skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel your pain. The credit bureaus are antiquated in their processes and make resolving issues a burden on the consumer. That is why I believe identity theft is so prevalent because the thieves know that (a) by the time you catch it they will be long gone, and (b) that the burden really falls on you to prove something is going on buying them extra time to commit the crime.

I had my identity stolen several years ago and am still recovering from it. While most of it has been resolved, from time to time I find issues that have significant impacts. I even tried to get a new social security number but was denied because the amount of damages was not significant enough to trigger a reissue, although I have no idea and was never told what the trigger amount was.

The best advice I can give you, is to do everything by snail mail. Send certified letters (you can even do overnight if you have a few extra bucks for quicker delivery) and keep track of everything. File a complaint with your state attorney office (most have departments dedicated to working with you on this). Send copies of everything to the state attorney as well as the credit bureau. Snail mail takes longer (depending on how you send from a day or two to receive all the way up to a week), but for some reason it actually escalates your issue and does result in quicker resolutions than fighting with people on the phone. It sounds like you caught it fairly quickly. Call the other bureaus as well (Transunion and Experian) and put fraud alerts on your file. It is simple to do with a quick phone call. They will also send you a free copy of your report from them so you can double check. Finally, if you have a good credit card company some will help you with resolving the issue and dealing with the bureaus on your behalf. It is in their benefit to help you if they can.

Good luck.
I think that's a bit harsh, it does say 101 and it does provide context to a new developer as to the types of stuff possible. It's at least a positive launching point for further investigation...
"permit authorities to target "lone wolf" suspects with no connection to specific terrorist groups, and make it easier to seize personal and business records of suspects and their associates"

If I search lots of technology and military related topics, or do any system-admin work, or use any privacy-enabling services (VPN / TOR), then my friends/family/associates and myself would likely fall under those categories.

My concern is there should be a data-retention policy due to constantly changing laws.

If 20 years from now I want to run for president, then all it would take is to search for records in one of the many caches of NSA collected data that other agency, state, local, and even foreign law-enforcement have collected over the years. That would allow a large number of people to have the power to easily find something that would distract me enough to pull me out of the race, such as inappropriate text-messages/emails that a cheating spouse sent in the past.
"On The Media" did a special on the PATRIOT Act, with some history, analysis, and predictions. They do mention the same thing: That many of the things we don't like are authorized by other measures.

One part of me is similarly cynical, and that if it was allowed to expire, they "let" it expire. But the hopeful part of me realizes that change happens in increments. Maybe reforms will continue to come, because there will NEVER be a "fix all civil liberties violations" bill.

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/on-the-media-2015-05-29/
Just to note, if you like Stan it has a python lib just as much as an R one, and Julia, MATLAB, etc (Stan itself is written in c++).

As for vis, yhat wrote a python version of ggplot:http://ggplot.yhathq.com/
As someone who runs a small company, I agree with this 100%. You don't want to be that guy.
> The majority of the NSA’s mass interception is sanctioned by other laws

That's far from clear (its far from clear that the mass interception is authorized at all). It may be that there is more that the government would claim is authorized by other laws than 215, but then its worth keeping in mind that with the metadata collection they've claimed is authorized by 215, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has found that it was not authorized by 215.
It's also worth pointing out that there are no array parameters. If you write

void foo (char bar [42]) {
// ...
}

then within the scope of foo, bar will be a pointer to char, not an array of char. You can, on the other hand, write

void foo (char (*bar) [42]) {
// ...
}

in which case bar will be a pointer to array of 42 char (and notably, not a pointer to a pointer to char!).

C does some very strange things. There usually is (or at least was) a good reason for it to do so, but especially if you're a beginner, you need to be on your toes if you really want to use it well.
Oh come on. Nobody used the crap BOSS organizer, you either had a Sharp Wizard (nee Zaurus) organizer or Psion 20. Sheesh. :-)

Its funny because penetration in the organizer market was so feeble in the early days that the only people who owned them were usually rabid fans who immediately lashed out at opponents at every opportunity. The Palm Pilot was the first that got "serious" traction and the world changed. But until then the Zaurus Wizard line from Sharp was the clear 'king' of the hill.
Not familiar with 0mq, but I'm very familiar with MPI. Does anybody have any experience for how these compare?
Section 215 concerns both foreign and domestic signals, allowing for the collection of metadata. Section 702 focuses on the content of foreign intelligence. While 215 is debatable, 702 serves a distinctly different purpose. IF your concern is domestic surveillance, particularly sharing metadata that originates in the US with law enforcement, than this can be considered a win. IF you think collection of foreign intelligence should be limited, which of course is in the US's interest, then you are out of luck.

Considering the majority of people say faulty intelligence is to blame for the Iraq war, it's difficult for me to encourage less intelligence surrounding foreign intelligence gathering. But I'm partial, as an American who prefers to know who and what and why we are actually fighting. It's not like we can take everyone's word for it.
Wow, then you do have an alternative!
Hope to hear something more about it soon!
> I have absolutely no idea which ones are new or which ones I've already read after I've refreshed the page to get new items

After thinking about this for a bit I believe it's best addressed by solving this problem for all threads, not just whoishiring threads. That is, make an easy way to optionally limit a thread to the comments you haven't seen before (edit: or highlight them). This is something we intend to do.
> not that he knows in detail about all the systems in one.

Neither does buying airplane parts on ebay certify that he simulated how actual planes are setup networking-wise.
The Art of Authenticity: A Conversation with PostSecret’s Frank Warren
The expansion of Lego
Lust and the Turing test
Except Internet was in development since 1969 by the time it became available to public.

Bitcoin whitepaper was released in 2008. Before that even the concept of cryptocurrency hardly existed.
HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver
Thanks for the link, that is a really cool resource!
How would you identify if someone is in fact a narcissist? What does it mean to be a narcissist?

The problem with words is that people think they have a specific meaning. He created one for his study -- narcissism is defined as some weighted combination of those metrics.
And the images add only another 750 KB. Rendered in Chrome it takes 98.7 MB (compare vs. ~250~MB for a a typical G+ page on load, often growing to 2+ GB, just sitting there).

This is an exceptionally strong argument for well-coded, self-contained, static pages.
Has the problem with req/rep over lossy connections been solved (http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/26/disconnects-are-good-for-y...)? My understanding was that you couldn't detect disconnects because ZMQ doesn't expose the internal state.
More good python resources:
http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais/statistical-inference-for-ever...

Harvard Data science class, in python: http://cs109.github.io/2014/
There were a lot of these in the 8-bit era.

Here's an interview with a guy who built one for Atari 8-bits.

http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-10-the-atari-...
Aren't fast food places in northern Europe really expensive compared to the local kebab stands too?

> Not a chain, since Germany apparently doesn’t do fast food chains.

Most countries don't, I think it's pretty unique to America. In Asia there are many chains but there's also small family-run restaurants and local coffee shops everywhere. Was going to say something about supply chains in the Midwest, but it's probably just American highway culture and the zoning system making it too hard to run a local place…

Out here in California where there's a lot of immigrants and walkable city cores, there are very many independent Taiwanese cafes, all strangely popular enough to have eight of them in the same block.
We all appreciate the work that you do :)
I still like slashdot because it covers a slightly broader range of subjects than HN.

I feel like there's still some value in a curated aggregator like Slashdot. The list of topics will reflect the interests of the editors, which in turn will influence the kind of community which forms around it.

HN and some subreddits are "better" than /. at garnering useful discussion for popular subjects which reach the front page. However, I still subscribe to slashdot's rss feed, and sometimes I discover items I find to be of interest there which do not interest the HN community generally (or are outside of its scope).
Yep. I'm more comfortable with Make than I am with JSPM/NPM and System.js. The process to minify my javascript and CSS and then replace the paths in the HTML so my pages actually work seems to be needlessly complex.

I'm seriously considering whether I can use Make for my production website builds - the only issue is Windows support.
I would personally prefer this stay fairly loose and only exclude recruiters/middlemen who have no relationship to the hiring company. These are the people blowing up my phone and inbox based on one random keyword from a resume or profile.

On the other hand, an in-house recruiter, an outside recruiter contracted by the company, the actual hiring manager, just a peer or colleague, the company's receptionist... I think all these should be allowed.

If we're going to cut one more cohort from the above paragraph, cut the 3rd party recruiters. However, excluding all talent acquisition teams and/or other co-workers within the company seems unnecessarily restrictive.
Gaze for long into the FNORDS and soon the FNORDS gaze back.
It does, there was a lot of debate on whether it should or not. If you have strong opinions one way or the other I would love to hear them as we are open to changing that behavior.

If you don't want that behavior, or just want to export part of your drive (or photos) collection you can expand that product in the Takeout UI and just select certain folders.
One of the requirements for Bernoulli's Principle to be valid is that the flow cannot be in a boundary layer. This alone explains why you cannot use it to fully explain lift since you are analyzing flow near a surface.
The launchd on Free/Net/OpenBSD train is never coming
Ubuntu with Fish Shell and Jet Brains IDEs (mainly RubyMine, PyCharm and WebStorm)
Interesting thought. Haven't tested it of course. So in California at least some basic searching hasn't found any statute which prevents you from displaying additional plates on your car, there is this one: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_... which is the standard one. I've seen a number of trucks with multiple plates from different states, and of course the trucks from Mexico have both a Mexico plate and a US plate.

I'm curious if you got cited for this, what they might cite you as violating?
RabbitMQ is only amazing if your cluster is 100% available, you have no soft lockups, no high load, etc. Its cluster failure handling is absolute crap.

In our stack it's the buggiest, most unreliable piece of software we are running, and it's falling over (losing cluster state, hanging, crashing, etc) on an almost daily basis.

We used to run 8 nodes, and it was a nightmare recovering from partitions. Now we've reduced it to 2 per cluster, and it's still a nightmare.
This is not at all true. For example, in new age communities, "triggered" is used very frequently to mean that someone's personal ego wires have been tripped -- and in fact the reason the word is used is because it's understood that "being triggered" is not that big a deal, it's part of being human, and one may get very upset in the moment but with perspective one sees it's fine.

This is obviously very different from the PTSD-only meaning you are talking about, but I would bet that the new age version of the word has been in use for much longer and by many more people.

So ... I sense some presumption and lack of exposure here, is all I am saying.
And thanks for the culture&empire writeup too :)
If you don't mind me asking, what jurisdiction was this?
At least section 702 is set to eventually sunset, in 2017. Section 214 was made permanent.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/Section213.html#214
https://w2.eff.org/patriot/sunset/214.php

http://www.lawfareblog.com/2015/05/without-the-usa-freedom-a...

"The section 215 phone records program was modeled on an earlier, Internet metadata bulk collection program that began after September 11. The FISC approved the Internet metadata program under the pen register/trap and trace (PR/TT) provisions of FISA – as amended by section 214 of the Patriot Act. The Internet metadata program – known as the PR/TT program – had serious compliance problems because it was difficult for the NSA reliably to segregate Internet metadata from Internet content. Still, the FISC continued to approve the PR/TT program, with modifications, until the NSA itself chose to end the program in 2011.

As a result, the FISC’s orders approving bulk metadata collection remain a viable interpretation of the PR/TT provisions of FISA and would have precedential value in any effort to resume bulk collection, whether of Internet or telephony metadata. The PR/TT provisions of FISA are not limited to Internet metadata. If anything, they apply more naturally to traditional telephony metadata, as they cover “dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling” information. Section 214, unlike section 215, is not going to expire tomorrow – it was made permanent in 2005."
We hired our first engineer through a "Who is Hiring" post. It's a fantastic tool.
Various mailing lists I've run have done well with "if you're not somebody technical or somebody with the authority to hire for this post, hush"
Practice by interviewing with a few companies you don't really care about getting an offer from.

Disassemble their products and research whatever tech they used to build them for strengths & weaknesses.

Dig up whatever background info you can on the people who will be interviewing you.
I think breaking a bit from the current de-facto format would be better. Consider the example:

==

Acme Products | Test Engineer | Las Vegas, NV; Austin, TX | Onsite; Remote | Full-Time; Part-Time | Visa (H1B) | Tunnel Theory; Kinematics

Engineer needed to test prototype products. Must be able to lift and carry anvils.
metafriendly

==

The only real problem I've had with existing listings, is that people tend to list both "remote" and "no-remote" -- making search hard.

I propose moving those "tags" to "hash-tags", and just list them at the bottom of the ad:

==

Acme Products | Test Engineer | Las Vegas, NV; Austin, TX

Engineer needed to test prototype products. Must be able to lift and carry anvils.
metafriendly

#on-site #full-time #part-Time

==

Note that the two are different; I don't see how you could work remotely testing anvil-lifting... ;-)

At any rate, if we're talking about a new "spec", I'd say:

* Apart from position, and location, as little as possible on the first line.

* Replace the "text"-tags with "hash"-tags - #remote is easy to search for with text-search, and won't match #no-remote, No-remote -- and doesn't require regexp magic to match word-boundaries etc (which few (no?) browsers support anyway).

* Put the tags at the bottom -- they're really for searching (and machine parsing), with the amount of listings we are getting now -- no-one is reading just your ad, they're reading a stream of ads.

* Don't go overboard with "hash"-tags. I'm not all that interested in seeing: mulitple-line lists of #python #ruby #haskell #c++ #dev-ops (...)

Now, if we really want to over-engineer this thing, why not draw some inspiration from the Dewy decimal system? So 001-234 could be 001:devops 2:python and bash 3:unix-like-and-windows-nt 4:remote-or-onsite ... ;-)
The technologies used in Bitcoin have also been in development for several decades, and by 1998 the first cryptocurrency was already released, according to a quick search on wikipedia.
The root of all evils, as you commented: "People don’t want to learn JavaScript".

However, I think it's because DOM/BOM API sucks. JavaScript, namely the language itself, doesn't even specify any event driven or asynchronous things. Not to mention why NodeList horribly isn't an array, or the need to write the long and annoying 'getElementsByClassName' rather than a simple $( ).

(Yes I know things like 'querySelectorAll' are much better, but it's too late for most of prejudices)
It lasted for quite a while and founded an unbelievable number of huge gaming franchises.

The last version of the systems, the MSX turboR ran an R800, a Z80 compatible semi-16-bit CPU. This was required because the 16-bit successor from Zilog was the Z8000 which wasn't Z80 compatible. There was also the Z80000, a 32-bit CPU, but I don't think that was Z80 compatible (but it was probably powerful enough to just emulate it at full-speed).

It's weird the confluence of decisions that made Intel and Motorola decide to keep making new, more powerful CPUs, that were backwards compatible (until Itanium) while this wasn't necessarily a prized requirement in the industry. People were pretty happy to just port whatever over to yet another system since that was just the state of things.

IIR, there was never a 16-bit successor to the 6502, despite being one of the most popular processors of all time.

Between the Z80 and the 6502, 8-bits just really had nowhere, evolutionary-wise, to go.
You may have missed the point she's trying to make.
DigitalSea : I agree. It's really hard to live and work somewhere other than your own country. To add to all the hardships that come with the situation, I didn;t know the language. I had to use Skype to learn Ukrainian. I had to start from scratch. I enrolled in http://preply.com/en/ukrainian-by-skype to get me started. The instructor was pretty good but of course, I couldn't learn the whole thing in a month. Although I am still struggling with the language, I realize this comes with the job.
It's funny that you make that point because from the descriptions they sound like they could possibly be the only working communist society. Communism only works if you have zero imagination and zero ambition and just accept your lot in life.
DigitalSea : I agree. It's really hard to live and work somewhere other than your own country. To add to all the hardships that come with the situation, I didn't know the language. I had to use Skype to learn Ukrainian. I had to start from scratch. I enrolled in http://preply.com/en/ukrainian-by-skype to get me started. The instructor was pretty good but of course, I couldn't learn the whole thing in a month. Although I am still struggling with the language, I realize this comes with the job.
Thanks! I hope I didn't sound too testy there.
Artist positions open. International Applicants welcome
Applicants,

Phoenix Core Entertainment (PCE) is proud to now be opening doors to international applicants! Due to the increase of work load of one of our teams, Phoenix Core Entertainment is currently seeking a lead character artist, a lead animator, and two junior character artist. PCE specializes in event horizon architectural design and implementation. The project team that the open positions are available for is currently working on an interactive video game franchise with a new, never before seen genre. Please note that PCE does not offer work visas for the USA, nor does PCE support current work visas in the USA.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

Must be able to keep up with an experienced team of artists, programmers, and writers.

Must be at least 18 years old or older.

Must be able to produce photo realistic 2d and 3d work.

Must have experience with 3D development software.

Must be comfortable working remotely.

Must be able to fluently write, read, and speak English clearly.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

Past experience working in the video game industry.

Past experience working with Unity3D or Unreal Engine.

Past experience with after effects.

Past experience with level design.

Interested applicants please send an email with: your resume, your portfolio and along with a website (if you have one), the country that you currently reside in, the position you are applying for, and please also include if your experience matches any of the preferred or required experience listed to careers@phoenixcoreentertainment.com If we find that your experience matches our needs, one of our directors will contact you, also please be sure to check your junk folder. All inquiries pertaining to PCE or this ad please forward them to the aforementioned email.

PLEASE INCLUDE EXAMPLE WORK ATTACHED TO YOUR RESUME THAT SHOWS YOUR ABILITY TO PERFORM PHOTO REALISTIC ART.

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Hoooray! Now, the real fight begins!
thanks just signed up for this for French. Let's see how it compares to the excellent anki.
Trinet can definitely do this. (It's a PEO, not just a benefits provider/agency.)
Maybe this would be better marketed as a cheatsheet.
We should work to sunset these earlier.
It would be great if they could start by fixing their API and actually repond to developers on their forums: https://developer.yahoo.com/forums/#/discussion/7106/social-...
Is the code on github?
Pictures: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/feature-images
So,what could possibly go wrong? Dshr didn't answer
Echoing what click170 said, if the only (or only effective way) of making my employer take my raise requests seriously is to come to them with another offer, then chances are I'm just going to take the other offer.
We don't need actual moderators. Just say that posts must contain this info (and VISA must be used in this way, or whatever) or the whoishiring thread rules specifically encourage downvotes. Poorly-formatted posts will get to -3 quickly enough.
Hexapod robot launches an ornithopter robot [pdf]
I've tried that approach a few times in the past. Invariable, I end really liking the company I talked to to get another offer, and just end up taking it!
This video is good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kumEJtsHuQo&feature=youtu.be

Something about watching a small robot launch another flying robot amazes me. It also makes my old servo based hexapod robot look like a snail that goes so very slowly.