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If Trump wants to put his name on some silver bullet modernization, he'd do well to get rid of these 9 digit albatrosses, and transition to a new identifier format.

Sunset these ###-##-#### format numbers and deprecate their use. (especially forbidding private sector credit report usage, and the like)

Migrate everyone to a stronger ID system, that's secured according to modern standards, and retire each old number as it's converted. Put measures in place so that the new numbers cannot and must not be used for purposes other than government benefit transactions.

I am so sick of being asked by fantastically stupid HR and Data Security goons to do pathetically inadequate tasks, such as:

Please download this SSN_HumanResources.exe
file and double click to run it on your
local machine. This program requires you
to install the .NET runtime, version 3.0 or
higher. Your "C:\" drive will be subjected
to a full text scan of all files, to ensure
that you are not retaining SSN information
provided by fellow employees. When finished,
please download, print out, sign and fax a
copy of the affirmation form to Bob in HR at
(555) 555-5555.

Thank you,
Data Security

This sort of thing actually happens.
No, sorry, I can't explain the theory of relativity in one paragraph. It takes a book. Spacetime Physics, by Taylor and Wheeler, explains it very well with only high school level maths.
What login rate-limiting, account lock-out, and password expiry policies do they have though?

Based on the password requirements, they have something like 2.6 trillion possible passwords. If your account is locked out after 3 failed login attempts, if they limit to one attempt per second, or if they have a forced password change every month, etc. there are a number of ways to tighten this up.

Their password policy is anachronistic, and this /could/ be a symptom of other issues. However by itself, it seems more like a usability issue than a security issue.

In fact, they could be attempting to discourage password reuse with other sites. That would be a security bonus if it worked (I doubt it works).
Perhaps we should stop sending our kids to schools designed around a model of classroom learning in the 19th century, also. Overdiagnosis of ADHD is the result of forcing kids to sit down and shut up for 10 hours a day
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えんえ should be en'e according to the govenment system. ティ is used exclusively in loan words anyway as far as I'm aware. Wouldn't you just write it in its original language?
Driverless trucks threaten jobs in 'Trumpland'
I gotta agree with what you're generally saying. I'm not as familiar with phonetics, but I've found i learning Chinese that one of the most useful things to keep in mind when reading pinyin is to not take the letters literally and to focus on how native people are actually saying things. Like in the examples you give, the pinyin can lure you into bad habits
If they own their own fleet, they can negotiate all sorts of things. Think of the prices Walmart gets for the exact same good they sell, vs say, Safeway.

One analogue is rental car companies getting steep discounts: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/05/18/sees-sales-t...

Operational efficiency is another. Southwest Airlines iirc was (one of) the first discount airline by virtue of their superior aircraft turnaround times. If a rideshare company can dramatically increase the ratio of time carrying a passenger (or multiple) vs carrying none, they can spread their fixed costs (or even the variable ones, if carrying multiple passengers) over a larger denominator.
Your perspective as a native and long-term resident is of some interest, but it doesn't mean you automatically understand the economics of the situation.

I don't think anyone imagines that the needed changes are going to be politically easy. But as long as more and more people want to live here -- a trend that shows no sign of slowing down -- our only choices are to bulid more housing or tolerate ever-higher housing costs. There is no third option.
Yea, like a pimp!
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As they begin to scale, startups also hire many of their highly paid workers, especially experienced executives. Our executive and management teams also have a roughly equal number of women.
From the screenshot, it looks like they enforce password changes every 90 days.
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I'm quite curious to see what he has to say about Monster Jams.... If I had a choice between a Circus and MJs: Circus would win every time.
I've got a lot of mixed emotions about this. It was interesting that CBS aired a story on Friday about the 'first female ring master'[1] and then it drops that the show is closing.

An acquaintance of mine from grade school has pretty tirelessly crusaded against circuses for their mistreatment of animals. And for them, even the notion that you could "take excellent care" of an animal in your care that your raised from birth is an abomination if that animal is not allowed to run free in their original habitat (not that they would survive at that point but still...) But I've always enjoyed people pushing themselves to the edge to see if they can. As a result high wire acts, trapezes, and even the clown routines are fond memories for me.

If I'm honest with myself though it is just nostalgia for a different time. That time is past, whether or not there is a circus to go to.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ringling-brothers-woman-ringmast...
Excellent post.

> Now, Rust is a systems programming language and it just wouldn’t do to have expensive grapheme segmentation operations all over your string defaults. I’m very happy that the expensive O(n) operations are all only possible with explicit acknowledgement of the cost. So I do think that going the Swift route would be counterproductive for Rust.

I'm not sure I understand the logic here. How is Rust exempt but not, say, Python? Just because it's a systems language? I get why you wouldn't make it the default in Rust, but the logic applies to all languages, doesn't it?

Aside: I was talking about this with a friend just yesterday. Is there any language that separates the concept of a string and a user-facing string? Specifically for localization purposes, the way gettext works.

eg. I wish that in Python you could do this:

err = "internal_error"
msg = t"Internal error!"

error_msg would be easy to pick up for translation, rather than have to do some cludgy import as _ and _("Internal error!"). Hm, now that I'm writing this here, I guess it's still not a type you'd want to operate differently on than just plain unicode strings.
I'm sure they'd love to have your help rewriting all of that software.
What happens to all the animals?
Why we should think about death, while we are still alive
As an immigrant to the US who's childhood path went from poor rural Texas, to poor urban Houston, to poor Oakland and then to SF, I share many of your sentiments. As an atheist in Texas, I often felt at odds with my peers and subsequently learned from an early age to not voice my opinions too loudly. While this isn't exactly the best way to grow up, I more or less accepted it as the price to pay for having very different world views.

Interestingly enough, while I actually shared many of the same political views as my SF peers, I grew increasingly uncomfortable with the open hostility that anyone challenging those views would face. In many ways, I found it harder to be an open minded left leaning atheist in SF than a left leaning atheist in Texas. The hypocrisy I saw on display was very disillusioning.

For all the talk about SF being progressive and tolerant, I found it among the most provincial and closed minded places I've ever lived.
By the same kind of organized political resistance that affects changes of a much larger scale all over the country. It amazes me that in a year where a coalition of white working class voters were able to propel someone like Trump to the highest office in the land, that people of far greater means see much smaller political change as impossible.

The coalition impeding affordablity now thrives precisely because tech industry workers refuse to align themselves with the lower classes suffering the brunt of the damage under these circumstances. The ownership class then gets to paint themselves as trying to defend against all these encroaching barbarians that are making things tough for the little folks, all the while profiting from the exploding housing costs. They consolidate power around keeping out the "other," and then turn around and use it to soak tech workers (and by extension their companies) with higher rents. The play the bottom and the middle against each other and stay on top.

The hostility is a ruse, just like it is in politics on the national level, and it has to first be shown for the lie that it is. As an example, what if wide swathes of tech workers held rent strikes until more affordable housing is built for low income residents? Suddenly the narrative that sustains the ownership class becomes less and less coherent, and space is opened up for actual reform.
This sounds like someone tazering a guard at the SSA. *shockingly

If you're mad about 8 char mandatory case insensitive password rules maybe leaking data, you'll probably be super mad when they just lose the whole db on their end to hacks. Perhaps they should code a 2fa option through one of the many useful api's, as so many other companies have.
There are a lot of hackers who know Chinese, so it probably isn't gaining you any ground. See diceware.com for how to generate strong passwords (in many different languages). Also, use a password manager with a password generator for less sensitive accounts and so that you aren't reusing passwords.
My ISP (TPG) is using DNS and IP blocking, had to use a VPN to get around the block. The site mentions DNS as a way to unblock, this doesnt work anymore
We have designed interview formats that specifically test for them. This actually isn't that revolutionary, as manager interviews have always weighted heavily on evaluating soft skills. We took some inspiration from interview formats used to evaluate managers and we also added a project interview that is about how people get work done in teams. By creating detailed interview guides with expectations and evaluation criteria, this skill is absolutely teachable. It does require significant investment in interviewer training.
Back in the 80's when all the Semiconductor companies were losing money, Andy Grove of Intel stated that because Intel was losing less money than everyone else, it must be the largest semiconductor company. If Lyft can become profitable while Uber isn't that will change the market dynamics tremendously.
Wayland usage would depend on your DE. For example in KDE, pointer containtment was added only in Plasma 5.9.x, which makes Wayland unusable for games. And 5.9.x didn't make into Debian before the freeze because it's still in beta. I.e. Stretch will most likely come out with 5.8.x and Wayland there won't be really ready.
Hey dang, how about banning this cock for his insubstantive comments that add nothing to the conversation.

Where's the boilerplate response from standards and practices? We need the operant conditioning to induce community standards, asap.
tldr; CEO: "Coinbase and the IRS have (I believe) a shared goal to ensure all U.S. customers pay their taxes. I believe a good option would be to use the same third party reporting mechanism that brokerage firms like Fidelity and Charles Schwab use today: the 1099-B form. We’d ideally like to see that structure applied evenly to all companies in the industry, but even if we’re required to go first, we’re ready to implement 1099-B reporting.
With this potential solution, Coinbase (and other virtual currency exchanges) would issue a 1099-B at the end of the year to all U.S. customers, and send a copy to the IRS. This would make it easy for users of virtual currency to pay their taxes without violating their privacy."
I'm not sure if anything is as indicative of changes in these modern times as this.
Is there anyone pursuing the lowest cost per mile ride share strategy? Things like choosing a common car type, low fuel cost, centralized servicing, etc (i.e. Taxi) combined with the improved customer service and security that Uber and Lyft offer? One would think it would be a winner.
These IRS witch hunts do little but inspire FUD about bitcoin, thus hampering widespread acceptance, and keeping the US financial system in a bygone era.
5th year of marriage coming up. Two kids; eldest turns 3 next week, the younger one just started crawling.

This article has my current feelings about my wife and my life spot on.
Indeed, that's why I added ;).
I don't know. "Andy Rubin starting new phone company" is enough of a headline to get me pretty pumped. Between the Sidekick and Android he's shown he is able to think pretty good about the mobile future.

Didn't read much of the article, but I am excited. So I think the excitement is warranted.
> too many legal protections to effectively shut down ponzi schemes/cons/etc.

The problem is that the the person carrying out the scam is playing with "house money" while the ones trying to stop him are paying cash. He is paying lawyers with the money from the investors and burning up the assets. So, by the time you are done, it may be a Pyrrhic victory.
Any ideas why tcsh was so popular and bash was considered oddball? A lot of the big old vfx houses I would work for came from Unix, so they still default everyone to tcsh. A lot of their tooling is based around it, so you're kind of required to use tcsh.

I like to come up with one-liners when doing stuff as a challenge and not being able to do a for-loop as a single line drove me nuts (keeping it one line is really useful when you're iterating over a command and using history). I also find subshells very handy in bash.
I like how working from home reduces waste transition time. If any companies can make remote work effective, its Silicon Valley companies. Save the environment, and the health of your team by not forcing them to play the road rage lottery every week day.
You know I did pack my bags, bailed on Silicon Beach, (Silicon Beeeeyaaatch!!!) and moved to bum-fuck nowhere. It actually cost me a considerable amount of money to sew up all my affairs. (cancel contracts, get rid of a lease, make arrangements) It's incredibly cost-prohibitive to break a routine in an American city, and relocate. It took some clever bureaucracy hacks, negotiating a complex sea of contingencies, and ultimately a good deal of material sacrifice to make it happen. The 'rat race' is not exactly 'designed' at all. As an inadvertent consequence, it is not designed to allow one to leave it easily.

It seems that you view these services, which are luxuries, as options for the people that have to provide these services in order to survive in the modern American urban environment. They generally can't afford these luxuries. Nobodies blaming, or complaining about tech companies providing services. People are blaming tech companies and complaining about the effects of tech companies arbitraging value from economic systems that already existed, further increasing the concentration of wealth (which is ostensibly access to resources) among those who can already afford to invest in building the mechanisms to arbitrage said value. And, quite frankly, some of us are getting annoyed with people who defend companies that actually influence legislature on local and national levels to enable this arbitrage to the detriment of the citizenship of these regions, while shoving advertising, and news stories in our faces, labeling this arbitrage as the quintessential if not sole definition of human progress.

Also, this article was comedy, and hilarious.
If Uber or Lyft have to own their own fleet, they are (pardon me) screwed. It blows their cost model away with how much capital is required, as they currently hoist the extensive depreciation on drivers who own their own vehicles.

Not a lot of VCs jumping into Fedex or UPS type businesses when you actually have to invest in a transportation network. Tesla Network might pull it off with their customers footing the capital costs (instead of Tesla needing to go into the markets to scoop up another few billion dollars in credit lines).
Though I understand that this is just an example of the power of `!r`, readers should know that VIM in fact can copy to the system clipboards natively.

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> Just because it's a systems language? I get why you wouldn't make it the default in Rust, but the logic applies to all languages, doesn't it?

You deal with strings as bytes (opaque data) (edit2: didn't really mean bytes here. see child comments) more often than strings as text in systems programming, basically.

Also, you'll want to write stuff like fast parsers in Rust. For a parser you're usually doing ascii matching anyway.

Swift hides the actual encoding of the string from the user. That's not something we can do in Rust.

> I get why you wouldn't make it the default in Rust

That's all I'm saying? I'm totally for having EGC operations there, I don't want them in the default operations. "it just wouldn’t do to have expensive grapheme segmentation operations all over your string defaults"

Basically, Rust tries to keep costs explicit, unlike languages like Python. This would be against that philosophy.

Edit: I'd also like to point out that indexing by code point or grapheme is a rare operation in Rust anyway.
As user of i3 and not having tried StumpWM what makes splitting windows easier in StumpWM?
such a shame
I'm simply offering my opinion. If you want to donate to Gimp developers thats your choice.

Krita has a very refined process for development donations. They collect donations through a Professional funding site not a personal Patreon account and there is a clear time frame for development and a clear set of features that will be 'Finished' at the end of the development cycle.

They have successfully delivered with this model and the people who gave them money got what they paid for and will more then likely fund them again and other projects.

Can you say the same for gimp? No, someone might give some money to a Gimp developers Patreon making all sorts of promises that never get finished. The person who gave that money will probably never contribute again.

Thats a big problem for every OSS graphics project now. We have to give people who are willing to put down the money what they expected to get or they will stop funding.

Its important that the most professional, serious projects get promoted and funded to serve as a model for other projects to follow. And to grow the amount of users that feel comfortable giving there money.

You can see the same sort of professionalism with Blender and Natron development. And they also are producing quality software. If the project is fallowing this professional model then they deserve to be promoted IMO. But simply putting a bunch of promises on a personal Patreon and asking for money will do more harm then good to the larger OSS graphics community.
It sounds positively abominable. Why anyone would enjoy such a life continues to elude me.
10/10 pun
Own lots of data? Use a managed backup service; it's cheaper
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Would the government be liable, if long term, short range jamming signals could cause health problems to those wearing them for extended amounts of time?
Lol, we shoot animals in the head, cut their flesh from their bodies and consume it for fun.

Should we give animals a life without predators(aka murders) shelter and food it's bad.

> "I applaud their decision to move away from an institution grounded on inherently inhumane wild animal acts."

Humans are wild animals, yet we don't want to live in the wild, it kinda sucks bigtime.
English slang. "Color me X means "I am X". Roughly speaking that is. I think there's a slight connotation of surprise as well.
I think the decision not to have animals in the Cirque du Soleil was also a business decision: animals are expensive and unreliable, so cutting them reduced expenses a lot. The downside was that there were no exotic animals to draw people to the show, so maybe less demand.

Times had changed though. Back when Barnum & Bailey got started, elephants were truly exotic: many people who went to the show had never seen them before. Even photographs were rare. When Cirque got started in the 1980s, elephants were not mysterious exotic creatures any more.
The reality of owning in the Bay Area, the history, and the current state of affairs is apparently so far from what the utopia HN would propose... you aren't suddenly turning a 30yo Ranch development into a source for housing...

The innocence and lack of experience in the market is ... cute
I think you are fighting the good fight Brian!

In tin hat mode, its possible that the subpoena is actually being driven by the justice department not the IRS. As you point out there are a number of less invasive ways of insuring tax compliance but there are not better ways for unwrapping large number of bitcoin transactions involved in ransomware or other extortion or criminal activity. We saw from the MtGox fiasco that when their entire transaction record for all clients was analyzed it identified not only internal corruption but a variety of schemes being used to manipulate or defraud.

Let's assume that Justice has the full transaction records for one or more of the non-US exchanges, by adding all of your records to the mix it would give them the visibility they need to unwind a lot of stuff.

As I understand it, when you make the motion to quash you can compel them to tell you exactly how they were going to use the data. Don't let them be evasive on that point.
You misunderstand. The current party in power wants this dysfunction so they can justify further cuts. See the with-holding funds from Obamacare and forcing the post office to save for healthcare decades before those who would use it could require it.
The line of death gave me life.
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I'm also against circuses massively, pushing people to their limits is fine and great if people are up for it, animals taken from their environment just to entertain us? Less so. If we want to "enjoy" an animal it should be on their terms.

We have Circu De Soleil now though, right? They don't use animals and do some amazing things. I'm not sure what there is to morn.
More context: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/ct-this-i...
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The problem with installing zch on my desktop is that I won't have it on the servers I SSH into. I need to know the proper spells and incantations that will work on a wide variety of distros and versions, many of which I don't personally maintain. Therefore, bash.
There's still shit like Cavalia, capitalizing on the chic of Soleil while still forcing animals to perform.
Damn. That's where I left my Sandwich. Do you think it might have survived the explosion?
Uber's plan is monopoly
Uber already bumped its price in South Bay by somewhere as much as 50%(my daily ride from $14 to $17 then to $20) from my experience. Now I only use Uber Pool since Uber X in comparison is like 2-3 times more expensive.
Also, is there any idea about how much money the IRS could possibly recover through bitcoin? Is bitcoin even a significant source of loss for the IRS as compared to say, cash?
Doesn't pinyin just apply to standard mandarin? China has many different dialects with different pronunciations, pinyin wouldn't have simplified those at all.
I'm in my tenth year of marriage with 3 kids and I can honestly say I'm much happier then when I was in my luxury appartment, living the happy single high life. It doesn't happen overnight you know.
Not quite true. The MCT should be able to escape as well, it will just not be able to do it as reactivly as the Dragon 2.
You want to have your cake and eat it too? Find another joyful experience to share.
Thank you so much. Please do give a shot & share your feedback.