skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What specifics are you seeking? Have you read any of the linked articles in this thread? Or performed a single google search?

-Pay Gap: https://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gen...

-Employment Gap: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinawallace/2016/10/20/gir...

-Leadership Gap: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-02/why-so-fe...

-Visibility Gap: https://hbr.org/2016/09/to-succeed-in-tech-women-need-more-v...

-Sexism/Hostile Workplaces: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...

-Hiring Discrimination: https://www.aauw.org/2015/06/11/john-or-jennifer/

-General Discrimination: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/the-tech-indus...

And just in case you missed it the last time: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents
How is this any different from Google arbitrarily deranking/delisting search results, or YouTube arbitrarily demonetizing videos?
It took a long time, but this is one of the things that Apple seems to have finally gotten the hang of.

iCloud sync of to-do lists, notes, contacts, calendar, and Handoff between 6 computers and iDevices is a big thing that keeps me in the Mac ecosystem.

It wasn't always reliable, and the first few years were particularly rough, but it's been working flawlessly for me for the last couple of years.

Naturally, there are other people for whom things are not so smooth.
the pcg-505 was my primary machine from 2000-2007 and i loved it!

had sony not fumbled over itself, i might still be using a upgraded version of that machine, rather than the macbook pro's i've used since (i'm hoping apple doesn't have a similar implosion, but it's looking sketchy at the moment). apple didn't really surpass that machine with the air, it was the retina macbook pro's that were the next step up.
January must be the time for these things. Very sad to see Two communities* close in the same week.

*the other community was Boatertalk. Dedicated to whitewater kayaking and ultimately lost to Facebook
Where 65 means ‘A’? Madness.
That's literally what this post is. Someone who has done this and is sharing their experience.
There's a third, which is that women are, on average, less interested in being programmers.
And as my top poster dharma noted: Jazz and "classical music" share many similarities. Definitely true. Think of Scriabin piano somata No 5 written in 1907. Or even go back to Beethoven No 32, 2nd movement.
But how they differ could be an interesting subject.
Fairness in Machine Learning [video]
I think you are evaluating many things from an American context and you reveal that you are older. IMHO the problem with American environments are that they're often semi-explicitly designed around the car. If you are used to a car, not having one is probably a horrible prospect. However, as you explicitly discussed aging, you can't put your head in the sand - obviously eventually you won't be able to drive a car, so you'd better get ready for it. Most of the US likely won't change quickly enough to lessen that challenge for you, but perhaps with younger generations behind change one day that issue won't be faced by others.
As I entered into the survey, on the 'ooo nice' and 'getting shit done' spectrum, the proposed redesign sits too close to the 'ooo nice' end.

So far I'm really happy with Postbox, basically a fork of Thunderbird with loads of modern features. I absolutely hate Outlook.
US employers assume adults can drive. Presumably, if they're hiring you as a delivery driver, they will confirm the appropriate licensing. But, if you're a random engineer that they discover can't go to various customer sites without all sorts of special arrangements, a lot of companies are probably going to take that into consideration come review time.
I think it's more about army being detached from the society. I have red some memories of Vietnam veterans and it seems to be a common point. French have experienced the same in Vietnam, according to Jean Larteguy and even during WWI according to Louis Barthas. It's also a common problem of alienated Arab armies, getting hit bad every time they fight with a solders' nation of Israel, I believe Kapuscinski has written something about it as well.
In practice, is this profitable?
I agree about the battery life but the non-touch bar MBP is a gem. It's as light as a MacBook Air and I've bounced it around a few times accidentally (no damage, unlike my Air). The new screen and touch pad are great too.
Ha, the fact that I spelled it "NUL" instead of using the word "null" should have made me pause. :)

Ok, it's an ASCII character code point. One that's used to terminate strings. I meant it's not a character you'd find in the middle of a string, though I realize that's kinda tautological. Back when ASCII was developed, punch cards were used. Any row in the card that wasn't punched was a NUL. It wouldn't have made sense to have it in the middle of a string. It would be like missing a character altogether.
How does IT work have low social status?
What made the vaio killer was that it's super wide width allowed for an almost-normal keyboard(think 12in powerbook or old ibm X series, not some super micro thing like very small japanese laptops usually have). I wanted to love the pocket, but the keyboard just looks so awful comparatively
In libertarian perspective this is pretty simple.

1. Get rid of all occupational licensing.
2. Get rid of minimum wage.
3. Get rid of OSHA.

This alone would help more and more people get employed. Remember 100% unskilled person from Mexico can cross the border illegally come to USA and over years can actually have good life but an American native born who goes to American public school is unable to gain any meaningful skill and can't live a decent life ?

Clearly the illegal migrant has some pretty big advantage over the native born. I think it is essentially government regulations.

Of course some people think minimum wage is a moral imperative, in that case you have to be ready to face the consequences of it too.
> The negative drawbacks of extracting constants is typically minimal

> ASCII_A

It comes down to naming and purpose.

The example, ASCII_A, is terrible because it doesn't describe the purpose with its name.

What will end up happening in any large codebase is ASCII_A will get reused in dozens of different places for dozens of different reasons.

If it was named minValidLetterForAlgorithmX it would convey intent and its more likely to be used correctly.
This was a tutorial for NIPS 2017. Slides are here:

http://fairml.how/tutorial/
In the US it's sort of implicit for most professional or technical positions that you'll have to take occasional business trips, and some places you go may not have much public transit or taxis / ride hailing services. A lot of hiring managers just assume everyone has a driver's license and can rent a car if necessary.
A trumpet tone is famously close to a pure sine wave. Among all instruments, trumpet offers perhaps the least natural texture. I suspect all good trumpet players have worked at enriching their tone to avoid sounding synthetic, especially when it's most likely, as in classical music.
Bitcoin crashes as Chinese Central Bank calls for ban on cryptocurrency trading
Looks nice. Can anyone comment on how auth works with Twirp? I was trying to get GRPC working to authenticate with unsigned ssl certs (much like using SSH) and was rather disappointed how awkward it was. Basically two completely different methods requiring hiding session ID in two unrelated places just to allow a SSL cert to control authentication.

Anyone done similar with Twirp?
In addition, albeit a stupid conclusion, by supporting all major email providers, they are supporting the majority of email users around the world.
The melodic advantages of the saxophone are mechanical, not tonal. For example, to play a scale fragment on saxophone, one need only move fingers, while continuing to blow, creating a smooth, legato sound that can be done very fast. Contrast with guitar, where a note must be fretted and then picked, two separate motions that are difficult to coordinate. Smooth legato playing at high speed is extremely hard. Trumpets have a similar problem, tonguing notes to make changes.

And yes, saxophones have a great deal of tonal expressiveness available, especially once overblowing is brought into play. It's just not pretty tonal expressiveness, compared to other instruments.
I would guess it's enough when comparing to the people that are dropping car ownership for lyft or uber (especially considering that lyft and uber would be very expensive at those mileages).
You offer no reason to doubt the official story though. If you don't present us with new information you're either pointing out the obvious or advocating nonsense.
this community has been reactionary to bitcoin since day 1. crypto is a generational shift, more so than web 2.0 and the glory days of hacker news. the audience here is predominantly the pre-crypto generation, much like slashdot is the voice of the dot com generation.

we all need skepticism in our arsenal and that is what you can expect here, brilliant at times but hn is simply not the voice of this moment. you will be frustrated if you forget this rather than accepting it.
The copyright for Mickey Mouse doesn't expire until 2023, so they still have some time.
Not the author, nor do I have any connection, but yes, appears from the Getting Started page that the dependencies are GIT, node.js and MongoDB .
Not gonna happen like 100% the same and what not. How do you even outlaw crypto?
Here's another quote:

"The CueCat isn't worth installing and using, even though it's available free of charge" —Walt Mossberg[1], WSJ Tech Reviewer, 2001

I think he nailed it.

1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB971305166620370724
> Ha, feels strange to say it, but "waiting for a Windows version".

I can understand the lack of a Windows version.

What I can’t understand is why this won’t on Linux.
Ask HN: Which font does Google use in their internal emails?
That's pretty much the only thing I like from reason.

it's still very goofy.

<strong> (ReasonReact.stringToElement(string_of_int(count))) </strong>

Compared to

<strong>{ count }</strong> in ReactTS...

The interop with JS is pretty verbose too. The tooling... Doesn't work at all? :p
It might get there eventually but it doesn't seem like facebook has more than 1 or 2 engineers working on it.
I see quite the opposite incentive for Google. If you are a very eccentric individual and they know those quirks, they have a huge competitive advantage in targeting ads to you vs. some bulk radio broadcast ad etc.

However, the observation of this article, and my observation as well, is that Google isn't currently capable of parsing very individual quirks. Rather, Google is able to place you into one of a number of highly conformist boxes. They don't have to understand you as an individual. They just have to 'box' you more effectively than their competitors.

There is nothing in the market or otherwise emergent in the nature of data and such categorization which fundamentally motivates Google to be able to parse anyone's quirks or understand the essence of a scene or artistic movement. If Google can gain a competitive advantage by creating a number of honeytrap doppelgangers which draw people away from the long tail and sequester them into un-creative, imitative, and highly conformist boxes, then so much the better for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9OHn5ZF4Uo

http://lesswrong.com/lw/l8/conjuring_an_evolution_to_serve_y...

In much the same way, I find that recommendation engines come up with annoying pale imitations of bands/musicians I like. I also wonder why authoritarianism seems to spread so effectively across social media, and why certain authoritarian movements seem to get such ready support from within Google and various social media companies. It's because, as a product, conformist/authoritarian screechers are more easily herded, replicated, categorized, and packaged than real individuals who think for themselves and apply principles.
If someone is classically trained prior to studying jazz, 2 years is rather reasonable to pick up given they might already be well versed in basics such as proficiency in certain instrument(s), fundamental theories, sight reading, ear training, etc.
Are they that expensive? I mean, after a quick Google I couldn't find anything with a huge price[1]. That WiFi card goes for £13.

I'm interested (and I'm sure others would be), where did you sell the parts and did you use any disassembly guides?

1. https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Genuine-Apple-MacBook-Pro-Early-201...
Ubuntu has gotten less user-friendly over the years. Out of the handful of distros I use, it is the only one that gives me frequent crashes with the various widgets that come with the distro's default desktop environment.

Configuration tooling is also convoluted and buggy, as they build on top of existing configuration tooling, so now there are more points of failure. And the software repositories are often multiple versions behind the latest stable release.

Ubuntu is doing great things for Microsoft.
I really loved mine. The screen was actually fine, the main issue was that it used a Z series atom, with a powerVR gpu cribbed from early smartphones and absolutely abysmal performance. The screen was high quality, the system just couldn't refresh it worth a damn and stuttered on even 480p youtube

I would pay more than they want for that new Psion or the GPD pocket 2 for an updated vaio p with just a modern atom, or basically the specs of the GPD win. The rev2 with the trackpad on the screen glass was basically the perfect form factor.

I can't believe these still sell for what i paid for mine in 2011~ when it was barely old, which was about $400
Thanks for linking this, don't think I'd ever seen it before and as someone who's a second generation holder of a very large system's underlying theory it feels extremely accurate, but puts things into terms I never considered before.
> And you always have to walk fifteen minutes, just to get to the transit spot.

I know a lot of broke people who live within less than a two minute walk of a bus stop and could not possibly afford a car. You might want to consider how the built environment has dictated your choices.
> What is the use case?

This is what I am trying to understand myself :) Previously I have implemented this approach as a web-app (self-service tool for working with tables where users can define columns as formulas - similar to spreadsheets). Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14351461 But it is too difficult to implement (much more resources are needed) so I switched to developing a library.

Now I want to implement a server for in-stream analytics (an alternative to Kafka Streams). Hopefully, in the next version of Bistro. It will have quite significant portions of data processing logic in UDFs (retention policy, when to evaluate, how to add etc. when to do what).

> Does it support time series? How works you do a moving average or pivot table?

I am designing it now as a tool for stream processing (Bistro Streams) and hence it will support time series (each new row will get a time-stamp and the system will "know" how to deal with time).

Current approach to user-defined functions (Evaluator interface) does not support moving average or other rolling aggregations. New API will be defined. This task has high priority since it is very important for stream analytics.

Pivoting is conceptually more difficult because it is not an operation with data - it is an operation with schema (using data). Maybe some kind of ad-hoc solution will work.
“If you play a bum note, play it a couple more times and it sounds like you meant it”
Eric Clapton, I think.
Thanks for taking the time to respond and clear that up for me.

I joined HN fairly late (just a few years ago) and my subjective experience of the rules (as they are lived) is that a 'thanks' comment is almost invariably countered with a snarky 'that is what the upvote button is for' response.

For what it's worth, the vast majority of my experiences here on HN have been positive, and I greatly appreciate how often someone with significant domain knowledge turns up and replies to me in a way that seriously challenges beliefs which I had previously taken to be fact.
Mach 3.4 was also fast enough that early radar systems couldn't track it. The plane would move far enough between radar pulses that it got filtered out as noise.
I don't find Zipcar all that affordable except for the very shortest of trips (read: < 3 hours). Anything over that and you're better off renting a vehicle for the day through traditional routes.
I’m not sure what your point is. We already spend more on education and healthcare per capita than almost every other developed country. At what point is it appropriate to spend the incremental dollar on defense instead?
> The minute you want to do something outside of the city it's impossible without a car.

Depends on where you live and what you do outside. Over the years, I have ridden my bike to half a dozen different countries, starting from my doorstep. That might be rare, but it's definitely not "impossible without a car".

I also happen to have access to a very active market for skiing/snowboarding weekend trips where a bus takes you to an hotel in the mountains on Friday night, you spend two days on the slopes and get back on Sunday evening. There are all kinds of people on those buses and most of them arrive at the meeting point by car, so it's definitely not a choice made out of necessity.
Please ignore and remove your wp-config from GitHub
It depends on how much you use it I guess. But the average person surely doesn't go out ice hiking every weekend.
It was one of the first I listened to, then I went back and listened to them all. :D

coin check
in those cases, people are also rightfully annoyed, but you can’t tackle all the worlds problems in a single blog post
Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
I think we should limit the mass of urban cars, so that they would not be heavier than a golf cart. This way, most accidents would be of no consequence (I remember an out-of-control cart in a football stadium that hit several people and none were hurt), and we could let even younger people drive.

It really makes no sense for an 80Kg person to go around in a 1000kg vehicle.
This is an un-empathetic thing to say, because you're ignoring the real emotional experiences of the people who lived through this. The terror experienced by people, especially but not limited to those with predisposition to anxiety, hypertension, panic attacks or suicidal thoughts, will have a real impact on their lives.

Or imagine someone who, convinced of an impending death, donates all of their saved wealth to charities online.
Not to mention all autonomous cars will undoubtedly have video evidence of what happened. The kids won't have a chance of proving their case if they get hit.
In that case, I'd go with:

- package1 ($): Service as is.
- package2 ($$): Self-hosted as is.
- package3 ($$$): Self-hosted with support.
That’s really not accurate. They can still test the main services, but if third party services don’t work then I can’t see they have to do any more work. It’s not like you get unpaid support for Windows already.

An operating system like Windows, in my view, should have programs that support open standards and not restrict who you can and can’t use.
FFaaSS – Free Function as a Service Stack (The Free Stack)
There is also the grpc-gateway project for JSON transcoding https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway
Take that pc master race
Couldn't you put the paratroopers in a drop vehicle, purpose built for that? We bring astronauts back at mach 23-25. That's not to say it wouldn't be quite an engineering effort. I'm sure they can find a billion dollars to build it if someone decides it's worth doing.

The more interesting impact would be on the design of the plane doing the drop. While I think you could keep the paratroopers alive, I'm skeptical there's any way you can go that fast and drop a large container. I would expect the process to destroy the plane by making it too unstable.
You are correct that the blockchain has hashed the public key and so isn't directly attackable, except that the public key must be revealed at some point. Therefore, it is still possible to recover the private key (and if you can do this faster than the transaction can enter the blockchain, you can potentially steal the bitcoin).

However, if you wanted to break the hashed private key, you don't need to solve 256 bits. Grover's algorithm is a search, thus difficulty scales with the final hash key length, not the intermediate hashes. Still, it's only a quadratic speed-up and 160 bits is still pretty tough. But that's fine, as you can still intercept the public keys before they're hashed on the blockchain.
Ooh, I am currently reading a recent paper of his: Biotechnology and the lifetime of technical civilizations

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01149
Is there Gnome integration for CalDAV, out of interest? I’m always interested in knowing how Gnome and KDE fairs against Windows.
Ask HN: Technical Founders / Developers, how have you learned to do sales?
Unless you intend to have a business founder who exclusively does sales, technical founders are going to have to do the sales themselves.

Any experience/tips/insights that might be helpful for technical people approaching sales?
Like Dizzy Gillespie once said, "None of them blow easy". Yes, it's difficult to get good tone out of trumpets. Or violins, or guitars, or drums, or any other instrument. But assuming a skilled player, the tone of trumpet is more appealing to our ears than the tone of saxophones. It's ultimately easier to have nice trumpet tone than nice saxophone tone. Doves vs geese (or more correctly, elephants vs geese).

I've put in a couple of solid decades trying to improve my tone, and practice regularly to work on tonal issues. I appreciate the difficulty that any instrument represents.
Not with net neutrality :)
Hi Graham, nice site, love you are giving back! I've also done a few Ubiquity design/install projects.

Couple of things I'd suggest. (take/or leave) You are clearly super knowledgeable in all the products you've mentioned, but it seems like the audience for this site is the newbie trying to break into the industry. With that in mind, I'd try to stick to a single product recommendation, and deep dive into it. For instance, in the pick a hardware platform you've listed four options, consider picking one, and if you feel the need to dump your extensive knowledge of the others, then perhaps do it in another section/addendum.

Consider hosting this where you can build a community. Github pages does this sort of thing for free.

Again, thanks and good luck with the site!
How do that compare to SAS software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_(software)) ? Particularly the "DATA" steps.
I count on performance in my Macs, and for the price, the Air never delivered.

If my use case was browsing, emails and word processing, great. But I’m a professional audio producer and film editor. No dice.
All but Peter and the Wolf maybe.
ADVICE NEEDED: Alternative ICO Bounty System Instead of the Viral Exchange?
Hello,

In the past year, I've managed two ICOs and used The Viral Exchange to manage the Social Media bounty. I found it an easy way to gain Social Media traction quickly. Unfortunately, TVE's owners are no longer accepting new campaigns. The core system has not been upgraded in over a year, so this is not altogether surprising.

Does anyone have recommendations for something new I can use to replace The Viral Exchange?

To be fair, I'm managing an ICO now where we are using the "traditional" method of asking people to report their here in bitcointalk. But ideally, I'd like to also use a system that easily incentivizes users to share/RT/Like Social Media content -- AND makes it easy for me to manage.

Any ideas or thoughts?

At your service,
Michael
What are the advantages of LTE for fixed wireless networks?