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> Should never be the responsibility of individuals/ business to validate identity.

Um, what? If you are doing business with someone based on an assumption about their identity (giving them a loan based on credit history, for example), it sure should be your responsibility to verify that that assumption is correct--that the person you're dealing with is indeed the one that all the data you have applies to. And if your assumption turns out to be wrong, the last thing you should do is blame it on the person who actually is the one all your data applies to.

> If there are flaws in the existing system that lends itself to be manipulated, then the solution should be that the government should fix it.

The government is largely the cause of the flaws in the existing system. The last thing we should do is expect the government to fix it. If private corporations are going to make use of information about you, it should be their responsibility to make sure that information is accurate.
Work a tech job for 5-10 years saving money for when you quit, avoid expensive relationships / having dependents or have a spouse who can support you, save enough to live on ramen in the middle of nowhere for a couple of years with a bunch of roommates. Is that really Andrew Carnegie level of wealth?

Many of us have done exactly that, it just takes years of planning and being fortunate enough not to have severe medical conditions or loves ones you need to take care of with all of your finances.

Again, most people would much rather tell themselves that the reason why they're not entrepreneurs is because they're not Bill Gates rich, rather than making the sacrifices most entrepreneurs have to make to get things going.
Damn, this is a major loss for AMD, losing Raja is definitely not the right move. It would have been interesting to see the next iteration of AMD graphics with Raja on board.

Threadripper, and the Zen architecture, put them back on the map, that’s some serious hardware for the price. I wish they had just kept iterating on the CPUs and GPUs.

Vega is not a bad product, it just doesn’t beat nvidia’s offering in the bar charts, doesn’t mean it’s bad, it just means it’s second place which is fine since it’s cheaper as well. Technology needs to be iterated on. Something must be going on at AMD at the moment.
Microsoft used stack ranking for some time and from what I've read it caused a lot of problems and was considered to be negative overall. It led to a cutthroat environment where employees were competing with each other (and not focusing on doing their best work) so that they would get a good ranking [1]. According to reviews on Glassdoor, it's still used unofficially for their 6-month reviews [2]. Amazon also used it for a time [3] and has since abandoned it.

1: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-l...
2: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Microsoft-stack-ranking-Re...
3: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-w...
That's a strange equivalence of prosperity and morality...

Poor people don't uniformly treat their children poorly. But startup founders profit from three advantages only rich people can provide: (1) the money for an Ivy League education, (2) the knowledge that there's some security to fall back on in case of failure, and (3) the knowledge how to make small talk, what to wear etc. when meeting investors and other stakeholders.

All these can be solved by policy: university scholarships for (1) and, through that, a bit of (3), plus (3) some form of social safety net that allows everyone to fail without fearing to starve.
Furthermore, they may not be unique.[1] We are also very far off from being able to trust the technologies that read biometrics, especially for the incompetents that the government usually contracts. I can't find the source, but there was a post/comment on HN linking to a bio engineering lab where they found that any fingerprint was being accepted. Your cell phone is likely light years ahead of anything a government contractor would put in place.

[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/why-your-finge...
No he was not right. You can write two-way interop and it is not hard. I have actually written a library which does it. He did not say that "the two-way interop is not seamless". He said that you "can't write two way interop code" which is not true.
To me, a good solution would be a chip-based smart card with a private key on it for physical proof of identity, and an oauth api for web based stuff. The api would also power the back-end of the in person transactions and issue the vendor a token which they would use from that point forward.

In this system, everything would be logged in terms of who/what accessed your data and it could be de-authorized at any point.

The cards themselves could just be each state's ID/Drivers License to avoid the scare of the national id that many are opposed to for one reason or another. Replacing an ID would be as easy as visiting your DMV (shudder) and them invalidating your old private key.
Uh, yeah, I'd say definitely more than that
This is exactly the sort of broken design thinking that will make cars unsafe.
There was a Wall Street Journal article a few weeks ago that said banks were being far too lenient about giving out loans to restaurants and pumping money into an essentially dying, unforgiving market. I actually thought the WSJ was a little hard on the banks, since restaurants are so notoriously hard, but I wonder if this is more of systemic issue.
Partial autonomy really sucks in less than ideal conditions. Like it's raining like mad in poor visibility, the road is atrocious, the marking is weird, ...

Those are the times you don't have the choice but drive yourself and that's also the time you have to fiddle with a lot of option like finding the right speed for the wipers. Nobody like driving in those conditions, and if Tesla makes the experience even worse that will indeed make people regret Autopilot but maybe not in a good way.

Driving manual in a sunny day in country side twisty roads ? You really don't need anything else than the brake, the wheel and accelerator, no matter the car.
Approximately how much would you say it costs? Could he have gotten a small business loan?
Fucking horrifying.
Sergei's parents were Soviet Jews, that's on the opposite spectrum from Soviet elites. Well educated - yes, but not elites.
Arguing about what those services should be is part of the process. Nobody said it's not their "right".
> Unless you’re one of the lucky few who start and take a company public in an IPO

Not like I have much to draw on, but to me it seems that a huge acquisition is probably more bang for your buck than going public (which is by definition a gamble).

I don't think I'd ever want to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Being at the whims of finicky investors on top of shady market forces 24/7 just seems awful when compared to getting acquired for a pretty penny (WhatsApp or Tumblr come to mind).
You can also go with capital one which has an unsecured $500 credit limit immigrant credit card. Citibank also had a program for new immigrant credit cards. The citibank one references your current income, I got a card with a $10k limit.

This was ~6 years ago so YMMV
Long time overdue.
In one of the talks at Google I/O last year a VP from Audi (or Volvo?) spoke in a thick and lofty German accent about how "ve haf completely oferhauled ze driver exzperienze". He played a sexy video clip showcasing their new Android infotainment system (something like https://youtu.be/h_7_fKJ0PNs), and the first thing I noticed is how they'd taken away my traditional temperature knobs and replaced them with digital touchscreen ones. They looked just like physical ones, and were in the exact same place you would expect (https://9to5google.com/2017/05/15/android-cars-audi/).

So, I've gained absolutely nothing, and now I have to take my eyes off the road and look down at the stupid console just to change the temperature.

TLDR: Tacticle feedback is a Good Thing(tm) and designers should cultivate - not fight - muscle memory.
We redo the Parity hack
this is a pretty weak analysis. His core notion that because the central UI is a 16:9 horizontal aspect ratio that differs from the model S, then it MUST be a passenger oriented design perspective as opposed to a driver specific one.

Well the same can be said that a horizontally oriented UI experience reduces the need for your FOV from looking further down and thus decrease time spend peering away from the windshield.

Design is so subjective. There are so many ways to interpret.. These articles proclaiming X instead of Y is hardly convincing at all.
I assume they'd provide the connectivity to the outside world.
I'm disappointed she didn't parachute into her back yard.
Not really.

The passport seems to meet the identity proofing criteria, but it’s a little more complex. It sounds like it was in your case used as a proxy for your kids’ birth certificate.

They require a second identity point when you have a document that substitutes for your birth certificate. Your passport + birth certificate would be ok in most states. Passports don’t meet all requirements because there are corner cases with certain passport types.
An "identity implant" could expand tracking capabilities if each use of a reader recorded your location.
Images yes, but videos not yet.
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LOL that bubble guy again...
Anecdotes are a perfectly valid counter-argument to anecdotes. They're both meaningless.
Nvidia is lightyears ahead in the GPU market besides if this GPU push is aimed at the Deep Learning market Intel will have competition from the likes of Xilinx too. IMHO they need to provide great software to go with their GPUs. Traditionally hardware manufacturers have shipped barely usable software. They should perhaps try to use opencl and keep the rest of the tools and libraries open source.
> GT4-class iGPUs, which are, roughly speaking, on par with $150 or so discrete GPUs.

Erm. Nope. No Intel iGPU is on par with the 1050 much less the 1050 Ti.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Iris-Pro-580-Mobi...

(I compared mobile chips since the most powerful GT4 can only be found in the mobile chips.)

It's only slightly behind the 1030 which costs $73.
Downloading is definitely on the roadmap. Gotta start somewhere.
And yet it sounds as if his restaurant wasn't totally nonviable, he just didn't have nearly enough runway for all his first-time mistakes. He might even be successful next time with what he's learnt, if he had the stomach for another go … and another $200k starting capital …
typical "what about whataboutism?" reply.
“At one time”

What alternative would you propose now?
Would you share what you would do differently or the cause of the loss of your wife?
Let's say this is 99% true--that 99% of the successful entrepreneurs are rich kids and 1% are self-made.

If you look at this stat and decide not to start a business, that's fine, because that's what most people do.

But those who don't care about this stat--maybe because they care so much about what they're trying to build, or maybe because they're irrationally confident that they can succeed--I think it's fair to say they are a special breed. Special isn't always great, but all great things are special.
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I am surprised by the lack of up front number crunching that he did, seeing as his previous job was as an analyst.
> they banned it b/c its a propaganda engine that they didn't want to compete with

No, they banned it because they don't know how to take down posts.
Though to paraphrase what you're saying, if we just forget about all other petition types (sounds like they're not interrelated anyway, at least on the supply side), it still means India has ~10x the amount of EB seekers vs China. That's surprising fact stands on its own.
I'll admit Seattle is where I have personal experience, and that it may not be representative of other non-SF cities.

I mean, my earlier analysis (another thread) just used the compensation figures from the fine article. Maybe those figures are an inaccurate comparisons of the two cities. If we can find a better data source, I'd be happy to re-run with those numbers. Ditto on the housing cost numbers.

It's certainly possible that one could put aside slightly more money in SF than Austin off a much bigger comp package for the same role.

Anyway, Google and Facebook are just two employers. Clearly the average junior compensation is somewhere lower. I made a lot less than that as a junior employee, but it was a few years ago, not in SF, and not for Google or Facebook.
Unless you are on Pinboard's archiving plan, Pinboard mostly manages just your bookmarks. PageDash doesn't claim to be a bookmark manager, but it really can be one. Bookmark the page, along with the content.
That sounds great, I'd definitely come to the meetup!
Wow that escalated quickly!
>one time social security numbers were the only globally unique identifier in common use.

And now do you have other mechanism s? If you do, you should be using them, if you don't, then scrapping the only one is not a solution. Asking businesses to do verification on their own is definitely not a solution.
We also used it in the past (pure ranking, no rank-and-yank) and have since abandoned it.

I thought it was effective in forcing deeper conversations as part of the comparison process, but became unwieldy and unworkable when we passed about 50 engineers which was a long time ago, so I'm not sad to see it go.
Anthropomorphising ET is a guess at best. Becoming interstellar likely requires putting your differences aside as a species. You can hardly pour the majority of your resources into survival (space-faring) when you are instead pouring them into extinction (war and pollution).
200 years ago was 1817... I think you both need to go a little further back.
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It depends on the scope.

You already have 50+ walled gardens, also known as the “Bureau of Vital Statistics”.

Any identity document you have in the US is either linked to a birth certificate in one of those registries, or with an immigration record maintained by the Federal government.
This reminds me of the recurring Onion title:

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.

I don't understand why the US has identity theft. Is it because there's no national ID? Here in Europe we don't have any "secret" number that someone can just use to open a bank account in your name.
Never had this done in a silent room. I have had it go off in the middle of a movie.

We had to disconnect the Google Home because it would go off in the middle of the night.

Currently own a Echo Dot and a Google Home.
You must not know (m)any LGBTQ+ people. I have several identities, and each serves a perfectly legitimate and harmless purpose.
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> you’re only allowed to sell products/services to foreign countries thay you allow to circulate internally and on similar conditions.

Did you mean Voice of America?

VOA is forbidden to broadcast within the United States by the 1948 Smith Mundt-Act, Section 501

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act#Excerp...
Jews disproportionatily comprised the upper echelons of soviet politics, what do you mean?
I don't understand why there is no competition. There must be other people wanting to trying their hand at starting a fibre ISP. Yeah it's expensive, but if there is money to be made there should be people willing to invest. Is there something else preventing competition in the US?
My family was in Ireland. 1817 wasn’t much different than 1617.
Yeah, I'm curious what the actual price per customer will be. Comcast may still offer lower prices.
I think that says more about the USA than anything else.
Entrepreneurs are good so I guess we need more rich kids. I'll assume that was the conclusion.
She can do whatever she wants. I have tried very hard to make it clear I am not saying "She is doing it wrong!" But I have handled things different from her.

I am currently working on a blog post about it. It isn't an easy thing to address. The subtle distinctions I want to make are not very well served by chatty, off the cuff forum comments.

Edit: Blog post finished and posted to HN, fwiw.
Price is Right contestant who gave up a new car for $1,500 is a secret genius
I don't know much about running a restaurant, but I figured he'd be in big trouble as soon as I read that number after reading the condition of the place. I've done remodelings, and I'm pretty sure that just remodeling that place alone would eat up the entire $60k. I have to figure that bootstrapping a new restaurant would run at least that much on its own, between laying in food, kitchen equipment, hiring staff, doing marketing, permits and taxes, etc.
Or you know, just pay highly educated people to manage your money for you.
Why do you suppose it's fair to say they're a special breed?
"Makes people on the team uncomfortable by being argumentative", "is condescending during code reviews", "strongly supports team members via mentorship", and "defuses technical disagreements effectively and without bad feelings" are all highly positive and negative contributions to company success, but are inherently subjective since they require evaluations of soft interpersonal skills, not technical mastery. I can't imagine that you'd want to ignore such factors (employees will quit if you let toxic people stay around unchecked), but absent extreme situations where HR complaints are filed, they are also incredibly difficult to measure other than by listening to peer opinions.

Usually from the point of view of the problematic person, everyone else is the asshole. At some point the evaluation has to boil down to a judgement call, rather than an objective measurement. This process is always fraught, for instance when the bosses are the assholes themselves or support them (ahem, Travis), but I don't love the idea of just not considering interpersonal factors when evaluating performance. Bad behavior shouldn't have to rise to the level of an HR complaints before consequences are faced, and good behavior should be rewarded.
I'm missing information on what being a Jew in USSR entails so I concede that they may not have been part of the elite (I thought working for USSR propaganda machine would put you far ahead of the pack). I just thought being able to afford a commodore 64 back then already put you well ahead of the curve, in the 80s, but again this was after they arrived in the US, not much info on this.
This is what many people outside the AI world don’t seem to understand. Nvidia has a stranglehold in the form of CUDA and Cudnn. There isn’t any open source equivalent to Cudnn. AMD is trying to push OpenCl in this direction but it will be a long time before DL libraries start migrating to OpenCl. Like tomorrow by miracle if al alternative GPU which is as good as the 1080ti popped up, it would be useless in the AI market.
I worked for a startup for 2 years. The CTO was one of the nicest, realest people I've met. Very down to earth. But I just knew part of the reason he could stick his neck out far was because of his family. Even if the startup exploded and crashed (it's not doing great last I checked) he would be fine as he was part inheritor of a $300 mil fortune. For many of the employees they had invested years of their lives, many hours away from their family and more importantly, a possible later retirement due to lower income and lack of matching retirement. We also lost many quality candidates due to this fact.

I often felt like I was just part of some rich person's game, where win or lose the stakes were so much higher for myself than for anyone who stood to make the real money if we ever went public. If we went bust I stood to lose big, while the people who ran the company would go off and do something else.
I don't want to sound mean, but... he has a well-thumbed copy of Kitchen Confidential and did this anyway? Because one of the things I remember most strongly from that are the stories about people who imagine fondly they'd like to own a restaurant, and it always ending in tears.

(Also I'm bemused as to why the opener suggests red tape was a problem.)
I wrote laboratory[1] after reading a blog post by github[2] and deciding it'd be useful in Python. Other than riding on the coattails on the popularity of the blog post and the original ruby library, I posted it to hacker news where it did fairly well.

There've been a few external contributions and there are definitely some users, but I'm not too sure how many. I don't think it's the sort of project that has much ongoing development, so it's not something a community would form around.

[1] https://github.com/joealcorn/laboratory
[2] https://githubengineering.com/scientist/
The banks should definitely be made responsible and made to pay for all the fraud they sign off on at all of their desks.

We already know what happens when the banks run out of money. They get bailed out. That means they will NEVER be the victim.

That means we can make them pay for bailing out fraud victims and taking the hit on their behalf. It should be a service, a duty, and an honor.

But that will never happen, because this is America.
In this context wouldn't the EU be a better entity to compare against the US federal government? In that sense the ID situation in the US is pretty much the same as in Europe (each member state issues its own IDs), except the US has an extra ID number at the federal level that was never even intended to be a federal ID number (and is consequently terrible at being that).
While it is factually true that it would be illegal for Purdue to promote off-label, they also need to be held accountable for playing fast and loose with the research studies (even altering the definitions used in the trials) in order to be able to claim 12h coverage when nearly half the patients weren't getting 12h coverage. This, combined with the recommendation to push higher doses to achieve 12h coverage, combined with the gap in coverage, drove a lot of people into a cycle of unhealthy and deadly dependency.

At the very least it's a case of consumer product safety liability and negligence fueled by profit motive.
Wherever this is implemented it's an option. It's never mandatory. There are tons of knowledge based operations where expenses are way too few. Obviously if you are a traditional buy stuff, add value, sell stuff business then you want to bother with bookkeeping sure.
Here's a paper that says the exact same thing (that most entrepreneurs come from wealth), but with much more data: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19276.pdf
Wow, this might save Intel. They are floundering in the server market right now because they won't put enough PCIe lanes on their platforms, because that means lower sales. If they can grow up in the GPU market, then that means they basically win over AMD's latest maneuvers.
Gordon Ramsay is one of the most experienced and successful restaurateurs ever, and has had numerous failures along the way.

Before he became TV famous, he worked in his restaurant every day until 1 AM, and back to it 6 hours later...every day, for many years. People vastly underestimate the time and dedication needed to run a restaurant. If you aren't built for it like Ramsay, you will regret it.

For a lot of owners, it's a really good way to earn not a lot of money for a massive amount of work.