skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer to your question is multi-dimensional and very long. I am assuming your question applies to the US, as other countries do have unionized technology workers.

- Historically Engineers were considered white collar, and draftsman, machine operators, and assemblers were considered blue collar

- Software engineers used to be a distinct culture, different from both management (Jocks/Frat Boys), and blue collar workers - this has changed dramatically in the last 30 years and the divisions have blurred

- Early hackers were egalitarian but distrusting of central authority, they were rebels, loner rebels do not form unions.

- Ayn Rand, objectivism, etc. had a strong influence on computer scientists, engineers, etc. That influence has waned. It was once very common for engineering schools to have objectivist clubs, now they are rare.

- Tech workers, despite being pushed to ridiculous hours, rarely looked at themselves as victims in the past. Sure you didn't shower for a week, but you were making bank getting to build new and exciting things. Today the job is less exciting and you are more likely to be maintaining someone else's mess than inventing something new.

- Even if you were laid off in the 70s and 80s you felt very secure because tech was booming, you could go somewhere else. That changed in the 90s, despite the dot com boom, the balance finally shifted to where there were enough tech workers to not guarantee you would be be immediately hired elsewhere.

- Unions are widely distrusted among the US population. Yes they gave us the 40 hour work week and weekends, but they are often seen as obstruction to change not agents of change.

- A lot of people in the US simply don't like unions.

There are a lot of reasons to not like unions, but that was not your question.

I am personally in favor of unions in the private sector, but not in the public sector. I am against compulsory membership and believe unions should be more transparent.

Edit: also I was thinking about it and collective bargaining power for tech is probably even worse now than it once was because many companies could just move software engineering overseas.
I need to look it up again, but I recall the fix was to deny fallback for readers that support a chip. So this was an issue before but they fixed it.
The moral of the story is that we will have to check our passwords against a password GAN before using them, even if they are unique.
I used it to transfer money between countries with an exchange rate better than any other available. Surely this is not illegal?
No, Walmart has always been a careful, profitable business by necessity (thanks to extremely low margins). It's not just because they ran out of ideas to fund in the last ten or N years.

For most of their early existence, they didn't have bubbly capital markets to ride as Amazon did during the dotcom bubble and presently. What made Amazon possible turned out to be a very short-term fluke of history that Bezos took great advantage of. He needed to thread the needle and did just that. Amazon nearly collapsed into insolvency specifically because rather than rely on a profitable business they were leaning on funding to subsidize their vast red ink (as eg Uber is currently). That's an approach Walmart never had the option of taking, and in the decades since they've also never had the luxury of routinely being valued at 200x earnings. Amazon isn't a special alien organism, they're one part retailer (boring old retail), one part platform for distribution (eg retail and media), one part software company (cloud etc); they are particularly good at what they do.

Walmart pays high taxes because they generate most of their income in the United States market. Which is the same reason that Delta has a high corporate income tax, and the same reason Whole Foods does. It's the reason Foot Locker paid a 34% corporate income tax rate last year.
When gas hit $4 a gallon in the US (yes that was considered expensive here), many of the stations disabled the "pump then pay" feature because of all the drive-offs they were getting (petrol theft). So you'd have to go inside to get the clerk to enable the pump.
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It's not that they force you to use Facebook, you find that it's simply the most optimal way to communicate - to use Mark's own words it's "friction-less". Some people you will text, call, email and no response - message them on FB and bam, instant reply. I realize that's pretty f*cked up but it's useless to scold or hound them to respond to your other inquiries.

"People who will only communicate with you through Facebook are likely not worth communicating with"

Really? You're suggesting I cut people out of my life who want to communicate via Facebook over other mediums? Pretty harsh.
If we could somehow move from private banks to a public distributed ledger that worked Government-style, we could probably reduce taxes and streamline a lot of things.
The TC39 has to step up their game and introduce static typing to JavaScript.

I don't buy the bugs argument, but I firmly believe it would make the development experience considerably better. Not only because of tooling, but specially because code would be more way more expressive.

Also in my almost 20 or so years writing Javascript and other dynamic languages I've never once changed the type of a variable. Changing a var from string to int or object is just wrong.
I don't agree with OP necessarily but just because one may think it's BS doesn't mean they think the public and traders think that. So shorting it wouldn't work out for a while in that hypothetical.

I don't have too much knowledge about cryptos. And the ICOs occurring certainly seem mostly like BS, but I'm still "investing" (more like trading quickly and selling) to make a profit while this gold rush lasts. Doesn't matter how I feel about it.
To be fair, they're the ones that don't know how to conduct business transactions in the 21st century. Consider that they just paid a "you had better update your system" tax.
Not really an exhaustive list of positions... Anyways the figures for my area are well off and I suspect London-tainted.
Since LAPACK is an excellent library for these matrix functions, why not use it, and translate it to Clojure instead of reinventing the wheel? (There's also a translator from Fortran to C).
Can you write an OS Kernel in Go? [video]
This was definitely a first class design goal for Flow and TypeScript and, I'm certain, a non-trivial part of their success.
Some of us who have been holding since Bitcoin was worth $2 are laughing at you.
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You know, if Tom owes Sally, and Sally owes Jes, and Jes owes Tom, it's really not clean and cut to say "all debt" or "all revenue" because it depends on which node is the focal point.
It's a petty semantic argument. You don't need to plug it into your phone, which is the annoying part. You just plug the pad in and leave it plugged in forever. You require much less accuracy to charge your phone now. It will be a boon to people who suffer from tremors or have weak hands.
Hey all, Frank DiCola of Game Revenant here. This is a long interview, but the key point is near the bottom. It's all about app pricing and marketing.

If anyone thinks I'm off-base, let me have it. But I can't see the flaw in pricing the app initially high. If you start at $0.49, you've left yourself no room.
If you manually verify safety numbers and mark your contact as verified, it will hard-stop you and require confirmation if your contact's identity key changes afterwards.
It makes sense. Maybe a cryptocurrency could be used to symbolize that transaction, and limit the amount of allowed processing power.
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But it doesn't mean that the bubble is not there. Governments don't create bubbles. Human nature does.
I'm surprised they don't have a box at the bottom, after you get your results, that says, "How did we do? What is your current salary?"
Do you think that Lance Armstrong is in some way reforming or reformed?
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Why should we limit it by age?

Also, you say that "I think x,y,z." But you do not say why. Do you have some expertise that informs your decision on safety or is your opinion purely philosophical (based on personal freedom or even Darwin Awards)?
The website should fit in the DNS response.
This is presented as a cutesy way to get heavily indebted millennials onto the property ladder (and into yet more debt), but doesn't it turn them into indentured servants for the lender?

They have 8 days per year they can't have the house available for rental - what if they are sick, or want to go on vacation, or have a baby, or have elderly parents/sick relatives that need the room? Or are just sick of having a constant flow of strangers in their home? Oh - they can just pay Loftium their share of all the nights remaining, plus 15% (about $30k per year - so potentially up to $90k cash they'd owe). Horrific and usurious.
We already see with other "use this as a building block" public registries like Docker's where people blithely pull this stuff in and don't pay attention to whether or not it actually works according to even some semblance of best practices. So what's the handler for the "hey, this is broken/insecure, this needs to be fixed or taken down" case? How does this alert users whose infrastructure pulls this in?

HashiCorp, as some of the leaders of the Make Decisions On Five Minute Demos #squad, usually doesn't answer even half the questions for their Bright Ideas before people adopt them and find all the rakes on the lawn. This feels even worse than usual.

Building strong foundations matters. This doesn't help somebody who knows what they're doing do it better/faster--because of the inevitable impedance mismatches, in part because folks do this stuff differently and in part because Terraform is not particularly expressive and workarounds will involve destructive manipulation of modules--and it harms people who don't.
Because both currencies have monopoly in two highly developed economies. I guarantee you that the exact moment the government crashes or drops support for the currency, that currency becomes worth zero. Happened many times in history. However, I bet the chance of either US or EU collapsing is tiny.
It does work on latest Firefox for Android. Text curves well.
Seems broader than I expected. Entered several different roles, technology, etc in the calculator and got pretty much identical results. I am in Chicago though, that might have something to do with it.
They wouldn't be targeting spiritual healers as consumers -- the number would be far lower than you suggest -- they would be targeting them as the "brand ambassadors" and "thought leaders" within their community. Which is eminently sensible. Evil, but sensible.
A company could buy the schematics and manufacture their own to Navy spec.
Web Scale?
Comparison, an ideal scenario:

Direct PR from Federal = 6 months.

Quebec Inland = 6 months (CSQ) + 1 year(Federal).

Quebec Outland = unknown number of years, I know cases which are 4 years waiting for a CSQ.

So it boils down to how many points you have. If you satisfy points in the Express Entry system currently, then its the way to go. Go ahead and apply to the Express Entry system online. Else land in Quebec with a temporary work permit & go thru the Quebec CSQ route. The Quebec CSQ is also based on points. Not every occupation is in demand in Quebec. IT certainly is.

Note: PR is not equal to citizenship. Canadian citizenship can be applied after 4 years(I think) of continuous residence in Canada after PR.
Does unsplash work?
Is there a problem with unsplash service? I wonder if relevant with internet providers in my country? not working.
But what when some of them stop HODLING?
Vivaldi has sidebar tabs, chrome under the hood.
That was terrible UX. After searching for the link (why not place it at the top?) which can be done easier and clearer. I filled everything in, then it turned out the location was not supported. So I took the bigger city in the area. Then I got the message

> We don't support this location. Select a location from the dropdown menu.

There is no dropdown menu. I then hovered over the I icon, to only then learn my country is not supported.
Should've just set up a Patreon page for Patreon.
Bitcoin and for that matter all crypto currency is a libertarian ideal.

Libertarian ideals do not fit in communist societies. Regulation was always coming, as even liberal societies regulate.

But regulation is only there to keep the established order. The established order is very afraid of crypto right now in the same way the music industry freaked out over MP3.

I can't help it, but I get annoyed when crypto is branded with illegal activities like terrorism, fraud etc. No one talks about USD being used in the same way!
Modern mainstream science does not allow for the existence of free will. Materialism (everything is physical) and Determinism (everything that ever happens is an inevitable and ultimately predictable consequence of The Big Bang) reign in contemporary thought. Free will is largely considered to be an illusion or psychological trick (see eg. Daniel C. Dennett 'Freedom Evolves') and several studies have shown that decisions happen before we become aware of them and believe ourselves to have consciously decided (see Benjamin Libet's experiments amongst many others).

For free will to exist the question of what is doing the willing has to be answered. The classic (René Descartes) explanation was that of the Cartesian Theatre, the idea that somewhere inside our heads there is some kind of entity that is separate from the physical substance that makes up our bodies. As far as I can see modern science's answer to that is 'nah - neurons' (I'm oversimplifying, people go into lots of detail about electrochemical processes which happen in the brain).

I'm not necessarily saying I agree with/believe all of this (although Dennett's books are quite persuasive) but I'm not aware of any 'respectable' current theories that allow for any kind of 'ghost in the machine' - and without that, there's nowhere for free will to come from (and with that all that happens is you then need to answer what is driving the free will of the ghost/spirit/agent and where it comes from - which is similar to how The Big Bang doesn't explain why something could spontaneously appear out of nothing, only that it did and what happened next. Soap Bubble Universes, Multiverses etc just push the question one step further away... one turtle further down the stack).

The world has a serious problem to resolve here because if there truly is no free will then there is no justification for punishing people for their actions - they had no choice in the matter... in which case the criminal justice system is barbaric and unfounded.

I realise a lot of people here will already know this stuff but it plays on my mind quite a lot so please excuse the essay :)
I've been thinking about this sort of thing for a couple of months now. I really like the idea of an open-source social network, maybe supported in part or in full by crowdfunding via something like Patreon. If the intention is connection rather than profit, you'd mostly just need to cover server/hosting fees. Of course, that's still not a cheap proposition.

But I'd rather have a small network focused on good connections than a large network focused on invading and selling user data, and maybe a smaller network could be managed by user contributions over investments that lead to treating users as the product.
China will nationalize the domestic miners and treat Bitcoin as a commodity asset that the state controls.

I believe this will immediately cause a constriction in supply as those coins will not be sold at least initially on the open market.

Look for this messaging to coincide with the pronouncements around the new five-year plan(FYP)[1]. As the first major section of the 13th FYP, innovation is emphasized as a cornerstone of China’s development strategy.[2] Bitcoin is a technology and has already come along way from the Satoshi whitepaper. State-Owned Enterprises will be emphasized as they strengthen SOEs as national champions at home and abroad and protect their interests in this emerging blockchain space. The goal of the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative is to facilitate access to natural resources and encourage economic development in China’s poorer western provinces.

While such an initiative can continue without bitcoin, it is interesting to think of how OBOR would be strengthened on the world stage with an instantly settled mechanism such as bitcoin behind its infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_National_Congress_of_the_...

[2] https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/The%2013th...
Remember that Coke has a franchise bottler model.

So Coca Cola FEMSA's marketing people develop and execute their marketing strategy. Just because Mexico is a relatively poorer country doesn't mean that the business people are a bunch of bumpkins.

People in Chiapas may not be drinking Coke by the gallon, but it's a product with drug-like margins. They have a positive customer value, or Coke wouldn't be doing it.
Simply taxing revenue is bad for start ups and puts them at a even more of a disadvantage.
There's a box above the graph that asks: "Is this accurate? Please help us improve the Salary Calculator by adding your salary"
Introducing: Unity Machine Learning Agents
Would not proof-of-stake be an algorithmic calculation, available to anyone with the dataset (blockchain) and the computational power? Right now certain credit card companies charge a fee for calculation of a credit score (at that instant/ on the fly). Presumably in a cryptocoin economy everyone who has access to the dataset and knows the formula could tell you the proof-of-stake. Banks historically act as a time-throttler on transfer of funds, making sure the economy does not move without the inner cogs of the banks turning first. It is widespread now globally. With a cryptocoin economy, banks would not throttle time any longer and would instead help facilitate additions to the blockchain (via fee) as many exchanges currently do. What all factors does one need for proof-of-stake?
Fitbit still hasn’t cracked the smartwatch code
Instead of thinking about what thinking is supposed to be like in some ideal vacuum, think about what thinking is actually like — how it proceeds over time, evolves gradually, changes with your mood, is often difficult, can slip away after a brief glimpse at something interesting.

Does your question still make sense?
And this is the relatively easy case of an app built using Apple technologies.

It can be much more difficult if you built a game using a cross platform game engine filled with binary 32bit libraries. If the engine is still around, you might be able to pay for a license for a newer version of the engine, but then you likely also need to deal with the SDK and format changes in the new engine as well as any iOS specific things you have.

Still, if software is your business and this software in particular makes you money, it's really not _that_ expensive to do.
Until you cash out, I'd wait on the laughing.
Yes, downvote me because I pointed out to blatant racism.
What exactly does "processed" mean though? Cooking is a form of processing so do I have to go raw? Pressing oils out of nuts is processing so do I give up oils and only eat nuts? I thought fermented foods showed some potential health benefits but I'd argue that fermentation falls under "highly processed."

"Processed" is a vague word that means very little.
I'm assuming by iterate you mean "generate outputs of a GAN which preserve some order that you can iterate through."

The answer is yes, but not in the way that one might think. Despite the fact that we seed the GAN with input noise, there is no guarantee that the GAN makes use of this at all. This is a theme with GANs: we often want to imbue them with prior knowledge that we think is important, but is easily ignored by the GAN. In this case, we want to generate samples from p(x|z), where x is in the space of our data (often images, in this case passwords), but provided it gets good results according the the loss function, your GAN may learn p(x|z)=p(x). This is fine if you don't care about enforcing some relationship between input and generated samples, but here we do.

One solution is to use InfoGAN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03657), which adds a term to the loss function that the mutual information between a latent code and the generator output must be high. Your latent code might be drawn from a uniform distribution on [-1,1], and the generator output will be conditioned on this code. This being continuous, it's questionable what "iterate" might mean. On a computer, maybe you iterate through every possible float (as someone mentioned), but if you want to generate N different samples, you could also discretize this distribution to N values on the given interval, each with probability 1/N and sample from this PMF.
This is an awesome article breaking this down really well. So why are you all talking about Chip and PIN? Talk about the article and about the technology stop arguing politics of chip and pin.
A guide to cryto-currencies and their algos
They rightly don't want your "business".
exactly - these changes were a bigger concern two weeks ago, and all these new stories are now noise

We'll know when something meaningful happens by the price impact
Because you need it to pay taxes in European nations?
Because JVM does not have access to the hardware features needed to execute this efficiently. Also, the power of lapack comes from existing highly tuned implementations, not the interface itself. Reference BLAS and LAPACK are actually quite slow.
You know. It just occurred due to me, due to your post, how convenient it must be to have every app using your APIs in one place like the app store.
Specifically, Table II gives mean times of 231.4 s (Flow) resp. 306.8 (TypeScript). So if you spend on average more than 5 minutes debugging errors that static typing could have prevented, you're probably better off just writing the annotations.
I agree. It is not advised to introduce confusing syntax if there is a chance that somebody outside of the group would use the code.

It is even more frustrating in .js repositories today. People use various ESXX flavours and syntaxes that might not compatible with each other.

Just look at this list: https://babeljs.io/docs/plugins/
My favorite is:
babel-plugin-transform-decorators-legacy (A plugin for Babel 6 that (mostly) replicates the old decorator behavior from Babel 5)

Talk about code reuse
It is in China now. Russia too IIRC. Probably several other countries that impose capital controls.

In the west this is legal, but the bank may still ask you where the money came from under their enforcement of laws like knowing your customer and money laundering controls.

Tax agencies may also get involved if there is automatic reporting.
Such a blanket statement. I could be selling people's thumbs and toes out of my basement as part of an index fund. Not that I know anything about what it requires to become an indexed fund, but I am fairly certain there is no ethical or moral obligation to benefit the world or humanity.
Well there are people who use solar cycles for dating things as well.
My "buy in" was a $300 AMD graphics card which I then kept using for games after the mining difficulty was too high. As far as I'm concerned my BTC is an added value. If it crashes to worthlessness I would not care.

PS: I have no intention of cashing out.

Since BTC is deflationary I'd rather hold till each BTC is worth 100k. Check this thread in 2030 :)
Was there something specific on that page you thought merited attention?