skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true in the US. In other areas, leaving the city might not be a realistic option.

Consider Hong Kong as an (extreme) example, where leaving the city means emigrating to another country with another language etc. (yes, HK is technically a Special Administrative Region of China, but can be considered standalone in this respect).

The median apartment price/income ratio here is 18, compared to a US average of 3.9 (the highest cities in the linked article are 13) [1].

These ratios also don't consider what you actually get. The average size of new apartments sold this year in HK was 610 square feet at an average price of US$1.8m and one new development offers apartments the size of Tesla Model X for ~US$500,000 [0].

If you want to go larger, the per square foot cost goes up. At the extreme end, consider a 4000 square foot townhouse that costs US$21,190/square foot [2].

A more ridiculous example is perhaps the sale of a car park earlier this year for US$600,000.

For reference, the median household income is ~US$38k. [1]

Unfortunately those with the most housing affordability issues are those that are least capable of leaving.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-14/you-can-b...

[1] http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf

[2]http://time.com/4752342/worlds-most-expensive-house-square-f...
One big reason is that even though the "market cap" is very high, the vast majority of that "market cap" is locked away and isn't being traded on the market.

The amount of liquid ripple is much smaller than the theoretical amount.
It's not just the salary. It's also the opportunities to do things as in for the SF Bay Area we can go to wine country one weekend, go snow boarding another, sail, surf, hike; there's a lot of stuff to do here. I'm sure people can say the same for the NY metro and other similar places.

I've lived in cheaper but boring places. The financial tradeoff is fair.
Was my data breached?
Suppose each person affected has to spend an hour protecting themselves from this breach. The cost in wasted time would be 16,313 years.

It's high time to set an example. Equifax should no longer exist as a company. People responsible should end up in jail. Company executives should be held personally liable. Some would claim it is unfair, but the only way to keep this from happening again and again is for those responsible to face serious consequences.
levy their wages

Whose wages? If you win against Equifax, Equifax isn't getting a wage. Equifax is paying wages, but you didn't win a suit against its employees. You won against the corporation.

place a levy on their bank account

Seems like your best bet. However, this might be complicated, depending on how they've distributed their assets. Quick, can you tell me the name of the bank, the account number and the exact name on the account?

placing a sheriff in their area of business

Seems to me that Equifax might just keep draining your account through continued fees.

submit to a collections agency

I suspect this might be satisfying in its symbolism, but not necessarily effective against Equifax.

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

Seems like good advice.
Does kubernetes actually work as a Mesos framework? I thought that was the point of marathon.
Citations for that number? Why don’t they save for retirement? Can someone on minimum wage with a family save for retirement?

Does someone who makes bad choices deserve to be homeless and destitute later in life?
Thinking back, its hard to believe that I spent a fair amount of time teaching students the ins and outs of TECO because that was a more effective way to do the coding required in my class. The alternative was punching cards. It was a second semester university course for CS students.
> Have Duo had big outages?

I imagine a more relevant question for most is could Duo have a big outage.
>in a democratic republic with an elected representative government, it's pretty weird to treat the feds as a hostile occupying power.

But that's exactly our ethos and, I think, our major problem. We believe the gov't doesn't work, so fight hard to make sure it doesn't work, then sure enough, when you need it to do its job, it can't, and so it reinforces the negative loop.

It's probably why we're at where we are now where a large percentage of the voting age population didn't vote on two candidates no one really wanted to run a gov't while ceding most of our representatives to the power of the corporate world, rather than the people actually being able to hold them accountable. But that gets even more off-topic.

Sorry. And thanks for the very cogent statement vs my ramble.
I think whenever someone asks a "why would they?" question, it's best reworded as "why wouldn't they?"

The government is made up of people, and given enough people, at least one is bound to do something stupid for reasons most won't understand. If someone can do something, no matter how ridiculous, at some point, someone will.
This is not a right wing issue, it's an authoritarian vs libertarian issue. Plenty of people on every side don't trust the government and don't want to give it more power.
Sorry, I've really tried to come up with anything it seems reasonable to share more than:

'Google's ostensible adword assistance team were no more than glorified inside sales and, over the protests of the rank and file, bamboozled management into throwing over a $1 million dollars of good money after bad which helped sink the company'
Screw duty free, the airline should offer cannabis cookies as a snack option. What airline wouldn't like a plane full of chilled out passengers, who are contented to watch reruns of old Disney movies? And I'll take an extra pizza pocket, plz & thx.
Fuck that, Equifax should offer free freezing for anyone affected by their breach. Charging for it is profiting from their own negligence.
The visualizations were great and I think his point was to drive home how long it would take to own a home in the optimal case. In reality you should take his metric and multiply it times 6 or 7 minimally. You're still going to have to pay at least the sale price of the house if you intend to own it free and clear. Also, since banks in the US don't create mortgages for longer than a 40-year term (I believe that's the max), if your value in his metric is greater than 5, and using my 6-7 multiplier, then you're never going to own a home in that location.

That being said, a better metric might be the time to save up for a down payment that brings the mortgage and fees into a reasonable range for your salary. However, that calculation is much more complicated.

Edit: I live in SF and I accept that I will never own a home free and clear here, unless I get exceptionally lucky. My plan is to get a mortgage in SF and eventually sell the place and use the equity to buy in a more affordable market.
Don't ever trust anyone who takes your stuff at the threat of violence.
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Is it not possible to write to our legislative representatives about this about how we think?
Seems like companies are worried that if they host TDS, they'll just start harassing people again. The reason they lost their host in the first place wasn't free speech, it's because they were going after the family of Heather Hayes.
All the more reason to enable people to signal their wealth (sexual fitness) and raise taxes at the same time - by repurposing "Sumptuary Laws." For example: If you want a car that's white, yellow or blue, no extra tax. If you want a red car that's a significant tax. If you want a purple car, that's a really big tax. Note that, with Sumptuary Taxes, you don’t have to be wasteful or conspicuously consume, or pour a large amount of carbon into the atmosphere in order to signal your wealth - the red paint and purple paint don’t cost much more than blue or grey. So this is also a very green proposal.

With Sumptuary Taxes you can show people you're rich and they're not and help the commonweal at the same time: showing that you're one of the responsible, caring rich.

(Sumptuary – related to the word sumptuous, of course.)

Sumtuary Laws were tried in England in the Fourteenth Century, but for almost the reverse purpose – merely to prevent poor people from wearing clothes that resembled the clothes rich people wore. This didn’t raise any revenue and was intended to save rich people money while increasing social barriers. The laws weren’t very successful and they didn’t last long.
I don't think k8s operates as a Mesos framework, but the use cases for k8s is a lot closer to Marathon than Mesos. For most use cases k8s and marathon satisfy the same needs. If the only framework you are running on Mesos is Marathon, then you may be better off with k8s.
So wait, you only need to provide the very same data that was just breached? So anyone can just freeze anyone else's credit now?

Edit: well, you have to pay with a credit card so it's traceable, so not that bad.
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So, this raises a question I've been meaning to ask for a while. Let's say you want to transmit a very small amount of information over a very long distance (say 80 bytes over a minimum distance of hundreds to thousands of kilometers.) What options are there that are relatively small-sized?

Let's say maximum receiver size is roughly 10cm by 10cm, and power consumption can't be over 10 watts, but the "base station" can be as large and powerful as you want.

[edit] cause this is getting some upvotes, here's some thinking I was doing: you can't go through the ground (unless you're at ultra low frequencies and those need antennas measured in tens of kilometers long). So you pretty much have to bounce stuff off the atmosphere, right? When you see stuff like this [0], with thousands of kilometers of range, I imagine that's what happening. Especially as that's 10MHz, which is 30 meters wavelength, which bounces off the atmosphere pretty well IIRC. The only thing with that is that the powers are incredibly low and the antennas are huge. What if you increased the power but decreased the antenna size, for example a 10cm x 10cm antenna with 10W? 100W? 1kW? Would transmissions across thousands of kilometers still be possible?
I understand what an option is...
Surprised to see this is from May. Just skimming, it sounds like something that should've gotten some traction, if I'm not mistaken - aren't open source licenses contested in court relatively infrequently?
>Does someone who makes bad choices deserve to be homeless and destitute later in life?

The rest of us don't deserve to pay for their bad choices.
Well... no.

Everybody on that list will change their CC and life carries on until the next breach.
Cool. It might be fun to let people adjust the parameters with some sliders!
Harassing someone isn't free speech, my dude. Nobody is going to host TDS anymore simply because they started breaking laws. Nobody wanted to host them before but did it out of principle, but the Nazism combined with harassing the family of a dead girl is a death sentence for their site.

Free speech doesn't mean people have to listen or even give you a platform. Nobody but the government is bound by the first amendment. Read up on the laws you're talking about.
I find it curious how one can implant code like this into existing codebases. It takes us a while to code review and deploy, and when we deploy we overwrite what's already on production
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Of course the U.S. has the chicken-and-egg problem, but public transit is my vote if I could wave a magic wand. I am tired of car cities: more pollution, obesity, rage, and sprawl.
how about if Papa John's hacks Dominos computer system to make fake pizza delivery orders?
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Previous discussion. This was just the initial motion for dismissal rather than a final ruling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323265
I picked that phrase for its narrative effect, not its literal truth, but if you need more authoritatively documented example of mass stupidity and greed leading to a speculative bubble we don't have to look back 400 years...

https://qz.com/114753/meet-the-family-who-lost-100000-when-t...
Would love to hear a lawyer's take on this.
This thread is the digital equivalent of why every attempt so far to set up a sane ID system in the US has floundered, leaving us stuck with the worst possible solution, SSNs.
> Well the only way to drive down price is to either increase supply or decrease demand. So make cities shitier and denser.

That's just, like, your opinion, man. I prefer living in denser environments.
Don't forget that we can listen to their attempt at verbalizing that knowledge and then, in turn, draw/verbalize our own sketchy conclusions....and so on.
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>> How is this any more offensive or unlikely than stuff like digit ratio research?

It is offensive in the sense that it seems to assume that gay men are less masculine than straight men. Why would that be the case?

Not to mention that, in practice, the vast majority of gay men are not effeminate.

>> This proves a biological origin for sexuality.

A claim in a paper never "proves" anything. In this case we're talking about a paper on sociology that presents a machine learning model so it's even less likely to prove anything about biology.

>> Lastly do you have any actual argument against the papers methodology?

There should be a law about requesting "arguments" and name-dropping "methodology" on the internet. Something like Godwin's law. Along the lines of: "When an online discussion reaches the point where someone mentions the word 'argument' it's time for everyone to go home".
> So why can't I have a mobile app (or three) for free that allows me to easily lock and unlock my file or, better yet, to vet every inquiry and approve it or not?

Indeed. This is now no longer something that would be nice to have; it's the only way the system can possibly work. If a credit agency can no longer verify your identity by asking you questions about your history -- the criminals now have all that information -- there's going to have to be another way.

Sounds like a great YC application! Someone should do it!
Even if they verbalized their knowledge incorrectly they give you something, which if you chose, you could further test / replicate. In other words even if they're BSing they're still falsifiable, not so "magic models" when their publisher may not want them falsified
Sure, if you don't have physical security, you have no security. Goes without saying.
This is old news (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323265).

It also wasn't newsworthy when it happened. There's nothing specific to the GPL really implicated here. All the court ruled was, essentially, that you can't just take someone's copyrighted code and use it without permission. It would have been pretty shocking if any other result were reached at that stage.
Thanks folks! Yea Feynman's spinning plate story about sophomore slump in particular is such a great read
Credit card companies could provide other businesses such as Equifax distinct mere-reference numbers which the customer doesn't see and which can't be used for purchases - just to absolutely identify which card, for all parties. These could be added to the magnetic stripe or chip in the card, for example. (It might be gilding the Lilly, but many such reference numbers could be used for a given card, re privacy issues or otherwise. But then those numbers couldn't be usefully passed between companies for all purposes.)

There's no need for anyone but the customer and Credit Card company itself to retain the actual credit-obtaining-number (other than to allow future purchases with permission, which is the rarer case, often needs to be prevented not facilitated, and doesn't excuse Equifax having more than a reference number.)

Yet the credit card companies don't do this. Why not? 'Cause humans are idiots, all of us, that's why.

PS - run to the patent office and you might be able to make a ton of money patenting this, since patents are now given to whoever shows up at the patent office with the appropriate fees first. Precedence doesn't matter. You would be implying that you thought the idea up independently, of course, but you're smart, right? That's totally the sort of thing you could think of independently. Then when you're rich, you too can help choose what the patent laws look like, and whether rich people should pay taxes.
That was true in the 90s with netscape. Less so during the 80s when his position was being cemented. He even sent IBM over to Gary Kildall initially. It was only after that meeting failed that he went out and bought QDOS.

The point is that Microsoft wasn't always a monopoly. It took skill to get there, and there were opponents that started with much better hands.
I think its more a decompression-safe flight suit.. But cool never the less..
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"Yup, that's why I was late to work this morning." :)
There are many engineers. Very few of them are building new organizations that make things like 747s possible. How much this "skill" is worth can be debated. But if you go by scarcity its certainly more scarce than engineering talent.
Ooh, that's related? I've read through parts of Cox but hadn't gotten deep enough to realise that he does CM! Thanks for the hint!
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I'm sure paying with a stolen credit card is no problem for somebody willing to steal your identity in the first place...
Mortgages tend to have fixed durations, and the amount you'd want to overpay to pay it off earlier depends on so many personal factors that you can't really generalize it in a map like this.
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I've seen at least four class actions filed within 24 hours. The first was last night.
Well, I wouldn't shed any tears over the dissolution of Equifax and other credit agencies - though a lawsuit would of course involve the judicial branch (the courts).

But the problem is:

A. If Equifax gets a judgment for close to or for more than the company is worth, the simplest way one could assure the suit is paid to sell the company, keeping the operation going rather than ending it.

B. Many businesses integrate credit checks into their operations - it's ridiculous and despicable as mentioned by other but most of these companies and individuals (landlord for example) at least imagine they couldn't survive without the credit agencies so this large group would push for another solution then just getting rid of the credit agencies.

C. Getting rid of one credit agencies leaves the other two even stronger.
Probably had to do with a smart dictator. There are lots of examples of bad authoritarians.
Yep, if you don't need any of the fancy NLP features of a library then something like this is the most straight-forward. (In the article I did give a plain Python solution using split() to tokenize and then using Counter to get the hapaxes in the function called "word_form_hapaxes".)
I have stopped using most forms of social media (except this one, obviously), but I don't think the buck stops there. Deleting your profile isn't much of a vote when they don't stop tracking you after your profile has been deleted. It also seems like for most people that to stop using these services would be like to stop using electricity. It's a choice that's almost inconceivable.
Social Security is running a ~$2.79 trillion dollar 'surplus' as they have collected more than they have paid out. Which means they have not been paying out 1:1 with money paid in.

It's also not just a pension fund as you can receive benefits well before 62. Death of spouse with under age children or permanent disability.

Now, this does not mean it's a great or even a good investment. But, the trade off of safety vs returns is not actually that bad assuming you live longer than average.

PS: Another way of looking at it is there are no 100% safe approaches to investing 10's of trillions of dollars. Your stuck leveraging GDP growth which is only slightly better than inflation and frankly that's what SS does.
Besides investing in something with a better rate like others have said, you can also buy a boat and enjoy it while you're young then pay for it later when your salary is higher - even if it only grew to match inflation, that cancels out part of the mortgage interest.
> By common sense: if it is impossible for a man to build a 747 with his bare hands then it is impossible for a man to own more wealth then the cost of a 747 without going through trades and transactions that are unfair.

I don't consider that to be common sense at all. If nothing else, all the humans in the world put together couldn't make a 747 with their bare hands. And yet all the people in the world together have far more wealth than the cost of a 747. So I think there's something faulty in your logic.

More to the point: Who was Gates unfair to? His own workers? He paid them well, in fact above market rates. His customers? They wanted his products more than they wanted their own money.

It sounds like you're just looking at his wealth and saying "that's unfair" without having any idea of what he actually did that's unfair. That's... rather weak.
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Sure, historically that is true, but that historical usage doesn't capture that, philosophically and ideologically - absolute monarchy and communism just aren't that different - both rely on subjugation of the individual's rights to some authority (a monarch in one case, and society in another).

The historical, and common left/right distinction is even more absurd when you consider that socialism is considered left-wing, and fascism is considered right-wing. Where does that leave Nazism? Centrist?

What I like about the spectrum put together by the Objective Standard is that it essentializes the ideological distinctions between these movements, as viewed from the perspective of "degrees of respect for / violation of individual rights".

I am well aware that it's not the way most people understand the terms left-wing and right-wing, but to be frank, most people DON'T understand the terms, because they're not conceptually consistent in the slightest.
I still use the phrase "On The Gripping Hand..." for ternary expressions in English.

Thanks Jerry.
Low-quality article about an incredibly interesting subject.
for anyone interested in more good beginner resources, I really enjoyed this youtube playlist on python NLTK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxgnH8y2NM&list=PLQVvvaa0Qu...

edit* I accidentally linked to another good playlist, but here's the first vid of the NLTK list from the same user https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZvOKSCkxY
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It also leaves you a one-block-long tunnel for a train, and another for a road, for years until you get the blocks around it done - probably for decades until you get a system that goes anywhere.
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