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Stack Ranking seems like it should be a perfectly legal method of performance management. You might choose to not work at a company that practices it, but why should it be illegal?

It is perhaps a natural fear that a Stack Ranking system would lead to a "Rank and Yank", but the mere ordering of employees during a performance management process doesn't give me any particular concern, nor do I consider it a bad faith system.

In fact, it forces people to make a sometimes hard choice, which I believe has more benefits than drawbacks to an organization, else you run the risk of having a massive "undifferentiated middle" and no clear development plans because you have no feedback from rich discussion about why Jane is better than Joe; instead Jane and Joe are simply declared to be equal without any discussion about what Joe could do to improve or what Jane should continue doing, etc.
Responding to the Edit about land: Well actually wealth tax is often used as an idea to control property prices. If you own $10 million in land. That land makes you no money, you'd have to work out how to make money from the land or diversify to make a minimum return that covers the tax. The consequence of which is land/property becomes a less desirable investment compared to say investing in businesses unless that land actually makes a return. Theirs pros and cons and a lot of discussion on wealth tax etc. But taxing income also has pros and cons. The question is do you want tax to tax evenly across peoples wealth, or do you want it to tax evenly across income? or some mixture of both?
What do you need classifiers for in your business? I mean, why did you need to build it yourself? Is it like spam filtering of some sort? I'm surprised you had to build it yourself, in this day and age, as there would be services that provide this?
You can't. The whole point of a wealth tax is to prevent people/families from staying wealthy forever.
Thanks for this, I'm planning on watching Bram's talk but haven't had the time just yet. It's definitely an interesting idea, so I'm eager to see how it plays out.
No I get that but I get the impression those aren't the circumstances the parent was interested in hearing about.
God if this comes to fruition I will be so happy. The social security number is a horrible way to prove who I am.

I attended a small private college and they literally printed it on everything, it was our student ID.
As opposed to putting them in jail against their will?
You're talking about AMT (which runs on the Intel ME - Management Engine). The ME itself, however, is on every CPU (running Minix on Skylake and later CPUs, ThreadX on earlier models), because one of the responsibilities of the ME, apart from being a backdoor, is to manage the CPU: power it on, handle power signals, etc. The CPU wouldn't run without the ME, so it's necessary that it's on all CPUs.
Boulder had much less fanfare, but much greater techie population also passed this. Its at the point where cities that don't provide great internet will start to see people go live in other communities. The boulder vote was something like 3:1 in favor, as Comcast knew better then to go massively negative.

Unfortunately, Boulder city has been trying to go municipal with energy as well, which appears to be failing badly, and that's taking most of their time.
You don't engage in interstate commerce on a day to day basis? Do you only eat food grown in your own state, sold by local businesses who don't operate in any other state?
Just for fun, my real take-home pay is 21k.

With this tax increase, I'll lose a paycheck and a half.

I live in the Southeast, so my cost of living is pretty low- but salaries are mostly the same no matter what. I won't be destitute with this cut, but I will have very little wiggle room. I don't know what students in more expensive cities will do.

My partner and I are the pride of our families for getting PhDs. We both come from poor families, so we don't have anybody to turn to for help aside from one another. She sends home a few hundred bucks a month to support her parents, and I feed her so she can afford to.

Grad school is hard for a whole lot of reasons. It's hard to get American students interested in doing it. For a party that claims America First, they're doing a lot of things to ensure that our citizens have very few incentives to choose it as a career. It takes half a decade to get a degree. You get no raises, almost no vacation, constant work, few free weekends, ambiguous goals, and (for academics) a post-grad career path that seems like 2-4 years of the same thing.

I don't know if I have a point. I'm just 5 years in and kind of tired of departmental politics (and now with national politics). I love my work and have pretty good prospects, but I know I got lucky with the group I joined. I'd advise most students to make grad school their 2nd or 3rd option, if med/osteopath schools don't take them or they can't find an entry-level industry opening. Even a master's in something middling might be useful and much shorter.
A smart card is just a carrier for a digital certificate.
Impact of the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal on Instacart
They aren't burglary victims but the guards that sleep (drunken) in their night shift.
Itanium was an all-around failure, including idea, execution, management, and ecosystem.
My sense is that they're scammers and bottom-feeders, like the people who advertise on daytime television and XM radio. They have very little of value to offer, but are masters at skimming pennies off of their scams.
I'm enjoying the Atlantic more and more
Maybe the parent commenter is referring to issues brought up by Armin Ronacher (among others): http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/

Don't know what has changed since 2014. My perception is that Armin feels he's been pigeonholed as being more anti-Py3 than he actually is, at least with the state of Python in 2016:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/11/5/be-careful-about-what-you-...

> In fact, I myself campaigned for some changes to Python 3 that made it possible to achieve better ports (like the reintroduction of the u prefix on Unicode string literals) and the bulk of my libraries work on Python 3 for many years now. It's a fact that in 2016 the problems that people have with Python 3 are different than they used to have before.
Url changed from https://pictorial.jezebel.com/found-a-dead-bug-in-a-van-gogh..., which points to this.
There are people that do base jumping that are otherwise well adjusted adults. It’s very dangerous and no level of expertise reduces that danger.

Some people are just attracted to the crazy unknown. Many can’t believe they could become addicts because they’ve never been addicted. Others still don’t care because they’re just one step removed from suicide.
Bitcoin core has a consensus mechanism and it is a very good one. What gets into the code is only that which has near unanimous agreement. which means proposals are discussed and altered and improved until everyone is happy.

Believe it or not this is working well, and bitcoin is moving forward at a very rapid pace (especially given the difficulty of doing blockchain systems right)... people just don't realized it because few people read the release notes.

Those who think bitcoin needs a consensus mechanism to determine its direction usually think that it doesn't have one and that some cabal is in control.

That's not the case.

Remember, Segwit and LN were from outside the community, the LN developers are mostly not part of core, and in fact one of the authors of the paper is an ethereum guy.

They both got support in core quickly because they are good ideas.

Both were announced in the fall of 2015 and cores support was in the code by May of 2016!
Most parts are erased, the method descriptor, the bytecode but the generic signature is kept for enabling separated compilation (you can also retrieve it by reflection).

Here the generic signature which is a String is just too big, the dictionary part of the classfile, the constant pool, stores a String as an UTF8 byte array prefixed by its size on 16bits (hence the 65535 limit).
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You don’t even need a positive net worth. The poorest American is richer than the aggregate negative net worth of the referenced ~25% of the population.
Poverty and Housing Insecurity Along Jefferson Davis Highway
Sorry, of parking structures is what I meant. I work in DTLA.

I am always marveled when I go to SM. Huge modern parking structures on every block.
> state-run media pipeline

I have similar concerns but I think municipal would win out:

1) The First Amendment protects us against government interference with free speech. It does not apply to private companies like Comcast - they face no such constraints. This is especially true with the current FCC, where they're considering excluding internet utilities from common carrier rules. It's far more likely that Comcast would be granted monopoly or duopoly status by a local government, and then use that privileged position to control or censor speech or net traffic it unilaterally deems unacceptable, with no recourse or restraint that the First Amendment provides.

2) With municipal broadband citizens can always go to the ballot box and elect new leadership to increase transparency, accountability, and service level. What rights does the citizenry have to monitor and audit Comcast's decision making process? Zero. It's a private company beholden to shareholders - a situation that's often orthogonal to free speech and individual rights.

3) The public utility models works extraordinarily well for gas, electricity, water, sewage, garbage, streets, and other essentials for our modern life. Internet access can also thrive under this model, as like other utilities it is a natural monopoly.
You don't seem to realize that blocks can be up to 3.7mb for segwit transactions.

This whole issue has never been about block size- that's the lie they tell to try and take control.

It's all about governance and an attempt for the suits to take bitcoin away from the engineer meritocracy.

I understand that-- arguing with core people is sometimes frustrating-- but at the end of the day, core is doing a fantastic job.
Ah I slightly misunderstood your position - I apologize. Personally I find the topics highly related in my mind and so my mind made a jump in your argument I should not have.

I do actually still disagree with you though:

> At its core is the observation that people let Facebook content influence their finances and politics; the demonstrable dump of people's unthinking, reactionary blurted opinions, and their personal or incentivized proselytizing/propagandist/marketing skews. These are the random words of random accounts, all unworthy of blind trust.

Personally I don't think that people are actually putting blind trust into such sources. Rather, Facebook is instead creating a narrative about how the world is rather than what is truth and what is a lie. I don't think that Facebook is incredibly influential because people put blind faith into it. There's definitely a lot of people who do that, and they're dumb, but I think there's a larger problem at play.

Facebook is able to create a narrative about what "the world" is like. If you're liberal, you see a very different "world" on Facebook than if you're conservative. In this way, I don't think Facebook is influencing the world via trust, but by misconstruing what the world actually looks like. People have the perception that Facebook is an "unbiased" perspective on the world at large and especially your social circle. But we know that Facebook doesn't actually present such a world - it instead gives you a highly "biased" (think more of the statistical version than the political one) perspective on life.

In this way I think it's not necessary to make Facebook the arbitrator of trust on their network, but instead to require them to arbitrate the way information is disseminated.

To say it simpler: It's not a problem that Facebook has fake news, it's a problem that Facebook can create a fake world.

Again sorry for misunderstanding you.
> Hint: throwing drug USERS in jail, where they only get more underground connections and better learn to become a criminal, will start a cycle where they have to end up in jail again

What is: the most profitable outcome you can hope for when your prison system is privately owned?
The same way you do with any other document.
I think tax avoidance as a service could be a thing. If I could get someone to hire me as an 'individual supplier of engineering services' and they could pay my holding company in the Cayman islands directly. Places like Apple already hire janitorial services so that they don't have to hire janitors directly, they could hire my engineering service. Pay the agreed upon rate and leave tax/medical/retirement to my service, which would work through another holding company to set up regional medical providers who could service my medical needs in the US but any costs would go back through the Caymans. Similarly I could arrange to purchase things through their service where they buy for shipment out of state and then cross ship items back to my location instantaneously avoiding any sales taxes. No doubt with a clever legal team such a startup could develop a number of "perfectly legal" arrangements such that one's lifestyle could avoid most of the inconvenient taxes that currently are plied upon us poor working folk.
Of course it is. If they'd have won this, it would have cost <$400,000.

Small change compared to upgrading infrastructure.
The role of the government has certainly evolved since the 18th century, and thank goodness we're not stuck with a union with a weak central government. Do you really look at the balkanized, fractious EU and think to yourself, "Gee, I wish we had that"? IMHO the New Deal didn't go nearly far enough.
Depends what happens as to whether it's a problem or not.

Maybe it fails to handle the load, the users get a "failure to authenticate" message or similar, and they try again. If their peaks are really sharp and short, that's probably just fine, because that second attempt almost invariably works.
We aren't anywhere near anything resembling competition for space resources.

If we could harness all the resources available around the solar system and beyond, we wouldn't have an energy crisis at all. The problem is actually getting those resources transported. If an alien had means to mine and transport resources, they'd probably have found plenty of other richer resources besides Earth.
Doesn't that not even really work though?
Again, depends on a wealth tax, but if its the same as the tax you'd pay if you had that wealth sitting in the bank, and its worth billions but you never get a return, then very very slowly you'd lose tiny fractions of your company. Yes. But that would be a very odd situation
If you don't feel confident defending your opinions in such a space

The point of HN is to be a search for the truth among colleagues, not a verbal barfight. The fact that you wanted to get into one immediately says a lot about both sides of the conversation.

your comment did not do enough to distance whatever you were talking about from them

You didn't even briefly pause to question whether I might be associated with them. Why should I need to distance myself from them when I'm merely talking about them? The causal linkage is backwards here.

Maybe you feel bad about reacting so harshly and are now backpedaling. Either way, you shouldn't get to force the conversation into a private message:

If you want to have a conversation about such a thing, I'm happy to engage over private message. But you bringing it up was so tangental, so unrelated, and so odd that I could not resist calling you out on it.

If I bring up a topic substantively, honestly, and in a way that's a search for the truth, it shouldn't matter whether it's done in public or in private.
Is there a reason why we couldn't use state IDs for this purpose? We would just have to converge on a standard design, data structure, and set of APIs for access. It would also allow us to issue new ones easily in the event of a problem.
LinkedIn profiles inside Gmail
Wait, you can't download archived pages?

ANOTHER ----id ----ing cloud service trying to replace files and programs with some BS pricing scheme?

Seriously are the "entrepreneurs" of HN even trying? How pathetic that seemingly everything on this site is someone's jobs program?
Isn't that the same as if you lost your SSI number? In all seriousness, I remember my parents lost my sisters SSI number well after she was born (1970's). The amount of BS the had to go through to get that back and prove they had one, that she was who she was, etc. It nagged them for years.

Wouldn't the fix be to easily protect and recall your private key? I mean, not to get all science fiction but if you use a private key to replace an SSI, why wouldn't we move to a simple "chip" that we use with pets in case we lose it? Big brother, but I have to imagine it will certainly solve the key issue.
Talking your book...
Sure, compared to Tokyo and Manhattan. But everyone commutes using the train there.

DTLA is different. It is still within the driving circuit, and all other LA shopping destinations have decent free or cheap parking.

Paying 11 dollars just to park might be okay for work, but not okay if you're just looking to walk around or shop.

That's why BH and SM and all major malls have free or cheap parking. DTLA can't compete with these destinations in retail, until they fix this.

Joe's parking is not going to cut it.
To exterminate us so that we dont have a chance to challenge them could be a motivation.
You could check out Vulcan: http://vulcanjs.org
I don't need to - I can not use them.
When there are no more bitcoins to mine, will the power consumption drastically fall? There will be fees to mine, but I can't imagine everyone is going to be fighting that much on fees, but I don't really know..
Anyone know if we can beg/pay our way into a GPU backed instance?
Presumably they haven't found a way to use the Sun as an amplifier yet.
That's not really an excuse.
> If she were a dude with an unfitted black tee...

That's an odd argument. Why would someone manufacture a schlubby geek persona? Seems like attractiveness and distinctiveness are key qualities in a (hypothetical) persona.
This statement has me very curious. Are you able to elaborate at all on what you mean? Like is this more of an underpinning architecture issue that can't simply be addressed by scheduling dev time?
> I don't really see why having the city run its own Internet service should be considered a resort.

It's not about the Internet specifically. It's just that every law or public spending is a shitty thing for those who don't want it, but have to pay for it anyway, or play by some rules they can't opt out of. In every other situation, we would consider such things shitty behaviour, so I think it makes sense to acknowledge that consequence and only do it if we really must.
It's an issue of scaling.

Can I ask 5 people what their perspective is? Sure. 15? It's getting tough, but maybe. 50? Not really.

And so you delegate. Which means you get filtered information. Detecting which filters work well and which don't is tricky. It's not that managers "don't care", it's that they genuinely don't know and haven't figured out they don't know yet.

You can short-circuit that by telling them. Sure, getting the info is their job, but pushing it their way might get them the info faster. Just saying "but it's their job" is not helpful.
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A lot less when they take the lazy route and autofill 000-000-0000 and just remove any validation in the languages that are cheaper to hire for.
>So why are you complaining in a conversation talking about averages?

You're the one who is using averages. Everyone else here is telling you averages are a misleading metric here when trying to compare the US to other countries.

Averages are not useful for comparing diverse data sets.

The mean tells you a lot about a hypothetical population where everyone has an IQ of 100. It doesn't tell you a lot about a population where half the people have an IQ of 75 and half 125. Using mean scores to compare those populations is nearly useless.

>That's why you have averages. Again, how else would you compare countries?

That's just it, you can't use 1 number to compare countries. It's not meaningless, but it's close.
Didn’t segwit result in a fork?
There is no shortage of PhDs. Encouraging people to skip the Phd and enter the private sector would be better for the innovation food chain.
Sorry, I'm not ignorant of that stuff, it just doesn't apply to me in any meaningful degree. I'm not retired, or close to it, and I don't have any investment income, and I've never owned a home. I just work for a living. Perhaps I oversimplified when I said "ordinary people," but I meant regular working stiffs. I guess I should have remembered the audience on this site is mainly not in that category.
I suspect it will look a lot like "you have an iPhone charger, right?" but with bigger cables. Not the end of the world, but certainly more involved then stopping at gas stations as needed.
As u/halflings pointed out, the current version of Colaboratory offered was spun off some time ago (3+ years ago?) from this jupyter-associated repo: https://github.com/jupyter/colaboratory

In another begging-not-ranting, I was surprised that Colaboratory currently only supports 2.7x. It looks like it began around 2014. IIRC most of Google's projects were 2.x upon public release (Tensorflow, the API client) but have since ported over. Jupyter notebooks and iPython, too. Anything particular about Colaboratory that makes a 3.x-port a time-intensive feature, or just something that was not needed during internal development?

(Asking as a casual Jupyter user with no knowledge about what code/features is specifically 2.x bound)
This would also serve as a good opportunity to replace those legacy systems
This is a copy of Burstcoin[1], this "inventor" had many other "ideas" in last years that all were copies of other people ideas and were total disasters, he is riding his reputation he got from bittorrent. It will probably end with ICO, people will invest money treating that just as financial instrument that you can speculate on, then when implementation will come it will end like all those others alt coins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstcoin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
They know what parts of their system were compromised, at least partially.
> I do wonder how fentynl is getting in, or is it being made here?

Imported from China. Wasn't regulated at all there until recently, then the producers started messing with the formula.
Intel doesn't have a near-monopoly in anything, really. AMD is now a solid CPU competitor with Ryzen and Threadripper, and ATI and nVidia exist and dominate in the GPU space.
Sure, that's what I thought -- because I don't know of any monopoly that didn't benefit from gov't subsidies or explicit protectionist policies.
HN already can show (non-highlighted) code snippets

like such

and it's a pain in the ass for anyone reading in small screens.
I tried out the multi root workspaces and I think it could be improved in a few ways:

* add a setting to always show folder name next to the tabs, not only when there's a name collision

* switching between folders is a pain when working with multiple large projects since it requires scrolling, maybe have an option to display folders as tabs in the side bar?

Other than that, it's another very impressive release from the VS Code team and they continue to listen to users and iterate, so great job. I never bothered to check, but I assumed VS Code would use an MS license for open source projects but was glad to know they use the MIT license.
So, you would prefer that your legal obligations be determined by a privately manufactured black box?