skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, Warren's data and the Two Income Trap shows nothing of the sort.

The Two Income Trap shows that income rose 75%. Mortgage expenses rose 70% (for a 66% bigger house [1]), two cars cost 55% more than 1 car, health insurance cost 60% more, etc. In fact, the main expense that rose faster than income was taxes (140%) - everything else rose more slowly.

http://www.volokh.com/posts/1185883980.shtml http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_04_27-2008_05_03.sht...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118705537958296783

It's not really your fault that you made this mistake, however. Warren chose a really strange way to report tax increases - she reports them as a percentage of before and after income - a 9% increase from 24% of family income to 33%. I place the blame for this confusion on her strange data presentation choices - nearly everyone who read her book gets confused by this, not just you.

But all her other increases are in inflation-adjusted dollar percentages. If she reported taxes this way, they'd be up 140% from $9,288 to $22,374.

If she reported housing expenses the way she reported taxes, they would be down 3%. Health care would be down 9%.

She sure made such a strange choice in how she presented the data. I wonder why she did that?

[1] https://www.nar.realtor/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2007032701?Op...
Yes. And not just eliminate subsidies. The fossil fuel industries need to be taxed heavily, with proceeds going to renewables. But not nuclear, unless it's passively safe, and doesn't create long-lived waste.
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> Don't assume:...

What kind of dev do you suppose know what you listed? A 1.5X, 2X, or 5X programmer? Surely not a 10X/Free Electron.
To add to that, I have found that a lot of my friends in the software developer community, who used to have the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality, are finally paying more attention to privacy related issues in light of the new administration in the States. Reminds me of what Snowden said a few years back, "Even if you trust the government today, what happens when it changes?”. I have noticed a similar phenomenon happening among my non-technical family members as well. So yes, I am totally with you that things are changing, I am excited to see how the dynamic changes in Silicon Valley for companies that used to rely on that mentality. However, I am still worried that this might just be an initial reaction to the regime change in the States and it might die down soon as people, at the very least the non-technical people, might become tired of how hard it is to use products that are privacy and "freedom" respecting and might fall back to the convenience of the products and services offered "free" but for the price of their privacy.
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I have enjoyed many, many hours with don's starve. The modern randomized, living world games are a lot of fun.
This is why I still go to the trouble of PGP encrypting a file with my passwords, rather than relying on a password manager. I keep wanting to switch, but damn it, I just can't bring myself to have that much trust in them.

Edit: Thanks for the informative replies, the links, and the advice. I'm going to explore all of my options and re-think this.
You don't even need the big stats. Just hang it off of a single number and invite people to get in touch. TBH, more information up front is more likely to reduce the number of leads. Just say you're getting, say, 20K pageviews per month or that you have X number of subscribers (to RSS, Twitter, whatever).
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/31673/10x-developer

See top answer here: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17961...

The "10 times" didn't come from nowhere, people who use the term to simply mean a great (and not literally "ten times productive") programmer ignore the origin of the term.
Sounds like (based on other comments) you should really just be using localForage. Store.js only currently supports a sychronous interface, which will be incompatible with modern web APIs.
Profits don't just fall, the fortunes of some rise while others fall. In the worst case, the fortunes of warlords and tyrants rise. Until the absolute end, there is always someone profiting from human misery.
Not at all, your solution entirely solves the most annoying part. I just prefer to do the next step in an automated manner, too.
Dwarf Fortress' complexity is far, far superior. It's not comparable.
> The guy running this should get over it, and admit that the only reason he's got some sort of fame is because of a single game. He should focus on that, not "Bay 12 Games".

AFAIK, that's all he's doing right now.

Also, Liberal Crime Squad is entertaining too and I know there's a few communities around it.
I don't think that the criticism is that easily dismissible.

It's not so much that it's keyboard controlled (that's great for the reasons you mention) or that it's hard (that's ultimately part of its charm). It's that the interface is inconsistent with itself. A great example (from when I last spent any comsiderable time with it) is that different menus use different controls and mechanisms for selecting a menu item. Some have you type a single character, while others have you scroll through them with varying pairs of keys for no obvious reason. It's a natural result of organic growth and IMO outweighed by a great game, but the cognitive load of using the interface definitely isn't its charm for me.
When money stops being the driving motivation for the majority of people. As long as brute capitalism is rewarded, you're going to see this type of occurrence.
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It's this way because they want it to be this way. Product working as designed.
I honestly can't tell if you are being serous or not. $2,000/month entertainment is included in "bare one expenses to exist?" No. That's pretty extravagant.

Sure, you are probably going to need 2 incomes if that's the kind of lifestyle you want but don't kid yourself its some sort of bare minimum.

Growing up my family of five (three kids, two parents) somehow managed to live in a two bedroom apartment with one car and played in public parks and other public facilities for entertainment. We wore hand-me-downs and had little in terms of "stuff," we didn't have any room to store it anyways.

I am much happier I grew up without excess toys/objects/items as most of our play was centered around imagination. Children are really good at entertaining themselves if left to their own devices. It also made me appreciate what I did have.

Basically, I didn't grew up even remotely in squalor or anything like that. It would have been nice to have my own bedroom but it wasn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

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My family now has two incomes/jobs but only one car, we share a car ride to work, one drops the other off in the morning and picks them up in the evening. it's kinda annoying at times. I want to get a second car but every time I run the numbers in my head I can't justify the huge added expense just to alleviate a little bit of annoyance/inconvenience.

So anyways, you can do with a lot less if you actually wanted to. "This is how much I spend" isn't the same thing as "this is how much I am required to spend."
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> Plenty people consider the term to be not literal, and argue as such all over HN.

Can you give me examples, so I can tell them that they're wrong as well?
Check out PiBakery, it allows you to take a stock image and do some post-startup config, including setting up keys for SSH and changing passwords.

http://www.pibakery.org/
"I think our only hope is for solar/wind/nuclear to get so good nobody wants fossil fuels any more."

We are at this stage now or approaching it:

https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-...
And how many reading books 60 years ago were learning to write them?
http://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/?si...

"But what will happen when the point has been reached where everybody could be comfortable without working long hours?

In the West we have various ways of dealing with this problem. We have no attempt at economic justice, so that a large proportion of the total produce goes to a small minority of the population, many of whom do no work at all. Owing to the absence of any central control over production, we produce hosts of things that are not wanted. We keep a large percentage of the working population idle because we can dispense with their labor by making others overwork. When all these methods prove inadequate we have a war: we cause a number of people to manufacture high explosives, and a number of others to explode them, as if we were children who had just discovered fireworks. By a combination of all these devices we manage, though with difficulty, to keep alive the notion that a great deal of manual work must be the lot of the average man."
Nailed it, except that "tens of millions" could easily climb into, "Over a billion" depending on a number of factors. Then you add in advanced countries panicking and turning to geoengineering and the end accelerates.
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You're massively overvaluing toys and other consumer goods, and you're massively undervaluing real estate.

Having nice TVs doesn't make your quality of life that much better now than back in the 80s.

Living in a terrible neighborhood with crime because you can't afford to live in a decent neighborhood on a single income makes your quality of life much worse than back in the 80s when a single income could afford a nice house.
I would agree with you on this if you were to state that someone looked at the code created by one of these ultra-productive developers, asked questions, and was told "f* off".

But, did any of the other developers even look at what the other ultra-productive developer did ? Did it get studied in detail, and were questions asked of the ultra-productive developer ?

I've been the ultra-productive developer in such a situation before. After a couple of runs of "hey, here's some cool things that I did that I thought you might be interested in" followed by a lot of glazed-over looks and shifting in seats, I got the message and stopped doing them. There simply was not any interest, and I learned a valuable lesson: most developers don't have any where near the same level of interest in the craft as those that have done it for 25-30 years and are passionate about it. It's just the way it is, and no amount of persuasion or pleading is going to change it.

Either that, or I'm mind-numbingly boring and that was the reason... ;-)
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Women also apply for management at lower rates, though. The whole ecosystem is unbalanced and not in their favor.
I don't really agree. Delphi made writing native code on Windows really pleasant, primarily because it had (a) a built-in string type with reference counting and (b) strong conventions around object ownership and construction / destruction.

The built-in string type interacted really well with the Win32 API, and it was universal - there wasn't one string type to deal with the platform, and another string type for your own code, and yet another string type for third party code, all too common in C++, especially in the 90s.

The object model - zero-initialized reference types with a Destroy method that was safe to call on null values - avoided one of the biggest pains in C++ exception safety, in particular safely destroying partially constructed instances. The idioms in Delphi don't catch all cases (e.g. if a destructor throws, you're potentially going to leak), but they work really well 99% of the time without convolutions or RAII wrappers.

Delphi did exceptions very well too. Because of the strong conventions around try/finally to wrap creation and destruction of objects, exceptions never felt dangerous or uncontrolled. I don't think anyone who used Delphi in anger pined for nothrow, explicit exception specifications or wholesale replacement of exceptions with error codes.

The point is that it was a high-level native language language that was far easier to use correctly than C++.
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Stop with the standard of living shaming. You're not convincing anyone and you're ignoring the fact that even if you adjust/account for that the issues being discussed here are the same. In other words you're just doing moral finger-wagging, not making a substantive argument.
Those in authority hold these people accountable towards actually pushing the new agenda. All bets are off then aren't they?
Vague in what way? The Turing Test is a pretty concrete definition of human-level AI, which is what you asked for.
Oh man, people work 12 hours a day (like me) and you complain about a 40-hour week??
> Instead of crying and being sad and sitting on a couch, I am going to write to politicians. I am going to call. I am going to write to newspapers. I am going to get on the radio. I will not be quiet. No more passive behaviour. Hear me roar.

I have a serious question. What does it mean to be on the frontline? It's obvious that she intends to do something and push the system, but it's not "revolution", as she says she is for. She is arguing for action inside the system, but that is not revolutionary.

I very much want to force change, but it sounds more like she doesn't want to be on the frontline, but instead call others to action.

I'm horrified by what we as Americans are doing to people of all stripes coming to the US. We are supposed to be the land of opportunity, the land that is welcoming to all. Some claim that we are a nation based on Christian morals, but then we throw out the primary messages of being Christian. It's horrendous.

So what is the best way to fight this? The things which are getting the most attention recently are the large marches. I suppose that's the place to start, and it feels tangible. Civil disobedience, boycotting supporters of these policies, these seem to cause the powers that be to take notice.
When the endorsement flood first hit, I thought it was a truly awful and intrusive idea. I created an Unwanted Endorsement Recipient... skill? I don't remember exactly how it works. I know I've been endorsed for it a few times now, though I long ago turned off endorsement emails so I'm not sure.

It's just an engagement growth hack by LI. I understand why they did it, but I think it's short term gain for long term risk of irrelevance (of LI itself; endorsements are already irrelevant). Which, for a social network, is the biggest existential threat.
Does anyone have a project idea for a Pi? I bought one a couple weeks ago to make a VPN server but I found out my router had that functionality built in anyway.

I'm looking for a fun project to scratch my engineering itch. I've been a non-engineer for too long.

I have an amazon echo for voice recognition functionality if that opens any doors. But I can't rewire my apartment since it's not mine, so I can't do much home automation.
I wonder if a slower, but maybe safer alternative is just to increase the burning of SOX producing fuels. If we could scrub the carbon, we'd have a net-cooling effect.

That or we have to seriously consider induced volcanism.
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Responding with civility to non-pedantry is also a part of HN; which is more relevant in this case, lest anyone mistake my post as pedantic.
> kill the 40 hour week and replace it with a 30 hour week.

Or less. If you're over 40, cognitive function declines if you work more than 25 hours a week (and declines more the more you exceed). Up to 25 hours a week, cognitive function increases with more work.

Not that increasing cognitive function is the be-all and end-all, but (a) it's certainly something to consider whether you're degrading your brain and (b) 25 hours probably also works well for other reasons and for other ends.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2737742
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> WordPress security is complex.

This must be an oxymoron since complexity is the enemy of security.

I think what you meant to say was

> WordPress security is at best ad-hoc, and mostly non-existing
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I'd love to see a similar analysis for EnPass
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I'm curious how other industries handle similar issues. It's possible this is one of those things where we just need enough people to be hurt by it before anyone pays attention. I hope we can stop it before it gets to that level, though.
I thought the second section did a much better job explaining what the pattern was and what the advantages of it are! The first section tried to set up the background for PRPL, but these justifications don't belong in the user-facing documentation (except as an appendix).
You may want to look at pass, which is pretty lightweight scripting around gpg to store passwords in multiple files. Some tradeoffs required, but works well and fully auditable
Absolutely wrong.

No, you don't need $150 cable packages and $200 cellular packages. I don't have those myself. My cellphone bill with Ting is about $30/month for myself, and I got my 3-year-old phone on Ebay used.

And no, you don't need a 4000sf home. But most people do want a decent home in a decent, low-crime neighborhood. The problem is that it's very hard to afford that on a single income, even after you cut out extravangances like $150 cable packages.

The fundamental problem is that the rent is too damn high.
Why do you say there are less people interested in software development than before? (And do you mean less absolutely or less as a fraction of the whole?)
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I use emacs+org mode, and it fixes all those problems even better
That experiment started in February 2000, a time where telework and work from home and other policies were much less common. Automation in the past 17 years have invalidated a lot of 'work' people do as well.

The idea that 40-50 is some magic number is the more ridicouls claim imo. If anything, progress, technology, and automation should naturally drive down hours needed per week. No one at my job does nearly the same amount of work we did 10-15 years ago. Our Fridays are all 'work from home' which is code for 'maybe check your email or finish up something.'

Our work world is only changing. Rolling with the changes makes sense to me and 35 hour or 4 day work-weeks seem like the a rational change. We should be benefiting from automation, not punished by it by pretending to be busy or working at much slower paces in fear of layoffs.

Also French experiemnt only lasted until 2004, when reforms were put in to raise the maximum amount of work allowable per month. I think its disingenuous to say that it 'failed.' It had a short 4 year run almost two decades ago. The world of 2017 is very different from the world of 2000-2004.
Because Google Ventures has invested heavily in Uber, a revolving door executive interchange is not unexpected.
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Anyone using qemu has disabled 9p for a really long time.
Not sure I would call it racism. Ethnocentrism, as others have said, born of centuries of relative isolation and periods of significant cultural and technological advances.

Not sure if USA can exploit negative perceptions of China, given our history and the histories of other white-dominated nations (e.g. GB and France) in Africa and Latin America.

For all we know, the Third World might not mind at all seeing the West taken down a peg, especially if they see no change in their status. But even if things go worse for the TW because of China, what can they do about it?
Some of my friends who are now lawyers were really bad at math in high-school, so I'm not sure that equating law to computer programs is how it works in practice.
What they meant was, conditioned on the evidence presented about Uber's actions towards journalists, the likelihood of the existence of list of employees to fire is unaffected.

The GP tried to support the probability of their supposition with an unrelated fact, which was called out.

A person hating puppies doesn't incline them towards murder any more than liking licorice, even if both might be considered by some to be signs of character flaw or moral failing. Sometimes when there's smoke, there's just some guy trying to have a cigarette in peace away from terrible, judgemental people.
Consider that the costs of those vehicles, communications devices, and shelter have increased much faster than wages have. But no, what you choose to take from that reality is "they need to be happy with less stuff"
TouchID on iOS uses the Secure Enclave, so hardcoded encryption keys are unlikely for anything that uses TouchID.
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Dwarf Fortress was one of the first computer games that I really ever got into. I was a little 15 year old that had a shitty desktop computer that wasn't always connected to the internet and DF has provided me with many tens of hours of entertainment. I remember the depth and realism included in game caused me to want to learn to program myself. I wish the UI was better, but honestly I think the engagement with the keyboard in DF is it's strongest selling point. Every game action can literally be performed with the keyboard, and this means that I don't need to wait for the text on menus to mentally register, move a mouse, click. I can essentially type the commands at speed.

TLDR: DF is a great game that shaped my childhood and motivated me to become a programmer.
> The difference between reading and managing servers is childhood.

That analogy is crap. Is the difference between reading and launching people into space childhood, too? We don't blame authors for kids who can't read any more than you can solve technical illiteracy by bludgeoning software authors. Can we help? Yes, certainly (and check out https://www.cs-first.com/en/home if you haven't). But throwing shade isn't going to magically make an entire class of folks learn something they don't care about.
Why is it relevant that it happened on a Pride Parade, as the headline suggest? "Pilot of drone that struck woman at parade gets 30 days in jail" is perfectly fine.

Now the current headline suggests it could have been a hate crime (it's not), or that a pride parade is something particular (it's not).

It's like "Black man robs woman" instead of "Man robs woman": a little bit too specific and suggestive.
The other problem is utility bills. These anti-big-house people complain how people don't need giant houses, but they completely ignore how horribly inefficient older houses are. It probably costs a lot less to heat and cool your McMansion than it would a 50-year-old house that's half the size.

I really wish it were easy to find nice, well-built, efficient, modestly sized houses in neighborhoods where you don't have ex-cons living next to you, vicious dogs running loose, etc. That just doesn't seem to be the case.