates you against that.

If the vulnerability used turns out to be the Struts one that was announced at the beginning of the year, then the "magic" here would have been quite muggle-like: update the damn dependency. Not doing so is negligence, plain and simple.

(I agree with you, though, that EFX will almost certainly come out of this relatively unscathed.)
If only society had some other tools in the box to address problems that market incentives can't cover.
Yes, total hogwash. How could their model simulate the quantum effects taking place in the microtubules of the neurons?
> I know, and probably I know it better than you, I have been a long time open source project maintainer.

I think "I'm an engineer, to save time let's just assume I'm always right" is the maximum size for a T-shirt joke.
When the only tool you have is a hammer...
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