skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmm... I think your point is valid, but perhaps a little over-emphasized.

It certainly is worth noting what you are mentioning, that there is more to life than college. The overall summary still is true, though, that college educated students do better career earnings wise. There's just a lot of variance and spread you have to take in account.

This website is good, in that it gives some details of the spread inherent in lifetime earnings per college majors.
(http://www.hamiltonproject.org/papers/major_decisions_what_g...)

There is a lot of spread depending on your major. In addition to the lifetime earnings, the site does note that there is huge variance within each major itself. As quoted, "the highest-earning 10 percent of high school graduates out-earn the bottom tenth of graduates in every single major".

Unfortunately this report does not seem to go in much detail on two year degrees. Because community / 2-year college in the US is so much cheaper than 4 year colleges typically, I am willing to bet that -- especially if you have to go into debt -- there are some good paths there where the pure rate of return is higher than some college paths these days. (The high school diploma path only OTOH doesn't seem that great unless your atypically REALLY self-motivated.)

I do think that chasing career paths solely based on current income is a bad strategy. If you are really into music and meh on molecules, no matter what the average numbers say, it's probably better to be a top 10% musician degree holder than a bottom 10% chemical engineer degree holder.
We certainly have done that in North Korea. We've given NK billions in aid in the expectation that the quest for nuclear weapons would end and NK would turn towards prosperity.

No one said, "we'll just kill them". The good thing is that NK is unlikely to kill us, since if it tries it won't survive as a political entity.

That is called "deterrence".
Can it mix livefeeds ? The first page really does not say much and I wonder if it's because all it does is streaming a feed, like many other players do in this space.
"Appeal to authority" is a well-known fallacy. There's no exception in it for when the authority happened to be Marx.

And Marx wasn't so clearly right on everything he said that just "Marx said" settles the question.
"if, say, Roblox was to shut down I'll never hear the end of it"

I'd much rather hear about that then have to explain to grandma once again why, if she gets him a Roblox Card for his birthday/christmas/etc., her real $60 USD is potentially going to be spent on just one virtual hat (Dominus) or virtual sword (Godly).

My kid is finally starting to come around to the insanity behind that concept, but I feel horrible for the parents and other gift givers that don't yet understand.
Plenty of tactics have been developed to minimise it. Plus increasing speed.
Well no because the definition is 'rather than class privilege or wealth.' Transforming wealth into ability and talent is class privilege.
I've found my local hackerspace to be an awesome "third place", and we're hoping to figure out a way to market it as such to boost our dwindling membership.
How Six Americans Changed Their Minds About Global Warming
>Workers aren't paid what they deserve, they're paid as much (or as little) as they're able to negotiate.

Deserve is a tricky notion. The capitalist will argue that workers deserve precisely their market rate, e.g. what they are able to negotiate (collectively or otherwise).
Why writing a linked list in Rusts is basically impossible
> It's easy to target a few thousand billionaires and apply some estate tax to recapture fortunes upon death (and maybe we should do this).

That wouldn't even help.

For example: George Soros. Came from a wealthy family. Utterly destitute after the war. And now he's rich.

Some people simply have that talent, and they pass it on to their kids, both in education, and in genes.

> With that in mind, what practical steps can you take to meaningfully reduce the influence of class and wealth?

Are you sure it's "class and wealth" and not intelligence?
We just need a death star.
Exactly! Rust doesn't solve any parallelism problems. It's no better than established languages like C# or F#, and probably worse.
That'd be great if Dropbox donates all the taxes they dodged into good causes. But you and I both know that's complete nonsense.
I think the biggest problem Swype had (once it published) was probably ignoring its user base. I was one of the early adopters when it showed up on the play market and I loved it. It was one of the bigger available apps at the time so I gravitated toward it. However, they messaged a bunch of things up and didn't give us ways to turn off their "new features" and a keyboard is not something you want to change often. So, since there were copycats, I moved to one of those that gave me the freedoms that I wanted and didn't have the annoying features that I didn't. I remember the forums at the time having a HUGE amount of people claiming to be doing the same thing.

I use GBoard now and it has this horrible "correct the previous word" feature that I can't turn off. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, Google is big enough to keep it around forever without really listening to us. But this feature is awful. For an example, I'll type something like "a little bit of mambo" and, for some reason, it'll decide to replace "of" with "if" or something along those lines. It's not a consistent thing with any combination but I really don't want to have to erase two words to correct something that I had already dubbed correct before moving on.
Tesla has confirmed that its cloud computing platform has been compromised by ha
Immutable data has its place, but you wouldn't want to use that for Hacker News because reloading the page wouldn't show new comments.

Also, when someone edits a comment here, usually that's either harmless or beneficial.
Priceline to change it's name to Booking Holdings
It's wrong that your personal success depends on a long chain of ancestry that you have no control over.

Your success should depend on your intrinsic merits, which every individual should have an equal opportunity to assess and develop for themselves.

Rich people are the same as poor people at birth, they just have more money.

...uh, is this a controversial opinion? I'm confused.
> You shouldn't be able to buy a better education for your kid

Doesn't this miss the fact that a large amount of education - perhaps the majority of young childhood education - occurs at home, and is influenced by family environment?

How does the Government recreate a two parent household with the time and resources to cook healthy dinners and spend hours every night reading to their children, for children who are essentially "on their own" once they leave school? Is it even reasonable to expect this to be possible (i.e. reduce or replace the influence of families with Government or third-party involvement)?
> It's orders of magnitude faster

This always make me laugh when said figuratively.
You can't immunize a system to economic and political influence by moving more of it from the economic to the political sphere.

The example of the USSR was already cited, the rich were still rich even though being "wealthy" _formally_ wasn't a thing.

People instead played political games to win positions that brought benefits from the State. Most workers aspired to reach a position that brought with it car ownership.

All of this serves to make the delivering peoples' needs and desires more inefficient and more purely decided by social and political power than by someone's ability to contribute to society.
Agree, that's why I waited for the 5200. It finally has a proper fast UI with search functionality close to what a phone can provide.
Generally: if the company is pretty self-evidently evil, and you have feasible alternatives, choose those alternatives.

Also, hypotheticals are fairly unhelpful compared to real cases.

Consider whether you would personally carry out the acts involved - would you defraud middle america for your own benefit? Would you fire on civilians on behalf of a dictator buying your product?
I was curious about that, too, especially since the article so eloquently put it: "for whatever reason".

It linked to the patent[0], and it struck me that in the abstract, it ends with: "The present invention then generates a list of possible words associated with the entered part and presents it to user for selection."

That's kind of a... specific... outcome of the swiping and I'm surprised that's in there. As I understand it, people get all up and arms about ridiculous patent titles, but it's the full abstract that determines what it exactly covers, and if you deviate just a bit, the patent doesn't apply. In the case of the Google keyboard I use, when I finish swiping it doesn't "present a list of possible words for selection" - it just chooses the "best" one. There is a list elsewhere of alternatives, but I wonder if that's just different enough of a UX that the patent doesn't apply.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7098896
Why is that an inevitability? What is unnatural about a supply chain where someone makes item A for $10, takes $2 profit, wholesales person B takes another $2 profit, final salesperson C takes $2 profit?

For products that are actually made and sold in the same country that's not far from reality today. It's just that for most things, they are made in Asia, and income/wealth disparity means the US/Europe end of the chain "has to" take much more of the profits to survive. That doesn't mean its fair, or just, or ethical.
How to Make Replication the Norm
>#2.1: Reducing the opacity of your text makes it harder to read.

That's the point, to take away focus from something lower in the hierarchy.

>#4: Borders help logically separate areas of an interface. Throwing in more white-space is wasteful.

You're defining waste from a screen-space point of view, not a usability point of view. Who cares if the screen's pixels are at maximum utility, I want my user at maximum utility!

>#4.3: Gratuitous white-space is wasteful, especially if you have limited screen real-estate (i.e., mobile).

See above

>#7 is a major pet-peeve of mine which I cannot agree with. If it's a button, make it look like a button. Nothing is more confusing than a button that just looks like some text label.

Again, hierarchy.
How do you propose to prevent parents from teaching their children?

You also have a built in assumption that education is what causes this success, when I posit it's the result of intelligence, which is the actual driver (and is seen in better results from education).
The more I dig into this, the less I realize I know.

I asked, "did the slums exist before the highways and freeways that divide them from the wealthy whites?" The best I've come up with is "Sort of."

Apparently, in the 50's and 60s, city officials throughout the US thought of urban freeways as "a good opportunity to get rid of the local 'niggertown.'"[1] But that attempt at clearing the local slums ended up further disrupting and distressing them, deepening the problem.

[1] Google Books: Downtown, Inc: How America Rebuilds Cities https://goo.gl/mdgYXE
Don't think its honest to label conservatives we don't like as alt-right just to ban them. If they are pushing violence, ban them under the TOS for violence.
Yeah I'm currently going through this course. Some of it is going over my head but I get the basic concepts
Id almost argue that intercom/drift are making customer service a lot easier. The chat bubble lets you connect with users of your product a lot faster than a phone call and paired with some other softwares can do a lot of what you need.

This probably is more meant to challenge bad customer service like ATT/Comcast but the (non legacy) software world is doing better with this I think.
yes, I am also experiencing this. But this is not unexpected: if you take this spectre PoC: https://github.com/crozone/SpectrePoC/blob/master/spectre.c then all that is doing is reading data from the same process. With spectre variant 1, it is the code that is vulnerable (in this case, an unmasked bounds check). As the compiler does not do any mitigations for this, it is the software that has to protect against it (that's one reason why browsers for example needed mitigations, along with everything else running untrusted code). This variant is only a problem if you're trying to run untrusted code though... so you could say that the PoC itself has a security vulnerability, no wonder that still works (an OS does not prevent you from running vulnerable programs - there could be hardining techniques that can make it harder or impossible to exploit that vulernerability though.)
Assuming there are no capable laser and railgun interceptors deployed and detection/jamming tolerance, probably ASBMs [0].

Or ASMs [1] if carrier air or seaspace is breached, carriers are heavily escorted though.

If nuclear deterrence (god forbid) is broken, then I guess aircraft carriers are pretty much sitting ducks.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_ballistic_missile

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ship_missile
A lot of guys are boring, especially for people who have studied and focused in their specialties for years and years. You have to find common ground, and that can become increasingly difficult unless your friends share parts of your core interests.

I work pretty hard to maintain some normal interests, enough that I can chat with pretty much anyone. I do find deeper relationships difficult though, as there are fewer people who share my real interests in my area (or even in my cohort of long term friends). Finding those people is difficult.
Ask HN: Why most big websites aren't using EV SSL?
I recently found myself wondering, why big sites such as Facebook, Google, Github etc usually aren't using EV SSL certificates? It probably would make non-technical users trust the website more and perhaps make them more aware of phishing (eh, I don't believe in that myself, but it's still nice to dream...), and it's not like they can't afford it.
Honestly, you live in the wrong place if you want to be in a cheap suburban, single-family home. There's just too much demand for housing, and something is going to give. The markets will drive housing density up, whether though building of multi-family units, or just having multiple families living in SF homes.

There are tons of American cities where the suburban dream can be maintained, but the Bay area is not one of them.
>The client wanted a "button" without a background color because it looked bad to have two buttons side by side. My company told them that was a bad idea based on data, so we added tracking to their site and A/B tested their home page. Button with a background color had 40% more conversions than the "button" they wanted without the background color.

Of course it did, it looked more like a button! But at what cost? It sounds like this button was not the primary action. So how many clicks were lost from the primary action - how much usability was lost from the page?
What? Reducing the influence of wealth in a country is not the same as 1) having the state own all property or 2) a state ran for workers

There are numerous ways to reduce that influence without flipping the entirety of our capitalist economic system.
The universe does follow an algorithm. It just involves orders of magnitude more data than computers (or humans) can deal with. So our brains don't try to contend with that data. We generalize, we use heuristics, we make ad hoc rules all the time and throw them away when they're contradicted. We're susceptible to all sorts of illusions and cognitive biases but we'd be even worse off if we tried to calculate exact answers before doing anything.

We'd end up doing nothing at all.
I drink. I like Friday beers. I absolutely stamp down on any of my team who attempt to pressure others to drink or ostracise others in the company for not drinking. Friday beers is meant to help colleagues bond, so behavior that excludes some people or makes them want to leave isn't OK.

Luckily the companies I've worked at have all been non-drinker friendly as well as drinker friendly. There's always a non-alcoholic option and they've usually tried to make sure people knock off a little early so that anyone with kids etc can join in before they have to leave.
>So if we define "intergenerational mobility" as the economic mobility of a family over multiple generations, Japan is actually on the lower end, as there's less correlation between your parent's occupation/wealth and your own.

Less correlation between between your parent's wealth and your wealth is mobility, I think you're confused.

>As an example, your father could work hard and gain a higher economic position, but in Japan that advantage has a smaller effect on you and your potential.

Yes? That's a good thing, that means the society is more mobile. A society where your parent's economic position grants a large advantage on you and your potential is inherently less mobile.
Tangent: the post links to https://bugs.python.org/issue11416

That bug makes me sad. It was opened in 2011. It's a trivial bug to fix. Two separate fixes were submitted, one with several iterations addressing all feedback. By my count, at least five people have dealt directly with the issue (contributing or reviewing code, providing feedback, etc). Who knows how many folks have been affected by the bug and found a work-around or gave up on it. Meanwhile, a fix ends up just withering on the vine for years.

This is not a complaint specific to Python. I've seen it happen with many projects, both closed and open. What a waste of people's time.
This didn't happen this time but:

If your site displays nothing without JS, I have to be desperate to see your content to, well, turn on JS to see your content. You as a site owner are asking a whole lot more from me by allowing just anyone on the net to run code on my computer than I am of you.
I'll also chime in that employment regulations, labor taxes, and bureaucratic complexity in general benefit larger companies on average and hurt smaller ones.

I think a great proposal is to make it easier to disrupt big corporations. But that's not generally the tone people have when discussing these issues.
I like gesture-keyboarding and saw it as a great improvement (rare situation) when it showed up on my Andriod phone. I think this is in part because my natural pointing motion causes my finger to hit hit the screen to the right of where I think I am pointing at. I have to turn my finger sideways or aim to the left of buttons to hit them consistently. Can't find a way to adjust my touch response that is not some third party ap of dubious origin.
Let’s be real, the western world is the most meritocratic. I don’t know anyone working at their parents company and I’ve met easily >200 people with about a quarter of them in high positions VP+ and all of them with great high paying careers.
Even the "bad" examples provided are beautiful.

I do love the accent borders. I've been using them a lot lately in PowerPoint tables.
Funny to read comment section in russian source article. People argue about need of multicore processors in a desktop pc. Especially when I read those comments from 16 core machine.
>>Ymmv but I’m sure I’m not alone.

Absolutely agree this is really how it should be done. Education should also be competency based...but here we are with metrics that are validated in societal normativity rather than actual logic :)

The issue is that the method I'm describing is that method used by large scale employers who have the power and sway to influence how colleges act.
Yeah I'm sure they are running linux. Actually just have them build openssh from source first. Much easier then signing up for GitHub and following their guide to do a test push for a litmus test.
It's interesting to read the list and contemplate among other things the ideas that have arguably been solved (or at least partially solved) but in ways that weren't obvious.

For example, #1 about RIAA, I'd argue that it was never solved but with streaming stations in particular, it's just not such a pressing issue today.

Some certainly haven't happened (e.g. fixing news).

The list also seems to assume a lot more replacement of incumbents (Craigslist, Ebay, Wikipedia) than has been the case.
It's not the abstract that matters, it's the list of claims, which is even more specific.
Bringing Together React, D3, and Their Ecosystem
> Time to start the countdown for an Alt-Right Medium

How about just a platform that prides itself in free speech?
Why Britain Should Have a National Space Agency
This does make sense. If he is anything like me, he's going to do whatever the hell he thinks is best. I was the weirdo for going to college.
Aging is a “planned” process, damage is just damage. Shortening telomeres with reproduction, cell senescence, loss of reproductive viability are not damage, they’re age related. UV light knocking a base pair out of a whack is damage.

If you live long enough, you will accumulate damage even in the absence of aging. The hope for humans is thst we develop means to both halt aging, and repair accumulated damage.
> People underestimate the compiler cost of deriving instances. It adds up very fast if you derive lots of functors and foldables in your quest for unique names everywhere.

Do you pay this price when you derive via a `newtype`? Or does GHC figure out that the instance it would write out would be identical (modulo coercions)?
Life Extension Possibilities
The Expanding Role of Marketing in SaaS Companies (2015)
But by downloading the distro I am not applying to be a distributor of that distro.
Yea, this is healthy. Realistically, it's probably smart to check if you're applying to new jobs, but we need to get over this team mentality in politics.
Glitch on BTC Exchange Drops Prices to $0, User Tries to Make Off with Trillions
"I played around with a ton of different filler materials for the cinder blocks, but pure cement just broke so easily. I finally settled on a secret formula using cement and a few other materials that look and feels identical to real cement."

1. Those that make these, what the secret formula?

I checked MSDS and couldn't find any info on the product, or I maybe need to search again?

2. I don't feel bad got asking. Why--he got a lot of exposure here.

Edit: here's the recipe.

https://m.imgur.com/a/0CzMG
General Intellect Unit, Episode 009 – Red Plenty
Can you share ballpark percentages on the customer type? Railroad hobbyists, wargamers, etc.
Ah, I guess there is either a copycat, or coincidentally similar app with the same name on Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dropin.main
Complex kernel code updated monthly via the cloud to millions of Windows, Linux, and Mac boxes?
I've had the same experience, it seems to be a microcosm of the "tragedy of the commons" that has led to the spoiling of the environment, shared spaces, natural resources etc.

That said, I've worked in an office where the company took a nagging/shaming/signs/emails approach instead of upping the cleaning budget as the team grew, which was frustrating and ineffective. Encouraging people to clean up after themselves is good, but if it's not immediately effective the rest of us shouldn't have to live in filth while we try to get the worst offenders in line.