skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understood why you like tracking a security branch as I have been admining *nix boxes for 15+ years.

Where that approach fails is that as a sysadmin one of the responsibilities is to provide good tools to the user, not reduce work for the sysadmin. The user might be a SaaS platform, developers or more traditional (l)users. Regardless, you want your platform to be stable and efficient from a user perspective. Tracking a "Security" branch only give you one of those in many cases.

It's an apples to oranges in some regards because FreeBSD OS patchsets are essentially the "Security" branch while ports is a different issue(and one the user is most likely concerned about).
Funny/sad part is that we are not even talking about "real math" as practiced by mathematicians, rather down-to-earth utilitarian kind that lets you get by in your day-to-day activities. I blame the parents who, of course, know better than everyone else and the "experts" that engage in populist games.
Cute! Have you looked into using VPNs?
It has been happening provably once: http://www.coindesk.com/localbitcoins-users-criminal-charges...

The rule of thumb is, if the person you are doing business with mentions intent of doing something illegal, you have to stop the transaction right away.
Enforce which law?

The police already don't have the resources to enforce every infraction, every time, so we're already discussing which cases we should be enforcing and how much effort we should be putting in to each.

In this particular case, I think that the public would be better served by simply letting the foreign government move him to their nation and allowing the two foreign governments to sort the issue out between themselves (since he was granted amnesty AND the government who seeks his arrest to interview him refuses to interview him in the UK, as has been done with other cases, which suggests an ulterior motive to wanting him in custody).

I think the enforcement effort would be better spent stopping crimes against UK citizens, instead of playing middle-man in an international conflict between Sweden, Ecuador, and likely the US. Heck, if you really wanted to spend your police money on international drama, there are plenty of financial crimes committed in the UK against UK citizens that they could be investigating, nevermind that policing street level crime would likely do more for the average citizen than big drama cases like this. (Of course, that's speaking from the perspective of a citizen. Politicians have other reasons they'd like to trade favors like this.)
Thanks, I didn't see that in the original announcement so I'm glad it is being covered and I stand corrected. Also, I didn't downvote you and this isn't reddit so lets not complain of downvotes anyway.
And from my perspective Labour and Conservatives seem really similar! That seems particularly strong post-Blair.

I mean the parties in the UK agree on pretty much all the major issues (particularly social trigger points like abortion, LGBT stuff), save perhaps for how to deal with inequality. Most of the big issues in the UK seem to be much less major by comparison.
Bouahaha!
Why I made an app that feeds poor children?
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You're assuming that it is the only defense. It isn't.

We look at security as one would look at an onion.
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Extremists might be rare, but over 80% of families who choose homeschooling do so for religious reasons. Based on the quality of this curriculum that I've seen, those children are being done a disservice.

They might be able to score well on a GED or other standardized test, but they are not being given a real education.
Six years seems like an eternity for braces.

Your case was probably "complicated". You probably wouldn't have been a good candidate for mail order braces.
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I thought that page explicitly says medical records weren't taken? Only medical ID #.
On one hand the interface is interesting and novel, but I'm not sure it really has a lot to offer initially. It's much easier to visualize the relationships between pieces of data with how the linking works, but the individual dots are spread enough that it doesn't provide quite the context that it has the potential to provide.

I'm impressed that it works in Chrome on Linux with no additional plugins or craziness. Their interface is clumsy though, and could learn a lot about user interaction in 3d space from video games.
You're correct. The page says: "Based on what we know now, there is no evidence that credit card or medical information, such as claims, test results or diagnostic codes were targeted or compromised."

OP's title ("Anthem Blue Cross hacked, SSN, medical records taken") should be changed by the mods.
> Yes, you just wish to valiantly defend the right to berate someone in a public place,

No. You're making up a straw man again. The 'freeze peach' thing is childish.

In my post you link to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9002479 I said that insults are not harassment according to the Twitter ToS. That is different from condoning harassment. You're probably smart enough to know that, but are trolling.

I never said the internet should be special: this is another straw man, and seems to be projecting a little about your own position: you don't have a right not to be insulted in real life, and you don't have one on the internet.

> Does nothing to dispute my point

That's correct. Based on your behaviour, I very much don't want want to discuss anything with you. You're new here: should probably check out https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They could simply declare the diplomatic staff persona non-grata and revoke their diplomatic status. They'd have to leave the country. They could even cancel the diplomatic status of the embassy. That wouldn't have immediate effect and the Ecuadorians would have treaty guaranteed rights to clear out their effects but it would eventually lead to a moment where Assange is inside a building emptied of diplomats which ceases to be an embassy at some defined hour.
Why? Are there really that many use cases for titanium? I used to make nuclear submarines, I have actually designed a bunch of things that use super alloys that cost 10x what titanium costs. But even then, the fast majority of things I designed used "regular" steel or aluminum. There just aren't that many applications where you need something like that.

You need the combination of caring a lot about weight, strength, and size. That's not that common. The only time you need a better material is when all three of those things are inflexible. Otherwise I can make a bigger part, or switch to steel, or switch to aluminum.
I am genuinely baffled by your reply. Assange is wanted for questioning for allegations of sexual assault, and you say he shouldn't have to follow due process and answer them because... because what? Because his political ideals are aligned with your own? Because of an absurd conspiracy that he will be secretly abducted to Central America?
Curious if the HN community has any recommendations for identity-theft monitoring services?

Each time this happens, the breached company partners with some firm or another to offer "one free year of identity monitoring" or somesuch. e.g. ProtectMyID after the Target breach.

Are there better alternatives to ProtectMyID?
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In this case it's OPs username.
I got 'This site is currently not available...' when accessing the site.
There are some important differences:

* there is a finite amount of land that costs a certain amount to police

* landowners pay property taxes to cover these kind of costs to society, and land which they don't pay taxes on reverts to the state

* there is a registry of land ownership so it's easy to tell who owns a particular piece of land

* common land is at huge risk of a literal tragedy of the commons, historically through things like overgrazing (the original justification for enclosures - which absolutely were controversial at the time and did need to be empirically justified). In modern times, if one person builds a building on a piece of land another person can't. That's simply not the case for "intellectual property".
“I would like to thank the Mozilla Foundation for the first draft of my remarks tonight,” the chairman said, “and President Obama for his edits.”
It makes you cry when you chop it wrong?

Brittle outer layers?
That's exactly my point: UK software salaries are not high outside of London, and that if you want a good salary, you need to work in London.
Right. So like I said, I'm not arguing this use of money is a good one. Just that the reason it's bad isn't because it's disproportionate, it's just the wrong kind of disproportionate.
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Well, you could ask roughly half of the world's sovereign states the same question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_extradition_...
Perhaps the context of this thread has been lost. It started out with me asserting that you get poor return outside of London.

Personally, I think there's little point in living in the UK outside of London. There's far nicer places to live if you're willing to take a hit in salary. (And no, I'm not British.)
The old Netscape Java Applet APIs supported dom manipulation:

http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaScript/Development/UsingJavaS...

I believe that other browsers that supported applets supported these APIs as well.

I don't think that anyone really wants to bring back Java Applets, though.
The absolute highest point I could reach in the visualization was "World Without End" by Ken Follet. I thought that was neat, but then I refreshed and it appeared in a new random location.
I got this message when I tried to submit:

"The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to."

You have an email address? I'll just send you the concept...
A lot of those size companies are offloading their EMR security to larger EMR cloud providers. While it helps to protect the smaller companies, and is more cost effective then trying to manage it internally, I still wonder about security of those records, being how most of those are a web login that most if not everybody on the Internet has access too.
A more fair system might be to embrace the "property" rights that media companies hold so dear, and charge steadily increasing property taxes on copyrighted works. Any profitable works would be worth paying the taxes to maintain protection, and unprofitable works would return to the public domain where they belong.
We could have used difficultpost.com. We bought that one for $9.
Do you also never use Padlock or Combination Lock or basic door lock because they also offer "no protection against a determined adversary" ?
Libertarianism, at least big-L, doesn't quite fit Heinlein, I think. He isn't part of the deranged maximal-freedom thing that we now see in the libertarian movement and the ancaps that are running under that banner and he regularly espouses a socially aware, love-thy-neighbor attitude through his characters.

Heinlein always seems to have realized that, in a world with limited elbow room and the ability to fail very hard, government is both inescapable and actually valuable--and beyond the "blind arbiter of contracts" that you hear out of the libertarian bucket. I liked how Spider Robinson put it (although the article it comes from[1] is kind of fawning):

a man who bitterly opposes military conscription, supports consensual sexual freedom and women's ownership of their bellies, delights in unconventional marriage customs, champions massive expenditures for scientific research, suggests radical experiments in government; and; has written with apparent approval of anarchists, communists, socialists, technocrats, limited-franchise-republicans, emperors and empresses, capitalists, dictators, thieves, whores, charlatans and even career civil servants.

I'm not a libertarian (because I don't believe the strong should rule the weak, and I don't think Heinlein does either) and it's hard to find anything that in principle I can't be cool with.

[1] - http://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/articles/rahrahrah....
Sweden's entire population is about the size of the Chicagoland area. Now imagine 320+ million people all living in different semi-autonomous states all with their own bureaucracies and hundreds of taxing authorities. Now imagine proposing a national ID card to these people. Yeah, its not that easy. The US isn't centralized like a lot of European nations. Governance of very critical things are done on the state level and that isn't going to change anytime soon.

>I'm guessing its some kind of privacy issue behind there not being a similar system in US?

The social security system, which is a federal program, produced a unique number for all citizens. The states quickly started using this number in their own bureaucracy and everyone else followed (banks, etc). Now its a defacto numeric identifier.

The big problem here is how easy it is to get credit in my name if you have my SSN, like its the root password to my finances. Credit is far too easy to get in the states from a paperwork perspective. I should not fear other people getting my SSN. Banks and other organizations need to realize that if someone presents my SSN, that doesn't mean its me. More numbers or psuedo-SSN's aren't the fix here. The fix is due diligence and better fraud protections.

Not to mention everyone already carries a unique identifier thats easy to verify - your fingerprint. I think SSN + fingerprint plus a letter sent to my home that needs to be signed should be the minimum to open any line of credit. SSN alone should be worthless.

Its also bothersome that PCI-DSS and other regulations treat credit cards like NSA secrets, which is fine as they should be encrypted, but there's no legislation or guidelines to make SSN's encrypted. SSN's sit as plain-text in every database in the US. That's kind of scary and probably invites hacks.
An additional answer to your bonus question is https://github.com/xored/scala-js-react

Which allows the following syntax:
@scalax
def render(self: This) = {
<div>Hello {self.props.name}</div>
}
We also tested glass in the same capacity. I'd like to add one of our most important UX findings:

9. It gave ~10% of users a headache after approximately 10 minues of use.

At least we learned that User experience isn't all about pressing buttons.
> What about a contract like this: the copyright holder declares the value of the copyright (on the quarter; on the year; but the declared value may only increase)

Why? With the right of public purchase, a declared value decrease means its cheaper for the public to buy. And, realistically, the value of copyrights does decline.

Or is this intended to not only allow purchase into the public domain, but to quickly de facto compel surrender to the public domain for most works to avoid paying more in taxes than the work is worth?
Why do people need to manually give you their MAC address for a non-secure network? Any "bad actor" could just sniff and copy an approved MAC address, so it does nothing for security. And while it's possible to look up the MAC address on some devices, it's not simple on any of them. This seems more like your shortcoming, not Google's.
"In most places in the US, the amount paid to schools has gone up far faster than inflation over the past several decades, while the schools have produced no significant improvement in educational proficiency with the extra funding"

This. When I graduated high school (about 15 years ago) the amount spent per student was around $5k a year. The high school was in the top 1-2% of public schools nationwide. The school now spends around $14k per student and is in the top 15-20%. What changed? The perception of the school. The parents whose children would pull that number up have chosen neighboring school districts (myself included).

The urban schools actually get the most per student in the state. $14k-$15k from the district alone, with additional state funding pushing that number north of $20k (some schools reaching $25k). There is not a funding issue at all. They have the lowest student to teacher ratios in the state, along with the most teacher aides and social workers.

And this isn't on the coasts, this is in the upper midwest, so the cost of living is not high.
Their interface is clumsy though, and could learn a lot about user interaction in 3d space from video games.

Yes. I was trying different things with the mouse to help me navigate and orient myself, but aside from zoom, it is just for selection. I'd like to see controls like with the Homeworld series of RTS games, where you can easily rotate around a selected item.

In general, I'm just seeing a sea of topics, without much sense for where I am in the information space. More could be done by varying the size and shape of the nodes to indicate relevance, popularity, or category. I don't think color is enough.

Interesting project!
Don't forget about websites from academia that implement certain proof-of-concepts; for some reason that commumity still keeps using applets.
Possibly, but you can argue the opposite. I've seen a bit of commercial TypeScript and it's been horrific and to me just matched the anything but Web/JS approach I was expecting.

I'd also worry that the TS community itself would risk marginalization, end up as a small niche ghetto, with most of the interesting stuff going on in ES7+.

Hard to be sure but I wouldn't write off JS just yet, people have been doing it for years as new/better (flash/silverlight/compile to JS) technologies have promised to make it seem soooo 90s.
I think there is some saying that copyright has always been extended whenever Disney Mickey mouse was about to expire.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25...
Go to any of the three credit reporting agencies and fill out the "fraud alert" form. That will place a hold on your credit report at all three credit agencies and anyone applying for credit under your name will be blocked. The entity that the person is applying for credit with has to contact you using the contact information you provide to verify that it is indeed you that's applying for credit.
I think that before we can judge on the utility on such a presentation, we need the right visualization tool. My hunch is that viewing this with an Oculus would be an entirely different experience.
Doesn't sound silly to me. If you like DMT and it lasts longer for you, have you tried acid too? Can be much milder than DMT, but much longer trips. Personally when I smoke DMT (well, changa) it lasts 5-15min so I enjoy it as an experience, but doesn't let me really do any interesting thinking like LSD does. That said, I've only tried DMT a few times (haven't "broken through" yet), but do have a couple of grams waiting for me when I can get somewhere to pick it up...
I use this.
https://m.zanderins.com/identity-theft-plans

I have had several scares, and each time I just call them and they give me the steps to verify if it has been breached. I like the terms of their contract better as well. Just be advised that this is identity insurance. Not protection. It is designed to be reactive rather then proactive. I feel that everybody will have their identity stolen at some point, so instead of trying to prevent it. I chose to insure the consequences of it happening. I feel it's a much better return on my investment, as a lot of the protection cosines don't do much for you if they miss a theft.

P.S. A million dollar reimbursement clause really helps me sleep at night.
Interesting! How does Matrix relate to red#matrix [1] and the Zot protocol? Not asking because both projects contain the word "matrix". Both projects seem to overlap. Would like to know more about how they differ and how they relate.

[1] http://redmatrix.me/
how are contractors the hipsters of enterprises? if anything they're the yuppies. do whatever the fuck they want, get paid boatloads of cash, don't produce anything of value, are generally dicks. i think you're thinking of brooklyn trustfund hipsters, which are just the new yuppies.
So the steel companies are finally getting scared enough to innovate. There are people trying to dramatically reduce the cost of titanium, Ford is dumping steel for aluminum, composites are even replacing aluminum in aircraft. Steel is starting to look like a relic of the 1700's rather than the great material it has been for so long.

When I worked in EVs, one of the old timers (a guy almost 80 years old) told me the best steel for the motors should have some Boron in it. Some particular alloy that would have lower core loss at higher frequencies. But none of the big steel companies were interested in making it for us. They just wanted to make what they make.

So even if it's not as great as it sounds, I'm glad somebody is doing something with steel.
It's not necessarily "slow is best", but rather minimizing the ratio between how fast your production server can calculate them multiple hashes while under load, vs how fast your attacker can crack them on dedicated hardware.

Which, for example, is why something based on SHA3 is bad, because your typical server is just going to be doing SHA3 hashes via CPU. Except SHA3 was chosen to be ASIC-friendly, so your attacker will be able to calculate SHA3 faster than you. As long as the attacker has no faster calculation method than the one you're using, the absolute speed doesn't matter. This is why scrypt, bcrypt (and to a lesser extent pbkdf2-hmac-sha256) are doing well, because running them on GPU or ASIC isn't meaningfully faster than the CPU implementation the defender is using.

All that's left at that point is making it as expensive as possible for them to parallelize their attack. Which is what scrypt and other things attempt to do -- require as many non-CPU resources (memory, hd space, etc) so that the attacker's parallelization cost is also maximized.

(Personally, I've been playing around with the idea of incorporating random accesses to a 2-tb file of random data, so that the attacker would have a HUGE amount of data to steal before my hashes would work. And they'd have to establish shared access to all the CPUs/etc they're attacking with)
Thanks for the explanation. Looks like Java has more memory problems:

1. If OOP pointer is going to eat up our memory, there we loose / waste some bits of memory.
2. And as you have said even using bool type, is going to say waste by 7 bits!

Since we are dealing more with objects in java world, then I guess, 32 bit VMs will be much faster than 64 bit VMs. Or even 16bit will be more faster, from my understanding.

Still I have a final question over here, all the OOP pointers does goes the CPU caches and registers?
Yeah. Or how is it different from DigitalOcean + A custom web app that I build?
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1 in 185,000? That's not criminal it's targeted.

Like I said, it doesn't work like that. We don't decide in advance how to apportion resources on the basis of how many people are likely to commit a crime this year, do we?

No, of course it's targeted. There's a warrant out for Assange; he went into hiding. We know where he is, but for diplomatic reasons we can't arrest him. This is a very unusual situation.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8893448
Solid summary
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What is the most you have paid for personal or business reasons? What extension? What domain? Mask them out fully or partially if you want but knowing the length is helpful.
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Using MAC address filtering on unsecured WiFi is literally like locking your door and then hanging the key on a nice hook outside the door, where anyone can grab it.
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