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I'm not convinced c without assembly is much better than Pascal or even Rust. Sure, you might not need a full assembly course (write a real, multi-user, bare-metal os in assembler using most of x86 16,32 and 64bit syntax) - but a C course mixed with assembly I think makes a lot of sense if the goal is to learn a bit about how computers get work done.

I mean, one should be able to look at the assembler output of hello.c and have an idea of what's going on. Without that level of understanding, I'm not convinced using C over many other languages gain you much. It's still a lot simpler than eg. c++, though.

I'm thinking something like:
http://pacman128.github.io/pcasm/ but rewritten from the ground up for x86_64.
That's why this is so frustrating. It seems like everyone is just missing the point. Flying cars are not a mechanical design problem. We have the tools, engines, designs, etc. all nailed down at this point. Any aerospace engineering grad could design a flying car tomorrow if the energy source existed in such a density that would make it feasible. It is fundamentally an energy problem, not a mechanical one. Maneuvering around that fact, and spending time on problems that aren't solving the core issue of battery technology is a massive waste of resources.
The app allows you to use 1 headphone as a relay to another bose bluetooth headphone to play music from the same source, as well as firmware updates, renaming the device name the headphone appears as under bluetooth and finally changing the language of the voiceover (which announces things like device connections and low battery)
I know a lot of people that use the phrase "I'll PFM that for you." (Pure Fucking Magic)
CODE by Charles Petzold and The Elements of Computing Systems by Nisan and Schocken
Good point. IANAL, but I would think burden of proof is still on the claimant that the transaction was fraudulent. If it had happened to multiple users around the same time frame who provably visited a similar set of potentially malicious websites, it might work, but then the company could respond that it's strange he conveniently didn't notice anything on the statements or confirmation of purchase e-mails until the exploit was publicized.
Your statement is 100% incorrect.

P.S. It might be of limited correctness, only in some states, in the USA. I'd suggest you don't talk people into signing perfectly valid contracts hoping for an unlikely loophole.
It does in some cases (see NASA X-57 where the fan is used to accelerate air over the wing, leading to a smaller wing with lower drag overall) but I'm not convinced in this case. Having a system that is efficient at high airspeed and high thrust generally requires a variable geometry propeller (constant speed prop in GA terms) because a 'lift fan' at high relative airspeed, would have to spin much faster than a 'cruise fan' like you would see on a regular aircraft meaning airflow over the blades is higher leading to higher drag on the blade than necessary.
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One doesn't need to use complex template techniques, a class like CSafeInt should cover all integer overflow bugs with run-time checks.

The problem is that almost no one is thinking about this class of bugs. Furthermore, few languages offer tools to detect and handle integer overflows; I read that Rust for example only has run-time checks in the debug version, which to me is disappointing.
As I see it, the Rust (etc) approach avoids two problems:

1. The C problem of forgetting to check error returns. Yes, exceptions (checked or not) also avoid this.

2. The C++/Java/C# problem of exceptions being more expensive than you'd like for common error situations. .NET has sprouted alternatives like `bool tryParse(String, out int)` as a workaround, but on balance I prefer the unified mechanism.

What I don't like is how innocuous `unwrap` looks, or how often it appears in example code.
It makes me a bit sad that this comment was killed. I've never before been exposed to the point of view expressed within it, which seems to be genuinely held by the commenter, and it makes me wonder how many other genuinely held points of view I've never heard because someone else didn't want me to be able to form my own opinion on it.

I think it's important for people to understand where others are coming from, and it doesn't seem like this particular point of view could be expressed in any form, no matter how polite, without being removed from this forum. I think that's unfortunate.
The sheer amount of nonsensical boilerplate required in any Java program, even trivial ones, makes it a terrible language for teaching Computer Science.

Think about trying to teach the meaning of "public class Foo { public static void main(String[] args) { ... }}" to a complete novice. Class-based design, inheritance, visibility, return types, arrays, etc. all right off the bat. It's too much.

Scheme and Python both are much better choices for this alone.
Could you explain this further? I'm not sure how innacurate voltage readings would cause a fire...
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Could be a digital weapons test.
>Believing in something you find morally wrong is not downright rude.

He's entitled to his own normative moral opinions, not his own facts.
I never heard of "Network calculus and stochastic network calculus". Certainly no such topics were in any of the applied math grad courses I took.

For "going after bounds rather than exact answers", for analyzing network performance, there is a hugely simplifying approach: Just look at the bottlenecks and largely f'get about the rest; maybe that is related to what you mentioned.

For network queuing, really I was suggesting using that as a paradigm to formulate an analysis; I accept that analytic solutions are unpromising -- more generally, the exact probabilistic calculations out of queuing theory research are complicated even for simple cases. So, for solutions, i.e., actionable information, use Monte Carlo.

Once I knew a guy at IBM's Watson lab who was big on such things. There was a claim that at one time his work was useful in designing some of an IBM mainframe I/O subsystem. He had some software that I used once. His software wanted to collect the usual descriptive statistics, but I wanted the sample paths from the Monte Carlo, got those, and did more analysis of those.
Silly free trial messaging made google delete my box
There's a big difference between tax rate and effective tax paid.
1. Welfare doesn't mean access to education. At no point have I mentioned welfare, only access to public education, specifically public primary and secondary education.

2. Just because people are having more out-of-wedlock children doesn't necessarily mean they are having more children over all. It could simply mean people aren't getting married anymore.

3. Your first link has the following quote in the introduction section: "a reasonable reading of the evidence to date is that the welfare system may increase non marital childbearing, but the magnitude of its effect may not be large relative to the effect of other factors in contributing to recent increases in nonmarital child bearing in the US. In fact, the simplest evidence indicates that the welfare system has not been largely responsible for the recent increases in nonmarital child bearing."

4. Feeding animals increases population, but that's not the same as increased fertility. If an animal normally gives birth to a litter of 5, and only 3 normally live to adulthood, but now all five live to adulthood, then population will increase even though each couple is producing offspring at the same rate. And I'd also like something showing that human beings would exhibit the same phenomenon, because human behavior is a complicated thing governed by more than evolution.
My bank used to show deposited check photos in a popup with the URL viewable iirc, and sometime they switched to a modal window with base64 data as the source instead of a URL that might be manipulated. I wonder how many small banks still may have bugs like that
>I personally think that after the first 1.5 million that they tax rate should be 100%
Remember, Elon funded SpaceX and Tesla with the wealth he generated from the sale of Paypal. Where would the funding have come from for those entities if he was taxed at 100% after 1.5mm?
No. But it does not apply in this case. It may turn out to be coincidence or stupidity but claiming that it is likely to be thus because of Hanlons Razor is wrong and bad thinking.
I continue to be bearish on Amazon long-term. The notion that shoppers will one day buy things simply with the push of a button or saying "Alexa, get me some paper towels" seems extremely far-fetched to me. Most shoppers are extremely price-sensitive and won't buy things before researching the price, save possibly for a few low-price staples like toilet paper or soap. So this idea that Amazon keeps suggesting where people are shopping with just their voices, seems DOA. But even if people do prefer convenience over price, there's no money in delivering groceries to people. Groceries are notoriously low-margin, one of the lowest margin businesses there is, so delivering groceries to people doesn't seem like it's going to make Amazon the trillion-dollar company some people think it will eventually become.

Looking forward, 10-20 years, maybe the delivery cost issue will be solved with self-driving vehicles and robotic deliveries. But then, why would Amazon be the sole beneficiary of that development and not every grocery store? Sure, they have distribution facilities, but so does every major grocery and retail chain.

As for AWS, I'm not real high on that side of the business, either. Despite being the runaway leader in cloud service, they make very little money in it so I'm not very confident that their margins will increase as competition from Microsoft and Google only intensifies.

I'm not at all suggesting that Amazon is going away, and what they've done to this point is nothing short of extraordinary. I just think long term that they will settle in as a large American retailer that reshaped the retail landscape for other stores that will eventually catch up.
This proposal, given it can be described in a single HN post, is vastly simpler than the present tax code. It would similarly be trivial to make a calculator for this and present it on the IRS site for those who don't feel like calculating it.
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I'm wondering why Google doesn't extend the functionality of their "shop" button (it's right above the search bar), to compete directly with Amazon's 3rdparty retail strategy (?)
Lipo capacity going up at 5% a year so 2025 isn't happening unless new battery tech is announced and commercialized in the next 8 years.

What about a small fuel/turbogenerator drop pod for just the takeoff/climb?
> We used all RIPE Atlas probes (~9000 probes) to send DNS queries to 8.8.8.8. Each probe issued several queries, a single query covered one of the features described above (e.g. DNSSEC validation, IPv6 only-domain reachability, NXDOMAIN redirection, …).

My understanding was that they did the same queries from as many network locations as possible, and looked for unexpected results.

Querying more known public dns IPs would provide better confidence that a given probe was attached to a network that hijacked DNS, but still wouldn't tell you very much about the internet in a country with a low probe count.
The whole 'coming out of nowhere' thing is another red flag. This idea that an undergraduate built revolutionary medical tech in their dorm room no less? Who invests in that? With no data, no trials, no feasibility study?
Yes, and it always has been. From the Moller Sky car to the Lilium here, making the craft is the easy bit (well, apart from the thrust vectoring but with modern computers that's solvable). Getting it to run for more than 2 minutes with a realistic load is the hard part. Those small ducted fans are horribly inefficient by the way, a regular shaped plane with a pusher prop and the wingspan of a glider would have a much better chance achieving the range (but no VTOL).

Too good to be true usually isn't true.
That's very nice to hear! I prefer this "make it great and release when it's perfect" attitude because it means way better quality and care I can rely on for the long term. Thanks for making Caddy, I'm pretty sure I will use it at one point!
The drop in returns received was 6 million.
Then you don't report that to the FBI, it's not their jurisdiction.
IIRC, Feynman mentioned Woods in the context of differentiation under the integral sign, whereas J.E. Thompson was in the context of learning Calculus as a kid.
Is there even a criminal investigation here? I thought this was over a lawsuit.

This guy got 6.5yrs in prison for defrauding investors by making it appear the company had value it actually didn't: https://www.law360.com/articles/892055/broker-gets-6-5-years...

It's difficult to find other examples as most investor fraud is based on directly milking investors with obviously false claims.

For example, this SF startup founder lied about being close to acquisition and never handed over shares in the company in return for money: http://www.mercurynews.com/2014/02/20/san-francisco-startup-... that's more directly fraudulent.

The Theranos thing might be more difficult to prove as it's possible the technology was somewhat legitimate but clearly if sharing the fake test data was a critical part of them investing, then it might be much the same.

The early investors who bought into just the idea may not have any claim. But any later investors who invested based solely on claims made with falsified test data may have a claim against the company/her.
The slides say the GC never collects, which is the same as having no GC.
Given how inevitable it seems for any computer system to have critical security vulnerabilities, I just find it surprising that anyone is seriously contemplating this level of computer/human integration. Already it seems stronger AI will be (is?) able to predict and manipulate people's behavior. With direct access to your brain this goes from creepy and worrying to downright dystopian and apocalyptic. And I don't necessarily mean that in a Skynet kind of way. Someone (or something) will find a zero-day against Neuralink that could throw humanity into a pit of despair.
It's not "well-known" that is the determining attribute. It's being a CEO of publicly traded company (which have fiduciary obligations to their owners to disclose things that may affect value of their property, i.e. stocks) or being top-level politicians who's influence over everyone's lives justifies some privacy violations.
I thought continued employment was the textbook example of not being consideration which is why a company can't say they fired you with cause for not signing an NDA that was presented to you after you had already been working there

Edit:googled some more and it appears that continued employment as sufficient consideration is different on a state by state basis and isn't firmly set in stone yet
I was just looking at the VTOL aircraft, since the parent article was about a VTOL.
Top Fed capital gains rate of 20% + NIIT (3.8%) + California (13.3% top rate) — where does the other 6-7% come from? FICA?
> And because its picking up and dropping off dozens and dozens of 'rides' a day, the cost is shared by the user base.

I imagine charging time would be an issue; there would have to be well-stocked supplies of batteries near each dropoff point, and some way to quickly swap them out.
>'I'm too driven to care about anything but my work' is always a red flag.

Silly little things like "truth" or "integrity" are just distractions. . .
What motivation does he have right now to do all the things he does? So he got about $100M from the sale of Paypal a while back. He could have easily coasted on that and led an easy life and never have to work a day any more. Why didn't he?
(I'm not glorifying him here by saying that he would allocate all the resources in the world fairly, neither that he should or should not be given that power, in our little thought experiment here.)
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The standard of living of the world's poor is improving faster than ever. I don't see cause to be concerned about a violent revolution.

As for the greater good justification: given income redistribution reduces how much wealth is generated, which you acknowledge, it goes to reason that over an infinite timescale, the society without income redistribution will become infinitely wealthier than the one with. A permanent boost to the exponent of economic growth leads, over a long enough time period, to a cumulatively larger gain for the welfare of the poor than any increase in redistribution could provide them, since the benefits of a permanent increase in the growth rate are recurring.
I believe the idea is, you make the monitoring values read too low (lower than the actual voltage in the wires), so the automatic control system adjusts by making the voltage higher. If you can get it to make the real voltage higher than the equipment can safely handle, you may get a fire.
Interesting. Is this all guaranteed to work also in a multithreaded environment?

How efficient is the garbage collector, and are there pauses?
Very true. A ... ahem, friend of mine, has bought DVDs just to get at decent subtitles.
> The system can still do a vertical landing with a loss of up multiple engines.

I'm more than skeptical about the quality of the safety features if there are glaring mistakes in the language describing it.
Free Fillable Forms is made by Intuit. If you look at the network tab in your browser's developer tools, you will see that it makes requests to Inuit APIs.

They have an incentive to make the service as terrible as possible while still technically being usable.

I believe we'll be stuck with this mess so long as the IRS partners with the Free File Alliance.
That seems like a reasonable interpretation of fair.
Thank you, my thoughts exactly. We need to be focusing on high density energy storage. An electricity source with a similar or greater specific energy to gasoline would transform transportation to the point of being unrecognizable within a couple years. It would be as much of a singularity as AI, high temp super conductors or low cost graphene. Just putting electric motors in current generation airframes would cut costs ten-fold.
NSA backdoor may have infected tens of thousands of Windows computers
In addition to the functional stuff, C# has a lot of syntactic sugar that I wouldn't associate with a "boring" language.

If you aggressively use all the syntactic sugar from the latest version of C# and compare that to similarly up-to-date Java code, they'll be worlds apart. The C# will look terse, and to more conservative programmers, rather weird.
Worth noting: the gain on those share from here on out will be taxed at the capital gains rate, assuming he holds onto them for a year. In California I think that tops out at 33.3%.

Also, in the mid 20th century (a very high growth time for the US) personal income tax topped out around 90%. "Harsh" is definitely a matter of perspective.
You clearly aren't aware of the many and myriad forms of highways we've had in America, including private toll highways, and the National Road, which was funded by the federal government, but predates the federal income tax by more than 100 years.
Spending money is part of the point, since that's the way one gains power in large organizations. Even better if one can spend lots of money doing something self-evidently stupid and also rather mean.

Large firms wouldn't survive at high enough rates to dominate public life as they do, if they weren't underwritten by the state at every turn.
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> "I hate the exploitation of the H1-B program: but the H1-B is capitalism..."

Sure, there is capitalism, but there is also breaking the law. The abuse of the H1-B Visa program is breaking the law since it is only supposed to be used in cases where there is no American qualified to do the job. The law needs changing so that violation means jail time.

The EU has a similar problem with working class and hence BrExit as a result. Cheap labor from Eastern Europe has been displacing the British working class. Of course, the elites like this because it means they have to pay less money for labor and the NHS has to pay less for nurses.

The US has free trade agreements where there are no or low tariffs but not free movement of labor. NAFTA is one such example. The EU as part of their agreement has low-tariffs and free flow of labor connected and that is why BrExit happened.

Even though most Americans are against H1-B the politicians seem to be for expanding the program.

Here is Mark Rubio:
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2015/10/30/h...

Trump won because he was basically the only Republican and along with Sanders the only other candidate that wanted American workers to get paid fairly.
The "wild environments" offer concrete examples of the benefits of solitude. They're reduced anxiety, not being on pills, boosts to your the immune system, etc. Solitude generally accompanies the wilderness, and wilderness is the tangible gateway to the insight and humility you might gain from solitude.

But of course the wilderness doesn't strictly mean not socializing. Talk to anyone who's thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail or similar and you'll hear about how social of an experience it was, between the times of solitude. The thing is that there is no solitude in heavily populated environments, where things like work are what you're supposed to do. This is the point of the article: in cities, in society, you're not able to focus on the simple joy of your existence, as Byrd was. In solitude you're free from the urban burdens and obligations that stress us, despite how well we've adapted to them.
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That was a nominal but not realistic rate for the very wealthy / high income. IIRC, dividends were not taxed at that rate. More info from this commentor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14168781
Ordered. Will let you know how it is when I get it next week. :-)
>There probably will be flying shuttles that take people to different places like buses or metros that would make way more sense then this.

Airplanes exist. The future is now!
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You still have to pay any taxes owed at the time you file the form. That may not count as "filed", though.