skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to note that the top 1% (pick whatever bracket you want) is not static. There is a lot of turnover.

According to research from Cornell University, over 50 percent of Americans find themselves among the top 10 percent of income-earners for at least one year during their working lives. Over 11 percent of Americans will be counted among the top 1 percent of income-earners (i.e., people making at minimum $332,000 per annum) for at least one year.

[1] https://www.cato.org/blog/high-turnover-among-americas-rich
>You are so out of touch! There are plenty of 13yos selling in the US, it's not like it's hard to find.

Well, another sign that I live in a dystopia, always nice to read on a Sunday night.
We do that at my office, but I'd much rather just have my own desk.
It isn't a metaphor. Without modern farming technology and techniques, the world cannot support 7 billion people. We deal with that fact or we die in droves. Those are our options.
Many people at Apple don’t have private offices today. I think this may only be true in some of the main IL buildings. I’ve been in open plan for two years now since moving to Sunnyvale and still dislike it.
George Pólya on von Neumann:

"Johnny was the only student I was ever afraid of. If in the course of a lecture I stated an unsolved problem, the chances were he'd come to me at the end of the lecture with the complete solution scribbled on a slip of paper."
I agree 100%. I am currently an expat with local language skills. When other expats complain about getting treated differently because they're foreigners, and then you find out they've been here 10 years and have no local language skills, it's easy to understand why.
Because the rich are getting richer, and hoarded money is useless to the rest of society. Regardless of why they get richer, the economy exists to serve society. Large amounts of money lying in investments hoping to outpace inflation is not useful to society - there are practical limits on how much money can be invested usefully at all, determined by how many capital intensive tasks businesses take on as a whole.

Perhaps in older times when there were railways to build, factories and assembly lines to setup, power grids and communication networks to build, there was more room for investment in the sense of spending money now to gain rewards later.

Now that businesses have little trouble raising capital, we may be getting closer to the point where new technology/ideas are scarcer than capital. In that climate, money may be more useful to society in the hands of government or regular people than the beneficiaries of investments like entrepreneurs.

Concretely, when $1B is better used to build housing or improve healthcare, than invested into 10 "Uber for X" startups, it makes sense to tax more and let the government use the money for just that.
Honesty and pragmatism, can't go wrong with that. Thank you for such a lovely answer.

Hope the question came across constructively to you at least, it was meant to be. I think to some it read it as "why not cool trends". Should have clarified it was just curiosity about an engineering decision.
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> One explanation would be because of the cheaper labor and favorable legal frameworks the corporation can grow much larger today.

But that means there are fewer C-level positions/capita today. So:

* supply of C-level candidates has gone up (more MBA graduates, larger supply of candidates from overseas)

* demand for C-level candidates has gone down (fewer, larger corporations, so fewer C-level jobs overall)

And yet C-level compensation is going up. Doesn't this contradict all the supply/demand theories I keep hearing about lower/middle class employees?
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Macroeconomic changes take longer than just a few hours to have an impact. I included Glass-Steagall repeal because merely focusing on 1970's and nothing that happened there after is myopic
For future reference, I'd always try and talk to the hiring manager and/or the person you'd be reporting to (if they are different) to see if there is a good personality fit.

Ask what a typical day looks like and it will get them to start opening up about the position and what's to come. That might be projects or how you'll be mentored or anything to get you up to speed.

Like was mentioned, get everything in writing and if you emailed the recruiter, show it to your new boss and explain your expectations for this position. It might be a shady recruiter or a misunderstanding that got you here. All industries are small and everyone important is never more than a couple of degrees away from the person you could have burned. I'd give them a chance to make it right before you leave, if only so you can tell the next place that you gave them a chance to make the mistake right, it will show maturity and give them the feeling that you're level headed and that they would want you to work for them.
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/uw-study-finds-seattles...
When you launch in YC you do so in coordination with the HN team. WE weren't scheduled for today, but another company was unresponsive so we stole the (late) spot.
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Yes. careers@lambdaschool.com
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This was the specific quote from the article:

> In later experiments, we’ve been pursuing whether these older trees can recognize kin, whether the seedling that are regenerating around them are of the same kin, whether they’re offspring or not, and whether they can favor those seedlings — and we found that they can. That’s how we came up with the term “mother tree,” because they’re the biggest, oldest trees, and we know that they can nurture their own kin.

It seems that Kevin Beiler was the one who did research about this so that may be a good place to start rather than the author.

But whenever reading something like this quote below, where it's clearly a useful narrative for funding and public support, I find it's always good to be skeptical about how far that analogy extends:

> We’ve got a lot of interest from First Nations groups in British Columbia because this idea of mother trees and the nurturing of new generations very much fits with First Nations’ world view.
You mean I have to use the keyboard that some sticky asshole has used? Fuck off.
My home owners association is democratic, though often there aren't many candidates.
Nice. Mine could only do 95hz after a while on 100, started flickering; other than that no issue.

I surround my home X34 with two U2412Ms on an Ergotech stand.

It's a pretty neat setup.
If you have -MD or -MMD in your CFLAGS, GCC (and Clang) will generate the .d files during compilation without you having to add anything else to the Makefile, and without requiring ugly sed magic.
Indeed; does that mean such a database would need to run an n-body simulation to determine where one object is compared to another at a given time?
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> ...the difference between Canada and the US when it comes to relationship stability and partner selection.

I've never heard of such a thing, and a Google search for the phrase was unsuccessful. If you have a source I'd be interested to read more!
Me too. In my first job out of college I worked for Sun (2002-2005). After we were moved to consolidate real estate, most of us were forced into hot desking. On one hand we were in a building which was built during their all-employees-are-given-offices era, so you'd usually be in an office, but having just a locker for storage sucked. Also, once I ended up being reorg-ed so my boss and half my team were 2500 miles away, there was little motivation for me to go into the office, which for someone early in their career who could use good mentoring and doesn't have the good sense to ask for it enough, sucks.
Yeah home offices do have the cabin fever effect. Stay home all day and night because thats where everything is.
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Could you please comment civilly and substantively or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are likely a variety of factors that contribute to CEO salaries increasing.

The increase in the labor supply has mostly affected the low end of the spectrum. You don't usually go from subsistence farming directly to the board room. This will change but it takes a long time to percolate up.

Large corporations are usually conservative with their C level executives. Even if someone else could do a 10x better job you are not going to replace an executive if they are outperforming the market. The threshold for being removed is fairly high.

If you started your own company and own a controlling stake it is highly unlikely that you will be removed, even if you are terrible at your job.

The scale of some of the biggest companies is profoundly larger than in the past forty years. For example McDonalds has 375,000 employees worldwide. Their CEO makes around 15.5 million a year. If you were to distribute his salary to each worker in the company (assuming each works 40 hours a week) you could afford to give a 2 cent raise per hour to each employee.
>Why would it reward them for lifting millions out of poverty?

Because a worker and consumer with high productivity and high standard of living is more valuable to everyone involved (creates more value, buys more stuff) than a subsistence farmer? [0]

Really the only people totally losing out here are environmentalists, as the newly minted middle class overwhelmingly buys cars and air conditioning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital
Way to take that Thatcher quote out of context in order to reverse its meaning.

What she really said was:

"No government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate."
I've happily brought equipment purchased at my own expense to work. It amortizes down to very little over the lifetime of the hardware (even a $1600 workstation laptop amounts to roughly $0.25 per hour over 3 years at 40 hours a week) and makes work so much more efficient (always a plus at performance review time) and just plain more pleasant.
Cope's bibliography [0] suggests he's been following that train of thought up until at least 2012.

Though he seems only indirectly involved (the OM book's preface), OpenMusic [1], seems to contain most of his ideas of how a language should tackle those problems. OM is actively developed, latest release was 2017-04-27, so far as I can see.

[0] http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/bibliography_page_2.ht...

[1] http://repmus.ircam.fr/openmusic/home
A few years ago I wrote a book about developing big complex networked apps. It had "Enterprise" in the title, based on the idea that mobile device OSs would become dominant - which they did - and that the evolution of tablet devices would continue to where powerful devices like the iPad Pro would overtake the use of Mac and Windows laptops - which they didn't.

Windows and MacOS are full of compromises but are usable. Chrome OS is a contender for users that need a simpler system. What addressable segment is left? You pretty much have to make the case for replacing Windows. But you can only hope to replace the "voluntary" Windows seats. Many Windows users have no choice.
That path cannot replace the other path.

It's like "don't bother with differential equations; math is more into elliptic curves now".

The symbolic computation and its representations of knowledge and pattern matching and so on do things that number-crunching networks over big data simply don't.

Like for instance, get certain jobs done with little data: a compact encoding of specific knowledge.
Also worth reading The Gernsback Continuum by Gibson. And various critiques about the utopian realities portrayed.
I am only just now finding out that he wasn't.
It seems likely that consumer confidence has a lot to do with willingness to take on debt? So the liming factor wouldn't be availability of credit, it's what payments you think you'll be able to afford later.

In the case of student loans, that amounts to confidence in being able to find a good job to pay them off.
"Code staging" is a phrase that is used around people who are allergic to the word "macro", because they associate it with #define, or "Excel macro".
Definitely yes on Android. I don't know for iOS.
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We should be taxing productive activity less and income earned through simply owning things more. The balance has moved too far in the opposite direction.
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The short version is that I became a christian. Since that time, the mental health issues I had previously have dissipated. These included diagnoses by various sorts of mental health doctors that included alcoholism, drug addiction, clinical depression, and later bipolar disorder. Lord knows there were probably other diagnoses that could have been applied as well.

In addition to AA and NA, I have also taken various medications for depression and mania, and have been through all sorts of talk therapy. I have not taken any of those medications for over a decade, I no longer go to meetings or therapy, and, among other things, I have found that I can drink in moderation. I drink very occasionally, maybe once every few months, at social occasions.

I cannot claim that anyone who becomes a christian would have the same experience. I do not know that. And I am aware of weaknesses in those areas that used to cause me so much trouble, but I can also say that they are not debilitating the way they were previously.

When I left AA and NA, I went around to all my old meetings and told my friends there why they would not see me any more. There were some very interesting conversations, to say the least. I wish them no ill will, but as I said above, I would not recommend those groups to someone in trouble. I wouldn't say not to go there, but I would not send them there as a first option.

I don't really have any pat advice to offer anyone struggling as I did, beyond, Don't give up. Yes, it's painful, but don't give up looking for solutions. (And as someone else said here, taper taper taper if you're trying to detox.)
> 4 guys coding in the dark on the bare metal just can't build an OS anymore, it won't have GPU access, it won't have a solid TCP/IP stack, it won't have good USB support, or caching, or a dependable file system.

Well, they wouldn't need to any more. They can adopt drivers from Linux or any other free operating systems. The inner work of a driver might be arcane, the interface to an operating system is generally well defined. Adopting a existing driver is definitely doable.
It can actually be harder to hire people to work in the east bay at union city or fremont than palo alto sometimes.

Tesla recently had a problem with it when they were trying to transfer eng offices from PA to fremont for example.
These networks also transport signalling and defense molecules, which seem to transmit kin selection information. They also (as you might expect) work better on plants of the same species. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4497361/

>The relatedness of neighbours in mono-specific plant communities can also influence whether MNs will elicit adaptive behavioural changes. For example, foliar nutrition in AMF Ambrosia artisifolia L. improved when it was integrated into an MN with related plants but not conspecific strangers (File et al. 2012). Likewise, in mono-specific pairs of EMF interior Douglas-fir grown in greenhouse conditions, foliar micronutrients were increased in kin compared with strangers grown with older conspecifics (Asay 2013). This appears to be linked with mycorrhizal association of this system as mycorrhizal colonization was also elevated in kin seedlings (File et al. 2012; Asay 2013). These findings reveal that MNs can play an integral role in kin selection, but the exact mechanisms by which they do this are unclear. However, there is strong evidence that biochemical signals derived from mycorrhizas or roots are involved. For example, Semchenko et al. (2014) showed that root exudates carried specific information about the genetic relatedness, population origin and species identity of neighbours, and locally applied exudates triggered different root behaviour responses of neighbours. This included increased root density, achieved through changes in morphology rather than biomass allocation, suggesting the plants limited the energetic cost of their behaviour.

>Because the overwhelming majority of plants are predominantly mycorrhizal in situ, any root exudates involved in kin recognition are likely to be filtered through mycorrhizal fungi. In a recent study using stable-isotope probing, we found that MNs transmitted more carbon from older ‘donor’ Douglas-fir seedlings to the roots of younger kin ‘receiver’ seedlings than to stranger ‘receiver’ seedlings, suggesting a fitness advantage to genetically related neighbours (Pickles et al. unpubl.). ...

An additional selection process could be as simple as spatial proximity. Daughter trees are more likely to germinate close to their mother, and the mycorrhizal network can be expected to conserve energy by transporting nutrients no farther than needed.

Besides that, there's other evidence of kin selection in plants, in the form of reduced root competition. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12121/p...

But there's a broader point here. You're reading the word "mothering" narrowly, only w/r/t/ the selection of individual organisms. But selection can also take place on the whole plant community. Eugene Odum, widely considered the father of ecology, points this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9V6h2z79w&t=3m15s Plants can't get up and walk away, and polyculture plant communities are healthier than monocultures. So I would argue that even in the hypothetical absence of kin selection, "mothering" could take the form of encouraging a diversity of species in a tree's immediate surroundings, making a favorable local environment for their offspring.
How many decades since research conclusively showed that the best productivity enhancer you can provide to a developer is : A Door ?
also add insanely high levels of gun crime and violence compared to most of the region/world (peaking around payday), and Australia levels of deadly wildlife
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You won't be reinventing the wheel for things like global state management and javascript routers. I promise. These libraries are huge solutions to problems that may or may not be huge - and in most of the cases I've seen, YAGNI.

The concept of maintaining application state is nothing specific to SPA's. What is new is the idea that every application must have a global data store where all state is saved. This is a trend and not always necessarily a best practice.

This isn't a matter of reinventing the wheel, it's a matter of using an oversized solution for an undersized problem.
I agree with you. I'd love to try a 4k screen, and was even considering it - however in the end I took my home U3415W to work and bought the X34 for home (I might game 30 minutes a week or something; the extra hz are certainly nice for that, otherwise they are pretty much identical).

I value actual real estate over PPI, preferring to run at 100% / unscaled which looks much nicer in Win10. The 109PPI (3440x1440) is decent enough, and I don't have to squint. Furthermore the DPI matches those of the surrounding 16:10 24s (1920x1200) well enough for it not to be an issue.
>Very rarely to never one dares to mention girls there as a reason

Because you'd be stating the obvious. If you're a heterosexual man, then women are "the reason" for everything (perhaps excluding making your parents proud, but even that one could say is related). It's biology. It's the reason you'd move anywhere. It's the reason we do anything. It's the reason you brush your teeth. The reason you get our of bed for Pete's sake :) And if you're a heterosexual woman, then men fill the same reason. So what, if anything does Thailand have to do with this?
It's 5 million yen. I actually did this back in 2012. It's a complicated procedure but plenty of Japan based lawyers can help you out.

I did it myself, without lawyer help but you will absolutely need someone fluent in Japanese. The paperwork is suffocating. In retrospect I should have just married my then girlfriend, now wife.
Hey rexstjohn, great article. It would be interesting to see those notebooks of yours, I'm sure many people would be interested if you uploaded them to your site, or linked them to HN.
Just to clarify - there are a few NUCs, but its mostly SuperMicros and other vendors where testing and qa are done.
Unrealistic suggestions for a dev with 2+ monitors or a desktop. Managers might be able to leverage focus rooms because they are more mobile, but average devs are not.

Often it's the average manager who has time to talk and likes to talk loud, so a more reasonable middle ground is to avoid cross-functional rooms/clusters.
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Note that your fivethirtyeight article even mentions a caveat to the study:

> The paper’s findings are preliminary and have not yet been subjected to peer review. And the authors stressed that even if their results hold up, their research leaves important questions unanswered, particularly about how the minimum wage has affected individual workers and businesses.

> Many economists, meanwhile, have acknowledged substantial uncertainty over the likely effects of the recent wage hikes. Most — though by no means all — past research has found that modest increases to the minimum wage have little impact on employment, and that if employers do eliminate jobs or cut back hours, those losses are dwarfed by the income gains enjoyed by the majority of workers who keep their jobs. But those studies were mostly based on minimum wages that were much lower than the ones beginning to take effect now. Even some liberal economists have expressed concern, often privately, that employers might respond differently to a minimum wage of $12 or $15, which would affect a far broader swath of workers than the part-time fast-food and retail employees who typically dominate the ranks of minimum-wage earners. Other economists said there simply wasn’t enough evidence to predict the impact of minimum wages that high. The new laws in Seattle and other cities, then, could provide an ideal testing ground.

Additionally, here is a post by Jared Bernstein related to the minimum wage hike[0]. Here is the book mentioned in the aforementioned post [1].

Another analysis[2] finding that "Once this publication selection is corrected, little or no evidence of a negative association between minimum wages and employment remains."

While I also do not know for certain the effects of a minimum wage, one of your sources fairly lists caveats and uncertainty for the study it mentions, and the other is fox news.

[0] http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/the-minimum-wage-increase-and-...

[1] http://www.upjohn.org/publications/upjohn-institute-press/wh...

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009....
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