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You're right, there isn't a service like this that I'm aware of.

However, getting them directly from the 3 agencies isn't too difficult.

A couple things:

1) As somebody mentioned, you can use AnnualCreditReport.com

2) However, I prefer to call them and request a paper copy be mailed to me. They include more complete information than online versions.

3) Never, ever pay for a copy of your credit report. If you just want a copy every few months, it's easy. There are many reasons by law the agencies have to give you a copy for free. You're looking for a job. You didn't qualify for a better interest rate. You were denied credit. Etc. They don't police it. For example, go to equifax.com/fcra right now, you can fill out the form and have an online copy for free in just a couple minutes. Just say you're looking for a job, it'll work fine. As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing morally dubious about this: This is YOUR credit report.

4) Don't ever pay for a "score" from them. In nearly every case, they will not be a real Fico score anyway. They will be the agencies proprietary, useless score. Lenders use fico. If you want to know your fico, you can purchase it from MyFico.com. There are usually promo codes if you look around.

Certain store credit cards offered by GE Money Bank (like the Walmart card, and others like IIRC Lowes, Kohls, etc) offer a free monthly Fico score on their account management website.

One final note abotu Fico: Experian does not allow you to buy a Fico. It's totally lame. You can buy a fico via MyFico for TransUnion and Equifax, though. If you want to know your Experian score, there's a couple credit unions that offer it to their members, otherwise your best bet is to ask the loan officer next time you're getting a car or mortgage.

And be advised that there are MANY different fico scores: Fico has tweaked the formula several times, and they still sell various older versions of it, and they sell special "enhanced" versions -- so a mortgage lender can buy a "Mortgage Enhanced" fico that places more weight on your installment loan history, for example. All of this means that the score you can buy on MyFico has only a relation to the one a lender would see when they run your credit.
It's a bit like discussing choices in religious ... if you say your beliefs are the correct ones, what does that say about my differing beliefs ...
Could this article be considered a quine? It both describes fanboyism and IS fanboysim at the same time!
I seem to remember that some time in the 80's or 90's, (could have been earlier) that the FEDs finally made the connection between injection wells on (I think) haz-mat sites and tremors in Denver. The comparison between that and Ohio's current hold on fracking may or may not be related, but it does give one pause to speculate...
Why wouldn't the same mechanism apply for banks? There are also a big variety of banks to chose from and people tend to pick one and stick with if for a while.
But you don't see BofA/Chase/YouNameIt fanboys.
>How many people in other industries voluntarily embark on pet projects or hobbyist experiments that involve the same things they do at work?

Well this behavior isn't limited to those involved with software development. I'd say that this is the case for any profession that involves the formulation and then creation of content, ideas, products etc.

Take this guy for example: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_be...

A lot of other fields necessitate a customer in order to perform, such as medicine.
Decent article, but I have to nitpick one comment:

> Heavy sprints are important to achieving milestones for major events

No, they are not. Heavy sprints reflect planning.

If we're talking about a one-off, once-in-the-lifetime-of-a-company type of event, it's understandable.

But in most situations like this, one can usually chalk it up to "lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part". Whether you agree or disagree, the net effect is that it kills morale. Absolutely kills it, as the product development team loses faith in the planning powers-that-be.

Heavy sprints are most often a reflection of upstream planning, and a poor one at that.
> It's as if the US Postal Service offered to deliver all mail for free, but in exchange opened everything and read it and if they thought this is something you shouldn't read or if this is marketing propaganda, so they won't deliver it to the recipient.

USPS has a large list of Restricted Matters that you're not allowed to send. It's ridiculous to think they would never "inspect" your package in anyway.
Until very recently Rick Santorum was pretty much a nobody. His name was more likely to come up in a blog post about gay rights than on the front page of the NY Times.

Today, people are searching because he's literally front page news. This would seem to be an example of Google not keeping up with real-time events.

OTOH, in a few months or even weeks he'll probably be out of the race, so reversion to the mean seems likely.
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If I were Google's team I would kill this just because it looks very bad for Google.

killing it would probably look even worse, as google would be attacked for censorship.

also, the site in question comes up first on bing, yahoo, and duckduckgo.
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"Still, there are practical applications, Gaeta and Fridman said. This is a way of adding a packet of information to high-speed data unseen without interrupting the flow of information. But that may not be a good thing if used for computer viruses, Fridman conceded."

Anyone have any idea what they're talking about here? How would that be possible? What exactly do they mean?
Not an uncommon situation in my experience. Hiring in the valley has never been less skillful or less transparent. Even if you are not a developer and you do have many successful projects you still have to answer sometimes rediculous questions from people who really don't know any better.

Even professional recruiters are at a loss as to how to deal with this.
Yep. It's Hanlon's Razor.

You'd be surprised how many people with a master's in CS show up to an interview and can't write a recursive method to compute n factorial out on a whiteboard. Hell, I'd say about 10% of the people I interviewed couldn't successfully complete FizzBuzz.

Technical weed-out questions are an unfortunate but necessary part of tech recruiting until other, better signals of ability are widely available.
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Very little content here. It appears carriers somehow make less money on iPhone hardware vs. Android hardware (maybe).

The last bit seems like a thinly veiled pitch for his investment newsletter and "skillz".
Maybe the university you're talking about is different from the one I attended, but the only CS courses I took that involved proofs were algorithms and computabity theory. Compilers, operating systems, computer networking, data structures, AI, architecture, graphics, etc courses I took were very hands-on. Lots of projects... and we also read the fundamental papers in the field. And that broad knowledge base really is useful. And besides, there's lots of opportunities even as an undergrad to work with research teams on cutting-edge projects.

Like it or not, a university degree is worth years of experience and is often a barrier to entry at many many many top software companies. Not everywhere is a startup. If he's not sure what he wants to do, university is an even better decision.
I agree with you on that clearly the it's a result that should not be shown. But there's still the problem of figuring out how to fix it in practice. Should Google point-fix this particular instance, fix it algorithmically even if the change is negative on the whole, or hold out for an algorithmic fix that is neutral or positive.

There are strong engineering reasons to not point-fix stuff. Maybe in this case there are stronger legal/political/PR reasons to get any fix at all out quickly. There certainly wouldn't have been any 2 weeks ago, when Santorum was still an also-ran.
Just got an external monitor today to use with my MacBook snd ran into ergonomic considerations.

I like the pic of the monitor and laptop in stacked configuration. Gonna try that with mine, but I wonder if I'll get tired of moving my head upp and down. I might also put the MacBook side-by-side with the monitor, keeping that at desk level.
Title bait, at its worst.

What they created is a convoluted (if somewhat cool) way of retarding light from reaching the observer, thusly masking the event. There's no "time shift" or anything of that sort involved.

Imagine I record an event and then replay it for you in a monitor, with a 20 second delay. Does that mean I 'erased' 20 seconds from history, or that I 'masked' the event? Nope.
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> Didn't Google kill the 'miserable failure' google bomb of years ago?

From what I recall, that googlebomb is widely believed to have been "defused" algorithmically, by devaluing anchor text which didn't match the target page at all (e.g, "miserable failure" didn't appear on GWB's page). Those measures only really defused googlebombs to unsuspecting sites; they wouldn't help for sites which are intentionally trying to rank for a term that they are relevant for!
If programming (or CS concepts) were to become part of common literacy, that wouldn't necessarily mean programming qua profession would be the next mass profession. Writing is part of common literacy, but professional writers aren't a huge portion of the population. There are a lot more people who write in the course of their work in some other profession, though.
That's an interesting point - it's obviously not 'choices' per se that causes 'fanboyism' ... so what is it? Emotional attachment? I could understand that with say religious choices, but why do people get so attached to their phones then?
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The article was talking primarily about rich parents spending $10k+ on services to help their children cheat.
No alliteration here! Just rhyming.
I've been keeping my mother updated with the whole SOPA thing and sent her this video too. She's 'very impressed that people so young can be so eloquent and steadfast'.
I think you did great and stood ground with poise, confidence and intelligent arguments. Well done.
The intent of the campaign wasn't to Google bomb Santorum and it wasn't an attempt to "game Google's search rankings". The original intent of the campaign was to define the word "Santorum" and the fact is, it was successful.

Now that there are two definitions of Santorum, why should google favor one over the other?
Nothing of course, but if you are young and dont know about sourceforge or any code search engines what else are you going to think? Today's github boosters will be shaking their heads 10 years from now when they hear someone make the same claims about thenextnewforgehub.
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Im assuming we are talking client-side and 'next tick' means when there is a millisecond of free time. Just use: setTimeout(function, 0)

Technically supplying '0' as the milliseconds is bad in old browsers, so you might want to say 10...but I've used '0' a lot without fail.
The "miserable failure" bomb was a different issue that exposed a problem with their algorithm, which was associating search terms with a web page even though that page had nothing to do with the keywords. In this case the search term and web page are sympatico.
That is definitely an underlying problem. Interviews are too short and too stressful to accurately show how good a candidate is.

I'm not particularly good in interviews because I get nervous and stumble over my words. It is not at all like a real working environment, so I think any conclusions you draw from one are necessarily flawed. I recently read about Heroku's interview process, and I think it's great that they can invest so much in evaluating their candidates. They give each new candidate a project to work on and make a hiring decision after it's been completed. (See http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2011/12/02/how-heroku-works-hi...). I also think it's unsustainable as their company grows but I would love to be proven wrong.
My favorite analogy on the DNS and monitoring problems:

Since shoplifters use roads to make their getaway, SOPA would have us set up roadblocks to catch all the thieves.

Could we catch more thieves by setting up roadblocks? Of course! So why don't we? For the same reasons SOPA would be bad law: we don't stop and search people in roadblocks (4th amendment prevents unreasonalbe search and seizure). Also, as a practical matter, roads, like DNS, are shared resources and the collateral damage to transportation (and internet routing) would be massive.
99% of searches for "santorum" today might be searching for the man, but I seriously doubt that number was anywhere near as high e.g. six months ago. Should Google change their results around in response to sudden and transient current events like a politician suddenly gaining the spotlight?

I also think that your description of the smear campaign as an attempt to game Google is misleading. It is fundamentally an attempt to add a new word to the English language. It seems to be working pretty well. Getting it to rank high on Google isn't an attempt to game Google, it's an attempt to create a new word.
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However in the 80s I remember if you understood Wordperfect thoroughly (i.e. could do reveal codes and manipulate them) you were called a "secretary." Some form of dumbing down seemed to happen when the GUI came in.
I thought you did little to address the real issue, which is the lack of judicial oversight or input to the process of taking down a website, and the economic effect that it has on the owners. Lack of recourse or due process is already hurting the US, look at Russia's new law bannning using foriegn websites. There should be a way to adjudicate these matters, and the government should have to take responsibility for first amendment concerns by taking down website by decree not by actions of parties that have more at stake than the copyright or other issues.
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less than 1% of Google search queries for his name are looking for Dan Savage's prank.

How do you know this?
I agree, it's both. I remember a donald knuth quote that about 2% of undergraduates have the mental quirks that make them good at programming. He didn't say "intelligence" or "talent", he said "quirks".

That wasn't just false modesty, there are a lot of factors that have to come together for someone to want to be a programmer, and some of them really do seem more like quirks than talents at times.
I'm not making an argument ad populum and even if I were, I don't see how it holds any more weight than your argument from antiquity.

Language and grammar evolves and as far as linguistic changes go, the use of one preposition over another is pretty benign. Prepositional choice is already essentially arbitrary and varies from region to region.

English is a moving target. The current generation forming its own vernacular doesn't make in any more or less correct than when the previous generation did it. It's not as if English has its own académie française, and the flexibility of English is one of its most charming properties.

Leaving aside the condescending quip about toddlers, I don't see how over-regularization of prepositions is a bad thing. They're already confusing enough as it is and I personally would prefer a language with more consistent rules than not.

EDIT: A quick addendum: I didn't actually know this was a mistake and I appreciate having learned it anyway.
Legally and technically, they're not investors.

Kickstarter cuts you a check via Amazon. You don't have any contact with the donators except as mediated via Kickstarter. There's not even a requirement that you fulfill your promised obligations to your backers (although they'd probably never let you use them again).

People are literally giving you money out of goodwill.

That said, Kickstarter is a terrible platform if you don't already have a social network into which you can cast a wide enough net. It works best as the way you enable all the friends you already have and who are already willing to give you money, to do so.

It doesn't have a huge pile of people who are just looking to spend money on hairbrained startups with no return. That active curation, cutting out projects like that, is why it's succeeding.
"63% of Americans aged 18 to 24 couldn't find Iraq on a map after we'd been at war there for three years."

This is a little off topic, but this statistic is a bit disingenuous. The stat implies that Americans are dumb because they can't locate a country on a map, despite the fact that we are heavily engaged with that country. However knowledge of foreign policy and of geography are two different domains. A person could read an article a day about the Iraq war without ever looking at a map of the mid east.
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> inspiration for vi's visual mode came from the Bravo editor

Don't forget teco. I believe teco was the most popular editor, in unix, before vi.
"Antidepressants may prime the adult brain to rewire faulty circuits during therapy."

Considered faulty circuits because stimuli was repeatedly presented with pain/an electric shock?

This article also doesn't tell us why it's seemingly plastic.

Also, it was only once the mice were removed the painful environment that ... so how about just remove people from a negative environment?

What happens to the mice if you put them on Prozac, and the pain is still there? Do they learn to fear it even greater/stronger?

Try this with MDMA along with therapy and you'll desensitize the mice/people too; http://www.maps.org/mdma/protocol/
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My experiences do not mesh with your assertions. 100% of the employers I've worked for weighted OSS contributions (look ma, real code!) 10 to 1 over a degree. Furthermore all of the hiring managers I've spoken to have freely stated that a degree in CS proves nothing regarding competency as a programmer and they typically turn aside applicants with degrees but no experience.

Full disclosure: I've been coding professionally for five years now. I have a GED and 20 credit hours of college.
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You raise a good point. How many of us would comment on articles if the YC HN article feed if it was just a Google+ hangout with posted links? It sure seems that the barrier to entry would be lower to comment/discuss articles, however it is unclear if whomever the moderaters are here would have as much control.
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A degree is a heck of a lot less likely to get you past HR than networking an introduction to the hiring manager.
If a man like Santorum was President, Google would probably be required by law to fix it. The problem with your excellent comment is that nobody gamed Google's search ranking. Google can't censor the result as it is legitimate.

The real problem here is Santorum's insane ideas and forcing his delusional beliefs on the public. Thus the Internet public has chosen to redefine his name as cultural slang. For Google to censor this would be simply wrong.
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Algorithmically, sure, that's their goal. Manual intervention is another kettle of fish entirely.
That came later after talk radio built the audience. The political messaging came first, over decades, to whip up a base of support. Fox is the number one news channel in the US because it resonnates with the receptive base audience.
Good point. Maybe this would be more fitting:

"If a store in a mall sells counterfeit goods, the entire mall gets shutdown"
In addition to these: Check this out as well. Interesting talk about how computing from one of the Wolfram brothers.
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I take it that you've never dealt with a Chinese embassy?
less than 1% of Google search queries for his name are looking for Dan Savage's prank

I'd be surprised if there weren't a large number of searches resulting from "hehe, if you Google for Santorum this really funny page comes up".
I suspect the true reason is expense based, with a bit of old habit thrown in for good measure. Most tanks are oddly shaped (to fit the confines of the space into which they fit) which means that they empty non-linearly. Most fuel sensors are a float on a pivot arm, which means the sensor also operates non-linearly. While it is quite technically feasible to compensate for both non-linear functions and produce a gauge that reads to the exact tenth, or hundredth, of a gallon/liter remaining in the tank, doing so would add extra expense. And while the expense per car might be small (a few dollars more per car), over the course of a years production run, a few dollars per car times several hundred thousand cars, makes the sum total a very large amount.

Plus, the vast majority of drivers very likely only really care about "when do I need to add gas" and we have a simple gauge marked in quarter increments, or a set of 6 or 8 bars that slowly disappear.