skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the startup jobs are in SF and the peninsula, not SV. Even employees of SV companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple choose to live in SF and commute to the valley every day, which is why the tech shuttle buses exist. They certainly aren't saving money by living in SF -- they live there because they want to. It's just the trendiest place for young people to live in the Bay Area right now.

Palo Alto is a bit unrepresentative of SV. It has very high barriers to new housing. On the other hand, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose, which are much larger than Palo Alto, are building stuff everywhere. So is Redwood City, just to the north of Palo Alto, which has seen its downtown area completely transformed over the past few years.

The cities I mentioned are building a lot more housing than SF is building, even though they have fewer startup jobs, so it's hard to justify any accusations that they aren't doing their part.
The Design and Analysis of “Quantum Cloud”
I get the same feeling - that Google is often missing the meaning and giving me unrelated keyword matches.
I'd like it if audio were on the way up. On WhatsApp I send lots of audio messages but the amount I get back in return is small. It's so much easier to hit record than to try and type on a tiny virtual keyboard. Text is great for my laptop, short or long audios, for my phone. No calls, though.

Actually, I find audio messages more like writing, in that one can think about what they want to say and there's no pressure to say something "right this moment", as with a telephone call. Likewise, the person receiving the audio message can listen to it when it suits them.
Core War: The Ultimate Programming Game
Click it and you get a full page description.
> would "help fight actor/reactive nonesense" and was asked to elaborate

So, basically fighting actors with channels and synchronous selective operators, right? This is not how it works, because bounded nondeterminism is precisely what actor model was trying to get away from.
"One afternoon Basil Hiley and I were talking about pre-space when the sculptor, Antony Gormley, joined us. Gormley was very interested in space as much of his work dealt with the inner space of the body. For a time he listened to us and then asked when we meant by algebra. We told him that the famous mathematician, David Hilbert, called it a “relation of relationships.” Gormley liked this.

Back in his studio Gormley began work on a piece he was going to call Quantum Cloud. It consisted of a large number of straight metal rods, welded together. At first sight the sculpture looks like a jumble but, viewed from a certain angle, it has the appearance of a human figure."

http://thebohmdocumentary.org/bohr-bohm-and-language/
It's not just the adaption, but also the isolation from the context.
So some dude did some inteviews some day in some shopping mall and came to the conclusion that "everybody thinks they're middle class"

While 4 days ago there was an opinion piece on gallup.com quoting research that 51% of americans now say they're middle class[1], a long-time (not all-time) low.

I'll take the Gallup research, and dismiss piece this as fabrication and factoids.

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/195680/invisible-amer...
"lenses to help a person's sight"

But, if the lenses people see the world through is Snapchat then this makes perfect sense.
Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Snapchat Spectacles
But it's worth mentioning - unless you'd disagree, and I've misread - that working "for themselves" doesn't have to mean self-employment.
As someone who did it, it's really hard! You really want to be all-in on both, which of course is impossible.
If you click and hold on the symbols, an overlay appears that decodes it.
Well it is a pretty wide band one would assume.

I think the real problem is people claiming to be poor when they are bang in the middle of middle class.
High Frequency Trading Price Prediction Using LSTM RNN
Rather than 4 data points is there any large-sample-size conclusions about people who identify as Middle class?
Very cool! I can't seem find any links to click on to actually order parts from manufacturers when I find a part - e.g. https://www.snapeda.com/parts/MCP23017-E/SP/Microchip/view-p...

There's the whole section at the top about availability and average price, but no link to go buy it? In addition to the InstaPart revenue, are you also going to make money with affiliate sales to parts sites (a la Octopart)?
Unfortunately .NET Native is still for UWP only, so for most places you'd use Go it's pretty useless. Microsoft appears to have no plans to even bring it to ASP.NET: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/285
Reading this article is quite painful due to all the measurements given only in feet & inches, why not give the data in both systems of measurement?
Only 3 countries in the world have not adopted the metric system (Australia did) and this is about GPS and worldwide measurements. Not even NASA uses the imperial units anymore.
Your "friend" the Amway sales rep or annoying insurance salesman who always tries to bring conversations back to their bottom line. Same with "friends" that are obsessed with politics and all things devolve into their particular obsession.

As if we don't have enough narcissistic people to deal with every day. ;)
Breaking down the difference in economic class and social class in America
Hey look, a rehash of my Sociology 101 class from freshman year of college.

Most Americans call themselves as "middle class," and most Americans believe that social mobility is higher than it actually is. In fact, since the 1970s, economists and sociologists have known that social mobility in America is not much higher than in Europe.

This is old news.
First the plate is what's moving not just the landmass. Second it's moving really slowly. They are showing something like a million years of motion, and it's in the wrong direction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Plate
Wealth doesn't automatically make you part of the upper class in Europe. Carrying a title and being part of the aristocracy, even if dirt poor, however does.

Rich? Definitely. Upper class? Only if you're accepted by the other members.
It was educational, to say the least. I ended up working mostly remotely (H-1B visa, when it came through, I didn't follow through on - I stayed in London with my GF). Apart from learning lots of implementation tricks in compilers (IDE / code completion support especially) and efficient code, as well as picking up experience in things that were more incidental to my immediate interests, like smart linking (turns out, it's very similar to garbage collection) and x64 disassembly for the 64-bit debugger.

More generally I learned how to tackle very complex problems under my own steam, even more so than I had as an autodidact. I have no difficulty drilling down to the next level, all the way to the CPU if necessary, if I have a problem, even if I'm starting out at the level of an interpreted language. I currently work on a web app written in Rails / Coffeescript combo; but I can debug MRI if we get an Ruby issue, and I can and have debugged MySQL when we had crashing issues.
You are only talking about supervised learning.

And the bias people are probably talking about is bias in the data, not bias in the "input", as you put it.

See http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520
for a counterexample to your point.
That's fine. I don't disagree with that approach. What I find faulty is the incorrect reasoning applied based on that behavior. It is suspiciously close to appealing to authority type of argument. Just because a large organization takes a chance on something doesn't mean there was actual planning involved in the process other than as you said "let's just see how this pans out".
I imagine there were many burn victims from the incendiary bombs on Tokyo and other cities that were in such pain that they begged their nurses to kill them too. What's your point?
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Yes! Here's an example: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520
Almost reads like a list of reasons to move back to mom's house.
> live comfortably

> don't have to worry about money much

It's interesting how those two phrases can mean the exact same thing to one person (me) and be apparently so wide apart to others.

How can you live comfortably while worrying about money a lot?
You can click the symbols to see the category names
Because of performance and reliability. Something built on top of something like IPFS makes the application generally faster and more stable. Gives you the benefit of being able to navigate things while being offline as well.

Imagine a social media, where if you're in a office and the connection to the general internet dies, all communicating within the office still works.
I would suggest the book “Mastering Bitcoin” from O’Reilly. I don’t have extensive experience on the issue but what really worked for me is that the book provides code examples (in Python and C++) that help get a better grasp of the technology.
By having them reveal accounting details when necessary to a government agency that keeps them confidential, just like personal taxes?
"They now infer your meaning and find results that match your intent -- even if the exact search string doesn't exist in the search results."

Bing seems to do the same thing. I really wish there were a grep for the web because both engines get it wrong even when I try to exclude results.
> mostly how the UK does it

With the addendum that it - or your perception - will always have more to do with your parents and upbringing than your salary.

America's socio-econmic classes, by stark contrast, are all about the money.
Oh, all I meant with my exmaples is that it should be enough for you to pause to phrase judiciously and carefully, for good discussion here.

Unfortunately I think you're outside of the edit window though. the phrasing you just used (in your second, longer paragraph) is fine to me! It should have been your original phrasing (both IMO and by HN guidelines.)

Thanks for following up.
I don't know who you are but you the best person in the internet today.
Freenode is being DDoSed
Since most languages have dialects of similar "standard" form divergence, it's an NLP problem that would have to be addressed anyway. While slang might be hard to keep up with, the grammatical patterns of AAVE are well-documented and understood by linguists, and there's plenty of data to model.

The issue of prejudice stems from refusing to treat AAVE as a valid input to an AI, mirroring the racism in American culture that similarly devalues and excludes it. Output can conform to some approximation of "standard" form without being problematic, following the pattern of interaction between standard and dialect speakers. As a speaker of the standard, it's gauche and derisive to imitate or refuse or comprehend a dialect speaker, not to respond in your own form.
> simple is only one proxy for readable code

No, simple isn't a proxy for readable code. One can write in a readable manner a complex solution to a problem, but it isn't always right (using other "proxies" isn't, either).

It isn't always right because it's "a complex solution to a problem", not "a complex solution to a complex problem". What you made readable might even be "an overly complex solution to an actually simple problem"; meaning - to put it bluntly - that you have inadvertently spent your precious time on putting lipstick on a pig.
"'Rich', by the way, is anyone with more money than you."

A quote from a teacher of mine that has always stuck with me. It explains so much.
Where are you pulling all the data from ?
I liked this for a technical introduction:
http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
Many people already treat other humans as an enabling "bot" of one kind or another, think of the job of an executive assistant or a performer who needs the feel of an audience but has no personal relationship with any members of that audience.

An assistant, AI or otherwise, that can handle the minutiae of life isn't a bad thing if you're focusing on greater problems or concerns within your life. The danger is that many people are already obsessed with nothing but minutiae and will instead be ruled by their bot rather than vice versa. See also everyone obsessed with the Tamagotchi-like behavior of their cellphones.
I had to double-tap and hold... would never have got it without comments here - what a bizarre UI!
It would just make the price of land go up proportionally
If Silicon Valley urbanized, it would have culture and nightlife, and be a much more attractive place to live.

Consider also that you and I are techies, and move in techie circles. There is a large population of people working non-tech jobs for whom cost is the overriding concern.
All of it came together with the "Colliers Space Program".[1] This was von Braun and Bonestell putting together a very elaborate presentation with great visuals on how to explore space.

Then Disney got hold of it.[2] The good part.[3] That show covers the first flight into space. The moon shot is in [4], narrated by Werner von Braun himself. There's the big von Braun wheel-type space station in earth orbit for refueling for the moon shot.

NASA is trying to re-create that level of enthusiasm. Unlikely.

[1] http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-great-1952-space-program-45351125...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omWRxonewL4
[3] https://youtu.be/omWRxonewL4?t=2235
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZImSTxbglI
I hope this is constructive, but that chat invitation on every freaking page drove me off the site. By time I'd logged in and searched for two parts, the incessant chirping and popups of Clippy were too much.
> middle class: have a job, must work for a living

This is not the way most people have traditionally thought of the middle class.

The middle class were the highly-skilled white-collar professionals: doctors, lawyers, engineers. In contrast, the lower class were the poor or blue-collar workers: farmers, factory workers, and the unemployed. Whereas the upper class referred to business owners and financiers.

With the decline of farming and manufacturing, blue-collar workers shifted to service industries.

What is striking is most people think they have the living standard of skilled white-collar professionals, even though they are just service industry workers.

This situation is only possible because of universal access to cheap credit.
Try reading "Inherent Vice." It barely reads like Pynchon. Or rather it's Pynchon writing the Big Lebowski like Raymond Chandler would, if Raymond Chandler were a hippie.
This apparently uses the back-propagation engine from https://alpha.trycarbide.com/ (which the author of g9 also works on). When I saw it I thought I remembered seeing it in the Carbide demo, so I Googled and I was right. Super neat that it's packaged up into a library though. Really cool system.

See https://twitter.com/antimatter15/status/779776900042555393
Rotor Browser – Independent Onion Routing (a Tor Fork)
Thanks for the info. Haven't been able to get on free node all day.
I don't like DDoS kids. Grrr...
I find these pairings interesting, and thank the authors. Having knowledgeable and experienced people make suggestions is neat, really great.

FWIW, what would help me most (not that the authors are obliged to provide it; I'm not saying that) is if someone in that category would give some guidelines under what circumstances certain parings are reasonable. Kind of a white-wine-with-fish thing.

For instance, "sober, as with a business report" or "lighter, such as a human-interest story" would help those of us who are, sigh, completely without a clue.
Weirdly enough, when he was demonstrating the Stroop test, I had absolutely no slowdown for cuss words; maybe 3x faster than when the text named a different color.
Do you think written Standard English is less ambiguous than any other English, or written language? Because I don't see why that would be the case.
The New York Public Library Unveils a Cutting-Edge Train That Delivers Books
Blockchains are just databases rebranded to be something interesting when cryptography is applied. There's no magic to keeping transactions in 'folders'. Database journaling, and message signing has been performed since the 80's (or older)
I don't understand what conclusion this graph is going for. It's a real "Therefore, what?" thing for me.
Could not agree more. I think a hundred years from now people will look back with horror at the destruction of biodiversity, and the opportunities to mine it that are lost forever
I am sure I was using taxis at least 20 years before Uber appeared. Not sure what kind of never before seen service the people gigging there are providing.
There are no uses for turing complete smart contracts. Multisig and nLockTime perform all the same functions with lower risk and greater scalability.
The UCSB professor you're referring to is John Martinis [0] and though the physical structure differs (they're using small arrays of "Xmons" instead of typical transmons qubits to minimize decoherence and thus error) they're still working within the realm of adiabatic quantum computing/quantum annealing, the same general avenue D-Wave is pursuing (with a "digital" twist) which is why Google invested in both of them.

[0] http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~martinisgroup/publications.shtm...
[1] https://research.googleblog.com/2016/06/quantum-annealing-wi...
Blockchain is now a buzzword that means 'good database'
It's unprofessional, but not unhelpful or unarticulated. A close friend of mine and her mother are both linguists, both professionals (one a speech pathologist, one an editor), both highly articulate and highly educated. They both swear a lot, except in professional settings. They love words, and the speech path in particular loves shakespeare, poetry, and constantly has a book in her hand (these days, more an e-book).

Swearing is only unarticulate if you saturate your speech with it.

As for the unprofessional part, that's got its edge-cases as well. I used to work in support for an agricultural telemetry company, and the primary clients were farmers. They'd call up with a problem, and usually they'd swear as part of their normal speech. I found that if I wasn't responding in kind, it would sometimes make the client self-conscious and make the trouble-shooting harder. So, torn between being professional and being pragmatic, my solution was to swear one 'step' less than the client. If they said 'shit', I didn't swear at all. If they were saying 'fuck', I would go as far as 'shit'. If they were saying 'cunt', I'd go to 'fuck'. It worked quite well, and removed a barrier to building that rapport need to work support efficiently.
I learnt about Bitcoin when it was at $5... I was contemplating investing $100, so that would have been 20 BTC or so.

My brother had 10 BTC but sold it right before the famous spike to $1200. That felt even worse haha!
HuiBoard – five and/or ten key chorded typing system, free and open source
> AI is more like a bot that runs its own process autonomously.

That is a contradiction. An AI is a process. A process doesn't run itself. At most, it runs.
If they actually made that policy, that they will buy any <500k widget that promises the world, then I bet the market could churn out pseudoscience at astonishing rates.
If I remember the passage correctly (It has been over a decade), he used it as an example of how important it was to have actual skilled, trained pilots in the space program (basically taking pilots mattered). It was in the chapters about the X-15, I think.

I would assume command of the first Moon landing would be taken as an endorsement of his solution and probably acknowledgement that on such a difficult mission he might need to solve a similar problem.

Of course, I have read interviews where he called Armstrong a better engineer than pilot, but I get the feeling that Air Force does not complement Navy unless making a point about the professions as a whole.
Was reading the article and, in true wiki fashion, click the links that seem relevant to get more context. As is often the case I ended up in some other corner of the internet watching interviews with Stephen Pinker. Something in all that input triggered a thought when I read your comment:

What is really the difference between spelling a word wrongly and using a non-dictionary word to express something. We except one as "slang" but will criticize the other because they don't comply with established rules. Isn't that what slang is? A break from established rules.

Anyways, just a thought, because I agree with you; if you publish - proofread. I just find it interesting to throw a Socrates argument at myself from time to time.

Btw and somewhat of topic.. this was the Pinker interview that was most interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egU0dxzFKAQ
One way to deal with this (what I'd say is the right way but hardest way) is to take the burdens usually placed on employers to provide and have the state take the tab...funded by an increase in taxes.
I don't know if it's Stockholm syndrome or not, but every one of my friends that are from Houston prefers the way they do it compared to every other city (like Dallas where I live).
Obligatory "Jon Blow's new programming language is all about this and I can't wait to play around with it myself."
Set up a full node at home and run it for a while. Turn on logging and watch the messages there.

You'll need (at present) about 80 GB of disk space to hold the blockchain. The full node client will download it for you or you can torrent a recent snapshot of the blockchain and then synchronise from there (quicker).

The software you can obtain from here:

https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node

Or you can use git to pull the source code from GitHub and compile it yourself. I've done both, and found the developers on GitHub friendly and responsive to pull requests, even helpful to a newbie submitting a first pull request.

Beware that running a full node will try to eat all your upstream bandwidth. It takes a few days for the Bitcoin network to notice the existence of your new full node, but the number of connections will grow (others asking you for pieces of the blockchain, as well as transaction verifications). You can learn a lot about the Bitcoin ecology this way.
Look up the male / female percentages on daycare workers and you'll get the consequences of that behavior.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck
Speaking of "fuck" I read a paper in the 80s (unfortunstally I've lost it -- it was back when papers were, well, printed on paper) that analyzed why you can say "fan-fucking-tastic: but not "fantas-fucking-tick".

I wish I could find it again -- I'd surely understand it better now.
Most random mutations are not beneficial, but if you consider large populations and long enough time frame, then it works. Evolution is brute forcing progress with massive parallelism over long periods of time
Greed and materialism is some kind of lust and addiction that can rob you of happiness just like any other addiction.

Pretend you buy a luxury car. You'll probably look carefully after it, take it for routine washes, get dents removed etc. If instead you buy the $4,000 craigslist special then who cares - let the rain wash it.

If you live in a mansion, you hire a maid and a gardener and have to look after rooms of furniture, be worried about your treasures ... for what? How many places can you sit at once?

You live once, this is all you get. Forget that silly stuff.