skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how common this is outside of the valley, but Google Hangouts and other video conferencing solutions work pretty well too. Maybe not so much Hangouts because the video quality is terrible, but it + chromebox for meetings is so much cheaper than previous solutions which required 8u of rack space for a video processor and server that it's totally worth it.
Simply false.

Income gains were across the board in the Reagan years.
https://www.brookings.edu/research/income-growth-and-decline...
I doubt that multi-millionaire think that they are 'middle class'. Or a person living on welfare. Everybody else is pretty much in the 'middle' from very low to very high.

$200k is much, but unless you are extremely lucky or inherited a huge amount, you have to do a bit for such an income. And you have likely a long time behind you earning less, living in the middle.
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I think the fundamental misunderstanding expressed in this article is this: San Francisco isn't the tech capital of the world, San Francisco is an hour up 101 from the tech capital of the world. It has a tremendous startup scene because of its proximity to SV, but some SF residents (rightly or wrongly) would prefer it didn't become SV2, which it has been slowly turning into (WRT startups at least). SF's standing in the tech industry is 100% based on geography, there is nothing inherently tech-friendly about SF itself.

Now, one could argue about whether it would be good or bad for SF to turn into SV2, but unless someone starts bulldozing entire city blocks to start building campuses for companies with hundreds or thousands of employees, it is not yet SV2. To date the conflicts have been more about how much runoff from SV are SF residents willing to tolerate, in terms of being a bedroom community for SV, and the local startup scene that arises from that arrangement.

I personally think that much of the anti-tech sentiment in SF comes from entitlement, tribalism, and a culture that values protest and political strife for its own sake over actually trying to understand what the problems are and actually trying to solve them, but that's just my take. More charitably, I see it as SF trying to figure itself out in changing times, as opposed to the "tech capital of the world" being strangely oblivious to its own place in the industry.
Sure.

http://minervasoftworks.com/Minerva

I'm dedinitely looking for medical collaborators, so a mention to your friends would be appreciated.
Also, the animation over-dramatises what is happening and makes it look like Australia is going to slam into Papua New Guinea soon. That's just.. bizarre.
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Agree. Imagine if c/c++ library developers didn't provide header files and everyone had to generate them from documentation or symbol listing.
But they also lack things because of that contractor status. If I remember right, they are in charge of their own health care and liability insurance, as well as providing and upkeeping their own vehicle, adding tremendous amounts of mileage and expense that will need to be defrayed later on. Not even sure what happens if they are assaulted on the job.

The contractor status for low skill jobs is used too much as a way to put all the costs on the employee. That's why the sharing economy sucks.
The vast majority of homeless people in SF are long-term residents. Please stop spreading this malicious rumor.
Every day:

1) Spend an hour in planning (what to learn, based upon what you've learned so far).
2) Spend an hour learning about a single random topic.
3) Spend 6 hours digging deeply into a long-term topic.
Partly that, but my guess would be that it's because it's largely trained from written English (not the sort you see on Twitter and in SMS), and written English is usually one of the standard varieties, and the standard varieties bear little resemblance to AAVE.

I would guess the same problem occurs with other dialects which are sufficiently different from the standard.
"I read the Wall Street Journal, about 0.00000031 percent of the population. If you look at the language — standardized English — being fed into many natural language processing units, it’s based on the language of that 0.00000031 percent."

Equally true, right? But somehow it seems just a little misleading.
A lot of the tension between SF and SV comes from that region's refusal to accept its status as an employment hub. Communities like Palo Alto want to preserve the fiction that they are spacious suburbs, and use zoning laws to enforce the fiction. Silicon Valley is really exporting its housing dysfunction to San Francisco, which adds its own.
Ask HN: Is Riak a viable alternative to Cassandra?
I work with someone who is an ex-Datastax employee. He swears by Cassandra. We end up debating about it a lot, and I usually bring up Riak as a better alternative - in theory. Cassandra has so many peculiarities and gotchas, and almost requires a dedicated team to run at any non-trivial size, and good knowledge of its behaviour among the development team.

His point, which I can't refute, is that Cassandra is probably the most widely used and battle tested open source distributed database out there - there are massive clusters (10s of thousands of nodes) in production use by many of the most well known engineering firms.

Does Riak have similar success stories? Are there any mega clusters in use at big firms? How would you argue for using Riak?
I'm not sure a $500k white shoe lawyer is middle class. Sure, they may work for a living, but they're also likely to have enough investments that they can just live off the interest if they wanted.

I mean, $500k a year is a LOT of money, even in places like SF.
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Carl Szabo, senior counsel working for NetChoice, a DC lobby, talking the book of those who pay him in a Techcrunch opinion piece...
An AirBNBer renting her place out isn't precluded from renting out other places, working another job, or being absent for any other reason. An Uber driver might try to interleave runs with Lyft, but that's risky, and while actually driving someone, the driver isn't free to do anything else.
My ex husband didn't cuss -- at least, not until I stupidly corrupted him (I have a terrible potty mouth and it's a long story). We knew this was completely sincere and not some sort of affectation because when our oldest son accidentally stepped on his dad's junk once when his dad was in a dead sleep on the living room floor, he woke up making cartoon sweary noise (a la "rassum frassum mrrrfff").
It has been months since the last crash on my machine and it has definitely improved over the years (3.0 used to crash much more frequently).
And even on chrome which has been multiprocess from the beginning I've had the whole browser crash after closing a "sad tab".
Would Databricks solve this problem? https://databricks.com/

They are essentially Apache Spark-as-a-service and have an API that allows you to submit a job on a cluster that you can configure to autoscale: https://community.cloud.databricks.com/doc/api/#jobs.JobsSer... https://community.cloud.databricks.com/doc/api/#jobs.Cluster...
Yes this is true of any mental health issue in any population, we can only rely on self-reporting. If you have any sources that show "almost all" homeless people in SF are mentally ill, I'd be interested to read them.

From what I've read, at the national level the incidence of serious mental illness in the homeless population are around 20 - 25%. So the numbers for San Francisco seem reasonable.
But unlike Google Glass, you can only record for 10 seconds at a time, and you'll watch people make a motion to start recording before it happens.
While I am sympathetic to cost of living issues, I think describing moving as "traumatizing" is being quite overdramatic. As a kid, I moved from the Bay Area to another country at age 8 because of my Dad's job, changed schools again for 7th and 8th grade then moved again to a 3rd city for high school. While there was definitely an adjustment period at each new place, I think learning to deal with new environments is a pretty useful life skill to have, and as an adult I would active seek to have my future kids live in a few different places.

Yeah yeah, it's always a lot nicer to do that because I have a choice, I get that. I just think that level of hyperbole doesn't help the discussion at all.
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Windows 95 is 26 years old, my first computer ran it. It's been a quarter of a century and I don't do anything with a shiny new MacBook Pro that I didn't do with Windows 95. I browse the web, read news and comments, watch videos, exchange text with people. Sure, the video resolution is better but that has a lot more to do with the network than with the computer hardware. The UI is a little shinier, but I'm not enabled to do anything new that I couldn't do before.

If I don't buy a new computer every few years, what I have will be nearly worthless because software has a funny habit of finding ways to spend all available resources, even if it does most of the same things. I just don't think I would be that disappointed if I was still using Win 95.

> With greater capability comes more, even if we don't yet know what "more" will be.

If you discount network speed and pixel density, "more" hasn't been much in 25 years as far as I can see. Miniturization means I can carry a laptop around with me, ok.

Likewise with phones. Android and iOS are about 8 years old now. What can we do that we couldn't then? _not much_ as far as I can see.

We're definitely past the point of diminishing returns when it comes to resolution, and near or already at the point where physically your eye can't couldn't tell if the pixel density was higher. So what's left?
No, they mean that all applicants must have years of work experience. Some applicants might be considered if they never got a college degree, but they prefer applicants who got a college degree before they got their six years of job experience.
> So many game designers (especially amateur ones) seem to think game design is about screwing over the player at every opportunity

Yes. For me, those style games are the most fun, but only when well executed. Dwarf Fortress and "losing is fun!" is my favorite example. I like it when games give you all the tools, then lull you into forgetting about them. Not so much an obscure reference early on, but more like the original Zelda. Zelda forced you to really explore the whole map. You could skip something, but then you'd miss the raft and couldn't get to level 6 (maybe 7).

Anyway, there's a punishing annoying way to do it, and there's an "aha! that's how that works!" kind of way to do it. I prefer the latter.
> whole families being traumatized? Children having their lives upended, because their parents suddenly have to move across the state (or the country)?

What a low bar for traumatization.

> So you can live within walking distance of that fancy new Belgian beer bar, and your favorite S&M club?

Hyperbole much? You've managed to shoehorn both hipster style, alcohol, and sexual proclivities that are a few standard deviations from the norm into the same statement. Well done. /s

> "What's wrong with poor people being displaced? What's wrong with a city that school teachers, first responders, restaurant workers can't afford to live in? I'm doing fine -- why should I give a fuck?"

Poor people are constantly victimized. That's just a thing that happens. For instance, I bet you're typing this post out on a computer that is made with parts manufactured in China/Taiwan and are exporting your pollution. (Yes, I consider a mobile phone a computer)

Why are you so concerned about the relatively mild pain of people in SF rather than the peasants in southern China? Do you live in either place? What skin do you have in this game?
Have you ever been involved in an M&A meeting? You'd be surprised how often "Hey Google, it's your cousin!" kinda thing actually happens. I'm surprised by the amount of faith and assumed competence on the part of these organizations among the HN crowd.

The comments I'm seeing as response I agree don't seem to be conducive to an actual discussion so I'll rephrase but the point about the intelligence and infallible decision making abilities of the large organization being used as counterclaims do not really add up. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof is the usual bar for claims that go above and beyond current state of the art and science. D-wave has consistently failed in that regard. I find their approach unscientific and unethical for the kinds of claims they are making for whatever technology they have sold to whatever organizations. In the long run no one wins when such tactics are used.
The Air Force's banned briefing on the ethics of nuclear war
I think that's generally been true across the board with VLIW: implementation difficulty serves as an effective check on the theoretical maximum.
Beautiful Web Type [0] is another beautiful showcase made using the fonts available on the Google Fonts directory.

Font Pair [1] and Font Pairing [2] are pretty awesome too.

[0]: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/

[1]: http://fontpair.co/

[2]: http://www.ourownthing.co.uk/fontpairing/
Eh, taxes and other expenses add up. I don't think it would be very comfortable to stop working.
500k today isn't what it was just a decade ago.
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Fantastic list. Thanks for the link.
This is an excellent post smallnamespace. The area of research you're looking for is known as evolvability, reading these wiki/wikibook [↓] links is a good start for the topic.

Evolution seems to have figured out a way to build representations such that nearby steps in random directions are nearby in a semantic (can't think of a better word atm) sense. This should surprise you. Think about an expression tree like (+ (x y)), it's very different from (/ (x y)) despite differing in just 1 position. Or consider that 12 and 32780 differ by only a bit in their binary representation. We humans could really do with figuring out how evolution takes a seeming discrete problem and works out a way to build representations such that efficient search is possible even without explicit derivatives.

It's also interesting that, evolution might have taken this to a meta level with brains. From http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/The%20free-energy%20princ...

> The beauty of neural Darwinism is that it nests distinct selective processes within each other. In other words, it eschews a single unit of selection and exploits the notion of meta-selection (the selection of selective mechanisms; for example, see REF. 89). In this context, (neuronal) value confers evolutionary value (that is, adaptive fitness) by selecting neuronal groups that meditate adaptive stimulus–stimulus associations and stimulus–response links. The capacity of value to do this is assured by natural selection, in the sense that neuronal value systems are themselves subject to selective pressure. This theory, particularly value-dependent learning90, has deep connections with reinforcement learning and related approaches in engineering (see below)

A bit of an aside but: If you're interested in AI, it's really worth looking at what the people studying the intersection of evolution and learning are saying, at animal intelligence and at human brain development. It's surprising to me how many people think the current approach to reinforcement learning is but a hop and a skip to full human like generality.

[-] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Structural_Biochemistry/Stabil...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvability
Why? I think you'd see some earthquake or cresting of terrain when/if it two landmasses slowly but violently merge over years, but I wouldn't know.
Plot two graphs, one loglog, one not. Also, "nearly linear" on a log-log graph does mean almost power law.
Given that consumption (almost always) scales with social position, I imagine people will only really consider someone "rich" when they can still buy whatever they like, for the rest of their lives without working for a living.
Renting does not mean accepting that you might have to move at any time. In large parts of Europe, and in American big cities, there are people who rent for decades or even generations. Renting an apartment should not put you at permanent risk of suddenly losing your home.

The goal of rent control laws and rent caps is to avoid situations where families can be summarily uprooted. How well they succeed is another matter.
The manufacturing quality was abysmal, though. The first one I got had a defect whereby sliding the keyboard shut would cause the device to turn off. The second one I got after returning the first one had a defective screen.
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I wonder if this whole debacle is just FB throwing Luckey under the bus.
$#!7, the description !@$%& says Full talk available at http://www.thesciencenetwork.org

haven't looked that up though.
The attack was ongoing when Akami gave Brian Krebs 2 hours to find alternate hosting.

The attack showed no signs of waning as the day wore on. Some indications suggest it may have grown stronger. At 4 pm, Akamai gave Krebs two hours' notice that it would no longer assume the considerable cost of defending KrebsOnSecurity.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/why-the-silencing-of...
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Depends where you live in NY. I make 80k in Sunset Park and I live comfortably. 200k would mean I don't have to worry about money much.

That said, no kids.
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It is true that the law in general is a very imperfect tool and standard, for all the reasons you mention and more. But I do think many specific laws are good ones.

For example, various laws says it's illegal to not hire or to fire someone based on some protected characteristics like e.g. race, gender or sexual orientation. (I'm aware that this isn't universal among US states.) I think this is a good thing. And I think political opinions (expressed in a private capacity) should also be a protected category, and for broadly the same reasons: to prevent segregation, to protect minorities, to encourage healthy democracy as opposed to all-out political war.
If the telemarketing "job" was start/stop-when-you-want, get-paid-by-the-minute, then we would certainly have trouble recognizing this as an employer/employee relationship. Especially if it was being done from home using your own phone.
Sustained $200k a year means you can retire decades earlier, if you kept expenses low.
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I didn't mean it like that. I meant it like "you missed this parallel with the post in question" not "you missed this concept entirely".

So back at ya with the mind reading.
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People report a lot of battery issues for those. I'd probably want a Nokia.
"Most millionaires say they're middle class" - http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/06/naires-say-theyre-middle-clas...

> Billionaire David Tepper once called himself a "middle-class dad trapped in a rich man's body." Most millionaires, it turns out, have similar feelings of wealth denial.

> A majority of millionaires polled describe themselves as middle class or upper middle class despite being among the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, according to the results of the third CNBC Millionaire Survey.

> Fully 44 percent described themselves as middle class, and 40 percent said they were upper middle class. Only 4 percent described themselves as wealthy or rich, and 5 percent described themselves as upper class.
I'm not exaggerating at all when I describe this to people as the internet's first existential threat. If things continue to go the way they are, the entire internet will either cease to practically function at all, or it will be nearly completely routed through a small number of enormous centralized corporations running datacenter-sized DDoS scrubbers. Running a web site without being attached to massive amounts of routing power would be rendered impossible.

It's time we started taking this more seriously. It's really, really, really bad.
> What besides bloat requires a Moore's law increase in a phone processor?

Here are some relatively boring answers:

AI stuff - including, among other things, voice recognition, other parts of virtual assistants, photo capture (which involves a lot of processing in modern smartphones to improve the image), and photo auto-tagging - is always happy to guzzle extra cycles to improve accuracy a few percent. Some of this can be (and is) done on the cloud instead, but at the cost of latency, availability (when reception is poor), and, of course, privacy. Much better to do it on-device where possible.

Games, even short of VR/AR (which is definitely a "I don't yet know I want" candidate), similarly often push the limits of the GPU to achieve graphical fidelity. True, the kinds of simple, repetitive, low production value games that tend to grace the top charts of mobile app stores today have little need for increased fidelity. But I think that phenomenon is more about market dynamics than inherent to the form factor. Dedicated portable consoles like the 3DS have many excellent games that would so benefit, and while some depend on more precise controls than available on mobile (i.e. buttons), many do not, e.g. RPGs, and of course smartphones have their own unique input methods. (Given that the 3DS has atrocious graphics, games clearly don't need good graphics to be fun, but they can still benefit from them, as shown by home consoles/PC gaming - anyway, larger and higher resolution screens increase the baseline level of detail required for acceptability.)

It's perhaps unsurprising that both of these examples tend to rely on the GPU and other specialized processors more than the CPU.
I suspect that if you asked most on the street of your average European city, they would use something close to the "American" definition unless they happened to have a background in the social sciences.
I can't help but wonder if this is because of how english swear words get adapted into other languages.

It's not uncommon to hear variations of english swear words in my language.. even printed in the newspaper or children's books.. nobody thinks twice about it.. but our native swear words take on a different tone and meaning altogether.

Maybe this could contribute to why it's easier to swear in english? (the words not holding the same type of gravity/meaning)
I have never heard that definition anywhere in Europe (it might exist but I would not say it's common).
Presumably so you can "dock" your USB-C device near your TV/Monitor, output your device through HDMI and be able to use peripherals all with just one plug.
Apparently no javascript means no text these days. It is obviously done intentionally. It is not like blocks of text require javascript to render. I'd shame bloomberg but the frog is well and boiled now; everyone just accepts that without JS websites aren't going to show you anything. And that is a damn shame.
I've always thought of Biology as the largest reverse engineering project ever.
I was talking with D-Wave about a year ago about applying their system to some defense projects I was involved with and I went through some training with their systems integration team.

The way their system seems to work is that you have to transform your problem set into a specific D-Wave function that will be topologically graphed into the D-Wave chipset. From there is finds the global minimum immediately. The challenge is really in having a problem that fits this type of transformation and doing it in a way that it's actually valuable. So it's quite a bit of work just to do the transform and we couldn't see an easy way to take some of our general problems and turn them into the graphs needed to work.

In theory their stock functions seem easy to implement but when you investigate further it's a pretty narrow set of problems that fit.