skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The symbols on the quotes are mysterious, and no key is given. First block is D/R (democrat, republican). Second is age range. Fourth is gender. I thought the third might be race, since a couple of people have a pink W (white?) and a couple have a brown M (mixed race?), but some have a green dollar sign or cents sign.

edit: someone has both a W and a cents sign.
Probably not, but that doesn't help the CEO's case on whether he has a handle on what the young'ins (I suppose you'd call them) think is creepy or not.
If it makes you feel better :

When they were kids, my father and his friends did the same with baseball cards. They would chew the gum, and then put the 'worthless' baseball cards into their bicycle wheel spokes.

Who knows how many Mickey Mantle rookie cards they might have come across.

Point is, nobody can predict when a currently-worthless item might explode in value.
GPS was barely operational by 1990, so commercial interest would have been there, but probably not a great deal of exploitation.

Th 1994 shift must refer to the adoption of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_Datum_of_Australia_... ).

Different datums (models of the shape of Earth) will put the same coordinates at different places. The 656 feet would be the average shift required to reconcile coordinates using the previous datum with coordinates using the new one (which is based on WGS84, the modern global datum).
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I hardly know any people who still have a traditional watch, yet alone a smart watch, so #2 watchmaker doesn't mean much to me ;) I haven't seen many Apple Watches yet in the wild (may be 2 or 3) might have to do with the fact that I'm from Germany (Berlin). A lot of iPhones here though. I know, anecdotal evidence etc...
OPs description matches mostly how the UK does it, except we have an aristocratic hangover that confuses the meaning of "upper class"

We also (perhaps because of this) have the term "upper-middle class" to refer to particularly well-off middle-class people; though beyond a certain level you just become "rich"
Not noticeably. It just rendered better than the built in browser..
How about doing all of this except build something real with a solid business plan? For some of us the hype is the hardest part.
Try the previous discussion for more details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144
Sorry, but I'll state the exact opposite here.

It is much easier to check if the points fall in a straight line than a perfectly draw exponential.

Are you sure that graph is a power law? Are you sure it isn't a thick-tailed hyperbole or some hyperexponential?
Uber didn't invent sporadic hours: that's a "feature" we (rightly) criticize in retail businesses that use software to rotate staff through multiple stores on bizarre, untenable schedules. Once again, the only thing I can see that's getting Uber a free pass is that they stuck a consumer app into the mix.
We're kind of done with this now though, right? I can pick a mobile device with a tiny screen no more than a few inches to a monster the size of a largish book. I can get pixel density finer than my eyes are able to detect. There's not much room left for improvement.

And likewise not much else has improved since iOS/Android were released. What I mean by "improved" is real differences in the kinds of things you can do.
The survey shows that the precariously housed people, which it defines as "chronically homeless", have significantly higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse than the general homeless population (pages 52 - 53).

Obviously higher rents are making it harder to get out of homelessness (and the survey acknowledges that many times), but they are not the reason most of the chronic homeless ended up being homeless in the first place, by their own account: "Nearly one-third of chronically homeless respondents reported alcohol or substance abuse as the primary cause of their homelessness; this was in contrast to 14% among non-chronic respondents. Fewer chronically homeless respondents reported economic factors as the primary cause of their homelessness. For example, 19% reported job loss as a primary cause compared to 27% of non-chronic respondents."

According to the survey (same pages), the chronically homeless are less likely to be in shelters and accept government assistance than the general homeless population. They therefore comprise a significant number of the homeless seen on the streets.

Also, according to the survey, among the chronically homeless in San Francisco, there were only 18 families in 2015 (page 50).
http://bitcoin.ninja/
If the Internet had a README.md, what would it say?
> If the training corpus for a machine learning model contains stereotypes and biases, then the output of the model will reflect those prejudices.

Depends what you mean by "the corpus". Let's take the example of loan applications. Maybe the training data contains credit scores, biographical information, and personal essays about the applicants from loan officers.

Let's say loan officers tend to use more negative language when talking about black people.

Any decent machine learning system given racial data will not adopt those biases. In fact, it will counteract them. It will determine that e.g. the semantic content of the essays is an indicator of loan suitability, and it will also notice if it has to e.g. add something to the essay score for black people to make the best decisions.

As long as the output data is objective, competent ML systems will account for any bias in the input data.

> Should we attempt to detect prejudices in machine learning models

We don't have to. If the output examples we are training on are true, the ML algorithm won't adopt any incorrect biases.

This is literally the point of machine learning. You want to make the best possible decision. If your algorithm has incorrect human biases, you're losing money. ML naturally accounts for this stuff.
Bill Gates can't buy everything he might want to for the rest of his life. While people tend only think of things they can afford as reasonable expenses, there is no clear line between an iPad and paying for a Mars mission.

If anything the Medean income seems like a good ballpark for enough. But, it's really hard to stop.
The link doesn't contain the fifty English swear words in rapid succession, but I found interesting at which words he seems to fumble himself, eg. death and nigger (there, I said it), but that might just be observation bias. Still, he seems to have missed to list death as a principle category.
Maybe it's a legitimate area of research. But I hear frequently obvious bullshit claims from these researchers, like that they want to build a quantum internet.

And I don't see how quantum key distribution solves any problem. It's kinda circular - it requires an existing authenticated channel to work, which needs math-based crypto. At the same time the whole field is built on the claim that they're needed because they don't trust math-based crypto.
Whenever D-Wave comes up on HN I'm always impressed to see how many posters who casually read one Scott Aaronson blog (not even the most recent ones mind you) think they're more qualified than legions of classically trained engineers and physicists from Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley, ETH Zurich, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Google, et. al.

D-wave isn't selling a "universal" quantum computer, but the platform they are and have continued to deliver has shown real, tangible progress with respect to quantum tunneling (even though their coverage has been typically questionable, the best layman's explanation of their most recent results happens to be from Ars [0]). No we're not getting a "universal" quantum computer anytime soon and no they're never going to be accessible to average consumers (so remain skeptical of anyone who says otherwise) but those claiming D-Wave is a scam/con are absurd.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/is-d-waves-quantum-pr...
The font in this article is nigh-on unreadable on Firefox on Windows. It renders perfectly legibly in Chrome and IE11, but on Firefox it is so faint and the forms so small that they get lost in the anti-aliasing. The kerning seems quite bad too.

Here's what I mean: http://imgur.com/a/ymnvH

Seems like a regression, as usually Chrome's font rendering is much uglier on Windows.

(Sorry for off-topic post.)
Which problem exactly does QKD solve?
(It is used by some banks afaik, but that it's used doesn't mean it solves any problem - it just means someone bought the marketing claims from ID Quantique and co)
I can also relate to this. Sometimes it helps to explain the problem to someone else, slowing down the thought process gives you a chance to take a step back. Its that whole forrest for the trees problem.
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this article and the comments between class and income-bracket. The bourgeoisie (the historical middle class) were precisely the nouveaux riches. In Europe especially, class made a lot of sense when you could be either impoverished nobility or a wealthy son of peasants. Class was a useful category in early capitalism, but maybe less so in late capitalism (especially in America where we are all essentially bourgeois). I think this survey, if anything, shows the increasing irrelevance of "class" in our society. There is no more class, there is just income, wealth, etc.
The pre-canned libraries will never have the typical customization needed for PCB.

The paste mask aperatures need sizing depending on what stencil thickness you use.

Need vias under the QFN belly pad for RF or heat sinking purposes. Do those need tenting on the back side? They also may need to avoid the paste aperatures?

How about solder mask relief? Copper defined pads or mask defined pads?

Are the part centroids on the correct layer? Also the keep out regions, and 3D model?

What I'm getting at is the footprints are more than just copper pads; that's the easy part. They will still require lots of customization, so you are better of just doing them yourself and building up your own library.

Now having correct schematic symbol pinouts for that 1024 ball BGA. That is useful.

PCB library vendors have come and gone over the 20+ years I have been an EE.

Also, as someone else mentioned, the schematic symbols are defined by if you have a logical (digital) or physical (RF) schematic. For example, pin spacing should be such that bypass caps can be squeezed between. Even data sheets have multiple symbols for the same part in the same data sheet; Linear Technology is a good example of this.

Anyone doing PCB professionally will make their own symbols and footprints. A hobbyist using free layout software won't pay $29 for a footprint.
Yea, my $100 low-budget phone is fast enough. I can use it as satnav, watch 1080p videos, browse the internet, and so on. I can even play some 3D games and things like that.

I'd like the battery to last longer. 14 days - like my dumb phone. That would be a meaningful improvement.
The span element's class is the only legend I could find.

1) "liberal,young,poor,non-white"
2) "liberal,old,non-white,woman"
3) "conservative,poor,white,man" / "conservative,young,white,woman"
4) "liberal,poor,woman"
5) "liberal,young,rich,man"
Cross-compiled and ran a couple basic searches on an armv7l device. So at least the basic functionality works just fine.
ds-lite + shoddy aftrs unless you're on a business contract. meaning a subpar ipv4 experience. at least we have router freedom now.
Yep, it's the "keeping up with the Jones" and the Hedonic Treadmill.[1]

The $500k lawyer isn't going to just drive a Honda. He has to have the BMW 7 Series ($130k) -- and he wants a brand new one every 2 or 3 years. Instead of getting a mortgage that consumes a tiny fraction of his income or buying a cheap house free & clear, he'll take on a mortgage up to the max credit limit allowed by the bank. Hence he has a $2+ million dollar estate in a gated neighborhood. Does he have kids? Well then, it must be private school. The most desirable private schools in NYC cost $40k tuition per student per year. 3 kids means $120k/year. Basically, you do the arithmetic and $500k/year is abject poverty -- uh I mean -- middle class.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
> When companies such as Twitter, Airbnb, Zynga

dying, unprofitable, dead
Last time i was in a treatment room at a hospital (broken thumb) I was able to open a browser on the PC before the doctor came in a told me off.

He told me his group of physicians had refused to treat anyone until the IT department removed the requirements for login to basic systems because they were sick of not being able to use their tools because a login didn't work for whatever reason - forgotten password, login system not working, it was all the same to them, they just wanted to be able to access their tools.

That was in Adelaide, South Australia, about 4 years ago.
we can only rely on self-reporting

There's another option - we can not rely on self-reporting and just acknowledge that we don't know. It's not satisfying, but it sucks less than creating public policy based on bad/misleading information. I doubt very much we can fix 28% of homelessness by handing out free PO boxes.
We changed the title to a representative sentence from the article.
Maybe so, but when its not worth it to you to pick up off the ground more than what other people make... I think its close enough to not quibble.
I hate suggesting regulation, but devices should be required to have physical switches for cams, mics, and radios. The gap between what the consumer thinks their gear is doing and what it's actually doing has become far too broad.
Is the MY17 Nissan GT-R a Supercar Killer?
Here are some numbers to consider. $500k pre-tax is about $325k after taxes (SF or NYC). Spend 50% ($162.5k), save 50% ($162.5k). After 10 years of a consistent $500k pre-tax income (no burnout, no voluntary breaks, no unemployment), with modest annual stock market growth, and no black swawns (family illness, lawsuits, divorce), you've saved up about $2 million. The rate at which you can spend money and not run out before you die (called the Safe Withdrawal Rate or SWR) is about 4% (some will argue closer to 2.5-3%). 4% of $2 million is $80k/year pre-tax. How long you need to work to cover your $162.5k/year lifestyle becomes an obvious function of savings rate and market returns over an extended period of time (decades). The bottom line is that it's extremely difficult for working professionals to become ''rich'' in the sense that they can indefinitely sustain an upper class lifestyle on passive investment income alone. Read ''The Millionaire Next Door'' by Thomas Stanley (http://fave.co/2cLN5gp) to learn more about how wealth is truly accumulated and managed in the United States. This book had a greater impact on me than pretty much any other I've ever read.
Aspired to it.

I read The Dead and Portrait. But when it came to Ulysses it felt like I was aspiring to read it. Too much work and too little pleasure

No one ever quotes Joyce. They allude to him. Maybe they're just further along that aspirational trail.
"Better copy", a.k.a. sharp rhetoric, is what we're hoping to avoid. I understand the impulse, but experience has taught us that thoughtful reflection doesn't mix well with it. The effects are subtle. It isn't just that it tends to produce angry responses; it's that it makes the ecosystem more acidic, so fewer of the rarer plants can thrive.
Whoa, I never knew about the "pick nose" trick, I've played thru the game a number of times as thief, both the original EGA and the VGA remake.

IMHO, the thief was the best class, the only one where you could get all the skills. And that's only if you started on QfG I. Starting as any other class, or a thief in later versions, and at least one of your skills was a zero, which meant you could never use or improve it (as far as I've ever found out).
Krebs' reporting (now, after leaving the Washington Post under whatever circumstances -- cost cutting? -- on his own "blog"), has for years now shone a very useful, researched insight into various matters of important technological vulnerability.

He provides a real service. Which is probably why Akamai offered him their services for free, in the first place.

Krebs shines a light on shadows that very much don't want to be seen, much less outed. The years long level of escalating attacks against him and his site reflect this.
The clear line is a yacht with 2 helipads.
Everyone I know who lives in SF and works in SV (and I've known a lot of them) lives in SF because they want to, not because it was the best choice economically. They want to live in SF because of the culture or the nightlife, and are willing to endure sitting on a bus for 3 hours a day and paying way more to get way less in order to live there. For all of those people, if all they cared about was finding housing, it would have been way more practical to just get a place in Sunnyvale or Santa Clara or San Jose (or Morgan Hill, for that matter, although that's getting back into painful commute territory).

Now, one might say, "but it's so much more boring to live in Sunnyvale than SF!", but that's still a choice being made for lifestyle reasons and not a housing decision that they were forced into. I would also say that if anyone is bored almost anywhere in this day and age, that that's far more a personal failing than a property of where they live, but that's totally besides the point. :)
"Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker."
— Mar's Law
Well, Bill Gates is a bit of an odd example. He's very thrifty. He could certainly afford $50 hamburgers, but due to the cost decides he doesn't want them.

Even if MicroSoft didn't take off, he'd still be wealthy. He's the kind of guy that waits to get the absolute maximum value out of each dollar he spends.

That's not a bad thing, by the way, just unusual.
I expect it's mostly a reflection on the learning data in language processing. Almost any corpus of text you can easily find for experimenting is close to standard English. Dialects very rarely appear in published texts unless it's just to point out that a specific person being quoted uses that dialect.

Choose a student of any colour. When they need a text corpus for research, do you think they'll reach for a different, known, large text collection that matches their background?
Swearing (especially putain) is punctuation in French, I don't even notice when I'm saying it.

Swear words don't come naturally to me in English though, so they don't get an occasion to be said at all.
This looks similar to what you asked for: https://www.evercontact.com/. Not open source, though.
I've mostly seen this on HN - but I don't visit a lot of forums. Looks like PHP is out and Javascript is in; lots of people have an axe to grind with Javascript (e.g. gp - the segue is almost comical). I can imagine an article on a new dental procedure, with the first comment "Root canal is painful, just like javascript ha ha amirite"

I would be interested in finding out the proportion of HN threads that end up having 'javascript' mentioned when the original discussion was not remotely related.
Thank you for clearing that up, dang.

It was indeed a script that stopped those stories, but not in the nefarious way I suspected. I'm honestly not sure which stories triggered the "no submission" flag, but it does make sense.

I would like if we could personally see flags like that (say on our user page). I've never been a fan of hell-* removal of privileges, only to think of worse cases like this.

Thank you for being honest and frank about this.

-Josh
All modern computers are based on quantum effects, but Intel does not call it's i7 CPU a quantum computer. The D-Wave really does not fit the established criteria for a quantum computer.

However, they really want the publicity from calling it a quantum computer so they continue to do so.
Anyone actually noticing a speedup from using this?
Wow I just googled these guys. Not that it should matter but this is how they look:

http://imgur.com/0X0myNJ

I could be wrong but it looks like they have had a lot of plastic surgery...
Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
Quantum Illumination at the Microwave Wavelengths
The blocks aren’t strictly positional. Clicking them reveals a legend, but I thought they were clear enough: $ = rich, ¢ = not-rich, W = white, M = minority. So “D$W[male sign]” is “blue state, rich, white, male”. (Oddly, HN won’t let me insert the “male sign” character.)
Before GPS it wasn't terribly useful to know the exact position relative to the entire globe. With a few exceptions (like an ICBM) it is good enough to know location relative to something more local.
Your definition of "upper class" corresponds better to my definition of "rarefied wealthy"
This is a nice reminder that we don't have to make enemies out of those that disagree with us.
> The Mission is still dangerous at night, for people who don't look like techies, and you still have to hopscotch over human feces.

The mission is far safer now than it used to be. And if you look like a "techie" (What does that mean exactly?) you're more likely to be victimized. The criminals are probably thinking that you have some assets, and won't fight back. I've never felt unsafe in the mission in the past ten years.
If you check the website, you'll see they have lights built around the lens to "show friends your snapping." I imagine this was specifically built to assuage that concern.
That feeling may come from looking for meaning or trying to make sense of it. That's the conclusion I reached, anyway, after reading V and Gravity's Rainbow, anyway. And one other -- Vineland, that was it.

I love Dubliners by Joyce, but the later stuff? I'd sooner read The Sound and the Fury again, but only if published with the different color inks Faulkner wanted.
And a 100k isn't what it was a decade ago either. While I understand your underlying point (and somewhat agree with it), how you got there was a bit bizarre. We are talking about making 500k this year, which would be obviously less a decade ago when adjusted for inflation.
I'm not sure 100% fool proof anonymous digital communication can exist. You can always trace the source of a digital signal. Bitmessage is a pretty cool solution that is "close enough" in my opinion. You should check that out.
I read today that the Chinese are claiming that they have a working quantum radar. It's supposed to be unlikely, but whenever this tech finally materializes? It'll effectively be the end of stealth. Western countries will have mutli-trillion-dollar aviation programs that will overnight become vehicles for producing jets with no-so-great flying capabilities (in relation to the amount of money they're spending)

http://seekingalpha.com/article/4008192-chinese-quantum-rada...
It's perfectly reasonable for a large organization like some part of the USG or Google or IBM to simply buy one to see what it's like. If there actually is a there there (perhaps even one not known to the developers) they can learn something. And if there's something real (even if not useful) they can gain a leg up on users of the next generation system, perhaps from a different company who actually does know what they're doing.

And if it is a flop, well, the marginal cost is pretty minor. When I was at MIT we bought all sorts of crazy things some of which turned out to be useful in unexpected ways once you actually had the equipment in your hands.

A good example of this was the EmDrive which really seemed like a scam to me but might have a there there. I wouldn't have believed it at all except that NASA, a seemingly independent organization where this is concerned, saw enough that it's apparently worth looking further. If it had been the 100% scam I assumed (and that's still not clear) I'd still be OK with the money spent.

At the moment I still don't believe D-Wave and dinnertime discussions with friends at Google have not caused me to change my opinion.