skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> will take a while.

Like in the old days, when scanning the entire IPv4 was seen unfeasible due to the high latency low speed internet but those numbers are going up each day on both network speeds and going down for latency by the time we have 100% IPv6 deployments it will be fast enough. Mirai 2.0 in the making thanks to net-engies pushing IPv6 hard.
Teachers and school districts are under funded in order to create exactly this situation. Some people don't believe in providing all children with the same opportunities, or at least a decent minimum standard, and/or gutting taxpayer funded education makes it easier to push certain religious, economic, environmental, political views.

It's a damn shame my country (USA) can't provide adequate and quality food and schooling to its children, yet is so proud of itself.
For Equifax, you are exactly right [1]. If you lose your pin you just ask for a new one and provide some basic form of id.

[1] https://help.equifax.com/s/article/ka137000000DS9XAAW/What-d...
Can you provide any source material to support this?
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Indeed, and Hotspot is one of the crown jewels of the Java universe. Speed comparisons between Java and Go are not simple, because they are very different beasts. Java has a JIT which compiles code at run time. Hotspot is very good at using run-time information for optimizing the code. The Go compiler of course compiles in advance - so it lacks some information Hotspot might have, and is first of all tuned for compilation speed. But a lot of work has gotten into the Go compiler, and the work continues, so over time one can expect it to emit better code - the Go maintainers are usually very happy about use cases, where components don't behave as expected and improve the corresponding parts.

This blog post compared a very small benchmark between the two languages, but for larger applications, the different way of doing things in Java and in Go has a big impact on performance. The Java object model brings a lot of overhead for memory allocations vs. the Go value types. So at minimum one would expect those languages to have different performance characteristics.
WSJ will show the full article if your referer header is set to twitter.com. You can do a search on Google like so: "https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-faces-fbi-probe-overprogra... site:twitter.com"

https://twitter.com/binarybits/status/906145108277559296
To unfreeze it entirely it looks like it can take no longer than 3 days. Unfreezing it for specific parties it sounds like is less money and perhaps takes less time but that will depend on the company.

Source: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
I purposely don't encourage people to come live where I do because it's pretty sweet not having to deal with crowds and traffic and that's why I moved to where I live. Lucky for me, decades of stigma surround the area and "City Folks" are still afraid of being being tied up and made to "squeal like a pig" if they come here :D

The truth is, here in the US, that's a pretty common fear among urban dwellers and one of the things you have to overcome in many areas in the mid to east southern States (Oklahoma to the Carolinas and south of them).

Urbanites are afraid to drive the back roads there, afraid of getting lost in them, and afraid to venture into National Forests and Wilderness areas. Those who've grown up there feel safest there and they tend to fear going to the City. That's what you're dealing with.

So, you generally pitch it like everyone else does, with a focus on the welcoming nature of the locals, the freshness and authenticity of the food, the charm of the architecture, and the natural beauty of the area, which are all honest and true virtues in most of those rural areas.

If you want to do something different in a marketing campaign I'll offer you might spoof the fears and contrast them with the reality in a humorous way.
It'll be pretty epic for the class if you guys manage to settle this one for tens of millions of dollars too.
David Webb is the CTO. He should get a year in prison for every day he decided not to announce his massive fuck up.
>That guy will still be a very good golfer if he focuses on that.

Not true. Trust me. There is no guarantee. You've not met people who are singularly pursuing a goal, and it's clear they'll never improve past what they've already achieved (which can be no better than average)?
> Focus on being the founder of a successful company in a space that can only tolerate at most a handful of players (that's pretty much any business, once you properly define it) is a LOT harder and sheer willpower is not the only thing required to be successful.

I agree with your whole post, but I urge caution at your parenthetical because it could easily play into the VC mentality of needing 9-10 figures to consider a company successful. Of course it's easy for them to take the risk with other people's money, but as a founder you need to ask yourself what your goal is.

It's dangerous for two reasons: first, you may build something amazing that would easily have been sustainable but fails because unchecked greed demands that it be the biggest even if that is not it's fundamental value (ie. see Twitter). The other is that billion dollar companies are not built by dreaming of the perfect vision, but rather smart execution leveraging available resources and opportunities—the vision sounds good in Wired article, but there are millions of dreamers with visions that never accomplished anything; you need execution and relentless learning, and that is very hard if you are not focused on where you are now and where you want to be in a few weeks or months.
I don't own any credit cards and I do not use credit. Am I still at risk for having credit taken out in my name if I don't enroll in this "credit freeze" protection racket people keep mentioning?
Second report:

http://finance.caixin.com/2017-09-08/101142797.html

No trade allowed between BTC and Yuan, as far as I can make out.
Ask HN: Are you in the path of Hurricane Irma? What are you doing to prepare?
At the contempt hearing, you are allowed to testify that you do not remember your password, and it puts the burden of proof on the government to prove that you secretly remember your password and are lying to the court when you say that you don't. Of course if you do testify this and you are lying, then that's a perjury charge -- which means that for example if you have told your lawyer that you do remember your password, your lawyer cannot knowingly allow you to lie on the stand and could be disbarred etc. if you do. But assuming that you're not lying and so forth, you can just say "I can't comply with this court order because I don't remember the password" and that will suffice for your defense at your contempt hearing unless the government can meet a strong burden of proof that you secretly do know your password and are lying about it, which you are of course entitled to counterexamine and poke holes in.

Rawls did not testify, at his contempt hearing, that he did not remember his password. He did not testify at all at that hearing. He said prior that he doesn't remember his password to the police, and he has said it afterwards to the media, and he might have even said it to a different judge in these weird follow-up hearings--but he didn't say it at the contempt hearing and as I understand it he didn't appeal this hearing directly to say "well shoot I didn't realize I was getting jailed on a technicality, let's re-do this hearing so that I can testify that I forgot it properly."

There are many reasons that Rawls might not have testified; possibly he has a very good lawyer who is concerned about some bigger issues that Rawls might have to address if he testifies at all; possibly he has a very bad lawyer who did not know that this is how forgot-my-password law works and did not read the Supplemental Order the judge wrote explaining why Rawls is being held in contempt of court. I do not know why he did not testify this. However, testifying this is sufficient to be not held in contempt of court, unless the government can meet a stiff burden of proof that you are lying.
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I can relate to this all too much. All my non-tech friends are struggling to get into tech someway, and my programmer friends sit comfortably in their premium mediocre. Interestingly enough, my non-tech friends seem to be the ambitious ones wanting to climb above that level. They are the ones who talk about reform and quasi communist ideas, while the developers sit quietly and comfortably at their computers, not giving class any thought. I am somewhere in between right now, piled with student debt wanting to get out, but wanting to spend those 3 weeks in Europe too.
Can someone explain the true story behind Bitcoin and the price? I can't help but shake the feeling that someone is playing an exquisitely long game.
there's got to be a better site for anything than Zero Hedge, that alone will bury this.
There are millions of Americans who genuinely believe a national ID program is "the mark of the beast" and will hasten the arrival of the Biblical End Times: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=real%20id%20mark...
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Your post title says "lesser known", but it seems like you're really looking for non-tech areas which are normally less crowded. I would argue that most people would opt for more pay or better benefits or other things that are important when choosing a new position rather than just the city.

For example - I would like to live in SF, but I assume I would need to have a house mate...which isn't something I would want.
Incredible, and even down to the speech patterns this Hoser fellow sounds like a pretty typical troll. Unfortunately the herpetologists seem to be not unlike fairly typical victims of trolls in that they are very much on the back foot and having to wait on slow bureaucracy. At the end of the day it does sound like another form of walled garden, this time a restricted herpetological taxonomic database, is probably going to be the way to go.
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Should I be worried about the EquiFax data breach, what should I do about it?
I see they created a site called: www.equifaxsecurity2017.com where you can see if you're affected, but after I entered my information, it just gives me a date where I can sign up for their identity theft program through TrustedId or something like that.

Is this just a ploy (not really, but you see where I'm going) to get more people to sign up for their service? Is there something else that I/we can do without basically giving them more money for their own f* up?
Spare a thought for the people who end up "below the API", as he puts it. Life can be terrible for them. What can we do to make it more bearable, or spare people from ending up there in the first place?
Yeesh.

> Please provide proof of identification, such as a copy of your driver's license, passport, birth certificate or other proper identification forms.

Given that the hack included name, SSN, date of birth, and address, a fake copy of one of these should be incredibly easy to generate.

edit: Driver's license numbers were also leaked in some cases. Fun.
I actually thought it was Bitfinex and the magicked-into-existence Tethers.

(wherein Bitcoin's recapitulation of the history of finance gets to quantitative easing)
Oh whoops I read them out of order in the list talking about the drafting of The Constitution. It may have been the 8th in an original list but two below it were not ratified. I am not worthy!
Sign up with ISP, fill out phone number & info into modem settings, click connect, wait, use ISPs server space they provided for free to each customer. Done?

In many ways I find that easier than dealing with cable companies and their systems.
What editor are you working on?
I picked up this for $18:

https://www.amazon.com/Foseal-Scanner-Adapter-Diagnostic-And...

There is code (not mine) for iOS here:

https://github.com/jeffmcfadden/CarDash
I hope you changed banks after witnessing their sleazeball tactics first hand.
Americans have an distinctive hate for ID cards.
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It's still expensive on client machines because most of the persons in the world are NOT software engineers with 6-digit salaries.

They run cheap computers with HDDs and Windows polluted by a ton of 3rd party crap. They don't know how to fix it and silently suffer.

I was cleaning a local vet clinic's devices recently – they were literally switching between two computers to not wait 5 minutes of non-responsiveness because some bloated software was occasionally consuming 100% of CPU.
How Would the U.S. Defend Against a North Korean Nuclear Attack?
Another firm that filed in Oregon yesterday said they're seeking up to 70 billion in damages for clients nationally.

That's right, billion with a B.
From my reading of the whitepaper, the protocol forces the data to be replicated by scrambling it with the miner's public key. It's not possible to have two identities using the same backing storage. However, two identities could use the same account or even the same disk, in which case the data would be replicated on that disk, which is useless. At the same time, there is no benefit to the miner to doing things that way.

As far as "running away", the miner is paid by the network for proving they are storing some data at a certain time. It's not like a storage contract for someone's individual data paid up front.
If they do something like that in between elections, conservatives will flip.

The sentiment goes something like this:

- Conservatives gave up on minorities, historically stated that the less they vote, the better
- Conservatives push the narrative that voting fraud is a big problem, and that the liberals are doing it (many high profile member's of Trump's family/cabinet are registered to vote in many states simultaneously)

- They push for Voter ID laws and push back against weekend voting days, as it makes it harder for hourly/poor/minority voters to show up and vote.

So it would probably be a great idea, but since conservatives consider non-white franchising is an existential threat to their cause, they'll probably scream "state's rights" and block it from happening.
If you signup for TrustedId you can no longer sue them or be part of a class action suit

https://trustedidpremier.com/static/terms

"PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE SECTION CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS BY REQUIRING ARBITRATION OF DISPUTES (EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW) AND A WAIVER OF THE ABILITY TO BRING OR PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION, CLASS ARBITRATION, OR OTHER REPRESENTATIVE ACTION."

via https://twitter.com/Ondores_Lies/status/906152499303911425
Apparently top tweet from ViaBTC confirms

https://twitter.com/viabtc?lang=en
This mentality is hard to get to for a lot of folks. It doesn't just hit this issue.

Let's talk about race. When a white supremacist wants to kills some folks, sure, that's a problem and we should try to detect, prevent, mitigate, and punish (in that order) their actions.

However, the real issue to solve at a higher level is the societal engineering one where large segments of the population feel a need to turn towards white nationalism. Note: I don't mean "let's make thoughtcrime a thing". I assume the issue is that racially homogeneous rural areas end up with a combination of little welfare and little economic opportunity.

In the medium/long-run, these sorts of issues require UBI, an improved education system, public transportation, and universal healthcare of some sort. That's a tall order and hard sell, so we're left demonizing individuals (treating symptoms).
Let's be clear: Filecoin has no working product. THERE IS NO FILECOIN. $200 million for literally no working demo. We might as well turn VC into a lottery.
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He's right though, with any luck, the SSNs of a slew of politicians will be included in the data leak and then we may just get the ball rolling on change. Hopefully, this is the one that gets us moving.
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It’s common in English. There’s even a sitcom called Black Books that riffs on that
> However, testifying this is sufficient to be not held in contempt of court, unless the government can meet a stiff burden of proof that you are lying.

Which in essence is impossible in most cases, unless you are stupid enough to actually tell people that you refuse to decrypt the drive and those can then testify against you.

It's all a matter of perception. It just shows how much a few words can matter a lot in a legal context, and how by saying you don't remember the password, you will walk, whereas by saying you won't give it up, you'll be held in contempt for 2+ years rotting away in a cell.

Perhaps he could say he doesn't remember the password in a few years? "It's been years, it was a complex password containing a lot of characters, and I no longer know what the password is" -- that doesn't seem unreasonable.
The police and prosecutors in that case are explicitly to blame for basically being lazy and forcing the first suspect they found to be the one they prosecute, irregardless of the evidence which would not support their claim.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/uber-is-apparent...
Phoenix does not qualify the mass transit requirement in any way shape or form. Public transit here is shit.
actually, we've connected with Lopp and he's cool with it. we're looking to contribute back to his material which is open source. but, good points here all-around.
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I'm curious - how long have you been doing this sort of stuff then?
> Aside from the oodles of money that the early adopters will make, what am I missing?

You're assuming that all the people selling storage will be buying hardware for that sole purpose. In reality, many regular people have some free space on their computer that costs them "nothing" and they can sell very cheaply.
Some people really want this feature (OneDrive used to do it), and some people really want the opposite.
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What sort of lousy hard drive encryption reveals hash values of plaintext?
This has nothing to do with phreaking. Phreaking is about hacking the phone network, not covert use of the built-in features of a network-enabled device.
How much does this matter? If a class action suit is filed, does the potential winnings outweigh any value TrustedID brings?
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Quibbling over "most" is beside the point.

There is a real issue where the incentives for the lawyers don't line up well with the interests of the class. The lawyers likely do pretty well if they settle a huge case for tens of millions and the main thing that happens for the class is they can't file a lawsuit anymore.

The financial penalty for the company is better than nothing, but it often isn't all that much and often doesn't do the class any real good either.
To clarify the OP's acronyms:

OPM: Office of Personnel Management, where all the 'blackmail' files for cleared gov employees and contractors are stored, in addition to many other more mundane functions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

DoD: Department of Defense, but this also refers to contractors in places like Lockheed and other smaller contrating firms.

SF-86: Standard Form #86, the form that must be completed to gain any kind of clearance with the gov. These clearance processes can run into the $20k+ range, though not usually, as they have to send agents out to talk to people to verify the applicant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Form_86

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2017/05/31/serious-penalties-...

The 2015 data breach of the OPM was a BIG deal in the security clearance world, as it seems all the blackmail files were stolen. The a large issue was that the OPM worked on an entirely separate internet that the gov built, as in they had totally different wires and cables and everything, very expensive. How this happened is yet to be released AFAIK. Also, many people were trusting the gov with their darkest secrets, so as to be un-blackmail-able by others. Now, the gov is not so trustworthy and this then throws a huge wrench into all of the processes, including retention of employees and recruitment of new ones.
I find it weird that Google doesn't release linux version, considering that majority of their employees seem to use linux (Goobuntu to be precise)? There's even a rumor that they have such an app for internal usage, so why not share it with the world?
well, people buy out of the money options on all sorts of stuff, like oil and other things. It;s a bet that has small limited downside and large upside, so not completely nonsensical. I invested in filecoin. I figured, hell, if I lose 1-2k no big deal, but if this thing takes off, I could make a lot more
StorJ isn't really in this space as the entire system is centralized. You can't buy storage from anyone other than StorJ, nor can you sell storage to anyone other than StorJ. They don't have a free market like Sia (or even Filecoin). The protocol technically supports it but it's not implemented and doesn't seem to be high priority at all.
If someone is working remote (I do, at least for the time being), they might have more choice to choose a location. That is what prompted this question.

I am also not in favor of house mate
I just froze mine yesterday. Seems like the only way to stay somewhat proactive on your SSN being misused.
You must be of color my friend. The system is built specifically to prosecute minorities (or at least make it easier to). Political winds have indicated that a majority of America feel like their "identity" is under attack. Rightly, or wrongly, that is reality. We must all be careful.
> They're the cold, hard and calculating ones who fucked and are fucking over every other generation.

Can you elaborate on how so? I don't agree or disagree because I don't understand how you feel the boomer generation fucked over everyone else?
I'm just a developer in marketing, but I can suggest it.
I've been using a credit checker called Clearscore, who as far as I recall get their credit information from Equifax. Has this breach affected any of their customers outside of the US?
I mean, the OPM breach didn't.
Is there a dump available for this yet so we can see just how massively F*ed we are now?
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Yes, but does this desktop application? I recall that their old sync client unfortunately did not support U2F
For anyone who wants an explanation at just how bad the social security number really is, this is the most enjoyable explanation for it I've seen, by CGP Grey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
New code for flipping a specific bit in a human genome
That makes me privileged, and lucky, and maybe a bit square, but it doesn't prove me wrong.
More info on that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753492
I'll wait for Python Chocolate.
first hand knowledge that is does happen without any milestone completion or even Public PR. it's VC-VC FOMO. it is a real thing.
If the hackers have any sense of humor they'll sign everyone up on their behalf.
In Brazil, mandatory arbitration is valid only on non consumer contracts.