skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now throw in the fact that we:

1) have much higher housing costs, due to housing policies created by boomers

2) have much higher out of pocket education costs, due to education policies created by boomers

3) have much higher out of pocket health care costs, due to health care policies created by boomers

4) have much higher payroll taxes due to social security raiding and general mismanagement by boomers

5) have much higher sales taxes due to erosion of property tax revenues from policies created by boomers

6) have much higher future income taxes due to decades of deficits from policies created by boomers.

And they after they are done FUBAR-ing us, they call us entitled for wanting reform.
Well, yes, as your tolerance builds your reaction to the heat will reduce and so will your runny nose.
This is also doable with fvwm.
Easy - as that time period includes the Oculus Touch launch titles.

That gives me:

1. SuperHot

2. Arizona Sunshine

3. The Unspoken

4. Dead and Buried

Looking through Steam sorted by user reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Reviews_DESC&t...

Gives me another easy set. I'll stick to things I own or I've heard almost universally good things about:

5. Smashbox Arena

6. Sairento

7. QuivR

8. Distance

9. Bullet Sorrow

10. Vertigo

11. Serious Sam: TFE

12: Bullet Sorrow

13: Werewolves Within

14: ROM Extraction

There's more but I got bored. I can personally vouch for the excellence of at least 5 of those.
> Dare to ask stupid questions, it could make you the smartest person in the room.

It cost me a year (1/90th of my life? 1/75th? 1/50th? less?) to realize this. From what I understand, I'm far from alone -- and basically every career path risks this cost.

Emphasizing this nugget of truth by placing it at the bottom of your post is commendable.
"It is, unfortunately, one of the chief characteristics of modern business to be always in a hurry. In olden times it was different."
An open-source OS for devices, embeddable by third-parties for any phone, TVs, watches, etc? Not significant important for you? Sheesh, high standards.
this requires humans to be able to generate and remember passwords with decent entropy
Well, I was responding to these lines:
> the most successful people in an industry tend to have some of the most valuable insights about it. So you lose a lot when they are silenced.

It feels like a weak point. Maybe the best insights are written by professional writers, for example. In such a case there's no loss from industrial self-censorship.

On the other hand, it is true that successful startup founders usually leveraged some deep insight to grow fast and profit. But those insights have been "tapped out", so to speak, therefore are not really useful anymore. They were valuable for the founders but the value is non-transferable.

In my case, I'm writing mostly to become a better writer/communicator, so it doesn't particularly matter if I convey useful/valuable information or if it gets discussed; the aim is to do it clearly in a short amount of time. It's a different calculation for a person with children and a demanding job.
I would argue that business deals are also of shared interest. Why would you even reach the point of working out the specifics if there was no mutual interest in having the relationship work?
They are only contrary given your flawed understanding of my first sentence.
Referring to human skin in the plural makes it sound ultra creepy...
Can you look out at the audience and honestly say that all 300+ people are going to be good engineers?

There are a bunch of white/Asian males who suck at their jobs. If you don't believe me, note the demographics next time you angrily git blame something.

Stop hiring them. Easy.

The problem is from companies who care more about hiring someone at all than hiring good people. It's pretty well-documented that men are more likely to apply for jobs they're not qualified for than women (see, e.g. https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless...).
Facebook launched in early 2004. So people graduating high school in 2000 didn't have it for much of their college career.
Pure CSS Parallax Websites
I tried every single AR/VR HMD at CES 2017. So if they were there and they had a demo, yes.
I want to eat them but they burn me up. Not sure if gradual progression starting at Jalapeno will knock that out over time or if you gotta be born with it. My brother & his household are about hot peppers. I give him free Ghost pepper sauce just to watch the results of them trying to add it to stuff or drink it straight. He'd have to be totally dehydrated after a day in the desert to look the same as what it does haha.

So, what do all yall think about building up a tolerance so I can enjoy more spicy stuff maybe with some health benefits? Does that even work?
Millennial here. I just got the property assessment notice on my modest 1 bedroom condo. The "value" of it has gone up by $200,000 (around 30%) in the last two years according to the assessment office. So I can expect a nice fat tax bill later this year.

The boomer generation, in full control of politics my entire adult life and for the foreseeable future, has made real estate in my city into a ponzi scheme, and I don't ever expect to live in a house here.

What I can expect is to shoulder the tax burden of a large population of people who have not saved nearly enough for retirement, are leveraged against their massively overpriced properties, and are projected to live for a very, very long time. And the data shows that quite clearly.

> Between 1982 and 2010, mortgage debt grew from $99 billion to $994 billion (in current dollars), while consumer debt increased from $48 billion to $460 billion. [1]

> The average market value of an owned dwelling quadrupled, from $71,800 to $303,500 (current dollars) between 1982 and 2008. [1]

> The indebtedness of Canadian households increased from $147 billion in 1982 to $1,454 billion by 2010—in current dollars. [1]

> More than 1.5 million families who have a main provider between 45 and 64 had no private pension savings in 1999, the agency reported Friday. These households will have to rely almost solely on public retirement plans Old Age Security and the Canada or Quebec Pension Plans. [2]

[1] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/75-001-x/2011002/article/11429-...
[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/many-not-saving-enough-for-ret...
If we could lower the cost of health care in the first place, that would help. We need price transparency, and to fix patent laws so crooked big pharma companies can't charge outrageous prices. Having the govt foot the bill on all this stuff is just feeding into these problems. I know people that buy medicine in Mexico because it's so much cheaper there. Or people will fly to other countries for sugeries because it doesn't cost them their annual salary. Maybe our health care system here is better, but what good is it if we can't even pay for it? The "affordable care" act doesn't make care affordable. It just pays your bill.
Health insurance became tied to employment in WWII, when the government imposed wage controls. To attract employees while getting around wage controls, fringe benefits were added instead of increased pay. [1]

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w14839.pdf
The Indian H1B mills are deeply entrenched already in the tech industry.

Consider the US intel activities in subverting US citizens rights, no one is surprised if even NSA and CIA database centers are outsourced to India. The CIA already runs alot of data in AWS, Azure etc where those companies are literally dominated by Indians.

A common trick is to move US data offshore to get it cataloged by US spy agencies. For example, Google, SV, Redmond etc backing up client data in multiple offshore locations is fair game for NSA.

They will easily find a way to mark around any 'plan' Trump can conceive of. It is also _highly_ doubtful Trump admin even wants to take them on.
The Indian H1B mills are deeply entrenched already in the tech industry.

Consider the US intel activities in subverting US citizens rights, no one is surprised if even NSA and CIA database centers are outsourced to India and the tech mills. The CIA already runs alot of data in AWS, Azure etc where those companies are literally dominated by Indians. You wouldn't be far off to call SV and Redmond little India, and no one really cares.

A common trick is to move US data offshore to get it cataloged by US spy agencies. For example, Google, SV, Redmond etc backing up client data in multiple offshore locations is fair game for NSA.

They will easily find a way to mark around any 'plan' Trump can conceive of. It is also _highly_ doubtful Trump admin even wants to take them on.

Edit: to add, the moment any changes challenges the status quo the US tech companies, their "intel agencies", etc have set up , they're just going to expand and move into Canada. Canada has a large pool of available equivalents to H1bs. Bill Gates threatened to move Microsoft to Canada if he didn't get the policies he wanted and it worked. They'll do the same thing again.
> Is it because we're all making those sweet 1% salaries in tech?

Probably. We all know wealth inequality has risen quite a bit as well, so that average of 20% less is not distributed evenly. So to those in places like the valley, where you have a statistically huge chance of making more than your parents did it probably seems wrong. If you have any contact with the rest of the world it is pretty obvious.

And culturally, I think that's the impact of all that education. Their parents and grandparents lived in the culture that invented the "mid-life crisis" as a description of when you realized that your life choices were the result of being lied to about what makes for a good life. I wouldn't be surprised if the lessons of this finally sunk in. Helped along a whole lot by the lack of similar options due to boomer politics.
Here's the actual decision: http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/14-...

Most of the document is about the complex procedural history of the case. The meat of the new decision is on page 20 onwards:

> Apple argues that it does not sell apps but rather sells
“software distribution services to developers.” In Apple’s
view, because it sells distribution services to app developers,
it cannot simultaneously be a distributor of apps to app
purchasers. Apple analogizes its role to the role of an owner
of a shopping mall that “leases physical space to various
stores.” Apple’s analogy is unconvincing. In the case before
us, third-party developers of iPhone apps do not have their
own “stores.” Indeed, part of the anti-competitive behavior
alleged by Plaintiffs is that, far from allowing iPhone app
developers to sell through their own “stores,” Apple
specifically forbids them to do so, instead requiring them to
sell iPhone apps only through Apple’s App Store.

...

> [W]e rest our analysis, as compelled by Hanover
Shoe, Illinois Brick, UtiliCorp, and Delaware Valley, on the
fundamental distinction between a manufacturer or producer,
on the one hand, and a distributor, on the other. Apple is a
distributor of the iPhone apps, selling them directly to
purchasers through its App Store. Because Apple is a
distributor, Plaintiffs have standing under Illinois Brick to sue
Apple for allegedly monopolizing and attempting to
monopolize the sale of iPhone apps.

(IANAL)
Ask HN: Why do futurists skip the near future?
It's like corporations focus on the quarter. Futurists focus on the century. What group of people focuses on the decade?

All their arguments live in the farthest distances of time frames. So far, that they really may as well be science fiction. It seems quite odd to me, as a technologist, that they seem allergic to shorter term time horizons. I'm guessing it is some kind of mental anguish avoidance? For instance, if you know your'e going to die within 100 years, and all this amazing world changing tech is going to happen in 150 years, then you can just let your brain soak in all the cool and fun 150 year ideas, and skip the part where you die 50 years before they happen. Feels good, and you can think you're making progress somehow.

Maybe its just more exciting and fun to think about, like science fiction. Perhaps its pseudoprogress. It could be like procrastination, where instead of doing that thing you're supposed to, you learn more, or watch something educational. It seems like progress, but is it? I guess its better than video games. Shifting your focus onto opportunities that occur only after shorter term problems are solved, at the cost of those short term problems is a bad deal.

Fix todays problems today, and tomorrows problems tomorrow. Obviously for non serialized problems, the parallel approach is good, however in the case of futurists they appear to focus on the dreams and not so much the doing? 10 million members in /r/futurology. Post about how hard a thing is and watch the downvotes roll in. There's nothing wrong with hard things, only if you never get to actually work on them, because you were too focused on the problems of the future, to focus on the problems at hand.
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Sure, but Millennial's parents are Boomers. So Millennials had the advantages, and still have, of this greater income, from childhood on.
TIOBE is a terrible indicator generally. More activity doesn't mean more people are using a language. I wouldn't work for anyone using it to make decisions :)

The Cognitect website[1] lists quite a few success stories using Clojure. I would trust the names in that list far more than TIOBE.

But really what sold me on the language was the quality of the libraries, the incredibly helpful community and its shared focus on simplicity. Reading about a thing is no substitute for hands-on experience; its hard to judge the trade-offs you're making without it.

[1]: http://cognitect.com/clojure
I'm excited to see another option appear in text editing, and excited that it's written in Haskell, one of my favorite languages. But, why would I choose it over another text editor? The ability to customize it is neat, but editors like emacs can be customized to one's heart's content, and indeed can suffer from this (why did my editor suddenly become slow? why is my syntax highlighting or indentation not working correctly? who knows, it's the interaction of one of the 50 packages I have installed...).

Of course, you as the author are under no obligation save to write whatever you want, but speaking personally, I would love to see some sort of demonstration of how the editor works, and/or the case made selling me on why I should choose it over other options.
There was also over 100 years of labor struggle to build a middle class that later generations have been foolishly dismantling.
That's pretty much exactly what I said; those graduating HS after 2000 didn't have FB in college. I graduated high school in 2000, college in '04, didn't have facebook till after graduation. My brother graduated HS in 2002, college in 2006, facebooked all the time.
For what could be built in Antarctica in 1903, I bet it was state of the art. In 2015, the Shanghai Tower was built...it doesn't make what they're building in Antarctica today any less state of the art just because it's relatively less ambitious in scale.
One quirk of llvm is that they don't have a pre-commit CI.
> I get myself with the intruding unwanted thought of wishing someone would start WWIII just to see if at least life would be less boring.

That is a damn good description of why accelerationists are gaining popularity. I think a lot of the alt-right obsession comes from this as well.
We built an app that doesn't do exactly but, but it's similar. Instead of focusing on external restrictions, it reprograms your mind to make you less distractible.

http://YouJustNeedSpace.com
Jumping in real life and then going back down and landing while your character is still moving up seems like a really efficient way to get nauseated. 1:1 motion is very immersive and very good for avoiding nausea, so it's not something to give up lightly.
I reckon you'd be wrong.

It cost $1,000,000,000 to own a computer for baby boomers. I have (depending on how you count) between 3 (PCs - 2 mac and a Windows), and 11 (3 PCs, 2 phones, 2 console, an appleTV, 2 iPads and a Kindle).

That was impossible for my parents, heck for 18 year old me.

People think life is harder now because the equations of life are:

* Happiness = Reality - Expectation.
* Success = MAXIMUM_POSSIBLE_WE_ARE_EXPOSED_TO - what I achieve.

Most people expect a lot these days, and get slightly less and as a result are miserable.

On top of that, MAXIMUM_POSSIBLE_WE_ARE_EXPOSED_TO has increased, as we have more means of communication.

In mathematical terms, the gap between the each of these values of a good life:
1. The absolute highest possible value
2. The MEAN existence.
3. The MEDIAN existence

is increasing. In 1970, there were lots of limits. Today, you can be a YouTube star at home. As some people have it really good, this bumps the maximum and mean values, whereas the median hasn't moved as much since 1970l even though it has increased.

As examples, there are people like Casey Neistat and various Vloggers that live seemingly great lives. There are pro skaters, pro-surfers, musicians, actors, and then the tech billionaires. There are digital nomads, off-the-griders and other niche communties, and I'm sitting here reading Hacker news.

But that is BECAUSE we have just so many more options today. We also live in a world where the possibilities are vast - from travel (I have been to every continent except Antarctica), to work (so many more jobs in niche areas), to lifestyle, range of hobbies, foods available (baby boomers thought Pizza and pasta where exotic), even better COFFEE.

As there is so much possible, and the hours in week has remained static, we all fall short of the MAXIMUM_POSSIBLE_WE_ARE_EXPOSED_TO by a very long margin. No one is eating enough new or interesting foods, has enough cool hobbies they get paid for, plays enough games, has enough sex or spare time or earns Zuckerberg money - and by no one I mean no one person can ever achieve all of those things at once, so when we compare someone else's 100% dedication to our 0.1%, we feel inadequate.

But man, what a world! I am in Australia, writing a response to a person who commented on a system hosted in the USA that was impossible in 1970, using a pocket computer I use to communicate with literally the WORLD, about an article published in USA Today today (well, in some ways technically yesterday as I am a day in front of the west coast of the USA) that would never have reached my country in 1970. What is that worth? Certainly not nothing, even if many people deluded believe they would rather the 3 bedroom house in 1970 without a computer, air conditioning or the internet, not to mention the raft of socially limiting conditions.

Rant over!
Because they are the (one of the) easiest ways to get things done. Did you have a specific question? This seems to be one of those questions that will bring out the trolls and people will start talking about elixir, rust etc.
Ask HN: Projects Made in HTML5, CSS3 AND JS
What are some nice projects that I can work and follow along by some professionals to learn these 3 languages?

I think reading from a book or tutorials is fine and all but I want to get to building stuff because the best way to get better at something is to make stuff right?

So anything from Todo list to a full blown page written in HTML5, CSS3 and JS would be greatly appreciated. It can be a Book or Videos or just tutorials anything that shows how to make stuff.
Fair enough, my goal was to respectfully look at the number of additional expense items that are available today which were not part of the "Baby Boomer" menu.

Since I'm an engineer and have been since the 80's and a hiring manager for much of the last 15 years I can tell you that the starting wage for an electrical engineer or a computer programmer with a four year degree is around $85,000 (that was IBM's "standard offer" regardless of geography for a New College Grad with a 4 year degree). My starting wage in 1984 was $25,500 (which was Intel's standard offer for New College Grads with a 4 year degree). According to (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl) my salary in 1984 would be $60,000 today. That suggests to me that for my job and education there has been a 42% increase in salary.

I certainly agree that where I live (the Bay Area) the price of housing has outpaced that increase in salary, especially in home ownership. That appears to be stabilizing a bit as additional housing comes on line but it remains to be seen if that truly reflects what it costs.
I also got married to an engineer and so we were both bringing home "engineering" salaries and that gave us the ability to get into a house in 1988 with a 12% adjustable mortgage rate.

So what does this anecdote tell us? Not a whole lot. Engineers make more today out of college than they did in the 80's. Not really a huge surprise.

I think Internet access is essential today, at its cheapest its probably $30/month, more if you combine it with a phone. That is a cost I didn't have to pay. But its an example of things that people today do have to pay.

Informational value? Not high.

The truth is that not all people born between 1985 and 1995 make 20% less than their parents in 2016 than people who were born from 1955 to 1965 made in 1986. Some make more, some make less, some make about the same. How many? That would be an interesting thing to know but this article doesn't tell us how to understand that. It picks out some anecdotes, sprinkles in some common boogeymen (student loan debt) and implies we're all headed for the crapper.

So it didn't impress me very much.

PS. Don't dismiss the coffee habit out of hand. $500 a year compounded at 4% a year over 40 years (21 -> 61) is a bit more than $50,000 you don't get to spend in retirement.
Facebook as a determiner is an interesting one. I'm also on the cusp but delayed uni by a few years, and so Facebook popped up while I was at uni and changed everything.
Seems like bullshit. As someone who's been doing a lot of interviewing recently the ratio of male to female SDE candidates is at least 10:1. If we assume that ability is uniformly distributed there is literally no way to get to a 50:50 split or anywhere close to it without discrimination.
Cool. What exactly does anonymous mean in this context? Why should I use this resolver instead of my router's/ISP?
Interesting how the climate change skeptics were losing the argument here and so they diverted the topic to economics.
Antarctic Winterer here. Hahahahahaha! Erm, yeah, suuuuuuuure.
This is amazing, I will give it a try over the weekend for sure. Is modular the selling point here? Last thing I seek in an editor is modularity. This is like saying my browser is written in some pluggable framework... Who cares as long as it works?
Both frontend and backend, definitely if you are to be in charge of a project that involve security and quality coding on both side that most developers must be proficient and competent to deliver with "Web application" framework.
I completely agree here. I genuinely feel bad for those who do work hard and try their best. But that is not the case for most of the people I personally know.

I really get tired of hearing people complain about low wages and being broke, but aren't willing on doing anything about it. Ranting on Facebook from their $700 - $800 Iphone while drinking a $5 coffee.

I've worked really hard for everything I have. Late nights on my own, studying to better myself. Missing opportunities to hang out with friends, concerts, etc. But, at the end of the day, I chose to focus on my skills, knowledge, and career. So, when I see these same people complaining, I feel like they are degrading the time I spent and luxuries I gave up to get to where I am.