skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, "Stop and Frisk" has no equivalent for drivers because it's already understood/accepted that the police can pull you over at any moment for a variety of reasons.
There are most certainly many things deeply wrong.

Most people have negative savings every year. They have more debt. If one has bought a house, then it is very easy to go into more debt every year, when house prices are rising. Then they fall.

Since the beginning of written history (the first written records are records of debts) there are stories and parables about the evil of debt and the need for debt jubilees. Also the idea that lending with interest is immoral is found through out time. Having such easy access to debt/credit from strangers seems not to work well over the long term for human societies.

I mean, is it a good thing that one can get a "Rocket Mortgage" where you can "Get Approved Fast. Get an approval to buy a home or refinance your mortgage in minutes."? [1]

[1] https://rocket.quickenloans.com/
Bitcoin made a new all-time-high, finally crossing over the top from 2013.
I would suspect they are using magnetometers for determining orientation. Those might be affected.
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We are looking into a few possibilities

1. Users pay a standard, fixed monthly rate into a pool from which we pay site owners. We hope this works like insurance where sporadic users underwrite power users and everyone wins.

2. Bring in Wall Street and public universities to underwrite the internet. Hitherto, the internet has been the domain of ad companies. For example, the stock market would benefit greatly from knowing the true health of companies but they are currently shut out since ad companies have a lock on raw data. Similarly, imagine the sheer scientific horsepower we can unleash if any Ph.D student could just firehose raw (depersonalized) internet data to identify patterns.

3. Present hype aside, a Coin may actually work to underwrite an ad free internet. Instead of blue skies ideas like replacing http, a browsing based Coin is a real option.
Governments are beholden to people, not markets. Profit is not their main incentive.
I'd rephrase the metaphor - someone is saying, "I saw him hit the cliff, he's done for!", and then it turns out he didn't hit the cliff. After a couple times you stop paying attention to this message, it's too unreliable.

I'll grant you bitcoin is volatile and "dangerous". That's true before China "bans" bitcoin. But the question is "did China just ban bitcoin" and the answer is "most probably not".
> The government can't just dissolve a corporation on a whim.

Not on a whim, but for (e.g., in Delaware) “abuse, misuse or nonuse of its corporate powers, privileges or franchises.” (Delaware Code Title 8, § 284.)

> We have due process and the rule of law.

While rarely used in practice currently (it was more used in the past, and there is a movement to revive the practice), the law provides for charter revocation for corporate misconduct.
The weakness of the scientific names taxonomy isn't so much that people can get names added too easily, it's that the whole thing is subject to change.

As we learn about the genetics (phylogeny) of plants and animals, they get renamed from the original morphology-based names/locations.

https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/articles/dryandra-banksia/w...

Maybe once everything is verified by DNA analysis it will settle down, but then we will just continue fighting over what degree of mutation comprises a new species.
I disagree. I've read some of his forecasts and he's getting better over time. He put Mexico within the sphere of possibilities.

I think there's something to his solar flare theory. It may not be the only the only piece, but it seems to be a piece. He'll have an uphill battle to fight but it's fun to read his stuff.
How about while drilling 1000s of meters underground? How do you transmit data back to the surface? This is a problem faced by oil drilling and exploration companies, and they have a solution for it. Take a guess what it is...

Mud modulation.

Basically, while drilling, mud is pumped down the drill string and back out for cooling and cleaning purposes.

Some genius at one of the major oil drilling companies (maybe Schlumberger?) came up with the crazy idea of modulating the mud pressure to transmit information into the depths of the earth. You can control the drill bit speed, angle of drilling, and monitor all sorts of diagnostics over a mud-based communication channel. The bandwidth is decent (think: dial-up), especially when the drilling tools use an efficient modulation scheme.

It's amazing stuff to see first-hand.
Yeah, I see a class action lawsuit coming for their contract that disallows you from joining a class action lawsuit.
I don't think there's a threshhold. Take Bill Gates for example. He's done a lot of good in his life. He built a huge company that transformed personal computing, employed an army of people and then put billions of dollars into poverty mediation programs that the world's governments didn't seem to be able to handle. Along the way, he also payed billions in taxes. Without old Bill, the world is many billions of dollars poorer.

I think there's a lot of value in letting people that are 10,000x better than the average person at creating wealth do so. Maybe there should be something to limit the excesses of luxurious consumption (I for one, favor a progressive VAT), but I think trying to impose punitively high tax rates on very successful people makes society worse off in most cases.
"Nobody pays me to write Erlang, so I write Go. It's terrible. I wish I was writing Erlang instead."
How is that different from what you did as a founder? Say you create a company and issue 100M shares of worthless stock. Then after some time you end up selling 1M shares at $10/each. You get to keep $10MM that you created out of thin air?

Truth is, by creating the company, you created value. And the bank, by providing liquidity and reducing transactional friction does the same.
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If it meets the guidelines, this is likely better posted as a Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I think the verdict on housing projects, in the sense of high rises dedicated to housing poor people, is a bit mixed, which is why many low income housing authorities have subsidized housing instead.

If you're just talking about the government building houses and then acting as a landlord, then that may have less downsides, but still has all the issues of any government provided service not being very responsive to people's needs.

Personally I like the system that Singapore has where most property is owned by the government and then leased to private entities, often for 99 years. It means that the entity capturing the value of land in the long term is the state, but still lets development get done by private entities.

But in terms of what is realizable, it seems more likely that we could relax zoning than have NYC all of a sudden find the money to build lots of housing and successfully execute on that project and not make it a hideous brutalist disaster where people don't want to live in and continue to maintain that property well. Maybe you are more of an optimist about government than I am, but IME everything where the government actually has to do something, it's done poorly. Not that private development is perfect, but there at least there is some form of feedback from a well regulated market.
It's in the document you linked to.
That is not what the option is for. They're buying ~1 billion ripples for a fraction of what they cost.
This isn't going to produce more net government revenues, it's going to produce more government employees beholden to the current regime. They could net more to spend on other government needs simply by taxing and regulating, with the same set of regulations.
My SSN won't change for my lifetime, so really they need to pay that cost of monitoring. Equifax, you owe me $23,392.20. It's in your interest to pay upfront to avoid the cost of inflation.
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Don't confuse localization with reality.

You also seem to infer observer is some form of intelligence, in reality an observer or a measurement isn't anything more than a physical interaction.
Huh. So if I never had any direct relationship with Equifax, I am probably still able to sue them, but if I ever checked my credit report, I probably agreed to some bullshit arbitration clause that was buried in fine print, and now I'm SOL forever in perpetuity.

Thanks! That kind of makes sense. In a very Machiavellian kind of way.
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Come on, that's really not hard to find out for yourself. But here are the links anyway:

https://www.freeze.equifax.com/
https://freeze.transunion.com/
https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html
Repercussions? For the OPM hack, I got a form letter and a year (I think, I didn't use it) of credit monitoring. That was some of my most intimate information. That was a huge invasion of my privacy. I didn't even get a phone call. I didn't even get a sincere apology.
> It is not possible to afford housing without a loan

You can rent housing, but then that's based on credit ratings, too.
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https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq... said:

"You'll need to supply your name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and other personal information. Fees vary based on where you live, but commonly range from $5 to $10."

So depending on where you live, you probably have to pay.
Here's article 23, which is not relevant to credit scoring:

> Article 23.

> (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

> (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

> (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

> (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

here's article 25, which is not relevant to credit scoring:

> (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

> (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

tl;dr the UDHR doesn't work like that.
This is an official mouthpiece of the CCP.

That said, if any government could make a widespread EV grid, it would be china. In prosperous times, an authoritarian outlook can be a real boon for widespread adoption.
This is an excellent post. I've always fantasized of leaving the bay area but haven't because of job and family.

Heads up, anyone else dreaming of this, check out Zapier, i hear they like to hire remotely!
Most people I know that don't have white collar jobs don't have any expectation they will ever be able to retire. I'd be very surprised if the majority of americans were in a position to be able to retire.
Do the Angular tutorial so you can put both on your resume. Joking, but sadly I've met a few people who think like this.
At least GDS strong-armed HMRC into using CSS from the 21st century.
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> 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.

The lawyers are getting their fees to pay for the service of causing class-action suits to happen. Even if the remedies for a class member are a joke, the amount the company pays is, supposedly, not a joke (and yes, a good amount of that is probably paying those lawyers), and that's supposed to be a deterrent for other companies who are thinking of making the same mistakes.

Whether this works out in practice is debatable, but the current system is coherent in theory.
Why in God's name do you keep multiple venomous animals as pets? You even admit you might get bit someday. Do you even know that your hospital carries tarantula anti-venom?
This looks like a fine idea, I'll certainly check in periodically for a few months at least to browse. Good luck!
Humm, just got an apache struts security update from Redhat, and confluence doesn't have an update for it. Interesting...
> met with a lot of liberals cheering it on because liberals are in favor of the inflationist fiat monetary regime and think that "kooks making money out of silver" should somehow be prosecuted

citation?
The only match I find is this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4696727
which has 1 person making an offhand remark that the government should "crackdown" in this case.

> rothbardrand

Thank you for not hiding your biases.
Things like the Carlo Verre hack (also a thing you can't change —any more— in Python: builtins), editing objects during their construction (via e.g. gc)... generally, the gc module allows other ways as well to crash your interpreter.

>>> import gc
>>> 'foo'.lower()
>>> gc.get_referents(str.__dict__)[0]['lower'] = str.upper
>>> 'foo'.lower()
segmentation fault (core dumped) python

(That's the method lookup cache)

A talk in this direction is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCGofLIzX6g
Census tracts are good because they're high resolution and still spatial polygons but are more or less sized by population, having ~2-10k people in each (so population density is factored out).
I think pricing a project could be pretty tough and taking a quick look at your site I didn't see any guides or advice on pricing, it might be worth offering some direction to potential sellers.
Exactly. Depending on apartment, it may be possible to pay 1 to 2 months rent up front if you don't have a decent credit rating. But most Americans do not have this kind of money.
And the Beer Store is terrible and offers a non-existent selection.
> My SSN won't change for my lifetime

This breach, I suspect, makes that less likely to be true. After all, one of the few reasons a new SSN can be issued to someone who has one is “A victim of identity theft continues to be disadvantaged by using the original number”.

https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/Article/3789/Can...
Equifax's help site could mean you waive right to lawsuit
But are these little businesses on the books contributing tax revenue?
Then why do class action lawsuits exist?
>React-redux is really simple i don't understand why people have a problem understanding it.

I keep experiencing this. JS developers that should have no problem understanding redux's approach, throwing it away because they are unwilling to simply read redux's docs. It's disheartening.
This just isn't always the case, as others have said. Particularly with interest rates as low as they have been, it's often completely rational to pay off your mortgage as slow as you can.

Also, you might not want all your money tied up in your mortgage: Buying a second home, too much risk for your taste in real estate market, etc.
To be fair, they use dish antennas on both ends. Otherwise that feat would be ludicruosly impossible.
They were, but programming in TECO (although they were just strings of edit commands) was more complex than emacs lisp, believe me. I wrote a lot of MIT TECO back in the day and don't miss it!
Maybe for SF. The article indicates that homes are quite affordable in much of the country.
US forecast models have been pretty terrible during Hurricane Irma
They are HOURs, not "hours"

> One Ithaca HOUR is valued at US$10 and is generally recommended to be used as payment for one hour's work, although the rate is negotiable.
> ...a top quality gym, yoga studio, apartment owned cafe, etc.).

It's funny how different things are in different countries. I've read a few US rent-vs-buy articles and they often mention these uber cool apartment blocks. I think they're extremely rare and/or so expensive nobody's heard of them in the UK (outside of small, prestigious areas of London). Here, a majority of the flats are in blocks with just the accommodation or are converted houses in residential areas.

City centres with purpose-built modern apartments at the upper end of the market might have a gym, maybe a concierge and occasionally parking. :)
There are many teachers, it doesn't mean they're all the best and brightest you could get. The best ones I had were people who'd made enough money in industry and then switched to teaching for ideological reasons. It doesn't pay enough to be a goal in and of itself for many ambitious people.

Teaching being a tenured position after only a couple years also means that many great younger teachers end up getting fired to maintain older checked-out teachers. A lot of adverse selection going on.
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Cockroaches are rampant in larger apartment complexes. If you go to poorer or less well maintained places and restaurants, the things are literally crawling over everything - it's hard to believe it's America. Mosquito breeding areas in all the ubiquitous slow winding bayous and creeks. The one month or so of winter cold enough to freeze results in sleet not snow most of the time due to prevailing atmospheric conditions. The rest of the year feel the need to take a shower after spending 15 minutes outside due to humidity.
He mentions a county in Texas as the most affordable — and yet Texas has relatively high property taxes (higher than California). So there's that.

And the more expensive homes will also be an income tap when you retire and sell the house (hint: anyone in the magenta can retire, sell and live out their lives anywhere in the green).
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What happens when important websites start requiring login.gov, and then the government shuts down your account? Can't just sign up for a new one, can you?
This has been hitting me hard lately. I'm pretty young at the tail end of my 20s, job is finally stable enough not to worry about money, and have really started to realize how few free hours I can find in a week. Work and its on call rotation, obligations to the girlfriend and social circles, maintenance on the house and cars, bills that don't have an auto pay option.

Last month my auto registration sticker didn't show up in the mail after renewing it. A trip to the county clerk, then the sheriff's office to file a report, then back to the clerk to get another sticker took almost two hours. Stopping by the local bank to change my address after the online system locked my account for two incorrect password attempts took 90 minutes. 6 phone calls after a cancelled auto insurance policy made an auto draft the next month. My coworker has a pile of kids, two with medical issues, it seems like his wife has a part time job dealing with medical billing issues.

Most of these rambling examples aren't the fault of the organizing institution (unlike the Equifax leak at hand), but in the end individuals are bound by those institutions' organizational practices in their pursuit of normalcy. I don't know how it could be implemented or enforced, but at a certain point it feels like individuals should be compensated for suffering organizational incompetence or negligence.
Take this with a grain of salt: They claim that the Struts vulnerability in question is specifically CVE-2017-9805, and cite a William Baird & Co. report [1]. However, the report in question says nothing about a specific CVE, only that it was "the Apache Struts flaw". Struts has had multiple vulnerabilities recently, such as one back in February (CVE-2017-5638). It's possible it was one of these that they failed to patch.

[1] https://baird.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/dbf801ef-f20e-4d6f-91c...
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What I do: Land a Silicon Valley tech job but work remotely from the Midwest. I make almost double the median income for my area and I live in the white zone. My employer can pay me 60-70% of the salary they would pay for someone in San Francisco to do my job and I still earn way above median for my area.

I could buy a really decent home here (Southern Missouri) for somewhere between 0.5 to 1.5 times my yearly salary. There are many factors affecting that price but there are some really decent houses at the low end of the price range. Extra bonus: property tax, income tax and sales tax are all relatively low. Unfortunately that doesn't apply to the entire region; some neighboring counties have ~8x higher property tax than where I live.
This is based on a report from Baird Equity Research.

Some key items from that report:

* "Our understanding is data retained by EFX primarily generated through consumer interactions was breached via the Apache Struts flaw (i.e., core databases not believed to have been breached)."

* "Key EFX databases are not known to have been breached as part of the incident, including the consumer credit file, TWN, NCTUE, IXI, or its commercial credit database. Our understanding is that data entered (and retained) through consumer portals/interactions (consumers inquiring about their credit reports, disputes, etc.) and data around it was breached via the Apache Struts flaw."

* "the breach is believed to have occurred from mid-May through July" and was discovered on July 29.

It's not clear whether this is referring to the Struts problem just announced or if it's the Struts problem earlier in the year, but if it's the just-announced one then it means that someone was actively exploiting it in the wild since at least May of this year. The timeframe would fit better for the early-2017 vulnerability [1] which was apparently also being exploited in the wild in March.

Obviously if they had enough access to the system it would be possible to connect through to the databases being accessed, but if this was all scraping of data passing through rather than at-rest then it may also indicate a lot more sophistication in the attack - unless there's a small number of points where the attackers could copy out data, this likely required a fair amount of analysis of Equifax's code to shim things in and grab data without breaking things.

The other interesting question is more along the lines of "If you haven't interacted with Equifax and haven't applied for anything involving credit, does that lessen the risk that you're impacted?"

[1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5638 (Apache Struts Jakarta Multipart Parser file upload vulnerability for RCE)