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I think you should rephrase like this: iOS developers these days, "who lives in USA" and are experienced (eg: over 4 years experience) should make $150/hour as contractors.

In Toptal the pay varies on developers and client's budget. I think the lowest rate the companies have to pay in Toptal for a full time developer is $45/hour or $1800/week (highest can be $3200+/week, ref: http://www.toptal.com/faq#how_much_does_toptal_cost). Toptal has more or less a 50% markup over what developer gets. So given company's budget and preferred time-zone to work they try to match a developer whose pay will fit within 66% of clients budget. And you can be sure of the fact that this 66% is a very handsome money for a lot of developers worldwide considering the living cost in their country.

I can assume that even the highest range Toptal offers might not be good enough for Top 3% US developers. But it's good enough for Top 3% worldwide developers who has accepted into the Toptal network. Also why on Earth developers in the US will have to rely on Toptal or other similar sites? Definitely they can access the jobs more easily than a Eastern European / South American / South East Asian developer. Don't you think so?

Finally, who are pointing on the fact that developers, despite of their nationality, should get the same payment should also consider that Nationality is not the main issue here. People who gets migrated to USA charges the standard rates in USA. But who are not living there don't need to charge the same because their living cost is much less.

(In short, if your expected payment is above than what Toptal offers, don't apply there. Toptal is very good place for freelancing jobs for a lot of international developers, but it's definitely not for everyone. And the fact that, its not for everyone doesn't necessarily make Toptal a bad thing).
> you can just pick the BLAS implementation that is the fastest on your platform and run with it

Just in case this is useful info, Eigen and Blaze works the same way, Blitz++ doesn't. Blaze seems to be doing the best in the benchmarks.

> OpenBLAS is pretty much on par with Intel MKL

I wont be surprised. I have seen ATLAS beat MKL on some BLAS functions on my runs. Sparse matrix multiply is particularly badly implemented in MKL (atleast was). One could beat their sparse multiply by using multiple instance of their own sparse matrix vector multiplies.

But the reason I mentioned ICC is that there is much more to SIMD than just linear algebraic operations. Non-linear operations that come up quite frequently in stats/ML are sin, cos, exp, log, tanh etc on vectors. GCC/G++ does a decent job now (the best part is that it emits info why it wasn't able to vectorize a particular loop. This lets you restructure the loops to ai the compiler), but ICC still rules.
That's really useful. You might want to take a look at https://supercard.io/ - it's a virtual credit card which chooses the best daily rate for you.

I'm on the beta trial and finding it pretty useful.
It was announced yesterday in the Swiss newspaper "Le Temps" that the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner has started an investigation on the privacy issues with Windows 10. He will contact Microsoft to better understand what data is uploaded, where it is stored, who has access to this information and for how long it is archived.

He may seize the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland if required. I don't think Microsoft will care too much but it's good that our government is at least considering what is happening here. Note that all that was triggered after an open letter sent to the Commissioner by the Swiss Pirate Party.
It speaks to the challenge of good design and of changing organizations.

But I got a soft spot for the meatball. Today, the worm reads as cold and clinical, and potentially kind of out of touch with NASA culture. The meatball kind of exudes a certain optimism.

Astronauts fill their jump suits with patches, and all mission patches are fundamentally dorky, committee like things. And even while the new logo was in vigour, people still wore the old one! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nelson_(astronaut)#/med... This one is from 1985, the year after they won their award: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/276615main_BarbMorgan_5.j...

I wonder whether the new logo wouldn't have had better adoption had they used the new logo type where appropriate but showed it off inserted in a cleaned up, subtler version of the meatball.
Except that banks go through great lengths to make keeping track of your money as confusing as possible.
As someone with over 30 years in hardware + software + mechanical product design and manufacturing one thing that always bothers me on Kickstarter is the dishonesty of funding goals.

Now, I do realize quite a few project owners come at it without the product manufacturing experience. I definitely get that part. Yet, I don't see it as an excuse. People need to do due diligence and get numbers closer to reality.

I remember one of the first (if not the first) RGB LED light bulb project (don't remember the name), perhaps two years ago. I think they went out with a raise target of $50K. If I remember correctly, they ended-up raising nearly $2MM.

The instant I saw that campaign I knew that if they raised anywhere south of somewhere between $1MM and $2MM there was no way in hell they'd be able to get the project done and delivered. The required iterations covering DFM (Design for Manufacturing), mechanical, electrical, firmware, tooling, environmental testing and regulatory testing would burn cash as if it were free. In hardware, each iteration cost real money --and potentially lots of it. $50K was not going to make a dent.

If they go into it knowing the funding goal will not be sufficient and are banking on exceeding it, they are simply not being honest.

My scam alerts go off immediately when I see such a severe project-to-funding-target mismatch. And that's why I call it "dishonest". It could also be "naive" but, again, it's the old "ignorance of the law isn't an excuse" situation. If you are going to go on Kickstarter with a hardware project and have no prior experience in manufacturing, do everyone a favor, do your homework and set a funding goal that will not have you scam your supporters out of money when you burn through it too quickly and can't deliver.
You're missing the point - companies compete in the open market and recommendations may be signals used in the hiring process, but not in evaluating somebody's performance on job. If a hire doesn't work out, usually it parts ways with the company, with the evaluation period being meant to make this painless and it's in a company's best interest to hire the best people, otherwise it's not able to compete.

But a public institution is not subject to market forces. A public institution doesn't have to compete, won't go bankrupt, being part of government has tremendous influence on other people's lives and is always financed by other people's taxes. Now that changes the equation quite a lot.
" In the process the USSR controlled Eastern Europe, and now they are furious for that and blame - surprise - not the communist parties, not the communism, not the USSR but specifically ethnic Russians."

I don't think so. There are some with simplistic minds who follow this line of reasoning, but I'd argue that most sympathize with "average Russians", being aware that you're victims more than anyone else.
The only thing that makes people wonder is the opinion polls, when high support for Putin among the Russian population is claimed. Some consider these polls false, but some wonder just how much you've been brainwashed.
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Off topic question. I used BeOS for years and it was the platform I learned C++ on. I just checked out the Wikipedia page and it was pretty unclear on what ever happened. Anyone know where the OS ended up, seems like such a loss.
That's not Japan being unique. The Anglosphere is a bit special, when it comes to fruit and vegetables in supermarkets.

Go to Italy, China, France, any country with a reputation for good food, and you'll get plenty of good tomatoes.
we will turn the stuff into garden art or something. They are the remnant skeletons from plasma cutting parts. 4'x8' sheets with 6" holes in them basically.

the art will go for a few dollars a pound, if we are lucky. But it is slow, and more complicated than just scrapping the stuff and getting cash today.
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>So why do we keep doing it? Why can’t we put the book down?

So that I can keep my job. Easy.
Red Hat have a very good guide for RHEL / CentOS:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

NSA have also put out some good hardening guides
It's a middlebrow dismissal. It should be downvoted. That's not sycophancy, it's just Hacker News' losing battle to keep the conversation stimulating and worthwhile.
Not so surprising that OpenBLAS beat MLK on an AMD processor. Although it's definitely keeping up.
The drug warriors always like to have bogeymen lurking in the shadows.

A few years ago it was krokodil. Yet see http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/01/10/krokodil-... points out that it's a lot of hype, with no substance.

Or how 'bath salts' caused a man in New Jersey to kill a women, leading NJ lawmakers to ban the substance, only to later have a toxicology report be unable to find traces in the man's body: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/cranford_man_indict...

Or warnings issued by our drug warriors about crack cocaine is immensely more addictive than regular cocaine, and requires much higher criminal penalties ... that just happen to disproportionately affect the black and poor. Yet as the opinion piece at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10... and others point out, "the 20-year-old crack laws are based on myths."

Going back even further, PCP in the 1970s was said to be this rage inducing drug, yet "Studies by the Drug Abuse Warning Network in the 1970s show that media reports of PCP-induced violence are greatly exaggerated and that incidents of violence are unusual and often limited to individuals with reputations for aggression regardless of drug use" and "reports of physical violence on phencyclidine have often been shown to be unfounded" (quotes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine#Effects ).

Or how marijuana was pushed as this horrible drug which was destroying the minds of Americans and "causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."

After nearly a century of lies, why should I believe this one is something to worry about?
> Hem, that's not so easy for the Germans. If only it was a mere "mistake" you can "admit and move on"... It is a crime against humanity that will never be forgotten, may I remind you.

I beg to differ - both world wars belong now to the past century, and as more and more years pass by and their witnesses die, these atrocities belong more and more to history books along the Napoleon wars etc., being no more part of the modern story than other horrors of the past. What kind of relation exist between an average young German and the Nazi war machine? Even if someone had an SS officer in the family, they're likely to just feel ashamed and eliminate it from their memory, that's all.
It ended up as Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)

It's linked from the wikipedia BeOS page but not prominently...
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I'm not saying that I agree with the individual statements. Just that it's not hard to research and decide the veracity of each of them yourself with minimal effort.
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I loved the way some of the charts reflected how far I had read in the content; very subtle and effective.
American North Vs South is cultural, and there's no one clear designation.

Having lived in Maryland for 8 years, and 25 years north of the Mason Dizon line on the Northeast Corridor, and having travelled to all 48 contiguous states and visited the U.S. south extensively, I fully agree with the original posters assessment that it's not quite the south.

You bring up the Mason-Dixon Line, but why not the Civil War, another very clear North/South divide? Most Maryland soldiers fought for the Union during the Civil War. But as you said there are still some state parks named after General Lee.

Cuisine is another cultural aspect. Culinarily there's not much native Maryland cuisine that I'd associate with the south. Maryland is most famous for food associated with the Chesapeake Bay like crabs and seafood soups and stews. You'll find more places serving traditional southern foods like Chicken fried steak and BBQ, more than up North but not nearly as much as further South.

Accent-wise, there is a slight twinge that some native Marglanders have but it is nowhere near the southern accent you'd hear as you go further south into Virginia.
Very informative blog!
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Citric acid is mainly produced by microbial fermentation so there is little worry even if you have a citrus allergy.
Ask HN: Why is it legal to privately register a domain?
What is the legal basis for this? When someone builds a building or trademark's a name, their information is public domain. Why are domain's allowed to be privately registered and hidden from the public domain?
> And I believe a bad government

Depends of what "bad" means. If it means bad AT controlling the Economy, that may be a good thing for the private sector. If it's bad as in, controlling the Economy in a way that is damaging to industries/entrepreneurs, that may indeed be a very bad thing.
The speakers go in depth about the methods of destructions of the Five Eyes. Once source is a Guardian laptop which contained classified material, for which the GCHQ agents insisted to witness/enforce the destruction. Trackpad chip, battery controller, CPU, the agents had a laundry list of components to destroy and tick off.

The most interesting slide to me is that a top secret document remains secret if shredded pieces are larger than 12mm, and decrease is classification until they're declassified at 3mm.

Fun part is one sysadmin who had to destroy brand new iPhones of government officials because they plugged it on a classified network for less than a minute. It matches my lightening talk on civil intelligence: When there's a wire, they're compromised. On the other hands, are we really governed by officials who plug their iPhones on secret networks?

The take away for me is: Even GCHQ gave up the hope of securing computers. If you're a big target, everything is infected. But they still believe in airgaps.
actually we are working on an open source eye wear platform ... might take a while though.
they use a camera (so not really practical ;) )
As a parent with a firstborn of a same age, I have been wondering similar things :-)
Oh please. Everyone should be more diligent about their finances. The difference is that someone with money says "oh damn it, I spent too much. I should buy less stuff next week" and someone without much money gets an overdraft fee.

Maybe the problem with the current system isn't poor people, the problem is just people. It's just that some people don't have any sort of margin of error, so we shouldn't tilt the scales against them too. No need to add to the shit situation they're already in.
I have the open source knock-off Haiku running in VirtualBox, but that's probably not your question. BeOS proper was sold to Access:

In September 2005, ACCESS acquired PalmSource, the owner of the Palm OS and BeOS. The company has used these assets and expertise to create the Access Linux Platform, an open-source Linux-based platform for smartphones and other mobile devices [Wikipedia]
I meant the mandated minimum price of a reusable bag _at the counter_ should be $5 (a number I pulled out of the air, with little thought). You do realize though, that it's otherwise possible to buy a reusable bag for less than $5 right? (Amazon shows me a pack of 10 for $12, or $1.20/bag).

Even most grocery stores sell reusable bags for $1-2 apiece; so in the overwhelming majority of scenarios people would be paying more than 10 cents but less than the punitive $5. And by consciously buying a bag (instead of just saying "Yeah, I'll pay 10 cents for a bag" at the counter), people might be less likely to throw it out.
Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it.

Is there somewhere on Ars' website where I can read the "Ars doesn't do native advertising/advertorial" policy?

As a jaded, cynical reader, the trap I fall into is that if content clearly marks itself as an advertorial, I know what I'm dealing with and can take it with the appropriate grains of salt. On the other hand, if content that seems advertorial comes from a site I normally trust, but with no markings at all, I'm left wondering if it's a benign "I just really love this thing and wanted to write about it", or if it's a really clever native ad invading another space that used to be on the other side of the wall.

What I'd love to see from Ars and other responsible journalistic outlets is a) a policy about native advertising that's easy to find and b) at the editor's discretion, if there's an article that may seem particularly advertorial-ish, a pre-emptive disclaimer that says "Hey, even if this seems like native advertising, it isn't. Here's a link to our general advertorial policy, and here's a link to the author personally gushing about how much he or she loves the Porsche 911 and talking about why they wrote this article."

And yes, I know that it sucks that you guys, as responsible journalists, have to bear the negative externality of irresponsible journalists publishing "18 insane things you wouldn't think the Toyota Tacoma could do...#7 will blow your mind".
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> I've also been poor, and one thing that sent me over the edge was a check that someone waited months to cash. Thought I had $200 in my account, and made a payment with debit card, only to go under $0.

While this isn't something that is directly taught (a checking account ought to come with detailed guidance), if you write checks, you should use your checkbook to track your actual effective balance separate from how much the bank thinks you have. If you write a check, no matter how long ago, you don't have that money anymore, so you can't spend it.

People often don't bother updating a check register each time they write a check, but if you have any serious threat of running out of funds in your account, you need to take the time to balance it to know how much you have.

(Also a great reason to never use personal checks at all.)

But the lack of any guidance in this regard, while supplying many ways to ask for your "current balance" (a complete fabrication once you've written any checks) is certainly one more way banks do nothing to prevent you from falling into a costly trap. I was lucky enough to receive very careful explanations of how a checking account really works when I was young.
If you haven't heard of Flask-Admin, check out the docs here: https://flask-admin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Over 60% of people in poverty do not work at all or work one part-time job, let alone 2 jobs. Of the 40% that is left, nearly all work a single (low-paying) full-time job. The old canard about poor people working multiple jobs and still on the edge of being homeless is true for a very tiny fraction of people.

Btw, 12 hrs. a day for 5 days a week at minimum wage, puts a single person at over double the poverty level (over $22k) in the US...just saying.

I grew up very poor (from a family of migrant workers) and I can say from personal experience and observing many, many thousands of poor people over a couple of decades, that it is almost exclusively an educational problem.

The easy stuff is easy (don't eat tubs of lard and ice-cream), but even professional nutritionalists can not agree on what a healthy diet is, how can you expect people with an average 10th grade or less education to do it? Those fish fingers are marked "PACKED WITH OMEGA-3s!!!", the fries have "HALF YOUR DAILY REQUIREMENT OF POTASSIUM!!! LOADED WITH VITAMINS!!!"

With millions spent on spinning shit food into something that sounds healthy to people, they are being misled and confused because nutrition is complicated and labeling is misleading for highly processed foods.

That frozen lean-cuisine dinner in the next freezer is better balanced, cost the same as microwave fries, takes the same amount of time to nuke, but says "Only 410 calories!" instead of "calcium-enriched" like the fries do, but how to properly judge the differences without a strong background in nutrition?
They can easily resolve it with a three child policy....
Interesting service. I definitely prefer my e-mail notifications to come right from SeaMonkey, but I could see this being useful for those who don't use a separate mail client and prefer to not have their gmail open in a separate tab 24/7.
Are you finding any significant amount of "post kickstarter" orders?
Well you could try to, step by step, experiment with different diets and regularly have a look at your fitness-level, your blood work, your weight, the composition of your body (%of water/fat/and so on).

Before that you could read a lot. Some studies, some literature. A lot will be on the strange to the bullshit-level. But the self-experimenting part will teach you, what is good for your body and what not.

For example one of the problems we face in this field seems to me, that we do know so little about the bacteria (and so on), we have in our intestines. There is quite an active field of research and a lot is happening there. Maybe some day we will know more, coming from this part of science.

Untill then, living with a significant other who had to listen to her body for 15+ years, I for example learned, that reducing my intake of carbohydrates (and esp. sugar and wheat) helps a lot in reducing my weight, while the reduction of fat does not help that much (Every time closely watching my caloric intake).

But I would not recommend doing exactly this to everybody - it is something, that subjectively, anecdotally works for me.
To be completely honest, the kind of person who cares about UI look & feel above all else isn't likely to get a whole lot out of a research system like Plan 9.
Three environments are hitting the "close-enough" mark for me.

1. http://elm-lang.org/try
2. Clojurescript + figwheel + reagent.
3. ipython notebook
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Yea, I saw that on there. But it appeared from the page they were doing a total rewrite. Anyway, those were weird days with all those PREP boxes, scattershot OS development from Apple. Booting up into BeOS for the first time and the whole development experience was like a gift from god. Anyway, thanks for the link.
We taste a lot of different chemicals as bitter, including cucurbitacin, persin, quinine, solanine, strychnine, momordicin, cyanide, and benzaldehyde, and consequently amygdalin. Apparently we have 25 or more different bitter taste receptors sensitive to more than 500 different bitter chemicals. The lethal doses of these chemicals in proportion to their bitterness vary enormously, and of course they also vary according to the situation: the momordicins in bitter melons are fine most of the time, but bitter melons are an abortifacient (possibly due to an effect of the momordicins) so you shouldn't eat them if you're pregnant. (There are other inexpensive means of abortion, such as misoprostol, which have been carefully studied and shown to be safe in the first trimester.) And different chemicals extracted from bitter melons have been shown to be cytotoxic in vitro and might be useful against cancer; some hepatotoxicity has also been shown. https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs...

So I would say, no, they're not bad. But don't go overboard.