skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major issue with our justice system is that it is connected to a large portion of the economy. Sending people to jail, and making them pay fines generates money for a lot of entities. Until this is remedied the poor will continue to be treated as fuel for the legal machine.

If you are poor and charged with a crime you cannot afford a good attorney and you will more than likely be forced to plea and get either fined or jail time. Once you have been convicted your upward mobility will be retarded and the cycle will repeat.

On top of that, the bail system is used to enforce this cycle. A poor person is arrested, and bail is set at $5k. They cannot afford it so they sit in jail awaiting trial. They will plea guilty out of desperation just to get out of jail and try to get back to work to support their family. (Guilty plea does not necessitate prison)

The whole system is rigged to punish the poor and allow the rich to purchase a get out of jail card.
Could we create a service that automates most of the work required to sue in SCC?
And most colleges. I think what is missing is learning to code in a variety of languages vs just one or two can give you a different prospective. When I went to college we learned everything from jcl to php with the core being java. Being able to pick up different languages is one of the most employable skills one could have and that aspect is usually missing from bootcamps.
> It never gets turned into HTML

Really? So users get the JS code in the browser rendered in the same way as the code source looks, not the dynamically built DOM model which has the native representation form of HTML? Surely JSX is an abstraction layer on top of the createElement thing, and that thing is a part of the building strict template model scenario.
There's a substantial faction of the American right wing which is vehemently opposed to any sort of national ID scheme. They don't want the government having a big database of all citizens. Strangely, these tend to be the same people who want to require photo ID to vote.
It's a sign of how awful Equifax is that I find myself rooting for the lawfirms in this case. I really hope they win, and that they get the full $70 billion, and that it's enough to shutter Equifax permanently. What a win that would be! Also it would serve as a nice cautionary tale to companies that infosec matters. That insurance for data breaches matters.

Because right now, it's too easy for them to not care. It's us that suffer the consequences, not them. That has to change.
I don't know.. maybe.

Russia is said to be currently supplying arms to the taliban. Their goal there (to disrupt american efforts) would be the same as in NK. And China is NKs ally today, and has said they would assist if the US restarted the war (except if NK uses nuclear weapons). Both helped them during the Korean war. Both share a border with NK, making it easy for them to do so again. And both have been clear they don't want a pro-american state at their border (in Russia's case, on their western border).

If war breaks out, it's very likely it'll be NK+China+Russia again (unless there's a very clear wrong by NK). In other words, NK will likely have more military options than the article admits once a war breaks out.

But if NK uses nuclear weapons, that may change. Would China and Russia continue to back someone who used them? That's the question, and it's not a given that they would.
I have first-hand experience in this area. Someone close to me was accused of a crime she didn't commit. The police officer was hell bent on arresting her on the worst possible charge. At her initial hearing, the public defenders were flippant and detached, and generally unhelpful. After she hired a criminal defense lawyer, he more or less forced her to take a crappy plea deal that he negotiated (and made the prosecutors look like winners). If she did not, it would mean tens of thousands of dollars to defend herself.

The flaws I personally witnessed through the ordeal:

1. The police have arrest quotas, and enormous pressure to "make the arrest" regardless of the cost, or whether the person is actually guilty.

2. Criminal defense lawyers love the system as-is and will fight to protect it. More arrests mean more business. An absolute worst conflict of interest that you can imagine.

3. Public defenders will do the minimum amount of work, and will always strong-arm you to take a plea deal.

4. The whole system is rigged against you. You are guilty the moment you first enter the court room. Nobody cares whether you are really guilty or not - judges, lawyers, prosecutors, clerks, cops.

5. The worst part of all - there is a strong groupthink among these power players. They wholeheartedly believe they are living gods, protecting the world from societies ills.

My hope is that one day there is true criminal justice reform. The fact that America has the largest incarceration rate is a red flag.
Is there any legal way to stop sales like that? If it were shown that Equifax were negligent in protecting the data on their systems, could a court demand that they remove all of the data to mitigate further harm?
The current Secretary of Education is married into the family that built Amway. And her brother is currently trying to privatize the army. Interesting times.
I’m not totally convinced that mutual deference is sensible but this doesn’t make any sense, unless I’m missing something:

Pyongyang’s conventional inferiority requires it to degrade the United States’ ability to sustain the attack against it. This means it essentially has no option but to use nuclear weapons first against targets such as Andersen Air Force Base in Guam…

Pyongyang can’t affect the US’ ability to respond in any meaningful way. Even if Guam sinks into the sea, there’s still South Korea, Japan, ICBs & the US Navy. On top of that, there’s no guarantee that North Korea could even hit Guam without getting intercepted, and trying but failing would certainly means a massive counterattack.

I think the big new issues with a Nuclear North Korea is probably proliferation related. North Korea has a tiny economy with exports of just 4-5bn, less than a small US city. Selling an occasional bomb could triple their exports bring in foreign currency, which they are starving for. Even if they got caught, would the US respond to a nuclear armed country?
That's a very positive outlook. Maybe it was just the governments way of initiating a distributed file sharing service?

By strange coincidence, the missus was saying that she needed another drive to backup more photos. I told her she didn't need to, the NSA already has them archived. She did not see the humor.
I suppose I'm still not conveying my point (or I'm misunderstanding the points of others).

Either way (pro-quartering/speech or anti-quartering/speech) a business has no impact on those rights. A business can't decide to quarter soldiers in your house. A business can't "restrict" free speech (unless that business is a complete monopoly in that market, a separate issue) as a user can easily find another registrar or start their own registrar to meet their needs.

Put another way, if your local theater won't allow you to show "Triumph of the Will", that's not a restriction on your speech, because you can start your own theater.
I saw your post about this in the other thread. If anyone wants to work together on this idea, my contact info is in my profile. If someone has a lawyer we can loop in (or is a lawyer), that would be ideal.
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You can enjoy what you have while still looking to improve it. I don't follow your argument that just because people want further improvement they are somehow "entitled".

Just because something is better than the past doesn't mean we should be happy with it. I'm happy I'm not a slave, but that isn't my minimum bar for happiness just because it was for someone in the past.

"Entitlement" seems to be the new way of telling our young people that they don't deserve to get anything better than (or even the same as) what their elders got. I don't buy that.

I think my life is great, and I'm happy with what I have - that doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying to improve my life and the lives of others.

Yes, knowing your history is important, for many reasons, but suggesting that we are "entitled" because we want to improve things further just sounds like trying to pull others down to your level out of jealousy.
So now I need yet another service, which may not be accessible to the other people.

I'm going to stick with the one that does the things that I want it to do now, and doesn't require me to hope that the other person can see what I'm trying to post.
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Why not? Wouldn't it be the same as the kid that automated fighting a speeding ticket or traffic infraction ticket?
No they are not Nazis anymore than I'm a Freemason because I say I am and hang some of their symbols up. Even less so, because Freemasons as a group are still active, the NSDAP is defunct.

It's just that saying "literal fucking nazis" sounds so much more dramatic than "Neo Nazis" or "
fucktards pretending to be nazis".
Watch how quickly your career comes to a standstill if you go around your manager trying to resolve issues or push your ideas forward. CEO's may state things like this but its usually just lip service.

I've seen one employee use our "whistle blower" hot line and he ended up being fired and then had the company use their considerable legal resources to mire his court claim until he ran out of money and his US visa expired. It was disgusting to see.
This was a great read. The step by step along with the videos make this super engaging even if this not my area of expertise.
Can I actually do this? Cause if I can I'm totally doing this.
Use of the site they created to check if your data was leaked may contain terms and conditions that waive your rights to sue.

[1] https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/906178254331142144
Map draws `closing` on top of `still open`, hiding reality.
So you understand that the amount emitted over time is not equal to the amount currently present? Why, then, do you compare emissions when your question was about the amounts currently present?
What are the best news source and/or news aggregation service for developers?
Reading this makes me relieved that Nazi Germany did not obtain nuclear weapons - else a regime change ousting Hitler might not have happened at all, and it would've been free to carry on its agenda with less fear of Allied intervention.
Disagree. Engineer here - I did a 6 week bootcamp and immediately got hired at Amazon. $150k+, the most I've ever been paid. Still learning tons but my experience was quite positive.
> if you're trying to position yourself as "the free speech registrar", but draw the line at white supremacy because you're in an interracial marriage, then the signal I get from that is that you clearly don't cherish all free speech

Not really. Free speech works both ways. You can't fault Mark's logic here.
I don't know what to do with comments like this.

I made a statement of fact. I'm making no normative claims, I'm describing reality. At this point in time, there is zero additional security provided by the implementation. Am I supposed to ignore reality and lie about it, because someday things will be better?
What is free speech for if not to protect "extremist" speech? Under your rubric, we'll just call whatever we don't like "extremism" and suppress it and that would be allowing free speech.
Why $1,000? And how would you prove damages equaling that amount?
There was an article in WSJ yesterday highlighting the hypocrisy of Big Tech when it comes to Net Neutrality. Everyone keeps railing against telecoms that they might start censoring things or making them unprofitable, while there isn't a single example of that anyone can name. Yet there are a lot of recent examples where tech companies censor or demonetize the material they don't like. Daily Stormer is an extreme example, of course, but there are far less extreme ones as well. The other day Dave Rubin got a lot of his videos demonetized without explanation. There's no "hate speech" in his videos and never was. And that's just one example out of dozens just recently.

You can't eat your cake and have it too. Tech companies should not be in the business of censoring views they dislike, even in the extreme cases such as this one, especially if they insist that telecoms must operate like utilities.
Yeah, and you just put some paint over the chip, it will beep 3 times and then let you use the signature, even for cards which are marked "electronic use only". It's a failsafe for situations when the chip is genuinely damaged, the terminal lets you sign for the transaction.
His book on linear algebraic groups finally comes out via CUP in a couple of weeks. I haven't read recent drafts but it should address a real need:

http://www.jmilne.org/math/Books/iag.html

I've found his notes most useful when, because of the medium, he is able to provide more background, detail and examples compared to the standard texts.
plot twist: password is "I don't remember my password"
@frwntfwtr s/Dykstra/Dijkstra in the survey
PHP's everything-is-a-template philosophy is also a user experience enhancement for developers. React's nested components may provide a much saner rendering model than PHP's glorified string concatenation, but that's a separate question from how their templates are parsed.

PHP templates advertise, and do in fact provides, most of the same benefits as JSX. There are almost no new concepts to learn, the syntax is the same as the language proper, and developers have the full expressive power of that language at their disposal wherever they want it.

In practice, however, this seems to fail more often than not in a couple of ways. First, inexperienced developers (i.e. all developers at some point in their career) have a hard time resisting the urge to inline their business logic into their presentation logic. And second, the resulting templates are as often as not illegible, often requiring a reader to trace substantial chunks of tangentially related procedural logic in order to understand what will actually be rendered.

It's important to remember that PHP templates seemed like a good idea at the time. They did, and do, have real short-term benefits, and talented developers can leverage those benefits to great effect. But it turns out those benefits come with real long-term penalties, and besides, many developers are too green or too pressed for time or just don't care enough about the task at hand to wield that power consistently well enough to reliably reap the benefits in the first place. The PHP community has spent the last decade painfully crawling out of that tar pit; I'm not thrilled to see the JS community happily diving into it.
It seems that checking to see if you're affected by the Equifax breach waives your right to sue Equifax:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/07/i-called-equifax-to-find-o...

No idea how ironclad such a clause would be,k though.
If you mouse-over it, it will tell you the exact date: 2008-12-21

<time title="21 Dec 2008, 18:19" datetime="2008-12-21T18:19:19+06:00">9&nbsp;years ago</time>
Because then you're just applying a subjective set of rules and only protecting speech you agree with. The purpose of free speech is to ensure a world where no entity (such as the government) can dictate what is acceptable and unacceptable speech based on the sole views whatever party happens to be in control. I.e. do you want a trump administration to modify free speech to be "mostly free speech, except for extremists"? Do you think your view of extremists closely aligns with their view?
> During the Second Punic War, roughly between 210 and 205 BC the expanding Roman Republic captured Carthaginian trading colonies along the Mediterranean coast. Although it took the Romans nearly two centuries to complete the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, they retained control of it for over six centuries.

The Latin speakers (i.e. the Roman Empire) actually controlled Iberia for about as much time as Arabic speakers (i.e. various caliphates and emirates) :)
Please share your definition of "absolute free speech", as the government has defined many exceptions and regularly limits the speech of citizens. Would your definition exclude those exceptions?
Presumably (s)he holds a US credit card. The stats on this release are such that most adult Americans are more likely affected than not.
That should be ex-post-facto of the data breach (i.e. they leaked your data before you agreed to the TOS so you waive your rights to sue from that point forward). I'm not a lawyer and I wouldn't agree to this. I checked and I am affected. I'm going to sign up for LifeLock (because it's super expensive) and file a small claim to recoup the cost.

I really hope this puts Equifax out of business.
Because it's not a simple problem. If you ask me for a loan, how do I know who I'm loaning the money to, who will be accountable for paying it back to me? If we have no prior relationship, then there's no pre-existing password I can use to authenticate you. What's your solution?

A government provided security token of some sort, backed by a government database? A lot of people have all kinds of problems with those, from trusting government's intent, to their competency, to their security.

A private party identity provider? Go start it.
Thanks for your interesting perspective :)

I always think of people who use C professionally as people who have been doing it for a _very_ long time and know a lot about it. In that situation it would be exceptionally hard to find any employment working with C.

I've always been hesitant at many Project Euler problems since some of the math is off putting to me. That's why I consider building something (like a side project or something of use).

Using C as a learning tool to better understand programming would be a great idea and I'll likely venture into that- hopefully something comes of it though! :)
I'm not so sure about that. Nazi Germany invaded many neighbouring countries. You can bet that if North Korea invades South Korea the presence of nuclear arsenal won't cause the UN to simply ignore their actions.
You actually might be overpaid since you don't even understand a concept as simple as supply and demand.

If you really feel so bad about what you get paid, tell HR you want to take a pay cut. Maybe they'll be happy to help.
Yes, that's what this premium mediocre concept seems to boil down to, something pretending to be more expensive than it actually is.

What irks me is that mediocre implies a lack of distinguishable quality, but this is separate from how much something costs. To use the avocado toast example given in the article, if the avocado toast is healthy and genuinely tasty, is it still mediocre? Are all cheap products like bread by nature 'mediocre'? I don't think so. This is where I see that the term falls down, it conflates price and quality where this relationship is not necessarily direct.
One thing I'm trying to wrestle with is why they would make you agree to arbitration for actions prior to signing TOS if indeed it applies only to the child company. Your relationship with the child company begins when you sign the TOS, no?
> So your argument that what makes a person a good software engineer is the whiteboard coding algorithms?

No, his argument is that what makes a person a good software engineer is the ability to think about an abstract problem and come up with a solution to it.
Prosecutors said Rawls has a lot of "chutzpah" to even ask to get out of jail while he appeals the contempt-of-court order to the Supreme Court, which has never decided whether forcing somebody to decrypt hardware amounted to a Fifth Amendment violation.

He's being held in jail on a basis that may violate his constitutional rights, yet he is the one with chutzpah?
I think this has been answered many times over, even the most extreme free speech absolutists tend to agree that direct, specific threats are unacceptable. General, non-specific threats and expressing joy about violent acts however... opinions vary.
I'd pay $20 for a service that can walk me through what to do/say, templates legal forms, etc. I would absolutely take the time to sue Equifax in small claims court.
I don't think this logically follows. More likely, Equifax will settle out of court for a much smaller sum. At that point there's now a literal dollar amount associated with a data breach. Perhaps some math will be done, proving out that there would need to be "N" number of breaches before the cost of settling out-of-court for the breaches would be more expensive then materially changing the way they manage data. And "N" number of breaches, that's just so unlikely.

At that point it would be fiscally irresponsible to properly secure this data. They would owe it to their shareholders to continue with their shoddy security and data management procedures.
And to expand on this fairness, he also appears to be a bit of a nutjob, blaming his lack of widespread recognition on an organized, racist "deep-state" conspiracy involving the military-industrial complex [0].

There are plenty of people who are intelligent in a canonical, book-learned sense, but who are nevertheless badly stunted in other cognitive areas. Call it emotional intelligence or whatever, but folks who are retarded in this aspect can be simultaneously "smart" and yet behave in outlandishly stupid ways. Shiva seems to me a sad and extreme case of this.

0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6lfinq/im_shiva....
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Are there any good tutorials for cross platform development with C++ on windows.

I just want to avoid MSVC compilers and use clang or gcc.

Also, C++ module/package/library management is very very confusing. You have to configure multiple files in multiple folders and multiple configuration entries.

I tried it almost a dozen times and just left it out of frustration.

Compared to development with python, it's just mind numbing.
How does Equifax build their database of people exactly? If it's all based on public information then they could argue that it's not really a leak. They are merely interpreting public information to build credit score.

If guess for subscribers they could get more information than publicly accessible. What fraction does it represent?
Frankly what is necessary here is a version of medical malpractice for the IT industry. If you do something which is far outside what is considered industry best practice and it results in a penetration which harms users, you should be criminally liable in severe cases with strong punishments. People from these companies should also be black balled out of the industry.
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I think the author's conclusion is a little "throw out the baby with the bathwater".

I do want to plug a couple of my favorite kmacro-related emacs features though:

M-x kmacro-edit-macro "edit the last defined keyboard macro"
M-x kmacro-edit-lossage "edit the last 300 keystrokes as a keyboard macro"

Both bring up a buffer with a keyboard macro expressed as an s-expression, and you can edit it and then press C-c C-c to save it.

The first is useful when you need to tweak a keyboard macro but don't want to completely re-record it. The second is sometimes useful for deciding that that thing you just did, you want to do it N times instead of 1.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ed...
I would pay 20% of every penny that I win in the lawsuit
Squash debugger for microservices
Yeah, better to aim a little lower, earn some money, and then shoot for the moon.
Electric roll-up blinds...