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> So considering those prices are fairly standard, the middle class income has to be at $200k

I think there is a reason why everyone is railing/downvoting on Ryan here, and it's because of a difference in definition. There's two ways to define "middle class". One is by what you can afford: house, car, but not stuff like a private boat, etc. The other way is just by taking some middle percentage of the income brackets (middle 60% or whatever).

Historically[1], Ryan is actually right here. For the baby boomers, both groups are right because they overlap.

Much of the societal issues were seeing and will continue to see for the near future are because those groups are once again starting to not overlap (in certain areas, as highlighted by the original article).

[1] Right by historically, I mean that centuries ago the lower class was like 90% of the population or something... Middle Class was mostly not a thing.
Yes, this problem could be mitigated somewhat by showing caret positions. But this method is very reliant on the users paying extremely close attention. It does not work at all when the silent semantic errors are caused by "far flung" edits, where you don't even see the other caret because it is "off screen" for you.

Asking users to resolve a conflict is not possible, because the whole idea of OT is to have no-conflict merges and would have no idea where the conflicts are.
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The HN guidelines ask you to please not use uppercase for emphasis: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's the online equivalent of yelling, and closely associated with ranting, which tends to have a poorer signal/noise ratio.
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He used his experience in media/showbiz to exploit the media to give him free PR all the time, whereas the other politicians had to 'work for it'.

It's like the Kardashians, they actively make an effort to be in the news for something, to maintain top of mind awareness...of their degeneracy.
This works reasonably well for basic editing. When you want to do more advanced navigation or refactoring, you need a language service that indexes all the source files you depend on (including hundreds of packages) and reindexes it all when you sync or switch branches.

Running language services remotely across a slow network may not be practical because downloading all those files (to build the search index) requires a lots of bandwidth.
If a bunch of good journalists are cranking out great investigative reporting but nobody reads it or gives a damn then it will do nothing to "keep the government honest."
Consider that some people have meaningful jobs. If they're not working solely for the money, it's understandable that they'll do some work outside the office.
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I have a standing desk at the office which is great, but I'm in the market for a chair at my house. Working in it all day is creating some back pain and there's not really a good spot for a standing desk here. Looked at kneeling chairs but I'm a little uncertain. It seems like all of the well reviewed desk chairs are upwards of $500. Any suggestions?
How often do people change who the vote for based on news?

People make their decisions about voting and stick to them. 99.99% of the news that could change their vote is then rationalized away.
Does the US need more railway lines? The US already has ~2 times the railway lines of China with virtually identical area (~3.7M square miles).

FTA:

"At the end of 2015, China had 121,000 kilometers of railway lines,
including 19,000 kilometers of high-speed tracks, according to a
transportation white paper issued Thursday. The U.S. had 228,218 kilometers
of rail lines as of 2014, according to latest available data from the World
Bank."
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This is actually not the launch post. This is the launch post [1].

1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/05/31/introducing-hyperd...
Well iTunes already syncs to iPhones natively in the same manner, also via a wireless connection. The only difference is that you control which playlists are synced in iTunes itself (not whole library, checkmark beside playlist), not on device.
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Shit, if only someone came up with some way to get news on your phone, that would be perfect.
"un-European"? The need to give "nationalities" to ideas and behaviors seems divisive.
I don't know anything about GB programming other than watching the video, but my understanding is that it's not doing memory reads but rather transistor logic to determine which sprites have priority on that line. This is also why you have that 10 sprite limit, as the 10 active sprites end up getting pushed into hardware comparitors for that line.

Explanation starts around 46 minutes into the video.
Thanks for the insight. Could you share more about how you went about getting a freelance visa as a programmer.

Most of the bullet points for Documents Required in you link actually say "not required for freelance" but then I see:

"Proof of a secure livelihood must also include sufficient health insurance."

Did you have to show a current consulting contract?

Do you have to show that you are currently contracting for a company via invoices?

If so does that consulting contract or invoices have to be from a German company or could it for a company in the US?

Is it possible to contact you off list?
The poor and unemployed are also being priced out of London with the rise in rent and gentrification. It's a bit sad when people are priced out of the area that they grew up in. I do appreciate that this problem is not confined to London, but in some ways London is a more extreme city than anywhere else in the UK (extreme wealth and poverty side by side).

This rise in rents has also made it difficult for generation/s to ever consider buying while living in London. Young people typically move to London and then when they want to settle down, they leave. As you get older the idea of communal living soon loses its appeal.
I think it has to be the sender's time zone, to disincentivise working late.

Also, a mail can have multiple recipients, each in a different timezone, but only one sender.
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And my statement was that involvement with school ignores other types of involvement in education.
”What’s the next [favorite hip city]?” is a cliche for a reason.
The number is 18%.

That's how much of China's GDP is dependent on exports to the US.

A significant paycut as it were, but hardly fatal.

(If they were to stop exporting to us, it would hardly be a fatal blow to us either. There is just not as much there in terms of percentage of GDP as everyone seems to think.)
Is NYC a luxury? Absolutely. The access to institutions, the culture, the people, the shops, the history... all of that is a luxury. That's why people want to live there versus somewhere like Cleveland I guess.

Once those cities are unaffordable for the very people you mention, they will just move to more affordable places where they have a better cost of living, and then they will bring ideas, creativity, and resurgence to these areas and make them better.

If you're a critical worker, then surely you can demand a pay raise. If not, move. If somebody can replace you, you're not critical. If somebody can't replace you, they'll have to pay more.

I'm not dismissive of the cost of these cities at all, nor the plight of those living there, but you get what you pay for. If you're a teacher in New York and you can't afford rent, move somewhere else instead. What else are you going to do? Rent control? Then you just have people who can never afford to build lasting wealth because they will just rent for life.

There isn't a 'solution' to this 'problem' because it's just a basic fact of human organization. I'd love to live in Colorado, maybe Breckinridge, but I can't afford that. So I live somewhere else and visit. Does that suck? Yeah sure, it also sucks I can't buy a Ferrari.

Ideally we want mixed-use development neighborhoods with differently priced homes for people with different income levels to live in. But it looks like without the government enforcing it, that isn't going to happen.
Okay, but the submission says the middle class can't afford to live in cities anymore. You're saying, "Of course they can! Otherwise they wouldn't be middle class."
I have to disagree, this feels like piling on. Let me add lack of humility and narcissism really peeve me but I just didn't get that from his post.

Remember, the article was in fact meant to be about his new role. The title starts out "I'm at Fog Creek...". Given that he's within scope with what he wrote.

Personally, I would never list celebrities that have retweeted me and recoil at even the thought of doing such a thing. But we have to interpret things as generously as possible. I know people who would talk about Prince retweeting them just as a matter of fact thing that seemed cool to take note of.
I'm confused why the claim that most people don't need to use their full intellect for their jobs would be arrogant...
I went back to watching the news, but as comedy.

For a while Fox was the best for that. Really good entertainment with all the stupidity and ridiculousness so it was kind of interesting. Then during the election cycle CNN, NYT, and other major ones joined the ranks. I will always remember the "Reading these document is illegal, it is different for us, the media, so come to use for interpretation". That for me exemplified the new low the mass media has sunk to recently.

It is of course useful to re-read Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky and keep that in mind then news makes a lot more sense.
Love it. Many years ago I read some advice somewhere to "learn a new language each year". And while I'm something of a language junkie, I never actually stuck to that. But lately I've been getting more aggressive again about adding new languages to my repertoire. In 2016 I spent a lot of time with R and Octave, and started brushing up on Python again.

Going into 2017, I've started spending a lot of time on Prolog just recently, and am hoping to spend some serious time on Scala and Figaro soon.

How valuable all this is from a career standpoint can be hard to quantify, but if nothing else it's just plain fun to learn new approaches and new languages.
Is there any evidence to think that paying attention to news improves voting decisions? Indeed, how do you even grade things like presidents to know if you made the right decision in retrospect?
This is just..... wow. It's like you're talking to a wall.

I think I'm done contributing to this site. Thank you for showing me the light.
A rule of thumb (admittedly arbitrary) for housing is to keep costs below 30% of gross income. That is why I compared median housing prices against median gross income.

If someone making the median income in a city can afford a median house with 21% of their gross income, yes, I deem that "affordable."

To go back to my example, the family making $41k net annually is paying $10,800 (ish) annually in mortgage costs. They pay an additional $4,781 in property tax annually. That leaves $25,419 annually or $2,100 monthly for other costs and savings.

My example makes plenty of assumptions that won't necessarily hold (after all, I'm assuming averages here). Notably, I'm assuming a 20% down payment and excellent credit. And no, that's not a lavish lifestyle. But it's well within the realm of "affordable" for an average person.

I'll also note that $228,000 is the median price, but a search on Zillow shows >1500 listings for less than $150,000. I saw one listing for 3bd/2ba at $135k within the loop. near decent schools and within 20 minutes driving distance of downtown, the USAA and Valero corporate campuses and the UTHSCA medical center, all major employers.

I don't really see what your example has to do with my point. Yes, Austin is more expensive than SATX. Yes, someone making $51k should not pay $1600 a month in housing cost. But you're making my point for me—housing costs in medium-large cities are not necessarily out of whack average incomes in all such cities, just some markets (like Austin).
I guess you don't want to work at Google then :-)

The problem with virtualization is that you still need to download all the files. And it's still on your laptop, which could be stolen.
Could you elaborate (honest question)? My point of reference is The Netherlands, so I have very little context for that figure, as it would be ludicrously high for middle class over here (in part for very understandable reasons, welfare state and whatnot). I'm mostly curious about your views of the middle class and what they should be.
If you are so valuable good for you and your boss but i hope that they not only know but they pay you accordingly. that what i try to tell all the time if you need after hours you should show me love, but most of the times they want you to do it for free and not even a thank you and if you refuse they make look like the bad guy. Sorry it's my work not my life and is your business if you love it that much it's not my problem.
Better than good enough: it's good. It's also preferable to something more SPAish.

To be clear: I've professionally written such javascript only Single Page Applications, and they worked out really well, since they were all dynamic, real-time changing content all the way.
Huge cities...good riddance.

I live nearish to Salt Lake City (whose metro pop. is less than a quarter of Boston's), have tons of software job opportunities, have a 17-20 min commute, and bought a 2k sqft house on 0.19 acres for less than 200k.

Big cities are crowded. They have their advantages, but even if they weren't overpriced, I'd probably still prefer my elbow room.
You're putting words in my mouth. Of course Russia did 'nation building' post-WW2, and it did it beforehand too. It was called the Russian Empire for a reason. But none of that has anything to do with the present day, for the same reason it's not useful to talk about German nation-building or Japanese nation-building -- like Russia, those regimes were defeated, their ideologies discredited, and their leaders and institutions replaced.

America is unique in how it actively funds and promotes Western political institutions throughout the entire world. There's also no other modern-day parallel to Iraq or Afghanistan, where sovereign nations halfway around the world are invaded, their leadership decapitated wholesale, and Western democratic institutions are built from the ground up -- institutions that have zero cultural history in those places.

I'm not saying what the US is doing good or bad, but facts are facts. Only the US does this because only the US has the power and money to. Russia can barely project power past its own borders; China as well. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't pull off an Iraq.

Also, the US policy establishment has a history of being fooled by its own propaganda and projecting pure ideological motives on its opponents, often to the detriment of its own strategic goals.

For example, Truman and MacArthur's outright dismissal of China's warning to not approach the Yalu river, which brought China into the Korean war -- the US completely misread China's strategic motives, which were to prevent an American troops literally right next to its industrial heartland, and instead thought that China was completely under the USSR's thumb and that the USSR didn't want a war. US bought into its own rhetoric and thought Communist ideology trumped nationalism, a mistake that cost ~20-30k American lives.

Anyway, no matter if you really think the US is right and Russia is the bad guy, the first step is to actually understand your opponent's motives.

But I guess you prefer calling everyone who disagrees with you an FSB plant.
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Spending some time learning Clojure, I feel, has had a measurable positive effect on the code I write. I'm considering something even more exotic for the coming year.
So you don't have time to know even the basic outlines of current affairs or politics but you do have time to obsessively follow Apple rumors? Does it not bother you to have such narrow interests?
This is either some thinly veiled Millennial shaming or just pure ignorance. After you read the other replies to your comment, read this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13292046
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> One could always slam the door, cross the street and get a better job

Or a worse one. Otherwise companies would be offering infinite benefits and salary and reject zero candidates.

Look up salaries in France compared to norther Europe or US.
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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10380118
I walked away with the impression that trends couldn't be extrapolated, thanks to various snippets from the article, but there's no pull quote that clearly proves it, so, sure.

The noise problem you brought up apropos of nothing.

You're responding to a comment responding to a comment that had concerns that were already addressed by the article, to let me know your concerns weren't addressed by the article. Surely there's a better place in the comment hierarchy for this? You'll get ignored down here.
Naive question, how many parameters do most large models have?
Source? Not just an opinion please, I mean an actual source - with facts, figures, data. Also, you would have to define what you actually mean by "better" (as well as what "fresh start" really means). Details. What kind of person (with enough relevant details to actually be a useful description) doing what can expect what based on what where exactly (US and Europe are both huge and very diverse places)?
I'd like to think this. Fingers crossed Tucson is next, but not optimistic.
It's a very dehumanizing concept, and drives us back to the same ideas of meritocracy where everyone is gauged based on their work output compared to the "smartest" person in the room. There's a lot more to building successful teams than maximizing the work output of every single person on them, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
This is absolutely the case, there are loads of books about the phenomenon. And every mid-sized city has some chamber of commerce that is trying to crack the code on how to be "the next Austin/Portland/whichever-hip-city". Hell, I've got friends in Virginia and Maine who are working on this.

They're doing it for fiscal/influential reasons, not political, but yes, this trend would benefit the Democrats, except that you can't attract hipsters with policy.
> Have you been to Beijing recently?

Yes, and if you talk to most people, they can't dream of affording a car, let alone in Beijing. It's insanely expensive, not even including the permit[1]. Maybe if you're in Beijing talking to rich people or just looking at the traffic in abject horror, it looks like everyone is buying cars.

China, per capita, has like one fifth or one sixth as many cars as the US. There's like one car per 10 people.

[1] and by permit I don't mean the actual cost of getting a Beijing plate through normal channels (which has like a <0.2% chance of actually working due to the lottery). I mean if you actually want to guarantee that you get a car, be prepared to grease the wheels with lots of money. Shit idk how that even works with Xi Jinpings rampage against corruption, I don't think they've gotten that low of a level yet (still going after higher-ups).
You need to point out conflicts of interest right at the front or right at the end of your comments, not buried in the middle somewhere.

I fully believe you had no ill intent. It's just that bending over backward to make it clear strengthens your viewpoint.
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Is responsible disclosure not a thing anymore?
Starting from a C# background:

Scheme - prioritized a 1:1 between syntax and the AST. Reshuffle the syntax, remove the explicit type system.

APL - prioritized arrays.

Haskell - prioritized FP. Also introduced primitives to make things possible with FP that you could do with OOP already (Monads etc).

Smalltalk - prioritized OOP.

Go - prioritized Concurrency.

Forth - prioritized Stack based.

Prolog - prioritized Stack based.

Really isn't that much insightful difference between these languages as you'd think. Not taking away from their history, but you gain nothing from learning them.
Managers manage people. If they are working, they require other people working to do their job.

Not really. The thing about email is that the boss can send one out after hours, and it will still be there in the morning.
Answering a question about censorship with a response about surveillance is a pretty big non sequitur.
If your point of view is right, wouldn't it imply that working 30 hours per week is ultimately more productive than 40? What about 10 hours? What about an hour?

Or are you actually in agreement about the shape of the productivity vs hours worked curve but you disagree where the peak is for software developers? If so, where is that peak do you think?
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Imo you need to avoid social media as well, since headlines enter your mind through your timeline as well.
Not sure why people disagree with this answer. There are clearly creative fields where the top jobs and opportunities are indeed concentrated in a specific set of large cities. Probably more so than most other types of fields. More so than tech, for example, web/social/mobile in Silicon Valley notwithstanding.

That said, other industries are geographically concentrated as well. If you have your heart set on working in the oil business, you probably shouldn't set your sights on living in Boston.
The machine doesn't have to be powerful at all, most of the consumer routers have ~1GB of ram and a few megabytes of flash. The machines I use don't cost much more than $100, I've never tried using something like the raspberry pi but that's only because I can never find a USB hub good enough to run WiFi with and my only pi3 is already dedicated as my desktop.
Longer than what? What is the optimal number of hours?
I would not suggest Germany or (german) Switzerland to people that don't speak german.
My experience of the NHS in the UK is exactly the same. I've heard of some people gaming the system a little by using private insurance to supplement their healthcare. Then they can get a referral to see a NHS specialist from a private doctor, so no waiting to see a GP who might not give you the referral you want anyway.

Not to say that there aren't also significant problems with US healthcare.
Important question: do they differentiate salaries according to your region? In other words, are you paid similarly as your North American peers or you get a Turkish salary?
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This happened in a big way during the election -- the Clinton campaign poured millions into paid online supporters to go on reddit, etc. through an organization called Correct the Record. Once this became known every post in support of Clinton was suspect; people noticed similar comments appearing out of the woodwork, accounts which did nothing but post pro-Clinton comments. The entire politics subreddit turned into a lockstep echo chamber -- no anti-Clinton dissent of any kind allowed for a month or so before the election. Anyone who mentioned correct the record was instantly banned. I'm sure there was some amount of Record Correcting out there but the tragic part was that every single comment in support of Clinton no matter how earnest and honest and real was immediately suspect and accused of being a paid troll. It's impossible to have a real discussion when you are always wondering if the other side of the conversation is not arguing in good faith, and that's the exact climate this sort of thing creates.