skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be very cautious drawing any firm conclusion from this kind of simplistic analysis.

First, as always with economic analysis, many other things are changing at the same time (inflation, trade, technology, etc.). Any one or some combination of other factors could actually be driving this and you would not know it. Additional event studies and evidence from other countries would be a start.

Second, you are effectively cherry picking your sample periods. 1936 was the very bottom of the Great Depression. Why don't we also look at the period before the US had income taxes, other countries, etc.

Third, tax rates are only one part of tax policy. Effective tax rates would be a start but then how to measure income when there is a big incentive to hide it.

Lastly and probably most importantly, what is the logic here. How exactly do high tax rates increase growth. It makes sense that they would reduce incentives. How much money would it raise? And if there is some great spending projects that increase growth why aren't we already doing them?
Wow, the title link actually links to the product home page, and not uselessly back to "blog.product.com"! Bravo! It's sad that I need to commend you on that. It's just a trend for product blogs to link back to the blog, and not to the product.
there are a lot of people who know something that 99.9% of the population does not.
I acknowledged that and asked you to put it aside for just a moment. Did you even read my comment?
We can still bring back net neutrality. And we should.
Meta, but I cannot believe this excellently written post has already dropped from the front page, while some bullshit about "suhvuhbtle" and medium is still sitting in the top spots for hours. Like ever more hip ways for echo-chamber attention-seekers to share their amazing epiphanies about productivity with each other, is so much more interesting than poverty.
FYI, some context: Loskarn was a former senior aide to U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). Yes, the fact that his boss was a southern Republican probably added to the notoriety of the case and the pressure that he felt:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/ryan-loskarn-letter-10...

The media obviously jumps on this kind of thing, and like everything sexual, pursues it out of proportion. But I wonder if some of the blame doesn't fall on Loskarn's own industry, the political machine? Whether or not possession of child pornography is more a symptom of past abuse and other mental health problems...no political party or institution will stand behind the accused because they don't want to be seen as having any tolerance.
Definitely, hidden behind internet usernames, a lot of people (who would not otherwise) show their racist side even here on HN.
I think you're reacting to a lot more than what I actually said. The indisputable fact is that you and I weren't there and it's impossible to prove either intelligent design or evolution because neither is reproducible.
The Very First ‘Stevenote’
AMD's hook is servers + GPU.
Only partly related: Most websites don't get proper certificates for their FQDN -- even Google [1]. That, to me, is screwed up.

[1] https://www.google.com./
> Arguable.

Well, in a world where no one studied the issue, maybe.

> Being hungry, homeless or sick is an actual problem that causes people great suffering.

So is relative deprivation.

> Driving a Honda while one's neighbor drives a Ferrari shouldn't cause anyone any suffering.

"Should" and "is" aren't the same thing. One is a statement of preference, the other of reality.
i was thinking the exact same thing, only i think some of them are definitely to blame
Indeed. The output of a noncryptographic generator like the Mersenne Twister would also pass those same tests, and would be not secure at all. This is not how indistinguishability works.

The 'correct' to make this point would be to analyze the volume format, and reduce distinguishing the container to distinguishing the underlying block cipher from a pseudorandom permutation. That is, distinguishing a TC volume implies distinguishing AES (or whichever block cipher combo TC supports).
In doing volume forensics it is exceedingly rare to find a full volume of random data and when one is found one can be fairly certain that someone is using TrueCrypt or had a lot of time on their hands when destroying evidence by using dd to write dev/random to disk. Depending on the technical capacity of the forensics lab this observation could be sufficient enough evidence in itself to back additional search warrants or court orders. Remember, it is absolutely possible to stand out simply by being off the curve of normal, whether when using HD encryption or anonymizing services.
Very sad.

That's all I'd like to write, right there: "Very sad." That's all most people will usually give these kinds of stories. There's not much help out there for the abused, not much help out there for the mentally ill, either. Oh well, on to the next story.
Yes exactly http://www.bhorowitz.com/can_do_vs_cant_do_cultures
Finance major looking for a position at a startup
The World vs World in GW2 is just right for casuals like me and the new Edge of the Mists is going to make it even more fun.
"which was a nightmare for reasons having nothing to do with credit"

So that's why I bring this up, I remember you claiming in another thread discussing the ACA that you were perplexed why you couldn't get private health insurance and seemed to think it was some arbitrary conspiracy yet you seem to disregard any number of reasons upon which a rational insurance company might do such a thing. Just pointing out your logic may be flawed.
Ukraine when it was part of the USSR.
Sub 300? That's in the realm of wiiU's price point. I don't think I'd trade my wiiU for an android box. Sub 100 would be more attractive.
Depends, but a better (though still flawed) analogy is this: before dinner, everyone agreed and knew that if someone brought twice as much cash in their wallet to dinner, that person would pay more than everyone else but also get the best dish, the best view, and a massage while waiting for food to come out. And everyone had a chance to opt out of going to dinner before heading out, or to choose to not get all the perks.

Given that, it's sort of ridiculous for Fred to complain after dinner that he has to pay more than everyone else, and then to try to guilt trip them into paying an equal amount as him.
It's approximately equal to a 7870 (the PS3 variant), which is anything but "weak". Indeed, it's what's in my play PC, and plays any current game with ease. As to AMD generally, well they have by far the leading compute cards, and hold their own in the high end, so certainly not "meh".
Many lives are incredible, sometimes small details, sometimes extreme events, but only a few make it a point to broadcast and paint that persona of themselves, real or not.
An insurer can also charge up to 3x rates based on age under the ACA. Prior to the ACA limiting the differential the market spread was about 5x from young to old in terms of age.

Smokers only have to pay 50% more so being old will effect your rates more than smoking will under the ACA.
That's an... odd perspective. AMD64 was a huge threat to Intel. It dominated the then flagship P4 and completely destroyed Intel's attempt to force us into an "Itanium everywhere" future.

The fact it didn't leave AMD in charge of the x86-compatible market owes more to their superb Israeli chip design team being able to pull them out of the frying pan.
You had me @ "Experts Exchange". Nice comparison.
That works just fine for me.
>Pushing a button, while cool, is not really a return on investment and only rocketry enthusiasts with extra money (a rare combination) will be willing to pay for that.

(1) There are a few of us. It feels good to be associated with something breaking ground in this field.

(2) This could be a demo, a proof-of-concept. Those are useful in later attracting investment, or at least attention which can be later translated into capital.
> Of course it would be nice if everything were HTTPS...

Nice try, Certificate Authorities!
I'm not sure, at an implementation level, what the solution is. But I know the only way to get there is to not view the problem of fraud prevention without alienating the minority to be an insoluble problem. And that's the response my comment was intended to provoke.
Interesting. I'm curious, can you share your monitor(s) setup (i.e., size, resolution, DPI scaling if any, OS, etc.) and the type of work you do please?
Hah. Running a business is what I do all day. Doing it at night too is what keeps me out of Eve I think.
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It definitely can and should, but it looks very different from the way it looks with a government present to perform violence on violators. And even what counts as a violation is very different with a government than without. That's the point--and if it didn't, there'd be no reason to add in the extra administrative costs of government to get the same results.

And to be clear: government enforcement of property through violence provides plenty of social value, but those reformulated property rights are socially defined and subject to change, and not natural in any sense.
The fact that mental illness is taboo exaggerate its effects. If talking to counsellors/professionals was common practice and generally accepted the same way going to the doctor to get a physical once a year is, we'd not only lose a lot less people to suicide, but we'd also lower crime rates.
Launching HealthCare.gov (2013)
Also, if the police have a record of you downloading CP (or whatever), find your hard drive with a huge random segment, and find TrueCrypt software on your machine, they're probably going to put two and two together.
>> Of course it would be nice if everything were HTTPS...

> Nice try, Certificate Authorities!

Nice try, NSA.
PHP is the framework because it's also the runtime, the language, the VM, the std library and the template language.

Yet another, it's not a framework, it a mess, just copy some files, edit them, whatever, the framework is your application. So zen.

Imagine what a disaster it would be if every rails app had it's own slightly modified version of rails.
"This is an exceptional period for the most exceptional region in the country."

wow.
I know why we were declined coverage. They told us. You can go find the "automatic decline" lists for insurers yourself; they're on the Internet.
Is this article pointing out the most common way of organizing code in Django as an advice?

I'm such a failure at marketing ... sigh
The sad thing is that if he'd even attempted to seek help before things reached this point, it could have destroyed his career. Not that what he did was acceptable, but he must have felt completely trapped.
Likewise. I find myself reluctant to comment on minor problems because I don't want to send another email.

We use http://phabricator.org/ at work and I absolutely love it, but sometimes I'm forced to use GitHub for things and I get sad.
Why do you think 25W TDP is not good?

I thought it was OK, getting the most performance vs keeping the TDP within passive cooling territory.
The 10 Types Of Toxic People That Mentally Strong People Avoid
Imgur rolls out crazy useful viral image analytics dashboard
Overall, I like what I'm seeing so far. The notable exception is that they removed the build status indicator for Pull Requests from the PR body and now only show the faint green check next to a commit hash. Makes determining whether a PR is good to merge a bit more difficult IMHO. Hopefully that gets fixed.
Theres a lot going on in the article that I simply have no idea whats about (sorry, php is not my stack).

Probably unrelated to article, but indeed to the title: make your index.php a index.html. No, not completely static, make your application generate one. Most of your traffic hits is at your index (kinda obvious right). If you have a super dynamic index makes more sense generate a static html file with the new content, let's say, every 3 minutes, rather than generate the thing for everybody that hits your website root.

It's not exactly a secret, but sometimes people forgets completely about this. Not that useful for all scenarios though.
I agree with this in concept: your money is your economic power, and that economic power supports the people you spend it on, including their actions and attitudes. You are handing over the economic power for them to continue with whatever behaviour you dislike.

While I agree with pg in that perhaps this shouldn't be your first consideration in picking software, there clearly is significant reason to consider your opinion of the authors.
arminator (ARM+Terminator) ^_^
> We would probably not know how to add, subtract, or multiply efficiently.

Why do we need to do simple arithmetic efficiently in our minds? We already have readily accessible computers for this, let's focus on something computers can't do for us yet.

> but a competent soldier needs to exercise that capability until it's second nature

I'd prefer a robot to fight in a war(instead of me).
So you mean you agree that it's a "culture" specific to India that rich people don't think they should give back to lesser privileged? You are sadly mistaken. Being rich, anywhere makes you less compassionate (there are studies). On the other hand, almost everywhere in the world there have still been many rich people who were very kind. Azim Premji, Rattan Tata are examples off top of my head of big businessmen who gives back too much. On the other hand, rich people like Steve Jobs and many more in the USA were not at all kind from any reference. Kindness is not a cultural trait. It's a personal trait.

Edit: One link to substantiate my claim: http://www.upworthy.com/take-two-normal-people-add-money-to-...
At Khan Academy we use http://phabricator.org/ and I absolutely love it. It solves both of your named problems and a handful of others.
Maybe they should call it "Letniuoywercs" I don't know how to pronounce it either :-)

I agree that re-using the name is bad mojo from a marketing perspective, too many people will be caught off guard by the lack of compatibility with the x86 chip set.
It will be interesting to see how this goes for you...
Which, if you're following the SRP, is the right thing to do, no?
In fairness, I'm sure Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Larry Ellison couldn't imagine working for somebody else either.
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Better yet, where they absolutely mean to use HTTPS they sometimes use weak keys and ciphers and get an "F" from the Qualys SSL Labs tool. Blogs.akamai.com isn't the only place this happens:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blogs.akamai....
First-Ever Porsche Rediscovered: Electric Power from 1898
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you avoiding it until guidance on how to use it in a tax compliant way is made? Or are you planning to not use it if IRS gets involved?
Great open source software has in fact helped our organisation build apps and services, which supports making the world a better place. I wouldn't be quite as negative as that.

And you can't work all the time. It sucks the creativity out of you. At least for me. So hobbies are important to make the other side function well.
In my experience, fat models are the most common approach to organising code in Django projects. As another comment stated, it's better than having fat views, but it's not ideal.
It seems that our stigma against child pornography destroyed his life almost as much as the abuse: were it not so absolute, he might have been able to get help when he needed it.
Or instead of doing that add some cache headers... and have nginx cache the page instead of reinventing your own cache.
Hypothetical scenario:

$iv = rnd();
$encrypted_header = byte[256];
$checksum = sha1($iv + $encrypted header);

disk layout: $iv + $encrypted_header + $checksum

This would look like random data to any generic statistical test and yet be easily identifiable for a specific pattern matcher simply by doing the hash based on the visible data and checking if it matches.
Of course this can be easily prevented, but a statistical test is insufficient to prove that.
I have always wondered if Ukraine is really two countries. For instance, in the West (west of Kyiv), Ukrainian is spoken, people there can certainly speak Russian but they don't like to and they proudly refer to themselves as Ukrainians--land of Gogol, Shevchenko, and the Cossacks. Ukrainian is the only "official" language of Ukraine, though a couple of years ago, The eastern Ukrainian city, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine's 4th largest city and it's industrial heart, declared Russian as its official language. Similarly.

By contrast, in the East, many can't speak Ukrainian at all. Most refer to themselves as Russian. The West is agriculture; the East has mining and heavy industry and the Naval Base.
Google Apps (GMail) misfiled messages
I completely agree but I think there's a nice explanation for this.

It is _absolutely_ fine to violate DRY and repeat work of others for _learning_ purposes.

However, if you're already past that stage and want to create code/library/binary/whatever for other people to actually (re)use, then DRY and be orthogonal.

Edit: lostcolony put this more eloquently.
A strange point: so you're saying that because they designed it to last longer, that lasting longer is not as much of an accomplishment? Like the optimism of the engineers detracts from the results when that optimism is realized?

Regardless, it doesn't take away from my point. Getting something to work in that environment for a decade (I suppose I should specify that it's an Earth decade) is quite an accomplishment.

Let a few people feel a little pride of accomplishment. And let the rest of us feel inspired that such a feat is possible.
At 100% tax, no one takes any risks.

Big players contribute to the economy as a whole through capital investment and get a return on their investment's growth. To the extent that we tax them into a corner, we reduce their incentive to make capital investment.

In the long term, we do not increase opportunity by reducing capital investment.
C++: Some Consequences of a Design Decision
It looks like a mac.
I think the message wouldn't get across and that's probably what most PR people are trying to avoid. I'm sure many of his colleagues felt bad for him but publicly saying so would be completely misinterpreted by the public.
You might find this a worthhile read about such an approach to filesystems at the filesystem level https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec2001/full_papers/bau...

Though shred and other tools to delete via random overright do exist, but as you imply a low level approach would be much more secure.

Another consideration is the type of storage, then there are backups which will still have deleted data. Let alone SSD's which are a whole different breed and can transparantly make a block as dead and realocate some of the reserved data storage without you knowing and with that leave the existing data permently inplace for forensics. With that having an excrypted file system would certainly help cover such issues, though encryption within encryption could be the extra layer of plausable denability you require.
Just a regular Ubuntu setup on a 15.4", 1680x1050 monitor. I can read it just fine smaller, but larger is marginally nicer. Oh, and have additional styles set in my browser approximating `* { font-family: Ubuntu !important }` (it's not quite that crude a rule, but that's the gist of it)—I tried the rule for a couple weeks, tried it back the original way for a week or so and very quickly went back to forcing the font.

I'm probably best considered a full-stack web developer; but I belong to the camp that shuns body text smaller than 16px.
How about sending your photo to space and recovering it?

What about sending any tiny object (with weight and size restrictions) into space and recovering it?

The higher levels could offer to send a small custom payload into space (if not orbit) e.g. a smartphone with sensors.

The first two would be more for the novelty (this ring was in space!), where the last might be for a university project or something.
There is nothing about pointers that makes them unusually hard to keep track of. If you are prone to goofing on pointer arithmetic, then you're almost certainly going to run into problems even if you never use pointers, because arithmetic is hard to avoid in programming.

I don't use C for everything. When I do write C, I try to keep memory as simple as possible. I avoid allocating dynamic memory wherever possible, and when I do use malloc, I try to keep the logic around the pointers as simple as possible. This is beneficial all around, because malloc and free are not especially fast, and if you use them for everything, you won't see all that much benefit over a high-level language.

It's like building your own house or making your own clothes. There's no guarantee that you'll do a better job and get a better result than if you went the easy way.
Works in Chrome 32, does not work in Firefox 26.
Interestingly, Google says the capital of Palestine is Jerusalem.

I'm not at all sure the location of government offices is a good metric to base that answer on. The Netherlands and South Africa are good counter-examples (each separate the legislative and official capitals), and I suspect there are plenty more[1]

(I didn't downvote you, BTW)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple...
Eh, sorta?

You have to do a lot of things right to get that protection.

many disregarded entities, don't

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/personal-liability-pi... :

There is no real separation between the company and its owners. If the owners fail to maintain a formal legal separation between their business and their personal financial affairs, a court could find that the corporation or LLC is really just a sham (the owners' alter ego) and that the owners are personally operating the business as if the corporation or LLC didn't exist. For instance, if the owner pays personal bills from the business checking account or ignores the legal formalities that a corporation or LLC must follow (for example, by making important corporate or LLC decisions without recording them in minutes of a meeting), a court could decide that the owner isn't entitled to the limited liability that the corporate business structure would ordinarily provide.
When resources are fixed, zero-sum (in resources) thinking is appropriate.
In terms of computer vision (OpenCV)?
>Did you even read my comment?

Uhh... no. Not really.

Having read it now, though, I don't care if I've made what someone else considers to be a mistake. My operating system choice suits me just fine.
Ironically, when I opened this page it showed me this:

https://image.bayimg.com/d3e7f68ca0e50daf6e77a0eb56eb2b6c61e...
How did you know it was epididymitis instead of a tumor?

The mass I have is right on top of the gland, but after an ultrasound it appears to be a tumor.
Certainly some types of data sets can appear very random and radio telescope do produce much data that could certainly qualify as random.

Also with trust issues in entropy for random number generation the viable options for large random chuncks of data start to become more appealing in use for certain tasks.
It shouldn't; if it does, it is most likely that your browser is removing the trailing dot which makes it a FQDN.

Firefox's verdict:

> www.google.com. uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for www.google.com

The fact of the matter is that FQDNs are probably only used in three ways:

1. By accident;

2. As a curio;

3. In complaints about how they don't work properly—badly configured server configurations, invalid HTTPS certificates, &c.
I think the point of plausible deniability applies to the notion that random data on your computer is circumstantial evidence that isn't particularly useful in getting a conviction.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.