skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are actually two separate things - locking your credit and placing a fraud alert on your credit.

Locking your credit means that the only people allowed access to your credit file are your current creditors. The fraud alerts means that the only way someone can grant your a new line of credit is by verifying with you personally that you intended to apply for this new credit.

Locking your credit is permanent and it needs to be done with all 3 agencies separately and each time you want to unlock your credit, example someone needs to run a credit check or you want a new credit card then you need to phone each of the 3 credit agencies separately and they each charge you 5 dollars for that privilege.

The fraud alert doesn't cost anything but can only be done for 90 day increments and then it is automatically revoked.

And if there is any glitch in the locking/unlocking or fraud alert, the agencies will resort to snail mail and letter writing to resolve issues. Everything is set up to be maximally inefficient and painful for the consumer to discourage doing so.

Also the 3 credit agencies manage a site that was mandated by congress after another scandal that allows consumers to request their own credit file for free once a year [1].

This site in addition to intentionally looking sketchy is also designed to be maximally painful to use. You will be asked things liked exact dates that you lived a certain address 15 years ago. If you fail any of these(which is quite easy to do) you will be instructed to send a letter, along with ID to the agency to request your personal credit report.

It is actually much much more difficult for a person to obtain their own credit report from these agencies than it is for a complete stranger to request it.

[1] https://www.annualcreditreport.com/index.action
I got burned pretty badly (in time, not money since it was ultra cheap) on the Onion Omega2 fiasco. The thing was released when it was alphaware, and all the support documentation was for the previous machine.

It's matured a lot in the last few months, but that first half year was very rough. It took two or three firmware releases to even make it stable, and it's still a bugfest. (Can the support web site even work on iPhones yet? It used to be Windows+Chrome only.)

Because of that, my next foray into ultra-low-cost computing will be Raspberry Pi. At least I know it's an established product and because of that it probably has a good community and documentation.
I'm not sure what Zuckerberg can do to combat the virality of Trump, I have some suggestions, which he may not like but he'll need to do:

* Ban Trump from Facebook (co-op with Twitter to ban him there also)
* Flood Facebook with ads of people helping others, doing good, committing selfless acts
* Forgo the traditional presidential campaign, instead of rallies do an eye-catching Apple-style presentation of people, their situations and solutions.
* Stick to an optimistic message no. matter. what. Do not get in the mud.
* Do not mention your competitor by name
* Every week ask open ended policy/progress questions to an audience on FB (for instance, What would the year 2030 look like? Mars for humanity?)
* Every week also feature an interview with an activist, about their mission, how they're changing the world and how the audience can help.
* The people who helped build Facebook who are still around must absolutely be involved in the campaign as a testament to Zuckerberg's character and perseverance.
* As campaign items distribute and sell posters of great SV pioneers and leaders. Beautiful ones of Jobs, Gates, even social justice and advocacy leaders in the world like Yousafzai, etc. And obviously past leaders like Obama, Hillary, Bill, etc. Don't make it about you, but about visionaries who push the boundaries and change things.

Zuckerberg has a significant chance to not end up like Hillary, but honestly, I would not dare to campaign in 2020; however I would be more than happy to get Zuckerberg across 270 with a campaign the world will remember.
"if the government was any smaller, the environment would DIE!"

"People need rulers!"

We wouldn't get along.
If Apple really wants to do right by users, they need to open source their software.

I don't like any giant company saying, "trust us, our code is completely closed and we put up tons of road blocks for you unless you use it the way we say you should, but we take your privacy seriously. Trust us <EvilSmile />"

As long as Apple is a closed and secretive company, I won't consider them advocates for users.
I was OK with it. At first my reaction was that Part 2 would have been better as an epilogue but I did get into it. A few things bothered me about how aspects of part 1 resolved to create the environment of part 2--probably all I can say without spoilers.

But I wasn't really bothered that some of the details hinted at in part 2 were hand-waved away as "other stories." I'm really not a fan of sequel-itis and I appreciate Stephenson doesn't go in for it. I'm fine with not every backstory or thread being fleshed out in detail.
http://www.nltk.org/book/ch06.html
I'm running into a weird case where even within an application, concurrency has become relevant because of parallel processing that the application wants to do over the data stored in the database.

But, our desire for both simplicity and obscenely low latency means that SQLite is still the better choice for us at the moment. In the future, though, I can see robust concurrency support being important even in single application use-cases.
Relevant...

Listen to Radio from around the globe

http://radio.garden/live/ (drag the map to tune in)
Economists largely consider payments like this to be the best way to enact policies. It gives people more options instead of trying to control through legal pressures.
Does it have anything to do with the fact that Russian, China and other BRICS are banding together to have Oil sold in Chinese currency?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-09/01/content_314...
You should have used Parambulator to create a more precise model :) Awesome job.
Why the hell not? This idea seems so alien to me I can't even begin to understand how someone can come up with "social bonds" as a reason to pay less for something.
I think 'groundbreaking AI' was used as an example of something which is (1) new and (2) requires efficient use of hardware. Of course you will need domain experts. But if the new idea requires infrastructure which has not been built and places high demands on the machine, then the project will require above average developers.
I’ve become a huge fan of the NanoPi Neo series. The lower end models are < $10 and still moderately powerful, besides being quite a lot smaller than the Raspberry Pi’s
What do few youngsters do differently that makes them create new industries?
I have been seeing examples, say Matt Mullenweg who created WordPress, Vitalik Buterin who created Ethereum and the list can go on.
Wow. Looks like they'll spend a lot of money for this research. Congrats to everyone involved!

I thought basic income was about a time where AI would take most of the jobs, and everything would be far cheaper thanks to automation. I cannot understand how it'll help you not work in the current world.

Because working part-time might not be an option for many, even if they are ready to forgo the money. We also have not built that automated world yet, so although $1000/m certainly helps, it is still not enough to pay for a comfortable life in the US.

Maybe someone more informed on the subject can enlighten me.
It sure helps if they are though.
Wow. Erm, okay. You really are dense. Let me simplify my previous post down so that even you can understand it.

"Goodbye".

Feel free to close out on a snarky note. I'll give you another chance to come up with something better. But the patheticness of your last response has pulled me back. If your final words are sufficiently snarky, I'll leave you alone. Or you can just leave too, that's cool.
From the linked proposal:

"We propose two treatment arms, one of which will
receive the basic income payments for 3 years while the other receives a 5-year guarantee."[0]

[0] - https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599c23b2e6f2e1aeb8d35...
Oh, thanks for the correction.

It would appear that my knowledge is out of date: did Rust use something closer to H-M in the past? (Going off of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/15955 here.)
I would speculate yes. (1) You want subjects in the control group to be incentivized to maintain contact with the researchers throughout the study and be willing to spend time answering their questions. (2) Whenever feasible, you want all subjects in a research study to be better off than not participating in the study. (3) It also controls for some minor confounding effects like "gets in the habit of going to the bank monthly and cashing a check".
Definitely! In this case, my university was in a relatively small town, but I was still flabbergasted at how fast they moved to get things done. I've lived in larger cities and done the same thing, and it generally happens, just not within a few days. I've never been called in to help with the process, though. That sounds cool.
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As far as I can suppose (although I don't actually have a source), RPiZ is sold at a loss and is made in much larger quantities than its competitors.

I would be surprised if PocketBeagle isn't also sold at a loss, although at a different scale.

Anyone else got thoughts/evidence on this?
I think it was data from the laser scanner as it was monochromatic (w/ shading)
> Economists largely consider payments like this to be the best way to enact policies. It gives people more options instead of trying to control through legal pressures.

That's not true at all, and in fact, the last time a large number of economists were surveyed about a proposal, the response was overwhelmingly in opposition: http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/universal-basic-income

Many economists would agree that, ceteris paribus, cash is "better" than an equivalent amount of earmarked money in most situations, because cash is more flexible. But that's a very narrow statement that isn't applicable here, because it's assuming that the set of people receiving the money would be the exact same (it's not, by the definition of "universal"), and it's also assuming that there are no other external consequences to the proposal (another topic which is, at best, debatable). So even that point of agreement among economists isn't relevant to this proposal.
So the first steps to a basic income are capital controls and a VAT, right?

I wonder how long it will be until USA is ready for that stuff.
This is every Stephenson book. Snowcrash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and The Diamond Age also fall victim to similar problems. He is a fantastic world-builder, but eventually he runs out of paper and needs to make things resolve, and the pacing falls apart.

Incidentally, GoT is suffering badly from the same problem.
Yes, and you will know whether you should spend a few more hundred dollars to build the next iteration. MVP means different things to different people, but founders should always build the absolute minimum they can in the beginning.
https://www.facebook.com/humaniqchallenge/
The Hobbit at 80: much more than a childish prequel to the Lord of the Rings
Only counts if patent law is applied. If you patent it you make it public knowledge, then Chinese firms can copy it at no cost because legal action does little to stop them and certainly doesn't compensate for the economic loss.
Any food could be poisonous, possibly with a poison you don't know how to detect. Would you rather eat food prepared by someone known to have poisoned you before, with obvious motivation to poison you again, or someone with no history of poisoning people? In no case are you guaranteed to not have poisoned food, but I know which I'd prefer.
How will the 1000 a month be treated in a fiscal sense? I have close to no knowledge about the US tax system, but I would guess it has some impact.

Also, will be interesting to see the difference in results from this study to ones done in countries where healthcare is free or subsidised.
In my strength-tracking iOS app Riker, I use SQLite directly (not CoreData) as my local data store, and support full offline-mode. The backend is Postgres.

In the app, for each relation (e.g., a "workout set"), I have 2 tables: a master and a scratchpad. When a user saves a set, a row is written to the scratchpad table. When the user syncs it with the server, a row is written to the master table and deleted from the scratchpad table. When the user wants to edit the record, I first copy it down from the master table to the scratchpad table. All local editing impacts the scratchpad row. When the user wants to sync, only if a 200 response is returned will I copy-up the scratchpad row to the master row. If the set was edited on another device and the local copy is out-of-sync, the server would have responded with a 409 (http conflict code), and the body would contain the server copy, which is then written to the master table. The user can then figure how they want to merge the scratchpad row and the master row.

Anyway...trying to do all this with CoreData would have been a pain, so I use SQLite directly, and works great.

Or to summarize, I handle offline mode, syncing and conflict detection using "updated_at" timestamp columns along with logic in my REST API to returned appropriate HTTP status codes, interpret "if-unmodified-since" headers, etc.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/riker/id1196920730?mt=8

Riker on Android is currently in-progress...
Clickbait, has almost nothing to do with Bitcoin "the first cases of attacks exploiting SS7 were registered in Germany, in which money was stolen from bank accounts"
Scientists Create World’s First ‘Molecular Robot’ Capable of Building Molecules
For question #1, an approach is to build a full-fledged Web/REST server wrapping around SQLite: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot

The performance is high!
It says in the quote that you quoted that it will be randomly selected individuals across two states. ;)
I think it is more of a pragmatic solution than an ethical one.

Some people want the species to survive, some people want to hunt them, both parties meet in the middle. It's certainly better than the fate of the Dodo and the Great Auk.
> First, we just wrapped up a one-year feasibility study in Oakland

Are the results of this feasibility study publicly available?
Ask HN: Recourse Against Websites That Fail to Validate Sign-Up Emails?
My e-mail address has been used half a dozen times now to sign up for services that I did not authorize. As best I can figure, my e-mail itself has not been compromised (I review the access logs every time this happens)--more likely someone with a similar e-mail address is typing mine by mistake[0]. What seems to be happening instead is that the website sends the sign-up verification email (which I DON'T click), but then site allows the fraudulent account to login anyway.

This has happened even with AWS. When I called Amazon to complain, demonstrating my ownership of the email account and asked why the account was allowed to proceed even though the sign-up was never validated, the Amazon rep said that the validation email was bypassed because the owner validated a phone number instead.

I have brought the fraudulent sign-ups to the attention of several of these websites. Some of them are refusing to delete the accounts, even after I have told them that I did not authorize their creation (probably because the account owner is performing financial transactions with the sites). One in particular simply removed my e-mail from the mailing lists so that I wouldn't get any notifications about the account's activity, but revealed upon being pressed that the account still exists and is accessible.

I would like to know what, if anything, I can do in recourse. I am sick of having my e-mail used fraudulently by sites that are happy to do so as long as the account owner is throwing money at them.

I am aware that I could simply use the "Forgot My Password" option to change the password on these accounts and close them, since I own the e-mail address. However, I am loathe to do this, as doing so would be implicitly acknowledging that it is my account.
Two thoughts: I'm nearly positive that basic income means _part of_ "your income", and not "your income".

The intent of basic income I have read about is to increase the personal freedom and provide a flexible safety net for the poorest individuals. And for personal freedom I'm guessing you can take or leave the basic income -- but none will because it's money right?

And about your second thought, you could use evidence for politicians elected based on their promises to raise or lower taxes -- which is essentially an income increase or reduction (for various income subsets of the population).
There's a good chance it will go the other way around: Java will get more and more features from Kotlin.
[0] On at least one occasion, the verification e-mail echoed back the login name, and I see that it was registered as foo.bar@gmail.com, while my email is foobar@gmail.com. I am aware that gmail drops all dots in the names, so foo.bar and foobar should ultimately go to the same inbox. But I refuse to believe that, knowing that, gmail would have allowed foo.bar@gmail.com to have been created in the first place as a distinct email address, so I am forced to conclude that there must still be a typo somewhere and that the user's real email is fooo.bar or foo.barr.
Funny, the politicians just listen to the people (businesses) with money. I'd wager that the vast majority of them are (run by) white Europeans of German heritage.

You seem to think that you have more in common with them, than with people who haven't been in Germany as long, but to the rich you are all just "the plebs".
Migrating to WebExtensions - a migration story
The bird deaths are mostly used by people who are against solar power (or this particular implementation of it) to begin with. Even if the article mentioned it but it would not change many minds.

Sad.
I'd probably still use Realm
Bose QC 35 II with the Google Assistant
Citation needed (from both of you).
Why wouldn't you try to get the best developer you can pay for?
I saw an Android that was like this at one point. It acted like a drive for the host computer, and had on it VNC software.

So you installed the VNC software on the host computer, and then you ran it, and you were seeing the Android running in the fob.

I thought that was super clever.

Anyone have any links to devices like that? I'd think a Chromebox or an Android like this might be very nice.

I suppose Chromebits are pretty dang close.
Team dynamics are of course critical, but part of that dynamic is "game recognizes game". Having highly skilled developers makes it easier to have an overall highly skilled team... and ironically that makes it easier to be selective for factors like "team dynamics". It's when you have weaker developers that you have conversations like, "we are just going to have to put up with the ahole because without them we'd be really screwed".
Speaking as an office drone who is docile and does what he's told and has minimum intellectual curiosity with regards to the software he's tasked with building, I don't get much done compared to the superstars around here who can put out 3000 lines of code a week, building out entire new features and workflows from scratch with beautiful, clean, well-organized code. I disagree with the suggestion that superstars (a.k.a. extremely productive and capable coders) do poorly on ordinary work.
The public sector in a number of countries seems addicted to these large-scale high risk forms of procurement.

Instead of running a larger number of smaller projects, which would be harder for them to adminster, there's a temptation to lump it all into one mega-project and shift the responsibility to a consulting company.

The problem with that approach is, of course, that its almost impossible to accurately specify all the requirements of the mega-project up front, so there are lots of amendments, and as any consultant knows amendements are where you make your money as by the time they come along the client is committed to the project, so you have the advantage in negotiations.

Unfortunately the litany of failed projects that follow this model, doesn't seem to deter public sector organisations from following them.

I don't doubt similar things happen in the private sector, but failures in the public sector tend to be more visible.
I know it is popular meme when it comes to Google, Facebook, etc. that “you are not the customer”, but at least you have a choice not to use their services. It’s impossible to opt out of allowing credit bureaus access to your personal information and still function in society.
Agreed. In all likelihood, the seven parts would collide a bit, heat up a lot, and generally lump back together into a new moon. On that scale, the moon is really soft. So much so that each of the seven individual lumps would probably flow into a roughly spherical shape before colliding with anything.
'user hostile' is too ambiguous to be useful.

I would argue that some of the perceived 'hostility' is a Necessary Evil® for improved UX elsewhere - specifically implementing DRM paved the way for Apple users to be able to "just buy/lease/get/download" lots of media (or actually licenses to media) very easily. I'm an Apple FanBoi though, so I am heavily biased because I really like their ecosystem.

Specifically about user privacy, Apple has a track record of being a decent advocate for user privacy. More publicly than I have been, that's for sure!
This article should come with more of a SPOILER ALERT for a book I would like to read at some point.
Act 2 is Neal Stephenson's re-imagining of the Fellowship of the Ring - complete with the cast that makes up the fellowship, and roughly 500 pages of walking to places, so that they can walk to other places, so that they could walk to other places, without doing much of anything.

Beautiful worldbuilding, but very much not like the rest of the book.
This is really cool, but do sandboxed Android apps really have access to set CPU frequency/voltage to invalid combinations? Or is this only useful as a way to break into the secure enclave after getting root privilege escalation through other means?
> What wide selection of services can the poor in the US access?

Medicaid, Food Stamps, SNAP, Disability, Unemployment Benefits, Free Healthcare at any Emergency Room hospital that accepts Medicare, Food Staples (Cheese, Peanut Butter, etc), free phones, free defense lawyer, etc.
It's just an upcoming book advertisement. Nothing valuable in this article.
Is everyone currently clamoring to elect politicians that want to increase welfare and other "Great Society" programs?
Really awesome to see this coming together. 2 q's - how was the $1,000 per month figure calculated, and will you be deploying in a small, low-income, isolated community where local inflation might occur, a large metropolitan community, distributed randomly across the 2 states? Interesting problems to consider in this study design!
Check out Realm:

https://realm.io/
For topic modeling, take a look at gensim along with k-means. Also, you can use tf-idf to improve the accuracy.
Land and expand.