skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unemployment is high, wages are low, debt is high, savings are low, and cost of living is high and rising rapidly in the only geographical places which don't suffer from high unemployment and low wages. Consumption is low due to the above factors. Job generation is low. New business founding is low. Taxes are the most burdensome to those who have the least; capital is heavily concentrated at the very top, with most of the bottom 70% owning very little whatsoever. Retirement accounts are being filled slowly (if at all), not filled at all, or withdrawn from prematurely. Mortgages are being reversed in order to liquidate owned shares in exchange for cash.

The upper class has flourished, and is richer than ever before, including the gilded age, with fortunes the size of Rockefeller now common among their ranks. The upper middle class has taken a minor hit, but has largely recovered and is reaping the gains of their investment funds. Middle class families have fallen into instability, and must now accept a lower standard of living, worse education, and high levels of debt. Lower class families have fallen into desperation, and many have their stuff repoed and their homes foreclosed. The underclass is hopelessly trapped working in multiple minimum wage jobs if they are lucky enough to work at all, packed in with a dozen to a household. A growing population at the very bottom lives in utter squalor, frequently in the context of complete municipal anarchy such as in Detroit or Flint.

How hard is it to understand that the economic health of the majority of people in the US is very poor?
Aluminum monocoque construction has been done for production performance cars by various makes for better than twenty years now. Audi, Honda, Ferrari etc.

I wonder where people get this idea that 100+ years of automotive engineering know-how is somehow invalidated by powering the car w/ a battery. "Legacy" indeed.
They could be using some form of homomorphic encryption here, in which case it would still be meaningfully encrypted.
Are there clear definitions? And are these definitions updated to reflect current times?

For example, some younger folks today might have high incomes, but could never buy a home due to asset prices and have most of that go towards rent and student debt.

Compare against our parents generation and even low income families have a decent chance of owning a home and I'd guess lower levels of student debt.

So that said... What does it mean to be middle class in this day and age when income alone may not paint a clear picture?
No, your own health, sanity and money are costs in the equation.

And let's be honest: it's highly improbable that your work is doing anything for the good of humanity. In fact, it's actually very likely that your work (or some constituent part of it) carries negative environmental externalities, e.g. it's bad to do, even worse to do more of. My work certainly isn't essential to the arc of history. So what good is my productivity, especially at these costs?
Thanks. This is wonderful. I just put go on my mac and got this running in ~5 minutes. I am going to do a few images tonight and will share the google photo album as a comment to this comment when I get a chance tonight.

This is very cool. Thanks.
Apart from an strong instinctual drive to love and care for children there's no "knowledge" about how to do that. Studies have shown that mother's brains light up differently in response to cries from her own child, and there's a strong anxiety when it's crying, pleasure when it's happy, etc. (Interestingly enough, I couldn't find any studies done on men, but I don't see any reason that fathers shouldn't react similarly)

But there's no "this is how you rock babies," "this is how you breastfeed," etc. I don't see how that would even work. Genes aren't magical. And I've seen some really clueless mothers...
I'm a little surprised that there's anything left to find on the wreck! I guess I've really underestimated the difficulty of underwater archaeology--I would think an important site discovered in 1900 would have been scraped clean by now.
> What if you destroy the entanglement

That is a very good idea, but doesn't work. The only way to "destroy an entanglement" is to bring the entangled particles back together.

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

or the movie version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

And if you get through those you might enjoy this one too:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
I replied in detail downstream, but as I've said there too, parenting is a personal thing, and I am not out to convince anyone one way or another. I was just amazed at what I read when I bothered to do the research, and it didn't seem too scientific (baby with meat cleaver in bed poster by Milwaukee Health Dept. [1]).

I'll repeat myself a bit here by re-quoting this article, because I think it's important.
"The United States has a higher infant mortality rate than any of the other 27 wealthy countries, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. A baby born in the U.S. is nearly three times as likely to die during her first year of life as one born in Finland or Japan." [2]

Co-sleeping is not the reason for those rates, and if it were it would be more embarrassing for the US, since other countries don't seem to have the same results.

I am from the US. I had my first child in 1997, and my latest in 2014. I am now living in the East Java, Indonesia in a rice-farming village where most of the house have dirt floors. I have raised a kid in NYC, NJ, and now here. I am more worried about King Cobras than co-sleeping risks, and fatal bites are very, very rare for non-snake handlers or performers.

And for the record, I don't like the term co-sleeping; I prefer to say we have a family bed ;)

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/co-sleeping-ad-baby...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/29/our-i...
Forgive my ignorance, but are there any companies that provide proof that they encrypt users' passwords?
Artificial sweeteners don't raise sugar or trigger an insulin response. I thought this until I used a Dexcom and tested it for myself (I'm type 1 diabetic so any changes would be immediately noticed.)
"X happened" is a historical fact. You cannot change the fact. You can wish it were not a fact because then the world would be a more fair just and beautiful place. But your wishes don't matter, the fact still stands. Like millions of dinosaurs wishing the asteroid hadn't hit because it would make their world better, it doesn't matter, the fact still stands.
I spent the weekend working on my Honda, replacing the timing belt, water pump, clutch cylinders. It's been a long time since I've come up for air, so to speak, and spending the entire weekend off the computer was immensely gratifying. I found more satisfaction in fixing my car than I have in anything for a long time. I found myself thinking that perhaps being on the internet constantly has caused me to lose some taste for life.

I'm taking a vacation soon, 9 days with no computer will be a much needed reset.
Unfortunately it looks like it won't be a slam dunk for your particular device.

And this is why I won't attempt to it, since I really don't know what I'm doing. I'd love to use Cyanogenmod but probably won't until I buy a new phone that I feel more comfortable flashing a ROM onto. Looks like I'll just live with crapware for now :)
If you had two users with a very long password, but the first 100 characters were identical, they'd collide.

- Pre-hashing makes this less likely.
- Encoding the pre-hashed value to prevent NUL bytes is important.

But it's a bandaid solution, to be quite honest. We're better served by migrating to Argon2i, which doesn't have these quirks.
> Please explain to me how "moneyed interests" are to blame for all that

Well, in michigan we had a petition to allow voting on legalization recreational marijuana. It received far in excess of the required signatures, and then weeks later a very old rule was applied to the petition by discretion of the government to invalidate the entire petition and leaving not enough time to have it redone before the election deadline. (as in the rule did not legally have to be applied, but government officials decided to apply it anyways)

So this is an example of the government acting opposite of the interests of the people it claims to represent.

> Because from where I'm standing, it sure looks like my third-grade teacher is responsible.

And what gave your third grade teacher that idea? did she watch a movie called reefer madness?

The problem is this back and forth can go all day.

You say that people elected those politicians, and passed those policies, and i would say the reason they held those beliefs is a result of someone else influencing them through half truths, propaganda, etc.

You could say, well people choose the media they consume, but i would say the conglomeration of media companies, and the methods through which information has historically been distributed have always been controlled by moneyed interests. (reefer madness being a perfect example of a propaganda movie that influenced nearly an entire generation)

There are quotes from the nixon era from aides saying that the war on drugs was designing explicitly to fight racial minorities and 'hippies'[1]

Obviously the nature of all of these things is so interconnected, thats its impossible to unravel and reach an objective conclusion. In my opinion its pessimistic to believe that people are so inherently against other people - there is usually some more learned reason that someone would believe things like 'black people are dangerous' or 'all mind altering substances are bad (wait, except caffeine alcohol prescription medications etc.)'

I'm not wearing a tinfoil hat and saying george soros or whoever is controlling the world, just that people's relationship to the truth and their perceptions of things outside of their lived experiences are heavily influenced by the information they consume, which has been controlled by companies since the printing press

[1]http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...
> This really makes me angry and makes me want to boycott their products.

After SuperFish, Omniture, and whatever their third malware scandal was, you still need a reason not to buy Lenovo?
> If you want to live as a technology-free hermit, go right ahead.

That's very nice, but if you want to live as a technology-free non-hermit you naturally would try encourage other people to join you.

You don't have to read their 7000+ word essays, either, if you have so aggressive reactions to their claims.