skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the differences in prosecution versus defense budgets. The government has proven it's more than happy to spend millions to prosecute bubble gum theft.
If you are guilty a plea deal is a good deal. If you are completely innocent, and have some money to defend yourself, you have a moral obligation to fight the charges. (Note: I'm no expert on moral authority, it's just how I feel. Sorry)
the issue is its impossible for the state to afford to provide a jury trial to everyone that is currently eligible. A trial has >5 paid professionals involved, plus the jurors, there just isn't enough time or money to process the case load.

the courts/prosecutors, out of necessity, have set up a shadow system of pressuring most defendants into plea bargains based on the relative strength of their case, which would be fine except the rules around this are weak and its ripe for abuse by the lazy or career/politically motivated.

At some point we'll need to admit this and draw up a better system for minor felonies.
They don't "know beyond doubt" in an absolute sense. They know sure enough to make the encrypted drives content part of the trial in the first place, which is a determination the judge made himself and that wasn't challenged by the defense so far.

At some point the main trial will continue, very probably without the decrypted drives. Then the defense will very very likely argue why the hashes aren't enough proof for possession of illegal files, and they will hear experts statements on the matter on both sides, other evidence for the possession etc. And then a _jury_ will make the judgement, with much more factors and on a very different standard of "beyond doubt".
If you were leading NK, and your options were either 1) step down and probably get put on trial and die in prison for warcrimes, or 2) have an insufficient army and be hanged or die in a sewerpipe like Hussein or Gaddafi, or 3) have a really good army that will allow you to conquer enough farmland and natural resources to stave off 1 and 2, and possibly make any attempt to put you back in your box a phyric victory, which would you choose?
This seems to be a bunch of people on Twitter, lead by a security researcher, reading legal documents and coming to conclusions which are being second guessed over the course of the thread.

Some keep quoting this line from the terms of service:

> YOU MUST ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT CONTAINED IN SECTION 4 BELOW, BEFORE YOU WILL BE PERMITTED TO REGISTER FOR AND PURCHASE ANY PRODUCT FROM THIS SITE. BY REGISTERING ON THIS SITE AND SUBMITTING YOUR ORDER, YOU ARE ACKNOWLEDGING ELECTRONIC RECEIPT OF, AND YOUR AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY, THIS AGREEMENT. YOU ALSO AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT BY USING OR PAYING FOR OUR PRODUCTS OR TAKING OTHER ACTIONS THAT INDICATE ACCEPTANCE OF THIS AGREEMENT.

Whereas others have pointed to the Opt-Out:

> Right to Opt-Out of this Arbitration Provision. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE ARBITRATION PROVISION, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXCLUDE YOURSELF. Opting out of the arbitration provision will have no adverse effect on your relationship with Equifax or the delivery of Products to You by Equifax. In order to exclude Yourself from the arbitration provision, You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You first accept this Agreement on the Site (for Products purchased from Equifax on the Site). If You purchased Your Product other than on the Site, and thus this Agreement was mailed, emailed or otherwise delivered to You, then You must notify Equifax in writing within 30 days of the date that You receive this Agreement. To be effective, timely written notice of opt out must be delivered to Equifax Consumer Services LLC, Attn.: Arbitration Opt-Out, P.O. Box 105496, Atlanta, GA 30348, and must include Your name, address, and Equifax User ID, as well as a clear statement that You do not wish to resolve disputes with Equifax through arbitration. If You have previously notified Equifax that You wish to opt-out of arbitration, You are not required to do so again. Any opt-out request postmarked after the opt-out deadline or that fails to satisfy the other requirements above will not be valid, and You must pursue your Claim in arbitration or small claims court.

Therefore, I'd take everything with a grain of salt and/or read the full terms for yourself:

http://www.equifax.com/terms/
The damage is not the cost of getting a new SSN, but the cost of verifying that your info is safe (still safe?). This is why companies routinely list the _cost_ of dealing with hacking incidents (scrub all the servers, pay people overtime, etc). I think it's fair to assign costs similarly for equifax.
So because laws are not perfect, and have at times in the past illustrated issues in our society, because they are the result of a long-term evolution, they can not be trusted? Ever?

Do you not think that in the long-run that our law will make all that is universally agreed to be unethical and harmful to others also illegal?

What I'm saying is law marches in the direction of ever improving it's fit to society. You seem to throw that out the window and think of law as some unrelated and untrustable thing.
3 out of 923 comments is a trend now?

I think you need to reevaluate what you consider obvious/significant.
Yes, but it can be time-consuming.

https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/article/3789/can...
The sane. Frankly people who use this kind of language to insist that the only way to achieve this is through the state are just looking for excuses to be mean to people who don't trust the state.

We've had public key infrastructure for a long time, we have also had legal attestation; the reason we don't use these things to secure this information is that nobody cares.

When the state does it, you get breaches, but nobody gets all that upset. Just look at what happened with the data breach and subsequent coverup in Sweden. One person had half a month's salary docked, and that was it.
Sounds like you found yourself an ex-girlfriend. If you don't think she trusts you, then it might be time to just move on.
Not quite as amenable to summarization in English as the classic rules: https://github.com/samlev/LIFEAsWeKnowIt/blob/master/src/js/...
Note that the manufacturer of the paper used in US currency (and many others around the world), Crane, is located in the Berkshires. Hence part of the reason why the currency looks so good.
Click bait title, article is not actually suggesting Kim Jong-Un will instigate nuclear warfare

Actually it does:

This scenario to stave off an invasion with a limited nuclear attack on a U.S. military target is not irrational, although it is clearly risky and terrifyingly tragic. One wrinkle is that North Korea’s arsenal is currently small and vulnerable, and U.S. military strategy, reiterated by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, is to try to find and destroy all of Kim’s nuclear systems in the event of a war. That gives Kim an incentive to go first, go early and go massively if he is not confident about surviving a U.S. attempt at disarming him. If Kim thinks we are coming after him or his forces, he cannot afford to be wrong and he cannot afford to launch second.

That last sentence is key, so if you're skimming this comment, go back and read it.

To summarize: The basic thesis is that, if Kim believes an attack is coming (not that it has started, that it is simply coming), his rational choice is to use nuclear arms on bases in the region and thus force the US to the negotiating table.
Even the best interception systems have a horrible success rate, it's basically a nice system to have but it's not possible to rely on it for protection. There is no better protection than making sure the missile is not launched in the first place.
It takes 30-40 minutes for an NK icbm to reach the US. About 20 minutes to guam.

But the US missile defense has never seen combat.. only tests. They had 10 successful tests (the last 10) out of 18. But those are planned ahead of time (with trajectories already mapped out), and the missiles don't have countermeasures (which they would in a real conflict). So there's a big question about whether the system will work at all. I don't think anyone is eager to find out.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-usa-d...
Punitive damages.
Tangent, but I've always wondered what the cost of dropping rice (or similar) into country to disrupt it is.

I'd guess that you can drop enough rice to feed the population of NK for around $1-2bil/mo. The cost of the Iraq war was around $8-10bil/mo. So you're talking about 10-25% of the cost of a war effort. (I'd guess towards the higher side.)

But! There's a lot of goodwill to be earned by dropping a steady supply of food across the country during the conflict. At the end of the day, starving people usually care more about food than kings. (Also, for marginally more you can include other kinds of supplies.)
The IT guy is attending DefCon on the council budget.
Clear regulations with legal penalties and regular audits for companies that hold information like SSNs.

Maybe this would lead to a rise in secure storage firms that actually do their job with this so small outfits like employers could continue to identify employees without having to actually have a SSN in the database.
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It may apply only if you enroll in their (toothless) remedy of free credit monitoring. It's not really clear this applies if you just check your data.
Yeah this is not a common denomination. I never saw any of these in the 5 college areas. It just looks like the common chamber of commerce local business promotion scheme than anything too serious.
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Then what's the point of it?
ah lovely "papers please citizen" and what happen when friend computer with all this proof of identity gets hacked.

Maybe the USA needs everyone to have a new ssn and ban with very strict penalties is use by any one other than the state and then only for highly restricted usages as it is in the UK
If Papa John's calls in thousands of fake pizza delivery orders to Donimos, are they doing research on response times and how many drivers their competitor has, or are they committing a crime?
The town is small and has little to offer but is quiet and life is nice if you have income. Life can be extremely cheap here and the food is great. Especially the meat. Eating every day out is possible due to food quality and price. Of course there is junk food around too.

What I like about it is the people. It is easy to make friends and especially in summertime pubs are crowded. Groups and clubs (tennis, basketball, running, etc) are small so you get to know everyone and get invited here and there.

Growing your own garden here is easy because the weather is generally good although in August you should be at some beach and in February it might snow. You breathe and smell each season.

Winter might be a bit boring if you are not active, as in build a tight schedule with many activities, by default.

Now the interesting part is the location. It is 1.5 hours from the closest airport, 45 minutes away from the sea and 1.5 hours away from mountains that you can snowboard.

There is a virgin forest nearby and a river which offers lots of interesting activities. Biking in the city is a bit problematic due to lack of infrastructure but there countless natural mountain biking tracks.

There is a track 1.5 hours away where events happen every now and the and we can go racing.

The closest island which has shores that most will find outstanding, is about 1.5 hours.

Generally speaking, if someone has an income of +2k/month here can live really well. But it's possible to live with 500 $ too.

And everything is about 1.5 hours away.

I like it :-)
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why not create a crypto version that would be distributed to current currency holders? Get rid of the costly cash and you can sell it worldwide if you want to, while Berkshire residents control voting rights on the blockchain. With current crypto prices going sky high, bring some real money into the economy.
The question is how to make a forum that doesn't burn itself down. 'Tone' is sometimes a word people use to trivialize that challenge. I don't find it trivial (rather hard in fact), but others might do better. There is surely room for new kinds of internet community, and if anybody starts one that produces better results at scale than what we have on Hacker News, I'll be interested. If they do it without paying anybody ('subservient to capital'), I'll be doubly interested.

In the meantime, HN is merely one specific kind of community, and it has specific rules which, if people want to participate, they have to follow. Those rules are at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They're not hard to follow for anyone who wants to.
I am using the desktop version. It could just be me but I generally find I cant do much more than sound design or a few pattern "blurb" of a song on any iOS devices or tablets. I like a proper keyboard to bang notes into.
I got into programming while angular 1.x was in its prime, and got onto the new frameworks just as they got going. I can't really discuss RAD or twenty years ago.

I do agree with the maintainable remark though. Things seem like they're slowly congealing in the frontend JS world into the new paradigms we've chosen. But I feel like this is only making way for developers to throw their weight at the backend. It wouldn't surprise me if suddenly a GraphQL competitor came out soon, igniting a new flamewar and churn in API design that we'll all have to start dealing with.
> that will protect your identity for a period of time

For the rest of your life
The notation R^G comes from invariant theory[1]. I'm not aware if it has any connection with exponentiation or if that is just notation, but it wouldn't surprise me because notation in algebra seems to have a tendency to be really sneaky and well connected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_theory
prepaid legal exists

quite a bit better than public defenders, still a lot of incompetence from my experience on the paralegal side, but they'll do the research. I haven't had experience with criminal cases though
> a linguistics or philosophy major, or maybe a pure math major

Of the successful boot camp grads I've worked with, they came from wildly diverse educational backgrounds. Creative writing major, classical musician, public relations, lawyer...
When someone so young dies for nothing the first thing that comes to my mind is to feel, not to reason.
When lies cause harm to others they are usually a type of fraud. Those are crimes.

Edit: I'm talking 'real' harm. The kind you could sue someone for, with real actual damages. Not simply emotional distress or inconvenience.
Try Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road (1961).

It reads almost like it could have been written today. Definitely deserves to be more popular.
> Backblaze B2 costs $0.005/GB/Mo (vs. $0.021/GB/Mo for S3). No reasonable person will have hardware at home that can compete with those prices.

I don't get this. Suppose I have 1TB of data that I want to back up. That's $5/mo with Backblaze. I can get an external 1TB drive for ~$60. Some even have 3-5 year warranties. $60 buys me one year with Backblaze. There's a good chance the hard drive will last much longer.

An external drive also gives me the benefit of higher data transfer rates. I could even splurge and for another $50-60 buy a small fireproof safe to store it in. Then I'm pushing two years with Backblaze. The external drive approach also has the side benefit of not having to trust a third party (yeah, I know, encryption). It seems like a much better deal to me. Does this mean that I am an unreasonable person?
I prefer to use an IDE with tooltips showing types, usage discovery, and where I can jump to a definition with just a click.

Seriously, code printouts are an outdated -- and worse, wasteful -- tool. Maybe they were suitable in COBOL's heyday, but not today.
Funny you ask. I looked into this very thing when I became involved in this situation. There are pre-paid legal services like LegalShield, but most will only cover 20-25% of the cost. This represents a possible startup opportunity IMO.
HVDC is becoming more common for medium and long distance transmission lines because HVDC doesn't suffer from the "skin effect" where current is carried mostly by the outside of the conductor, and therefore you can transmit more power with less conductor with HVDC. The tradeoff is, it's much easier to step up and step down AC voltage (using solid state transformers)
So does Washington State though.
I mean, as long as Equifax is hammered with damages, I'm happy.
I think seeing how you colored it would make a great poster or book -- i.e. as someone unfamiliar with algorithms I would buy the colored in book or set of posters to help me understand them.
It irks me that I can't file a "long term" (7 year) fraud alert unless I can prove with a police report that my identity has already been stolen. It's like giving people a flu shot only if they can prove with a doctors note that they currently have the flu. Hello! We're trying to prevent fraud here!

This whole industry needs to be turned upside down.
In the 1980s I took some classes at MIT on strategic nuclear doctrine and related subjects. Even then it seemed a bit irrelevant, and the more I learned, the more so. It is disturbing to be paging back all that game theory bullshit 35 years later.

(At that point MIT was still heavily into public policy rather than entrepreneurship. Though I am far, far from libertarian, that orientation also seemed outdated at the time).
I think all paid education as we know it fails to well-defined free MooCs. It's just a matter of credibility and the lack of Georgia Tech-level free MooCs at this point
Sorry disagree.... C and Fox Pro were known and used in Russia at least end of 80s when I started to look.for gigs. Pascal I used last time at 1990 as my first contract as a student. Then switched to C. Then added Ada. Clipper/FoxPro/dbase were de facto tools to develop any db backed apps beginning of 90s. When I came to one of the major banks in 1994 and said I'm using oracle they stumbled and said "we are not there yet... dbase ... sorry" lol
I'm perplexed by the logic here. If NK initiated a preemptive strike on local bases, there wouldn't be an opportunity for a second wave of attacks against the US mainland. The United States would retaliate so savagely that there wouldn't be any infrastructure for people to initiate a second strike with.
> For long-distance DC lines, it's a win; the system can use the power.

Do you have a reference for that? They may be more resilient than AC lines, but I doubt these systems are designed to use power generated by solar events.
I grew up in the Berkshires and worked at Crane (making paper for the currency of several countries).

Strangely, I've never heard of BerkShares.
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> Even the ones who do have their identities stolen will likely be made whole by the credit card companies.

Are credit card companies now in the habit of reimbursing consumers for the considerable time and headache required to sort out fraudulent charges caused by insecure data storage practices in the credit reporting agencies that the credit card companies contract with?

There are numerous reports of identity fraud causing a significant amount of trouble for the consumers involved, and as far as I know, not a one of them has ever received a letter beginning, "We're sorry for the time and trouble you went through to clear this up", with an attached check.
There are no "punitive damages" in U.S. Small Claims Courts. Only "actual" (out of pocket) damages.
send in the bailiffs to confisticate goods ideally the c level execs Porsche
New York State Attorney General agrees with you:

https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350532304896
Because extremists exist, and are a product of society. You can hide them, but that does not solve the issue.
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Sf has one of them -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Bay_Cable

On a related note, there was a fascinating article on sf's dc grids by Spectrum https://www.google.com/amp/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/da... (pardon the amp link)

My office building taps into it to power the old school loading elevator!
The _getting started_ part could certainly be a bit smoother, I have had a few issues as well. Generally speaking I think for in-house things you can probably alleviate a bit of the possible dynamic issues that you mention - just by discouraging too much meta-ness.
> 99.9% of people will suffer zero damages because their identities will not be stolen. Even the ones who do have their identities stolen will likely be made whole by the credit card companies.

The extent of the potential damages here isn't limited to credit card fraud. Having your SSN leaked along with your name, date of birth, every recent address you've had, etc. opens you up to a lot of other attack vectors.

Furthermore, credit reports can often inadvertently contain information that relates to one's medical history - you can request that this information be obscured or sealed in your report if you find it, but that means that certain medical information is also within the scope of the potential leak.
Most states have tax nexus rules where that doesn't matter as much anymore. They'd certainly pay PA corporate tax on PA income, then PA payroll on every employee.
They "know beyond doubt" that the drives at least used to contain CP, and most likely do now. It's possible that the CP was deleted at some point, and the only way to determine that would be to decrypt the drives.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Submit_to_HN
> To me, the ideal bootcamp student would be the person who dabbles with programming or programming-tangential technologies on the side, but just needs that little extra boost.

my theory is that bootcamps exist for these people and take advantage of everyone else in order to stay afloat. now the "everyone else" is realizing what happened and the market is collapsing.
I'm curious about this idea. I'm wondering why companies can't invest in employees and why the burden of everything is on the employee to come through the door fully prepared and exactly what a company needs right out of the tin. Often, a previous novice had the role and gradually developed the role and themselves. Then, the company wants to hire some new person at the same salary as the person who left the role with all the developed skill of the previous person. I'm wondering why companies don't do a deal with employees : "we will help you develop skill for free at this job while you get paid, and in return you will work here in some capacity at x salary for x number of years to pay that off. if you leave early, you owe us money" Now, certainly, the employee could really stink and the company could want to fire them, but I think that would be an exception since the employee would have all the positive AND negative motivation to successfully fulfill their contract. This might help solve this pesky student debt problem we have as well.
N people you know? What if I don't have a family or friends?
It's easy to annotate code using modern interactive tools, and even easier to share these annotations with other people. Plus, modern tools also let you inspect the code, analyze usage, etc.