skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true though. We talk about the loss of industrial jobs and NAFTA as a white working class phenomenon, despite the fact that people of all races are affected. We pathologized drug use for decades, until the recent opioid crisis hit rural areas. We talk about the loss of mining jobs, but rarely mention the loss of retail jobs. The Brookings report showed that while white people are dying more, they're still dying at lower rates than blacks. Gentrification, which is a huge economic issue for marginalized populations, is batted away as the way things have to be. Not to mention the treatment of issues like redlining. The biggest political impediment to social welfare policies that would have helped poor white communities has always been "welfare queen" rhetoric that pathologizes black poverty. Moving forward as a country requires us to acknowledge the racial biases in the ways we talk about economic issues.
How does your son do with physical objects? Could he learn plumbing or handyman work? Both of these trades still bring in enough money to live, and in some cities, enough money to live extraordinarily well.
Spain, Japan, Vietnam and Italy. They vary a lot on the why and style and I'm just saying the ones I know for certain. I've also read about Portugal, Greece and India being similar in this regard but I haven't lived there or talked with natives about this.

It is normal until you either get married, move due to university/job or move with your partner. Why else would you want to live alone? (;
Ubuntu. IntelliJ +Scala plugin. I write Scala 90% of the time. 99% of the time, before I call any function, I jump "navigate to source" in intelliJ, and have a quick glance on it. Most of the time, type ascription is enough, sometimes I skim through doc, and occasionally, if it's sketchy library, I look at implementation. This is very quick process that takes maybe 10-15seconds. Sometimes when Im not under pressure, while I'm at sources, I check also some similiar APIs, and implementation, to see and learn 'hows' and 'whys'. Using this I quickly gain pretty solid knowledge of libraries I use.

If I'm really stuck, I opened 3d party github, and scan issues, to see if there's something similiar. Lots of times there is issue or something, but I'll admit, lots of time there isn't. This is when I start googling, which sometimes take me to Stackoverflow. If not, I use gitter to ask authors. But this happen very rarely. Mostly all I need to do is dictated by library types I use. Occasionally, with shitty libraries that bring external configuration I have to check their docs on github.

But I think it may be language related. Or experience perhaps. I had to do a bit of javascript with node.js (2 weeks +-), and I visited SO very very very often.

Normally whenever I'm learning new language or framework, navigating to sources is my fasttrack to both language and framework/lib. There isn't a better way to learn what's right way to do stuff than to see authors of battle tested libraries solving difficult problems, and learning from their style. I can recommend that :)

I'll admit your mileage may vary, and this may be specific to my job, but I'm pretty happy with this workflow, and I don't have anything against people using SO or something.

Edit: I had forgotten important part - occasionally I spin REPL and try what library really does there. But that's also one of last resorts, when I'm stuck :) In Scala we have http://www.lihaoyi.com/Ammonite/ which makes it super easy to fetch and use external dependencies etc... so I guess tooling is also important part.
I'm not making an argument here, since I don't know the answer to my question, but is it possible that a higher proportion of coal and manufacturing jobs were traditionally living wage, support-a-family type jobs, as compared to retail jobs? And if so, wouldn't it be reasonable to focus attention on the losses in the two categories somewhat differently?
Count me in as well.
Indeed: "When asked whether it was more important to them to have financial stability or to move up the income ladder, 92 percent of Americans choose security, an increase of 7 percentage points since 2011." [1]

[1] http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-brie...
Couldn't have been said better.

I'd like to add: if you find the time, try to have a side-project on your own time where you apply all these cool new things you were looking to apply in your company. This will help you keep your sanity and it will let you experiment with that technology so that you can make a better informed decision on wether to implement it in your company or not.
> unless you happened to major in the few areas of study where gainful employment is possible. Crushing student debt, high cost of living cities, an unreachably inflated housing market, low (but non-zero for now) job prospects

Very much this. I came out of a good school with only $30k in debt and a degree in a tech field. My wife came out of an okay state school with $60k in debt (much of that private loans with high interest rates) and a masters in art history and really no job prospects.

I'm supporting both of us now on a salary which sounded like a lot to me at first, but we live in the Bay Area. After my $2500 per month rent on a 1 bedroom (low for Bay area standards), and $1600 per month for student loans, we're not left with much each month. I certainly never thought I'd be living paycheck to paycheck on my current salary. We're postponing kids and a house for now, while my parents had both at my age. We don't go out much, we don't buy much. We're comfortable, but not really flourishing.

And now I'm starting to see the words "Ballistic Nuclear Missile" and "Napa Valley" in the same sentence. My wife said to me last night she's scared of the future, and for the first time in my life, I'm starting to get a little worried too. As long as I can remember the future was the brightest, most desirable place for me to be. Now? I'm not so sure...
> because there's a stigma against it.

And they frequently paid really low wages, since they're expected to be filled by immigrants, both legal and illegal. $10 an hour seasonally to pick onions? $15 an hour for a professional welder? Those are near-poverty level wages.
I seems like there should be an opportunity for active investors to make money off of all the passively managed money.

All I can think of would be to take advantage of the margin of the index. For example buy stock #501 and a discount and sell when it crosses into the sp 500 since vanguard will prop up the price by buying it for tge index fund. Similarly shorting #499.

I'm sure that the market has gotten more sophisticated than this though. So how does it work in practice?
If he can physically hack it then a career in Landscaping. It's just that it is physically demanding. Cutting Grass, planting trees, interlock, etc.
Yes, but ask the author (@bitemyapp everywhere) about when.
So light and fluffy!
Money isn't everything. Being put through the bodyshops, the stress of making ends meet on those low wages, and not really being able to do things outside work takes it's toll.
I believe that the button is disabled because it's too easy to click by mistake. You can mute a tab in the right click menu without turning on any flags.
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/19/15357290/juicero-400...

'Juicero’s business plan reads like a pitch-perfect parody of contemporary startup culture. One investor told Bloomberg that Juicero was building a “platform” for a new model of food delivery. ...The technology is mostly superfluous from the customer’s perspective. But the technology dimension was crucial for fundraising. As one investor put it to Bloomberg, “Their venture firm wouldn’t have met with [Juicero founder Doug] Evans if he were hawking bags of juice that didn’t require high-priced hardware.”'
The beginning of the industrial revolution was harsh, but it beat starving to death during a bad harvest year in previous eras. Also, you got to own more than one or two outfits over your entire life as Adam Smith noted.
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They address why they're looking at whites a few paragraphs in, though

>While blacks and Hispanics without college degrees are also falling behind economically and socially, middle-age mortality has worsened for whites in particular over the past 20 years—a fact some attribute partly to social context.

Do you specifically disagree with this?
>... maintaining the professional atmosphere in a place like the White House

But what about the clown in the center of the frame though.
The differences are very small, and I am not too surprised with the relative popularity of Matlab and R compared to say Haskell, since there are relatively more women majoring in engineering that computer science, as well as relatively high numbers doing quantitative work in the social sciences. I wonder why Rust, though, is such a huge outlier. Maybe it is just noisy because there are so few people asking about Rust at all on Stack Overflow.
Because no one would every do rm -rf / in shell?
Yes, but this only works for those who are exploiting a difference between their marginal tax rate and the LTCG rate. That is, those in the 15% marginal bracket whose LTCG rate is 0%. For other investors it is preferable to pay no taxes (continue to hold the security long-term even after it qualifies for long-term tax treatment)
>You can use arrow functions for literally every function you write other than generators

But not for every function I read, and that is the problem with all backward compatible fixes to programming languages. You're just piling on more (sometimes better) features on top of all the old brokenness and everybody has to know all of it.
I think that life has always been like this for many blacks. Whites - even working-class whites - used to be more immune to this kind of despair. What's different is that the lack of economic opportunity is starting to destroy whites as well. (Yes, it always was there to some degree, but the intensity is new.)

Now, we as a society should have cared when it was happening to blacks. But it is a significant change that it is increasing dramatically among working-class whites.
الفرق بين الليزك والفيمتو ليزك والفيمتو سمايل لتصحيح النظر و أيهم أفضل؟ مميزاتهم
Of course rent is important. But we don't need a 3/2 when a 2/1 will meet all of our needs. I feel like we are driven to buy things beyond our needs and our inability to afford those things is one of the drivers of despair.
Sony's been doing an impressive job. But another factor that dovetails with Canon/Nikon system investments is that all of these big DSLRs have features that are already well past the point of diminishing returns for a lot of people. I have a Canon 5Diii and I have no urge to upgrade it much less switch systems. (To be honest, I don't even use it all that much because I have other cameras that are far smaller and do a perfectly adequate job for most things.)
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The bible speaks of Jubilee, the 50th year where debts are wiped clear, and land is pooled and redivided among the people. There are Christians who believe this should be a thing in modern society, and it is quite practical.

Note: I say this as an Atheist, ex-Catholic.

Jubilee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_%28biblical%29
More people didn't vote for Trump than did.
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Please don't take discussions further into general ideological territory. This rarely begets good discussion and is strongly discouraged on HN.
That's right, we should always strive to assess technical projects based on how the author communicates.
Interestingly, capital holders are complaining all the time as well. There are very few places to put money now with a decent return. Savings accounts pay roughly 0%. Bonds are at inflation, or sometimes less. The S&P 500's P/E is at 25, which is historically very high, implies a rate of return of about 4%, and makes the risk of a correction significant. Real estate is inefficient; property prices are so high that the IRR on rents is only a couple percent.

Basically the only place to get decent returns these days are in startups, which is why valuations have gone sky-high. This in turn cuts the average return, although in tech startups this is manifested as a big chance of losing everything and a small chance of a great return rather than a small chance of losing everything and a big chance at a small return.

I think what's actually going on is a big innovation deficit. We're at the end of the current scientific & technology paradigm, and there's not enough fundamental research going on to generate new technological opportunities. We see this in the returns to innovation (which are sky-high: if you come up with a technical breakthrough that legitimately makes things better for lots of people, you become an insta-billionaire) and the rareness of those returns. Historically, the last time this happened was the Great Depression, and WW2 broke us out of it because the war department funded a good deal of research that could never have happened in peacetime, which were then commercialized over the ensuing 50 years or so.
I also have two sets, they....were... awesome. I can't believe Bose would betray users trust like that when they're known for high quality products.
Merrill Edge if you have sufficiently high account balance (>$50k) allows 30 free ETF and stock trades per month. There are nice credit card bonuses with BOA CCs, too.
> Sure, it's not at the level of dying of a heroin addiction...

Yet.
It's heartbreaking.

> “He just saw his life as not what he wanted it to be, and he didn’t know how to get it there”

I think though, that this is a near universal aspect of the human condition.
> The reason why I bought a bluetooth toothbrush was for a ranking system

We are truly living in a modern fall of rome. We will choke on our bluetooth enabled toothbrushes, 700 dollar juicer machines, our fucking fitbits. We've ravaged the earth to adorn ourselves with decadent shackles and we will reap the consequences with fake tans and ultra clean teeth.

In the past year I've gone from being an environmentalist to a big fan of the end times. We're going to eat ourselves out of a home, and a few billion years later, the Earth will still be here, not missing us at all. Fuck it, get three bluetooth toothbrushes next time.
So like node.js in a nutshell?
For us, the believers, all legitimacy emanates from the laws of the One God. For you, filthy pagans, it is a well-known fact that legitimacy could even emanate from the inventions of your political clowns.
Anything that lowers the barrier to entry for playing around or making one-offs with this kind of data is really cool. I'll definitely have to try this out a bit.
If it took you 3 days to update React then you should definitely look at jscodeshift. It should have taken you a few hours at most regardless of the size of your codebase.
Yet another spying case that could be avoided if people stopped using non-free software.
Didn't know that! Thanks
Depends on the area. The coasts are very different.
Why would you need to go to college to do an entry-level job? Conversely, who wants to spend 4 years (and probably $$$) getting a college degree in order to then work a job that bores them to tears? Perhaps you meant 'entry-level' within some more specific context but nowadays employers seem to think people need a bachelor's degree to answer the phone.
Isn't Window Phone dead? Last December it's word wide market share was just 0.1% (the same as Blackberry), down from 1.3% twelve months before (Dec 2015). Also the most recent Win10PhoneOS release only runs on merly 12 supported devices.
majority of people simply won't be able to help with the complex problems that push human progress forward.

What do you suggest we do with them?
This is a good way to look at it. I think an economist would call this your "marginal wage".
> The anger that got trump elected is just the beginning if things don't change

Try to get a single Democrat to acknowledge this. They are still belitteling and stigmatizing those who share these concerns (and riduculing them for their audacity of hoping that Trump will be able to change anything).
They also sell disposable blades with disposable handles attached to them.
But you've missed his point about the racial gender make up of those who are employed in those types of jobs. Especially in places with "many opportunities".
You tell me. It is wrong to make things worse for everybody just because when it was less worse for a powerful group it was ignored?
That's not what flagging is for.
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The party that's in favor of subsidizing education would've done better in the election if it had put forward the candidate who people thought would actually do so. There's going to be books written about the DNC's 2016 self-destruction for years to come.
No one said it was easy. All the trades mentioned are hard work.
Mental suffering exists. I'm just suggesting that stigmatization and drugging might not be the best way to deal with it
A low overhead / low start up capitol business to start as well. I have a few friends that own their own businesses in that field.
And they don't actually hold the stocks in their fund; they are held in trust at JPM depository trust.
As far as React goes, the performance increase with immutable/pure components more than offsets the penalty of using immutable structures and having to "copy"[0] data to change it. Of course, it depends on the app, if your data is change-heavy, this will be less true.

[0] Vanilla JS immutable types heavily optimize this. Immutable.js does as well, although there's obviously more overhead.
Just an FYI some of the nav links point to the wrong URL when in the blog section.
Educate them with all of the free time created from automation, then put them back in to the work force.
Pulling off that balance is extremely hard to implement in practice though. Usually it swings heavily one direction or the other, so one group is marginalized.
> This is the same with the new YouTube TV too. I'm not sure if it's a DRM issue or not.

Firefox supports the same Google Widevine DRM as Chrome, so YouTube's choice of DRM system should not be an issue.
Not being a camera guy, can someone explain to me why all these stats are awesome? I mean, they sound awesome, but I'm a sucker for people telling me things are awesome.
If you're suggesting they went with a USB or TB ethernet adapter instead, think about the complexity of supporting the numerous available NIC chipsets on something like a camera...
Coming from a Princeton egghead that's not a surprising point of view. It seems very typical for those with education to look down upon the less-educated.

Commenting that 'America is not a great place for people with only a high school degree' is not looking down on the less educated, it's an observation about how society at large treats the less educated. Between this and your description of one of the world's leading economic thinkers as a 'Princeton egghead', It's hard to give much weight to anything else you say.
Don't Canon and Nikon make pretty good mirrorless cameras too?
In a way, parents can support their kids less today. Wages have stagnated and stratified heavily, leaving the median home with less effective income, meanwhile the cost of college has gone from free (at public institutions) and nominal at private schools ($400/yr adjusted) to over $10k a year minimum.

Housing rising in cost is only dog piling on and exacerbating the issue.
I have a big distaste for bash, and am happy to copy paste anything similar from stackoverflow. Shame on me though!
That's good stuff I like that. In today's market the competition is too high, their goal during an interview process is to focus on the negatives. Why? Because they pretty much tell you right away - we're talking to you because we like you. So the game is to dislike you. They're looking for that opportunity to dislike you and to move on to the next candidate.

If you do exactly what you said in your comment, you'd be disqualified for being a "jerk". As bad as it sounds, it's reality. Again, what you said is %300 what I think candidates should do.
Video turns (almost) black and white after plugging in laptop power
As a programmer in Germany I don't even get half of that. Where can I sign?
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> Johnson started using opioids in high school after breaking his collarbone, first in football and again while wrestling [... T]hings slipped out of control after he graduated and found that his skills — art and cooking, but not academics — meant little in the workforce.

> At one point [... he] got a full-time job making wood pallets. [...] “It’s a stupid job. It doesn’t matter if you’re high to work it”

It's hard not to think the kid was let down by the system. It should be inconceivable that you can go through K-12 without being told very sternly that a) skills in sports, art and cooking
are not very marketable, and will probably only get you "stupid jobs" b) in the current environment, even McD may require a college degree soon, so you'd better bite the bullet on those academic skills. Any adult in a position of responsibility should have known these facts. Yet for 12+ years they've failed to communicate them. The kids are allowed to drift aimlessly, and then it's somehow their fault if they end up in a very bad place at the end.
And the alternative? Doing nothing may be even worse, depending on where they are on the spectrum.

I would also note that the ARM isn't really staffed or managed by folks on the spectrum, but by outsiders who think they know what's right for their charges.
It's not nothing. But it's nothing next to the fear of ending up homeless.
Look here: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I...

The Vanguard S&P500 index fund currently contains 511 stocks. Even the S&P500 index itself holds 505 stocks.
It's easy to pass judgement on a place you don't live in.
I was with you until "lest we halt human progress in its place"

Look back on history and I bet all the things you think of as great achievements in human progress were the result of the leisure class's hobbies. Especially Math and Science!

Theres a darker reason why the majority of people won't be enjoying leisure- because the power to force people to work is actually a pleasure and a value of the ruling classes, and nearly everyone has internalized it.

Thats why you hear an outcry against welfare or basic income, but not a peep about trust funds or inheritances.
I agree with you, but unfortunately the elites will be the last to suffer. They have been quite effective in blaming the victim for years and will continue to blame immigrants, pc-culture, mexico, regulations and any number of manufactured boogeymen.

Once immigrants have been stomped down, minority rights done away with and the environment wrecked maybe people will turn on the elites but by that time we won't have much worth saving I'm afraid.
I used ggplot2 and gganimate in R. The custom ggplot2 theme is called theme_roboto(): https://github.com/juliasilge/silgelib/blob/master/R/graphin...
Sony has a 300mm f2.8 and 500mm f4, so it's not a million miles behind.

The system as a whole is getting pretty compelling TBH.

Using a camera that can focus track and calculate exposure at over 20fps with nearly 700 auto focus points across almost the whole frame would for sure let me capture stuff I couldn't on any other camera.

And that's not to mention the silent shutter at this speed - I could literally capture photos I wouldn't be allowed to (golf anyone???) with a mechanical and noisy shutter.

Even if I did it on a 500mm f4 and cropped in some of those 24mp!

I'm a Nikon guy (well, I did shoot with the old a900 and some Canon/Olympus stuff too) and I'd certainly consider working very hard to deal with any lens short comings with a camera this capable.