skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to enumerate the goals of the meeting on a whiteboard. Literally write them out so people can see. I have found this to be the most effective method by far. When people have a meeting agenda in their email, it won't come to mind during the meeting. When they see the topics ahead of them, they know exactly what needs to be addressed.

Someone has to play the assertive, no nonsense authority. Meetings are ripe for sidebar conversations. It only gets worse with more people, people from different offices/sections/projects, closeness of participants, etc. Whoever is running the meeting needs to ensure that the agenda is the foremost priority. Keep the agenda conversation going while squelching pointless conversation.

Keep a list of tabled topics. Not all sidebar conversation is bad. There are tangentially related topics that need to be addressed as well, but they may not take precedent over what is on the agenda. Those topics can also be written on the board to circle back to if time permits. This has the added bonus of growing the agenda while keeping the time allotted constant.

Understand why people argue and what is needed to make both parties happy. For the longest time, I didn't realize that I was arguing poorly. I knew what my point was and what I wanted to get across. I would listen to their reasons for arguing their side, but I never got to their core beliefs. Sometimes you have to outright ask what will it take to make them change their mind.

An underhanded trick that can be used (but not every time) is to give them a sense of urgency: Thanks for attending this meeting. I know we have a lot to cover, but I have to leave in 45 minutes. If we focus, I know we can hit all of these topics. If certain topics are limping along, give a time check: We need to make a decision. I only have 25 minutes with 3 more topics to go.
:-) Aren't you bikeshedding? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12403557
I'm not sure that syncing to cloud is really the best for most personal users, at least not anymore. If you have multiple devices and use SyncThing / etc to sync between them, you're protected against device loss and damage without having to put your personal files on a server controlled by someone other than yourself.

I was about to install it anyway, but I saw that it doesn't have bi-directional sync. If 3 people at work shared a google drive folder and they all tried to sync to it, it sounds like whoever synced last would always win and it could potentially delete / alter some file.
I have not had success with that method. You are probably a better communicator than I.
We found some bug in the rtf and txt export, we are fixing them right now.
We are going to change the way we serve the file either as user mixedbit suggested it or other that work for sure cross browser and trough proxy and so on. Thanks for the report.
ASK HN: Equity for non-founder startup CEO with NO salary with NO funding yet?
This is an enterprise SaaS product and has two tech co-founders who have been working on their prototype for the past six months. They have also invested a few thousands in hiring freelancers to expedite the development. The product MVP is now ready and I am being roped in as the business face of the company. As CEO, my initial responsibilities will include

* bringing in the first beta users
* bringing in new customers
* finding investors
* generating revenue

Other important points to consider:

* I plan on taking no salary till we find investors
* Both my tech-cofounders still have their day job and plan to go full-time after finding investments
* I shall be putting in at least 6 hours of work every day starting now.

Given these considerations, what would you think is a reasonable equity to ask? Thanks for your time.
Wait what, really? I can literally draw anything you ask me to in my mind, I can see things so vividly I can manipulate them with my mind if I want to. Fascinating that you can't, totally... blows..my...mind. :)

(edit: then as a note, you might find this interesting: https://medium.com/@jedgar/my-broken-mind-24bb98a1e793)
Since it has a significant overlap with Fable (https://fable-compiler.github.io/), a comparison would be interesting.
this looks interesting. Do you have any plans for miband 2 support?
The Rise and Fall of Rocket Internet in India
The flexibility in the release schedule strikes me as very useful. The CD sales business is admittedly less interesting.
I have done some work in Java and Javascript. It was all done with hate. If there was any love there, it was for the paychecks I got at the end of each month.
That's been a question for a while, and comes up every time an anti-amyloid antibody reduces plaques but doesn't affect memory impairment. A number of people believe that we need to work on early detection and to start treatment as soon as possible.
One nice thing about the physical CDs is that they're trustworthy source for the release's signify pubkeys (which you can compare with the ones on the website.)
:) Ok we will look into it, I understand the point.
Looking to learn assembler programming, any advice?
Hi everyone, I've been a hobby programmer for several years now with experience in various high-level languages (Java, Python, Lisp, a little C/C++). Recently I've been toying with the idea of learning some x86 assembler programming. I know it isn't really much used anymore, but I would like to learn it for the sake of getting to know my computer better.

Unfortunately, I have no clue where to start. Any advice on possible directions to pursue would be much appreciated. Books, tutorials, software to install (I'm running Linux), other hints... Thanks in advance :-)
Ever wanted to try some BSD system in my daily usage and this post is a great motivation to actually try. Although there are still some questions:

1) what is the main difference between FreeBSD and OpenBSD? I see, that OpenBSD provides a very minimalistic environment, which still, I think, will perfectly serve my daily workflow based on StumpWM+Emacs+Firefox. Does FreeBSD provide some more "cookies" in aspect of daily usage?

2) What is the state of RaspberryPi support in OpenBSD?

3) Is there some known big issues with video/wifi hardware in OpenBSD?
Apple considers that all sales across Europe actually happen in Ireland, so taxes on profit on sales in the whole EU are paid in Ireland. That part is perfectly legal within the EU.

The issue is that the normal tax rate in Ireland is around 12%, and Apple uses accounting tricks and tax exceptions to lower their effective tax rate there to 0.005%. That is the part that the the European Commission ruled illegal.
> Cook: [...] Apple has long supported international tax reform with the objectives of simplicity and clarity.

> Gardner: That bit made me laugh out loud. When the Senate’s permanent subcommittee was describing the elaborate tax-avoidance techniques used by Apple, they had to use flowcharts to explain it. The incredible complexity and creativity in the Apple tax-avoidance scheme is almost admirable. But to say that they are interested in simplicity and clarity is laughable.

This is a failure of reading comprehension by Gardner, which could only be brought about by bias. Cook is not saying Apple's current arrangements are simple. He's saying that he would like to see reform so that using simple arrangements instead would not be detrimental to Apple.
I tried it with http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/ and got the message: "You are now a certified Document Cyborg hacker, but you don't get any files:)"
Egregious? http://financialaid.oregonstate.edu/review_costofattendance
When I use speach to set reminders, I usually have to prepare mentally really carefully, so I use the exact phrasing for datetime it recognizes without me hessitating.
this pattern is just as dangerous (maybe less for github if you trust them) because you can detect curl and deliver malicious code: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
The used U-Pb dating of zircons. They did not date the fossil directly, instead they dated other rocks in the same stratigraphic sequence (Isua supracrustal belt). The relevant sentences:

The stromatolite discovery locality (Extended Data Fig. 1) is within the hinge of an anticline cored by 3,709 ± 9-Myr-old andesitic metavolcanic rocks with locally preserved pillow structures and a maximum metamorphic temperature of ~550 °C17, 18. The pillowed metavolcanic rocks are overlain by bedded dolomite-rich metasedimentary rocks and in turn, by interlayered quartzites and metamorphosed banded iron formation that contain rare, small, high Th/U oscillatory-zoned volcano-sedimentary zircons with ages of 3,699 ± 12 and 3,691 ± 6 Myr3, 18.

That means rocks with zircons dated to 3709 Ma are interpreted to be below (older) and rocks with 3699 Ma zircons are interpreted as being above (younger).

Zircon is an excellent mineral for geochronology as it contains U and Th. Two U isotopes, 235U and 238U, plus 238Th all decay to Pb at different rates (half lives). Zircon forms by growing from magma, and does not contain any Pb when grows, as Pb does not fit into the crystal structure, so any Pb you measure in a zircon today is from radiogenic decay of U and Th. If the ratios of the individual U and Th isotopes and their respective Pb daughter products are all consistent with the same age, i.e. you get the same age when you back calculate to zero Pb for all three isotope systems, then you can be very confident in the date, hence the small uncertainties on the reported dates from the paper.
The dataset has been released already:

https://github.com/workpiles/CUCUMBER-9
> neural regrowth

I didn't know this was possible. Is it ?
According to the article, the title is wrong

"The infected file was available for download somewhere between a few hours and less than a day."
> Which competitor worries you most?

good one! never thought to ask about competitors but they are extremely important. gonna ask it tomorrow.
You are now on the beta test list! Thanks for your interest!
Yeah this is the thing. Especially for projects built in off-time, this feels like people expressing "I code for others for money, but this I gave up my time for because it makes me happy."

It's pride in work. Nothing wrong with that.
August news round-up: the growing role of Asia Pacific
> But now you're saying that you are interested in programming. TOC is about something else. (...) A model that requires a computationally powerful collaborator -- a programmer -- can't arise spontaneously in nature, for example.

If you're trying to argue that “computation” is a physical phenomenon in the same sense gravity or electromagnetism are, I have bad news for you: it isn't. The theory of computation, just like information theory and probability theory, is first and foremost a mathematical theory: It is a priori only constrained by the requirement to be logically consistent. This is very different to what happens with a theory of gravitation or electromagnetism, which has to match external observations.

> > Complexity in the sense of complexity theory?

> Yes.

Elaborate.

> Whether that's an issue for the questions you're interested in asking doesn't define what "in practice" means.

In practice, when I submit a Standard ML program to a REPL, the REPL tells me almost instantly whether my program is typable or not.

> Again, burden is a question of meaning (proof: you need an agent for something to be a burden for). The requirement, however, shows that the different models are objectively, essentially and radically different.

Agreed. Only one of the theories is actually useful. (Urgh, it's not a model in the logician's sense!)
This term always amuses me, because in british parlance "bike shed" is mostly associated with the phrase "behind the bike sheds," the proverbial place where illicit activities take place in the school playground: smoking, pubescent sexual exploration etc. To turn it into a verb seems very racy indeed until you find out what it actually means.

EDIT: I think the US equivalent might be "under the bleachers"?
I'm not American, and that's not what the EU is fighting to keep. If the EU doesn't like that Ireland gave a special deal, then the EU needs to work on becoming competitive, instead of trying to throw it's weight around.

If the EU gets it's way, it's Ireland that loses, not Apple.

The EU was a brilliant idea that has been poorly executed and it should be disbanded completely.
In some cases cheaper. Often lower setup fees. You can choose to have your setup fee split over your first 6 months.

On the other hand their support is not great. I've heard it's all PC-grade hardware rather than server-grade. They complain Canonical tried to charge them out the backside for Ubuntu licensing when in reality it'd be nothing if they'd stop using a modified, unsupported and un-maintained Ubuntu derivative.

Hit or miss really, depends what you're after and what you're personally ok with.
You comment makes zero sense. Apple themselves created an extremely complex chain of operations to avoid paying taxes, nobody forced them to do it.
funny, I wrote a long reply to a similarly worded comment that was later deleted, so I couldn't post it.

What is this line of inquiry?
If it is "illicit state aid" then sure, it will not end here. In fact the EU has sanctioned Starbucks in NL and IIRC is investigating {FCA, Amazon] in LU.

If the line of inquiry is "big companies that earn money and pay little taxes", why would you expect something new to happen considering that corps like Coca Cola have operated in europe for a century?

The EU has no voice on local taxation, only on competition issues. Coca Cola, for example, would not have been able to get the same tax deal that Apple did, which means it was anti-competitive.
Moving, Cloning, and Copying Coloring Books in Rust
Unfortunately our boss The Cyborg doesn't want us to change the name. As his minions we can't do much but if we escape we promise to free Document from the Cyborg:)
This is plain misandrism and should have no place on HN.
wth! That page tells us nothing useful. The hardware headline has a picture of it, a pinout diagram and nothing more.
What kind of hardware is it built with? What architecture is it? What's the wi-fi chip? Does it have good support? What libraries are you using? What distros are supported?

All I can see it that it's running busybox and a two year old kernel.
I've been in a number of companies where there was an obvious IQ-gap. Some people could watch everyone else like mice running a maze but couldn't explain to them how to succeed in a way they would understand.

Someone with an average IQ, when compared to someone on the higher end of the curve, has all the tools to assert their interests but without much ability to reason abstractly about them or to recognize or interpret meta patterns.

Gifted education is only partially to help intelligent kids, it's just to protect the order among the other ones. It isolates intelligent kids from the people they might otherwise learn to lead. Yes, gifted kids can be disruptive or withdraw in normal classrooms, but removing them to a "special" class is about helping crap teachers.

Enriched education is valuable, but doing it at the expense of a childs development in the hopes of engineering better kids is awful. If you want to help them, teach gifted kids leadership skills, they'll figure out the rest.
Couldn't agree more, and Trianglify looks super cool.
"To deter code reuse exploits, rc(8) re-links libc.so on startup, placing the objects in a random order."

I love this defense in depth, buried in the release notes... https://www.openbsd.org/60.html
The app I am maintain says Built with Love in Stockholm. Must have been some sort of masochistic love.
My hope is that the stories like this one are more than just a sign-post along the way. Startups, by default, are hopeful places, they need to be. That makes them vulnerable to all sorts of people and forces (greed, fraudsters, etc.). I think there is a lesson here about confronting reality, personal responsibility and the potential to be complicit in the type of behavior we abhor. This isn't intended to be any sort of judgment, but I agree this community is influential, in a unique way, I think, so it's worth mentioning.
You should try working with Salesforce. That makes JavaScript seem like a pleasant experience.
That is insane.

I added a pingback to this thread to the bug, along with some general encouragement that fixing this is a wise idea.
Thanks for posting. Wasn't really aware what Brutalist actually was - turns out one of my favorite buildings downtown is on this list. (and safe, for now)
Jeff Bezos needed 60 meetings in 1995 to raise $1mn for Amazon, giving up 20%
> It's not for beginners. Beginners should use Ubuntu.

Please change it to PC-BSD
US cards used to go for around $2.50 a pop several years back. Way cheaper in bulk. Not sure about now though.
Are you sure? To me it just looks like your average sect. And having sex with a man wearing a goat mask does not appeal to me as "less creepy" :)

Also, a few wiccans committed a collective suicide in France some time ago.

I guess it's just less mainstream for now. We need to wait a bit for more scandals to emerge.
I like working with Perl. Admittedly its easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it.
“The Honda Way” for Product Management
great for offices with black and white printers
Please don't use several megabyte-plus size images on your front page!
Please can you tell which browser are you using, this should happen only if you disabled javascript or try to change the parameter type of the export. If that's neither your case we will trow one of our programmer to the tiger:)
Dropbox hack leads to leaking of 68m user passwords on the internet
Solar Eclipse Hits Nigeria [video]
Giistr.io – Easily contribute to your favourite OSS projects
I agree. Person should have a wide salary range, such as 60-80K, not a single number like 80K. If the recruiter throw number below the lowest expectation it is a red flag for sure.
LeakedSource Analysis of Last.fm Hack
> I would prefer the money stay with the shareholders

I thought it couldn't be repatriated anywy, because the US charges a level of tax that isn't 0.005?

> rather than transferred to European politicians

Yeah, each MEP will get a personal dividend from it O_o

> if you disagree and think that politicians would
> make better use of the funds than an individual

This reduces to the absurd very quickly. Yes I think Apple should pay tax. They set up in a 12.5% corporate tax jurisdiction, and I think they should have to pay that, rather than the less than 1% that they did.
Magento(E-commerce) links submission website inspired by hackernews
Oh I see, thanks for the info.
Apple's business is to make profit, same as anyone else. Revenue - Costs = Profit, still holds true.
So you would run code by pasting it from the internet just fine, but doing so via a pastebin is a security risk?
I'm sure the device you're thinking of was the Hush-a-Phone, which was also important for competition policy history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush-A-Phone_Corp._v._United_S...
> There's plenty of tax optimising any business
> owner can do

But there's also a lot that companies that aren't Apple-sized can't do, as per the article.
I notice that they don't sign their releases.
If it's a break of contract with the EUs playbook of economic fairness amongst its members and therefor can be prosecuted forever.

This creates a system where even information from the national government charging taxes in its own jurisdiction can't be relied upon, and where literally billions of euros of tax can be retrospectively demanded indefinitely. That is a toxic environment for anyone running a business, even someone trying to do so honestly. If the EU wants to wade in after this much time and claim this much damage has been going on, it's going to strain credibility and the EU is going to deserve all the contempt that businesses will hold it in as a direct result.

I write this, BTW, as someone who runs small businesses in the UK that very much are at a disadvantage compared to the arrangements available to large multinationals. I'm all in favour of having a tax system that is transparently fair, where the same rules apply to everyone. But I'm not in favour of officially saying one thing, letting businesses carry on accordingly for a very long time, and then retrospectively changing the rules.

I think it's also worth mentioning that the EU's track record on tax issues and dealing with the large multinationals and their complex arrangements is awful. Just look at the hash they made of the VAT changes last year, which were supposedly going to have a beneficial effect by reducing multinational tax avoidance, but in fact did almost exactly the opposite, causing far more damage to smaller businesses than larger ones.

Apple's tax arrangements may be ethically questionable, and the system that permits those arrangements has plenty of room for improvement. However, if you think this specific move isn't a politically motivated cash grab by an EU that is in trouble and has several key elections coming up, I heard there are some Nigerian princes who have some great investment opportunities to offer you.
What does it actually do, i.e. what is it's mission?

I couldn't find this info anywhere on the website.
You are right, working on fix now.
I am driving a RGB led matrix from a PRU unit: http://heeen.de/proj/rgbmatrix/fablab.mp4
Good idea to mention Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.

It is indeed also on the list of books that I solidly recommend if anyone's interested: https://pablo.rauzy.name/miscellaneous.html#books ;).
Checking billing I've had my longest server there since 2014-06-02 so just over 2 years.

In that time I've had* one network issue < 1 hr and one instance where the server rebooted unexpectedly. Any other downtime has been either on purpose by me or accidentally by my hand. I can't even recall any scheduled maintenance that's taken my server offline.

* That I've noticed in my elsewhere-hosted monitoring.

My only complaint if I can even call it that is that the price of the server doesn't keep up with the specs they're selling - i.e. if you can get a server with <x> resources for cheaper than my server with <x-1> resources my price should come down to avoid me churning it). Having said that I don't know anywhere that actually does that and for reliability reasons it's probably better to cycle machines out when they get old enough for it to be worth the savings.
and by Apple paying less, we have to pay more.

Why would this not be true?