skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4% by population of course, which is what you meant, but I think 40% of the world by wealth. While I understand what you mean by saying there are new middle classes being created from the other 96%, it seems like, absent another even more catastrophic economic screwup than we put ourselves through 8 years ago, American domination of the world market isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Will be interested to see studies of cultural effects as time goes on.
"Seems like all they wanted is an exclusive heads-up on work they neither commissioned or supported in any other way."

The takeaway, for me, was that the industry group seemed to have a very entitled attitude. I wonder how the author would have reacted if approached for a paid speaking engagement.

I don't do security research, but I can understand the motivation of putting my own interests (be they reputation, or getting paid) ahead of public interest. If I don't put myself first how is my work sustainable?
"They look like they only do the minimal effort possible for Android not to die"

I can understand some Android users have frustration over carrier issues. But every version I have used has been a significant improvement over the prior, especially under the hood. I suppose one can argue that Android allows for too much end user customization (directly or by third party) but I would rather suffer that than the alternative.

Android also runs on old harware. My LG G2, ancient by many measures, runs Android 7.1.1 via AICP and is more responsive in every way than the original stock 4.3. Unless I shatter the screen, there is no reason to replace this phone. Granted, custom ROMs are beyond grandma but for anybody with marginal tech know-how there are step-by-step guides to upgrade. Yet, iPhone owning friends with older models first complain about iOS updates being 'slow' and then eventually run to the store to "upgrade" their phone to the latest iVersion.

IMHO to say Google does just the minimum, especially compared to iOS, is not really the case.
Norivg's advice seems better than the entire article. And it's probably best to be skeptical of anything that insists you should start with X - that tends to reflect the author's own experience rather than anything fundamental.
I'd prioritise high speed rail over more efficient air travel. But rail is not always feasible.
Let’s Close the Buffer Zoo
I'm going to disagree. Both Republican and Democratic parties are effectively part of the government. If you get legalistic, you've got me, legally they're not. But the too-entrenched-to-fail nature of the two parties makes them part of the government. I'll give the example of the Colorado gubernatorial election in 2012. The Republican status quo candidate totally flamed out in the primaries, leaving a weird, not-quite-tea-party R candidate. He sank like a rock in the general due to an amazing number of personal narrative inconsistencies, bizarre public statements and other oddities. Tom Tancredo, noted Republican insurgent, ran on the American Constitution Party ticket, and finished a strong 2nd. The ACP was then a "major party" according to Colorado state law. The ACP got nothing out of it, they were able to make no dent in the next elections. Republican Party assumed it's semi-governmental role in the next elections. The Big Two parties are part of the government for all intents and purposes.
The assumption being that this is not how people want to experience it?

If there's so much crap, maybe I want to be able to complain about it.

People might act on the tsunami of crap in manners that may not be profitable for Facebook.

The solution to undesirable, stupid, homeless, uneducated, etc etc isn't to hide it from your vision.
I agree that this is a problem. I have been paying attention to the news on executive appointments that require confirmation, because I have a Republican senator I can call to encourage him to brave the populist backlash and stand up for his values in those votes.
Right, so don't present to the GSMA for free; offer an exorbitant but plausible rate for the presentation.
I spent the last year getting 95% of my news from The Economist's leaders and the world this week. Did I know about every mass shooting soon after it happened? No. But I spent a half hour a week and could speak reasonably competently about the election.

More importantly: the news didn't consume me like it swallowed some of my friends
agree here. I say kudos to GSMA for even PAYING ATTENTION that the talk was planned, and reaching out ahead of time. It's not like they were asking them not to present.

I find there are quite a few folks in security who tend to be glory-seeking drama queens.. More than you might find in mainstream IT/Development. There are still plenty of good ones though, who silently discover and squash with little fanfare. Not sure what that is.. I guess it runs a similar vein to all of those disgruntled angsty network engineers as well.

I'm curious if other industries have similar role associations with character traits (e.g.: product safety, FDA, OSHA inspectors all being disgruntled negative nellies)?
Can't say factually it would work here, but this makes me pine for the days of Blackberry Desktop Manager and its very granular backup/wipe/restore abilities.

I no longer do IT support for mobile devices, so I'm not sure what the current abilities are, but when I stopped in ~2012 the only options for both iPhones and Android were basically full wipes and restores. All or nothing. With the Blackberry you could backup/wipe/restore only SMS, or only contacts, or only calendar, etc. Could also easily transfer exactly the data you wanted to a new phone.
From observation, it also seems that people feel great about themselves and have done their part as a citizen of humanity after reading news, "being informed" (and maybe a share on FB).

I don't have data to prove it, but it seems intuitive that this results in them taking less real action?
Isn't this just a way of trying to boost iPhone 7s/8 sales by cutting supply of previous gen?
Cost of Iraq war boggles my mind. (and makes me barf)

You hear that number trillion dollars so often that you become numb to it, but the annual tax revenue for u.s. was somewhere around 2.8 trillion.

Just imagine that. 90 million working Americans, from poor to filthy rich, working entire year, some paying quarter or third of their earnings, some companies paying billions in tax. And still amount amount to less than $3 trillion.
Serious question (because I'm ignorant): What sets of skills are in high demand in those 4 or 5 metropolises but nowhere else?
Nice idea! Unfortunately, here's how to solve pretty much any game in <3sec: firstword|secondword|thirdword|...

you can usually stop typing every word after ~3 chars (no other ones will match).
I'd like to disagree with the title of this blog post.

I did something like this in 2016, learnt Clojure, OCaml, Haskell, Go and Racket. Took Dan Grossman's excellent Coursera course on learning language fundamentals and paradigms across Ruby/ML/Racket. Though I can code basic to medium level toy programs in all these languages now I wish I had followed Dave Thomas' (of Pragmatic Programmer fame) advice of concentrating on only one language a year.

My advice would be pick only one language for 2017 and then think and code only in that language for the year (for your learning projects - of course you'll be using other language for your $DAY_JOB).

In 5 years you'll know how to use 5 tools really really well and your brain will be much better aware of which of these tools is the right tool for which kinds of problems.
> I see this in a friend of mine. He's a young PhD Machine Learning Researcher with top credentials (Ivy League, top publications, won awards in his field).

There are top-shelf jobs for your friend in Europe. E.g. Google's got large offices in London and Zurich and a quick search shows some possible fits for a PhD in ML. I know from friends that Amazon has a large office in Berlin focused on machine learning research and applications. Microsoft appears to be hiring ML scientists in München.
To all fellow software engineers out there: STOP reading company emails after work ALREADY! I don't care what your boss has told you or what your co-workers do. Just don't do it.

Warning: this only applies to regular office workers, not management or freelancers.

Are you getting paid for checking company emails after working hours? You are not, right?
How is offering your limited, private time FOR FREE to a company worth it?
Is your private life SO boring, you need to do something that many of us do not even like doing during office hours?
Are you afraid to be the only one in your team to bring some sanity?
Do you think your boss is going to respect you less if you put clear boundaries between work and private life?
Do you think you might lose your job if you don't check emails at all hours? Might be time to start looking for a new job...

I know, this post is a bit on the rough side, but I'm just trying to challenge the status quo for some people. I have personally met a lot of good, nice people who would think that they MUST do stuff for the company for free, after hours. Without any good reason. Actually, I had this one colleague who would check emails even very late at night, and if there was someone reporting a bug would jump in and try to fix it. And guess what? Countless times his code was really bad and it caused many more issues than it intended to solve in the first place.
There is no evidence for that. Coal in plants without decent scrubbers still reigns supreme in china; nuclear has been slow to develop because even the Chinese don't trust themselves enough to do it. Successfully developing nuclear power requires not only lots of capital, but also a culture of honesty, transparency, and non corruption (heck even Japan has screwed that up).
I agree, but even in those cases if you can't explain it without jargon its often a sign of a shallow understanding to begin with.

I feel that if you can explain a concept without jargon such that a layperson understands it, then you can be much more precise to experts when using said jargon. Because your understanding is also much more precise as well.
Three-finger drag has been saving my life (it's hidden somewhere in Accessibility - Keyboard - Trackpad - Drag)
With a system you can automate? Where you could likely use a single account for everyone who shares a name? (How many John Smiths, how many Mike Davies, how many Ahmed Muhammads?) Something that could likely be coded in an afternoon and left to run on some Amazon instances that never actually get the bill paid on? I think you may be overestimating the setup cost and vastly underestimating the potential haul.
Perhaps the OAM is in a different memory..? The NES PPU's OAM is in a DRAM, while rest of the PPU RAM is an external SRAM.
>those cities don't have the same job markets

Fair enough, but mid sized cities have jobs for plumbers, electricians, government employees, secretaries, marketing people, accountants, college professors, construction, biologists, vetrenarians, etc.

The title, "The Middle Class Can't Afford to Live in Cities Anymore" is absurd.
Somerville is expensive as hell, despite the fact that it used to be known as "Slumerville" and the housing stock hasn't improved one bit.
It also helps China's train industry develop - they're pushing heavily to win contracts to build rail in other Asian countries
This is amazing work! Kudos the Henrik.
When to Call in the Consultants
US debt to GDP is not really different than other developed economies:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/government-debt...

The question of which country loses more if the US and China stop trading probably doesn't need to be answered; both countries would lose so much that it won't happen abruptly.
>What are we going to do if they decide they're done being the US's manufacturing state?

If China is done being the world's manufacturing state then inflation is going to go crazy and we'll experience something a bit like what we did with the 1973 oil crisis, except with manufactured goods. It would be a good time to set up a repairs shop.

If China is just done being "America's manufacturing state" then we'll see inflation but probably not as extreme - goods could still be shipped to "neutral" states and then shipped on.

In all likelihood if such a breakdown does occur it will form part of a tit-for-tat including shipping blockades, sanctions and proxy wars.
Maybe...

But it would be pretty sad to grow up in a working class family and then be forced to move away from your hometown at the age of 30 because rent had grown faster than your ability to generate income.
A person who is working about country's interests is not called dissident, and you definitely should not have been throwing such claims around.
It's not even true of NYC; it's true of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Is it true of LA? That also sounds wrong to me.
It's not a new convention. Instead, it's low effort and ambiguous.
I've taken this up as well and expanded to just watching less TV in general. I find myself always saying I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do, yet I manage to watch an astounding amount of TV. The solution is obvious.
The state of American rail is tragic. People continually make excuses about how America isn't structured for rail, but that happened systemically over the course of decades. Most small cities had street cars, but they were removed around the 1950s or 60s.

Interstate highways barrelled their way though the hearts of cities, destroying poor/low-income neighbourhoods. If at any time US policy makers decide to push for rail, we could see dramatic turnarounds over the course of the next two decades.

Seattle is building ST3 and California is building its high speed network. It's a start, and we're still ahead of Australia when it comes to inter-city rail, but no where near close for urban/light rail (which every Australian state capitol has except Darwin and Hobart).

By comparison, Russia is less densely populated, yet they have a both better high speed rail and last-leg commuter rail between/in major cities and they are actively expanding their high speed systems.

Self driving cars are realistically a decade away and they cannot solve the capacity problem:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...

..and they can only solve the last leg problem if we have better inter-city rail infrastructure.
I recall that aptitude has more messages for more v's.
You obviously did not read the whole blog post. He is talking about the importance of programming paradigms and the ideas behind programming languages that could lead to a more general understanding of new languages :) .
Anything in fashion, design, media, etc. Fields that have global distribution for creative work at large scale is what I'm familiar with and unless you are willing to work for a smaller company (I.e. not large consultancy or high profile work), you have to be in a major urban center.
Completely agree, cable news is mostly worthless. The headline of the linked article uses the word "watch" but the actual article talks about avoiding other sources as well.
I stopped a few years ago. If its important it will find its way to you.
Cities in the US are not crowded by any metric. Homelessness is typically not because of lack of housing either (I know that sounds weird to say) but more so disease, mental health problems, lack of employment opportunities or in some cases employment desire.

At first glance your comment sounds great, yeah China is just anticipating demand, but it seems much more likely it was a wonton spending spree to help the economy continue on. With that spending spree coming to a halt, now China has millions of steelworkers, miners, construction works, etc... out of work.

Nobody is going to want to live in those cities because they want to live in established cities. Ask yourself, if the goal was to anticipate demand, why wouldn't you do all of this construction alongside established cities? Why would you often times do it in the middle of nowhere?
If they are even a few months ahead of demand, then they have a name: failed startups. In a free market, you have to have a demand the second you have a supply, else bankrupt.
But a lot of those professions can't afford rent inside the city and are forced into unwieldly commutes and lose out on the benefits of being in a city
Unless you live in a total dictatorship, it's selfish to be completely disinterested in what's going on in the world. We don't actually live in that dictatorship yet here in the US, and the actions and expressed preferences of common citizens are still influential in politics, especially if you care enough to call up your legislators and write to your newspapers. We are the cast, not the audience.
I follow the news, but I also need to get to work on efforts to move somewhere else. My wife is completely terrified of moving far-away from family, but of course, I'm rather terrified of living under a fascist state.
Remotely reboot of HP and other printers
This article fails to mention that the middle class can't afford to live in the "nicest parts" of cities, but many cities have other areas as well. Take NYC for example. Sure, if you want to live in the Chelsea or West Village neighborhoods in Manhattan, it's going to cost you. But there are tons of available houses in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx that are plenty affordable. The other day I saw a house for sale in a decent part of Queens for $240k - definitely affordable for middle class. Unfortunately, though, the most desirable areas of the densest part of the city is being reserved for poor and upper class, which I think is the point of the article.
agree. the news is a waste of time http://greyenlightenment.com/why-the-news-is-still-mostly-po...

Some say the 'only constant is change'. It's actually the opposite: things seldom change, with the exception of a few blips here and there(such as 911 and the 2008 financial crisis).

As further evidence of how things tend to remain constant more often than not, the post-2009 bull market and economic expansion is the longest ever despite the endless predictions of recession and crisis. Same for failed predictions of hyperinflation and dollar collapse. Web 2.0 valuations still keep rising long after pundits in 2012 said it was a bubble.

There's still war and terror in the Middle East despite trillion of dollars thrown at the problem

Self-improvement is more important than worrying about things outside of your control or that have little impact on your life. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are going to throw you a lifeline. That you have to do on your own, such as by investing your income in stocks or real estate and being frugal.
What about places like Canada? Where your only real options are Toronto and Vancouver. Other places are lonely and small.

Personally I'm into music. Composing, playing shows, going to the symphony, the opera, the ballet. Sure, I could leave Toronto, except now I'm in the middle of nowhere where there are no jobs and no culture. Now what?

I'm sure it's similar for others in the US.
Vimium and stylish haven't been mentioned yet.
Can you not do that without watching the news, though?
This nails it — coming of age as a coder in that era really informs my perspective on how we could make more accessible tools today.
Scannng headlines in RSS feeds from a dozen or so sources gives me a glimpse of the state of world events in under 10 minutes. I rarely open TFAs unless it is a topic that is of particular interest to, or directly affects, me.

Then I come to HN comments for non-clickbait sources and insights into topics I do care about.
Hmm, so something like an LXC container? That's interesting, I'll look into it. Thank you!
I wrote this post the same day as the rest of the announcements; I don't know why my personal blog post took off now, but I'd definitely prefer to focus on the product, not me.
Just Finish Everything
That is a very old number and anyways only comes from consumers who are not consuming but saving for emergency health care, or increasingly unaffordable housing. China desperately needs for its consumers to actually consume to move away from an export oriented economy, which is especially sensitive to trade friction.

So yes, you are talking about China's biggest problem (inability to consume what they produce) that even the Chinese leadership has acknowledged is a huge problem.

Whether china can afford this or not is less relevant than "bang for the buck", china has already built out lots of HSR, some of it very lightly utilized (my own trip from Beijing to a city in south Hunan, the train was mostly empty most of the time). China builds mostly as a stimulus program, because if consumers aren't consuming its one of the only tools they have, but also focuses on flashy projects that they can brag about in articles like this. However, much of this infrastructure is going to be underutilized for decades, while really needed infrastructure, like adequate flooding drainage, doesn't provide enough "face" to be considered instead. So every year, we see pictures of flooded out cities...but at least you can get to them quickly on empty trains!
Also growing them in labs does not seem feasible. Some are trying though http://pembient.com/
One minor goal for me this year is to ignore most of the news and focus mainly on one specific topic that I can learn to a useful level. I think I'm going to choose the US veterans administration. Why?

1) Having moved US -> UK, I wish the US had something like the NHS.

2) I've heard multiple veterans decry the quality and responsiveness of the VA healthcare is some pretty drastic terms.

3) I know from Rep. Capuano's mailing list the GOP has been trying for years to reform Ye VA in some way.

I suspect that until people stop being unhappy with the VA, that a large chunk of Americans will associate government-run healthcare with incompetence and inefficiency. This stands in stark contrast to the British perception of the NHS, so I want to know what's up.
Thanks for Krita!

Chrome has its own deb repository -- maybe more active projects need this too. (Maybe there's a service to be had hosting and configuring repos?)

I'm on Xubuntu 16.4 and I have 2.9.7 installed. I missed the entire year of developments. 16.10 has 2.9.11 released Feb 4th. 17.4 has 3.1.1 but won't be released for ~4 months. Maybe we should blame Ubuntu for 6 month release cycles, or me for not upgrading, but regardless of the cause, Krita users don't have the new version.
I don't know where you live or how hypothetically fucked you are, but it isn't too late to give a little of your time to get involved in local politics and fight back! No guilting or judgement, just trying to keep a positive mood as a lot of times these "escape plans" don't work out for various reasons
Link to that Queens listing? Or one like it? Not that I don't believe you but... I kind of don't believe you.
>We don't actually live in that dictatorship yet here in the US, and the actions and expressed preferences of common citizens are still influential in politics, especially if you care enough to call up your legislators and write to your newspapers. We are the cast, not the audience.

Many people participate, and push back, but we can see which way the wind is blowing. Dictatorship? Well, maybe not outright dictatorship, but certainly heavy authoritarianism along the lines of Putin and Erdogan.
I never voted in my life. I live in US for 4 years now, but not allowed to vote _yet_. I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts. It doesn't make any sense, since one can be a "bad" guy by nature, but then good marketing does the trick and afterwards people vote for him/her. Some sort of a karma/rating system would probably work better, i.e. you are not allowed to run your campaign, until you collect 500 points. This approach would require candidates to merit the campaign first and require them to be "good" guys during their entire career.
Because they are Republican-dominated and their guy won