skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of 2013, the top 10% of people had 85% of the wealth and the bottom 90% of people had 15% of the wealth.[1] FRED says the total net worth of households and nonprofit organizations was $79 trillion.[2] The population of the US at the end of 2013 was around 317 million.[3]

Crunching the numbers, we can determine that the top 10% had $67.15 trillion. If this full amount is distributed equally to every person in the bottom 90%, as the question states (let's call this the "kill the bourgeoisie" scenario), each person in the bottom 90% would receive $235,000 on average.

If we wanted to forcefully distribute the money while leaving the people at the top intact (let's call this "blunt force redistribution") such that the current top 10% has 10% of the wealth, then each person in the bottom 90% would receive $208,000 on average.

I would definitely consider this a life-changing amount of money.

[1] http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/images/wealth/Net... via http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HNONWRA027N

[3] https://www.census.gov/popclock/

Edit: Especially when you consider that this article[4] came out in 2013, a majority of people will be able to 1) basically completely exit debt and 2) start contributing substantially to the economy again. Not to mention afford college, afford healthcare, afford good food for themselves and their children, drop a whole lot of stress, and generally build their lives back up. There would be zero people below the poverty line. Who knows if the traditional refrain of "velocity of money increasing means inflation means collapse" would be realized in such a radical redistribution, and if a sudden and drastic shift such as that would end up hurting more than helping. We can only ever play the speculation game in matters like these.

The numbers in the main body reflect also the worth of nonprofits. Not sure on the proportions on that one, but even if you take it to be 10% of all the wealth (IMO an absurdly high estimate) the number still shifts to $187,000 per person in the bottom 90%.

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.h...
I can see your perspective, and it's pretty reflective of that of the author.

However, in reality, I don't think her words empowered the expert speaker at all but simply served as a check on the moderator's exuberance.

Those who actually benefitted were the audience---and we the public who get to see the video afterward. The moderator was handling the situation poorly and needed to allow the expert to speak which is what the audience paid for, and everyone is more interested in hearing.

I think the best panels are where the experts talk amongst themselves, and moderators only serve to derail heated arguments that are consuming the allotted time.
FYI: The article mentions that this weapon had a 2 kiloton yield. This is to be compared to the 15-20 kiloton yields of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and modern thermonuclear warheads which typically have maximum yields in the 300-500 kiloton range.
I know.

However, the default experience is a little box that says "Streaming is available in Safari and the WWDC app". Now I have to go out of my way to learn that they stream via HLS, obtain the stream's URL and feed it to VLC. †

Compare this with Microsoft's and Google's videos (available through Channel9 and YouTube, respectively) that are accessible "virtually" from every operating system and device.

If your goal is to attract new developers to the platform, maybe adopting a more widespread industry standard (such as DASH, which all other browsers implement) is probably the way to go, IMO.

--

† By the way, the box also breaks the "Copy Video Location" menu item, so I have to open the inspector or install an extension to find out what the real URL is.
> I know 100+ people from a dozen companies

The problem I see with this particular line is how disproportionate it is. If you had said 100+ people from 50+ companies, that might have been more convincing than 100+ people from a select 12 companies.

The problem here is that it's 12 companies, and not every company can be one of those 12. That's like me saying I know 20+ people from 2+ companies that made $1mm+ but those 2+ companies included FB/Twitter/etc.
> it's no less granular than NoScript.

Sorry, to clarify, I wasn't comparing uMatrix to NoScript, merely commenting that it didn't seem particularly useful to me when I tried it.

I was considering trying NoScript at some point, but from what you've said, it doesn't sound like it would be much better for my purposes?
> What would be the motivation behind fabricating a story like this?

Lulz, getting one over on the Internet, being able to fabricate a plausible story and see people all over the world reacting to it. Some people get off on weird stuff.
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You can get a bit of this by consciously separating solutions from fully understanding the problem. Once you've started developing solutions, you become attached to them, you start reasoning using those solutions and their properties and tradeoffs as anchors, and it's harder to abandon them.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ka/hold_off_on_proposing_solutions/
The company/CTO made the huge mistakes.

Indeed. To capitalize on a meme in current circulation, "One does not simply 'accidentally destroy' a production database."

When things like this happen, they happen because someone who almost certainly did, in fact, know better -- at some point made a conscious decision to allow them to happen, by consciously cutting corners in certain matters of due diligence that we all know about. Things like backup systems, database roles, and hiring the right people to set up and maintain these things.

Not because of something a junior dev did.
This is also handy for recruiting.

Stackoverflow includes the famous Joel Spolsky 12-steps-to-better-code list to its job ads (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...). I think it needs an update after 17-years.

This blog post might be something in that direction. I usually do a similar evaluation when I decide if whether to recruit for a company. (Content marketing: I am programmer and now I source, assess and hire engineers for tech firms and startups in Zurich, Switzerland - see https://www.coderfit.com, and https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)

It is rather challenging as different things carry different weight to different people and there is also the thing that what is good for a big company, or high-growth startup might not make sense for a web agency that will stay below 20 people forever.

Nevertheless, I'd be super happy to brainstorm with like-minded people about what makes a company good from an engineering perspective.
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Victims can't drop charges - that's up to the prosecutor. A victim can ask for charges to be dropped, and they can refuse to cooperate, but their consent isn't required to move forward with a prosecution.
We live in a computer simulation.
Print sensitive documents at FedEx Office or Staples and pay in cash. It's the only way to be sure.

There were magazine articles, newspaper articles, and news site discussions about this years ago. They covered it being added to stop color laser printers and dye sublimation printers from being used for currency counterfeiting. That the tech community has this short of a communal memory astounds and saddens me.

Even beyond the public knowledge of this tactic, that Reality Winner was working at an intelligence agency and was silly enough to think said intelligence agency couldn't track what had been printed in its own offices is laughable. Either she had no business working in that environment as she clearly doesn't understand their mission and methods or she's a scapegoat.

* 2014 - PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article/229647/counterfeit_money_on_c...

* 2004 - PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article/118664/article.html

* 2005 - Washington Post, stating it had been in use at least ten years, and that at least one version of the yellow dot code had been broken. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10...

* 2004 - Slashdot - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/04/02/06/1513255/hp-disc...

* 2004 - Geek.com - https://www.geek.com/news/color-laser-printers-allow-feds-to...

I could probably easily find more.
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Indeed this reconstruction sounds a lot more like bombs sound in real life.

https://youtu.be/Mn7PeI2UyEM
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This is everyday for me. Just whitelist the few sites that actually need it and most of the rest are fine. This should be the default. What do I care if some images don't load or CSS is slightly off? The main content is there. For sites that won't do anything without JS, I can consider whether I want to use them or not. Mostly not. Fuck other people running code unnecessarily, without my permission, on my computer. Especially Javascript. It was an extremely stupid and costly decision to have a scripting language like this run by default in browsers... though great for doing things against the user's wishes and making money off of it. And security holes. And privacy issues. Etc etc. The irony is that AJAX and SPAs were created as a response to the request/response model that was seen as too slow. Now it's these SPAs that are unbearably slow and buggy while the request/response model has only improved as hardware and networking have gotten better. I think if more people understood how the Internet works and what is actually happening, they would also turn off JS. No chance of that happening though.
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You've been posting unsubstantive "so what?" dismissals, which is trollish when it comes to a divisive topic. Worse, you've crossed into personal attack. That's a bannable offense on HN, so please don't do it again.
> Women who do this are very often shamed and called "pushy" or "aggressive" for doing so, even

Yeah that's not going to happen at a STEM conference with the diversity craziness and witch hunting.

Maybe when hanging out and drinking with people.
Ask HN: Is there room to compete in domain backordering?
Is there enough demand for a domain backordering service that doesn't sell your information to hundreds of people who spam you about web development via email and SMS as soon as you win and cost a small fortune?
If you prefer, 1 + 0 x = 2. We agree that is an equation. It has no solution. Typically in math we don't write 0x in expressions.

Suppose we start with 2x+5 = x - 4 + x. If we solve this by showing all work we'll end up at the end with

5 = -4

At this point students are told this means that there are no solutions. But what they miss is what an equation really means. Anyone who really understands the concept of an equation can easily give an example of an equation with no solution.

An equation is a statement that two expressions are equal. What one tries to find is the solution set. That is, the collection of tuples (if more than one variable is present) that makes the expressions equal when evaluated at the tuple. An equation is really a question. How can these two expressions be evaluated at the same input to produce the same output?

Lastly, We agree that f(x) = 1 and g(x) = 0 are valid functions. Here is the equation 1 = 0 stated in a more sophisticated way. f(x) = g(x) where f and g are defined above.
Illumio, a specialist in segmented security, raises $125M at $1b+ valuation
You can use f.lux https://justgetflux.com to compensate for that.
thanks. Should have noted to be in the EU (germany)
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I think it's more meaningful that this iPad comparison is surprising. Back in the full throes of Moore's law this would be expected.

It really shows we're in a new era of sub exponential improvement.
Among others: https://malwr.com/ - Free analysis with an online Cuckoo Sandbox instance

source: https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis#online-sc...
Use a Toddy filter[1] or Toddy paper filter bag[2]. They're the standard for cold brew.

[1]: https://toddycafe.com/shop-product/15/Toddy-Filters

[2]: https://toddycafe.com/shop-product/211/Toddy-Paper-Filter-Ba...
It's there because they want to include SVM.

So, same answer.
There were not guided missiles yet, and the US was anxious due to the development of the atomic bomb and bombers by Soviet Russia.

So it was devised as a missile that could compensate the lack of accuracy with the higher yield than conventional ammunition, even though it was not as potent as a bomb.
Would it be possible for workers to create a diversified pool of startup equity grants? You'd pay in in-kind, and receive a portion of all cash flows from group holdings proportional to what you put in.

There's obvious problems with how to fairly value the in-kind options, and how to avoid making it a market for lemons.

The overall goal is something like if there's 11 co-founders and one makes it big, you wind up with one person with $900M and ten worth $10M, rather than one worth $1B. It's a small enough portion of equity that you're still incentivized to make it big, and a big enough portion of enough equity slices to cut out a lot of the variance.
I totally agree with this. Even I started with web development (backend though) and for a brief period tried to grok some JS frameworks. Took up jobs immaterial of the front end stack and started learning them on the fly. Played with Angular the most. Somehow later my quest for figuring out how a computer works bought me to operating systems and then to a lower level where I deal with assembly these days. I still understand I haven't gone down deep enough but I very much like the path I am pursuing and want to know how deep this rabbit hole goes. However, I wonder if I would be employable with all this knowledge except in some niche places which are absent in India.
Shouldn't, but do. They RFO into the LLC.
"sit at this desk, and tell us what will happen tomorrow."

sounds pretty hard to me
I have found doing this unnecessary (for me) because just searching for "mdn whatever" in google gets me the MDN results I wanted as the top result with the rest of the page being populated by other related MDN results.

Not saying that people shouldn't do it. Just offering a possible simpler alternative to be tested as well
Do we actually know that anyone involved in this story had cancer that was likely caused by testing? The size of effects of very low dosages (which are only seen at the population-level) is not well understood, but the risks of dosages with large effect is very well quantified. Certainly, it does not appear that the radiation dose from this single test was large enough to give someone cancer with large (e.g., >5%) probability, which is less than the baseline population rate.
"Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded" - anonymous, but often attributed to Yogi Berra
Just imagine that the base of El Capitan is about a mile wide.
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Sounds good in theory, but there are limits to transit. You need a fairly high population density, and shared destinations.

I have never worked in an office where the bus schedule allowed taking it - if I got the first by in and the last bus out I would have worked 7:45 - not a full 8 hour day before you consider a long lunch which is nice at times. Other offices the nearest bus stop was 3 miles away (along a route that was not walker friendly)

Sure if you live in an apartment and work downtown public transit works great. However engineering companies tend to not be downtown because rent is so high.
Ants drive manual transmissions and humans are getting cars that do more of the thinking for them(?)
This doesn't really confirm whether he was fired or was allowed to quit. Or maybe just switched companies?

Edit: his LinkedIn still says he works there, so whatever change was probably pretty recent.
An old team did a similar thing! A terminal window with a skull and crossbones when you log into anything that's ".prod.X.com".
It doesn't help the terminal itself, but changing your ~/.vimrc to use different themes can help.
No we got spaceship-wrecked.
This was not the purpose of flying into the cloud.
Hey this is pretty cool! I looked for a specific CS topic and the result was definitely better than Google's.
I'll probably keep using this!
Is this for real? "1233% funded on July 2, 2016", and they're not shipping 11 months later. They're not making e-ink panels; they just add a bezel and controller. The actual display may be an E-Ink Mobius.[1] That's 1600x1200 pixels on a 13.3" panel. The prototype they're showing may come from the dev kit for E-Ink. They'd just need to add an HDMI interface and repurpose a case from some other display.

E-Ink is a neat technology, but it still costs far too much per unit area compared to competing technologies. That's why big E-Ink displays are so rare.

[1] http://www.eink.com/display_products_mobius.html
Well thank you, but the test in that link doesn't work. Anyway, I searched for some high sensation seekers tests, but the graph in the article has far more detailed results than any test I could find. It measures several interesting personality traits.
> it's pretty unnerving knowing that you can jump into a situation where your +$100k somehow turns into -$50k.

But even your example wasn't that. Your examples was -100k and +300k (or more), but offset by time slightly. That's still a very large net positive, just gated by a period of net negative.

I suspect there are some details that you are missing as to the situation of your friend. I know little about investment vehicles, but I've filed taxes at one point and paid them at a later point many times. For income taxes the rules for this are clear, and the amount you pay in fees and interest is also very clear. For some investment vehicle, I would bet if there's some taxes that need to be paid prior they have automated processes set up to pay them for you and take the amount out of the later payout, for a fee. If not, I can't imagine getting a short term loan for that would be too hard, even if you have to use private money (a real investor, or even just a friend).
I'd volunteered. People make larger risks with paragliding or mountain climbing, but there at least was a chance to make history.
Again, I didn't start pursuing CS in college to get employed. I started learning more about computers, learnt to code websites and then went back to figuring out how a computer works. However, I haven't figured out which area of the stack to develop an expertise in.

I will definitely check that book out. Thanks
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Why it is down tomorrow?

(Hint: sans hug of death, because a runtime dependency brought it down.)
> By your statement, the reason it disproportionately impacts women is not because of some rudimentary, fundamental reason but rather because they fail to react the same way the men did and speak up. That lies 100% on the women.

No, the effects of deliberate, targeted differences in socialization by gender aren't the fault of the people experiencing adverse impacts because of the intersection of those with social structures that respond better to people socialized in the manner which is targeted at the other gender.

> In fact what YOU wrote is actually sexist, since it suggests that the corrective action would be to act differently toward her, but not the men.

It's not sexist to recognize that the consequences of past sexism may require corrective action that is sensitive to the gender-differentiated effects of that past sexism.
If only the Pharo community knew that, they would have jumped to fix this issue! Because clearly they have all the time and resources in the world, and they only keep this issue open out of spite...

It's a volunteer non profit project. If people haven't done, clearly the don't have the time to do it over other things.

Tsk, tsk-ing them for not having fixed everybodys and anybodys pet peeves is beyond meaningless.

It's not like random non-Pharo using programmers are entitled to anything. Or like anybody forces them to use the platform.

If they don't like it, it's rather "don't let the door hit you on your way out".

If, otoh, they want to use Pharo they can. If they find that future important, they can help build it.
To summarize: An Uber rider in India alleged she was raped by an Uber driver. The driver was already awaiting trial for four other criminal offenses, and was ultimately convicted of the crime. An Uber executive (Eric Alexander) flew to India and (legally or illegally) obtained her medical records, then showed these to multiple executives at the company.

These records were then used by Alexander, Travis Kalanick, and Emil Michael to dispute (internally) the woman's account of the story. They claimed that a local competitor was trying to sabotage them by planting this story, which again, involves an Uber customer being raped by a driver facing multiple (other) criminal accusations. Needless to say they lack the training necessary to decipher a medical record, a rape may or may not have left evidence present in that record, and it's a gross violation of customer privacy, business ethics, and (probably) the law.

This is repulsive conduct and it's unbelievable any of these people are still attached to the company.
Is this just a stripped down CMM for people that don't believe in things like the CMM?

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model
Those are always the place I assume that most people assume are totally safe and spelunk and climb and explore only to find out later they have way more radiation or something 'new' bad thing that all those people were now exposed to.
A French press works perfect for me. The cold brew has too much silt which instantly fouls the coffee filter.
I cannot agree more. Thread done. Thank you for expressing yourself with such great metaphor.
I have a similar setup, and it is relatively easy to set up using .bashrc and terminal color variables.
Finding investors who are *actually* helpful
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Fwiw, the linked post says the moderator comments on Veronika Hubeny's lack of speaking time, so he wasn't unaware. This presumably is what prompted shifting the discussion to her field. I'm not suggesting this provides any demonstrable proof the moderator was being sexist—Veronika's comments indicate her own take on the moderator's potential motivations.

Nonetheless, I do agree there are pitfalls and dangers in attempting to always distill nuance and shades of gray into stark, problematized blacks and whites. Sexism, like racism, definitely exists—it is woven into the cultural fabric and narratives that compose American society and consciousness. However, we are long past the overt institutionalization of these isms, which leaves recognizing it a regrettable slog through subtler shades of gray that leave opportunities for vehement disagreement. Sometimes I think everyone would be happier if they lived several decades ago, when these isms were black and white, and found themselves standing in solidarity on their own bridges of Selma.
That's exactly my interpretation of the situation. The moderator is exceedingly polite towards everyone; there's not a trace of sexism.
Even moderate drinking could harm the brain
All I want from the equity package at a start-up is for it to be non-zero. If a co-worker winds up with enough out of their equity package to become financially independent, I'm going to be very upset unless I've at least gotten enough for a car or vacation.
> Barring some serious security gaps, JS isn't even capable of doing anything more than lock up the browser and maybe send some extremely minimal information about you back to someone elses server.

Not true. First JavaScript Rowhammer exploit was publicized in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L5MJ43nbkI
yes, that's what I meant, I was in a hurry this morning.
I may be wrong on that, do you know what was then?
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