skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have grown increasingly skeptical that the "stagnant incomes" narrative is accurate.

This is a puzzling politicization of a topic that is basically uncontroversial among economists. In fact, the only thing the experts can't agree on is what's causing it[0].

Your analysis of the situation -- "Americans have too many toys to be considered poor" -- is staggeringly short-sighted. Rising cost of housing and medical care in the face of stagnating wages is a legitimate concern on many levels and informs the way our government crafts financial policy. It has huge implications across multiple sectors, including and especially the vaunted "tech sector."

What happens when no one can afford to save for college and they incur massive debts? What effect does that have on the housing market, typically considered the bellweather of economic health?

What happens when a generation (or more) never gets around to saving for retirement?

What happens when a generation can't afford healthcare, even when its subsidized by the government?

Income inequality is an important conversation to have; I urge you to not be blinded by superficial indicators of wealth. Mainly for your own sake - your retirement account is probably dependent on some crucial policy decisions being made based on this discussion.

[0]http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...
You haven't shown any light here; only given a description of events so far.

>CTRL+F "free to anyone"

Complete the context for, " who can't afford it". Do you know where I can find Shkreli's rationing guidelines?
I suppose it depends on what kind of society you want to live in. Is a family something that should only be available to those who can afford it? Should we compare having children with buying a new pair of shoes or having a car? Or is it something that we want everyone in society to have available to them: for example like quality healthcare or legal assistance?

I'm not trying to pose a rhetorical question. I think this is literally a choice that societies have to make. On one extreme, society does not have to cater to anyone. We could collect no taxes and have no shared services. We could have no rules about how companies should interact with their employees or society at large. At the other extreme we could make everything a shared service and have society dictate how people get access to things.

Of course neither of these extremes is desirable for most people. We have to decide where to draw the line and what we think is good for our society. Your comment seems to imply that the choice in this case is obvious: if you can't afford children you shouldn't have them. However, I think you can imagine the suffering that could impose upon people who have little chance of being able to support a family by their own means.

Is a child a luxury like new shoes? Or is something that we want everyone (regardless of class or wealth) to be able to have (understanding that society will have to foot the bill)?

Even though I have couched the question in a slightly loaded way, you might be surprised that I am personally torn by this issue and can see huge drawbacks for both approaches.
Screw your redirect nonsense...

$ curl -I http://eepurl.com/bGNPCf
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: nginx/1.2.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge,chrome=1
Location: http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=faa8eb4ef3a111cef92c4f3d4&id=ba47a59781
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 02:51:43 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: _AVESTA_ENVIRONMENT=prod; path=/
$ curl -i 'http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=faa8eb4ef3a111cef92c4f3d4&id=ba47a59781'
# a bunch of Urchin Tracker stuff

EDIT: eepurl.com and campaign-archive1.com are both Mailchimp garbage.
from anyone out there feeling the pressure - i did only well enough in highschool to get into a halfway decent college (good public school), and then graduated there with a 2.0 out of guilt of wasting my parents' money. i literally had the minimum required GPA to graduate - not a coincidence. i'm not saying you should do this, but it's what happened, and those were the choices i made at that (very) young age.

i'm doing just fine. people end up all over the map and it usually has very little to do with what they did in school. i know academic overachievers who never got anywhere in life, and total slackers who found their niche a few years later. my co-founder is a drop-out, not because of grand ambitions but because he just said 'fuck this' a few months into it.

the trick is to find something to do something well (and do well in), it doesn't have to be school. it doesn't even have to be making money

(and if you follow the logic when rationalizing over-pressuring kids in school, it always goes back to money. always.)
I wonder BTW if similar attacks has been tried against 40-bit export suites for example.
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If there's anyone sensitive to the plight of a second language speaker, it's me. I can completely empathize with the struggle.

It probably wasn't the best way to phrase it and it's likely a losing battle anyway. I've found native speakers (which I believe the person I was responding to was) using this form more and more on boards such as this. Mistakes with uncountable vs plural distinctions are also increasingly common. E.g., "there's many reasons" instead of "there are many reasons".

As someone who spent years helping people with a variety of English problems including grammar, it's difficult to stop. I'll try to restrain this kind of comment to the articles themselves. There it's in the author's best interest to write in a way that doesn't cause the 30% or so of the population with stronger grammatical sensitivities to discount them.
I don't know. The quotes are referenced. It's irrelevant anyway as there are no shortage of religious references to the practice.
I've had the same exact experience. They locked my account for weeks without response to my emails, and when they finally get back to me they told me that I'm "ineligible to use their service" but without ever a reason why.

The entire ordeal was really frustrating and I would strongly recommend against their service also.
Context: cluster of suicides in Palo Alto schools

Recent article in the Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sili...

An article from Vice in September:

http://www.vice.com/read/student-teaching-0000748-v22n9

NPR interview with a student from May:

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/10/405694832/in-palo-altos-high-p...

SF Magazine article in May:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-are-Palo-Alto-s-ki...
Likely an Indian instructor. Using "he" is commonly said for "it" in Hindi, because there is no actual word for "it", it's inferred by context.

Not 100% sure. But otherwise, I also have never heard of a gendered program component.
You see no difference between a life-saving medication and a smartphone? No difference? Not even a little bit?
I love the idea that it is the New Yorkers who are financially naive. Like what kind of upside down narrative is that?

"Ha Ha let's go fleece some of those hayseeds from NYC. Rubes & their money are soon parted when they start playing with the big boys!"
Amazon workspaces + what's called a zero client

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/workspaces-zero-client/
The extension developers sell the right to embed arbitary tracking code in the extension. That code puts it on a site which arbitrary users can pay to get access to. Still not worried?
I'm genuinely curious what the uses cases poster uses a bidet for, aside from washing their genitals. It seems like a great thing to have and I definitely want one, but its not a particularly glamorous device.
Also, you generally want as many systems "off" as you can manage during the flight. There's just less that can go wrong if there is less going on.
I just turn the hot water on in the sink next to me, wet and warm up my hand, and get to work. Way better than TP.
Or how about just taking a full year off. The guy is worth billions and basically never has to work again. He is also not the Steve Jobs of FB either. It's not like he massively contributes on a day to day level. What's the point of being so rich if you can't spend some time with your kid and wife.
Competition is a choice. Some say it's for losers[1].

Either way, this is melodrama. Certain goals really do require sacrifices. But everyone choses their own personal goals. I do remember being a teenager, and I do remember that it was difficult to realize this. That doesn't make it any less true.

[1] WSJ, "Competition is for Losers" http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...
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It's more than that, unless you consider investing your physical health part of the deal too.

As a current mechanical engineering junior, the expectations have gotten really quite insane. In order to graduate on time you have to be taking 15-18 credits of the hardest classes offered at university. Right now I'm in an 18 credit semester, and next I will be taking 17 credits. Currently I'm in fluid mechanics, finite element analysis, engineering statistics, thermodynamics, and advanced multivariable calculus.

I average about 4-5 hours of sleep. The level of stress associated with this major is making me lose my hair at 20 years old, and I've also developed this weird problem where I profusely vomit several times a day.
so basically a .plan ?
A bigger worry is all tye autogenerated SEO content out there. Try and search any SEO related terms and a lot of the time you get spammy articles.
When it comes to youthful ambitions, time is the ultimate equalizer.
I am strongly grammatically sensitive. And although I am not a native English speaker, I claim that the sentence is grammatically correct. It's just a shortened sentence form. Which is often appropriate on forums and similar.
I would never say, "word is inappropriate". I would say, "This word is inappropriate". It's clearer and there's almost no cost to using a well-formed sentence.

Similarly, I find comments where the single word "this" is used as an entire sentence detract from a forum based site. I can talk to u in allthememes! and sms abbreviations, but I chose to save that register for chat and look for something a bit more correct on forums. I readily admit that HN has been slowly trending away from that for nearly its entire existence.
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Is that paternity leave or maternity?
I don't think that data corruption was a huge issue for Google back then (really early on). Corrupt data? Big whoop. Re-index the internet in another X hours, and it's gone. I doubt they had much persistent storage as most of their data was transient and well, the Internet.

Also, I still see "fire hazard" when I look at the early Google racks. No idea how Equinix let them get away with it. Too much ivory tower going on there. Not enough "you know we're liable if we burn down the colo with that crap, right?"
My experience through high school was very similar. From grades 9 to 11, I woke up at 6 each day to take a bus to another school to take an engineering class. I then had 7 other periods of the day, each with a 43 minute class (by 11th grade, I gave up lunch to take another class, so I had 8 consecutive periods of class), where teachers assigned ridiculous amounts of homework and made incredibly difficult tests to somehow test us.

In twelfth grade, I stopped having to wake up at six, but I then replaced that with six AP classes. Somehow, I managed to do well on all the exams, but I was always stressed, always on edge, always anxious. On top of this, I had all of those college apps, and since I was overly ambitious, I applied to like 20 schools, almost all of whom had lengthy, frustrating supplements.

Then, of course, there were the extracurriculars, all those bullshit clubs and activities I did to plaster on my college application, and the added pressure of every other honors student competing for grades, classes, research positions, internships, and leadership positions, and all the other nonsense that seemed to matter so much back then. School would feel like a pressure cooker, where the tension would just build and build without reprieve.

And then there were all the normal social pressures of high school. Were you invited to parties, or were you not? Did you drink? Did you smoke? Were you getting laid, or were you not? Who were you taking to prom/junior prom/spirit week dance/freshman dance? Were you "cool," or were you not? This dissipated a bit by senior year, as people matured, but the underlying tension was always there.

I thought that March of senior year would be my happiest moment. All my efforts, all of my sacrifices, would pay off. And they did, in a way. I got into multiple fantastic Computer Science schools.

But that joy I thought I'd feel never materialized. I'd idealized accomplishing something, of getting into a top university, so much, that the actual accomplishment could never really compare. All I really felt was emptiness, and I sinking feeling that I'd wasted a fuckload of time.

Now, here I am in college, where everything feels pretty similar. People compete over internships instead of colleges, but nothing has really shifted. The competition is just a lot harder. But, I'm a junior now in college, and I think my experience here has been much better. I've learned to finally stop giving so many fucks about everyone else, and focusing on what I want. I think its brought me better results too.

Sometimes though, I do wonder: what's the point of all of this? Why do we chase after prestige and money as if they're all-solving panaceas? And what am I going to do after I graduate, get that "amazing" job I've been striving for, and don't have any set goals to lust for? What will I do next?
This write-up makes me want to check out Otto again.

Initially, I checked it out but found that, with Node projects, a VM feels heavy and bloated, especially with boot times and constantly recompiling.

For LAMP projects, this is par for the course, it seems.
My mother is cultish about Toto toilets. The sad truth is that it rubbed off on my wife and me and we're replacing the toilets in our house with them. Not fancy ones, mind you -- just the base model efficient flush ones. The swirly flush design in the bowl is awesome.
There is a bigger picture happening here, something to do with ever-present parental guidance that didn't exist in my childhood and is outlined by the work of Kennair and Sandseter [1] and documented by Roger Hart. [0],[2],[3]

[0] "The Overprotected Kid" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605059

[1] "The Anti-Phobic Effects of Thrilling Experiences" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10605272

[2] "Interview With Roger Hart" http://www.licweb.com/hpcc/v4n1/roger.html

[3] Shorts from Roger Harts film taken in Vermont '75 (http://www.der.org/films/vermont-kids.html)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgzZN9aM8A

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te6wLhxm4dg

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hobQ3EnHI8o
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Education in Asia, especially the main cities in the developed nations (Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul etc. ) is pretty much exactly the same. There's many purposes to an education, manifest and overt ones. For example, keeping youths neatly congregated and managed in singular locations, socialisation into specific social archetypes of value etc. We may say that an education is about Finding Your Passion and Being An Educated Person or to Engage Civil Society. But that's pretty much just what we're saying. Tax dollars are the votes at hand, and capitalist society really doesn't value An Education over a populace well-educated to obtain economically-productive jobs that produce tangible wealth.

We want to reverse this trend (overly competitive schooling systems) as much as we want to value philosophers and humanities scholars and artists. Enough to say it, but not quite enough to pour copious amounts of money into it. As students we're told to shoot for the sky. Study harder. Get straighter As. That's best for (capitalist) society. Every human resource neatly and fully expended. Maybe things will change when the data illustrates how people who like their jobs or areas of study are more productive. But that's a big if. The status quo seems easier.
Hmm... I wouldn't have put the period between "form" and "which" in your comment either. Doing so made your last sentence a sentence fragment.

What's your native language? Your English appears to be at least very near native.
Or it means they lazy load each contact as you scroll through your contact list, so that scrolling through the contact list once = 150 "accesses"
You should talk to a school counsellor about the load. What is the worst that can happen if you don't graduate on time? I'm asking because i don't actually know...

Talk to a doctor about the other problems you're having - if it's stress related you'll at least have some evidence to back you up if you discuss workload with your school.
Because the consequence of failure in most desktop scenarios is low, and doesn't justify the cost for mainstream use cases.

It does matter for stuff like big databases and ERP.
> The alternative to not having these high tech weapons is a man shooting another man to death.

The other, much better alternative is to stop aggressive military actions entirely and go home.
This is really fascinating, and I've heard similar stories from my younger cousins about maintaining multiple accounts on FB, Instagram, etc.

"Real" social media = your fake life

"Fake" social media = your real life

edit:

Although, as I think about this, it's not much different from those of us who are a generation or two removed from the people in the story.

I was on a call with a salesperson from a large company last week, so I googled him to put a face to a name.

His linkedin featured a professional picture with a suit and tie, paragraphs written in the third person (like account executives have biographers?), and we had a dozen mutual connections in common. Connected with 500+ people.

His facebook profile told a very different story of vacations, beach voleyball, parties, family events, and life. Connected with 100 people.
But you don't understand: that's what everyone else in the program is doing too.
I went through my Chrome extensions today and removed all that were not from Google or EFF. A bit painful but I thought I should do it.
Actually it's pretty trivial. You can always just have your render function be just a static div, set a ref to the div, and do setup in componentDidMount and updates in componentWillUpdate. Since the render function will always return a trivially identical subtree, it will never change that DOM node. Of course, if your component moves in the HTML hierarchy, your animation may restart, but that's unlikely in most use cases.
Some would say it is a bet, not an investment.
Yes. And thousands have died in death camps to bootstrap our modern cariology. We should be grateful to all people who died in the past providing us data and knowledge, and to honor them we should use it in the best way we can, so that no one else has to die.
Python's map and filter already run over iterators. If you're talking about creating filters that are composable, so that you could do

filter1 = filter(predicate1) # curried filter
filter2 = filter(predicate2) # curried filter
pipeline = compose(filter1, filter2)
pipeline(<generator of some kind>)

and make it so that the sequence of operations will be

for el in some_generator:
if predicate1(el) and predicate2(el): <accumulate value>

Then I would say defining them in this way is useful and important--transducers are exactly one way of doing this! A critical aspect I didn't go into detail on is the idea of a take function. In the github repo, T.take(3) is the portion that allows the transducer to operate of an infinite stream of values.

This is the piece your workflow example would need to take into account. How could I apply a filter followed by something that takes 3 passing values from an infinite sequence? I'm sure you could come up with a way, and it would be worth comparing to the transducer approach :).

(it's worth noting that currying map, filter, etc.. are very complimentary to the transducer approach)
It was a great investment and a great twelve weeks :)
>Why do you like it?

Because everyone knows real unicorns have an aura of otherworldly beauty and carry an innate magic that shields them from all but the most innocent of maidens.

So the term "unicorn" completely fails to match "overvalued Silicon Valley company".
So you're suggesting a sort of eradication of the poor over a generation due to the lack of ability to bear and support a child?
I'd say this only holds for ~70%, although it's likely geographically skewed - I'm in Seattle, you're in SF.

I've interviewed (and been hired, and been successful) at many great companies where we didn't do specific algorithm implementations on a whiteboard during the loop.

I would certainly not throw out a promising candidate because they couldn't remember specifics on a certain algorithm.
It's state run (part of the unemployment/disability system). The company really has no choice...

I'm not trying to patronize you, but it sounds like you should be looking for a new job!

Edit: Here's a HN thread where I asked "where should we move to?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10103373
Here's a great graphic on delta-v needed to get all over the solar system (including various orbits), by the way.

https://i.imgur.com/SqdzxzF.png
This should only be happening in your final year when you're doing multiple final engineering design projects at once. You need to rethink how you learn, or your health is fucked.
Clearly, your experience was not universal.
I'm mobile, so apologies in advance for the lack of citation, but as I recall from his most recent open letter, it's free to incomes up to 500% of the poverty line and the uninsured.
During my physics undergrad, several of my lecturers were German speaking and would refer to algebraic objects as "this guy". e.g. "We take the derivative of this guy and we get blah". Any language which is gendered would probably have this issue when translated to English.
I haven't used this, but you might want to check out Bodymovin:

http://codepen.io/airnan/details/PqjwYM/
https://github.com/bodymovin/bodymovin
I had the misfortune of working at a company that chose to get us lunches from Zesty. I endured more varieties of kale preparation (and avocado which I also dislike unless made into guacamole) in a month than in my entire previous life. So many things were great about that job, but I was actually dreading lunch on most days.
Given that browser JS has no way to interface with /dev/urandom, I think it is a mistake for V8 not to make the only random number generator available to browser JS secure by default.

Of course, on Node.js that is a different issue.
Your body is telling you to stop going down that path that you're going down. Ignore those signals and you'll be on your way to an early grave.

It is okay. I graduated at 25. The world doesn't stop if you don't graduate on time. Your world will stop, however, if you die from a body decimated by stress and lack of sleep.
Has this not always been the case for engineering majors? I seem to recall that graduating in 5 years was pretty much the norm for engineers.
It's been a long time since I was in education, but it seems to be that the source of the stress is having to take endless exams. Something imposed from on high on the teachers as demonstration of their competency.
Fantastic twenty-four for me -- I went the HIR route. Totally worth every moment.
So I'm in the process of remodeling a bathroom and spent a bit of time at a toilet/tub place recently. Went into it feeling the same way you did, however while I was there, recently after lunch, patiently following my wife around I did have the chance to use their restroom with one of these fancy toilets installed.

From that visit I have come to the conclusion that we currently live like savages compared to the Japanese.