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In general, the easy bay is cheaper than the south bay (MV, SJ, etc..).

However, because Facebook is now a bridge away from the easy bay it drove prices up like crazy.

For a 2 bedroom in a good school district, I doubt you can find anything under 3200, this will be a steal.
“I would think you just put a little warning label on the thing and say the FDA has not agreed to the accuracy of these things.”

Unfortunately that's the key part of a medical test - the accuracy. The reason people can jump so hard on Theranos' back is because at the end of it all the science either works or it does not. And so far nothing seems to point to the technology working just yet.
HN is strictly an aggregator, which is about 3-4 orders of magnitude cheaper to operate.
Google Contributor has a few major problems:

- 5-50% fewer ads isn't good enough, it needs to remove all ads.

- It's too expensive. There is no way my ad impressions add up to $10 a month.

- How is the money divided? How big is Google's cut? Needs to be clarified, ideally made user-configurable.
Not an engineer but on the marketing/advertising/analytics side of things. I moved from Chicago to the Bay a while back. If I could do my career over, I would have started in the Bay (beyond the hindsight that would have enabled me to purchase real estate here at 2008 prices...ugh).

Simply put, as you grow in your career and can provably add more value than you cost, you gain more leverage in salary negotiation (typically). So if you ratchet up to a high salary in SF, you might have to take a dip when moving to lower cost of living areas, but perhaps not. Maybe you just take less of a pay increase. Either way you'll likely still come out much further ahead.

If you can manage to budget effectively and can save/invest smartly, those dollars you initially earned in SF can go much further elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love living in the Bay, but I'll admit I've been very tempted to move somewhere with a lower cost of living where my money goes a lot further. Of course the tradeoff is I likely wouldn't have the amazing weather, people, food, activities, culture, etc. that exists here in such a rare combination.
There was a sci fi book by (Niven?) mentioned to me by a friend about a future society where the songmakers where the most important. Anyone know the book title?
We could easily get into picking nits, which I don't want to do, but I'll clarify that the difference is much more notable on the ownership side. You can get a very desirable house for $300k in the midwest that would simply be way out of your price range in SF. Unattainable.

The ownership comparison looks more like this: 1) in the midwest you can buy a large home; 2) in San Francisco you don't buy at all.
I'm Canadian. I've never had a mechanical failure on chip&pin. A friend of mine seems to have failures constantly at a certain liquor store; dunno if it's the debit card she's using, or the store's reader, or both.

But back when we used mag stripes, I used to see failures all the time.

The anecdata in my life says chip&pin is FAR more reliable.
how does Missive compare to Front?
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This a funny and a sad reality - come join our innovative company and solve interesting problems yet please submit your cv via jobvite/taleo or some other completely horrid job tracking system. Seems like that would be a place one could "disrupt."
This is an earlier-stage demonstration than ITER. A fairer comparison would be with the cost of JET.
Nothing there surprises me -- some of it is just the kind of bitching soldiers do (like complaining that everyone has to stop what they're doing to look for a rifle, or complaining that NTC was hot, or that the 1SG is nuts and mean and yells a lot, or that you had to guard a broken down vehicle for 5 days... ). Some of it showed a lack of discipline in the unit (NCOs allowing Soldiers to wear baseball caps) -- but Bowe seems to feel like those relaxed NCOs were the "good guys" that got replaced.

The Rolling Stone article tries to act like Bowe snapped under stress, which is not at all what he's saying in Serial. He'd only been in Afghanistan for 3 months, and the Serial podcast said that he hadn't seen any real action yet (Rolling Stone talks about combat he was in).

The vast majority of his complaints are par for the course in the Army -- mass punishment and the constant feeling like the higher command is stringing you along. It's, like, what the Army's all about. As you gain in rank and your perspective widens, you end up being the person who makes some PFC spend 5 days guarding an MRAP, and you just shift your hatred to the next level up the chain. Bitching about the higher headquarters that is just one level above your visibility is what people do in the Army.
Adding 'noreferrer' to the link would fix it.
People aren't thinking enough about what life would be like with no responsibilities. The sort of internal reward you're describing would be hollow because people would still see others' work that was better than theirs, and they would feel jealous. And ultimately everyone would know that it was all a sham, and that humanity was unnecessary and living in a zoo of its own creation.

Most of my sense of self comes from overcoming obstacles, and I'm sure a lot of people would agree with that sentiment. I'm all for automation and AI doing the grunt work, but I don't want to live in a zoo. We should take the benefits of automation and continue to struggle and exert ourselves, and seek out greater challenges than we could before. Automation as an escape from work? I'll pass.
Same if your wallet falls out of your pocket
Plenty of people now a days find knitting interesting, and continue to indulge in it. Despite the fact that industrialization, automation and globalization has made home knitting in developed countries utterly unable to compete at a commercial level. Same for a lot of things in the maker movement.

The people whose hobby is farming, building or something else of the sort would be quite able to keep doing that in a post-scarcity robot utopia (assuming we really get there). It would just not be something they do for commercial gain.
> Tech people (in general) do not make job decisions based solely on money.

Actually, money is a huge factor for most tech people. I don't know many developers who wouldn't move jobs for a 30-40% increase in pay.

Not to mention salary is fairly closely tied to value within a company... unless you are getting ripped off. And once somebody realises they are getting ripped off they are likely to leave.
I build real applications out of real bits and pieces in a modern javascript stack. I do it for a living, have done for a while, and manage a team of people in a company that does it.

Don't get hung up on tooling. Things like babel, webpack, ORMs, graphQL, gulp, react, redux, etc etc etc. They're all useful things that have a place in the world. If you try to grok all of them all at once you'll send yourself insane. You don't _need_ any of them. Not a single one.

Just write some code to solve the problem in front of you. Then write some more to solve the next one. Then come back and refactor. Then write some more code and solve some more problems. Keep going like that. You'll end up with a useful thing at the end of it.

The thing you end up with may not be as modular/scalable/etc as something a seasoned professional could build with All The Tools. That's fine. It'll work.

Importantly, though, some slightly muddy, homebaked code will meet your needs a hell of a lot better than a collection of half-understood learning about the most fashionable frameworks of 2015 and no actual code.
Deuterium is readily available- you can get it from sea water if you've got the right equipment and enough patience. Tritium is more rare, but you can actually use those released neutrons from the reactor to make some, if I understand correctly. Either way, you only nees just a tiny amount of fuel- fusion reactors leverage e=mc^2 pretty well

Unlike fission reactions, there are no leftover radioactive byproducts. There's nothing to bury and there are no carbon emissions (like e.g. coal). The reactor itself does become radioactive but this should be a much easier problem to deal with.

Fusion is the transformation that powers the sun. Harnessing nuclear fusion is one of the ultimate acts of power over nature that man can do.
What's the basis for believing that President Obama wanted an "actual national healthcare plan"? Did he get negligible funding from the health insurance sector?
I read it, and I disagree with your evaluation of the situation. There is risk with all jobs, and for cops, firefighters, etc., that risk can be great.

You referenced Eric Gardner, which really sat poorly with me. It's pretty universally accepted that he was murdered by cops with no care for the public or their constant overuse of force. It was a terrible example.

South Park is not just a cartoon - as with many shows like it, it's pretty heavy with political commentary - which this is.
Without taking any position on whether YC would be willing to sell their reputation like that (personally, I'd say almost certainly not), I can't imagine amazon would be willing to pay the price they'd charge.
I've read you saying you want to tryout modern JavaScript applications. Look for a boilerplate repo with the tools you like and fork it. It's tedious to set up the tooling part and if you want to focus on proper coding, that's the easiest way to get started.
By real application do you mean complicated?

I'll second what others have said; you really don't have to use every framework. I really don't see anything wrong with building it with the simplest tools possible, and then if you feel like you need better tooling finding something which fixes your specific problem.

Honestly most things are there to fix some use case, but in my humble opinion you're better off running into said use case before using some framework because you'll understand the problem it addresses and abstractions always leak.
The argument is living on the outskirts of SF and commuting 4 hours per day to make a 130k salary make sense for a family... I've never lived in SF but I can't imagine living 2 hours away gives you the same amenities as actually being in the city.
Liquidity. You can't buy a house with stock certificates.
My AmEx card has had tap-to-pay functionality for years now. I keep it in my wallet where it is nearest the outside and can use without removing from my wallet. Easy. No buttons. No QR codes. And it's old tech. Still not seeing the obvious argument for throwing such an important piece of my public persona (personal finances and credit) into the same basket as my cell phone.
How would you implement this?

How does a police officer know which car is an offending VW or not?

Where does it end? Vehicles that were build prior to tougher emission standards? What about gas engines that are just inefficient, like lawn mowers?

The police just don't have the resources to make these type of nuances decisions.

Note: I own a 2016 VW Golf R, and a 2003 Golf GTI.
tempting......
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> They teach officers to put their own safety over that of everyone else. They talk in terms of "reducing officer casualties" and "overwhelming force". This is not a heroic police officer sacrificing himself for society; it's jackbooted thugs threatening, terrorizing and killing the very civilians they are supposed to protect.

This is patent nonsense. Emergency workers (police, fire, paramedic, rescue... even nurses) takes a lot of training (and good ones need a lot of experience) and are hard to replace. They can't be considered disposable, and preserving themselves is the first order of business. A civilian might have an emergency once in a year (usually less). Emergency workers have them every day, usually multiple times.

The first order of business of any emergency worker should be protecting themselves. Police are not bodyguards - they're there to keep order in society, not to take a bullet for you.
let's not forget crazy stuff like going into debug mode and then evaling random clojure code in the context of the debugger
Ask HN: How do you identify what is a small initial market?
I have heard a lot about going after a small initial market and try and get a few dedicated users to love your product before expanding out. My question is what are some good tips for identifying a small initial market? What's too big? Should it be geographical?
Actually not. Here are the rules for Show HN:

Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine.

Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

Calling someone's startup "headed for the deadpool" is the definition of gratuitously negative.
> The hysterical thing is Apple Watch I saw this guy pay with it and then had to enter the pin and he was doing it through the watch interface.

That's not how it works. You don't have to enter a PIN to pay with the watch. You just double tap the side button and hold your watch against the reader and the payment is made.

If you lock your watch with a PIN, then you have to enter the PIN the first time you use the watch after putting it on your wrist. As long as you continue to wear it, you don't have to enter that PIN again. If you take your watch off, then you have to put the PIN in again the next time you put it on and want to use it. It's so if somebody steals your watch they can't use it. Entering a PIN is something you tend to only do once when you put it on in the morning.

What probably happened was that he put his watch on in the morning, but didn't use it until he had to pay for something. Then he had to unlock his watch. In the vast majority of cases, the watch would already be unlocked and there wouldn't be any PIN to enter - the PIN isn't used during payment.
What ClojureScript-specific features does Cursive offer?
Nope.

We have a VERY large network of point-of-sale registers, all built around the old swipe-to-pay (often requiring signature) credit card model. Replacing practically every POS register in the country is not a simple task; we're rolling out "chipped cards" and new registers to support them (that's a lot of effort & money), but doing so will take most of a year.

That's why Apple Pay is such a big deal, and why the fuss about large businesses trying to roll out their own specialized (and usually inferior) version: yes we're starting to move to chipped cards, but even those are proving slow to use in many/most areas; most of the new registers also support NFC, making Apple Pay's "double tap a button and wave your watch/phone nearby" desirable - IF the store turns on the NFC & infrastructure.

Alas, Walmart is trying to avoid Apple's fees by putting support into their own app, which will be annoyingly slow.
Thanks for having a general session. It's really hard for me coming from a poor white family with no history of entrepreneurship to enter this space.
> I agree with your position and would also like to see officer pay increased to reflect the dangerous nature of their work.

Police officer pay and benefits relative to other public sector employees already are high, largely justified by the dangerous nature of the work.
Sometimes it helps to go back to the basics. Just write the simplest possible app, without frameworks or anything. You'll figure out what the pain points are for you, and suddenly frameworks and tools will make way more sense.
You mean, "What happened 8 years ago when SFDC wanted to expand beyond the CRM space?" Long story short, their value increased from ~$10/share to ~$80/share today.
World history class taught us that Suleiman's domestic policy was what made him legendary. Much later I learned that he almost took Vienna - essentially the high water mark of the Ottomans. Imagine what the world would have been like if he succeeded...
I partly agree with you and I definitely concur with your post above on this whole issue. I'm regretting mentioning Garner in my own post since it's a rathole of preconceptions.

But I will point out that reasonable is not the same as perfectly following every policy. It's important to note that there were no indictments handed down in this case.
I think there's a huge gap between getting $100 for a weekend and getting $5000 for 20 minutes.
Great, explanation like that should be associated to majority of their articles. Sounds like a great thing so good luck to them!

Thanks for explanation!
I've noticed that those who bunch together reproduce very well but the planks sometimes form death traps killing the entire group. Some creatures are left over but they seem to avoid each other; sometimes one creature is chasing the other and they don't seem to reproduce very much.

Bunching and spreading out are two different behaviors which both have their pros and cons. I wonder if the neural net is complex enough to enable them to switch between these behaviors depending on the age and ability to reproduce.
I bought my wife a Surface Pro 3 last year. We debated very hard over the SP vs. a macbook. She does a lot of work with MS Office - so it seemed like a good choice.

The bluetooth and wifi are now non functional (looks like a hardware issue), and Microsoft wants $400 to replace the unit (it went out of warranty in June).

Perhaps I have no reason to complain (it is out of warranty) - but I expect high end hardware to last longer.

This will be the last Microsoft product I purchase.
I also get confused by the notation, so you are not alone.

I think it is fair to say that kernel interpolation is a non-noisy kernel regression. Of course, this would also depend on your choice of terminology ...
I use the word regression to mean any sort of fitting of specific basis functions to data - the fit doesn't have to be perfect. Interpolation, at least in my mind, means that the fit does have to be perfect.

So when I say kernel interpolation I think it is fine to think of it as regression that perfectly passes through any data points.

Technically, I like to think of the fact that the data has noise as independent of the strategy that you use to fit it. So you could perfectly interpolate noisy data (a bad idea) and you could do a regression on noise-less data (also bad, but not as bad). But yeah, I think it's probably safe to say "non-noisy kernel regression".

As far as your real question, chapter 9 of my book talks about that, and the reason I mention that here is that it is a complicated question. Just to confirm, when you say dimension you mean physical dimension, not the number of pieces of data, right?

The classical convergence bounds all deal with the smoothness of the data (or rather the function that generated the data) and the smoothness of the reproducing kernel. The relevance of the smoothness is augmented by the dimension, so the dimension can be relevant. Arguably, this is why statisticians like Michael Stein would say that Gaussians are not appropriate for low dimensions (too much smooothness) but are necessary for high dimensions (because without the smoothness the convergence is too slow).

Some recent results (http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/10080138X) talk about dimension independent bounds, but with some caveats, and almost entirely from the numerical analysis standpoint (which can be tough to read).

Sorry to sort of fork the answer into pieces there. Anything else I can help with?
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I believe the issue lies in the cars' ability to fallback to a lower-performance mode when the system recognizes that it's being tested. The low-performance mode passes the tests. The ECU update would require that the "emissions-passing low-performance mode" be engaged permanently. It's not that the cars can't pass emissions, it's that they choose not to.

> The problem isn't just that the cars are reporting wrong data when being tested, but that the cars are producing more gasses than they are supposed to.

Perhaps my understanding of testing processes is incorrect, but I was under the impression that testing relies on an external testing device, not the car's internal reporting. The cars passed not because they all told the same lie, but because they all behaved properly when they knew they were being watched.
You're going to love your Surface 4. My Surface Pro 2 is overtaking my iPad for exactly the tasks you list: email, browsing, reading news (Flipboard) and playing games.

I love that the same machine I use for dev can become my casual tablet in a moment.
Author here - in this case we are talking mostly about ~halving the time of a single minibatch in training a variety of standard neural networks. That type of training tends to be very hard to distribute. The servers also have 8 gpus in a single host, which is an additional performance boost and isn't included in the 2x above.
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I know, but even $400m / year in a $13T economy is a pittance. Without even discussing the looming costs to clean up global warming, etc.
Thanks. Elixir looks interesting. I'm apprehensive about the "runs on Erlang" part though (wary of compiles-to or runs-on languages, unless the "to" or "on" is C).
Maybe each officer needs to be reminded of their own roots, in the form of the Peelian principles? It should be an easy sell, as the principles have been "their own" for nearly 200 years. Dating from 1829, they are the founding principles of the London Metropolitan Police Force. In summary, policing is a self-regulation function by the community being policed, not imposed by an external force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles#Nine_Princi...
A test result will result in active - and possibly bad - decisions. Like not seeing a doctor despite having that weird sensation.
Hence Apple's interest in putting NFC into the Watch. Double-tap a button on your wrist and you're done.
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In many cases you can train multiple instances of a neural net simultaneously in increments, average the weights together, and repeat. Making the underlying compute more efficient is an interesting problem.
Why do you assume that the computational fluid dynamics folks are dumb and haven't done this?

CFD is a very vibrant field with applications across the entire spectrum of engineering.

In fact, modern supercomputers are MOSTLY running CFD codes (weather prediction is effectively a gigantic CFD simulation). Nothing else really demands that level of power.
+ 1, specifically either fork a github base project e.g.[1], use yeoman[2] and there are also some gems in maven archetypes[3].

[1] https://github.com/tylermcginnis/re-base

[2] http://yeoman.io/generators/

[3] https://maven-repository.com/archetypes