skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why you plan Every. Single Day on firing your customer (employer).

Every day I focus on this:

- give so much value, that they are afraid of losing you

- help other people create more value, that they are afraid of losing you

- get slightly underpaid, so they they like they are getting an amazing deal

Why?

Because:

You call the shots.

You do what you want.

You have a "no fucks given" attitude.

They have more to lose than you do if the working relationship ends.

Principles:

Never have bad debt (credit cards, mortgage without rental income, loans for cars, etc)

Have multiple tiny income streams:

- couple hundred bucks/month in positive rental cashflow income

- a few bucks a month in stock dividends

- small website that makes a few bucks a month

- the odd freeland gig here and there (nothing wrong with taking a 5k job that takes you a couple of weekends)

- drive for uber once in a while to earn a few bucks

- find deals on electronics in demand on Craigslist and resell for quick $100 (tax free ) profit.

- Make swing trade on cryptocurrency

- Do Airdrop signups on crypto tokens and then sell for BTC/BCH/ETH and then cash it out or use the crypto to buy food/stuff online

... the list goes on.

Never have a single income stream. Get more, no matter how small it is.

Ask yourself this:

If your boss pays you, then who is really the head of your household. Who is really the breadwinner?
I searched for "underground", "black" (market/economy) and "undeclared" in the article, but it yielded no results. I am surprised given that (1) the rise of the underground economy is common knowledge for people knowing a bit about the region and (2) measuring its size is a mainstream academic question.
The general form goes like this:

* Be in new area, knowing few people.

* Find things you like that are at least moderately social.

* Do said things, both to enjoy them and to meet people.

* Having made some friends, either attend or organize events to turn a collection of friends into a social circle.

Now you have a nascent community. If it works, it will tend to grow over time. It can take time and be error-prone, but also sometimes you get lucky and stumble into an existing social circle that fits you.

It's worked out OK for me in a half-dozen places over the past ten years since college.
And it's harder for the emergency services to counter. The only option may be to ground aircraft.

It's not like someone parking in front of a fire hydrant. In that case the fire fighters may just break your windows and run the hose through your car.
I am a long term Gentoo user, but honestly I feel Gentoo's security stance is pretty bad, for example https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597804

Their high friction contribution process with essentially requisite 'accredited developer' status is a major contributing factor.

Edit: Hah! Posting here got the bug updated within 10 minutes :)
not op, but I assume it stands for Get Sh*t Done
Ha! The 2013-era linter he mentions that required “from __future__” imports was actually one of my bootcamp tasks! Hilarious and kind of gratifying to stumble across it in a random HN post all these years later.
Paranormal Investigator Claims to Find ‘Time Warp’ Near Las Vegas
I dislike both Twitter & Facebook, and am on the verge of closing both accounts, however I give them kudos for this - increasing transparency instead of censorship. While I understand our desire and pursuit for truth, I would like to leave the interpretation of any ultimate truths and meaning to rest with the end user, and not with any corporation or even government.
The number one supercomputer on the TOP500 list, Summit, is able to majority-attack about 95% of cryptocurrencies that are GPU-mined: https://twitter.com/zorinaq/status/1007005472505978880 That's one advantage that ASIC-mined currencies have over them. Specialized chips raise the security bar so high that the pre-existing installed base of GPUs cannot attack them.
Poor startup employees making $150k+, they can barely afford to eat at Marlowe 3 times a week and take 3 Napa vacations a year :*(
In the US, government forbidding publication by censorship is called "prior restraint," which has a very narrow scope.

Sure you can forbid discussion. In fact, there are some things you legally can't say: state secrets (i.e., agents in harm's way), shout "fire" in a crowded theater, slander or be Geraldo Rivera discussing troops-in-contact battle-plans.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/teen-copycat-suicides-are-a-re...

Also "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini
What will help?
"It's not like the government goes out of its way to teach people the rules or their rationale."

Presumably pilots are required to learn them.
This is laughable. Data security is a fairy-tale. We've all been bought and sold and there is nothing any of us can do to fix it.
I've interviewed there and my impression was that the average employee was very young, straight out of college. When I was there I was 27 and I felt slightly old.
There's probably some parabolic curve of revenue vs frequency of sharing subscriber links.
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I don't need to know the laws about distilling alcohol and whatnot, because I don't distill alcohol.

Knowing all the laws would be difficult. Knowing all the laws about your hobby, that apply where you engage in it should be simple.
I think it is good enough
I am just seeing a couple of scrolls worth of text---definitely not weekend-long reading material. Am I reading the right thing, or is your link mis-pointed?
> US citizens living in other countries are required to file taxes with the IRS

that's part of being a us citizen, and complying with your own law. you can renounce citizenship if you prefer to not comply with IRS.

> Australia has laws that about child sex tourism aimed at those that go to Asian countries with lax laws or enforcement. These crimes are committed in other countries

So if a US citizen violates Australian laws in Thailand, are they guilty and punishable by Australia? The example above is still against Australians, even if the crime is committed overseas. But... it's only against people who've been convicted, and it's basically just shutting down their ability to leave the country.

The customer in question was stating that simply someone being a citizen of a European country, then visiting my client's shop somehow subjected my client to European law. I don't find any examples you've cited above to be remotely comparable to this situation.

No, I take it back, your banking situation is sort of similar, except the banks in question are likely directly or indirectly connected with US banks. If they want to continue to enjoy whatever status that gives them, they're probably going to comply with those regulations. I also suspect that it's really their own government's financial regulators which have an agreement with US regulators (the wikipedia page seems to jive with that). Those FFIs are voluntarily(?) agreeing to the terms of FACTA because they enjoy some level of benefit (not being shut down by their own govt regulators, perhaps).

There are laws about heresy and apostasy in middle eastern regions - I'm probably violating their laws on a regular basis. Beyond a highly unlikely fatwa that may get issues against me, I'm not sure what they can really do (or indeed, that I would really be 'liable' in any real sense of the word)
True, but the problem is this:

> Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer...

If the company has its fingers in many pies across the software landscape, then this might apply to a majority of software that could be written. Also, the company didn't imply that they would try to claim ownership, only that such behavior wouldn't be permitted by company policy.
I think it's meant to be parsed more as conveying the sense of opportunity rather than choice. As in "this luxury car lets you experience a comfortable ride."
First Steps on Evolutionary Systems – Giancarlo Frison
If a company is getting ghosted then they don't pay enough for the role.
spoiler alert: nobody goes to jail.
Is there a torrent yet? I want to lookup my own data.
"these victims wished they had had the right private fire insurance instead of only your "real" personnel."

Maybe they should have wished they hadn't bought homes in such a risky place.

Love to jeopardize firefighting aircraft crew lives because I love my stuff so much and have more money than sense.
It's better than nothing. Until personal information is the property of the individual, and not resold/shared without permission, the "genie" is out of the "bottle;" lists and databases of personal information will continue to be trafficked by corporations of all sorts.
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Even in C these kind of early returns can be good. In the example above you would be returning before allocating any memory. This makes the memory you do have to manage simpler.
Can I request to remove my face from a stored security camera footage? If not, why?
Step 1. Take the stable route that pays more.

Step 2.Then save enough money to buy a 4plex house within a couple of years. (5-10% downpayment)

Step 3. Live in thr 4th unit, rent the others and get a roommate in your 4th unit.

Now, congrats! You live for free for doing nothing.

Next step:

Option A)

Save up enough money to repeat the model above.

After 2-4 houses.... you should be able to earn net positive minimum wage and live for free.

Option B)

Save up enough money and put into ETH/BCH (and retire within 3-5 years when next bull market comes)

Option C)

Start looking for remote jobs paying 150k-200k/ year and get them to pay your own 1-man corporation so you control your taxes. While doing Option A and B above.

You can retire by age 30-35 with this model.

Then you basically have "fuck you wealth". (Not "rich", but Wealth).

Then work at the companies You like and leave the moment you don't like them anymore since you don't need them.

All the best,
California Just Passed the Strictest Online Privacy Bill in the Country
As a marketing consultant, this looks really useful. Signed up. Separate note, do you have an affiliate program? Would love to try to drive conversions for % revenue. My email is in my profile. I specialize in targeting SMBs on Facebook.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://infiniteprivacy.com/2018/06/exactis-data-breach-may-....
> What can EU potentially do to you?

I expect it's more or less the same thing that the US can do to you: Depends on what assets you have now (or may have later) in the EU, whether you ever plan to visit the EU, and what treaties are ratified now (or later, been bitten by this one) by the US and EU countries.

Ignoring the laws of foreign countries is possible if you're willing to put in the resources, it's much cheaper and less risky just to comply. The general idea of being forced (literally or practically) to comply with the regulations of other governments is completely fucked up in my personal opinion[1], but until your government decides to do something about it, there's not much you can do. At least, you get the option to expand in a foreign county market as a consolation prize.

In the end, this is just a comment on some internet board. I'd recommend asking a lawyer that specializes in these matters if you really want to know about the risks involved.

1: I'll state that I'm not against the GDPR in general and think it's introduction is long, long overdue. What I object to is having some foreign entity I have no connection to forcing me to comply to their will. That's a can of worms governments will regret opening.
Just FYI, You can't call yourself a bank. It is a restricted term in most US states and the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banq_(term)
When will this stop? When's the last straw? If I gave a bank 100 dollars, and they lost it, I'd have avenues with which to pursue some sort of justice. If I give a company my data, and they lose it, oh well. I wish all personal data was treated like HIPAA, at a minimum.
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Information wants to be free. That includes information you don't want to be free.
100% agree with you on delivering small bits at a time. That's where I came from. However this time round, contracts are signed, everything listed in the functional spec must be delivered by end of 3 months, non amendable. We still do weekly progress update and demo.

What I failed to convey to my team is that qualities are important too. Instead, I've got many hardcoded things from them at almost the end of the project, no test, no nothing.

Stakeholders do not understand that quality software needs time, yet they continue to stress on quality while sticking to the timeline. I figure I'll need to educate them better next time.

> Upfront documentation isn't necessarily the best way of getting knowledge accross(Although it should be used). The best is collabarating, pair programming with your team etc

Agreed! That's what we did, using PRs. I reckon that every developer should know how to write a good commit, breaking or squashing commits into meaningful pieces. that'll make PR easier to read.

> I don't know what your situation was, but these days setting up ci/cd pipeline to a staging/prod slot for a small project is fairly quick...

Well, let's just say I learn it too late while tangling with other issues. Also I find dev in the team underappreciated CI/CD, people really don't write tests too. More education planning in plan.

Thanks again for your time.
This is awesome! I'm loving the advancements in AR.
We've also updated the title from “Yikes: Exactis Data Breach Exposes Personal Information on Every American Adult”. Submitters: please don't editorialize like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> When will this stop? When's the last straw?

When the top folks in the US government are personally affected. Until then, "congressional hearings" and presidential ambivalence is the most action we'll get out of them. Most people don't really understand what the significance of these events are.
As a women who uses transit as part of her daily commute, it comes down to time of day and route. As well as being aware of your surroundings and understanding when there is a one-off situation occurring.

Skytrain - yes, you sometimes have the one off homeless guy, who jumped the compass gates, on the train who makes it awkward for all riders. 98% of the time during the normal commute it's peaceful. Last few trains of the day, you should anticipate the drunks on board. At least they are not on the road driving

Bus - when it's crammed, it's crammed and awkward for everyone. At least Translink now has a means to track rider data to understand the routes that require more frequent services to mitigate the crammed bus situation.

Considering Uber and Lyft have had blocks thrown in their way for approvals in Vancouver, we do not have the alternative means other cities do. Transit and bike lanes is slowly improving, but still has a ways to go.
First, I just want to say that building anything and getting paying customers is never easy so it's impressive to see what these guys have done.

While there is definitely a large market of agencies suffering from this problem, I don't think this is the "true" solution.

Clients hire an agency because they just want to pay somebody to build them a website (or whatever it actually is). When approaching this, they are almost definitely not thinking at all about having to do anything other than tell the agency what they want.

This is the client having unrealistic expectations, but they aren't supposed to be the experts, so it should be on the agency to be clear about those expectations. Even if you think you're clear about the about of work required of them, most client will drag their feet to no end on delivering the content. This is because they have 1,000 other things to do, don't really know where to even begin, and are getting frustrated because the reason they went to an agency was because they didn't have the time to deal with this.

Looking at setting up endless reminders as a solution misses the reason they came to you and loses out on a ton of value. Clients don't want to do this. Find a way so that they don't have to and then charge for that. If a client doesn't want to pay to have you do it at the start, give them a deadline for the content, if they don't get it to you by then, they can either get the site as-is or pay to have you do it for them.

What content do you need from the client? Figure out what questions you have to ask them to create that content, schedule a call, then ask them those questions, get a transcript, and give it to a copywriter. Then give the result to the client along with a timeline of "if this isn't approved or edited by X, then it is going live as-is."

I get where Content Snare is coming from, but I think it misses a much bigger underlying point of why this is such a problem.
I think a mass bends/distorts spacetime the effect of this bent/distorted spacetime on other masses is what we describe as gravity.
What is the source of this data?

Without more information I can only assume they are scraping public records just like sites like Spokeo etc. Perhaps with some data analysis thrown in.

So I don't see much of a personal concern; especially since their business model appears to be selling this very data!
America continues to collect the wonderful, wonderful dividends of Ronald Reagan's decision to cut the funding for mental health to the bone.
Great to hear they are paying good attention to the concerns sent lately.
I agree, but it has to be done with delicacy to get past the hive mind here.
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> "I don’t know where the data is coming from, but it’s one of the most comprehensive collections I’ve ever seen"

> Each record contains entries that go far beyond contact information and public records to include more than 400 variables on a vast range of specific characteristics: whether the person smokes, their religion, whether they have dogs or cats, and interests as varied as scuba diving and plus-size apparel.

It might be "comprehensive" but is it comprehensive in a scary way? It's probably just 400 machine learning features that are estimating what people might like, so not necessarily super accurate?
Every American's DNA was leaked and a malicious AI bot is making a customized oncovirus for each if they visit Washington, D.C. "Oops, our bad. Here's a coupon half-off Tamiflu."

Externalities of data breaches keep increasing.
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I believe we are violently agreeing at this point.
I see people mention some of his best known works of fiction.

For those who want to get a better sense of his personal views, try his non-fiction, like "The Glass Teat". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Teat ).
Since the first pass quit when it finds the first marked node, the zeroing can traverse the structure, erasing marked bits, and stopping at the first 0. The entire structure doesn't have to be visited.
This depends on if you are writing code for others, a company or yourself. If you're writing code for others as your customer, then it's true.

If you are writing code for yourself, then it's totally false.
I hate the fact that I feel so small and insignificant because of the futility of speaking to a representative. I did try to contact Rand Paul last year. He never bothered to reply, but did add me to his mailing list. Great.
One of the big questions I have about AR is the extent to which it's a novelty versus something that delivers lasting value. As an example, 3D movies and especially 3D TVs were an impressive technical accomplishment that basically nobody cared about. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
This will continue to happen until the laws change such that holding personal information is a liability, not an asset.
That sounds good in theory, but I can't help but wonder if this has actually contributed to the huge power draw. Sure they're more efficient, but due to their limited availability, it encourages the big players to consolidate, knowing the barriers to entry are very high for would be competitors. This results in a technological arms race among the biggest players, confident that there will be no added competitors who will come out of nowhere. As they add to their holdings, they also necessarily increase their power consumption, making for an opportunity cost of that otherwise cheap power to other uses.
Samsung also won an ban of Apple imports at the ITC that the Obama administration overturned.
In all seriousness, what law (in the US) has this company broken? I'm assuming all the data they got was somehow obtained through legal channels in the first place?

People may be up in arms about this being a "breach", but think about it: they're a "data brokerage" company. Consider this breach a sale price of $0. My point is what should be scary is that all of this data is bought and sold about all of us, all the time, in the first place.
Right. You can't use xmonad to tile windows apps in this kind of setup. Generally firefox and visual studio are screen hogs so I tend to alt-tab for apps like that, which works fine in combination with the fullscreen X server.
"exposes" here is quite a strange term, because their entire business is selling that same data.

The only difference is that it was briefly available without a price tag.
Does anyone else feel like this could just be a kind of stunt pulled out of thin air described by "Trust me, I'm lieing"?
This is pretty great, I'm going to show it to our UX person who works with transcripts from user testing. The editor feature is pretty great for cleaning up transcripts, and I think it'd be faster to do that than to manually do it as we have been.

The automated process is pretty funny when working with Australian english though!

> Upset is gonna record you forget it out, so... alright, so I just wanted to start saying, What is your family technology? And I can send a man and I can use Excel and Word, such the internet use as post things of baseball pesticides that you... absolutely, absolutely, but a part of not a great deal.

It's pretty good despite the chaotic stop start of conversations between two or three people.
>If I give a company my data,

In some cases you're not knowingly giving them your data either.
> If this were stopped

Sorry, but that's called society and it will never be able to compete with the bubble you've built for yourself.

If more people were willing too embrace society instead of hiding from it then there's a better chance of improving it.
I was living on just $400 a month in Chiang Mai. I would drool over a grand!!
Accuracy doesn't matter.

Imagine you're a pastor at a church and a datadump claims you're an atheist. Maybe you can convince people it's a mistake, maybe you can't.
Only slightly offtopic, a really great book I'd recommend is "Vehicles, Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg. He uses the term "Vehicles" to represent simple biologically inspired robots and how we perceive them. Coding simulated vehicles from his book would be a really cool programming exercise. Even better would be implementing them by programming Arduino based devices.
Yup good move. TV news orgs need to do this too. Next too all their flashing banners and scrolls. Especially when the talking heads of both side are raging. I'd really like to know if Coke or Apple or whoever is footing the bill.
What do you recommend then?

The homeless population in Seattle (where I live currently) vastly decrease my quality of life despite the vast sums of money our government spends on them. I would happily contribute a lot more to taxes if it actually solved the problem but I have yet to see anyone give a good solution.
Facebook patents system that can use your phone's mic to monitor TV habits