skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know I'm not supposed to say this, but you obviously either didn't read the article

If you're referring to the guidelines, they also show how leaving out sentiments like these doesn't diminish the clarification you're adding:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."[0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Chiding someone who is trolling isn't going to accomplish anything (and likely make it worse). If they aren't, they'll (hopefully) appreciate the clarification, no chiding necessary.
> Its important to remember that login.gov isn't an account its an Identity Provider.

Doesn't matter, the consequenes are the same. If it is compromised or exploited (internally or externally) the exploiter can access all of your information from, and impersonate you too, all the government systems that rely on it for identity.
Related to deflation - I believe there are demurage schemes for local currencies where the value of a particular bill lessens over time. It incentivises circulation instead of hoarding.
Same people that pull from the other 3. It's not as commonly used, though its usage is trending upwards from what I understand.
Which isn't exactly sorting and ranking jobs by salary.
Does it? It has HTTPS health checks.
As usual, Bruce Schneier was right.

"Data is a Toxic Asset" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
New York’s Attorney General Opens Inquiry into Equifax Breach
The NY AG, like several other lawyers, pointed out that the contract term isn't enforceable. At the very least, it appears to be a contract of adhesion.

The AG is also pissed about the language, but that doesn't mean he's confirmed it's enforceable.
Claiming you have an answer is not preferable to admitting you just don't know.
just signed up. Service is a little wonky, but they've introduced 2FA via SMS and Authenticators as well! Thankfully not just SMS.

They also make you download/print a private key just in case.
I have absolutely no idea what I just read. Can you dumb it down for me please? Why would this ruling have any bearing on what we're talking about.

Nobody is signing anything on your behalf with power-of-attorney. Does this ruling say that I or my agent can relinquish my rights in a contract, that does not actually come out and say that I am relinquishing my rights?

I'm sure that's not what it says, but that's approximately what I'm able to tease out of the words in that link you posted. That sounds like absolute nonsense, so please explain precisely what this is supposed to mean if you will be so kind.
The problem with Philadelphia is it's got too many poor people. There is a significant amount of crime, a lack of available housing, and a lack of land that would be easy to develop. Trying to acquire and develop land in Philly runs into problems of reducing the amount of affordable housing.

The city has advertised for bids multiple times to develop new properties, and only one or two people will bid. When someone does bid, it is for ten times the cost of other similar private development, and with many fewer available units than needed. And of course, there is already no parking, and parking garages are being demolished regularly in center city to be replaced with high priced rental units.

Assuming you got the space for your HQ and finished construction within a few years, where are your young tech people going to live? Out in the suburbs on regional rail, away from the amenities in the city? Gentrify a few more neighborhoods and build more ugly cubic-modern apartments?
I just don't see where they'd put all those new people.
Why does it have to be either/or?

Because principles only count when they're uncomfortable to uphold. A principle that is only exercised in defense of the already-palatable is hollow and worthless.

There can be exceptions to principle, but each one is an encroachment that rightly raises questions whether the person making the exception is shirking responsibility.

The most palatable cases are when both principles co-exist in a way that they minimize the amount they compromise eachother's purpose.

For example: A defense of copyright creating a limit to free speech generally rests on an argument that such a restriction doesn't undermine purpose of free speech. The argument assets that free speech is primarily about sharing ideas that are contemporaneously unpalatable, or disruptive/subversive to existing power structures. Copyright doesn't prevent a speaker from expressing ideas also expressed in copywritten works, and it even offers many ways in which a speaker could quote a protected work verbatim.

On the other hand, structuring bounds of speech as "free, except when I really don't like it" is harder to defend as a commitment to free speech. It is counter to the very purpose of free speech to defend the unpalatable. There is certainly an argument to be made here that a limit both has a good reason and minimizes the amount of speech it preempts, but nobody is presenting one. And until they make that case, and make it very convincing, others are right to consider it an abandonment of principle.
The weather here is beautiful a little more than half the year, but winter here is definitely a hard pill to swallow for those not used to it.
Well 42 is a bit different than most bootcamps. 42 Code School is free, it's funded by a French billionaire Xavier Niel who made his fortune from telecommunications and technology. There is a branch in Paris and a branch in Silicon Valley. I'd say it's bootcamp-ish in that it's only programming-relevant coursework you work loads of hours, and you don't get a degree, but it's supposed to be 3-5 years total. Last I saw you have to be 30 or younger to go there.

I think the main advantage there is the peer to peer learning and long hours. There's group projects. Yes, your coursework is all on the computer, but you are there morning to night surrounded by people doing the same thing, so you help each other out. That also ends up being a great network later on, which is one of the best things people normally get from college. They also have some special industry guests. Even Paul Graham was praising it. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/847844863727087616?lang=en
I don't think this is true. Here's the link (from cnn.com):
https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/potential-impact/

It says nothing about waiving your rights, etc. at all. There is the option to sign up for some of their services ("we will provide you the option to enroll in TrustedID Premier."), which I have read elsewhere include clauses waiving your rights to be part of a class action suit. But just checking this link has no waiving associated with it.
Facebook has credibility?
It's an appealing story to think that the main reason the courts and prisons are so overburdened is personal drug use. Since most (of us) agree that rehabilitation or laissez-faire is better than imprisonment, we get to solve another huge problem by adopting our preferred solution.

Unfortunately, they're not particularly complicated cases, and drug offenders only make up like a sixth of the prison population. So, it'd help, but the USA would still be a huge outlier internationally, let alone among developed Western countries.
> Most bugs are about types, just most languages’ type systems are too weak to express the logical types relevant to many important bugs

Ok, so you are writing a function for a fast approximation of ATANH using IEEE floating point standard.

In type: IEEE floating point number

Out type: the same.

The function will report an incorrect value (bug), yet still be perfectly type safe.

Tell me how the magical type checking of the super-good-type-system programming language you propose will catch the error and thus prevent the bug.

And also, we're discussing about real-life problems, tackled with existing programming languages, not languages that don't exist yet.

Not even Haskell, with it's great type system, will help you in such cases. Not in the bugs that are caused by a flawed understanding of the business model, the business rules, or of the system as a whole.
I still can wrap my head around the fact that judges are elected!!!

Are there elections for judges in other countries too?
There was a period last night that there was a maybe small chance it was viewable in WA/OR but naturally it was cloudy. So much for that.
how does the bank decide which credit reporting firm to give them to? in other words, if I made an Equifax competitor, how would I convince banks to give me this info?
The Social Security Administration could make everyone's SSN public[1] immediately and then we could watch the entire credit industry scramble. Probably not a good idea without a reasonable alternative already in place but I think a certain amount of grim satisfaction would be gained in seeing the issue forced.

[1]: But unfortunately they may be constrained by the aforementioned Privacy Act of 1974.
To be fair, I've traveled many places that require national ID cards, and yet never carried my passport on my person, in violation of local laws. And I've never had an issue.

It's something so unlikely to come up in day-to-day interactions that it's not really that important. I'm sure if I got stopped in, say, France, and had no passport to show, they wouldn't exactly lock me up on the spot, they'd find a way to accommodate me.

I still only have a really vague understanding of what happens if a cop in the US wants me to identify myself and I refuse. If I'm not suspected of a crime, obviously, I can just walk away. I'm not really sure what I'd do if I was arrested for cause and refused to identify myself.
Thanks! I really appreciate your sharing this with me.
Law limits it to no more than three days. My experience has been that it mostly takes place within 12-24 hours.
> The less sensitive information on me that is centralized, the better for my privacy and security

This is interesting. I don't agree or disagree with it; I'm not informed enough to stake a position. But as a thought experiment, if we took it as given that any information a given entity tried to keep secure will eventually be revealed publicly, what kind of security infrastructure would we end up with?
I read your parent as others noticing you're visiting HN (or other sites), not that the site itself is keeping such lists.
>Ok, my point is the country should be allowed to find its own way.

Then that's what you should have said.
>but the whole "you might get the wrong antivenin" disaster scenario is a reach. How many people go to the hospital with a scientific name?

Here's an example: I keep multiple tarantulas as pets (yes it's a thing). If I got bit by one that has medically significant venom, I'm 100% going to tell the ER exactly what species it was with it's scientific name (all are kept in labeled enclosures).
Yes but you have to prove real ongoing harm, not potential. They only give out new socials in extremely unusual circumstances.
Absolutely. In Vim, since every command is a keystroke you can save a string of keystrokes to a buffer, and "run" that buffer as a macro. You can even paste the buffer instead, edit it as plain text, and put the new version back into the buffer and run it.
I prototyped this sort of thing for an 8051 based project I was working on where we had more RAM and external EEPROM space than we really needed, but were regularly having to go back and grovel through the code looking for optimizations to make things fit in code memory.

The important thing to know is that 8051s have separate CODE and RAM address spaces. (Actually the RAM is divided up into multiple flavors too: direct, indirect, external and bit addressable.)

It turned out it wasn't worth the overhead. The interpreter and ancillary bits took up too much space and slowed things to a crawl. It was generally easier to rewrite sections of the code in a way that made the compiler and optimizer happy. By various techniques I managed to reduce the footprint of the system code by at least fourfold after a number of refactorings. The application kept needing new features, so it always barely fit in 16 code address space (some of which was already consumed by the bootloader).
I read your article and wasn't even halfway through it before I came to same conclusion about graduation rates that you did. They are no longer a measure of a goal, but the goal itself. It's quite easy to keep getting graduation rates up if you make everything comically easy
> Well it must have taken them a ton of work to parallelize their algorithm also.

Not really. Both optipng and oxipng do "trials": pick a set of parameters, try to compress the image with them, repeat with the next set of parameters. Each trial is completely independent from the others, so it's trivial to run them all in parallel.

Most of the work of running the trials in parallel is done by the "rayon" crate; the oxipng author only had to do an .into_par_iter() to get a rayon parallel iterator, and then do a map/reduce on it.

The difficulty of doing that with optipng was global state. Quoting from https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/48vkjy/oxipng_a_multi...:

"My initial plan as well was to fork optipng and implement multithreading on it, but optipng, like many C programs, takes pride in using global mutable shared state in every place possible, and I didn't want to try to untangle that spaghetti code to make it thread-safe."
This only applies in a market where consumers always make objectively ideal decision.

This applies to smart phones, electric cars, and CPUs. (mostly, see post-script)

But for most goods, there is no such thing. What is the "best" tomato or a jar of honey for a consumer to buy? Is it the cheapest? The brightest? The most delicious? Yes, all those things. But the evaluation of them is subjective for most. A tomato from a local farmer you see on the street every weekend will look brighter and taste better and feel healthier to a lot of people than one coming across the world from Peru. Regardless of the truth or economics of scale.

Also why is it a zero sum game? If some consumers choose to spend more to support local producers, is that not just a form of local subsidy which rebalances the wealth slightly from consumers to local producers?

*Actually iPhones and Tesla are also emotional decisions. For some people an Android or a Chevy Volt are better decisions for factors beyond financial yet for emotional reasons they want the entire package that comes with the top brands.
Might just be me, but I read this as ~2 kilometers, rather than the intended ~2,000 miles.
The GP was talking about Small Claims specifically -- I don't see anything on the linked page that refutes that. In fact, it seems like this applies very narrowly and only where specified by statute.
In the case of Google, you can trust their security over the (usually) much smaller vendor. With this? Not so much.
The pervasive want of private corporations to stockpile our private information is a huge concern as well. There's hardly any reason they should store anything beyond name and contact info.
I just changed to one of the rental companies that doesn't require pulling credit.
Your story would likely be different if she was Japanese.
I did. It's still there. Not a super-prominent one - couple of hundreds visits per month - but useful I think.

> their notability guidelines is mind bogglingly frustrating

Notability is a frequent point of contention. I don't think there's a good final way to solve it - people are interested in different things, and some things - e.g. local businesses - are notoriously grey area and prone to both abuse and over-zealous policing. I am sorry your experience was bad, but maybe try to contribute in some less controversial area? There are tons of areas - especially in translation space - where a lot of articles about completely non-controversial topic and very prominent things and people are under-covered.
Translation: The End of the Cryptocurrency Exchange Era in China
You can see all the data Equifax has on you at https://www.annualcreditreport.com/
I used my Google Location History as part of an alibi with the police (it never made it to the courts). My guess as to why that was successful despite the obvious flaws was:

1. The crime occurred in another city about 3 hours way, so poor granularity or precision really didn't come into play.

2. The crime itself was a hit and run on a road worker. Not something you'd generally believe to be premeditated where I'd have thought to have a friend haul my phone around town to provide an alibi.
If you already have to enter your name/ssn/dob/address 3x for the credit freezes a 4th time to generate the paperwork for a small claims case isn't much extra work
Using Posters to Recommend Anime and Mangas in a Cold-Start Scenario
>> So you understand that the amount emitted over time is not equal to the amount currently present?

I do, but you don't seem to since you came back with an attempt to quantify the "amount emitted over time"

my question was:
>>> what percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is attributed to human activity?

...and I even answered it myself :) ... it's ~4%
I think I expressly acknowledge that there's a difference, and I'm not looking for government intercession.

> Further, certain kinds of speech have never been considered protected: "fighting words", certain classes of harassment, fomenting seditious, the famous "fire!" in a crowded theater

You should really read this:

https://www.popehat.com/2016/06/11/hello-youve-been-referred...

and to a lesser extent, this:

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...

Also, legislatively, the fighting words doctrine is basically toothless today, if it's not entirely dead.

Worth noting though that punishments for use of speech are an entirely different thing than refusing to allow someone to speak. Again, I acknowledge that no one is beholden to DailyStormer, or any other nazi to hosting their site -- I get that, and it's not a decision that I particularly fault -- it just doesn't sit well with me that a website has apparently been searching for a host for some time now and can't find one.

Maybe that's a testament to how far we've come as society -- perhaps if I were a better human, that's how I'd see it, but I see it as troubling, regardless of the content.

> Anyway. "free speech" is not a uniform perfect right that applies maximally in all situations

Nor have I suggested that it is, but it seems you think you understand the subject better than you do, and I think it's an important enough right to be informed on.
If you know where you're going to work, it's not difficult to plan where to live to avoid traffic. Not to mention the breakneck pace we're adding midrise housing next to anything that looks mildly interesting.
Wow. Both the receiving and transmitting antennas were omnidirectional. There's no problem doing this with a dish pointed at a dish, but that low power without directional antennas is impressive.
Unfortunately much (> 60%) of China's electricity comes from dirty sources (largely coal). Until this is fixed, the environmental benefits of EVs there will be limited.
Except for the fact that your data was leaked by Equifax, so everyone can have it now.
Gaddafi prolly wished he died in a sewer pipe when he was dying. Do not look it up.
People's Bank of China: Preventing Risks of Fundraising Through Coin Offering
I don't think that was the concern being expressed by the grandparent. If the concern was the government now has a secret trove of all your information this specific product doesn't change anything on that front as it doesn't store your information it just acts as an identity provider. If the concern is exploiting this one account allow an attacker to get at all your government systems, then yes this is a new treasure trove. I am going to fall on the side of its better to have one secure account then 100 different less secure accounts. I think the industry has found this to be the case and widespread use of Password Managers and Oauth based logins backs me up on that.
A Smarter Package Manager
An Artist Uses an iPhone to Visualize Sounds in AR
Lawyer here. In most countries, such terms would be set aside on the grounds of being unconscionable and against public policy. The consumers have no real bargaining power in the setting of the terms here and lack the sophistication necessary to understand that they are waving their legal rights. If you are going to make someone waive their rights you need to get not merely their consent, but 'informed consent'. Additionally, it is the companies duty to inform people if their data was stolen and can't make them agree to some self-serving terms before it does so.

Despite the SCOTUS ruling in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion if this question is put before a US judge, there's a good chance that the contract won't be worth the paper its printed on.
In the long term I believe it will make sense to treat criminal prosecutions and trials as a classification problem. Given these facts and this evidence, is person X innocent or guilty of the crime?

It seems tools are being developed right now to assess the effectiveness of the current system, innocence projects, etc. So there should also now be a possibility of developing a new and better algorithm for trial. A machine learning algorithm that's better than all this human complexity at determining who did it, and can explain why it came to its conclusions.

Computational law.
Time. I'm pretty old, retired, and have a few bucks. Time is my most precious commodity, and I prefer to give it to those who deserve it.

I'm not sure how much I'd want someone to pay me for an hour of my time. Clearing up identity theft can take many hours. Those are hours I can spend bugging the missus, or even bugging you folks.

I am clearly not to blame for their data exfiltration. Who is going to pay me for my time? What is my time worth to them?

This is all theoretical. My credit has been frozen for a long time. It has been that way since the OPM hack. However, for the sake of expression, I point out that my time is pretty valuable to me. Those who steal my time are worse than those who would steal my property. I can insure my property, I can not replace my time.
A minor point: a fire-proof safe is not absolutely heat-proof. Put one in a fire, and it will heat up inside. Better ones also tend to release water vapour into the safe itself when heated (as a mechanism for keeping the internal temperature down and providing a positive pressure for keeping smoke, fire, and particulate out), which isn't great for hard drives either. I wouldn't rely on an on-premisis safe to prove any data integrity guarantees against anything but petty theft.
If there's no way to buy cryptocurrencies, what are you going to do?

Unless cryptocurrency starts being widely accepted, it'll be easy for governments to ban it and hard for people to acquire it.
The table doesn't have the dates to sort by.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15186631
>> cabbie...

This was a good predictor of the ~2001 top of the tech boom.