skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it's social status that really matters" - that sounds like the "traditional" UK class system where money isn't a strong factor in where you are in the class spectrum.
Ok, I've restored the title you submitted it with (which is more or less the article URL) except I took out 'psychological', because that's guaranteed to be baity.

Sorry for the trouble!
Maybe it's better to enact legislation to stop using the SSN the way it's used today.
I haven't enrolled, but wouldn't you be able to argue that because their information was leaked you weren't the one who signed up?
Still nothing on Have I Been Pwned [0] yet, if the leak contains your email address, it should be updated soon.

[0] https://haveibeenpwned.com/
If you're gonna spam HN with your blog, at least make it decent.
Another commenter, who now deleted the comment, said:
"There's a 44% chance you were affected, but a 100% chance you waive your right to be in a class action lawsuit if you enroll in their ID protection."

I thought it was a good comment, but I wonder if it matters.

How much would you get? I have been a member of these class action lawsuits before, and I get, like, $3 for my troubles at the end of the day, so I never claim the prize because it's another database where my SSN would be stored and stolen from.

I think the best is to freeze your credit report and deal with the troubles of having to unfreeze it when you need a loan.

If there are expert people from the Fin Svc industry here, is the above correct? Is freeze pretty much the only reasonable action now to protect ourselves?
>The system is corrupt and should be burned to the ground.

Ok, so we burn the system to the ground. Then what? Crown bitJericho king?
I feel the same way. I make 83k completing vaguely connected tasks, while mostly reading things on the internet. Even out of college making 60k felt like I was overpaid.

The other side of that token is that I know guys making upwards of 120k with little work, mainly through office politics and delegating work.
In case the author reads the comments here, you've got a couple of annoying botched links.

The link in paragraph two to an alleged previous article of yours on choosing a tech stack gives a 404.

The link in paragraph three to an alleged blog post of yours on single vs multi page apps is actually just a link to the present article.
Warning: You waive your right to sue Equifax if you sign up for protection using this site.
Why should I trust trustedidpremier dot com? Their whois info is a PO box, which isn't encouraging. And asking for the last 6 digits of my SS# is super-suspicious [Added:] because the remaining (first 3) digits, called the "area number", are generally discoverable, because they are more or less determined by the zip code of where you were born (if you're older than 6).
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This already been demonstrated on headphones[0].

[0] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-trick-silently-hack...
Current headline:

> If you enroll in Equifax's TrustedID you waive your rights to sue Equifax

Is something like that even legally possible in the US? I know in my country it isn't.

A) You can't waive certain rights, even if you say so in a contract.

B) A contract that is general purpose, and not individually compromised by both parties, has even stronger protection. If you can convincably argue that you would not have assumed a clause, it is not valid.

C) Rules defined by laws overwrite contracts. So a law saying you can sue overwrites a term in a contract saying you can't.

Triple protected. Even if the US is more "free" in that regard, some of that protection must exist as well, right?
Yes, time to market is important. However, you don't need to compromise convenience of development for the sake of performance. If you twist your Python code to get performance it takes time. If you need performance, and like the syntax of Python then you should take a look at Nim [1]. With Nim I develop as quickly as in Python while I get the performance of C.

[1] https://nim-lang.org

I believe application performance is important on servers. It makes a difference if your Shop software written in Python is able to handle 50 requests per second, or if the same software written in Nim can handle 500 rps. And by the way, Nim provides static typing which helps a lot to catch errors at compile time.
Is that something equifax set up in response to this breach? Like an idiot, I punched in my info and it said "yep, you're probably affected" but did I just give my information to equifax or some scammer who's going to use that to scam me?
IANAL, but the document refers to TrustedID, Inc., a subsidiary of Equifax, not Equifax itself. I've seen arbitration clauses in many terms of use before, so I don't get the impression that this is nefarious. Again, IANAL.
How does decentralized storage resist centralization? 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.

All it takes is a single person with a few unmetered boxes and a proxy to B2/S3/etc to effectively pressure the price down to cloud storage levels.

As a user, how can I confirm that my data is being replicated properly if there are few big users? One of them might have multiple identities backed by a single cloud account, and if they stop paying their bill and run off with the coins all the data is lost. This will be those darknet market scams all over again.

Aside from the oodles of money that the early adopters will make, what am I missing?

Edit: Thought of another issue. The protocol replicates data, so if we assume a cloud provider does 3x replication, your data will be replicated again by the storage protocol. The extra overhead means that once the economies of scale kick in, only big players that can manage B2 style racks themselves will be able to host economically, just like how Bitcoin mining has consolidated on large mining operations.
Very common though. I am very passionate about sports but my natural ability is probably bottom 10%. That means I have spent a lot of time pursuing something where I would never be "successful"in the usual sense. I also have met a lot of people who had the ability but didn't really like it.

Sport has still benefited me a lot and was totally worth it to me but in terms of success it was a total waste of time.
"Ninety-seven percent of [US] federal convictions and ninety-four percent of state convictions are the results of guilty pleas."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/12/26/plea-bargainin...

Definitely time to get the lawyers OUT of government.
There is a lot of fake review on that site. But also a lot of real people share their experience there. So you need to find the real one.
"They spent 3 weeks in Europe a month ago"

For what it's worth, it's hard to know what to do. For a lot of people your 20's are about the only time you can spend three weeks in Europe if you're American (most don't get paid holidays). By the time you're in your thirties there's a decent chance you've found yourself stuck to a spouse, a kid, alimony, or a mortgage, and even if you do go the experience won't be the same.

The other issue here is that even if the numbers show otherwise it's easy to be cynical about saving. If you actually need your money to be safe your options are limited. Even index funds go down, and saving for retirement, while a good idea, is a bet that not one government between now and your death will decide to just take it (Poland). Or dump cash in to the market using QE and devalue your assets (everywhere) or just declare some of your money invalid (India).

Keep in mind that even the NYSE is basically a crapshoot. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...

So you think "hey, real estate!", but if you don't already own a home in a lot of places it's hardly worth trying until the next global collapse (any day now...). I may be jaded having watched a lot of people dump their money in to houses just to be completely destroyed anyway reveals they'd have been better off renting and blowing the rest on hedonism (or better yet, bitcoin).

Also, you're going to die anyway. Money is good for having fun. Is the fun you have now less valuable than the fun you have later? My dad was responsible and dull his whole life, taking the occasional 10 day trip like a good American is supposed to (nothing longer!). He's going to retire soon, but he can't hike like he used to and his wife has Parkinson's. It served as a reminder to me to have a bit of fun in youth before bodily decay accelerates. It's painful to hear his regrets.

If they're instantly poor that suggests your friend maybe took this to an extreme (even I made sure I had a few months of expenses before farting around Europe in my 20's) but still, maybe even poor people should have some fun and the push to save is part of a massive collective delusion to pretend we're not mortal.
I think you and OP both hit valid points that should happen, but never will under government.

However, on the blockchain...well that might just happen, but it won't be a government running the identity system.
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A few days ago, I posted an Ask HN about finding good sources of climate data to analyze[1].

Most of the links in there are related to good data sets, but there are also a few links to sites that provide information and analysis as well. You might find it helpful to read through the thread and visit some of the links.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15132145
Vaccines and allergy shots are NOT homeopathy and that is extremely dangerous to say.

Homeopathy is characterized by the belief that 'like cures like'. They ingest poisons to innoculate themselves to fevers, etc. It is very, very different from simply gaining a resistance to specific compounds.
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That link didn't actually answer in the affirmative for me. It just dumped me into the enrollment workflow. It followed that with a message that my enrollment date would be next week and that I would receive no further reminders but I have to return on that day to complete enrollment.

For my spouse, your link answered that they weren't affected.
It seems you've completely missed the point and in so doing have focused on the most trivial set of keybindings for macro usage. Why do you think this conversation is about keybindings? Who even mentioned them?

Cool, you can start and record a macro. What does the temp macro do on this line? On a different line? Does your undo stack flip over or through the macro? How do you run the macro on lines with a specific suffix?

Because macros inherently make a big blob of actions and turn them into a single action, they're inherently more obscure than multiple cursors.

The funny part is of course that macros are dictated in emacs, not programmed. So what the multi-line cursor is doing is essentially showing you the results of a macro and letting you interactively work with it visually rather than deny you that option.

Macros have uses, but Swift multi-line editing is by no means their strong suit.
Equifax.com links to EquifaxSecurity2017.com, which links to TrustedIDPremier.com, but yeah, it looks like a phishing scam. OpenDNS even flagged it as such this morning.

Why they didn't go with a subdomain of Equifax.com is beyond me.
In the old fashioned view of class in the UK the middle class were always seen as uncomfortable as they were the only ones who really worried about status - the "working" class didn't care and the upper class (i.e. nobility, not simply people who have lots of money) automatically have social status and can't lose it so they don't worry about it either.
I use to collaborate with IBM Research. Basically anyone worth a damn eventually goes to Google/FB/MSFT. IBM pays less than half of their competition and doesn't provide a fraction of the resources. Their only appeal is that they have a lower bar for the "research scientist" role, which appeals to a lot of PhDs who may not have enough top publications to their name.
Not really, no. "Follow-on rounds" are a thing. Usually with rounds more like 2x the valuation than 8x, but still. The last company I was at went out and raised 3x as much at 2x the valuation Series B while the ink was drying on the Series A. There was demand, so why not?
> But today anyone can ask IBM for some Watson queries

That's the metric for cool AI functionality? The Watson query tool is basically a search engine with a layer of (not super reliable) text synthesis over it. It would be more interesting if they took away everything except the document search and passage extraction stuff, and just presented that.
My first thought when I saw Broward County was, "Oh! He's in Florida. Now it makes sense." Which is really sad.
I've seen the same green flashes of transformers blowing during serious hurricanes. Hello Florida, 2004, where I had the pleasure of seeing this during 3 different hurricanes. There were no tectonic plates shifting. The clouds were illuminated; it looked like flashes of green lightning from my front row seats. Though it's not as though I saw a green lightning arc.

Where I was, power was generally restored within 24 hours. I don't believe this would be possible if every substation were blowing. I believe people refer to the transformers on the telephone poles failing.
It's legit (you can follow the chain from the announcement on Equifax.com) but horrible practice. Should've been a subdomain - they're just training folks to fall for phishing scams this way.
>And why the hell you have to write code in JS that will be ultimately represented as HTML?

If an analogy helps, the React virtual-DOM is philosophically similar to the very old and industry-accepted technique of double-buffering[1].

Your question would be similar to asking, "why the hell do you write pixel data to an invisible memory buffer if you're going to ultimately display it on the screen?"

The plain old HTML specification invented by Tim Berners-Lee and the traditional HTML rendering engines do not have the concept of an invisible "compositing layer" with a formal API standardized across Chrome/Firefox/IE/etc exposed to programmers.

The vdom is the computer science abstraction to bolt on that "compositing layer" to HTML. The React loop then renders the invisible composite layer to the real DOM.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Double_buff...
While I guess Google isn't technically deprecating Drive, the very confusion introduced by them and this announcement is still not good.

Why couldn't they have just used the same name, and upgrade the software?

Why was there this horribly confusing announcement with EOL dates only 6 months in the future?
Being given an enrollment date is one of the "yep, you were affected" responses.
Yes of course and for my own personal projects I will take the time often to learn new languages (e.g. Rust).

However when dealing with a team often with an existing code base getting everyone on board with "X" while potentially porting to "X" is fairly expensive. Its generally only worthwhile because of actual technical limitations and not productivity. Even the promise of safety (ie prevention of bugs) I would probably consider higher than productivity (although I suppose that is in way productivity).

Regardless productivity is really hard to measure and especially predict unlike other technical things.
Exactly, though Google isn't itself really clear in its docs, and there's some sneaky/creepy stuff apparently turned on like sharing to the cloud every USB stick and SD card you plug in by default [which Google Drive did not do: beware when upgrading to B&S]. That's going to be a whole "WiFi snooping secret data" saga all over again if my interpretation is correct.

http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-backup-energy-efficiency.htm...

[Edit to make clearer that B&S has an apparently new worrying behaviour unannounced if you do a straight upgrade from GD.]
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> That seems like a protection racket.

You mean sort of like having to pay a fee to lock your credit report with the same company that just leaked all your info? Yea...
Nothing. Having nothing is better than what we have.
I registered. I figured my data is already exposed, so this is not incremental. I got a date in mid September, so I will see what to do next then. I figure I am already exposed anyway, and the protection will be needed.

Now, I wonder if it's best to DIY on the credit freeze thing. The only thing is that it appears that a freeze needs to be redone every few months.
Using ultrasounds as a side-channel is also used by Cisco's proximity sensors for telepresence units and the new Spark Boards. While on a call on my phone, I can walk into any conference room and swipe to handoff the video call from my phone to the room's telepresence unit, even if my phone is not on wifi (e.g. because I just walked into the building or had wifi turned off). In my experience, this flows much smoother than any wifi– or bluetooth–based pairing.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collaboration-endpoin...

Full disclaimer: I work in that BU.
Maybe. The TOS requires arbitration for disputes over the credit monitoring solution, but I don't read it as affecting suits over the breach itself. That said, IANAL.
If you've recently migrated your stack to a fully docker containerised setup, docker-compose can be a great replacement for an old vagrant provisioning setup, as the startup time will usually be a fraction of that needed by running vagrant up. It won't make sense for every project, but it's definitely a viable option for some.
any data can be interpreted as sound, but it might not be perceived as musically coherent
Same sand pit with water and lava:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p7YVqyudiE
Pliny wrote that within his lifetime, only a single stalk was discovered http://www.oocities.org/syrtica/silphium.html.
> So, if I hack TU, all I need to do is get the data of the people who asked for a credit freeze.

To what end? As has been pointed out they have all that info anyway so it's not like you're making the situation worse.

But more importantly, if your credit is frozen who cares? What are they going to do with your SSN? Get a loan? Get a CC? Buy a house?

That's the point of a freeze, it makes your PII less valuable.

The actual concern is about the PIN. Because surely they could go through the trouble of PIN recovery to unfreeze your credit and then make use of it. But considering the numbers game, its not worth their trouble vs all the unfrozen accounts.
Because a very common type of hypothesis is along the lines of "gene X is important in disease Y" or "priming people with words will affect psychological outcome Z".

The opposite hypothesis is the null hypothesis which is "gene X is NOT important in disease Y" or "priming DOESN'T affect outcome Z".

Since we assume that most interventions will not affect most outcomes, these are much less surprising and interesting results. They are seen as "water is wet" type of findings and are thus hard to publish because no one is interested.

Now if your hypothesis is something like "X will cause Y to go up" and you actually find it causes Y to go down, that IS publishable. It is only when X has no effect on Y that you will have problems.
You're violently agreeing with each other.

Python itself can be pretty slow. Doing image processing on data stored as list-of-lists-of-integers would be brutally slow.

On the other hand, numpy is an import away, and it can be quite fast, especially if it's been built with an optimized BLAS/ATLAS, etc.
Yes, if you care a lot about performance. But there's a cognitive cost to numpy for me because I'm not completely fluent. It's much more difficult to prototype something, so I usually wait until I've iterated on a prototype and I know exactly what I want to do before I dive into numpy.

Numpy also has an inside-out order of operations compared to using vanilla Python, the reason it's fast is because you put the inside of the loop on the outside of the code. That can make it really hard to iterate on structural changes in your code. You can lose a lot of the dev time advantages by going numpy first.

Also a lot of people don't consider numpy to be a fair comparison when talking about Python's language performance. Because it's optimized compiled code underneath the Python binding, it's not representative of the speed of the Python interpreter.
I find the author's experience with latex very similar to my own.

The core parts of LaTeX are very simple to learn, and you get to produce high-quality documents fairly easily thanks to its sane defaults. However, once you want to get a bit advanced, all its abstractions leak and it's impossible to comprehend anything without knowing implementation details.
Confluence annoys me; I don't want a WYSIWYG, I want to be able to just write some markdown without trying to wrestle all my formatting into a form that works.
That's not the problem in my opinion. The problem is advertising any kind of document DB as a general purpose storage. If you have a use case of making different aggregates from data, you'll have a bad time duplicating data or creating your own consistency layer.
Two things:

Your comparison to anonymous functions is not apt. A language that implements higher order concepts like anonymous functions adds more power to the language. But on the spectrum of power, multiple cursors are not a more powerful form of macros. Macros—Vim's, at least—are higher order than multiple cursors. (Note that when I say "macros" here, I'm going along with the premise of the Medium article where the ability to replay the last edit using `.` is also considered macro use.)

Second, the ability to save a macro doesn't make macros less flexible. It's not as if you have to pay for it whether you use it or not. If you don't want to save it, then don't; but it's there if you want the option.
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So I checked their site and lo and behold I'm in the estimated 44% of Americans affected by this.

Here's my question, how can we, as a massive group, get some type of recourse?

I'm not talking about suing for money necessarily, I don't need it (though if I suffered some financial loss I'd at least like to be made whole).

I don't get it, the only reason identity theft is valuable is because companies like Equifax have inserted themselves into the process.

They've turned what should be public information into information that has so much ability to cause harm to our records (that we may never have asked Equifax to keep on us in the first place) that now we have to fight to protect all this data, when we're not even the ones attempting to put value to it.

So then Equifax offers identity monitoring services at a price. Then they leak most of their data. Then they offer their monitoring services to us, because now they're more needed than ever. So I'm gonna let the drug addled burglar watch the dog for me when I leave town?

You can't really not play the game, but even if you try not to they're still using you as a pawn.

Wouldn't it make sense to treat identity theft as a crime where the lending institution was stolen from? Why couldn't I sue Equifax et al. for libel when they have incorrect records on me that they won't remove in a timely fashion?

Luckily for my I've got a guy that manages my finances to a degree, and part of it is keeping tabs on anything showing up in my credit profile- but now I'm a juicy target because all I did was pay back any money I've ever borrowed in a timely fashion like I said I would?
Yeah, Common Lisp, Racket and Smalltalk all are dynamically-typed languages that offer these sorts of features. Racket can solve this through its powerful reader/macroexpander. The others do it by having you develop inside your run-time environment where you can take advantage of all sorts of interesting information only available at run-time.