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Buzzfeed are running a multi-part, long-form set of articles on a massive secretly-negotiated rewrite of national legal systems under the guise of "international trade", though the pacts go far beyond this. The TPP, TTIP, TiSA, and BITS have at their core the Investor-State Dispute System.

This is a binding, no-recourse court, to which only one party may bring cases (corporations), with the judge and jury stacked by that party's friends and business associates, and for which there is no appeal.

While prospects for these treaties are dimming, they're not dead yet, and in the US and elsewhere, politicians, including President Obama, are engaged in a last-ditch push for approval.

Support for these pacts runs deep throughout the corporate world, including much of the information-technology sector: Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Verizon, among others.
Individual states already issue identification cards, and people use that all the time for this purpose.

In a system like the US, I think it's better for the states to handle identification cards, not the federal government. There's a lot of details that go into identifying someone, and your local state is best equipped to handle that.

To give a few examples:

What's the procedure for changing your name? A lot of people change their name after marriage or divorce. Those are usually handled by the states, so adding a federal government in there raises the net complexity.

Should people in Alabama be able to force the residents of California to put their original sex on a federal id card? I don't care, but other people do. It could be one of those pointless political distractions that's better left unanswered.

If the federal government runs it, now they have to own or rent a bunch of land in every major city in every state so they can service id card requests. So it gives them a larger presence. I guess they could reuse social security offices, but they couldn't reuse state DMV offices which are the more natural choice.
I have found Google's Authors@Google playlist an excellent resource for finding new books to read. Even better, you can usually listen to the first 5 minutes or so of the talk and get a very reasonable idea whether you are interested, without investing too much of your time.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGGpadyh0wS589np9dre-...

For example, I found Amy Herman's "Visual Intelligence", it is pretty good (I am still reading it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v_tn4nyjwE
Strikes me as weird to ask a robotics expert about an artificial intelligence question.
Augmented Reality UI concept
As somebody whose bio checks all the boxes Suster mentions, but without any particular drive or ambition, it seems like I could do cracking business renting myself out to real entrepreneurs as a face for these pitch meetings...

You hear people talking about colleges as nothing but signalling mechanisms, but holy shit, this article's ridiculous.
I'm always of the opinion that these tests are not necessarily to find someone that can solve the puzzle, it's to find those that can solve it and aren't egotistical enough to brag that they solved it online.
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What filtered down to us here in the West was always absolutely hilarious to me. It is interesting to wonder whether that comes from the souls of the Russian people, or as Ben Lewis said, circumstances compelled the humor.
I don't think the fact that the process is automated is a problem (and I don't see anyone saying so). The problem is that existing algorithms are bad (like in the article where an algorithm decided two people are the same based on name and year of birth alone, when all other factors speak against it) and that complaints are not handled properly,
If you were born before 1989, your SSN can be guessed with 44% accuracy by an algorithm.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/social-security-numbe...
I have driver's license numbers from three different states. My kid has none. There's no 1:1 relationship between state issued IDs and people.
Well, all the code running against the data would already have the paralellization advantages of a shell script, as described in this article. It would additionally probably be running accross multiple nodes, meaning that the IO speeds increase the number of records that can be processe)d simultaneously. The disadvantage is that that data has to be streamed over a network to the reducer node, which could add a good chunk of latency, depending on how fast that is (if you can do some reduction during the map, it would help, but it's possible that Manta spawns one process and virtualized nods per object (and indeed, this is likely), meaning this is impossible), and how many virtual nodes are running on the same physical hardware (but then you're running into the same boundaries you hit on a laptop, just on a much beefier system), as the network latency is near zero if the reducer and the mapper nodes are on the same physical system.

But if you're processing terrabytes, the network latency is probably barely factoring into your considerations, given how much time you're saving by processing data in parallel in the first place.
There's a lot of operational benefits to running on Hadoop/yarn as well. You get operational benefits from node resiliency (host went down? Run the application over there). You also get the Hadoop filesystem which conveniently stores your data in S3 and distributed HDFS.

These systems were designed by people who probably managed difficult etl pipelines that were nothing but what the author suggests: simplified shell scripts using UNIX pipes.

Besides going up against Hadoop MR is easy. I'd like to see you compete against something like Facebook's presto or spark which are optimized for network and memory.
It seems you've been shadow flagged. You're nowhere near the front page despite the upvotes.
Ugh, with any problem there always has to be the "well it's more complicated than that" guy who doesn't actually offer any ideas, they just toss negativity onto any proposed solution. It's always "more complicated" than that, but this line of thinking is obnoxious and pointless.
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#2 doesn't work. That site is super buggy and the Experian connection hasn't worked for 4+ years.
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> Round #2: left-wing government loses elections, new right-wing government decides to target UBI on the poor in order to master the costs. UBI becomes BI without the "U".

The flaw here is that this would seem to apply to any form of social assistance. Why hasn't the same thing happened to social security?

The answer is that Round #2 doesn't make sense. You can't take someone who is making $60K/year + $10K UBI and take away the UBI without lowering their taxes unless you want them to burn you in effigy. But if all you propose to do is replace $10K in UBI with $10K in tax cuts for the same people, who is going to be the lobby in favor of that?

The dynamic you're describing is what happens to things like education assistance. Because people would rather have in $1 in cash money tax cuts than $1 in education vouchers. But the UBI is cash that spends just the same as the tax cut would.
Italian citizen here.
The experiment was interesting, but it's implementation is quite sub-optimal: when you have to govern, you recognize that matters are quite more complicated and you need to compromise.
This is not necessarily wrong, if you have the intellectual honesty to admit that the utopian purity that you assumed as the main differentiator between you and the "old, dirty politics" is, well, an utopic oversimplification.
In my experience you can classify people into two herds: those who, when faced with a problem, solve it directly; and those who, faced with the same problem, try to fit it to the tools they want to use. I like to think this is a maturity question, but I can't think I've actually seen someone make the transition from the latter to the former type.
I'm sure that's why this article is listed here today.

This comment on Cap'n Proto came one hour before this article was re-submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12471541
Onus or burden would be a better word there than responsibility. They are largely synonyms, but the difference in tone is useful.

I mean, I don't actually owe it to a bank to ensure that some other party has accurate information about me.
> 3. Get your FICO score from discover [0] for free OR Open a credit card with Citi cards [1] and I think for $95/Year fee, they give you free FICO score which is the score that majority of lenders use. There are many other companies that offer FICO score for a fee but this was a good way for me since I needed that type of card anyway.

As well as Discover, Barclays and USAA credit cards both offer (one of) your credit scores without paying an annual fee.
The man was not committing suicide, he was murdered.
I find this interesting because I've ever thought of it conceptually, the idea of a scanner that instantly scans closed books (instantly because one pulse of whatever EM wave you're using suffices). I thought about it after reading about the Timbuktu manuscripts that were saved from Boko Haram in Mali. I hear many of them are too delicate to open. I hope this works. It'd be awesome for so many use cases.
lol. methinks you pull stats and scenarios outta your butt.

You are asking how do we convince people who refuse to use guns how to learn how to use guns safely...

Maybe you could just let them not use guns?
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I have also never had much luck with the annual report site.
By "sensible": it was possible to implement independent, reliable, read-and-write capable tools for these formats.

OLE was a tremendous boon to lock-in on the part of Microsoft. It was useful, yes, but hardly flexible. There are other tools which offer comparable capabilities without the lock-in elements.

Hal Varian (currently Google's chief economist) wrote the book on vendor lock-in, and how to both secure and avoid it (as a customer) in the late 1990s.
They need to be held criminally and civilly liable for promoting lies about a specific person with the specific intent to cause harm to that person.

There's a similar problem with Google. I have the same name (and it's not that common) and same age as a disbarred attorney in Arizona.

I always wonder how many times a new contact, or potential business partner, googles my name, finds the disbarred lawyer who was prosecuted for tax evasion, and decides not to do business with me. This wouldn't be a case of mis-information, but just of sloppy research.
If you like to do data analyses in bash, you might also enjoy bigbash[1]. This tool generates quite performant bash one-liners from SQL Select statements that easily crunch GB of csv data.

Disclaimer: I am the main author.

[1] http://bigbash.it
How could you possibly have a work-free day? Who'd drive the bus taking voters to the polling place? Who'd be manning the emergency room at the local hospital, or driving the ambulances, or enforcing the law, or keeping the power plant running, or spotting for forest fires, or...

I love the concept of a "work-free day", but I'm guessing that something like 5-10% of the workforce is doing infrastructure stuff that needs, absolutely needs, to happen every day simply to keep society functioning.
How Much Really Changed About Terrorism on 9/11?
Which Wikipedia makes pretty clear.

> The subject of the image, whose identity remains uncertain,...
sure it's not all-ivy harvard college + wharton but ucsd + booth will get you many VC meetings from the top tier names, based on my personal experience trying to raise funds for a previous startup.

i think the fact that mark suster has successfully raised and sold multiple times w/ the pedigree crowd ... sort of confirms that, doesn't it?

ucsd is fairly pedestrian, but chicago booth is ranked by usnwr the #2 business school in the nation, after harvard and tied with stanford... if you don't consider that a good pedigree i'm not really sure what to say.
Kairos is a very dynamic JavaScript time calculator for Node and browser
But, as I pointed out in another comment, what about systems like Manta, which make transitioning from this sort of script to a full-on mapreduce cluster trivial?

Mind, I don't know the performance metrics for Manta vs Hadoop, but it's something to consider...
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And approximately 5000 times more unreliable.
Actually, there's only one legitimate free service that was mandated by a settlement with the Government. The rest have confusingly similar names that all try to scam you. (Shamefully, the government didn't provide for a .gov domain for the legitimate access to the free service.)
By that logic, everyone peddling any kind of diet, including paleo or keto or whatever diet is the fad of the day, is insincere.

The actual truth of the matter is that nutrition is far more complex than any simple summary can give you. The data you get from nutritional and dietary studies is generally so poor in quality that you can find evidence for just about any assertion if you look hard enough.
So how does a real ID work?

Here, places verify you over the phone by the last 4 digits of your social security number, so you have to keep it secret.

If I'm evil and know your ID what can I get away with without a card? And what can I do with a decent fake card?
Given the nature of fiat currencies, taxes are irrelevant except as a means to control inflation by removing excess circulating currency. Moreover, a certain quantity of currency in circulation leads to inflation only relative to a given capacity to produce goods and services. Given that our economic system sees only very limited inflation, and can quickly ramp up production further, your arguments seem mostly strawmen.
Sorry, you should do more research... :) Rust has great support for very low level operations. Maybe search for 'bitwise operators' or 'inline assembly'. Memory management is even more explicit and strict than C, since you also have to deal with lifetimes and borrowing.

The best thing is, though, since Rust is such a young language, you can change it! Imagine trying to add a new language feature to C, something like the ? operator currently being evaluated for addition in Rust. It would take years, if not decades, to get those things in C. Even now MSVC is just rolling out support for C99.

I can definitely see Rust taking over C's current place in the market over the next decade or two. Better memory safety, higher-level constructs to improve productivity, more cross-platform compatibility, and modern libraries to deal with things like Unicode are a huge draw.
> How much is this connected to not having a real id card?

Social security number is sort of that. But various businesses keep accepting it blindly from fraudsters ("identity thieves"). So for now it remains semi-private because it is overused for authentication.

> Another concept that I don't understand is that USA's social security number has to be kept secret or otherwise your identity can be stolen. How that is even possible? Doesn't your employer needs it?

The trouble is really that it is accepted as a an authentication credential in many places, even though it is just a not-very-random unique number.
For Calculus check Coursera - the Ohio State course if you really don't know absolutelly anything, then do the Penn State course(s) Calculus in a Single Variable

For Linear Algebra check Gilbert Strang's course on MIT OCW

For Probability/Statistics either John Tsitsiklis' course on MIT OCW (or even better on edX when it re-runs) or Harvard's Statistics 110: Probability course on youtube

The level of multivar calculus you'll need is really minimal, just google these terms "partial derivative", "total derivative", "differentials and integrals commute" ("Symmetry of second derivatives", "Fubini's theorem") or take the vector calculus course from MIT OCW
I don't see how the fact that some human can do it can be used to justify the properties of another human. Are you rich because Bill Gates is rich?

It doesn't matter if all robot can't or that some human can, because we are judging an individual. So if Spooner can't do it, yet he still thinks he has some value than the robot, then clearly it's not ability to compose symphony that matters.
I'm actually the complete opposite I hate working with anyone in the room with me

It's almost as if everyone is different lol
An interest in possibilities. What if I apply myself to a data set that reveals fundamental truths about the universe? Or how to communicate with extraterrestrials? Or reveals fundamental truths about Earth?
Tokyo has solved this problem already.

Random article I found, perhaps not the best.

http://newlaunches.com/archives/a-tour-of-tokyos-alien-like-...
> On one side, it's economically unsound

Dubious claim. Most serious proposals are largely revenue neutral and simply redistribute.

> and will require massive taxation to be sustainable.

Not anymore than already exists.

> Second, who's going to administer it? Governments, being made from people, are notorious for corruption and scandal, and poor service.

It requires no new infrastructure if given as a tax rebate. It also introduces no additional corruption than already exists via tax loopholes. Centralizing all debate and scrutiny over corruption in one location is a benefit of the proposal, not a problem.
I wouldn't bother. I bought one in late 2013 and regretted it. I was so pissed that I even wrote a blog post on it. They keyboard sucked so bad that they literally sent a new keyboard to install along with a cute email from their CEO. I wanted a refund but they would not issue. I should have done a chargeback but I decided not to at the time.
I suppose this depends on the state. California driver's license numbers don't change, even if you move away, get a different one, then come back years later and get one back in California.
The parks are definitely something to enjoy and respect.
I highly recommend two books:

Desert Solitare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire

Death, Daring and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/NPSBooks/farabee.htm

This is good too:

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Parks:_America%27s_Best_Idea
Interesting.

>> "replace all taxes with user fees for use of government services and assets (like roads)"

I'm guessing with this we would also have to drastically reduce the number of services the government is providing? For example there will be certain services that they few people use but cost a lot to provide so if we aren't all contributing they can't continue to offer them.

As for a split rate tax I hadn't heard of it before but after a quick glance it looks interesting.

However I don't understand how you can think tax on trade is authoritarian yet other tax forms aren't.
All this to just keep your record clean and not have your bank misplace your money?

These are things you should not have to worry about in life.

They are expected and in most modern countries are not something you need to worry about.

When I tell my friends about this in the US at first they don't believe me. The can't believe that the banks make so many mistakes (such as credit/debit the wrong person for a check) and that there is this thing called a credit score which you have very little control over and can ruin you without you doing anything wrong.

The amount of time I have wasted in fixing credit scores and dealing with overdraft fees because someone else's check was pulled on the wrong account is staggering.
If the "you" refers to humans in general. We are good.
There's one more gotcha: security concerns. Writing code that expects long to be 64 bit might be dangerous as it could overflow and create a security bug on a 32 bit machine.

I find that I do want to know the sizes of things fairly often.
Every article claiming we're on the cusp of the singularity reads identically to those written 10-15 years ago too.

This reads this way because computers haven't made large strides in any creative endeavor in the last 10-15 years. Why should that be a point against the argument?
Is this a trick question? I believe that every eligible American citizen should be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote, this is an idea known as franchisement. I don't believe there is such thing as special accommodations when the goal is to make sure every citizen has the ability to exercise such rights.
Yeah. No significant software is bug-free, but if there was one, SQLite would be a good candidate.
How many times do you practice putting on your seatbelt, and how long does it take to put it on? For me, I put on my seatbelt every time I enter a car, and it takes me seconds.

I've never put on a parachute or practiced deploying one.

Lifeboats are not just for iceberg collisions. There are many reasons for a boat to sink that don't involve a collision.
I don't understand how anyone can read this thread and not think HN has many "defensive" posters.
Unfortunately, yes you need to do all these otherwise there is a risk that you have something on your credit report and you will never know. I hate the system too but right now, this is what it is.
UBI doesn't disincentivize work. If I told you that I would give you $10k/year unconditionally, would you quit your day job? What if you were currently unemployed, would you stop looking for a job? There is no reason to as my payment to you doesn't depend on if you get a job or not.
No your utilities do not need it. I never give my SSN to companies. Not the phone company, not the utility company, nobody I don't actually need to if I can help it. They will often waive such a requirement if you pay a small fee (usually around $5-50), which usually gets paid towards a bill after something like 6 months of paying everything in full on time.
I know I need to eat less and exercise more...this should be true of most people interested in losing weight.
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Isn't it libel to spread incorrect information about others, that is damaging, and that is certified as a true belief?
Go back to 1950, you will still find arguments that we are a few years away from general purpose AI.

The arguments have not really changed.
You can also get free reports through (some) banks and credit cards - Bank of America now provides members an updated FICO score every month and emails a link to access it. One if my credit cards has the same service but I cannot pinpoint which one right now.
Brazil also have compulsory votes with fines. Fines are low but are a pain in the ass to pay. Also if you don't vote you cannot get some documents (passports, etc) and you can't take any job in the government. Voting booths are abundant and it's always holidays tho. If for some reason you can't vote you have to justify to the "voting justice"-related thingy. Usually not a big deal.
You're only referring to credit reports... did you read the article? This wasn't only a credit report, but a landlord profiling service that they provide that also gives your criminal history... how, do you suppose, are we to monitor _what they see_ as our criminal histories?

I've had this exact same thing happen to me, about 6 years ago, when applying for an apartment lease. The landlord called me to ask about the violent offenses (robbery, assault) that came back on my background check that she was _sure_ couldn't be me. How am I supposed to monitor that? And, how would I do that _at no cost to me_?
In Snohomish County, in Washington State, you get absentee by default. But not every State is California or Washington State. Voting laws vary widely.
Exactly. If I spread false information about someone to their detriment, that is slander. How do credit reporting agencies get away with it?