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Well, yes, if we take middle class at face value (the middle two quartiles of income) that's an insane claim. Of course techies aren't the middle class, we're very comfortably in the top 10% of incomes, if not the top 5%.

Purchasing power with the past middle class though is a different story. My parents are firmly middle class - but looking at the cost of housing and other factors, to afford a similar lifestyle to what they gave me growing up, living in similar places, now requires an income level far in excess of what they made.

It's in fact much closer to what I make now.

So the more accurate (and less insane sounding) claim is that to afford the middle class lifestyle of the past now requires a higher-than-middle-class income. This gap varies depending on where you are.
> I am a bit perplexed about what powerpc has to do with GPUs.

As others note that IBM is funding most of the work, my guess is the main use-case here is IBM's POWER-based HPC clusters that have PowerPC CPUs augmented by a bunch of GPU coprocessors for Cuda/OpenCL offloading. IBM is trying to position POWER clusters as competing with x86-based clusters for certain kinds of work (especially scientific computing), and to match x86-based clusters decked out with GPUs they probably need to have GPU options for their POWER-based clusters as well.

The idea, as I read it (have not had occasion to encounter it myself) is that things are a lot easier if your CPU and GPU have the same endianness, or else you have to byte-swap whenever transferring data to/from the GPU (and there are even more complications if you have unified memory spaces). Since most (all?) commercially available GPUs are little-endian, if you want PowerPC CPUs along with GPUs for auxiliary processing, and want the endianness matched, the little-endian mode of PowerPC becomes important.
I am a Software Engineer living in Europe and this is my 5th job in the 5th distinct country. I generally work for a maximum of 2 years period and then change my job to another country. Currently I am in Poland and my next stop will be Budapest or Berlin.

There are literally thousands of open positions for a Dev. in Europe and the only thing you need to do is to be good at what you are doing and speak English.
Okay now actually look at the response on Matlab. As you get closer to the nyquist freq there are less samples to describe the wave. And while you get a bastadised 18k signal it's a far throw from what you put in. Anf while most are crying your splitting hairs the frequency response and dynamic range arguments pale in comparison to making the exact wave you put into the encoder come out. On the right system with the right recording the tiniest nuance in a room reverb helps trick your brain into believing the sound as actually happening. And this is not important to all listeners. But people saying that it makes no difference and is not important as a format to release music in are thinking only of their current needs and experiences. If you have actually heard a good recording on a good system in a good room you will know what I'm talking about. If listening experience has been laptop speakers, headphones and your mum and dads mini system then I totally agree any more than 320kbs mp3s are overkill. But to say that high res formats gave no place in consumer land is to show your lack of understanding of different people and different needs. In the age of iTunes you surely you buy the album and download it in whatever format u see fit. If u think audiophiles are wackos go get ya 320's. I would like to get it as I came fr the studio. The best it can be is as it came from the studio.
Oh, the e-cat. Should be known by now that Rossi cheated by using the ground wire to transfer the "heating" current...

Clever trick, I have to admit. Unless you knew the guy was cheating by abusing a safety feature in a way that no sane person ever should do, there was no way of proving the cheat.
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> At some point (IMO already reached) this becomes just "Research". Properly directed R&D pays for itself many times over.

The "problem" with research is that the costs are centralized while the benefits are diffuse. There is no way for a private entity to capture 100% of the social benefit of an invention, which means that solely private research will inherently be funded at a level below the optimal level for its social utility.

There are also some things that are so expensive to research that private capital is not willing to take the risk that they don't pan out. Making hot fusion commercially viable for power generation is the holy grail of energy research, but you can't exactly do it in your garage.
Please don't capitalize "city" when referring to SF. To smaller cities it looks pompous, and to bigger cities, laughable.
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When do YC interview invitations usually come out?
Yep, you can definitely construct Objective-C code that would be way, way, way slower than equivalent Java code. A trivial example would be something like for(int i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++) [obj self];. I imagine any decent Java JIT will be able to detect that this loop does nothing and eliminate it entirely.

However, my point is that not only can you write faster Objective-C code, but that most normal Objective-C code will be faster, because most normal Objective-C code isn't that message heavy. So it's not just that it can be faster, but that it usually will be. Typically. Depending on what you're doing.
Some of the article seems more obvious if flipped around... watch some teens/kids tease each other, you'll hear a lot of language along the lines of one kid defining what the other kid "is", not much oblique talk about the success or failure of one individual purchase of clothing to match their current little tribal affiliation. Enforcement of conformity is enforcement of conformity, regardless of the morals/ethics of the conformity itself, so a study of it is incomplete if it only includes the behaviors of the happy sunshine people or only includes parent/child interactions.

The interesting part of the article was the quantitative analysis of experimental evidence, not so much that evolution seems to have produced a species that's pretty good at tribal-scale interpersonal dynamics and learning everything by copying superiors. The qualitative analysis seems obvious given the model, so good experimental numbers indicates the popular qualitative model is likely correct.
A 24-bit sample depth is not completely useless and silly in the way that gold plated HDMI cables are. You can get a real improvement in dynamic range with 24-bit samples, allowing a song to have quiet parts and loud parts with no loss in quality in either, which is hard to do with 16-bit samples without losing quality for the quiet parts or using dynamic range compression and having everything sound roughly the same.

Of course, few people actually want impressive shifts in volume in their music, because prog is dead and no one wants their headphones to suddenly blow their eardrums out. Gotta compress the shit out of that dubstep for the kiddies! Somewhat ironically, greater bit depth in audio makes a bigger difference for film than most music because of this.
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This.

No rap or hip-hop though, that's too distracting. If I want to sink down, shut out everybody and get into the "flow" like someone said before, it has to be vocal trance for me. I mean, they call it "trance" music for a reason:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music

"A trance refers to a state of hypnotism and lessened consciousness. This drifting sensation is portrayed in the genre by mixing many layers and rhythms to create build and release."

Once you find a genre that works for you (mine is vocal trance), you can literally shut everybody out and have that laser focus for long periods of time. It's a borderline ASC - Altered State of Consciousness.
> Why does the person who moved in yesterday, perhaps far needier than the longer-term resident/owner (and just as deserving of basic civic services) have to pay so much more?

Property taxes without caps are just as unfair but in the opposite direction. Why should someone who lives within their means and bought an affordable house be punished just because a bunch of other people swoop in and drive up prices around them. A buyer of a house needs to be able to forecast future tax payments to make an informed decision. If you don't have a yearly increase cap on property tax rates, the buyers future costs are totally unpredictable and up the whims of the markets and bubbles.
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Simple idea, why there is not anything similar comming out bevore?
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It doesn't _define_ the issue, but it's also inseparable from the issue in this case. If you want to understand why what happened happened, you have to understand this aspect of things.
She doesn't yearn for "ink stains on paper from a Chinese factory" either, if you want to look at it that way.
Long Distance Calling.
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White noise and Pomodoro.

That said, I think learning how to start quickly be productive through consistency beats the hell out of chasing the zone. An hour, or even 20 minutes a day, every day or damn near it as opposed to multi-hour binges when the stars align.
I've been very fortunate that the flow gods have allowed me to have a very productive month. It definitely has to do with the fact that I'm staying at my parents house all alone babysitting their dog while I work from home. I've had 0 distractions save for the mailman and I've put up some good numbers.

I'd say the best thing you can do is eliminate all distractions and block out large swaths of time to work. I took yesterday to do all of my menial tasks such as filing taxes, getting proof of insurance for a ticket, dealt with a verizon phone bill, etc. With all that out of the way, I find it easier to 'free your mind' and focus. Unfortunately I haven't fallen into gear yet naturally so I'm going to try to jump start my engine by just forcing my hand to work. Once you get in motion its easier to stay in motion.
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When it was first built, the Eiffel Tower was decried as destroying the beauty of the city. And the Etoile of boulevards radiating from the Arc were built as part of one of the biggest demolish-all-the-history public works projects of all time.

If those laws had been on the books in 1850, or if the Paris of that time had subscribed to modern-day SF's change-nothing philosophy, the city you love would not exist in anything like its current form.

Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eiffel_Tower&mobil...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann's_renovation_of_Paris
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Music and being up late when no one else is around do the trick for me. I find if I try and work during the day on anything that requires real concentration then I end up being distracted by everyday things. This is probably bad advice though as having a natural sleeping pattern is important but I do find it helps me.
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Ah, the good old days of feudalism. When the only rich people were the ones with private soldiery to protect their assets. Everyone was better off when we all had our freedom, eh? Or at least, some people were better off, the vast majority died in squalor, unable to protect what was theirs from the local tyrant/"noble".

To provide a counterpoint:
We already exist in the society you describe.
You can choose to not pay your taxes and the government won't protect your assets from being seized. Now logically, under your system the person with the greatest military might would be able to seize your assets and defend them him/herself (or pay taxes). However, as the entity with the biggest military might will always be the government, ipso facto we have exactly the same situation as we do under the current law, where the government will start seizing assets if you don't pay your taxes...

The only alternative in a might-makes-right kind of libertarian society, is that individual entities (rich people/corporations/etc) start gathering enough military might to challenge the government and hence keep their tax money to themselves.

So best case scenario, we end up with a detente where the government and the hypothetical powerful force agree not to fight. Due to economies of scale, I'd be willing to bet that the cost of maintaining such a force is waaayyyy more than any taxes levied. Given that this force also gives the owner the ability to tell the government to go away, they'll have effectively declared independence and started their own little dictatorship (whether corporate or otherwise). The only difference is that nobody gets to vote for the new corporate overlords. They just have to obey or leave (until there's nowhere to flee to). This kind of libertarianism is better called neo-feudalism.

Worst case scenario, we have regular open warfare in our own back yards. What a great society to live in, where we're all just trying to stab each other in the back. Progress and civilization indeed...

Therefore the right of the government to enforce taxation for the betterment of society as a whole is absolutely essential to having a "civilization" at all. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

/rant over :p
Who is Orvitz?
Who said anything about schools?

Anyway, to name a few that afflict people I know (or me, for that matter) and all have devastating impact on productivity (often in different ways)

Chronic fatigue, ADHD/ADD (yes, it exists in adults; sometimes it's adult-onset), clinical depression, bipolar disorder, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc.

It's true that workplace improvements can help people with disadvantages be able to participate and achieve good things, but this is exactly what I mean when I say that people do not have equal potential and capability. To assume otherwise, or blame these disadvantages solely on schooling or some other controllable factor is hopelessly naive. We have to accept that we can't apply our own experiences universally to everyone, and that we have to understand them and recognize their challenges so we can help overcome them.
Sort of. Leanpub does parts of that flow, but afaik they don't have an editor or draft versions, nor do they actually publish to the Kindle or iBooks store for you.
Your BART example is the opposite of NIMBY-ism: wanting/allowing something in your back yard that is not used by you.

NIMBY-ism about BART was manifested by the peninsula towns, which refused to allow BART in the first place (due to misguided fears of easy access to their towns by transients, potential criminals, etc.)
I thought it was because of the knuckles.

But if you want to discuss Romans and calendars, you've got to mention that Mars was there first month (because it's such a great month to start a fresh military campaign). So February was the last, and got whatever remains.

Why July and August both have 31 days, I have no idea. Augustus' jealousy sounds plausible, but apparently it's not true. So what's the real reason for this?
People say music. But I think it's just an exercise in programming yourself - it won't be immediate.

http://notmysock.org/blog/2005/Oct/17/

Oh and lots of sleep.

I sleep 8 hours or so and wake up with a lamp next to my bed triggered to turn on 1 hour before I need to wake up.

You really have to keep your body out the way of your mind. I eat far less food when I want to get into the zone.

I take a step up and walk about every 50 minutes or so. 10 minutes of walking around every hour, just to keep my eyes from hurting - used to play pool alone when my office had a table.

I can hang around 10+ hours in the zone that way.

But I get about 4 days of that a month, the rest are just 4 hour work-days (2 hours + 2 hours uninterrupted).
Confusing "valuing" and "are". For mere valuing a simple survey should be adequate.

An analogy would be valuing wealth while being poor. Or innumerable examples of reportedly valuing a certain religion's beliefs, yet ridiculously bad, often opposite, implementation of those beliefs.
Let's also not forget that a resident in an area does have a say in property taxes. That's the whole idea around local government. Show up to town hall, be vocal about your opinions and listen to others' opinions. This is how it should work. If you want lower property taxes, make your case! Convince your friends & neighbors.
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Yes. Yes they are. You won't find a lot of support for that opinion on this website for websites which want to slurp up all your data just to sell it onto someone else.
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Because when money can buy influence (in forms of lobbying and propoganda), economic inequality turns into political inequality.
The more interesting question to me has always been: Why are the months numbered wrong? December is month 12, november is month 11, october is month 10. There's an offset of 2 between the month name and the number it references.
So you mean difference between books and files is merely philosophical?

Because technically I agree with you that it's only the presentation and nature of 'binding' that makes for all the difference.
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I don't think so. I'll be watching anything you kind people linked me.
If your car payment got untenable, we won't see folks lobbying for car-payment support or caps. You'd just have to sell the car.

Houses get some sort of special treatment, I guess because people emotionally bond with them. But in a free market we'd not scotch-tape all these special rules around them.
This is the essence of the arguments for Prop 13. In places with re-adjusted and higher property taxes (like Texas), the property tax serves to keep a lid on housing prices.
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Funny how those wireless "shields" have 10x performance of the AVRs on the main board.
Be careful, I was sued for doing this (and lost). Had to pay up big.
Interested in a 'seller-specific' service. Is that sellers grouped together or a service that caters to sellers?
does this mean that they will no longer sell non-twitter data like Foursquare?
I would pitch freinds and family first.
If people feel that inequality undermines the social order, they are entitled to do something about it.

Sure. But if they're proposing cures worse than the disease, we should try to talk them out of it, not just play on their feelings of "unfairness" to win political battles.
Mental Strategies? None. I just start working. I force myself to get started. Once you start, you're halfway done.

Now once you've started. Don't stop. This may seem obvious but prepare by using the restroom or getting a glass of water beforehand.

Once you've been working for a while, usually >20 minutes, you're in the zone. Congratulations. Don't award yourself. You can go to the bathroom, get more water, but make sure you're getting back to work. If you sense yourself getting off task, X THAT WINDOW! AND FOCUS! It's as easy as that.

It also helps to be challenging yourself. If you're working on some stupid project that an 11th grader could do then I don't know how you get in the zone. Hard problems take more dedicated concentration which makes diving in the hard part and staying in very easy.
Routines.

Flaubert once said, "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

Go to bed at roughly the same time. Get up at roughly the same time. Eat breakfast (prevents sugar crashes later in the day). Do some light exercise when you get out of bed (7 min workout, holla) and then meditate. Do actually intense exercise once or twice a week. Snack a few hours after your lunch.

Take care of your body and keep it prepared for the work you have ahead of you.

When you get to work, plan out the rest of your day. Write down what you intend to do (you get a lot better with being realistic with this list) and split it out. Don't open HN while you wait for your tests to run. Timebox everything else.

Also, take regular breaks. Get up, stretch, go for a walk, read for a bit.

Procrastination I find is closely linked to mood, so make sure you've taken care of that as well.

I do 80% of the above and I still have procrastination spirals but it's gotten a lot better.
Window tax[0] also does not work. Driving around the country you will see houses with broken out or boarded up windows so the owners didn't have to pay the tax. The tax was repealed in 1851 but the damage from it can still be seen.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax
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Fellow Hackers,
Me and my brother has created new way for ads. However, we are not sure whether we should copyright it and keep it closed or patent it. For getting a patent there are caveats though :
1. We would need to spend around $8K to $10K for filing with the help of lawyer. We will be filing as individuals and there is not support from companies we work for.
2. Technology will be disclosed once we file for patent. Medium or large corporation can use it easily and there is no way for us to fight it. We are just two individuals.
3. Enforcing patent cross border ( outside US) in Asian countries ( India, China) is big challenge as I have seen first hand people copying stuff.
Any inputs and help is greatly appreciated. Have a good day / night.
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That goes way back - I understand that Istanbul is a corruption of 'to the city'. SO once upon a time road signs in Turkey just said 'to the city'.
Heard an idea to make a metric for cities based on how much they tried to stop peer to peer services. Brussels just went up a few points.
Watch the TED talk from a couple months ago, it was pretty good, better than the average ted talk and I mean that as a compliment to the presenter not as trashing the rest of ted, or read the other 12 HN postings, I am correct in those assertions, at least as presented.
>Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately.

>It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making changes where they live so that everyone who wants to be here, can.

I don't know if drastically changing the housing landscape of SF will destroy the culture that made everyone want into the city in the first place, but asserting that it won't is just as tenuous as asserting it will.

All I ever see is rationalization that it won't, because the tech community takes it as axiomatic that they must pile into the city. By debating the conclusion we are tricked into accepting the form.

For example: "But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making changes"

That's a lot of people. Including ones hostile to your goals. You would need to get a smaller and friendlier set of people on board to make a slightly-more geographically disperse tech scene work in the Bay Area. The self-fulfilling business "common sense" about SF is much more momentum than sense.