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Education should be on this list.

The root of all these problems stem from a lack of effective education.

1) The current methods are highly ineffective for teaching

By getting more effective at teaching children, and helping them to self educate, we get better informed citizens who can interpret news more accurately and effectively participate in democracy.

2) The current goals for education do not align with current & future needs

Our current system is designed to produce factory workers for the industrial economy, which was adapted to produce knowledge workers for the information economy. But we are moving towards full automation of most of those jobs.

We will need to prepare people to be adaptable in a fast changing automated world: more entrepreneurial type skills are needed.
As a former Hackintosher, there's the fun of it being something that's not supposed to work (sticking it to the man, one would say).

For me personally, I used to have a full-fledged personal recording studio, and the price of a Mac desktop was just ridiculous. There's no better platform for audio software than Apple.
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The Perks category I think is essential and seems to be things that should suit your lifestyle. I think it is important for a company to identify lifestyle needs and help with anything they possibly can. After all it is you and your co-workers lives that time is taken out of so why not make it beneficial to your life and what you want to accomplish.

Sounds like Transparency is a huge part that motivates you and keeps you clear headed about what you are working towards. It is really important for a company to respect that through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

It also sounds like good friendship and being real with each other goes hand in hand with transparency. Which I would totally agree. I think that employers just being nice to keep you working for them is "minionizing" and not how people should ever treat each other.
Black people didn't turn out to support Hillary against the Trump racism against Mexicans and Middle-East countries. Now you complain?
STEM F-1 students can work under OPT for 3 years. I'd say that's good enough considering the fact that H1B also get issued for 3 years.
One minor nit. "A ban on travelers from certain majority Muslim countries..." would be accurate. As written, it implies every majority Muslim country is affected, which is not true.

Of course, the more clarifications you add, the less it reads like a headline...
Hitachi, in general, has always been known for bullet-proof storage. I was extremely sad to see them sell off that business. Hopefully spinning drives are dead before WDC culture can bring HGST back to mediocre reliability.
> If you raised wage requirements, you'd basically be not allowing people like me to continue to stay and work in the US

yeah, we know. that's kind of the point.
Thank you for taking the time to try to educate me.

I think that this metaphor is flawed. Holograms project an illusion of depth, but they clearly are not 3 dimensional. The metaphor falls apart if your thought process includes the assumption that eyesight is an unreliable depth detector.

There are other methods for detecting x/y/z coordinates that do not rely on eyesight- consequently, I'm having a hard time reconciling what the metaphor describes.

I feel that Platz's material below is more descriptive and helps communicate the concepts in a far less confusing way.
Focusing on the "neural network" part might be confusing you.

Classification/supervised learning is essentially about learning labels. We have some examples that have already been labeled: cats vs. dogs, suspicious transactions vs legitimate ones, As vs Bs vs...Zs. From those examples, we want to learn some way to assign new, unlabeled instances, to one of those classes.

Reinforcement learning, in contrast, is fundamentally about learning how to behave. Agents learn by interacting with their environment: some combinations of states and actions eventually lead to a reward (which the agent "likes") and others do not. The reward might even be disconnected from the most recent state or action and instead depend on decisions made earlier. The goal is to learn a "policy" that describes what should be done in each state and balances learning more about the environment ("exploration", which may pay off by letting us collect more rewards later) and using what we know about the environment to maximize our current reward intake (exploitation). Games are a particularly good test-bed for reinforcement learning because they have fairly clear states (I have these cards in my hand, or that many lives, etc), actions ("hit me!", "Jump up") and rewards (winnings, scores, levels completed). There's also an obvious parallel with animal behavior, which is where the name originated.

In both cases, neural networks are useful because they are universal function approximators. There's presumably some very complex function that maps data onto labels (e.g., pixels onto {"DOG", "CAT"}) for supervised learning, and states onto action sequences for reinforcement learning. However, we usually don't know what that is, and can't fit it directly, so we let neural networks learn it instead. However, you can do both supervised learning and reinforcement learning without them (in fact, until recently, nearly everyone did).

However, the network typically doesn't get "rewritten" on the fly. Instead, it does something like estimate the value of a state or state-action pair.
Fascinating link, thank you! I know what I will be wasting away the day doing now.
Some of the few I have met who were from the MidWest were not willing to move, others who wanted did get the job. I did not see this coming in their way. Obviously, I am speaking from my limited experience.
> including bonuses that you are elegible for, but might not actually get

This does not seem to be true. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62Q... says:

Cash bonuses and similar compensation may be counted
or credited toward the $60,000 only if payment is
assured.

and it's not clear to me that the proposed updates change anything about that other than the numeric value.
I am very confused by this comment. While I do find the Wolfram language difficult to read and generally obfuscated, it definitely has a ton of advanced functional constructs. If anything, simple pattern matching is the main way I used to write code in Mathematica.

Among the typical "scientific computing" languages, Wolfram is the only one that has "cool" functional programming tricks as the standard way to solve a problem in it.

1: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/RulesAndPattern...

P.S. Seriously! The amazing functional style of Mathematica is pretty much the one thing I like about it.
building a better and more open world is an empty slogan

You don't speak for me. I favor a world without closed borders where labor can move as freely as capital does and transactional and jurisdictional burdens are coordinated so as to be minimal. I'm very impressed by the EU's Schengen agreement permitting free movement between all EU states, and I doubt any Americans would favor interstate border restrictions despite the sometimes huge differences between individual states.

You're welcome to hold a different opinion, but that's all it is.
> The most terrifying part is that this can't simply be dismissed as a conspiracy theory, given the actions that have taken place so far.

Yes it can, and an awful lot of people are doing just that.
There are literally zero constitutional issues raised by the nature of his relationship with Twitter.
My company has a personal wellness consultant firm for anything that troubles you. They offer a selection of gifts after 1 year, 2 year, 5 years etc with the company. All of can be found at flea markets and the finest asset liquidation companies around the country. Our chairs were bought at an auction 25 years ago for pennies on the dollar. They were used then.

As for the work, I'm a systems analyst, process engineer, senior dev, dba and data analyst, but yet I'm paid like a junior dev.

What keeps me motivated. My family and my hopes for a bright future.
Yet another gradle plugin for docker, in case someone needs it
My day job is swift iOS development until recently. I learnt react redux etc etc for side project which I am doing. I have developed CRUD apps with some extra stuff like celery tasks , web sockets etc.

I am at a point where I can pick up new languages/frameworks in a breeze (Yet to learn how to do non trivial functional programming though).

Yeah I know key is depth, but I am interested in too many things :(.But industrial application of AI is my final goal, that is why I applied for MS in machine learning.
"uneducated heartlanders"?
Doesn't make him not a bad guy.
While yes, that newly minted physicist shouldn't be sent back upon receiving her diploma, the H-1B visa is NOT the program that's supposed to keep her here.
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I love the blatant racism of HN.

Please don't generalize about the HN community in this way, particularly as you choose to be part of it.
Ahh the old "he seems like a bad guy let's just hurry this up and skip all that messy due process stuff..."
What would be the one thing you would like more companies to do that Basecamp does? Which one would improve your work life the most?

Also for anyone else, I am just going to leave this here: https://m.signalvnoise.com/employee-benefits-at-basecamp-d2d...
"A religious test" is an actual thing. Please refer to the full text of the EO [0] and let me know where a religious test for travelers is instituted. I am aware of the "religious minority" re-prioritization on the refugee program, but I'm not discussing that right now, I'm discussing the travel restrictions that people mean when they say "Muslim ban", not the re-prioritization of asylum requests that claim religious persecution (which doesn't really rise to the standard of a religious test IMO either, but neither here nor there right now).

When I say valid, I mean that the argument as formed and asserted appears to be a real argument, not necessarily a correct one (which is a matter of subjective individual judgment). It's like code that will compile but not do what was intended. The room for disagreement is in whether or not the "program works without bugs" (the Executive Order achieves its intended purposes), not whether the "code compiles" (the argument formed is syntactically legal). I assert only the latter; the EO itself presents a "syntactically valid" argument, which one is free to agree or disagree with personally.

This technical crap matters because it's relevant to the DoJ's obligations to represent and faithfully execute upon the legally-valid instructions of the executive branch, and because it's important to keep people from killing each other on the false belief that the republic is being subverted.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/execu...
There truly is nothing new under the cheap chinese knockoff sun.
One difference between current events and previous ones is that the current problems run all the way up to the president and Congress, whereas the previous ones did not. I suspect if Obama was the one ordering blacks to be gunned down and Congress was behind him the situation would've changed dramatically.
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Isn't the issue here that setenv breaks getenv rather than setenv "not being thread-safe"?
Yes I was counting equity in, since they're publicly traded companies, RSUs are pretty much equivalent to a cash bonus, at least to me...

But even without that, given the total compensation, I'm sure it'd be easy for said companies to extend offers that are over $130k in cash on paper, since it includes bonuses.
If an astronaut dies a drawn-out, agonizing, painful death due to space cancer, without surgery or medication, it would be a PR disaster for NASA.

Look how many people die to due terrorism vs. traffic accidents. Yet people take traffic accidents to be a fact of life, white terrorism gets a lot of funding and government attention.

If an astronaut has anything other than a space journey, that will quell interest in traveling to Mars for a generation or longer. NASA would lose funding for those missions. "Travel to Mars! Die horribly when you get there, far, far away from everything you know and love!"
This is a planned executive order, where are you getting this is a bill introduced by a California Democrat?
with #DeleteUber trending, I think now would be a great time to promote this, but I think needs the following:

(1) ought to use a fully open-source messaging backend instead of Telegram (closed server). Would be great if could interface to the Telegram bot with a variety of messaging systems.

(2) needs to work without a dataplan if to be viable in rural areas (Silence, the SMS-fork of Signal)

(3) needs to easily accept a variety of payment mechanisms, including credit cards, PayPal(s), and crypto-currency, so can interface with people who don't use cash.

(4) needs to have a distributed p2p reputation system (hello blockchain).
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I've only worked through the first paper thus far, but translating it all to Scheme has been a great help in understanding what is going on. If it had been in a nicer language by default, I think I would have lost something from the explanations.
Or very encouraging that many people are becoming more involved.
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I hope they build their startup into a large independent entity and don't just accept the first acquisition offer they get from Google or Facebook.
I know the question says "other than pay", but money is the most important reason I work. I'm not going to take a job that pays less than what I'm making and I'm not going to stay in a job that pays $10,000 less than my market value under any circumstances. That doesn't mean that I will automatically leave for a job paying $10K more, that may be an outlier, but I won't settle getting paid substantially less than average for my skill set.

My second priority is a "seat at the table". I won't work at a large company or one where I'm not visible to the people who decide my pay.

My third priority is whether what I'm learning is relevant in the market. My peace of mind doesn't come from my job - it does come from knowing that I have an in demand skill set that has historically allowed me to get a job in two weeks to a month.

Fourth, is of course freedom and flexible and a results oriented culture that is more concerned about getting things done than whether you work from 8-5. Meaning if I need to work from home occasionally come in late sometimes, leave early, etc it doesn't matter as long as I'm meeting deadlines.
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This correlation is not always true, an in emerging markets, this correlation is almost always wrong. Access to Smart phones unfortunately doesn't always mean the availability of banking infrastructure OR the presence of a cashless economy . For example -

- Android phones are dominant in this market, since local manufacturers are able to sell cheap phones without incurring any software development cost.

- Telecommunication sector is heavily privatized in these markets & generally have multiple players offering low cost "pre-paid" services. Recharge stations and mobile stores are pretty ubiquitous - small mom & pop shops double up as resellers of these services , providing last mile coverage.

- On the contrary, Banking infrastructure is so heavily state run. And they don't have the same level of 'ease of access'. So, a lot of people working in the "unorganized sector"(Note: This is an official terminology that governments recognize and use) don't have formal accounts in financial institutions.

- Even if they did, a good number of banks run decade old tools and softwares. Making it all the more difficult to do mobile & online banking .

- And also, most of these economies are not cashless. Culturally and for other reasons,there is more trust on "Paper Cash".

- Finally , just because a person owns a cheap smart phone & ,one cannot assume banking literacy.
It's very easy to declaim one or another layout system as verbose or inconsistent. Can you suggest a mainstream layout system that offers this feature in a better manner?

I've used a lot of different layout frameworks over the years. Constraint systems are neat but hard to scale. All-code layout definitions are hard to read and reason about. Markup-level layout systems have their issues, but are easier for new programmers to learn and are the most instantly powerful out of the box. Most dewey-eyed replacements for production layout systems that I've encountered quickly founder when they try to cover all the corner cases that a mature framework would need to support. It's shockingly common to just end up with a kind of crappy version of bespoke CSS. Maybe with better syntax. Definitely with fewer features.

Alternately, if you're really complaining about the fact that you define styles in one file and markup in the other...I dunno, seems fine to me. I've seen systems that try to do all of that in one file (you can do it in HTML if you want to). They're not very readable. Splitting the styling from the basic structure is not a "clean" split, but it does simplify things enough to make your files much easier to scan. Sure, it doesn't live up to the old, pure idea about separating content from styling, but...who cares?
That's actually a quite good website style.

Very readable, loads fast, no popups and no social sharing.
Communism's "discreditation" was the result of a decades long propaganda campaign and their descent into authoritarianism which isn't all that different to that which many capitalist countries went through (or some are currently going through).

You hear plenty of "well, capitalism would work fine too if it were just implemented correctly". That's exactly as stupid.
That is most definitely not why most people say all lives matter. They say all lives matter because it allows them to point at someone saying Black Lives Matter and make a moral judgement about them. Maybe some of the people saying All Lives Matter mean well but the vast majority of those saying it most definitely do not.
Before iOS 9 (or something) that JIT engine wasn't even exposed in the web view available for apps, so no matter what you did, you couldn't match the performance of Safari.

On iOS browsers like Chrome and Firefox are basically unable to compete in terms of performance, web standards or features like browser plugins. So people that use them do so just to get sync. Of course Safari Mobile is decent nowadays, but that's not the issue.
Agreed, the issue is not so much that particular guy. The issue is the rule of law. No one in Hong Kong should be apprehended by Chinese police.

If Colombian police came to Miami to snatch some drug lord, you'd object presumably, no matter your sympathy for the criminal.
Respect goes a long way on all skill levels. I respect those I work with and both those people and I benefit from it. With respect for one another no matter the skill level, we help push each others careers forward.
Offtopic-ish:

> some small fraction of people do manage to practice complete abstinence

I actually think it's a pretty large fraction, but they do it out of inability to secure a mate. The people for whom supply and demand curves never cross.

It's much harder to reason why a person capable of having a life will choose to not to.
He might think he can buy his way out.

If the story gets too big, the Chinese government might be forced to make an example of him.
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... and also "may" not matter at all.
Glad to see gender-focused research is going on, though.
I'm not entirely sure how executing a ransomware attack and not undoing the damage constitutes a white or grey hat approach.
Today's mail arrived, and yes, as expected, the KS version is nicer (except for a few things).
Regarding news, can someone please re-make the original concept of the fantastic news app Circa?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa_News
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There's been a YC RFS for Education for a long time; it's #7 on the list. YC has had some success in the space with companies like Clever, and for awhile had a sister-program dedicated solely to K-12 startups.
Unfortunately, the ACLU is not always consistent on the issue of free speech. For example, they have frequently argued in favour of compelling speech from Christian bakers, florists and photographers who, for reasons of conscience, are unwilling to provide their creative services for same-sex weddings. [1] [2] [3]

[1] http://aclu-co.org/court-rules-bakery-illegally-discriminate...

[2] http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0712/A-florist-cau...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/us/weighing-free-speech-in...
That might allow Chrome Extensions on iOS, but it seems like a lot of work to make that happen.
Just look to the wingsuit fliers - like Graham Dickinson.
Ah, but it is a filter - it filters out high frequency noise. One interpretation of the Kalman filter is a variable cutoff low-pass filter. The cutoff is determined by the Kalman gain. Note the similarity between the Kalman state update equation and a first-order low-pass IIR filter:

x_post = (1-KH)x_prior + K*z
Nothing false about the example you cited. The architect of the ban, Rudy Giulani confirmed on air that the goal was to ban Muslims and his team's task was to create a legal mechanism for that to happen[1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/tr...
and by that you mean he's only LEGALLY Canadian and Antiguan...
Strange that the article didn't mention steganography, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
What would be one thing that would motivate you that your company could implement?
I agree 100%. Let's talk about how to get there.
Let's say you have $30k in options and you're an H1b.
Sometime in the first 4 yrs of work you're fired and you have to go out of US. How likely it is that you will exercise your, especially since you're in a serious life change/upheaval (from moving out of US and closing down anything you might have going on still) and also with an illiquid stock?!
Tell HN: You can automatically donate 0.5% of your Amazon purchases to the ACLU
https://smile.amazon.com/

(Or any charity of your choice)
What's more, it seems many sophomoric Trump supporters are Holocaust deniers, from what I see in pro-Trump communities.
Just a few days ago WaPo and NYT had articles like "OMG OMG entire state department leadership just quit! OMG". An hour later, those had all disappeared or were replaced, because they were actually just let go (their customary resignations were accepted).

Trump will do a lot of damage to the US, but hysterical reporting with such a negative bias does not cast a good light on the US media, and is not the way to go.
You're not allowed to provide your own web render engine at all. The JIT issue was solved a couple versions of iOS ago - embedded webviews now get JIT just like Safari.
It would be surprising if someone in such rarified political circles doesn't know one of the premier tech investment firms, especially considering that one of their partners has been hanging round the White House.
The obvious rebuttal is that you did this to hide your stuff from EVERYONE. Criminal mens rea doesn't exist; you're just a citizen who likes his privacy.
Good lord, yes. That has been horrible. Mine was working fine before 7.1.1, but broke at that point. Apparently others have been having it since long before that, too.
Usually if you ask a company for a customized product it won't happen or you have to be willing to put a lot of money in it. But if you go through the work of mocking up your imagined product on Kickstarter, China may get it to the market for you at no cost.
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Yes, this is thought of as an improvement over dmenu and similar :) It uses cache so imho it's much faster.
Yea, it was always an outdated version of WebKit.
Well... You can't play play videos and music on paper.