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Reminds me of this Ted Talk from 2014

Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming

www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming
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Performance charts on the website ?

I had no idea even those where there on the website :) Could you post the link please. BTW the website is running on web-server written in Felix and the entire live install image can be browsed online.
Tesla takes their security pretty seriously. There were at DEF CON, both in the contest area and the front row of the talk where someone dumped their firmware. The presenter was overall pleased with their design. Expect to see something on 60 Minutes in the coming months.
Stop taxing away so much income. Resolve the entitlements cliff that makes earning more than $12/hr untenable until breaking even at $38/hr. Back off the regulations that make inexpensive living practically illegal. Help people relocate out of high cost of living areas (NY Times location take note). Slash the red tape making business startups near impossible. Squelch the tort, liability, insurance and other laws making risk costs overwhelming.

You can't fix social problems by demanding capitalism be socialism.
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> He now, for unrelated reasons, has full custody of his kids.

I recall an article about a case where a mother was filing for government assistance and was required to list the child's father's name on the application. She didn't know the name so she made one up, which happened to be the name of a real person. So the government started garnishing his wages.

He went to court because he was not the father and had never even met the mother, but the standard was "the best interest of the child" without exception. Since the child's real father was unknown, receiving child support from an unrelated person is better for the child than not receiving it from anyone, so the court said he had to pay anyway.

By that logic, your colleague shouldn't have to pay now that he has full custody of the children, because it isn't in the best interest of the children for the parent with custody to be paying "child support" to the parent without custody. But that would require these things to be decided based on logic and precedent rather than politics and random chance. (And I'm only remembering an article I read some years ago; I have no idea what the law is today in your jurisdiction.)
Pretty close. Compatibility back to FreeBSD 4 is a port package away, and there's a kernel module to support a.out binaries if you really need to run those 20+ year old programs. Some of the older syscalls don't have 32 bit wrappers, though, so you may not get full support for absolutely positively everything without emulation, but pretty damn close.
Scandinavia says, yes you can.
> The purpose is not really to reduce death risk, but to increase quality of life.

Not necessarily. There are many at home services geared around attempting to improve medication adherence in elderly patients for example, as they frequently are on several medications concurrently and have trouble keeping track of dosing requirements due to cognitive dysfunction. Non-adherence can have a significant effect on longevity.
I am sure. I can bet it will cost a lot more than $1100 to get them to make a pitch deck for you :)
Sexism affects both men and women you dumb faggot.

Until you acknowledge that women objectify men, and that conforming to societies expectations is also damaging to men, you will never solve anything

#GasTheIdiots
> With the information I've given you - it could be either one. Couldn't it? I'll give you the answer though: it was B and we later ended up dating. But it was only because I made the effort to "keep bothering her" because I was picking up "B". But what if she felt like "A"? How different would that have been for her?

This entirely depends on what you mean by "keep bothering her." If you mean, to reference the article, asking to see her naked? Then you shouldn't do it.

If you mean trying to be friendly and spend time with her, then what's the problem?
Scandinavia is not socialist. When will this ignorant myth end?
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I made a toolbox which includes tools from "Tools of the trade"/"Show HN". Glad to hear suggestions on how to make it (more) useful.

http://www.hackertoolbox.com/
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Am I supposed to take the article seriously? A rich guy suggesting that the first thing to do to solve the 1% having 50% of our wealth is "Government can provide tax incentives to business". It made me think of the quote from John Kenneth Galbraith."It is a strange idea that the rich work better if they constantly get richer, while the poor just work better if they get poorer".

We need to stop incentivizing the rich - they have been incentivized for too long already.
Information already has a precise, functional definition in the context of mathematics, machine learning, and AI. It is the number of bits necessary to encode a message, and that is the most essential aspect of coding theory. I would suggest reading the original works of Claude Shannon to become enlightened about how the word 'information' is used in the context of math, electrical engineering, and computer science.

The manifestation of observational asymmetries absolutely must be equivocal to the asymmetry of manifest observation. Therefore, the format of an observation is manifest via the symmetry of a relation under a set of attributes. Thusly, the asymmetry of observations is a point measurably manifested by the difference in attributes. That allows for the derivation of: a union operation over the observations; an intersection operation over the asymmetries; and a manifest closure property. This is how one may define points of 'data' in the sense that is absolutely congruent with the terms database, big data, or data science.

Information Theory and Relational Algebra have some overlap, but they are not completely intertwined. The subjects of Abstract Algebra and Information Geometry are there at the intersection, but they still too terminologically distinct to be taught in tandem. The former subject is still best learned in French; whereas the latter subject is still best learned in Japanese. It is possible for one to teach themselves these subjects by machine translation, if they have a deep understanding for the grammar and history of each language. Deep learning of this sort is a kind of meditative activity, the type of which is only available to the most erudite thinkers.
> I am leaning increasingly towards the fairest tax being a function based upon one's increase in wealth

Tax system are lenient on the wealth (vs income) as one is expected to accumulate wealth and exit the workforce. Taxing wealth seems like a working idea when you're 20 and have job offers chasing you, less so when you're 70 and plan to spend the next 20-30 years in retirement.
I had s similar reaction to this example of an "oppressive tax". This is just the sort of taxes that were in place when America was taking over the world. It's not oppressive. It's a good idea. It hurts the oligarchs, it helps the 99 percent, which is who drives the economy.
Ok, let's deal with the root cause of why income inequality soared from 1995-2015:

The Federal Reserve debased the dollar, paying for wars, terrible government spending choices and entitlements that are ballooning. They also spurred numerous asset bubbles through bad policy choices. It's entirely understood that the Fed can cause asset bubbles by holding interest rates too low for too long. They've been aggressively using that understanding for the last six years.

The rich can deal with the dollar losing half of its value in a decade. Nobody else can. The rich have capital, and make a lot of money on the Fed's intentional asset bubbles in real estate and stocks. The S&P 500 - and the wealthy who own most of it - benefits massively from a debased dollar, as their exports boom - while most of America suffers from a vast loss of purchasing power.

The end of the strong dollar of the 1990s, is what began the era of dramatically increased inequality. It's not a coincidence. The currency race to the bottom, is really code for a decimation of the median standard of living. This is especially true in a country that consumes so much of its own manufacturing.

Debasing the dollar and sending commodities soaring benefited a very small group of people (Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Norway, commodity investors). Who it didn't benefit: US manufacturing that is consumed domestically. The oil price boom of the mid 2000's, caused by the weak dollar, also harmed the US dramatically as deficits soared and the Middle East got uber rich. It acted as a huge wealth transfer to Canada as well.

The soaring inequality was caused by the Fed's horrendous, and repetitive monetary policy mistakes. You'll find people on the left go out of their way to evade ever pinning any blame to the Fed (it makes the welfare state possible through deficits and debt, so they love the Fed), and the people on the right don't want to talk about inequality at all.

What did QE accomplish? Primarily it reinflated wealthy people's balance sheets, and reinflated the housing market (which disproportionately benefits the top half in the US). The median net wealth of Americans still hasn't recovered, even with housing and stocks so high. Skeptics will claim QE helped to heal the economy, generate jobs and so on - as though the US economy didn't do that on its own for 200 years prior to the Fed utilizing QE.
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The link to the original article is broken in the vice.com summary. The research report can be found at http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12284
> What about this change from 'latest' to 'quarterly' with no good way to change that for pkg? I don't want to only get new packages 4 times a year.

From the Release Notes:

> The default pkg(8) repository set in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf now defaults to the quarterly package set. To use the latest branch (as was the previous default), the comment at the top of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf explains how to disable the default repository and specify an alternative repository.

If I'm reading /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf correctly, swapping over to use HEAD instead of the Quarterly branch is as simple as creating /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf with the following content?

FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest"
}

edit: originally I replicated all of the contents of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf, but based on pkg.conf(5), the contents of the latter override keys in the former, so you only have to specify the differences
Democratic Socialist parties have been in power in many Scandinavian countries for decades. The current systems evolved from Socialism - and Democratic Socialism really defines the modern, functioning form of Socialism -- a type of Socialism that provides a positive alternative to the unfettered Capitalism suggested by the original poster.
As an iOS guy, I've had an exactly reciprocal experience struggling to navigate Android to change seemingly basic settings. I think our mutual difficulties make more sense if we assume "intuitive" is secretly a synonym for "familiar." We've quietly absorbed our preferred platforms preferred metaphors and idioms over time, and they're intricate and (hopefully) self-consistent.

Without intending to sound too flowery, what I find most interesting though is that the competition between the platforms seems to simultaneously drive both convergence and differentiation that's almost — musical. If you step back and watch the entwined evolutions you can see a lot of mutual love and hate.
Monads are simple ways to solve simple problems.

Consider the Maybe monad - it encodes optional values in a simple way. The approach before this is to have something called "null" that would wreck your programs. Maybe monad is one of the best improvements to day-to-day programming tasks that I've personally experienced in my lifetime.
Exactly! Jumpers with EEPROMS. I miss those. I recommended them often on Schneier's blog for a budget solution to boards with firmware update. There were also old mainframes that let users update the firmware by physically swapping it out much like we swap out a drive or SD card today. Cheap as chips can be today, there should be even more simple solutions available.

As usual, technology isn't the reason. It's marketing, profit per unit, and profit in maintenance phase.
"rsync.net is also pretty usable, but I wouldn't trust there is any in-flight or at-rest security http://www.rsync.net/"

rsync.net service is only available over SSH, so there's your in-flight security.

An rsync.net filesystem is an empty filesystem for you to do with as you see fit, so encryption at rest is completely up to you.[1][2]

Related: rsync.net accepts ZFS send/recv over SSH.

As always, ask about the HN readers discount.

[1] duplicity.nongnu.org
[2] https://raymii.org/s/articles/Set_up_your_own_truly_secure_e...
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I'm not saying you're completely wrong...but it is worth noticing that the middle class had growing prosperity until the mid 1970's - and since then has either stagnated or slid down. The GDP during that time was rising - but going disproportionately to the wealthy. So it is worth examining other factors in the change - I would argue that "debasing the currency" becomes no more than an occasionally contributing factor.
If you are interested in reading more about diseases that have seen recent emergence (or rather, emergent diagnosis[1]), The Coming Plague[2] by Laurie Garrett, ISBN 0140250913, is a good read. It details the modern origin cases that led to the characterization of a number of diseases, including Marburg, Ebola, Legionnaires' Disease, and Lassa fever. It also talks about their epidemiology and the optimism of the mid-20th century for eradication of things like malaria, as well as the resulting challenges. The book reads like a thriller because the scientists involved are heroic and colorful, and have stories worth telling.

1. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6108/750.full

2. http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases/dp...
This might be the ticket - thank you bigiain!
If it's a consequence of immigration then why doesn't it happen in Florida and New York? Do you know at all how vectors work?

We'll develop better pesticides (and alternative vector control) as soon as people are willing to pay for it. Not before.
> Totally. A good start might be large companies paying equitable taxes.

That might not be the panacea it's cracked up to be. Most of the US corporate tax argument revolves around the foreign profits US companies stash abroad hoping for a corporate tax holiday, which the government is known to throw in every now and then.

In a fair tax system, profits earned in Italy and Hong Kong would be taxed in Italy and Hong Kong, so the net positive for the US would not add to much.
A wafer cost isn't insignificant. It's still a lot more expensive than aluminum platters in a hard drive, especially when you're dealing with gobs of chips in an SSD.

Add in processing costs and it really becomes a mess.

So, yes, wafer costs matter when you have to produce tons of silicon for an SSD.
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More likely software programming as we know today will no longer exist in another 30 years.
That's still a lot more expensive than aluminum platters. And you will need a lot of silicon to produce an SSD. You don't do it with just one chip.
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http://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementatio...

That's the book Linus Torvalds read. :)
> woo-peddlers

Please don't. "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thank goodness. I thought I was going crazy. Thank you for pointing this out to me. That jar file is not in the sdk I downloaded.
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> means that your ideology will never make a dent in a power structure that pays people for their labor.

But it is fun!
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It's hard to get too outraged about this. Imagine you go behind your current employer's back and release an exploit against one of their own products. Would you expect them not to fire you on the spot?

The ethical course of action is to first use the internal communication channels afforded you as an employee to try to remedy the problem from within. Only if your employer refuses to fix the problem, is it ethical to whistleblow.

Given that this kid already had an offer and a start date, he was literally only days away from having access to such communication channels, whereupon he would have been in a much better position to asses his employer's willingness to patch the security hole (which it seems they had already started doing).

Instead he chose to throw egg in his (future) employer's face, and publicize a tool that could actually endanger people.

I'm not at all denouncing whistleblowing… many whistleblowers are tantamount to martyrs. But publicly calling out your own employer without having assessed their awareness of the issue – and expecting them not to fire you – is just dumb.
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Money is the incentive for being rich, they don't need any more incentives than that.
> A good markdown table editor would be a real winner

All I want is markdown with orgmode tables. Never gotten around to do it myself, but how hard can it be? I really have to wonder about why the Web2.0+ crowd think tables should never be used for anything, especially not by content editors.
There's an argument that the effective rates then were only around 50%. See https://www.aei.org/publication/why-we-cant-go-back-to-sky-h...,
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-02/1950s-tax-f..., and http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873247051045781516....
There is not end to "Hey check out what I can do!!!!" and this is seriously badass... but anyone who uses this in production deservers what they get lol
I have never understood the notion that taxes at or above 50% are at all ethical, and yet some argue openly for 80%+.

The idea that the government is entitled to more of someone's earnings than they are is shocking. To then suggest the government is entitled to 4 out of every 5 dollars a person earns is, quite frankly, beneath consideration in my eyes.

What right do you, i or anyone else have to call this anything but theft?
I disagree.

Scandinavia is in deep trouble financially.

Denmark basically has the most indebted households on earth. Their economy hasn't expanded since 2007.

Finland has been in an eight year recession / stagnation. Their household debt to income ratio doubled from 2002-2012 or so. They've got a near 10% unemployment rate, which has been getting worse. Their economy hasn't expanded since 2007.

Sweden has done slightly better than those two, courtesy of market friendly reforms they performed a few decades ago. Prior to that reform, Sweden had several decades of terrible economic performance. Their household debt to income levels are also vastly inflated and unsustainable, nearly at 200%.

Norway is falling into a recession, taking the same commodity hit Canada and Australia are. Their economic success and much celebrated welfare state is almost solely dependent on the price of oil remaining high. There is now talk of having to cut into the sovereign fund to pay for deficits and spending demands. They have no other major exports to pick up the slack. Their GDP lifting off occurred directly in line with the price of oil soaring after 2001. They got rich on the back of irrational US policies around the dollar and the Iraq war. Prior to that, their GDP per capita was no better than the US or similar nations. Their household debt to income ratio is also dramatic, around 220%. That won't go well with a ten year slump in oil prices. If oil hangs around $40-$60 for ten years, Norway will look very different than it does today.

The picture is obvious: to maintain their standard of living, Scandinavia has been living far beyond its means to fake a better reality than the one they would otherwise have.
>A person doesn't "have" to say anything if they are not interested.

I've only ever responded to and explicitly contested this point out of context of whatever the article is about.

A person does have to say something in many scenarios. Like the one I gave. Or the result can be very wrong.

>If you mean trying to be friendly and spend time with her, then what's the problem?

If I was making her very uncomfortable and she felt unsafe around me because she was afraid of me if it was "A" and not "B" - regardless if I was acting friendly and trying to spend time with her - I could see a lot of problems with that for her. Of course, I'd be blissfully unaware of them because she wasn't explicit that she wasn't interested.
It also created a larger market for hugely expensive cars and other luxury items. The 1970's had a 70% tax for the richest. In 1982, that dropped to 50% and coincidently was when the boom in excess really got started.
I disagree; it's not necessary to throw everything away, but an improvement should, and must be made. Existing protocols can be extended to include security (and have, see Safety CIP for an example).

Any form of engineered design is unlikely to go backwards in terms of the functionality and flexibility that things like bus communications bring, but awareness of these new attack vectors needs to be included in the base design.

This is the path that industrial control systems are taking in light of attacks such as Stuxnet, I expect that the automotive guys (who are usually ahead of the game in terms of systems engineering) will follow suit.

Edit: The problem I have with people proposing air gaps and read-only circuitry, is that they just don't work in real applications. If there is a business case against it, such as the service these jeeps were offering, then air gaps and hardwired circuitry solutions will be overridden by that business case. Further than that, as can be seen with things like the Lenovo hardware fiasco, manufacturers cannot be trusted to abide by the rules (such as: air gaps are now mandatory), when there is a benefit for them to act otherwise. As Chrysler now has the ability to remote into their cars, they are very unlikely to remove this ability 'merely' due to safety concerns.

It's far safer on the whole to offer secure methods of achieving the existing or proposed functionality, than to try and walk backwards and make things harder and more costly to implement, for lesser functionality.
If the firmware is SECURITY CRITICAL then the only way to change it can be through physical presence, loading encrypted and and signed firmware

Physical access? So, hypothetically another car gets hacked, but this time there is no middleman in position to implement a mitigation like Sprint was in this case. How do you suggest a firmware rollout happens? Recalls? Mailing thumbdrives to end users?

Over the last week I've seen the infosec community warmer to the idea of OTA updates and all that baggage that entails compared to the alternative ways to update car firmware. You're posting pretty authoritatively though, if you've got some analysis that the rest of us don't, I'd love to hear it.
This is 3rd article this week I've been blocked from reading. How are people continually reading and upvoting these links? Is everyone a subscriber?

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/FGY1lSv.png
Amen brother- -the only way to solve this is a Guaranteed Basic Income across the board... With maybe a 50-60% tax on the rich, we don't need to go all the way up to 80%. They'll get it back probably in loopholes, and business breaks anyways.
Please let me know if you have any feedback or questions. I would be happy to discuss them.