skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like 60% of Americans have less than $1000 in the bank. 69% live paycheck to paycheck.

I don't see how not having at least a modicum of financial safety net could possibly be considered 'living the American dream'..

The American dream is just that - for most people it's just a dream, something to hope for but never achieve.
Well, certainly this has been known for quite awhile and hasn't really caught on as far as I know. I mean, people who care are fully aware, but I'm sure you're right that any new scene depicting ancient Greece will have plenty of white marble. File it under Reality is Unrealistic. [1]

(Offhand I bet part of the issue is that the general culture probably doesn't make much distinction between classical statues and Renaissance or neoclassical statues and carvings, despite the couple millennia of separation. And obviously the Renaissance statues were not painted.)

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealityIsUnrealis...
I don't want to start a circular argument talking past each other. Wiktionary has for pr: "(Old Egyptian) IPA /paːruw/[1]". That's just one reconstruction but Its source is 20 years old so it could be outdated for all I know. Given your comments, I just see the glottal stop as another datapoint. Whether that also means "mouth" or not doesn't lead to confusion.

[1]: Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, ISBN 0920168124, page 15
I've been in that situation, and meditation/silence actually helped me in a big way. I hiked out to a remote campsite and lived there for a couple days, alone. No technology except an emergency GPS beacon.

In daily life we're bombarded by things that can trigger negative thinking... in meditation/silence, my only anxiety was how other people would think doing that was weird. Instead of getting pulled apart by a myriad of negativity, I could finally focus on battling one thing. I've never had a chance to do that before: completely focus on one anxiety for hours without interruption. Embracing it destroyed it, like some form of semantic satiation.
It's interesting that you're an Entrepreneur (not a Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights) and yet you've rendered this entire report meaningless, in-spite of all the additional body of evidence considered in the report.
They did not have better information. One of the engineers that worked on the Magic Mouse 2 responded to a thread on HN specifically about why the Magic Mouse 2 had the port on the bottom. Nothing they said disproves or contradicts that.
Star clusters look like normal. Exoplanets looks like 2 normals added up (probably because of 2 different detection procedures).

Distribution of atoms in the Solar System is the weird one. No idea what it is.
Thank you for pointing this out. Everybody is a skeptic these days, quick to condemn, quick to blame, quick to be "right" by always being pessimistic. The tax reform bill thus far has proven to greatly improve US company profits and a plethora of companies have issued substantial bonuses to Americans (not just to executives). Repatriation is good for all Americans, no matter class, wealth, or political affiliation.
So if I put some small text into a 100 page EULA that says I may break into your house and take whatever I can carry, then I only have to make you click-through and I'm all set? Awesome.

Unfortunately for me, things don't work that way. For most of Europe at least, you'd be perfectly justified in treating my 100 page EULA like the garbage it is and basically ignore everything in it that isn't already prescribed by law anyway.
BlackBerry had the same problem when nefarious characters ranging from street drug dealers to CEOs relied on PIN messaging that provided secure communication with no individual user accountability.

Nextel had the same issue when direct connect exploded and the police discovered it wasn’t tappable.

Every vendor folds.
Unfortunately due to antibiotic resistance, no :(.
You're right that we aren't certain that changes in tax rates alone might increase inequality, but the author is also speaking about that the cuts to welfare programs and social services that will probably follow the tax bill. The sentence that you elided from your quotation is:

"The dramatic cuts in welfare, foreshadowed by the President and Speaker Ryan, and already beginning to be implemented by the administration, will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes."

This is more than mere speculation--this is what the Speaker is saying he wants to do[1]. This is an important part of the background for this analysis.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/01/gop-e...
That is a very possible outcome, especially as several of the actors involved are based in the EU.
Perhaps they are only using their own words...
Python written like Java would be a huge improvement over what most people produce.
Thank you for your kind responses.

1) I know the movie is a fictionalization. I should have said, the “Billy Beane character”. But I see your point. Reality is more complex than one person being right for a role, and another person being wrong. There are many variables and a smart manager (or a smart person managing their career) can and should make changes.

I am not sure what those changes are. It might surprise you but I’m not a young developer at all. I have never found anyone, coach or therapist or manager, who seems to have an answer.

2) It’s a stressful time but I’m okay. I have multiple job offers. I’m considering not taking the one with the highest salary. However, I have some major debts right now and as stated above, I’m not young and I need to think about retirement too.
> If you scroll down and then use the down arrow you're taken to the top of the page and, paradoxically, one of the nav items opens

I can't reproduce this one, but cmd+r and then using the arrows does not work - only after clicking with the mouse once in the text.

The HTML output of that page is an utter, utter mess including MS Office comments revealing part of their internal infrastructure and workflow (look for www-edit.in.ohchr.org in the source). Jeez.
Half of the internet economy would probably disappear... for the better.
"As noted in the World Inequality Report 2018, in both Europe and the US the top 1% of adults earned around 10% of national income in 1980. In Europe that has risen today to 12%, but in the US it has reached 20%."

The tax reform will shift even more income to the top 1%. How is that biased framing?
If anyone was going to focus on making sure their self-driving car could drive in snow, it'd be the Russians.

Mind you, self-driving when snow has coated all your landmarks is definitely impressive, but the title made me think it'd be driving in snow. Which it isn't. The roads are, what we'd call in Chicago, "clear". The car is not driving in/on snow or ice in this scenario, which is something I do regularly every winter.
Ever hear of Steve Scalise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise
The forum post from the developer says: "This method has already successfully provided information that we're going to use in our ongoing legal battles against such criminals."

So their plan seems to be using the stolen account information to find the identities of people that they think are pirating their software.
Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market – It Wants to Become the Market
Nothing gets easier, you just have a chance to get better.
It's not reporting: "the differences in reporting are unlikely to be the primary explanation for the United States' relatively low international ranking. Rather, the report concluded that primary reason for the United States’ higher infant mortality rate when compared with Europe was the United States’ much higher percentage of preterm births.[72]" from the wikipedia article you cite.

The question is why does America have a higher "percentage" of preterm births. I'll give you one reason, lack of affordable health care.
Pixelator – Turn any image into fancy pixel-art
OP was lamenting genocide, and then wondered what the world would be like if the Europeans never came. That seems to me to imply that OP believes Europeans are solely responsible for Indian genocides, which is what I was responding to
How does this not create a voting blocs among those who pay income taxes (incentivised for less spending), and those who rely on public-welfare (incentivised for more spending)?

There is much evidence to suggest that it is, under current circumstances, extremely difficult for those on welfare to move back into gainful employment, especially across inter-generational timescales.

Without ever-increasing growth in the economy (a requirement much-derided by detractors of the free-market system), the liabilities would grow more expensive over time; as would taxes; as would the population reliant on said-entitlements. And with less people having disposable income, that would lead to even-less growth, right?

I understand that such analysis is, in general, anathema to the HN audience, but I'd love to hear some solutions to that riddle.
My point was to show that GOPATH is easy; not the fastest path to hello world. :)
More items have been leaving the secure envelope of the phone.

FaceTime is mediated by a central service, iMessage is moving to cloud services, iCloud backup is focused on, while iTunes sync is deemphasized.
The limits of Hyperloop
If The Expanse has taught me anything, it'll probably end up retrieved someday by a robotic ion-propulsion craft and put on display in the corporate lobby of Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile's Luna HQ.
Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)
We can argue all day about whether these cuts will come from efficiency-based savings (cutting out waste/fraud etc) or whether they will actually “shred crucial dimensions of a safety net already full of of holes,” but I don’t think anyone can argue against the fact that the way he phrased that shows his extreme political bias. Which, again, is a bad way to start off a supposedly fact-based report if you want anybody to pay attention to it.
1 + "1" => "11" is not the sign of an "untyped" language. I would expect 1 + "1" => 50 (ascii asm), 1 + "1" => 242 (ebcdic asm) or 1 + 1 => 2 (length tagged string, eg, untyped pascal-ish variant), or 1 + "1" => some seemingly random value (C lang) in an "untyped" language.

1 + "1" => "11" is strongly typed, dynamically typed, with a particular type conversion that favours "strings".

But, on reflection, I am probably an pedantic iconoclast.
There are going to be a lot of opportunities in this space. People who begin mastering the relevant skills now will have an outsized influence within a decade or less. We need capable and intelligent folks working on these problems. The incentives are aligned as well, so I don't see what would stop developers from taking on these challenges besides stubbornness.
Gall's Law
There's only one reason they want to buy your shares, and that's because they're valuable.

If you think the company has good prospects, keep the shares. If you're right, outsiders will eventually agree with you and invest.

If you think the company is not a good investment, ask the co-founders how they're valuing the company for potential investors and ask for the full share value plus a premium.

If they won't pay a premium, you know they're BSing you and they're just hoping you'll be dumb enough to give them your shares cheap in advance of a deal.
I'm definitely interested in giving it a try. Do you know if the Pi kit they are using is sold as a complete package somewhere? I found a list of components in the Assignment 0 description, but that's it.
It’s more the “bid to become the most unequal society” framing of the point. That makes it seem like the US is doing something different than everyone else. The entire OECD has been cutting corporate tax rates massively over the past few decades: https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/corporate-tax-cuts-and-....
Disputed counterpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13894796#13895345
Interviews are there for both parties to get information about the other. Start asking questions to figure out if you even want the job. Note that asking questions may turn off some employers, but if you're getting lots of offers you're in a good place to turn off some people.

Strongly considering taking the way too much money, and get your finances in order. Having a big financial cushion and excellent interview skills will give you a lot of room to make choices that make you happy.
That's a little misleading. Telegram supports "secret chats" which are e2e encrypted. See https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-secret-chats-different and https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end
Describes Apple to a tee the last decade or so. I say this as a sad Apple fanboy of about 25 years.
A comment on that last paragraph: companies often pay a lot of money for jobs like that because nobody wants to do it. It's a grunt job.

The grunt jobs can be a lot of fun. I don't mean this in a masochistic way. I mean that once you are good enough at slogging through poorly documented code and ripping out bugs, you find a challenge in it. Unlike a repetitive assembly line task, it's very possible to improve in these skills and get some satisfaction from the improvement. It's sort of like cooking, making tea, or Candy Crush.

There are many branches in software engineering. Another is the disciplined, Google style, high quality code - all about getting it efficient from the start. Companies like Pivotal also specialize in this. You might look for those.

Treat interviews as a process where you're interviewing the companies as well. Learn the type of company you want to work for and filter those out.
Civil authority trumps beliefs and opinion.
Why is "pervasive negativity" a reason to ignore someone insightful? Do what you will, but you should at least check out the author's meticulous beat-down of Stephen Wolfram for peddling nonsense: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
I think "Bloody opposition" in this context is a sensationalized way to say "military involvement", it doesn't refer to the magnitude of the blood spilt nor of oppression.
Last year I had a chance to go to the archaeological museums in both Athens and Istanbul and was surprised to see how many classical statues and fragments still have pigment left on them. Here's one particularly well-preserved example - from a museum in Berlin, but pretty close to the examples I saw in Athens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychrome#/media/File:Altes_M...

It makes me wonder if part of the myth about Greco-Roman sculptures being pristine and unpainted came not just from the pigment wearing away over the centuries, but from the fact that 18th and 19th century printed texts tended only to feature black and white engravings. In person it's strikingly apparent that many were brightly painted.
Check out OCaml (BuckleScript or ReasonML on the frontend, depending on which syntax you prefer). It has a super-fast compiler with almost total global type inference. The Facebook Messenger team report incremental builds of less than a second.
I don't know how significant this [1] is a barrier to such treatments, but it seems likely to be more of a potential problem for cures vs. sensors w/potential false positives.

http://newsroom.cumc.columbia.edu/blog/2017/05/30/crispr-gen...
Seems to me you're making a lot of sense in your responses to comments on this, not sure why people seem to think you aren't. It seems by try to suppress, you meant, as you've tried to explain, acts like try to make illegal, not acts like ridicule. Also I notice your phrasing "The more..the more.." explicitly claimed only correlation, not causation either way, or a feedback loop.

You gave a lot of examples of things nobody is trying to suppress, but no examples of things people are trying to. So..can you give as many examples of things you think fit what you said? Thanks.
"Overall, the American system remains the most progressive tax system in the developed world, whereas most social democracies like France, Germany and Sweden have actively regressive systems heavily reliant on value-added taxes. Then again, U.S. pay-outs aren't nearly as progressive, and so our government reduces inequality through taxes and transfers much less than peer countries."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/04/u-s-t...
The same reason they didn't put any other kind of valuable payload on the rocket. They didn't know if it would blow up on launch or not, so didn't invest in fitting anything. Most test launches like this (all?) just use a steel block for the dummy payload.
Author here, feel free to let me know if anything can be improved about the simulation or the explanation.
Opening the site on my 3GB RAM laptop froze it - could you please not pile web frameworks atop one another?
Being able to translate between languages in all cases is intrinsically impossible because of the halting problem; that this works is a testament to how restrictive and bland the Von Neumann language paradigm is, seeing as these languages aren't terribly different and all have ridiculously long specs.
The closest you could get to doing this for most languages would be to specify sets of composable, first-class macros in a purpose-written Lisp (almost certainly a Scheme derivative) and write FFIs to port in standard libraries around the core languages made from macros.
Python 3 supports type annotations natively, and the mypy tool is an external typechecker that you can run just like any other static analysis tool during your build.
Find a therapist. Maybe talk to your GP or primary care doc. In technical terms, take a look at your requirements. Are they obtuse? well defined? Is the customer asking too much and you know that but didn't tell them? These long term tasks (building an app etc).. those require insight. You might self-sabatoge because you know the insight is not there. But the one way out of that is to do this: your code/app/software may not be a global solution and make you rich but a stepping stone along the way to making it so. That's it. Simple. Do the work, practice. For those interviewing.. Do you the algorithms, leet code. Just do it.
Kotlin's great, but that's a battle I'm just not willing to spend much social capital on.

I'm also, let's face it, pretty jaded at this point. Lack of extension methods makes for code that's less clean-looking than I'd like it to be, but otherwise it's NBD. There are plenty of other language features that I straight up bang my head on that I'd like to see change first. Most of them are ones that affect Kotlin every bit as much as they affect Java.
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Please keep this redpill garbage off of HN. There's no place for it here.
hey, two problems I see with your post: a) taxation is no measure for (in-)equality, policy is - direct the money at the poor and it reduces inequality. the countries you mentioned do that, the US, not so
much (see your very own link to the WaPo). b) yes, Paul Ryan has already proposed cutting programs benefiting the poor to tackle the self-inflicted rise of deficit caused by the tax cuts.
i use my laptops an average of 6-8 hours a day over 7 days a week. I pack them to go to work, unpack to work, disconnect to get to meetings, carry it back to reconnect, repack, unpack and setup at home, carry to the couch, pick up take to bed, etc.

In two years that’s like 7,000 opportunities to drop it.
I read it. He presents no evidence that the recent tax reform has exacerbated the wealth gap. Of course, he couldn’t have, because the reforms were only recently passed, and thus it is not possible to know what the long-term outcome will be. By his own admission, he framed the entire report in light of his false statement of fact made at the beginning.

So, while there are some interesting factual tidbits sprinkled throughout the report, any conclusions that it reaches based upon those facts are meaningless, because they are colored by the false statement of fact.
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I was surprised to not see my favorite NASA quote... "no situation can be so bad that it can't be made worse"
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Was there any before, before the Big Bang?
If that is after a heavy snowfall they need to test in Canada.
I'd love for it to be true, but it's tough to believe that's real. There's one point where a pedestrian is standing in the snow on the road just to the side of where the car would pass:
https://youtu.be/Bx08yRsR9ow?t=35s

Wouldn't any pedestrian detection decide the person in the road has priority and stop and let them cross? It isn't capable of reading a person's intention to stand there vs. cross or not.

The title claims it supports interactions with pedestrians, and the video does seem to show it pausing in the middle of a turn once for a pedestrian in the road, but that could be easily faked by having the driver still using manual breaks.
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And, oh yeah, by the way, even if we do “solve” this “problem” by mining asteroids, and unlock an unlimited supply of all minerals on demand at all times, how long before we import so much mass, that we drastically alter the concentrations of strange, toxic compounds in the biosphere, well beyond what would have ever been possible with decades of the most dehumanizing mining operations imaginable?

In a hypothetical worst-case scenario, let’s imagine the world had an insatiable appetite for mercury thermometers, and presto! Asteroid mining to the rescue! We discover that all the asteroids have a delicious, juicy mercury core!

Extrapolated to extremes, the world adopts disposable mercury thermometers as the new normal, and in a decade, methylmercury poisons the globe, as landfills accumulate tons and tons of broken thermometers, and the waste quickly seeps into the water table.

Inexhaustable supply can cause problems on its own.