skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a google for: "can i lie to a employer about past salary" - it really really messes with people - people feel super uncertain about how to approach this situation. Throwing any confidence they have during the negotiation out the window.

Even now I hesitate to write this as a million people will come out and say never lie - what if they found out.

More than banning. There needs to be acceptance that if someone asks you. You are totally free to make any damn number up that you like. Seriously. Its a sales situation. It should not be like your under oath on the stand. Which is how most people view it.
Backdoors from the 90s included actual purpose-built compilers. Whatever the CIA is doing, a good bet is that it's clownshoes stuff.

(I'll leave this comment here, but it responded to the original editorialized title of the story, which pointed out that this trojan had "its own language".)
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sol_remmy says:>"It appears to me that every bodily system slowly degrades as you age. Care to site any scientific studies showing that intelligence does not decline with age? That is a surprising claim to make."

Studies show that older people are smarter. Despite your apparent youth, I'm fairly certain you can find the relevant studies.

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

"In psychology, fluid and crystallized intelligence are factors of general intelligence, originally identified by Raymond Cattell."

Fluid intelligence peaks around 18 years of age, then declines.

Crystallized intelligence is your accumulation of knowledge and skill. It increases until age 65 then slowly declines.
Does the output include the tex file itself? The main reason I chose to use LaTeX for my C.V. aside from the obvious typesetting capabilities is how easy it is to edit and source control it.
What does this have to do with freedom of speech?
Keras did make it into tf.contrib now (with the release candidate for 1.1). I don't see it going away any time soon. TF-Slim though I'm not sure about. Never really used it myself.
> The probability of you being struck by lightning this year is 1/960,000.

And most people take precautions to avoid being hit by lightning.

A one in a million risk of death is easily enough to inspire action to reduce the risk.
If I'm not mistaken, the Supreme Court made a ruling that searching a person's belongings without probable cause is ok if that person is traveling. It was in 1973, way before 9/11.
Might have to hit up your LinkedIn extraction. Their new developer API is dick and gives you none of the info you need for a resume.
> would be a pity to go down after winning WW2 sure 70+ years later

The USA "won" WW2?
Fusion is mostly a certain amount of research dollars away. Funding has been steadily declining.[1]

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> I prefer to give a range than specify individually.

FWIW, this is likely almost as bad for you in the negotiation as giving the number. You will simply always get offers towards the bottom of your range. It is better to refuse to answer, and just say you're looking for a market rate salary for this role.
I agree, thats where the absolutes come in. Some choices need to be made centrally and the teams must stick to them, this is where choice can really work, when the lines are drawn and the structure clear.
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so no answer? If you have a reason I'd like to hear it. I cant think of a problem with this cause it makes the information disparity between employees and employers more equal, but Id like to hear any counterargument
Can't wait for Trump's anti-Twitter tweets.
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I'll have to find some way to bring it up myself. A higher than usual salary history is a good tangible signal to future employers and I'm not going to give it up.
If your former employer releases salary information without your consent, sue them into the ground.
I mostly agree, just a silly nitpick: Fast usually means cheap, especially if you are talking about software engineering. So I'd say the choice is between "fast & cheap" and good.
Making a law that says "Employers can't say or ask X" goes directly against freedom of speech.
Careful!!

There's quite a few ways to verify past salary. Specially some employers report employment information to private databases and your potential employer runs a "employment report," like banks run a credit report, as part of a mandatory background check. To see if you lied.

Of course, they can't do that without your permission but agreeing to a background check is a condition of employment.

The database i am thinking of is, IIRC, owned by Lexis Nexis and they claim to have employment data for the majority of Fortune 500 companies.

EDIT: The database I am thinking of is called The Work Number and is owned by Equifax.

http://www.businessinsider.com/salary-information-not-privat...

>One woman interviewed by CNBC had a Work Number report that was a whopping 22 pages long, complete with a copy of all of her paychecks over the years.

They claim to have employment information for over 1/3rd of American adults.
If lying during a job interview is fraud then lock me up.
How is this bad for "freedom of speech"? Please elaborate on this ludicrous claim.
This isn't silly, it's a legitimate fear because there are no real rules to what could happen to you.

If you have an arabic sounding or looking name, it's really not a stretch to imagine that you have a name that is similar enough to someone on a watchlist and are interrogated for it, or held, or prevented from boarding a flight. If you are travelling with your family, this is not a minor inconvenience, but a real source of stress and anxiety. You just don't know the repercussions it will have on you AND your family.

The "get pulled aside for some extra questions" happens to a Maroccan colleague of mine every time he visits the US for work, and means sitting around in a crowded room for a couple of hours at best. He expects it, and just tells his colleagues to just meet him at the hotel after getting out of the plane, but this isn't something that I consider acceptable.

What has been slowly creeping in without enough people noticing is that instead of being welcoming, travellers are now foremost suspects instead of guests (not only the US). If you're funny looking, you suddenly have no rights, and there is no due process. That is scary, especially when you're far away from home.

Even for people like me, who aren't funny looking or are in any form or shape a threat, there is a chilling effect. I like to travel, and for example have been to Iran a couple of years ago as part of a longer trip. Today, I could not make that same trip as lightheartedly, and would probably "self-censor" myself out of it in fear of future repercussions when travelling to the US or other western countries with an iranian stamp in my passport. Even if it is simply FUD, and most probably would not cause real problems for me, I do not wish it to happen to anybody just because they were born in the wrong place or have the wrong name.
It's not an either-or; this is malware, not vulnerabilities. For the most part it doesn't make sense to think in terms of using malware components to protect systems from malware.

This misunderstanding has come up on a bunch of other threads too; it seems to be pretty widespread. You can't really "burn" most persistence techniques, publishing them in a way that makes them easy to defend against. If you could, a whole lot of platform security engineering would be much easier.
It's a risk I'm willing to take for the potential upside.
I agree. I don't think the headline of this article is correct. The author's expectations were incorrect and it certainly is a good thing for everyone to be aware of, but this is like saying "don't use pointers because I didn't release memory and it caused a memory leak".

If you are using promises, understand how they work. The same for callbacks.
Employers lie about salaries all the time. I Know plenty of people who were told their salary was one of the highest of their coworkers where in reality they made less than most. Is that fraud?
Worker Unions should do that, not the state.
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The output is the raw latex source and a link to Overleaf to the template.

This is a starter for people who don't want to write for two hours to get started.
HIPAA regulations explicitly allow for using de-identified data in research.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-...
What was the trick?
https://twitter.com/sama/status/850010326733012992

to the founders track only around 13,000 companies applied so that's around 23% acceptance rate.
Yeah that has always been my understanding as well. Past employers are only allowed to say yes or no to you working there if asked.

Where this comes from I don't know. I'm sure there is a law that this common belief comes from.
I once ate too much red velvet cake, and had the experience of pooping a bright red. Yes, it was a bit shocking, but funny once I knew what happened. If I were expecting it, I'd have been able to delight in the weirdness.

I got the chance to do this later on, however: I took a medicine for a urine tract infection which made my urine look nearly neon yellow. I knew it was possible, and it wasn't a big deal. Expecting the color change makes a difference.
Creativity leads to anarchy.
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Let's say they make a law saying you can't ask your coworkers what their salary is - wouldn't you agree that is against freedom of speech?
The comparison you're drawing is between the RAF and the harassment of Muslims in the US. Lord only knows what the other leg of your Manhattan Project metaphor would be!

later edit

In case this actually needs to be said: in the course of prosecuting a war against terrorism (itself a spectacularly bad idea, lending itself as it does to a perpetual state of war), we've invaded and more or less conquered Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, and are in what any reasonable person would call a state of war with Syria and Yemen. You can look at a map of west Asia to see what that adds up to.
Way to see the bigger picture for employee rights here.
> the body scanners have over a 50% false positive rate (they're literally about the same as random chance)

That's nowhere near random chance, unless they're flagging half the people who walk through.

If they're flagging 1 in 1000, random chance would be a 99.9% false positive rate.
This points to an interesting method of poverty reduction - identify the little tricks which knowledgeable people use to get ahead in the system, and tweak the system to make the tricks less necessary.
Pulling all-nighters, working multiple 7 day work weeks, 18 hour days; those are all signs of weakness. But for some reason, some people think it's great and it shows teamwork and loyalty and blah...

It's just a poorly managed/developed project. Plain and simple.
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But the point in that post is this "goto example" is actually an example of the vague rationalizations used in attempts to censor speech. It covers two pillars of free speech exceptions which are both controversial - incitement(the case where the phrase came from), which Brandenburg vs Ohio narrowed significantly, and false statement of fact, which is very controversial, with decisions like Sullivan protecting newspapers from almost any liability vs the government.

The problem with almost all of the exceptions on freedom of speech is that they're all meant to be just that, exceptions in the most extreme of cases, and none of them are without controversy and tons of reinterpretation. Handwaving them away with the simplistic "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater" does not do any of them justice.
Setting up links to the West was a very brave thing to do.
No, I would not. Freedom of speech pertains to legislation from congress preventing political speech. Most companies already prohibit employees from discussing salaries, under penalty of termination. Any business can ask you to leave, as a patron, for using profane speech in their establishment, or any number of other reasons. Please stop participating in this absurd and obnoxious fallacy wherein you decry anything you dislike as violating your "free speech"
> I prefer to give a range

I've never understood this tactic. Specifying a range seems like a good way to underprice yourself. If you give a range, the recruiter will simply assume that your current salary is very close to the bottom of the range.

Now, if you mean that you give a range of previous salaries, the recruiter will know your best previous salary anyway. And they'll probably knock a fair bit off the top assuming you're padding.
Oh neat, do you have a list of those? /sarcasm...
> I actually find the fact that the Linux version is more expensive to be insulting. If anything, it should be cheaper, given that you're paying the "Windows Tax" on the W10 version of the laptop.

Unless things have changed since the Windows 7 days, you're paying the Windows Tax on both units. Dell (and other major manufacturers) pay Microsoft for every unit sold no matter what ends up on the hard drive. That's why it's half-jokingly called a "tax" in the first place, and it's likely why the Linux version costs more; the base price is the same no matter which OS is installed, and the little bit more you pay for the Linux model goes towards recouping that extra work integrating Linux.

> Now if they cost the same price, with the caveat that the $80 or so that would normally go to the W10 license is instead going to Dell's Linux team to ensure hardware compatibility and/or submit upstream changes to Canonical / Red Hat, then I'd be all for it.

I love that idea too, and maybe the smaller OEMs can get away with that if they have a per-install license fee from Microsoft instead of a per-unit-sold fee.
> I think it is reasonable to say that people with PhDs do not look fondly on those who pretend they do

I don't think you need to qualify it. I don't look kindly on this kind of fakery either, and I don't have a PhD.
How thoroughly? What did they do?
Is inventing stuff, in the meaning of truly breakthrough technologies or great patents really just copying stuff with minor changes ?
WKUK did a skit on this; well, more a commentary on the social/political contract, but still related and amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKERC6F7mSM
I want Spotify to fix Discover Weekly. At some point Spotify learned I like Chinese and Korean songs, they started to add Thai songs. I don't listen to Thai and I don't understand Thai. I don't know how to make Spotify unlearn and remove Thai from Discover Weekly now. Ever since, I stopped using the Discover Weekly feature because I get 3-4 songs in languages I don't understand and there isn't an easy way to make Spotify realize I dislike a particular kind of song.

If there isn't a "I do not like this" feature for a machine learning feature, that UX isn't good. Other users have raise this concerns too (google it).
No more than "my wife thinks we need to take the children out of school, so I'll need the money to make that possible" is.
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Only in this tech bubble and in cities swallowed by it like SF.

If you live somewhere with a healthier balance of careers where not everything is focused around tech, it would come off as incredibly dull and tone-deaf.
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No it doesn't, any more than "employers can't lie to you" does.
"You are your own worst enemy". Only later in life we realize how true it is.
Does that include inappropriately frisking children because what if they're secretly lightning rods and they're going to kill us all? No. Because that's ridiculous. Just like it's ridiculous in airports.
There seems to be a lot of outrage about searching electronic devices lately, especially among the tech crowd, but legally there's no reason why a phone or laptop should be immune to search while suitcases and briefcases aren't.

I think it's finally becoming more common because the government is slow to adapt and they're only just now developing the tools to conduct these searches.
They are trying to pass this in Philadelphia in May. Comcast and the local Chamber of Commerce are suing to stop it citing that it's a Freedom of Speech violation.

Besides being able to freely low ball candidates who started behind the 8 ball (women/minorities/people who didn't go to elite schools), is there a real argument for companies HAVING to know your previous salary?
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Linux still doesn't work well on a lot of laptop hardware.
Define "very bad". The total deaths attributed to Fukushima (including increased chance of cancer over the next decades) is about 100 people. Chernobyl is surrounded by essentially a thriving nature preserve.

What if the nuclear facility were surrounded by a human-forbidden nature preserve the size of the equivalently producing solar/wind farm?
Wow! The community has turned a corner! :-)

I don't believe 2-3 compatibility must be ugly (though it certainly can be), but I'm glad you believe what you said. If that makes sense.
I never answer questions about my past or expected salary, not to employers and not to recruiters.

Most employers don't ask, and the few that have (perhaps by having a part of an employment form ask for previous salary) have never made my leaving that information out an issue.

Most recruiters, if they even ask, respect my decision not to talk about it, but I've been pressed hard on this by a handful of recruiters, and have had this be a deal breaker for a couple of them. One recruiting firm admitted that they were paid by the employers to get this information. I wasn't getting paid to give this information out, however, and it's worth more to me to keep it private as I'm placed at a disadvantage in negotiations if I name a number first.

It's still a seller's market for IT talent, and there are plenty of other fish in the sea, so if some recruiters can't accept that I won't name a number, it's their loss.

It's great that NYC is taking the lead on this, and I really hope the rest of the US follows suit.
>Most companies already prohibit employees from discussing salaries, under penalty of termination.

This is actually illegal in many states. Workers have a legal right to discuss salaries.

>Freedom of speech pertains to legislation from congress preventing political speech.

Not correct. Free speech is about any freedom of expression, not just political speech. There is endless amounts of case law to back this up.
Same here! Try VueJS. Especially Vue Components as they wrap up HTML template and JS code. Vue creates the render function from the HTML template, so no mucking around with jsx. Personally I want to think in "HTML" with JS secondary.
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That's not how (good) sales works.
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Terrorists have been known to place bombs on children.

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It is mostly applicable for taking data sourced at an endpoint (e.g. Mobile phone) and running what is essentially a refinement to the learning.

A key component is that to analyze the data in the cloud for the same refinement would mean sending the data to the cloud, which the user may not want, and may also be bandwidth intensive.

For fake news, the data is already in the cloud, being pushed down to the users device. A user could mark something as 'fake' (via explicit action, or possibly inaction), and that 'mark' is uploaded and the data is analyzed by central compute for refinement. To be clear, that is NOT what this paper is about, I am saying fake news would be a bad use, because the data is not being sourced by the user, only viewed and possibly marked.

A better example than the gboard gesture learning refinements might be in the form of an app that acts as a dashcam (leaving aside the kludgeyness of that). The user could mark things like proper recognition of street signs, traffic lights, or brands/models of vehicles. The phone would then analyze those classification, compute a diff to the algorithm, send just that diff to the cloud (summarizing a lot). Multiply that by 1,000,000 users, and now you have a refined data set that did not require sending 100,000,000,000 images to the cloud for analysis.
In comparing the Volocopter noise to helicopters it would be something with no main rotor noise and 18 heavily loaded open tail rotors:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_noise_reduction#Tai...

My guess would be that the noise wouldn't carry as far due to the higher frequency but would be very loud closer in, again due to the higher frequency.
I'm ashamed to say I'm guilty of this.

Unfortunately it takes the masses being encroached upon before we take it seriously.
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Am I the only one who thinks he really retired when he left the WSJ? Recode might have been better money for him (I don't know) but it was undoubtedly a much smaller platform and audience.

For a while there at WSJ he basically drove the entire consumer conversation about computers and mobile devices. Not so much since he left.
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I didn't say I'd fight against the existence of the law. I said people who are hurt by the law should retain the same negotiating power they had before rather than lose their right.
Well done New York City! London needs this desperately, most recruiters here won't let you proceed without it, unless you apply directly.
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