skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Middle class in America seems to basically mean poor?

Middle class has a slightly vague economic definition in the US. The US also commonly uses variations such as upper and lower middle class, and then there is poor, upper class, and rich. Middle class does not basically mean poor. The US middle class has an extraordinary income compared to the middle class of all but a few nations:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/05/through-an-a...

It means your household income is typically between $40,000 to $100,000; above that and you're either upper middle class, or upper class; below that and you're either poor or lower middle class depending. For example, two people working median full-time jobs in the US will earn nearly $100,000. The median household income in the US is about $60,000.
Probably can't be cloud based then. I would never trust one single entity online with that much information about myself.

>inb4 Equifax

I have no control over what they do. Sad, but these are the times we live in. However, users should have control for the above idea.
same setup, no problem, I tend to overload it all the time. Dual displays, Several VMs at once, video conversions. Works pretty stable for me.
Alternatively, the amount of stress and tension amongst the collective in airports and airplanes is such that I think it's a great opportunity to practice being more compassionate and human with each other, versus "venting rage at everyone else" - to let someone else go first in line, to clean up after yourself and maybe the past couple of other people who used the airplane lavatory before you, to take a couple of breaths and slow down before ripping into the airline counter agent for some real major or minor inconvenience.

I completely agree that learning how to healthily express anger is extremely important, but I don't think we need to seed more misery amongst each other than what is happening by default already.
>I don’t think subscriptions are the only answer here, as many do.

>We need models that support free consumption of media for many reasons.

If you rule out paid subscriptions to subsidize the freeriders, what options are left for "free" consumption? Either advertisements or a government-sponsored system (e.g. citizens taxed to support the BBC tv channels).

If there's a crypto financing option that Fred is hinting at, what would that look like?
umm ZX Spectrum 128Kb, +2 and +3 can swap memory video banks, doing a effective double buffering.
Barney Miller. Watch it...it was brilliant.
Price is the by far the biggest factor. My friends (here in Brazil) have two or three apps installed and always compare price before making a choice.
Watch tram crash compilation for hazards where LIDAR and image recognition might not be adequate. Note the might.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/12...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/11/facebook-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/15/facebook-just-admitted-that-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/19/facebo...

https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-t...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/06/30/facebook-stud...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/health/facebook-study-narrow-m...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
Send a letter to the editor telling them to dump AdSense for something better.
I’m really turned off by football discussions. Thankfully tech isn’t very sports oriented or I would have problems at lunch.
I really do think about this a lot, but I disagree with what the author proposes which is basically lying or deceiving others:

> Authenticity is rare, but people performing authenticity is common, and being good at that performance can build a fortune. Not just authenticity, of course. Being able to pretend that you are furious is a trick that all great sales people use. And being able to create the illusion of a sincere vulnerability can trick people into trusting you, which is invaluable

The crux of the issue is as follows: is it possible to exercise discretion, but still be authentic and empathetic? I believe the answer to that is "yes".

I also don't believe this is just about your career - it's about your life. In some circles, amongst _some_ people, in _certain_ circumstances, sharing details is beneficial. But not always. You should not overshare with every person you meet. It's simply not to your benefit.

The difficulty is determining when, where, and to whom you share. Sometimes, you just know. And sometimes, you just have to express yourself. That doesn't always mean you say exactly what's on your mind. Simply a facial expression can communicate what you're feeling in a certain moment, but still with respect and dignity.

Authenticity is extremely powerful. Even with a client, being authentic (without oversharing) will garner you a lot of respect.
This is a bit like recommending a marathon to someone who is sedentary. Building a daily meditation habit of at least 20-30 minutes of sustained attention might be a good preliminary step.
NP hardness is not about every instance being hard. It's a worst case notion. The paper provides an infinite family of instances which are hard assuming P is not NP. Any poly time algorithm solving for all instances has to solve those hard instances too, hence the game is hard in general.
You can premine chain splits. See bitcoin gold, which had a premine of 100k coins, or the very coin this thread is about, with a premine of millions.
The driver uses that money to pay for his own health insurance and retirement. Contrary to your post, Uber provided me with commercial vehicle insurance when I was driving for them.
I'd it possible to import passwords and bookmarks into focus? I've been meaning to ditch chrome on all devices because of the sewer of ads on chrome mobile
> (Separately: Don't get an undergraduate degree in business. What a worthless degree.)

Anecdotally, I have an undergraduate business degree and it has opened many doors for me.
It's not just me! I thought I was imagining things, but changing my diet recently has had a positive impact on my ability to focus and be productive.
Totally:

http://www.newsweek.com/states-medical-marijuana-painkiller-...
> Like what? What specific things are you having to do today that you wouldn't have had to do in, say, 1998?

Not going to go into my strategy. I'll just say what I do works for me. Until it doesn't. Like in March when Google made the so-called "Fred" update. Sites that had been running for years just like yours went from the 5th position on page one to somewhere on page 10. Some sites went from page 10 to page 1. On the whole it was a net negative with no rhyme or reason to it, i.e., some lower quality sites ranked higher and vice versa. By the way, none of these sites are spam, are cloaked, aren't https, no PBN crap, etc. They were just there one day and gone the next. Many many people had the same experience. If you didn't then that's great. My point is not woe is me, down with Google. My point is Google being a gatekeeper has an immense amount of power and a subtle change by them can mean the difference between being "on the internet" and off of it. Fortunately I have many sites so I'll survive but a lot of people don't.
The Sharp X68000 would outdo both the Atari ST and Amiga in this comparison.

It basically had arcade machine class video hardware. It came later to market, but creamed the Amiga completely in specs, and they ended up shipping 25 different models of them, up to really high clock rates.

Unfortunately only really sold in Japan (though due to population size of Japan, it actually sold a _lot_ of units and a lot of games were ported to it).

It's really too bad it never really made it to Europe and North America
Some of the issues I had with 9550 XPS:

- battery swelling

- fan spinning on high speed for no apparent reason (not due to CPU load)

- random wakeups while sleeping (happened in my bag once and the laptop almost overheated :( ). This was eventually fixed via BIOS updates

- lots and lots of BIOS updates to fix all kinds of issues- at least 1-2 every month since its initial release. Although I am glad they are being fixed

- OEM wifi card (broadcom) was a POS in both Linux and Windows (Windows came with the box). I replaced with Intel card and life has been great.

The above may not be a problem in current XPS (9660 I think), but I really don't know. The XPS forums I have been to seem to filled with people with issues and instead recommending Precisions if you are OK with a less gaming based GPU. Plus you get business support and not the craptastic consumer support. If I were to do it again and wanted a 15" I'd definitely go with 5520 precision.

RE: XPS size and weight vs Precision -> If you stick with 5000 series it is almost the same box. If you bump to 7000 series you are getting into supersize land (but you can also fill it with more goodies that of course weigh more). The only downside is that all precision laptops are 15" - if you want smaller form factors you would need to go XPS (e.g XPS 13).

RE: Ubuntu v RH variants - it doesn't matter. Go with what is comfortable and familiar to you. AFAIK Ubuntu may have a more desktop/laptop friendly setup unless you go with Fedora (which is pretty much equivalent to Ubuntu non-LTS versions).

One final thing: the one thing that the Dells have over the Macbooks is user serviceable parts. IN the 15" models, you can replace SSD, WiFi, battery, memory very easily AND without compromising weight or size. I really wish Apple would get off the thin -> super-thin -> paper-thin? ride and offer this kind of modularity again. Hell at minimum allow replacement of SSD, memory.... but that is another rant for another time :)
Because they think no one else can write apps..? Kalanick may be an asshole, but I don't think he's stupid.
Did they have the same regulation like the US? No? I guess you are trying to prove my point. :)
They do this though its called a video driver and a video game engine.
The 1B at 70B valuation is preferred stock.
If you are interested in this subject, I highly recommend Andrew Geiszler's presentation to the 18th Annual International Mars Society Convention (titled "Living, Working & Growing in Glass Houses: Construction Methods for a Martian Colony"). He gives a very interesting overview of materials and design considerations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faEfgDYCYzU
"Tech" in this case is an overly broad classification. Apple, Amazon, and Facebook are all very different businesses and should not have correlated performance.
How specific are they to those tasks, is what I'm curious about. Can the surrealist bot produce musical compositions as well as the musical composition bot? The generality angle would say that one bot can do all of those things mostly or entirely on its own (i.e. trains itself as well, and was not necessarily "told" to train in that area), not multiple discrete bots that are all heavily trained by a human.

Just to be clear, I'm not trying to argue with you in the sense that you convey in that second part of your comment, I just enjoy supposing about this particular subject.
All the science is more or less open and more or less easily googlable. For Mercury orbital precession, try wiki (Tests_of_general_relativity) or go directly to https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.19.... (behind a paywall) .
Overly dramatic title that gives no indication of what the article is about.

Electrosensativity is a mental disorder and while exploring the psychology may be interesting their theories don't deserve equal time with reality.

They claim to experience immediate and severe symptoms and yet in blind testing none of these people can tell if a wifi router is operating adjacent to them if they can't see the router.

Even if we suppose said symptoms exist it would be trivial to discover this in the same fashion. By exposing some to a hidden router in an otherwise shielded environment and others not for a few weeks.

Unfortunately they would ALL experience the same imaginary malady.

Something that is "all in your head" is still a physical disorder because the brain is a part of your body but the primary way for them to get help would be to learn to understand reality.

Nobody supposes we should give credence to the voices schizophrenics hear. Rather we give them medication and try to make them understand they aren't real.
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Uber and Lyft actually succeeded in creating an accessible system that everyone could afford. You have it all backwards. The common person can actually afford Uber, not cabs.
Like http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236640/? :)
I just lift my legs a little which completely blocks them from reclining because at that point my knees are pressed into the seat when it's fully upright. They literally can't recline because there's no room to do so. Airlines have reached the point where in a lot of cases there is no room between the seats when they're fully upright, unless the seat behind the passenger is empty it physically can't recline.
All your end advice is true, and I recognize the sentiment of "you can never know". Indeed, a date recently asked me if I could read her mind, as happens often, but this time I said I can read her body so basically yes, I can read her mind. I can do this in interviews as well, which is a curse in a slimy rotten marketplace. It's pretty easy to see the next question to ask somebody and corner them if you want. Lack of mental clarity or lack of social exposure or programming can hinder one.
> Like the inevitability of collective micro-ownership of commodities like real estate, art, storage, even energy

Unnecessary, unworkable, absurd. The fact that the author thinks we should accept this premise as a given without providing any justification is laughable. The rest of the article is just an exercise in mental-masturbation, most of it doesn't even mean anything.

> There is a grounded naturalness inherent in behavioral socialization that simply couldn’t be stimulated no matter how well programmed or marketed.

...

Whenever a crypto-token enthusiast openly laments "why is HN so hostile cryptos?", point them to this blog post - having that kind of nonsense littered into the comment section of every blockchain related post is the explanation.
Any idea why Fred is not a believer in subscriptions?

My hypothesis is subscriptions, for news at least, are all-or-nothing propositions. But in a world where there's so much content, much of it for free, we will only want to bypass a paywall for a given site occasionally when we encounter it.

Why hasn't someone built a variable subscription model that is geared to one's reading habits?
Sure, a 100m long, 6000+ ton payload made from things that spin around quickly sounds perfect for launching to Mars! It's only, what, three-four orders of magnitude larger than anything we've ever sent to the red planet. And it only requires the power from one gas turbine powerplant running continuously. Should be cakewalk. And when it breaks (they all do, all the time) I'm sure spare parts and engineers are plentiful up there.
I feel like this is another "Sprint" acquisition in the making for Masayoshi. Uber like Sprint has

- undefensible core business model

- overvalued market cap

- assumes capital markets will hold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2013/07/30/sprints-p...

To me, he's a risk-taker for the sake of taking risks. He has to be perceived to be taking risks in the Japanese circles for some reason, but might be a billionaire ego. While there were good picks like Alibaba, these capital intensive acquisitions seems counter productive and during completely different environments (early 2000s).

I don't mean to criticize Son Masayoshi for all he is, after all, he did overcome poverty and a systematically racist Japanese society that severely limited the economic activities of non-Japanese, purely based on blood. I just feel like most of his North American acquisitions haven't turned out great.
Interesting how legal opioids are fueling a national 'crisis' while illegal marijuana, though widely used, is not.
I was just scanning headlines and saw it! Such a weird feeling haha!
What the middle class is certainly has changed over time. I grew up middle class and there is no way in hell we'd ever go for a meal that was more than $100 per person.
I like this. The inability to permanently disable Facebook Messenger notifications is what finally pushed me over the edge to remove it from my phone.
Quite simply, when the specialist tell you that it is not news worthy, then it is probably not news worthy. Otherwise we get all these new particle discovered clickbait, where the journalists just neglect to mention that the "particle" in question is a compound state that was well studied in the 60ies or that the particle in question is just an oscillation mode of a crystal. (I am not joking, both are examples that were well upvoted on HN.)

And that is just the ideal case, where journalists report on experiments. In theory most articles are just as interesting as someone created a branch on a github project, that is the very first step towards something that may develop into something interesting, or it may not.

So yeah, "just getting anyone to speculate what a finding means is hard," because everybody knows that science journalists try to feed the public bullshit. Seriously, every single climate change denier I ever discussed with has given me page after page of links to popular science reporting where the entire problem was, that the journalist found someone who was willing to speculate and these speculations turned out to be wrong.
> Trashy globalist arrogance

Posting ideological flamebait is pretty well the most destructive thing people can do on HN, so we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. Since your account has largely been using HN for ideological battle, I've banned it.

If you don't want to be banned on HN, all is not lost. Simply read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, then email us at hn@ycombinator.com and commit to using the site as intended in the future.

What we're looking for here is thoughtful conversation in which intellectual curiosity can thrive and people can learn. Bashing the other side, or throwing stock ideological flammables, is what is not indicated.
I was really surprised to see how expensive co2 monitors are (about $110 USD).

It seems wrong at a moral level. Especially since smoke detectors and carbon monoxide monitors can be bought for $10-25.

I know nothing about making a co2 monitor but other than marketing hype, the willingness to function at optimum efficiency and not die of oxygen deprivation, is there anything about it at the hardware level that warrants it being 10x the price of other sensors?
My problem with novels is that I end up hyper-focusing on them. If I'm into a good book, I'll only get maybe 4 hours sleep a night (staying up late reading), spend all day Saturday/Sunday reading, and end up getting physically sick from not moving around.
thanks, i'm sure you've just saved a couple hours for a future me :)
> So yes, why would a client ever enable downgrade attacks - intentionally, no less - is a very, very good question.

No I meant a good client/server would never use sslv3.

> Completely future-proofing things is a losing game

I am not assumming any such thing. The moment 1.2 is known to be broken, every client/server should mark it insecure and never establish/accept 1.2 connection.

Assuming good client and good server are poodled, then no tls connection will be established.

> Defer connecting to your bank until you're no longer on your current, terrible MITMing wifi connection.

Which a good client already does without any anti-poodle fix.

I think this might be the misunderstanding: A good client/server never establish/accept insecure versions. If they get poddled, then no tls connection.
Our CS program had a "basic communication" class, where you learned to write basic reports, memos, emails, your resume, etc. The final project was investigating some piece of tech, writing a 30 page paper on it, and presenting your findings to the class. Other CS teachers were invited to drop in during the presentations too.

Supposedly they added this after receiving feedback from industry that the biggest problem was that their graduating students couldn't properly communicate.

Altogether it felt pretty appropriate, since it was still focused on CS related concepts.
Decentralization and cryptocurrencies are two completely different things, even if one 'uses' the other to some extend. The converse is not true.

I agree that decentralization is a potential solution here, e.g. services like Matrix, Mastodon.

Cryptocurrencies are currently a 'get rich quick' fad that won't help with winning back the internet.
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at the bottom, the small print says the survey is from SSRS
I am not sure if this will be their most lucrative investment of all times.
I spent 9 years at one company- seven years longer than I should have - and by the time I left in 2008, I was way behind where I should have been. I spent from 2009-2016 admitting weaknesses left and right so I could learn from other people.

I think that might have kept me from getting ahead at the 3 companies I worked at during that time, but it was worth it for the skills I picked up.

Even at my current position as a tech lead, I still have to admit weaknesses. My weaknesses now are around a lot of things that I know are best practices but I haven't had a chance to implement fully before and that I've never been responsible for hiring and recruitment. I have had to be up front about both to ask advice.
Europe has Taxify that has Chinese investors as well.
>Any idea why Fred is not a believer in subscriptions?

He's ok with subscriptions. However, his particular statement is in context of subscriptions interfering with providing free content.

As far as I can tell, if we want to have websites provide "free" content we have the following choices to that puzzle:

1) sponsored by advertisers

2) sponsored by government taxes (e.g. collect a new "web usage tax" from citizens to fund a CitizenBook as free alternative to Facebook ads and PublicNewsTimes as free alternative to New York Times paid subscription. I doubt that enough voters would support such a tax just to avoid ads.)

3) blockchain? cryptocurrency? (Not sure what Fred has seen with this option.)
The media's portrayal of sweden/scandinavia is certainly different from my experience talking to swedes. Maybe the older swedes are doing fine, but the younger generation all seem to want to leave as soon as they can to britain and dare I say even the US. Even the most famous swede, pewdiepie, left sweden.
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How does he pay property tax?
In my experience, the best way to improve my attention is by practicing śamatha meditation. The śamatha practices that entail mindfulness of breathing are thought to be ideal for those living in modernity.

The best introduction to śamatha that I’m aware of is B. Alan Wallace’s “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind.”
> With the thinkpads, the smaller screen and lower resolution will take some getting used to

What takes getting used to is that Thinkpad screens are trash. :( I’ve been so disappointed in them. They start mediocre and decline rapidly with blotching and ghosting. I’ve used Thinkpads for my personal laptop and my work laptop and refuse to own another. My manager has a recent Thinkpad with an OLED screen which seems pretty good but I’m not willing to try another. I fully expect that in 6 months his OLED will exhibit ghosting or burn in.
It's just one line of code.
5$ per month