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> I'd agree with his argument if that's what it is, just not his example.

I guess I wasn't very clear, then. The parent is correct, my argument did include: "ability to think about an abstract problem and come up with a solution to it."

I was trying to use a bit of brevity in my example but these responses make me believe I oversimplified an actual recent problem I had in mind (which is what I believe make the best interview questions). I do try to attach more business needs to the questions I've asked during interviews. Instead of:

"how would you store 1 million strings, search through them while caching results, and make sure only certain individuals can access certain strings"

What I really had in my head was: "We have tens of thousands of PDFs that we need to extract text from to make available. That text needs to be normalized. Only certain members of certain teams should have access to different types of text. Additionally, this is going to produce millions of strings. How would you get the PDFs to a place you could use them, extract the necessary text, normalize it, store it, utilize caching to make retrieving it snappy, and ensure correct access?"

Technical interviews should be more full of questions that spark conversations where additional inquiries come naturally. What kind of software? What version? What framework? Could you do that faster? And so on. Rattling off whiteboard questions is definitely what I was trying to make an example of avoiding.
So you argument is we should kill millions of people, if their country is not changing quickly enough for us?
If you did enough dirty work to get to the top of a corrupt organisation you can be quickly removed if you try to challenge the status quo. After all, all your peers have a ton of dirt on you.
Me. The less sensitive information on me that is centralized, the better for my privacy and security, as very clearly demonstrated by this leak.

If you think Equifax's security is bad, wait until you see what it's like at any government agency that doesn't explicitly focus on security.

It's also pretty unlikely that a credit bureau decides to use vast stores of personal information to prosecute people, but governments have done this several times throughout history, perhaps most notably during WWII.
Many (not all) Christians believe such a system to be the biblical "mark of the beast" as described in the Book of Revelation.

That's the most politically significant opposing group, IMO.
Yes - but I'd rather remove the prohibition on a whole swath of currently criminalised activities.
infinite jest by david foster wallace - the author is himself the embodiment of middle/upper class existential angst and it seeps into all of his work

will also second revolutionary road by yates, and the swimmer by cheever, although they are a bit dated at this point
Minneapolis is such a long shot in my opinion, because very ambitious people tend to move to the coasts.
SHA and PIN.

For online verification(banking, contracts, taxes, voting etc) you need both physical card and PIN at the same time.

Otherwise it works just as any other normal ID.
This guys [1] apparently predicted the Mexican quake last night. He has an interesting theory regarding connection between Solar activity and earthquakes. Let's hope he's a crank as he's predicting more events for the weekend.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse
Facial recognition is not just another technology, it will change society
The Attorney General of NY says it's not:

https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350532304896
Learning math isn't "really, really hard", but it is unforgiving in a particular kind of way: you're basically required to internalize a concept fully before going on to later concepts. (This is coming from being mostly self-taught up through calculus-level math)

Students often don't fully grasp one concept before the teacher moves onto the next topic. Once this happens, the student is missing a crucial building block and tends to just get stuck with all the later things that build on it. This is a common experience in schools and I suspect is the origin of the "math is hard" trope.

It can be hard for a student to self-evaluate whether he/she has full mastery of a topic. This is exacerbated by situations where a struggling student will go to office hours or work with classmates and "solve" a problem, without having acquired the skills to solve slightly different permutations of that same problem on their own.

In programming, we don't have this problem. You can write HelloWorld without understanding console IO, terminal protocols, window buffers. You can write a webapp without knowing the OSI stack. Software is built upon abstractions.
how do people feel about specialized bootcamps like data science? has anyone done them?
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PHL has no trans-pacific flights.

These are the American cities which you can fly to and from Shanghai nonstop: Chicago, Dallas, LA, NYC (+Newark), San Francisco (+San Jose), Detroit, Seattle, Boston. Atlanta starting next year. In Canada there's Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.
Exactly - my car has the sensors to do this already, it knows the inside and outside temp, I would like it to crack the windows when it's hotter inside, and run the blower on low. It could even use the rain sensor on the windshield to close them if necessary.
> It strikes me that at the very least credit rating agencies should be non-profit and very closely monitored by government. This will include ensuring security best practice is followed.

Tell that to people riding their free class-action credit monitoring from when their OPM background investigation records got leaked to the russians or chinese thanks to the government's "security best practices".
Most of the internal talk I've seen favors Vancouver. It's geographically close (with excellent transportation), is big but still has room to grow. Canada in general is a good choice because they have more lax limmigration policies.
Also like Google fighting click-fraud.
I'm just hoping San Jose wins its bid, for no other reason than it'd amuse me.
This is unreal... How is this any different than procedures in North Kore or Burma? I don't care if I'll lose 10 points for this comment. I just feel sad that such a great place as SV is located in a country on a level of Burma, if you travel just 500 miles east.
And how exactly are these so-called "near-monopolies" hurting consumers? Last I checked, nobody is forced to use Google for search, and people have a choice between buying Intel or AMD processors.

Just because a company makes better products than other companies, that doesn't make it abusive or detrimental to society (in fact, quite the opposite is true). If Intel's prices were unreasonable, no one would buy their processors and the next best alternative (AMD or otherwise) would steal their market share. Same with Google and Microsoft.
Agreed. Any company worth its salt should allow me to authenticate myself purely cryptographically if I want to do so. This is easier, more secure, and more human-friendly than a centralized government ID registry.

Unfortunately, most companies aren't worth their salt.
I didn't agree to the terms though. They were just linked to the page I used.
You don't need to convince me, but you'd be surprised some of the pushback I've gotten[0].

I don't have a lot of experience with GIS, but you're telling me that a linear scan through all the features on a map isn't good enough? :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14129543
Good stuff, HAAT(height above average terrain) always makes a big difference.

I regularly see APRS packets of 120mi+, although probably at a lot more power. The current record seems to be near ~2,000 mile[1] bounced from the ISS.

[1] - http://qrznow.com/new-iss-packet-distance-record-claimed/
> 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?

It's not a "habit", it's the law. It doesn't matter how the fraudulent charges came to be. If a person disputes a charge and has evidence to show it's fraudulent, then by law the credit card company has to investigate, and deal with it.

It also makes business sense. CC companies make a ton of money with legal transactions, and an anti-consumer, pro-fraud reputation would cost them customers.

> 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.

Why would the bank or credit card company send a check? Presumably they're not the one who committed the crime, so why should they cover the damages?

I've had my identity stolen, and it was a PITA to clear up, but the bank and credit companies were reasonable about it, IMO. In a case like this, where it's easy to point at the Equifax breach and say, "See? This is how they got my info.", it's probably even easier to clear up, though I'm sure it's still a hassle.
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"you are free to decide when others can't speak freely" is a bit reductionist considering we're talking about a platform providing the capability for others' speech. Other situations that introduce nuance are private spaces, individuals' social media feeds, etc.

It's not about "freedom" to restrict others' speech- it's about freedom not to support it or to listen to it.
The BBC also wrote about this story (as did various other sites), but I feel the Mashable one give a bit more detail none the less.

Either way, some other sources are as follows:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41174069

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/05/war-photograph...

https://www.wavelengthmag.com/wavelength-travel-writer-ident...

Still, it's a good warning for media publications really. Vet your sources very carefully, since there are lots of frauds and charlatans out there, some of which are pretending to be respected photographers.
What's Volvo's motivation here? The entire Luxe business model was wildly unprofitable and the UX as a consumer (egregious weight times at both drop off and pick up) was awful.
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The audience is too large & diverse, the downvote would be exploited. HN benefits from a small, rather homogeneous audience.
>And while it's almost inevitable that discussions about class action suits will involve complaints about the lawyers fees, that's not really fair.

Of course it's fair. It's not like the members of the class get to shop around for cheaper lawyers. The class gets shit either way, they just have to decide if they hate the company more than the lawyers that charge the obscene percentages. And you can't make any kind of cost argument because a billion dollar case isn't anymore complex than a million dollar case. The whole point of it being a class is that it impacted everyone the same so the dollar figures don't change the complexity.
Humans Need not Apply. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
> and the weather will be a turn off.

Wow, one of the few cities that competes poorly with Seattle weather.
I was not aware the citizenship of the hackers had any bearing on Equifax's liability in this case.
I really liked this idea as an approach to learning algorithms, and i think it would really enhance people's understanding of an algorithm, because it's easier when they visualize it like that.
But i think this would work better with younger people and high school students.
I wouldn't label Flippa a competitor. Flippa is filled with nothing but scammers. Who want to downvote me go right ahead. I stand by what I said.
Also note that other countries don't have this insanity.
Maybe. But it can be more easily solved on a strongly typed language where you can right click on a method and do "find usages" and it can. E done algorithmically.
They have to be able to get top talent willing to move to whatever city they select.
How about SF? No Hurricanes out here!
It could be fake news, or it could be well founded rumors - with China, it's very difficult to know.

EDIT - FWIW: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/viabtc-ceo-china-will-ban-bi...
PHL is a hub for American. There's no reason they couldn't start trans-pacific flights from PHL if the demand exists.
Uh, "mark of the beast". (I usually don't correct other people's spellos on HN, but this one could be confusing.)
I think Epic also has trouble recruiting because they work on an outdated stack using an arcane (and often counterintuitive) programming language for an industry that is itself probably a few decades late to any tech (probably for good reason, but the point stands).
Agreed. I believe Facebook understands the true problem, but simply can't address it without major changes to structure and philosophy. So they do things like this- to appease lawmakers just enough to avoid scrutiny.
I posted this elsewhere but I'll repost here:

The Navy Yard literally ticks every box of their requirements:

30 Mile proximity to population center: It's IN the city.

45 Minute proximity to international airport: It's about 15 minutes drive from the airport, or you can take mass transit.

1-2 Miles from Major highways: It sits basically ON I-95
Close to Major arterial roads: Within 10 minutes of 295, NJ Turnpike, I-76

Access to mass transit at site: Bus routes to site, subway stop a 5 minute shuttle ride from site

500,000 sqft of development space: Currently prepped for 4,000,000 sqft of office development, shovel ready

Up to 8,000,000 Sq Ft of Development space beyond 2027: 13.5 Million square feet of space at full build out.

Literally every box ticked, in a tax haven. The city could justify a BSL expansion to the Navy Yard with this sort of development, so they could throw that in as a deal sweetener.

There is also the Schuylkill Yards district in planning which would involve capping the train yard next to 30th street station. Both Schuylkill Yards and the Navy Yard have master plans in place, and the Navy Yard is ready for this basically day one. Both are Keystone Opportunity Zones and have abatements on almost all state and local taxes.

Philly really is a perfect fit.
what "these" do we have 100 of? X class flares, or X class flares facing the Earth? Because just by chance we are usually out of harm's way.
So you think it's likely the number of "will not hire fresh from bootcamps" is limited to the 5 which explicitly state?

No, of course it isn't. The only question is how much larger the number is. That is not assuming but extrapolating and is how statistics works.

You know some bootcamp grads that got jobs. Great. That isn't in dispute though. Perhaps some bootcamp grads getting jobs is what led to the "will not hire from bootcamp" policies. Now _that_ is an assumption. Or rather speculation.
Yeah, it's like any industry affected by a goldrush. Badly run companies spring up to capitalise on the popularity boom, and when the situation inevitably corrects itself, those companies shut down or fail.

No different to how Pets.com or Webvan bit the dust when the dotcom boom started winding down.
Which universities are within an hours drive? Michigan, obviously.
That doesn't make you a user. It just means the bank gave them your info.
This is an interesting point. I'm not great with math, but I'd love if you could share how you calculated that?
There was a class action suit because a company was marking up the cost of the goods / services they were selling? Isn't this just called business?
Their FAQ [1] now appears to explicitly say so: that the class-action waiver and arbitration agreement only apply to disputes over the credit-monitoring product itself, not over the original breach. I don't know if they have some way to still weasel out of that, but publishing that clarification on their website seems like it'd make it harder?

Do the TrustedID Terms of Use limit my options related to the cyber security incident?

The arbitration clause and class action wavier included in the TrustedID Premier Terms of Use applies to the free credit file monitoring and identity theft protection products, and not the cybersecurity incident.

[1] https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/frequently-asked-questio...
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I will also crowdfund taking down EQ.

Give me a service and I'm ready to pay.
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I don't know about other states, but in California if you sue a corporation in small claims court, they can NOT send an attorney:

Corporation or other legal entity — A corporation or other legal entity (that is not a natural person) can be represented by a regular employee, an officer, or a director; a partnership can be represented by a partner or regular employee of the partnership. The representative may not be an attorney or person whose only job is to represent the party in small claims court. An attorney may appear to represent a law firms as long as that attorney is a general partner of the law firm or is an officer of the corporation. However, in both instances, all the other members of the partnership and all the other officers of the corporations have to be attorneys as well.[1]

[1] http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/small_claims/basic_info.s...
>they carry so much responsibility?

How's that working out? It doesn't really seem to me that CEO's ARE carrying that responsibility.

Maybe it once was true, but it certainly is not anymore.
The reason why boot camps are shutting down is because money is drying up. They are either predicting we are about to head into recession and/or that the hiring of entry level developers is going to dry up in the coming months/years.

Go back to 2004-2007. There were tons of "training schools" for developers. They all cashed out right around the time of the financial crisis.

Then around 2012, they all resurfaced as "boot camps".

Rising interest rates, saturated employment environment and 10 years of insane growth probably means that they don't see much room for growth in the near term so they are closing shop.

They'll be back in a few years under different branding once the environment changes.
>So you argument is we should kill millions of people, if their country is not changing quickly enough for us?

I don't see how any intelligent person could think that I am arguing that based on what I wrote. I think it is obvious what I was arguing, however I'll try to make it as clear as possible. I was arguing that your statement, to wit:

>Like with any country, change is slow and has to come from within

Is simply false.
From the article:

Remember in our scenario, we need the file to compile with a gcc on a 64 bit system, without any special modifcations to the compiler flags, so that means there is no special compile flags, nor can we include any custom linking steps and we want to use GCC inline AT&T syntax.

Edit: whoops, that was from a link to a similar thing in the comments. I apparently missed the real article, which I'm off to read now.
Philadelphia is an hour by train to Newark Airport, which does non-stops to Beijing. It's not as ideal as it being in the local airport, but it's also not that far away.
Every fixed-size numeric type.
> it makes React's life easier.

It makes the programmers life easier by allowing JavaScript, not just React, to reason about GUI components before they are rendered.

You can use JSX with something other than React if you want to. React just happens to be the most popular kit that is using it right now.
A lawsuit seems appropriate, but I'm confused on their allegations. How can this lawsuit claim that Equifax "wasn't spending enough or doing enough to protect the information" when nobody, except for those within the company, know how much is spent or done to protect the information?

Is there some public record I'm not aware of that says Equifax underspent on cybersecurity? Or is this lawsuit just a shot in the dark hoping to hit a target?

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the allegation is true, but AFAIK there's no way these individuals actually have proof of it, and it seems like a flaw in our legal system that people are allowed to make allegations like this without any type of proof.
Yes. China has more manpower, but that's about their only advantage. Navy, Air Force, the US dominates. And as everyone knows, you never get involved in a land war in Asia...
I hate to play the recently poisoned "both sides" argument, but it really is weirdly widely unpopular. The ACLU in particular is strongly opposed to a national ID system.

I say this as someone who would strongly support a federal mandatory national ID system (and the ACLU, generally)
Are you kidding? This is a 100% instant dismissal if it even gets to a judge. The allegations are groundless...the plaintiffs have no knowledge of Equifax's security systems in order to have any sort of standing to make any claims regarding the quality of it.

The sad truth is you can do everything right to the best of your ability and still get hacked. So just the fact that they were hacked isn't sufficient evidence that they were negligent.
Another industry where software (and to a lesser extent 'piracy') allowed people to utilize a great product being neglected by the original creator who is stuck in the past.

The 303 sound was first emulated in 1996 and later by plenty of soft synths. By the time Roland re released it was mostly a novelty to have an original machine.

It reminds me of Nintendo's failure to capitalize on ROMs and the persistent popularity of both NES and SNES for two decades ...and when they finally did they still managed to mess it up.
The public defenders in many jurisdictions are so overloaded that they could not do a good job if they were the most conscientious people in the world.