skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> College for me (in the 80s) was still fairly inexpensive compared to now, but when I graduated with an EE degree, houses started at 4x or more than what I made.

In silicon valley housed started at around 10x what I made starting out of college.

I'll mention that more millennials should consider leaving to live in non 1st class cities. Just look at atlanta vs sf (https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...). I can tell you that SF wages are not 1.8x ATL's.
Is app.net some social network? Why the name 'app.net' ?
> Preserve their moral objection to killing. It's too valuable to society for us to trample on it.

I can't opt-out of supporting the military with my taxes - how is this any different?
This is a great comment. I particularly agree that people eating real peppers are probably eating other healthy things. Really important to capture all these incidental things that exist in the group one is studying to see if it's actually those having the effect. We also know that many foods they might be buying fresh have direct health benefits. Naturally, I wonder if if the peppers's benefits, the big ones, are just incidental on top of the type of people eating them or their other food intake.
Social Security tax rates haven't increased a lot since 1984.

The maximum income they apply to has increased since then though:

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/policybriefs/pb2011-02.html

(using the inflation adjusted numbers, 20-25%)

I'm not real sure what you mean by social security raiding. Of course the government has borrowed and spent much of the Social Security trust fund, but this has little bearing on the future of Social Security, as the borrowing has been fully accounted for. Some future government could decide not to pay the money back, but they would be responsible for that, not the government that borrowed the money.
And despite all that, the boomers go vote and their children do not.
Yes, basic version is free to use and it truly is an amazing application. MS feels like a company with a direction :-)

Had they had this direction ten years ago, probably android would not have existed!
"Considering that so much money and research has gone into building the healthcare.gov website, why can't I simply adjust sliders to optimize the plan the same way I book a flight?"

The ACA instead helps the insurance companies optimize based on their interests.
Nope. There's just no way it can compete against Apple, Google _and_ Samsung, also known as the only three companies that make money on mobile. Andy or no Andy, you just can't enter this market anymore.
"[T]he obvious solution is to compel Apple to let people shop for applications wherever they want, which would open the market and help lower prices"

Is that a joke?

I'd love to be able to sell iOS software directly to users. Even if there were no viable channels outside of the App Store having the choice would make me rest a lot easier.

But to state that "Apple's monopoly" has driven the price of software up is to be laughably out of touch with reality. Maybe this has to be argued from the point of view of the consumer and they thought "monopoly driving prices down" wouldn't be a very good case?
Yawn. Next what, whatsapp is not going to use monetizing to advertise? Why don't we just all admit that all our data is being plundered by corporations to make money and just leave it at that? Seriously, nobody cares about their data being used by corporations for profit. Just be honest about it.. and you will see that people continue to use whatsapp or signal or whatever the current fad is.
I tend to abuse the fact that subscriptions can compose in re-frame to lower the work needed in order to react to app-db changes. The fact that you can namespace keywords make it easy to scale as well.

Its also easy to optimize if you integrate day8/re-frame-tracer. I've lowered the number of views touched by updates quite a bit using it. I barely put any pressure on React anymore.

The bundle size usually isn't that bad with full optimizations enabled. An empty cljs project strips the entire cljs runtime for one, minus one defonce. You can also pass a compilation constant to react to strip its debugging features; that's saving you a few dozen kilobytes as well.

I'm currently building a small app to display Twitch chat as a personal side project and it handles GamesDoneQuick's chat effortlessly. Performance has been great so far.
> Yes, important person in the OSS community

More like 'self-important.'
I'll love it when Jupyter 2.0 is supported if it isnt currently supported. Great product!
> The trouble is, my generation faces lower real wages and higher housing costs, and those effects are so large that Starbucks habits are basically noise in comparison.

No, that Starbucks habit isn't noise. I consumed Starbucks coffee daily after Christmas a few years back (got a lot of gift cards for them for some reason). It was $2/day for a cup of coffee. $10/week. Continued through the year, $500 (holidays and such mean I won't commute, vacations I may still indulge). That's 2 car payments if you buy a modest car. That's a significant chunk of your rent, possibly all of it, if you're not in NYC or SF or somewhere equally absurdly expensive.

It's like a code smell. If you're consuming pricy drinks on a frequent basis, what else are you doing that you could do for a fraction of the price yourself? Look at every other $1/day habit you have. Sodas? Modest 1/day habit (along with being unhealthy) if you don't buy them at the grocery store is around $2/day (bottle or fountain). That's another $500/year. Netflix + Hulu + Spotify + HBO Now + Amazon Prime + Cable? Do you really need all of them? I didn't, kept Netflix + Amazon Prime and saved $1200/year, more than a rent payment.

There, between coffee, soda, and media, I've saved > $2000. If your income is low, as this article discusses, this is a significant percentage of your income. 4% if your income is only $50k. Higher if you consider your net-income on that and not your gross-income. You still want coffee? I'm in an espresso club at work, 8 people, espresso twice a day, costs me $20/year for my contribution. Drop the sodas, they aren't healthy for you anyways, drink one once a week or so as a treat.

Examine your spending, really look at it. You'll find that you likely have a lot of places where you "leak" money, because it's just a coffee, or just a soda, or just a cocktail. Then it doesn't become an occasional spending thing, like once a week or month. But more frequent, daily or several times a week. Your money is gone and you don't know where it went.
Opinions: From Pema Chödrön, 'When Things Fall Apart', Chapter 17
I'd take the opposite stance. Where's the critical thinking from the people who've drunk the VR kool-aid.

I know not a single person that has 9x9 to 12x12 sq ft of space to dedicate to room scale VR.

On top of that, having played many of the games I can t imagine playing them for more than 15-20 minutes at a time. They're tiring. I can play a game I'm really into for 8-12 hours in one day for 4-5 days straight but I can't imagine that in VR at all

I think there is potential as a tool. 3d modeling inside VR could be a 10x or 100x time saver. But, mass market entertainment seems very very unlikely.
>but until the left wants to have an honest debate on the costs (economic, freedom)

Twenty years ago when this debate was starting, the right said the left want to destroy the economy by forcing everyone to use renewable energy that costs twenty times what fossil fuel energy does.

Nowadays, renewable energy is as cheap as fossil fuels for many applications, and rapidly getting cheaper, and so it is being voluntarily adopted all over the world. But the right continues to assume it is just as expensive as it was twenty years ago. In fact, Donald Trump has said he loves solar, but its problem is it is very, very expensive.
DataFire – An open source integration platform
> VR is going to be absolutely huge in the health/fitness space.

Totally agree, I cannot see anything bigger. I feel it will be bigger than even the medicine and hospital business and even plaxo and glaxo and klein would be out of business (or who knows maybe they will start selling medicines in VR!)

VR gaming is so intense and immerseful that I hope that I get a chance to go out. All this fitness would make me so slim.. that I hope my family can identify me.
Also, eye-tracking + foveated rendering will severely reduce the load. Once that works reliably, you just need the cheap, super-high PPI, low-latency screens (which might almost exist today, though at high cost due to lack of a mass-market).
What’s really causing the prescription drug crisis?
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/489/946/057...
Excerpt: Doctors in many parts of the world — including Canada and some European countries — prescribe more powerful opiates than their peers in the United States. In England, if, say, you get hit by a car, you may be given diamorphine (the medical name for heroin) to manage your pain. Some people take it for long periods. If what we’ve been told is right, they should become addicted in huge numbers.

But this doesn’t occur. The Canadian physician Gabor Maté argues in his book “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts” that studies examining the medicinal use of narcotics for pain relief find no significant risk of addiction. I’ve talked with doctors in Canada and Europe about this very issue. They say it’s vanishingly rare for a patient given diamorphine or a comparably strong painkiller in a hospital setting to develop an addiction.
I guess you meant "it will not be difficult...".

Otherwise, can you ellaborate?
That takes care of rust too?
I've also heard this referred to as "steel-manning," as opposed to "straw-manning."
Yeah, people are so near sighted. This is basically like people thinking solvent is not going to work. Are you kidding me? 5 years from now solvent is going to be the biggest market ever. I hope food industry survives.. if only for antique sake.
Parents want nothing more than a bright and stable future for their posterity. They vote in accordance with policy that they believe will achieve those ends.
How much of this do you think is due to neoliberalism?
This, this, this!

I bet there's a whole slew of us who spent countless hours inspecting everything, trying to take it all apart... that formed the developers we are today.
Which people are you talking about? VR is amazing and it is the future. I just asked eveyrone around me and everyone wants it yesterday.
For a quick ROI in less than a hundred years you could just buy land further inland in places like Florida, North/South Carolina, even London. Once Greenland goes and the ice sheets in Antartica you'll have beachfront.
If you want to benchmark nameservers, queryperf is the tool that was designed to do that years ago -- see my presentation at http://shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dnscomparison/

EDIT1: The folks at SolveDNS.com also have some interesting reports on some of these machines. Among others, see:
http://www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/freenom.world
http://www.solvedns.com/dnsspeedtest/freenom.com
http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns01.freenom.com
http://www.solvedns.com/nameserver/ns11.cloudns.net

EDIT2: And also
http://www.solvedns.com/freenom.world
http://www.solvedns.com/freenom.com

EDIT3: And http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/2016/12

EDIT4: TurboBytes.com also has an interesting page at http://www.turbobytes.com/reports/dns-performance/#US

EDIT5: And don't miss the page at http://www.dnsperf.com/
This is a competitor to Zapier or IFTTT that's fully open source. To me what is impressive is the number of integrations they have available at launch.

Here's their source: https://github.com/DataFire/DataFire
For all it's outdatedness, Japan is changing (slowly) [1]. The government is instituting new laws that give employees more free time to spend their money. Though it is partially an economy reviving measure for the government, I already see employers setting (sane) hard limits on overtime and pushing employees to use 100% of their paid leave. (Most employees use paid leave very minimally because they don't want to "cause trouble" to their fellow employees who have to cover for them working while they are on leave)

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-three-day...
Quite simply, it's great market fit.

JavaScript has extremely low barrier to entry. Everyone has a browser, so you can get someone to get started without download any software. That's huge.

Rails has the benefit of providing a framework that can get someone building functional CRUD apps in a tremendously short period of time.

Between those two, you've hit a nice sweet spot where someone can be fully functional as a developer in a short period of time (talent/quality/patience aside).
A great line from TFA:

"I don't have time to fight with people who are trying to misunderstand me."
Well, he could partner with Nokia. I don't think Google/Samsung can compete with such a paternship (serious).
Sadists.

The Pi's choice of picking one of the most egregiously unsupported and anti-open source CPU cores was absurd. The people doing the absurdly hard work of taking up the slack that the Raspberry Pi Foundation created from this pick AND the RPI Foundations complete unconcern about the situation and open source at large is to me beyond belief. For a thing that purported to be an educational platform, this situation ought never have happened. At the time at least the low price of the decrepit old core was a good useful competitive advantage, I can acknowledge that, but it remains revolting to me that the #1 cheap Linux system is the spawn of some ancient horror Broadcom dropped with ghastly documentation and unsupportable drivers.

But congratulations. For some reason people have kept the march of progress going on this beast. The RPI3 is rated for 24GFLOPS which is 1 more than a PS3 cell processor. It's been an unbelievable amount of work to get anywhere near unlocking the unique video core to get anywhere near there, but people keep pushing, so good on them. I still think it's a mistake for volunteers to work so ridiculously hard to build drivers for a core whose maker has contributed so little, spent so long releasing even basic docs, and who implemented so many really weird abnormal subsystems, especially when it was originally atop such an ancient core.

But I am sincerely impressed and it has been amazing work slowly wrangling this abomination into order.
Why all this Andy hate? Guys, entrepreuners create things from scratch, it's what they do. And they take on the megacorps and beat them. Sundar cannot compete against a fast moving company despite the billions of $$ that google has.
That quote is from the NYT article though, not the declassified document. That quote was not good phrasing by NYT, as they did not stress the strong limitations in place.
The focus on it isn't new, but the ability to realize it in a way never before is.
Herein lies the rub: carrying debt to maximize life now can potentially destroy your future, but the alternative is minimizing life now to improve your potential (and non-guaranteed) future later. It would be a real shame to avoid living the life you want now in hopes of an awesome future, only for the future to hand you a really shitty hand (I.e. Medical bills vaporizing all of your wealth)

I think finding balance is key.

Side note: I'm 29 and have credit card and student loan debt. I'm not proud of it and paying it back is inconvenient, but I'm able to afford the burden at the moment and am enjoying a higher quality of life because of it. I also contribute to my 401k and chose funds with low management overhead, so my future self isn't being completely left out to dry. I literally wouldn't have been on the career track I'm on now had I not taken student loans.
A warning to the American media from a Russian journalist who covers Putin
I'm well aware of what ambulatory care is. But not all ambulatory care is preventive care; in fact, the majority is not, which is directly contrary to your previous claim.
1. From an economic standpoint, single-payer healthcare fundamentally makes sense. Put everyone in a single pool to reduce risk, drive efficiency, and maximize negotiating power.

Like the U.S. military has maximum negotiating power with its contractors? I mean, who else is going to pay for the F-35?

Monopsonies aren't inherently more efficient than monopolies.
Although at the time the extent of my C programming didn't go past a couple of XCMDs to make my HyperCard stacks more app-like, I had the same CodeWarrier complex...
Googling "Young Invincibles" (mentioned in the article) quickly leads us to:

http://younginvincibles.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FHYA-...

(admittedly, by way of

http://younginvincibles.org/

http://younginvincibles.org/financial-security-report/

http://younginvincibles.org/financial-health/

)

They don't particularly show their work there, but it is believable that they are generating the various analyses from the Survey of Consumer Finances done by the Fed (aka decent statistics).
Sure Internet is $30, but it replaces a whole bundle of other services. Back in 1984 the cost to develop a couple rolls of film and make some long-distance phone calls would easily equal today's internet bill.

The cost of education and health care is what is crushing today's generation, not backup cameras, Starbucks, and iPhones.
Won't stop me from betting on the one with the best name
Hearing any mention of VR brings back memories of me trying out Mario's Tennis on the Nintendo Virtual Boy at Blockbuster Video back in the 1990s and then having a headache for the entire ride home.
Well, aside from webhooks or anything, Kickbox and its competitors seem to focus on checking if an email address exists based on DNS and SMTP pings.

This is valuable, but I want to be able to know for sure that 1. the email is "real" and 2. the person using the email address actually has access to it and can receive emails on it. Thus the process of actually sending an email to the provided address and making them click a link.

I've still not seen anything that provides this functionality.
"By 2019, 30% of leading companies will have a chief robotics officer."

No, no they won't.
I didn't know Chrono Trigger was available on mobile. There goes my life, seriously.
> Apple didn't give tools vendors a heads-up on the PPC->Intel transition.

In ~2005, were any of the third-party Mac dev tools vendors in a position to make good use of the heads-up? Who was good enough at staying current in the late PPC days that they could have spared resources to bring up an x86 toolchain as well?
If I take out a loan from a bank, I am the one who benefits from the loan, and I am the one that pays it back. But if you borrow from social security, the benficiary and the payee are not the same person, or even the same generation of people. One generation benefits, the next is on the hook to pay.

And that is exactly what happened. Boomers borrowed from social security because they weren't willing to raise taxes on themselves. They promised to pay it back using Millenials' taxes. They got the benefits, we got the debt.
Cultures that eat red peppers tend to have shorter people. Shorter people tend to live longer.
I honestly don't understand what you are talking about.
"The good parts, like covering pre-existing conditions is exactly what causes your insurance to go up."

True story:

Pre-ACA, I had never been without insurance. I also have asthma. Never been a problem. No pre-existing condition issues. Then, I became a contractor and had to pay for my own insurance. The insurance refused to pay for anything asthma related. Fine; I was making enough to pay for the hideously expensive inhalers (think an epi-pen ever couple of months), but with those, the asthma was well controlled. Then I left that position and became a regular employee with employer provided insurance. Suddenly, no pre-existing condition limit. Weird.
The big issue on the adoption front is cost.

Basically everyone who has ever tried the vive I own wants to buy one, it's just throwing 800$ after a 1500$ box is a bit steep for most people.

I equate it to using an NES back in the day. Right now it's expensive and imperfect but In The mid to long term it's a clear winner.

I have done the 15 min demo to about 40 people so far and everyone wants one. Something that you can already get on a screen like Google Earth is astounding in VR.

As an example, for most people I start with them wearing the display and hand them the controllers with them already wearing the headset. That is the first thing most people think is cool.they can see the controller as it floats into their hand perfectly. That's enough suddenly they can literally touch their computer. It seems really dumb until it happens and then holy crap is it cool.

That's sort of how VR is. In concept not that cool in execution it's amazing.
Oh sure, the debt is not good for the future but in that sense it doesn't matter a great deal who they borrowed from.
Oh God, Imgur is crossing over into HN now. I don't think I'm ever going to escape the black hole that is the internet.
Thank you for the report link.
>unlocking the unique video core to get anywhere near there

We actually have documented most vector instructions of VC4 and Julian's toolchain supports pretty much all documented ones, so the toolchain we have is pretty close to what Broadcom would have with their MetaWare compiler for VC4.

>The RPI3 is rated for 24GFLOPS

You mean the VPU, we also have QPU and ARM on the side.

>so many really weird abnormal subsystems

True that, lack of TZPCs, ARM AxPROT[1] being forced to high causing all ARM accesses to be insecure on AXI even in secure monitor mode (sadness), lack of a GIC. I could go on and on about what's wrong with BCM283x family but hey at least it's interesting.

>But I am sincerely impressed and it has been amazing work slowly wrangling this abomination into order.

Thank you ^^
Come on, this is just completely make up stuff. Just fake news. Top developers don't care about secrecy. It's mostly about money. If you are well paid, anyone will stay.