skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not (just) the vocabulary. Besides a the history it's primarily the inflection system that Romance languages have in common.

Compare for example English with Spanish, Italian and Portuguese:

en es it pt
I go	voy vado vou
He/She goes	va va vai
We go	vamos andiamo vamos
They go	van vanno vao

While the Romance Languages are very similar, English is completely different.
>we become experts at many things, but at the cost of flexibility and speed of learning

It's partly because you are an expert at a unique combination of many things that you have great irreplaceable value. This is threatened by aging diseases even before you die.

Also I don't think that more knowledge makes it harder to learn.
This would be true if knowledge was purely about breadth. However it's really about explanatory depth, and depth ultimately wins. For instance, your mind has formed many connections between those aforementioned different fields of expertise, and some of these ideas reach into yet more fields.
Is solar thermal energy with storage ready to replace coal-fired power?
Good point, I believe the 97th percentile is per capita, not per household.
Awesome project and team. Highly recommended for predictable highspeed throughput. Faster than any other OS distributed processing engine.
One explanation is that for every "person" who leaves the middle class, one goes down a notch and two go up. I say "person" because these are aggregate measures so it's an abstraction of "person".

Example: in energy, technicians move up the scale and perform less physical labor than comparable (if even possible) workers thirty years ago.

The lower classes are hard up against relative diminishing returns on labor. A textile worker, say, still makes what they'd have made in the 1950s in absolute terms. This does not keep up with a general rising standard of living in the US but it works fine in PacRim countries - until it doesn't.
given how 538 seemed to want to be positioned in the market place, I'm pretty disappointed with how similar their model of 'shocking headlines over actual depth' is to what are generally dismissed as low brow competitors

its not actually an informative news source
This is a non-trivial benefit of mortality. Not just in science, but in politics too. Wouldn't it be horrible if, oh, Genghis Kahn was still alive and in charge? Death may limit the good that some people do, but it limits the bad that people do, too, and roughly speaking it seems to be worth the trade-off. Even the most ruthless dictator of the most powerful, untouchable empire will eventually fall to entropy.

(One of the reasons _1984_ is such a nightmare was not it's cruelty and horror, but it's all-too-believable stability, even with human mortality. Orwell's appendix gives a ray of hope, however, when he discusses the fact that human language itself would, in the long run, prevent even that world from continuing indefinitely.)
This is our perpetual messaging conundrum: are we a game company or a recruiting company? Yes.

When we talk to our clients, we're a recruiting company which uses online challenges to a) source and b) pre-qualify very good engineering candidates.

When we talk to engineers, we're a company which makes fun engineering-y things you can do on the Internet. (Hack a stock exchange through it's REST API! Code a market maker! Buffer overrun a C program running on an AVR microprocessor to corrupt a FIX message to steal a billion dollars!) And we can also, potentially, introduce you to a job if that is interesting to you. Our estimation is approximately 95% of our users are not in the market for a job at this exact moment in time.

You can see the two-sided messaging on our website:

For companies: https://www.starfighters.io/approach

For engineers: https://www.starfighters.io/players
>'50-90% of observed positives are false'

if ^ is what he means, he should write that. The term "false-positive" has a very clear definition in medical statistics.
That doesn't mean much, it's just a label. ST3 has been stable (and my main editor) for 2+ years now.

React was 0.15 until recently, and Node was adopted by major companies like Microsoft at 0.xx versions.
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I am curious is the lingua franca English in the office generally? I find it amusing that Estonia's weather was mentioned here, is the winter in Tallin worse than Stockholm or Berlin? Also poor connections? Is that train only? Certainly Ryan Air flies there no?

Are salaries on par with the rest of Europe?
For those in search of a succinct summary of the science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/first-eukaryotes-foun...
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I'm willing to slow down science, in exchange for the lives of everyone on earth.
The king goes longform.
Firstly, there are noise words in there. If there is no other kind of pricing in that context beside product pricing, "product" is useless. If the order of operations is perfectly clear from the program flow, "After" is useless. "But" is a useless conjunction which doesn't add any information to "EmailSent".

This kind of thing can be broken into multiple Booelan variables:

bool pricingUpdated;

bool deliverySucceeded;

bool emailSent;

These can be initialized or assigned at various points in the flow. Then later we can have:

if (pricingUpdated && !deliverySucceeded && emailSent) ...
New on the monthly statement from your lawyer - "Billable MIPS"?
https://github.com/imazen/imageflow works for that and still gives you speed. :P
So let's ask the question, then. What makes progressive social policies (ignoring loaded issues like reproductive options and gun control) so distasteful to some of those who would most benefit?

I'll provide a starting hypothesis for discussion's sake: maybe urban disdain for the suburban and rural lifestyles (exemplified by complaints about "subsidizing" rural areas) turns people off before they hear the good ideas?

An alternative hypothesis based on my own rural extended family: maybe one group decides based on what they are led to believe is practical or effective, while the other group decides based on what they are led to believe is "right" or moral, and the rhetoric of either side cannot penetrate the thought process of the other?
> I would love to know the psychology behind this phenomenon.

Laziness. It's usually faster to ask someone a question than to look up the answer. I used to do this on IRC when learning a new programming language and it saved me a lot of time. If you want an even faster answer, you guess the wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law).
On this topic I'd like to plug a book that really drove this home for me: "SQL Antipatterns" by Bill Karwin.
That is a useless definition in terms of policy. We don't care which legal profession people have. We care about the value they produce and the pay they receive.

Class has vastly different meanings in the US or India etc. As long as the meaning was clear that should be enough for any reasonable person. Especially when it's a very common definition. Whining about it is little better than trolling.

PS: The original definition of middle class even included working class people. Working class people are not serfs and they are not aristocracy so by default they are middle class. As the US got rid of slavery, has no real aristocracy, and calling everyone middle class is pointless, so the more reasonable definition is based on income. It's even been used in that context for 100+ years.
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> Plus, the US doesn't really have classes the way the OP is concerned "middle class" will be interpreted.

The US (like other mixed economies, which retain a basically capitalist system of property and overall structure, despite some public policy measures to address some of the discontents of capitalism) does, in fact, have all the classical relations to a capitalist economy: it does have people who derive support primarily through returns on capital to which others' rented labor is applied (capitalists/bourgeoisie/upper class), it does have small business owners, yeoman farmers (though those are a dying breed), and managers and other elite wage laborers with substantial outside investments who live by a mix of capital and labor (petit bourgeoisie/middle class), and it does have people who are principally dependent on wage labor for their sustenance with no significant capital holdings (proletariat/working/lower class).

And, while the income-based breakdown is common in the media, it also fairly consistently conflicts with people's expectations of what "middle class" should mean in lifestyle terms, which is largely shaped by cultural associations with the "middle class" that are tied to the traditional middle class rather than any "middle income" group (and to a time when the middle income group was consistently progressing toward the middle class, making moving into the middle class a not-unreasonable aspirational goal for much of the working class.)

So, you also see lots of comments every time there is an article about the income-based "middle class" about how the income cutoffs conflict with what people perceive to be necessary to be "middle class". Because those "middle class" expectations are increasingly out-of-line with any middle income group, because the progress which made "middle class" seem to be even within the reasonable aspirational grasp of the middle income group stalled decades ago.
+1. My stream of thought is "it's some game and I guess trading is involved? Is this some sort of old school BBS game? Fuck, I have no clue.."
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The Greenland stats seem to imply that the actual killer is the corresponding awfully bright summers. As someone who lived slightly south of the arctic circle for almost half my life, I'd be inclined to agree with that theory.
Everybody who drives faster than you is crazy and everybody who drives slower is an idiot. ( George Carlin, I believe )

Everybody who makes more* than you is rich, and everybody who makes less* is poor. Same basic idea.

*say twice as much or half as much or something...
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It's pretty good for when you basically want an animated GIF with sound. Works well for cute animal clips that wind up on Tumblr.

But I don't see how you get a viable business model out of that.
I can't imagine why you would need a cloned body. With the level of technology needed to make that work, you should just be able to rejuvenate the one you already have. The body is already self-repairing, the problem is that the aging process makes this mechanism faulty. That can be fixed. If your cells can easily grow and multiply from a zygote into a mature adult, there's no reason you can't fix the flaws which prevent total rejuvenation. It might require nanites though. But that still sounds easier than a brain transplant and then manipulating the brain to learn like a 5yo again.
> The joke is that the rural people are oppressing themselves.

That's a bit smug[0].

>"Urban elites" have long advocated for policies that would benefit the rural poor but the white rural poor are dead set against any policy that would also benefit black people.

Certainly these urban elites could enact these beneficial policies for their (largely black) urban poor in their own cities without the interference of the white rural poor. How well is that working out?

[0]http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberali...
> Northeast Coast, this is barely enough to buy a house (and I hope you like driving / riding the train for a few hours).

That's not true, I live outside Manhattan and you can buy a very nice house for $250,000. I'm not in NYC (New Jersey) but close to the city. Well, it's a condo, not a house.

Also, what's wrong with riding the train? More people should be riding the train.

> A better analysis would be to draw the line somewhere in the the $200,000 - $500,000 range

That's wild! No, that's approaching upper class.

> Sad to say, there are many areas of the country where living on $125,000 still definitely sucks.

Proof? I don't think this is true unless you have no idea how to manage your money.

I can't imagine a single place where it would suck to live on ~$7,000 take home pay a month...
Well .. 18.5K goes into the 401K, leaving 57K. Even if we saved 50% of what we earn, we'll barely be able to save 250K over a decade. Given the pace of house price increases, it seems like a hopeless situation :(
Yeah, I would be interested to know how they stack up. Seems to me that a lot of power is saved by not lighting the screen up brighter than the sun. The updates take a lot of power, I thin, because the whole screen has to be refreshed with each keystroke. But that's the same as with LCDs, isn't it?
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All very true. Perhaps he mistyped, not sure. I'm just pointing out what was written and factually inaccurate.
>Anywhere you would consider going there will be some government trying to dictate how you live your life and take a portion of your livelihood, and anywhere that you might avoid that you are usually risking that in conjunction with a humvee full of armed militants storming your home and murdering you.

It's almost like the two are related!
Why would it be unsurprising? The upper class income range went up, so it's actually even more surprising that of the 3% that went from the middle to the upper class they had a higher bar to reach.
The chance of death at a given age oughtn't be a bell curve. The chance of me (33) dying at 60 are much higher than the chance of my coworker (65) dying at 60. There's a shear drop off at the age in question. After that point you have 0 chance of dying at the particular age, it's not a bell curve.

So I feel like I still don't understand what you're getting at in your example.
While sticking the poor with AI lawyers seems morally dubious, anything to get back to majority trials not plea bargains in criminal cases might be worth it.
That is fair. I don't have a specific suggestion on how to implement it, which layer (language, IDE, some connected service) or where to do it. I just know that current coding practice must be wrong.
Come on HN, this comment was answering the parent directly. Unless you've been under a rock for the last 4 years there's no excuse to downvote even if you think it's still low-probability...
I agree. I know people love patio11's writing but... it's always such a long read that things gets obfuscated.
You answered your own question: such abstract (not meaningless) variables make sense when the code is completely generic. Most code however is somewhere between generic and specific, literal values, and variable names should represent that semantically.

Also, I would even argue that x and y are not meaningless in this context. There's a reason you didn't write:

function flip(gnarf) {
return function(t, m) {
return gnarf(m, t);
};
}

function compose(bip, boop) {
return function(blep) {
return bip(boop(blep));
};
}

The sequences {a, b, c}, and {i, j, k}, {m, n}, {p, q}, {x, y, z} are all well-established "abstract" variable names that most of us remember from high school algebra, and all have different baggage and expectations:

- a, b, and c tend to be generic labels for things, not numbers

- i, j, and k are used for indices and tend to be natural numbers (or more rarely for complex numbers/quaternions, where they are floats)

- m and n are used in matrices and also are used for natural numbers

- in maths, p and q are often fractions

- x, y, and z tend to represent coordinate systems and/or floating numbers

We can combine this to create variable sequences, with subtly different meanings. For example: compare (x1, y1), (x2, y2) with (xa, ya), (xb, yb). To me, if I see foo(x1, y1, x2, y2) that implies either top left, bottom right in an axis aligned bounding box, or perhaps the first point and the second point of a line or vector, or some other situation where the two points are somehow connected in one object or shape. Using (xa,ya) and (xb, yb) however suggests I'm dealing with two distinct points.
I would beg to differ. The monetary system might be described as something that is trying to abstract time and labour in the way you describe. But money itself is just a token of exchange.

The monetary system, is an attempt to use money, and market price setting to solve the problem you describe - and that problem is essentially NP complete, so what markets and market price setting, in conjunction with an enormous number of local decisions made in response to those price signals are doing is trying to find a reasonably efficient approximate solution.

It's an untested assumption that the monetary system can actually do that without any regulation. There are good reasons to think that it can't, especially over long periods.

Completely agree about the involvement in local politics - it's easy to be an armchair economist, and ignore the reality that at the end of the day the single most important government function is that the garbage is collected regularly.
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I think that's partially intentional: if you can't figure out what Starfighter is, you aren't the target audience.

That's not a criticism/snark. It's a self-selection strategy for Starfighter to attract appropriately-hacky candidates, albeit one I do not agree with.
Yeah, no way you could get a business out of GIFs right?

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/16/giphy-closes-55-million-ser...

(In all seriousness, I think the recent GBoard is an example of how gifs can play a central role in the user's OS, which is prime real estate)
What you are referring to is what the Wall Street Journal once called the "HENRYs" - High Earner, Not Rich Yet. Or in other words, "once I spend all of my money, I have nothing left!".

This is an argument that can be made at virtually any income level. Consider the following article and this really charming infographic they put together:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/six-figure-incomesand-facing-fin...

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AE118B_05WIc_G_...

(infographic from http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873236896045782201...)

After all - $400k isn't really that much, after you've paid taxes and put away $22k per year for retirement and the kids' college, and after you're done spending $87k per year on a mortgage, $25k per year on property taxes, $40k per year on maintenance and utilities, $30k per year on groceries, $21k per year on dining out, $26k per year on vacations, $24k per year on car expenses, $12k on country club dues, $10k per year on children's sports, and $9k per year on gifts and donations. Why in fact you're $10k in the hole!

I don't quite know how to say this other than bluntly, but $125k is a long ways above median household income everywhere in the country. For comparison, the median household income for New York City is $50,711 and the median household income for the San Francisco Metro Area is $83,222. Most people live off less than $125k, don't pretend it's impossible. Expenses tend to find a way to encompass available income unless you make a deliberate effort to stop that - even for people making $400k per year.

$125k isn't "rich" in the sense that you could quit working and live off the income from your investments or commute every weekend from your villa in the Caribbean, but it's vastly more than most people will ever see, and it's enough to be totally financially secure _if you choose to be_.

This is really the distinction the article is getting at: some people use "lower/middle/upper" in the sense of income quantiles, other people use it in the sense of working-vs-rentier classes (i.e. proletariat-vs-bourgeois). But there's always been a group of HENRYs - Marx labelled them as the "petit bourgeois".
You're assuming the AI lawyer would be worse than a person.
What false premise? Fivethirtyeight is not wrong. In this case, with seemingly reliable tests (>90% accuracy), only 27% of positive tests are correct. If you're talking about something that has an invasive next step, like a biopsy, and you decide to increase the number of tests done each year, then you are going to also be increasing the number of unnecessary invasive procedures each year as well.

Take mammograms. It's a fairly non-invasive test for breast cancer. Everyone wants to reduce breast cancer, right? Unfortunately, the data is very much like fivethirtyeight's example. In a 10 year period, 1 in 2 women are harmed by a false positive and 1 in 5 were harmed by an unnecessary surgical procedure. What about the lives saved? None.[0] Screening mammograms only end up harming patients.

While it may make sense intuitively that more screening must be better, the data generally fails to back it up.

[0] http://www.thennt.com/nnt/screening-mammography-for-reducing...
Yeah. Making over $100k is not "roughing it." It's weird to see people say that.
I block off three mornings a week, and all day Friday for "actual work". I like to start early, and have no desire to work till 9pm (sometimes it happens, but it will be at home and because I really want to finish something).

Most people are pretty accommodating (and I work with lots of very noisy salespeople).
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That's because you and I have no idea what it's like to be part of the capitalist class. Perhaps studying the capitalist class is silly, but if we wanted to, this is an accurate description of it's members. Obviously 2-4 million isn't "poor" but it isn't quite capitalist class. More like upper-middle class saver. 10 million is entry level to capitalist class
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Curious, how often does this work for your company?

Anytime I'm given non-trivial homework for a job interview, I decline because there are a dozen other companies that can determine my competence in a few hours of interviews.

I understand that hiring is risky for startups, but this approach seems excessive for what it is supposed to determine. It seems like you could get nearly all the same principal information about a person's talent by giving them an even more simple assignment, like writing a method to determine if two dates overlap.

A lot of what you're looking for is to see if a developer follows industry best-practices. It's just as easy to ask them, "what are some security/design considerations that need to be accounted for when creating a login page." You get the same information but in much less time.
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That's just warmed over Malthus.

There's another class of (more depressing, IMO) dystopias like "Blade Runner", where people are nothing more than grist for the mill in large hyper-metropolises.
I guess I should know this guy, but I don't. When I see the picture and a post on Google+ it hardly seems like something that I should take seriously. I know the fake mustache is there to show what a fun guy this is, but if you're posting something you want people to take seriously, post it seriously.
Even if you're working on a project by yourself this is still terrible practice! I know when I've done this and had to come back to my code weeks later, I've absolutely loathed my past self for writing opaque code.
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FWIW — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11684595
In common discourse in America, at least, "middle-class" doesn't really seem to mean either of these things. It generally seems to refer to people who are not recognizably in poverty, but are not recognizably wealthy either — think of the stereotypical '50s atomic family that you've seen on so many TV shows, which owns a home and a car and can reliably put food on the table, but is still strongly dependent on wages and can't afford a large amount of luxuries.

So when people talk about the decline of the middle class, I think they mean a decline in people who are not obviously poor or rich, and instead fall "in the middle."
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In what ways is this different from ECS? It's strange to me that you can do the same thing in slightly different ways.