skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The excuse that you will hear over and over again whenever anyone mentions the obvious inefficiencies is the moralistic bullshit where "We shouldn't make it cheap and easy for people to buy poison."

I owe unions for many great things like weekends, safe working conditions, etc. They worked to codify these things into law. Once these things were accomplished, they slowly turned into impediments to competition. Private businesses whose unions went too far were driven out of business or hurt by companies whose unions cooperated with management (GM vs. Toyota). It's funny how the government monopolies (education, transportation, etc) are the most unionized industries left. The unions don't have to care about their customers, so they don't. Toyota has one of the most powerful unions on the planet (Japanese laws after WW2 made sure of that), and yet they don't squeeze out benefits at the expense of customers every chance they get.
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If anyone is interested, there is an interesting documentary about the LCBO. Developed by homebrewers, so it's not completely impartial but also quite fair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn555TyJJw0

Giving government absolute control over distribution of a non-essential product/service is probably not the best idea, but at least it's better than having that product/service be completely illegal. Ideally they should allow private businesses to sell under very strict guidelines.
If you live in a box, will anyone know you exist? :O
In the US? Less zoning.

https://bendyimby.com/2017/06/12/yimby-reading/ for more reading.
> On electric only with no gas, it does 31 kWh/100miles.

Of course, that depends upon the weather. I get 30% better range in the Summer than the Winter in mine.
To be honest, I feel bad for the engineering team at Equifax. The vulnerability that compromised their system was a bug in an open-source Java library, Apache Struts, and security researchers only noticed it a few days ago. It seems that the Equifax team had very little time to react and update their software. In some sense, I feel that more blame should be placed on the engineers who built the highly popular open-source software, not the Equifax team. Some large number of Fortune 100 companies also experienced the same vulnerability simply because they trusted a widely used library.

Makes me wary of trusting other big OS libraries, but since rebuilding every part of the stack from scratch is infeasible and unproductive, we don't have much choice but to use them.

Technical announcement:

Severe security vulnerability found in Apache Struts using lgtm.com (CVE-2017-9805):

https://lgtm.com/blog/apache_struts_CVE-2017-9805_announceme...
Oh, I thought it was referring to some kind of planning zone (and not, as some might have misread my question, as a racial zone).
You know, there are marketing studies contradicting that. It is possible to take people who don't want things, but present things to them as having other characteristics which they do want. The end effect is people buying things they really don't want. This was done way back in the 50's - and it is the essence of propaganda.

Sometimes, being naive on a subject is dangerous. And trying to convince others about "common sense" without informed knowledge is even worse.
Refuse to pay the ransom? The credit card numbers are still worth a lot. You're only reducing their payoffs a little bit.

If anything, posting the ransom increases the chances that the FBI can track them (since it's hosted on a Tor server)
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It's not the thing he/she said, it's how he/she said it.

Interestingly, Canada's financial industry is also mostly self-regulated which has always struck me as a foolish model.
Have Duo had big outages? I don't think it's reasonable to expect end users to be unaffected in those situations, especially if it implies this sort of insecurity in normal situations... If the default were to fail closed, then Duo customers could choose to fail open instead, but it would be a conscious, aware choice.
Consider moving to a cheaper country.
I believe the more recent vulnerability doesn't apply to the atlassian tools (I'd love to know if I was mislead). My understanding was the latest struts vuln requires you to be using a specific REST plugin.
Jerry's pages were always the first pages I read when he was a columnist for the Byte magazine in the 80's. He was a true pioneer in those early days of computing who wrote non-stop about new products and the computer exhibitions he attended. RIP.
Court system underfunded but enforcement (police) overfunded - sounds like trouble.
Does it affect your credit rating to freeze and unfreeze your credit? I wouldn't be surprised if it does. It's insane to me that looking up your credit rating negatively affects it. WTF is that about?
The SEC issued a warning that many offerings labeled "ICO" are fraudulent. (This one may be different than the frauds, but the SEC's warning was to watch out if you see that initialism.)
True. A flaw in the perimeter doesn't forgive poor data management practices.

Given the number of FS sites running on IBM Websphere and Struts, this may only be the tip of iceberg.
I, and my friends, have been using secure scuttlebutt and we couldn't be happier. I personally enjoy it because the content isn't curated, and the fact that my data resides on my computer and those in my gossip network. Beyond building your network there isn't much of a hurdle as the software takes care of all of the sharing of data.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz
And depending on your tax situation, the effective loan rate might be 3.5% * (100% - marginal tax bracket) after deducting interest payments.
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I looked into this "earth mode" radio recently and even tried it out in my backyard without too much success. My question is, does the FCC have jurisdiction over this? Seems like it's not really radio so much as making a circuit using the earth as the conductor.
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Wikipedia is an unusual source to reference here. Could you provide a more concrete link?
If you can write up the process in detail for my state, I will give you 15% of what I win from them. If you automate it as much as possible, 20%.
I would have expected the data to be encrypted at rest. I am not sure why that was not the case.
Alto Adige (South Tyrol),
Which is one of the economically strongest regions of Italy.
Lots of mountains (well, the Region used to be part of Austria, and people speak mostly German and Italian here.
I don't even think self-employed web developers have an easier time, there's just too many, it seems...
You should watch your accounts. I use Credit Karma and they will send you alerts and updates for various credit events (account opening/closing, paying off a balance, etc). It's free. Edit: They only monitor TransUnion and Equifax data; not Experian.

If you don't want to pay for LifeLock, which I agree is a bit steep, you can usually get an identity theft protection policy from most major insurances companies. The premiums vary, but are usually a fraction of LifeLock's fees. Just be sure you understand what's covered.

I use both of those and it costs me $25/yr total.

You can check the Fair Credit Reporting Act for more information about various parties' responsibilities in handling your credit information. However, I don't think you'd be able to sue lenders/creditors in this case. They are distinct from the credit reporting agency that seems to be at fault.
IMO, the speed of modern computers and limited size of file being edited makes gap buffers unnecessary. You can get by with a simple array of characters.
> The idea that SF should be redesigned and reconstructed until such time as supply is so plentiful as to bring down prices an order of magnitude, to me that's the offensive bit.

Not sure where you get the idea that it should be redesigned, but I do think that incremental [1] upzoning in places where demand exceeds supply of housing (in SF and beyond) makes a great deal of sense.

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/12/16/incremental-d...
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I don't mind it being LCBOish but pot can come in a lot of forms and I'm not sure the government will be up to providing it in oils, candies, cookies, vape juices, baked goods all around, butter, tea, cola, etc. This is something a small shop would make and sell easily. A lot of people enjoy smoke free pot and I am not certain they will handle that.
> This company has already caused harm to literally everyone in the US.

Not yet. People might be annoyed but not many of them have been harmed yet. They're harmed when their identity is actually stolen (i.e. used by someone else), not merely when someone gets access to their data.

(Not saying I like this system. Just saying this it how the system works.)
Um, you picked off almost 59% of the population with your categories, you know? If you are average, you would see 59% of the representation--that should be your baseline. This is the standard "look, everything is concentrated where the population is" graph problem.

However, even after accounting for that, I stand corrected as having been wrong. There seems to be a systematic bias in the range of 5-8% toward the Southern and Midwestern states.
How can you be a tech company and expect to make tech company margins when all you do is aggregate demand, parking spots and valets to match them. Luxe making $3/hr x 200 valets and maybe a bit more on the parking arbitrage during peak hrs.

Sounds like any of the local garage joints. I feel some markets are best left fragmented.
Will they sell it at duty free like alcohol is?
Hmm...you have to move to Washington DC to work for them, they won't pay for relocation, salaries are capped by federal pay grades and are lower than a tech company in SF or Seattle would pay, no bonuses (or stock options, obviously).

I'm sure they have some bright (and altruistic) employees, but I'm not sure the best engineers in the world would work there when they can earn far more compensation at a tech company.
The site is swiss cheese sqli and xss everywhere, even now.
Credit Karma seems to do that OK. Their score is wildly different from their supposed source though.
They'd probably still be charged. Also dominos and papa johns and even Pizza Hut don't compete in delivery zones (unless there is so much demand for pizza that it doesn't matter). The losers are the local shops. Prices are nationwide which is where the competition is. They really just want people to order a pizza delivery.

Unless your are in New York but I guess that local pizza wins. Maybe a few downtown areas as well.
Thanks for making this :) As of now I just export Jupyter Notebooks to html, throw them on my site and call it a day but have been meaning to try Idyll for some data visualization.
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Literally zero information is available on the site, why even link it? Maybe wait until they put up some content
Took me a little while to realize the page you see when you load that url is just an excerpt from the comic. The whole thing is here: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html.
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Those are cool! Thanks for the link
Chick-fil-A employee can confirm this all.
> Ontario's strategy with booze is responsible consumption (or whatever it's called)... essentially price it sufficiently high that we don't get too many drunks on the street.

Sin taxes are actually composed of two distinct effects: the effect of increasing price and therefore reducing negative externalities like you mentioned. In addition, a well structured sin tax should use it's gross profit to fund support services like rehabilitation and health services.

LCBO only does 1 of those things well. LCBO marks up their product by a percentage, which impacts premium products more than lower priced products[0]. If LCBO was committed to decreasing consumption of alcohol, it would apply a flat fee to each unit of alcohol, which would maximize utility and minimize the impact to the rest of the alcohol industry.

0: http://hellolcbo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1251/~/lcbo-pri...
There is now a correction at the beginning of the article:

> Correction: An earlier version of this article said the vulnerability exploited by the hackers who broke into Equifax was the one disclosed on Sep. 4. It’s possible that the vulnerability that was targeted was one disclosed in March. We will update this post when we’ve confirmed which vulnerability it was.
The Danish NemID ("easy ID") uses the Danish SSN, a password and strike list for login to the many government services (you can get divorced online if both parties agree ), banks, contracts (e.g. signing deeds to a house), gambling where you need proof of age or other proofs of identity (e.g. you can validate yourself on the eBay/craigslist equivalent to make your buying/selling more credible).

NemID itself is ran by a private party -- the basic pricing is 50 cents per unique user or 15 cents per session if you are a non-government entity.

There are some privacy protections -- as non-government entity you cannot get to the SSN, just another ID, but you can ask the user to enter their SSN and verify it's valid for that user.

It's working pretty well after they finally got rid of the Java encryption applets. However you need to have a Danish SSN to use it, so you either live in DK or are a citizen.
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Tinder is Facebook-only, last I checked
I just want to complain about the credit freeze option for a second.

Like many other people I decided to use this because of the breach, I went to the government identity theft site and found some links.

Equifax - Fill out the form. "Additional information required" please mail stuff to us.

Experian - In your state (washington) there is an 11 dollar fee for this service.

Transunion - Fill out a signup form, complete with god damn security questions. Do the quiz about stuff on my credit report. 10 dollar fee.

Go fuck yourselves you fucking bastards. I hope experian goes out of business because of this, I really do.
They were touting SSE4.2 for XML parsing. I wonder what about HTML parsing too.
Equifax isn't a monopoly. There are four major credit bureaus in the US. At best that's an oligopoly, but all that realistically does in this situation is provide more points of security failure.
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Very limited support.
On x86-64, the only languages that have good SIMD support are C (С++ gets that for free, ‘coz compatibility) and Fortran.
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It doesn't seem like the executive and judicial branches will need to get involved whatsoever if there is a multibillion dollar lawsuit; if successful this will basically 'dissolve' Equifax.
I didn't have one earlier, but here's this:

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/passings/

If dang or one of the moderators would like to change it, that works for me.
You can buy a digital keyring to show the code if you want, e.g. https://www.nets.eu/dk-da/l%C3%B8sninger/nemid/nemid-til-pri... -- which has a limited lifetime battery; I don't check my account often enough so I'm not bothered with the paper card.
If Equifax gets sued into bankruptcy and the government passes a law for next time this happens I'd be okay with that outcome.
Yeah, I wasn't sure whether to link that instead. The comic is delightful, but not too discoverable.

Anyone remember what it was like to open Chrome for the first time in '08 or so? It was incredible. The design was the embodiment of fresh, wide-eyed optimism.
Oh yeah I don't need the scores, I just want notifications for new accounts. Cool, thanks! I'll check it out.
So if someone takes this data and just keeps the whole dataset exposed publicly on a tor site, is that pretty much the end of data breaches?

Like, some random website: "we just got hacked, all you pii was taken, but don't worry nothing thats not already available in that public database"

other than new credit card #'s it'd be basically pointless right?
There is actually a really interesting dynamic to this option contract. Ripple Labs owns a large amount of Ripples. They own enough to tank the market price and make this contract irrelevant. I'm sure they don't want to do that for other reasons, but the existence of this options contract means they didn't anticipate the price to go up this fast so now they are torn between a)forcing the price down b)accepting this option contract and paying it c)trying to back out of it
My Honda Fit does better than that and only cost me 18k$ brand new
Hmmm.... part of me think "wow, this is pretty brilliant", but another part of me thinks "I'm not sure Allergan really thought through the potential blowback from the public."
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Depends of course. Despite the high cost, many live here because their salary is multiple times higher than they could get elsewhere.
Not saying it isn't a dumpster fire, but many high profile websites run on WordPress. It is an excellent CMS. Anything is vulnerable in some sort of way.
Fair question. We collect data about every interviewer (at a very granular level to understand what skills they are good at evaluating and how predictive they are).

Also, we provide interviewing history data as part of the evaluation. For example, if you knew the last 10 candidates a particular interviewer has endorsed have ended up at companies like Airbnb, Stripe, Google, Facebook, etc, would the interviewer's reputation still be in question?
Easy access to credit is an important component to a free market. Making borrowing illegal just leads to all sorts of inefficient contortions to do it another way.

For example, businesses often need to borrow money in order to get started.

For another, "bridge" loans and "revolving lines of credit" allow a business to operate when the timing of receiving payments does not line up with the timing of when bills are due.

Forgiving debts means that interest rates must rise to cover those losses.
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A month before it was _disclosed_ by these researchers.

Given the magnitude of this hack, it is entirely possible they embargoed it for a while.
My (and everyone's) local Chinese food restaurant has over fifty items in their menu. I'm very boring when it comes to food so I always get the same thing but I've always been curious about how many of the more esoteric (for a Chinese restaurant) items are sold and can be made on the spot - I've seen steaks and even Italian food in some menus.
> When it's a bull market, if you buy $X million of a coin that hasn't had much volume, everyone else will simultaneously see that this coin is suddenly popular. That will trigger them to buy, since it's going up.
Why doesn't it go back down? Well, once you've invested, there isn't much reason to sell. Your investment went up by some N multiplier, and as long as most people feel the same way, your multiplier is safe.

That's basically definition of a bubble. 'as long as most people feel the same way, your multiplier is safe'? So basically your multiplier might go away at any point.
Many, perhaps most.
One can click the next (arrow) button and it will show a couple of pages of content explaining the concept. Works without entering an email address. (Yes, not the best UI concept).
The higher property taxes are the more speculation is suppressed due to the high cost of carry.
Yes it's due to high property taxes. Keeps the speculator scumbags out.
> A multi-process design means using a bit more memory up front. Each process has a fixed additional cost. But over time it will mean LESS MEMORY BLOAT.

Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way.
If you had paid attention to the conversational context, you might have noticed how irrelevant that comment is.
I recall they've had a few. They don't have very many listed on their status page, which to their credit, has a long archive. And the ones reported were generally only about 10 minutes. On the other hand, it sucks to wait 10 minutes to be able to login to fix something that broke on your own servers.

And, one day, they may suddenly go out of business, as can happen. In my team, we discussed this option, and intentionally picked fail safe (open), and would have regardless of the default.
The wording in the article is kind of vague "parallel technology partnership agreement". I have no idea if "parallel" means that the 2 contracts are connected or not. Maybe that's what the court is going to determine.
I think it's probably extremely hard to live nearly anywhere in the U.S. on minimum wage.
Huh, color me surprised (I used to work in the GIS space, but have moved on to cloudier pastures). Then again, Microsoft's now all gung ho about open source at least on paper, so perhaps ESRI can change its spots as well...
Canberra[0] and Brasilia[1] were both created to be the capital of their respective countries, but I'd imagine it's easier when you're the government. Ireland did the opposite and tried to decentralise the government among existing towns and cities in an effort to boost local economies.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia#History

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra#Decisions_to_start_an...
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We who were Opera fans got really upset over this because Chrome borrowed a lot of ideas from it without giving it any credit.
It gets worse.. some financial news outlets are reporting that the CFO and executives leading two business divisions dumped shares prior to the news.

Equifax responded they didn't know about the breach and it is unrelated.
The author completely undermines multiple cursors. This is what happens when you evaluate something without mastering it. I even use multiple cursors for navigation. Multiple cursors feel far more natural than any sort of macro.
Worked out as well as their, "Don't be evil" manifesto =P
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I agree that private pensions are not necessarily Ponzi schemes. It is possible that they are operated that way. It is also possible that they are operated like an actual investment fund. Without looking at the books, it is difficult to tell.

However, social security and other government funded pensions are Ponzi schemes. The money you pay in is given to people who are retired at that time. The money you get out is paid by people who are working at that time.
So, C, Pascal, and Ada with a smidge of effectively dead languages.

Okay, sad to know I'm not missing anything.
Someone pointed out that websites have grown by ~10x since 2008, so a lot of the memory usage may have been unavoidable. It'd be interesting to know what the hypothetical lower-bound is.