skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the writing style of this article a little opaque (and poorly edited in some places), so let me try to lay out the logic as I understand it.

There are two styles of attack: "conventional" (bombers, soldiers, etc. but no nukes) and "nuclear".

A successful conventional attack on NK could quickly remove its ability to initiate a nuclear attack. Without too much trouble, the US or some other major power could send a bunch of bombers over and completely eradicate NK's nuclear arsenal.

NK may be able to prevent a conventional attack by making a pre-emptive nuclear attack on foreign military targets. I say "may" because I think this is the least-justified claim of the article.

Doing that would not provoke the same kind of international response that a nuclear attack on NK would. If we blew up a base or two in NK, we could say, "We're just try to keep the world safe." and most other countries probably wouldn't do much about it except maybe some stern looks of disapproval.

This means that a conventional attack on NK is more likely, since there is less disincentive for it.

NK has no real ability to respond conventionally. We could take out their entire military without breaking a sweat. Their only noteworthy weapon is nukes. That means they must be preserved at all costs.

So Kim Jong-Un knows:

1. A conventional attack can remove NK's nuclear capability.

2. A nuclear strike on military bases may prevent that conventional attack.

3. NK's nuclear capability is their only weapon against other countries so must be preserved at all costs.

Those logically imply that if NK is to engage in any military conflict, it must strike first with nuclear weapons. Anything else results in defeat.

Add to that:

4. A conventional attack is more likely because there would be fewer repercussions on other countries for doing so.

Combine those together and it implies an NK nuclear first strike on military targets is more likely.

This presumes you believe 2 and 4 to be true. I think 4 probably is true -- the world generally seems to roll over when the US marches troops into random countries, even under dubious justification (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.).

I don't believe 2 is true. Even if NK used every nuke they got on every base they can reach, I think the US and its allies would still have so much remaining military capability that we could turn the entire country into a glowing slag heap and still be home in time for the weekend.
With my 4 year software engineering degree I learned c++ and java which I never used professionally. But I also learned about data structures, assembly, OS design, QA, OOP, design patterns, software project management, etc. as well as physics, chemistry, calculus, psychology, literature, etc.

Learning the syntax of the current hot language over 4 months is not an equivalent to deep understanding of CS or just good problem solving in general learned over 4 years.
This image (and ones like it) is so valuable: http://adit.io/imgs/functors/fmap_def.png

Every time you read about things even tangentially related to functional programming, you inevitably arrive at a slop of letters with arrows between them. Even just parsing that is rather difficult for non-initiates, let alone trying to grasp what it's actually saying after you've parsed it. Words and arrows (the normal kind of arrows, the kind that are for pointing at things) can help a lot.
This reminds me of the SFO-ZRH route that spun up as a result of Roche buying Genentech: http://travelskills.com/2015/06/24/trip-report-swiss-roche-c...
The title does not match the terms of service to which the tweet links. IOW, no, that's not what it says. But this about the sixth story that's cropped up on HN about waiving your rights, so getting the crowds to wipe the froth from their lips is probably a lost cause.
Philadelphia has gross receipts tax https://business.phila.gov/overview-of-business-income-and-r...
They can physically seize company's assets, and block bank accounts.
https://jvns.ca
Nobody with half a brain opens an big location in the Boston area. If you don't hate money you go to NH.
There are legal limits to how long the data can be stored for. (I want to say it's a federal 7 year limit, but I might be wrong and it might be state laws). Eventually it all times out and your credit resets.
I wonder if the same trick is possible in Go. For starters, you can inspect the guts of a function pointer (and dump them to a []byte, and re-execute the function elsewhere): https://play.golang.org/p/kpSps1GC3e

This is a bit different from constructing the function "from scratch," though. I tried to inspect the guts of the function body itself, but was met with lots of segfaults.
"ATL airport -- a certain airline has way too much power there."

And that airline is increasingly big in Seattle as well.
That's exactly what we have a court system to answer.
So is our medical system. We revere both of these professions.
What's the language and what does "require" do? Is that a compile-time mechanism?
Part of the reason that is an issue is that they're settling for much smaller amounts because the cut they get is big. So you have some massive data breach cases settled for things like $10 million. That's not even punitive at that point for companies like Target.

In practice it seems it basically just winds up being a big payout for whoever actually filed.
And isn't this a bit outdated in terms of info that could tell us what is going on with these bootcamps now? (which is just the tip of the iceberg here)There is a palpable desperation in the fact that this comes in the middle of yet another thread about coding bootcamps' impending demise.
Quite a lot of anecdota and question begging. Ho-hum.
Either way, we need to move to electronic voting eventually, and inevitably will. The reason being that our political system is broken, and the people don't feel represented. In this day and age, we have the technology to accommodate a real direct democracy instead of our broken representative system, but this isn't feasible without e-voting.
From my exprience, this type of clause will not stand up in court. It might sound legit but mostly viewed as a filler by lawyers.
I had a problem signing up for a mobile phone contract a while ago. The mobile company eventually told me that Equifax were supplying them with (my) information which was slightly different from what I was saying about myself, so I called up Equifax. To "fix" things, Equifax wanted me to send a notarised copy of my passport to them (at my expense!)

Of course I told them to get lost and just used another mobile provider, but I learned from this episode that all of these consumer services companies share data both ways with these credit checking agencies.
There's a fulfillment center or two 30 miles away from every major city, I'm not sure if that's actually a unique attribute. ;)
If by "New York State Attorney General" you mean Eric Schneiderman, or the guy jumping on every controversy to further his career, then yes.
DV certs don't say anything about who the own the website. Just that the website is the URL you are trying to visit. Someone else could have registered the url and created the website, so checking the certificate chain doesn't prove anything.

EV certs on the other hand at least claim to verify who owns the website but even then I would be cautious.
What might kill Atlanta for AMZN - besides certain problems with traffic and sociopolitical climate (we have probably the largest Confederate memorial in the US called Stone Mountain) - is WHERE Atlanta (itself not an especially large political jurisdiction) would probably like AMZN to build - south of I-20 which is not where most people would want to work or live right now.

Obtaining the land would probably be the easy part, issues such as gentrification might prove harder to solve.

The various counties comprising the ATL metro might themselves spark a bidding war to lure AMZN but I have no idea how that would take shape.
Tons of sunbelt and non-coastal cities have spent decades optimizing for cheap land and making themselves "business friendly" over all other concerns.

They still don't have much of a tech scene or high impact industries. And the same calculus that has prevented a mass migration of tech companies to Boise or Waco is the same calculus that will prevent Amazon from moving there either.

My bet is Boulder; the Research Triangle; or Philly.
Options: pre-ICO process evolution
The regime will simply say the rice is a tribute that the enemy is paying. Or that is is poisoned, etc.
I feel the same way about Atlanta. And the money that I save by living here as opposed to a cool place to visit means I can actually afford to visit those places.
Yeah... That we need to get rid of. or that could be a concession. I think Comcast has something similar, their hq is here.
No worries. I have worked with quite a few developers that share the opinion of inflated wages.
Why should that burden fall on a group of people who, are in general, least able to take it up?
Actually the founder of No Starch reached out to me about publishing this book. Will definitely be following up with him =)
Indeed. This pervasive usage of SSNs should be dropped.
United flies to both Shanghai ($795) and Beijing ($535) non-stop from Newark.
Doesn't make them any less scum for trying it.
What citations would you like beyond basic reasoning skills? Planes don't fly relative to the ground, they fly relative to the air. Unless the wind is gusting from 0 to 160 (which is not how hurricanes work), there is nothing to be discussed here.

The earth rotates at 1000 MPH and you don't see people wondering if cars can handle that.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/34433/how-are-e...
PhD prob helped.
To be fair, class action suits aren't really about recovering damages for the class members. Or at least, not entirely.

That was exactly what they were supposed to be about. The way it usually works out, however, is that the lawyers don't really negotiate on the same side of the table as the class and the class members end up with very little. The lawyers, however, get their fees.

That's why everybody gets pissed about it.

There are other legal remedies to force a change of behavior. If the lawyer wants to use my name (as a class member) for leverage in the suit, he or she should be representing me. The class action is something that is supposed to be for the class members' advantage- working as a group for legal remedy. The tradeoff is you don't get as much legal remedy as you may have had you footed the entire bill and risk of a lawsuit yourself. But some of the negotiated remedies are, indeed, a joke.
After you made the choice to allow them to.
Why would you want to disable the chip?
Could just be a dictionary attack or similar password guess
You shouldn't trust China or Russia on that.
> That's true. I wouldn't necessarily agree that it's easy.

I assume you mean the self teaching part? Agreed. That's why I said simple. I should have been more clear.

> Without initial guidance and a firm commitment, we end up with questions like, "Should I learn Java or Javascript?" or "Can I learn Go in a week?" Is it possible to self teach completely? Yes. But you would need both discipline and analytical rigor as well as the humility to find help when you run into issues. I went into the bootcamp looking for both a mentor, which I found, and connections, which I also found.

I think this is a good way to look at it. I'm personally 100% self taught. I actually dropped out of college(financial issues), but I'm glad I did. I was able to learn so much more on my own. I can understand how a lot of people wouldn't be able to do what I did because they just don't see things the way I do I guess. For the type of people who require guidance from the more experienced, I think what you said above makes a lot of sense.

I would, however, caution anyone who is an autodidact from going to a bootcamp simply on the premise of it being extremely expensive. If you have the ability to teach yourself these skills, there's really no good reason to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a bootcamp to learn at a pace dictated by your peers.
I was thinking center City. But you're right, navy yard would be a good fit.
And people in Philly basically don't think about Pittsburgh. Sure, it exists, but it may as well be in another state.
If it's a foreign government it's considered and "act of god", (I.e. Something out of their control) which releases a lot of liability.
Another thing they can do to make the web a better place is just publish a list of the ads that people are seeing, and their reach. The users are stuck in silos, and no one can see what other people are seeing.
What questions do you ask people who use your app everyday?
We're a new app that launched 1 week ago and we've noticed some people who downloaded our app from the start and are using it consistently everyday for more than 1 minute (not sure how long altogether) and share it on social media without us prompting, we're going to interview a couple who agreed to meet us and was wondering what good questions to ask which won't seem weird.

Thanks, for better context we're a dating app. I know theres some stigma around dating apps and that we're in a competitive space.
While Salt Lake technically meets the requirements, they do so just barely. The metro area barely cracks a million people, and the airport maybe has 1 or 2 international flights a day. Plus Amazon and the Utah state government still have a lot animosity towards each other from the whole online tax thing.

Plus it's really tough to attract out of state talent in Utah.

I think Salt Lake would be a very hard sell compared to what Amazon could easily get with Denver.
Hey William, the reason Uber charges a cancellation fee is to compensate the driver for driving towards you.

Without cancellation fees, drivers would have to eat the cost of whatever progress they made towards you.

While the policy varies by city, typically an UberX or UberBLACK vehicle can be cancelled for free within 2 minutes.

UberPOOL rides typically get billed cancellations immediately, because the canceling rider may have also added to the ETA of an Uber rider already in the vehicle.

Uber will occasionally waive the cancellation fee when the ETA of a POOL pickup is significantly higher than the prediction given pre-booking.

If you believe you may be eligible for a refund, you can contact Uber support. Read more here: https://help.uber.com/h/24e75a3b-cf44-44e4-abae-8c2dce3b07a3
I wouldn't say "might be able to make a case." I think you've just made the case right there. The company has proven their inability to determine whether or not you are who you say you are, by their own admission that your personal information was lifted from their servers.

I don't know who's signing up for these "free" identity protection services anyway. This company has failed to protect the personal information of roughly half the population of the entirety of US. (I understand they are not limited to US, but those are the numbers.)

They do not need to be "protecting" anybody after that. They should be tarred and feathered for putting up these websites after what they've done, and whatever lawyer advised them to sneak in a provision against class action lawsuit should be immediately disbarred, in my not so humble opinion.

How many digits of my SSN do I need to enter into this five-day-old website that provides me with no clue what they're going to do next, in order to see if I need any further "protection" from this group with which I have no direct relationship, and whom I've never done business with, but that has diligently kept records on me for my entire adult life?
This reminds me. Fight Club was a great movie.
That's a common theme parroted by many, and a lot of ambitious people do indeed move to the coast. However, I think you are underestimating the amount of ambitious people in minneapolis and the surrounding area. We have tons of fortune 500 companies here and lots of world class smart ambitious people.

Not everyone is a 20 something who has no family obligations and is willing to go work anywhere in the country. Furthermore, in minneapolis we have very high salaries relative to cost of living. If you make 120k here you're basically rich and can save an enormous amount per month. This kind of salary to cost of living ratio allows an ambitious person to save tons of money each month and invest it how they please.

Anyhow, I don't think minneapolis is a long shot. We have a very good economy and infrastructure and lots of people doing smart/ambitious things.
What's the value in having two headquarters a few hours apart?
New York Attorney General [0] says it's unenforceable. Something I'm surprised people didn't just assume given how ridiculous the clause seems.

[0] https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350532304896
because they want to or because they feel they need to?

A lot of people put up with some really stupid crap "because money"
Facebook’s shifting Russian ads stories have damaged its credibility
SLC metro population: 1+ million

Including SLC and Utah counties both: 2+ million

University of Utah, Brigham Young University, Utah Valley University

Substantial tech talent, startup scene. Adobe, EA, Ebay, Microsoft, Oracle all have a presence. And don't forget the NSA.

International airport connects to Canada, France, Mexico, Netherlands, UK... but will take two hops to get anywhere else. https://www.slcairport.com/assets/pdfDocuments/Flight-Schedu...

Meetingplace of I-15, I-80, I-84

Culture almost the complete opposite of Seattle's.

Mountain Time Zone

Killer cost of living

Government willing to make substantial concessions to tech companies

But... I'm guessing it's just not quite connected enough to be seriously considered.
This seems like a talent acquisition play. There was probably a lot of work that went into find a soft place for the whole team to land; so, kudos to the leaders / investors / whomever helped make this happen.

It's not a big exit, but if you are a luxe employee, it's the best of the worst outcomes.
I agree on all counts. Thanks for the support!
> Epic

The health software company or the peeps who make Unreal?
Good find. I'll suggest "shellcode" as a name for this trick
Epic doesn't pay very well even for the area. Their problem isn't just location, it's reputation: terrible technology, terrible working conditions, and a possibly dated reputation for a proclivity to hire junior devs and chew them up in a way that would make a AAA game studio envious.

They continue along because, like most other places that aren't major tech hubs like SF, Seattle, NY, or Chicago, software developers who decide to settle there simply don't have many alternatives.
Great initiative. Would've gone for a .com rather than this horrible .biz though.
Agree with the advice of taking inspiration from algorithm visualizations and would like to add the work of Mike Bostock to the list above --

[1] Article -- https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
[2] Talk -- https://vimeo.com/112319901
This is an excellent point, it is something I worry about and something we've blogged about in our two previous posts about this topic.

It's one of the reasons I'm so wary when flashmobs try to force other businesses to dump specific clients.

It's one thing if your views or actions or so repugnant that all suppliers voluntarily refrain from doing business with you. Maybe one would reconsider their actions faced with that prospect?

But the phenomenon today, where flashmobs form and demand vendors sever their clients because the mob is demanding it and for the reason that the target is politically or ideologically at odds with the mob, that can play out exactly as you fear. Where does that stop?

This is one of those cases where there wasn't an easy answer, unfortunately. Dreamhost unknowingly wound up with a Dailystormer domain on their system last week and they got DDoS-ed into a crater. Also not good.
My company (Conpoto), runs a local currency/gift certificate platform that is purchased with regular dollars, but is only redeemable at local merchants participating in the program. We're in a bunch of states and Canada.

We'll do hundreds of thousands of dollars in currency purchases annually in some communities. It's used quite a bit by employers who want to keep money local (rather than sending it to Amazon or Target).
> 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 prove they didn't make it, then by law the credit card company has to investigate, and deal with it.

But the time it takes on the phone to talk to an agent, review your records for legit vs illegit charges, etc. are not reimbursed, which is what they were on about.

> Why would the bank or credit card company send a check?

I think we're talking Target writing the check. Which they didn't exactly volunteer to do, but was covered in the class action at least: https://targetbreachsettlement.com/mainpage/CommonlyAskedQue...
That’s great. I am wondering what was the throughput at that distance...
I used it a few times in Seattle under a promo, and it was so painful. Getting the timing down so the valet wasn't waiting out in the rain for awhile waiting for me was difficult, and than it always took 15-20 minutes longer for them to get my car back to me than what was shown in the app. I found myself better off just using Lyft when I'm worried about parking.
We should want investigations into possible crimes,...

Of course. That said, though, I wish they'd keep this sort of thing private so that there is more chance folks are actually innocent until proven guilty instead of having public opinion labeling you as such before the trial.
https://www.allclearid.com/personal/

(my .02; just because you want to exclude yourself doesn't mean that you can avoid the fallout of someone impersonating you. An identity theft is costly to clean up and better to be caught early than 10,000's or 100,000's in the red. Some aspects, being alert and checking periodically can save headaches in the long run.)
Surely a credit bureau leaking private information on 140 million Americans (and probably millions of New Yorkers) deserves the AG's attention.
Seattle and Minneapolis definitely have some chemistry with each other. I call it the "flannel belt".
Thanks, fixed the typo.
I recently encountered an advertisement advising people to keep their Medicare card number secret.

So if the SSN stops being considered as a combination identifier/authenticator, other government agencies stand eager and ready to plunge headlong into the same mistake.

The way around it is to pass a law that requires government agents and agencies to consider identifiers to be public, and authenticators to be secret, and that nothing can ever be both. The government could require itself to publish indexes of names to SSNs and SSNs to names, such that no stretch of anyone's imagination would ever generate a presumption that knowing the number proves you are the person to whom it is assigned.

The ridiculous assumptions made in the credit and credit reporting industry that are held out to be reasonable should never be allowed to hold up in court.
Somebody should open a second lawsuit about this. A hack is one thing, but a deliberately evil reaction to it should spell the end of the line for the company.
This is from the CIRR website:

CIRR is an independent non-profit organization. Its board members are:
CIRR CEO: Michael Kaiser-Nyman, Founder & President, Epicodus
Liliana Aide Monge, Co-Founder & CEO, Sabio
Rachel Martinez, General Counsel, Turing School of Software & Design
Rachel McGalliard, VP of Operations, The Software Guild
Rick O’Donnell, Founder & CEO, Skills Fund
Harsh Patel, CEO, Hack Reactor
Sharon Wienbar, Capella (Hackbright & Dev Mountain)
David Wintrich, Co-Founder & Chief Academic Officer, Tech Elevator
David Yang, Co-Founder, Fullstack Academy & Grace Hopper Program

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Follow the money. Not exactly a disinterested, objective source. And certainly not consumer/student advocates. Important to note.
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