skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nurses? They average $69K per year, and need 2-4 years of education. 90th percentile salary is $97K (presumably for people in expensive areas, or pulling a lot of overtime). That doesn't seem out of line.

My mom was a nurse, and the thing I noticed about her work was that when she was off duty, she was off duty. Since she was not ultimately responsible for any patient's care, at the end of shift she could just walk out and leave it all behind. If they needed her after that, she got overtime at time-and-a-half, I think. And she got a bit of pay when she was on call, too.

http://work.chron.com/much-registered-nurses-paid-year-6869....
https://on.google.com/hub/blog/2016-03-17/speedy-wi-fi-with-...
yeah, I still have it installed on my phone, it was a great tool, I can't believe MS abandoned it and now it's reinventing a less cool version of it :-(
No need to apologize- I learned SO much from your blog, thank you. I didn't realize the course was online
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnWJUyUJYU). Also, looks like there's a subreddit for it as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/cs231n

It's really wonderful that all of this is freely available, thank you.
I mean, there are so many:

"This is awesome. There's nothing wrong with us. We're cool."
Yep, looked super.
The beauty of the seasons changing by WebGL
Text is king
Really? How is it complex conceptually? The main concepts you really need to understand is that of units, and for that I found a very well written piece by Digital Ocean on the topic:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understandi...

Aside from that, there are a number of services and utilities, but I'm not sure how they are conceptually harder to understand that any other similar program or utility on Linux...
4 animations for 4 seasons.
Also worth mentioning: an IQ test as part of the interview process is basically illegal in the US.
This is not compression. The author focuses on the small number of nodes and calls it compression but it's the edges that encode the information and there are a lot of them.
A guy working for NATO thinks that Russia...
The dynamic seems to be a) if things are bad, we need to pay top dollar to keep valuable executive talent to fix it, and b) if things are good, we should shower rewards on the executives who made it happen. Heads I win, tails you lose. It's a nice place to be.
Proot: dpb meets chroot
Polymer banknotes were introduced in '88 by Australia, who switched completely to polymer in '96. Other (ex-)commonwealth nations have followed suit, so it's not that surprising Britain is switching as well.
NPM is a package manager - anyone would advocate using that over manual dependency management, no matter what environment you're programming in.

This is precisely the kind of generalisation that many experienced developers will rightly object to.

There is absolutely nothing unreasonable about manually downloading a specific version of a small number of self-contained libraries, and just using them either directly or integrated into some sort of bundling process. This has significant advantages in terms of simplicity, reliability, and transparency compared to the who-knows-what that NPM and its ecosystem will generate only to achieve the same end result.

You only really need to use NPM if you're working with lots of small packages and/or packages that have many small dependencies of their own, but either way, now you have two problems.
I think every major company has three management stages: creators, maintainers, and mooches.

The creators are the ones who bring things to life and redefine or create markets. There are very few of these people and they're often hard to work with because their very mindset requires them to ignore the rules. Elon Musk and Steve Jobs fall into this category.

The managers are the ones who can take something that exists, refine and grow it, and provide stability over a longer run. They tend to be rule followers and understand "the formula" and how it works. They may occasionally have those "creator" flashes and make a leap but that's not their purpose or goal.

Finally are the mooches. They know the rules and go through the motions so they're easily mistaken for the "maintainer" types but they're not there to promote stability. They want to get their piece of the pie and move on.. like locusts.
The paper this article references has not much to do with listening to podcasts while commuting. It's about how "the meaning of language is represented in regions [of the brain]".

Wonder if the post would have received the same attention with the more precise title "This is your brain on stories".
It would be nice to have a distributed 2 factor authentication using something like bitcoin or ipfs.com
PowerApps, Microsoft new line of business tool
Yahoo CEO to receive $55M severance if ousted after a sale
Do you think they were a little bitter about Slack and probably used a competitor [9] instead?

9. https://www.flowdock.com/
I just watched the trailer. Clichéd brilliant patriotic dude saves the day. Bonus: Movie OS. This is gonna be such a great bad movie.
> CEO salary increases don't happen in a bubble - there has been an unprecedented increase in them while income growth in the middle class has stagnated horribly.

Since you bring up stagnating wages, it sounds like you are suggesting that the reason middle class workers aren't being paid more is because the money is going to bigger CEO pay. Do you think that if the CEO was paid less, then that money would go to the workers? Because it wouldn't, it would go towards higher profits for the company and so more money for the shareholders. The shareholders, who ultimately decide how much the CEO gets paid.
This is the problem some of us have with debates about CEO compensation. It ultimately boils down to complaining about how people choose to spend their own money.
Some Scottish banks already issue polymer-based notes.
A "kind of" compression using polygons: https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolu...

I believe it was discussed here a few years back.
How globalization isn't applicable to CEO?
Even E2E apps like Signal use a device's number to setup an account; meaning as of a month ago, at least for the app, the device number was required to created an account.

Maybe this isn't an issue, but seems odd to me.
The sad thing is that in 1961 we already had operating systems and programming languages that took security seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEWP
Practical Router Reverse Engineering Part 2 – Scouting the Firmware
Yes, http://contrastrebellion.com/
One thing about unix is that it makes graphical data structures kind of hard. You can use soft-links, but is there a straightforward way in unix to see multiple parent directories, especially if these "parent" directories might be on multiple levels of the filesystem?

Anyway, task-warrior has real dependencies, where a task can have multiple parents (pre-requisites) as well as children.
Also, I think font-weight: 100 looks a bit...I don't know, heavy? Who wants to help me put forward a spec for font weights 1-99 (in increments of 1)?
Bitchains would leak a massive amount of metadata.
DeepMind to Start Using TensorFlow for Future Artificial Intelligence Research
Interesting, I hadn't realized this was a cube already in existence. Neat!

I've broken a few rubix cubes in my day and so many of them have hallow squares so I'm not surprised you could hide stuff in one. Hell if you customize one you can probably get it to hold a huge amount of data.
Is there anything like this for Linux?
BBC R&D open sources VideoContext
Modules worked. Fuse worked. DRI worked.

In kernel space, the global lock is gone, there is a central API that everybody else uses with code that mostly don't touch each other.

Linux is very modular. It is just not a microkernel, and that is probably more due to historical performance bottlenecks than to architectural concerns.
I just have task installed, 'brew install task'.
Yep! Hit me up on Skype or steam and we can talk shop sometime.
It depends on who you read. LeCun certainly advocated tanh for a long time. ReLU seems to be currently favored, especially for deep nets but I'm not sure it's being used universally. In my own experiments I am seeing it train faster than logistic, but not necessarily give better results (maybe because you don't want the net to train too fast to reach the best optimum).

His overall point that the field is largely empirical with little solid theory to guide one's choices is, in my opinion, not wrong. It may be that a general theory doesn't exist and different network architectures and hyperparameters are needed for different types and sizes of problems.
Not all E2E apps do that, e.g. Threema can be used withouth a cell number showing up in your account.

I'm sure there are others doing the same.
Ignoring SS is silly. Add it back in and the numbers are dramaticly different.
Easy solution. Create the account with number with some operator in other jurisdiction.
Truly exceptional means nondeterministic outcomes that should never happen, yet still do because of factors outside the developer's control.

This includes out of memory errors, segfaults, threads being interrupted, contract violations (incorrect usage of an API that cannot be prevented with static typing, but this does NOT include validating the user's input), file handlers not being opened because you reached the limit forced by the OS, running out of Inodes or space on the local hard-disk, network sockets becoming unresponsive because the network is temporarily down, requests timing out, etc.

> So many ill-defined words like "truly exceptional" (true Scottsman comes to mind) and dogma (exceptions bad, mkay? no explanation required).

Not sure what the "true Scottsman" has to do with it, maybe you can explain. At this point I wrote over 500 words to explain myself on an internet forum, without debating the finer details of the English language, but we can do that as well.
Sure it's self inflicted. What if the IRS did this to all US citizens? Then it would still be self inflicted since they can renounce their citizenship. That's not the point.
I actually upvoted you, for the record. But you drew a distinction between "in-house standards" and "the framework's standards" (which are by definition probably taken from widely adopted standards).

If you were implying that those two things might be identical then you did a bad job of conveying that (and then why even comment?)
What's wrong with that? I think I quite like this "molecularity", I'd like to see more of it!
Compare the AMT with social security and the top really pay nex to noting in taxes. Donate to charity and you still need to pay every single cent of Soxial Security income tax. Only tax break is to just make more money when it suddenly stops.
It's not mentioned on the landing page, but Flow integrates with PowerApps [1]. The PowerApps console shows Flows [2], and PowerApps can trigger Flows [3].

[1] https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/

[2] http://i.imgur.com/dKxw9Tz.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/UjJ7Bcg.png
Just because the teleco said something happened doesn't mean that's what happened. Lot of other ways even an average attacker could due this if they had the resources to do it, and unlikely that a service provider would tell a customer what happen; they could be the attacker testing the systems.
Al Ghazali and Quantum Theory (1993) [pdf]
These cubes actually come completely apart to replace the springs. You could probably put a good 4-5 micro-SD cards in the middle plastic ball, but it's not exactly a quick operation. But, yeah, quite a bit of empty space in them.
> What do you believe you'll be missing?

Old extensions have access to js-ctypes. Which means it can do anything libc/any native library does. Spawning processes, filesystem access, interacting talking to native applications (no, connectNative definitely does not count, because it requires opt-in and special support and thus does not provide interoperability)

They can also freely manipulate the browser UI.

Chrome extensions can't do either of those.

Mozilla has some future plans on providing extensibility, but as long as those are just plans without any schedule or implementation i'll remain pessimistic that it'll still result in a reduction of available feature space.
Is the US likely to follow suit?
And then there are people with basic intelligence that understand that, basically, yes they take that money from the rest of the people. You know, mostly because money doesn't grow on trees.

When a certain part of economy inflates some other part deflates. And that other part might be more important than unicorn companies that are pure bubbles full of hot air offering exaclty 0 in the society.

I hope you cheerlead with a lot of gusto for the golden boys. After all they didn't take money out of your pockets? Right? Right???
Atom isn't crippled so much as it's developed from a very simple (small, low-power, in-order execution) baseline and so hasn't had the time to reach the level of performance maturity and sophistication that the "big cores" (Haswell, Skylake, etc) have. If Intel had the ability to get Skylake performance in an Atom power envelope, they would.
The question is will they be using the same Australian printer as many of the other countries that have switched to polymer notes. Seems like a big single point failure node at this point.
I also had a couple where 3 guys sat behind me and watched as I typed up an implementation of some card game puzzle solver.

Comically sad.
I think that's an uncharitable way to describe the overwhelming majority of those posts. Let's get out of the habit of heaping snark on others in discussion threads. It feels amusing for a little while, but corrodes the qualities we most want here. Not a good trade.
This is a perfect example on how not to handle professional conflict. I would point out all the mistakes you've made and that is just from your point of view as described in the article but everyone else here have pointed those out.

For your own sake I suggest you take this down, otherwise you may find it difficult to find work later on. If you are ever in a similar position like this again you need to learn to not take things personal and walk away while you still have some dignity.
Abuse of todo lists ultimately leads people to focus on doing even more urgent-but-not-important tasks. To get to important-but-not-urgent, a good task app should have some concept of planning, or identifying action items from first principles.

This is inherently a graphical data structure. PERT charts and GANTT charts do this, so does graphviz. Most todo apps do not. Omnifocus does not. Weirdly, most bubble-graph software does not - you can grab a bubble, shake it, and realize it's just a strict hierarchical tree where a bubble can have multiple children, but no bubble has multiple parents. Org-mode kind of has it through tags but I hear it's awkward. taskwarrior does have it, but it's hard to work without creating a bunch of complicated shell aliases (which is doable).
You can get (lossy) compression by using an autoencoder with a hidden layer that has fewer nodes than the number of inputs, since then you only need to store the hidden layer excitations for each example. The weights and network architecture itself are part of the compressor, not the compressed data.

As for how well this works compared to other approaches, I don't know, and this blog post certainly doesn't address the question.
It's one thing to rely on phone numbers for authentication, it's yet another to store the messages. The same scenario on WhatsApp would have given the attacker access to the account but not the message history, which is presumably what they were after.
But they absolutely took it from me when they are being paid by a publicly traded company.

I am more convinced every day that the marginal income tax above a certain limit (my proposal is 100 * 2000 * minimum wage per hour, I'm willing to go lower to build consensus) above which the income shall be taxed at 90% of the additional income. It is the right thing to do. I want companies to go to the executives and say "look, it costs us too much to give you any more money. Please try to cooperate."

It is the right thing to do.
It occurs to me that there is quite a bit of confusion around the terms "monolithic", "microkernel" and "modularity". The misconception is that a monolithic kernel isn't modular, which is very far from the truth.
That just means that certain popular addons will get the support necessary to have their needs satisfied.

Some niche ideas won't get support and thus die.

That's the problem with a gated system where you can only do things approved by HQ.
As an aside, Dr. McEliece was one of the best teachers I had while at Caltech, with an amazing ability to present dry material an a way that was both informative and interesting.
Can you provide a link to the paper?
Fixing the American Commute
A Path to Programming Language Theory
Funny, I saw it and thought 'hey, seven bit ASCII---how appropriate'.
That's simply not true. The AMT, the extra medicare tax, and the NIIT taxes hit the 1% pretty hard, but when you make an absolute ton of money primarily through corporate ownership, you have a lot more avoidance mechanisms. Consider the famed Mitt Romney IRA (he's not alone - there are thousands of these): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-17/how-to-joi... leading to an effective tax rate of sub-14%: http://www.factcheck.org/2012/08/does-romney-pay-a-lower-rat...

There's a curve - up to perhaps $0.5-1m / year, it's not really feasible for most people to structure hyper-cleverly to avoid taxes. But after that, you can start to afford the extra lawyers and accountants (and corporate structures) to cut the rate back down by shifting everything to LTCG and having the corporate side of things cover little things like your private plane. :)
It's all fine and good to point out how insecure SMS is, and various ways that 2-factor auth may have been improved, but I think the bottom line is that when your adversary is the government, police and telecom provider working together, the means you use to protect yourself are irrelevant, if they really want to bring you down, they will. The solution is in democratization and lobbying for proper laws to be passed.
So, while I'm sure that the very wealthy ("plutocrats"? Really?) include some people who actively work to defraud the government, I don't think it's mostly that.

Here's the fact: If you have a net worth north of say $20 million, you're going to hire an accountant to do your taxes. Not, like, an H&R Block come down with a box of your documents accountant, a real accountant. That accountant's _job_ is to interact with an incredibly arcane tax code that includes a lot of special cases and exceptions, and come up with the lowest tax burden possible for you. Legally.

Even if you don't super care to shave another 5% off your taxes, your accountant will probably do it for you without your asking. How else would it work? Would an accountant say, "Come use me! I'll increase your tax burden!"? If at the end of the process you feel like giving away more of your wealth, then you can always choose to do that.
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Actor's forced Snowden deep voice is hilarious. He's trying
so hard, and yet it sounds like a 12 year old trying to sound older.

Also expect at least two forced action/drama scenes that never happened.

They are staging the Hong Kong hotel meeting, of which real footage exists, as if it were an action scene.
Went to a startup at lower pay, for the new technology of workstation based CAD rather than Mainframe. Years later, took the lead to Web based applications, then to Internet connected devices, and now into massive event analytics real-time processing.

Shifting gears and constantly learning new things. It's been rewarding in so many ways.
Might as well be trading actual petrodollars.
I'm a tad confused... you cite that famous Unix philosophy quote "This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together"... but I don't see how that doesn't apply to systemd?

Could you clarify?
Well, it makes sense that whatever spawns the daemons also keeps track of them, restarts them on failure, controls containers, disposes of zombie processes, and helps debugging init scripts.

It makes no sense for such tool to control network interfaces, logging, device sync, power mode changes, and well... I'm certainly forgetting one or two dozen systemd modules.
Nope, http://www.dodbuzz.com/2015/02/25/army-not-interested-in-tak.... Army not interested in the A-10.

"close-air support is not a plane, it’s a mission.”
> sysvinit-script

OpenRC fixes a lot of that, without adding the giant pile of dependencies that systemd imposes. As someone who is already comfortable with bash, OpenRC scripts should be easy.

> I can't believe anyone would like to keep using sysvinit-scripts or RC-scripts.

There are more options than sticking with Debian's ancient scripts.

The larger problem is that init is only a tiny part of systemd. Systemd's mandatory link-time dependencies and tightly-coupled (monolithic) features are trying to be an entire wrapper around important parts of the kernel. Even if you like the init features of systemd, you should be looking at all the changes; do you really want to depend on all of systemd's features in the future? Do you enjoy depending on a moving target that changes at the whim of the systemd cabal and their reputation for WONTFIXing anything that they don't understand or haven't considered as a use case?
A movie similar to Primer would have been so cool
Plastic money will have a really hard time being pushed to US conservatives.

They will treat it like an invasion of their liberty, like some sort of socialist/libertarian push with some sort of a secret agenda.

And some more pragmatic reason: the exorbitant cost to replace the high number of vending machines nationwide so that they would take the new polymer notes.

And money interests: On the other hand... when the US introduced the new dollar coins, two senators took up the fight to ensure that dollar bills would continue to be printed, and in fact, that promotion of the new coins wouldn't be allowed to disparage paper currency. By astonishing coincidence, one of these senators was Trent Lott, who's constituents sold much of the cotton used to make make paper currency, and the other was Ted Kennedy, whose constituency included the Crane Paper Company, which had a contract to provide the actual sheets on which currency was printed.
> on our list of add-on functionality to support

But that's the problem. Things not "on your list" will simply not be possible. Right now an addon - with enough grease - can do anything that C code in the browser itself could.

In other words, the new API will cause a non-zero amount of existing addon features to cease existing and currently-possible future addons from never coming into existence.
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I am a European citizen living in the Bay Area and although I like to whine about it, paying taxes is not a big deal.

It is also getting simpler as I now have almost only US assets. I used to have some stocks vested that was awarded when I worked for the same company in the UK. The tax authorities of the two countries decided to split my earnings leaving me with more or less nothing.

Another thing most people say is that US tax gives a lot less back even though we pay about the same as in Europe. This is true, but to some degree this is instead given to you by your employer (like health care).
The IRS does in fact do this to all US citizens with overseas bank accounts too.
This movie looks like is has a good chance of doing a better job than even The Imitation Game at ruining and fundamentally misrepresenting a topic I care about and a person I respect.