jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> From 1960 to 1985 the top marginal tax rate crashed from 90% to 30%

Nobody paid 90%. The tax rate reduction was countered with the closing of loopholes. (There are still a lot.)

Evidence for this is the nearly constant fraction of GDP collected in taxes. The other points are correct. Also, real incomes have both increased at the top end and shifted up for the population.
The law might be the same, but the environment can change around the law. From tax rates and economic conditions to the power of labor can all shift how we respond to that natural law.

Wealth can continue to generate wealth, which we can then tax and redistribute. The natural law hasn't changed, but how we work around it has.
It wasn't advice so much as a question. Lead would walk by my desk each day and ask "what are you going to do to excel today?" There's a pretty big difference between getting the job done and excelling, and the latter is more fun to boot.
Remember that this space is significantly larger than the total surface area of the Earth, since it represents a sphere larger than the Earth. Imagine the satellites are the size of an outdoor garbage receptacle. Do you think 600+ of them floating around really presents some risk of collision? There's probably more garbage bins just in New York City, and this is spread over an area much larger than the surface of the Earth.

Space is really, really large. Using the intuition you developed while living on the surface of the Earth provides you little help when thinking about space.
The article actually barely touches on positive thinking. The more important factor is divergent thinking. I suspect the article's title is designed to generate interest.

It's a stupidly misleading title.
> 2008

That's the wrong date. Again, it doesn't seem you know anything about the PCLOB. Basic information is on Wikipedia, if you ever look.

Do you have any point besides making endless discursive asides about how much you simultaneously believe and disbelieve the PCLOB? I'm starting to think conversing with you is a complete waste of time.
I think Musk keeps control pretty tightly held. A Google investment isn't something SpaceX can take without his say-so. So Apple can't randomly drop $2B and win the day - If SpaceX takes the investment, they likely a) leave most control with Musk, and b) are the right partner, the one Musk was looking for.
It's only an exercise in futility if you consider life in its own right worthless. A sinking ship has no value after it has started sinking whereas a human life certainly does (that's the prevailing opinion in any case).

If reading this article and subsequently switching to a standing desk and making sure to move around frequently adds even a day to my life I consider it entirely worth it and not futile in the least.

EDIT: The parent comment was something along the lines of 'why bother living a healthy life, we're all dying anyway'. If repeating the deleted comment is wrong somehow, please tell me.
I don't see why it shouldn't. This has been the case pretty much every day for a long time so clearly it isn't against the rules. I agree that it isn't ideal but it's better to link to a good source than to find a poorly written article that is free to access.
An increased resting heart rate can be caused by many things, and we have no false negative/positive rate for increased heart rate wrt this virus. Whilst the intention is good, this app will end up sending many more people to hospitals, doctors, and pharmacists than necessary, furthering the straing on the healthcare system.
Imagine if everyone didn't just accept this lie and we retooled factories 2 months ago

https://www.news-journalonline.com/business/20200320/coronav...

When you sell to the public to protect themselves they can fund a lot more than a hospital and maintain it for long periods of use.

Other than just letting people all die off and getting herd immunity any possible solution will involve everyone wearing masks.

We have a year more of this, there is still time to change direction.
If you've ever been in a mens bathroom in Japan ... washing hands doesnt happen, let alone with soap
No. They simply don't test enough and they have good incentives not to do so. And please don't inconsiderately project your stereotypical image of Japanese, or Asian, on this matter unless you had spent a good amount of time (>20 yrs) in a relevant community.
Interestingly, one thing all these GUIs have in common is that buttons still look like buttons...
Was AWS really first?

> There will be some kind of competition already out there.

I remember LAMP providers and FTP'ing PHP files before AWS. I remember cPanel and phpMyAdmin. I remember Unix boxes that gave you free user accounts w/ open ports and everyone operated on the honor system.

While nobody could quite grasp the vast IT supply chain AWS would end up becoming, the writing had been on the wall for years. It only made sense to evolve from "here's a server" to "here's a server running a service" to "here's a service" to "here's a solution." I bet quite a few people had been dreaming of a platform like AWS by the time it came along, but of course they likely did not have the backing of a major tech company with superstar business leaders and tech experts (shoutout to Jeff Barr!).
I'm working on a website for founders and VC's to meet through games. The website is https://www.matchbox.vc and so far it has had some moderate success. Turns out lots of founders and VC's really like Fortnite.
If you seize someone's company every time they have a worthwhile breakthrough, that's really going to put a damper on working on problems like this. Not only would you be toiling for uncertain/small reward, you might be flushing your entire business down the toilet.

Also, you seize the company-- then what? Are you going to be able to ramp up production, etc, as well as the original product group could? Are you going to make them work on it at gunpoint?
In contrast, Russia has tested around 250,000...
It's non-invasive, doesn't require the breaking of quarantine and relies on infrastructure that is already in place. More information is better than less and the author has some degree of professional expertise in the subject, according to statements on the page linked.

There are always going to be outliers and what not. I knew someone who used to intentionally lower their heart rate to like 30 beats per second when getting their heart rate taken to screw with medical staff because they thought it was funny. Combination of good fitness and meditation techniques.

Nothing is perfect. But this seems like a rather good idea compared to expensive tests that potentially expose the person being tested to risk and potentially expose others to them at a time when they may be contagious.

This seems like a rather poor time to "just play devil's advocate" without some real and serious objection.
No, I attempted to be very, very specific in what I was claiming.

The US could win the "War on Terror" any time: kill vast quantities of people, as many as it takes, and or whatever it takes (up to and including destroying their culture, wiping out their identity; see: Tibet, or Japan, or what ancient empires did). That's how people were typically truly defeated historically. Whether we're talking about Alexander, the Romans, the Mongols, Nazi Germany, the USSR, etc. One of the few exceptions would be the British Empire, they did a lot less sheer mass murdering.

It is not a question of if the US can win, it's a question of: what is the US willing to do to win.

You can name the number of countries that could stop the US from bombing them perpetually, on one hand. I'm not over-estimating US superiority, I'm proclaiming that the US isn't willing to use any and all tactics to win.
A pre-revenue biotech startup I worked for had a venture loan from SVB that had some equity-like covenants but was primarily backed by our IP. I don't see why something like that couldn't work with software companies as well if they have IP worth protecting.
I hear of some money sometimes being given out, however unsure of how fast of a process it is, and what state your company needs to be at to qualify - or what types of companies qualify.
It's the same basis like for the notion that, for instance, there is no greatest integer.

It would be surprising if suddenly the integers stopped at a particular value. Such an extraordinary situation would require an extraordinary explanation.

Any set of rules you can imagine gives you a universe. If you say that there is only this universe and nothing else, then you're denying the existence of things like the complex plane.

Or else you're asserting that the physical world exists in a different sense.

But so far, all evidence points toward the world being nothing but math.

Not a single discovery in physics has ever been anything other than math: a mathematical relationship (equations) or a quantity (constant).

Maybe that's just a "streak" of a particular kind of luck: maybe the next discovery will be of something non-mathematical. I'm betting on it being "math all the way down".
Well, problem is those vulns require either the attacker to share or control the victim's LAN in some way, or the router's management panel to be exposed to the Internet (which is usually not the default for the vast majority of consumer routers).

For cases where they're remotely exposed, just about anyone can scan the Internet and try to exploit these routers. I'm sure he was doing that, but I'm sure hundreds or thousands of other people were as well.

When combined with something like a CSRF, you can use those exploits against a victim even if their router is locked down (only listening on LAN, strong admin password). All they need to do is visit a site you control, without something like NoScript. If the admin password is not guessable, then they'd need to have an active login session. That can be circumvented if the router has an auth bypass vuln, which has been found in at least a few models.

Also, I believe a lot of routers can be used for DDoSing without exploiting or compromising them at all if they're exposing SSDP (UPnP). SSDP reflection, possibly combined with NTP reflection, is likely how Lizard Squad launched their DDoS attacks.

P.S. I know you and have talked to you (and Zee and some others), briefly, on some IRC networks long ago.
I think the opportunities are there just the same - it just takes a while for these companies to grow to the point where they are well-known.
Implementations in CRLibM are correctly rounded (i.e. as accurate as possible) and are, in my benchmarks, faster than GNU LibM. Thus, they are a Pareto improvement over GNU LibM.
Couldn't edit after I saw the replies but thank you for reminding me Rare was always 2nd party. So not quite the same but Nintendo could have acquired them like Monolith Soft or Next Level Games
Have just hit peak cultural relativism, where identifying the organizers of a fascist coup is the same thing as being a fascist?
I get the sense that you and other commentators are putting a certain binary in place, and I'm not sure it's in good faith. Nobody ever said that you have to pick one particular place to be an expert in, and if you're not an expert there, you're not a good engineer. That's an absurd argument, but it's also not what is being said.

The truth is, you need to be good enough at all of the high priority parts of technical competency. Security, monitoring, performance -- sure, all of those are also extremely important. They're all places where unforced errors can be introduced that can and do hurt the business -- sometimes catastrophically or fatally.

With that said, to not recognize the evergreen utility of domain design skills is ignorant. You will never get the luxury to worry about security, monitoring, or performance if you don't build the state machine that makes the right outputs out of the right inputs because you will either never sell it to a customer, or lose that customer when they choose a competing solution which actually does what it's supposed to do.

It's not true that everything is equally important. I think that's a myopic way to look at software development without considering the business impact of key crucial areas where software design and maintenance intersect with stakeholders.
MY LORD,

The Last time I had the honour of being in your Lordships company

I will be honest. I couldn't read past this. I just couldn't. I hope you do not fail to see the point.
YES I AM/CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT
You have this beautiful (albeit probably incomplete) definition of what being a skeptic means in your comment – I only have to change one word: “True skeptics do not immediately believe or disbelieve.”

That would be my definition and I’m pretty sure it would also be one that Brian Dunning (author of the podcast) would accept.

What’s wrong with that definition? What wrong with using the word in this way?

I know there are a good many conspiracy nuts who abuse the term (which might explain your harsh reaction) but I can assure you that Brian Dunning is not one of them. Try to read or listen to some of his stuff.
I've found that watching movies on my iphone helps me with that.
So that next generation of Wozniacs would never be produced.
^^ ROFL
Again... similar tactic as of the "is silicon valley dead" post. attention! attention... thats all they want... for the fsckng CTR
Never even seen one, and I dont get i why diamonds and gold are given so much value. Its true if someone said... the market is driven by women.
I can do HTML/CSS/JavaScript programming, so I'm mostly front end, I can hack some PHP but not good on it. If there is a job for me, email me @ omar.abid2006(at)gmail.com
Really? The HR rep said it wasn't doable. Might be because of my state?
Is true. They said:

> > x86 generally has an advantage [empahsis added, not "x86-64"]

Obviously if you take the worst of both worlds (bloated and variable-width instructions), you can squander that advantage, but the advantage is in fact real.
Here's a wayback link to the site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210223182140/https://www.netme...
You probably mistaken my comment as anti Biden instead of anti involvement. I predict the Biden administration as the Obama administration did, will in fact escalate every conflict we are currently engaged in. Lets wait a little and see what happens, I hope I'm wrong.
Not really, because we can take our time and plan and research and try and fail how to operate in mars hellscape level B.
When earth hellscape level A happens there will be no more time left to prepare.
Don't forget the most important one: Water.

Many areas have natural water sources that could be used in a serious emergency, but having some potable water on hand and a way to purify more, is pretty easy and inexpensive.
Kids today are too young to know that Incognito/Private browsing was invented as a solution to clearing your history/cookies every time you looked at an Adult website so your parents wouldn't find out.

This feature is literally just a way of preventing porn from showing up in your URL autofill when your mom comes to look something up on the computer when you're not around.
Advice in the article unfortunately applies to people who don't lock their computers so it is talking to the wall.

I rotate my ssh keys with a new laptop/pc. Private key should stay on one machine only. I think longest I had usable laptop was 5 to 6 years.

I read the article and probably people who are interested in security will click it so it also is preaching to the choir.
might be of interest in light of possible AES breakage: i have a small project that encrypts/decrypts the whole message with RSA (of course the message is also signed before encryption and result is verified on decryption);

runs on as much cores as available; also for this it goes into some length to avoid multithreading locks in openssl (where possible).

http://mosermichael.github.io/cstuff/all/projects/2014/02/24...
I don't understand why this information asymmetry is more important to their profits than the network effect of controlling a very widely used marketplace?
Agents of SHIELD may be part of a broader franchise, but its still Whedon's creation. And Whedon's position in TV now is hardly much like "where he was in the 80s" -- where his TV work was story editing on Roseanne and writing a handful of episodes of that same series.
Perhaps some sort of city-sanctioned "Lyft Medallion" is the disruptive answer they're looking for.
Also dietary magnesium and other micronutrients are an important factor here:

Role of magnesium in genomic stability
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0027510701...

And most in the U.S. are deficient:
'Magnesium intakes for ~56% of adults in the United States are below the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR), the current measure of micronutrient inadequacy (the RDA is set at 2 standard deviations above the EAR).'

This is from a Bruce Ames paper here:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jna/2010/725071/

The Ames paper is worth the read through. Including this one on magnesium, 'In a study of 4,035 men followed for 18 years, the highest quartile with serum magnesium at baseline compared with the lowest had a 40% decrease in all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease and a 50% decrease in cancer deaths'. He goes through other micronutrients as well.
This is how didi dache works: you set the tip you will provide, taxis won't bother coming during rush hour for just a 5 kuai tip, but for 10 kuai I don't have a problem (on top of a 40 kuai base fair). These are all official taxis however and the gov doesn't like the tip function since it defeats the purpose of fixed rates for obvious reasons; it is also almost impossible to get a taxi during rush hour without the app now.

But the drivers love it and I doubt it's going away. 10 kuai is less than 2 bucks and they don't make enough money anyways.
Just for the record PayPal does a 5% + 5p (Uk gbp) per transaction on micropayment (<10£).

I let you do the math :)
MoPad is still running the old etherpad version[1], the release is etherpad-lite[2]. Is there some easy way to migrate from the old etherpad installations?

[1] https://github.com/ether/pad
[2] https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
I think you might be confused, because this really doesn't touch on monads at all. You can implement it by just defining an instance of the Num typeclass for your new data type:

data RPS = Rock | Paper | Scissors
data IRps = IRps Integer RPS

fight Rock Paper = Paper
fight Rock Scissors = Rock
fight Paper Scissors = Scissors
fight Rock Rock = Rock
fight Paper Paper = Paper
fight Scissors Scissors = Scissors
fight x y = fight y x

instance Num IRps where
IRps x x' + IRps y y' = IRps (x + y) (fight x' y')

Of course, with the lack of associativity, I'd weakly discourage a Num instance too, but that's not adhered to perfectly already.
He probably found them because they did something stupid. Maybe not all of them have screwed up (yet). They certainly don't look very careful. Krebs figures the first two will turn over the rest as part of a plea deal, and that will be the end of it. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/lizard-kids-a-long-trail...
The reason ycm and vim-gitgutter don't work well together isn't the "plugin interface"; it's the limited nature of the sign column which can only display one sign per line. If both ycm and gitgutter want to display a sign on the same line, only one can succeed.

Edit: oops, ycm doesn't use signs...I was thinking of syntastic. As far as I know ycm and vim-gitgutter should work together.
Is there an rss feed to subscribe to or is it only for iTunes?
Indeed. In fact, the most dangerous aspect of high-angle mountain rescue is usually flying in helicopters in borderline weather conditions, not the actual act of plucking people off of mountainsides.
What is the point of submitting a story behind a paywall?
Can you put your e-mail in your profile? How do people contact you?
I would rather pay the honest guy who's just being a beggar than the douchebag fishing for borderline legitimate reasons to charge illegitimate fines from law-abiding citizens.
Keep in mind that the notion of separation of concerns (markup, style, behaviour) mostly refers to the end result, the rendered page. Performance is a good reason for doing this.

In other words, use css classes to style similarly looking elements instead of defining the styles inline (style attribute). Or use event delegation instead of adding a bunch of onClick attributes on your elements.

When talking about developer productivity (ie. maintenance, new feature development) what's more important than separation of technologies is separation of concerns at the "component" level.

Component in this context can be simply defined as a single file that contains all the logic required to render and manipulate a single DOM element throughout its lifecycle.

What React does (as is Angular to a lesser extend) is allow you to mix markup and behaviour while developing but keep those things separate when generating the end result.
OCCAM!! That was it! Thx I was trying to remember the name of the language they used.

I wonder whether OCCAM would be usable here, or if not, then something based on the lessons learnt from it.
bear metal sounds so sick.

I'm in for an industrywide rename :D.
Woops :D
It’s so silly though, have they done real correct math on how much more they would make if everyone used it?
For the same reason you don't have a backup heart
Please note blog posts can't be Show HN because it can't be tried out. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
BTW, the use of a size 1 array in the struct is a common 'hack', which has some form of dynamic arrays in structs. When the object is allocated through malloc, the size of the struct is actually smaller than the size you want for the array, so you allocate the size you want for the struct and add it to the size you want for the array. You can then access this memory after the structure, since it's technically allocated a part of it. As to why it is size 1, and not size 0, some compilers don't accept a size 0 array, so it's probably size 1 to ensure compatibility with those compilers. This is commonly referred to as the 'C Struct Hack'.
Looks like a complex attack, and "not all CAs will necessarily have their own log." and same for the converse too.
NFC = Near Field Communication, it is a short-range high frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over about a 10 centimeter (around 4 inches) distance.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication
mblase's explanation was a very clear way of explaining the problem, with the two parallel lines never quite touching because you can't get a line to zero length by cutting it in half repeatedly, no matter how many times you do it. Thanks for sharing.
- Modern Information Retrieval by Baeza Yates

- Data Mining Book by Jiawei Han et al

- Managing Gigabytes by Witten et al

- Hypertext Mining book by Chakrabarti
Yeah, I think I would wince at it, but I don't think I'd be that opposed. Somehow to me the idea of pain that I know up front I'll never remember isn't all that frightening a prospect, though I suppose I'd still avoid it given the option. It feels almost as if it's really just my body that'll experience pain, not "me", in the sense that I won't remember anything about it, it'll have no lingering traumatic effects, won't be an experience that'll do anything to shape my personality, etc. I'd definitely be much less apprehensive about it than if I knew I would remember it.
I've bought an N95, N770, and an N800. I love all of them.

I really wanted to buy an N900 but it didn't support AT&T 3G, only T-Mo. My circumstances are such that I want to be on AT&T but I'm not willing to compromise on raw speed. As it became clear that Nokia was not going to release an AT&T version, i gave up.

I'm really hoping that the N910 (or whatever) supports AT&T 3G and has HDMI-out. I'd snap it up in a heartbeat.