skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure whether you're serious, but leaking issues you find during diligence in order to buy a company cheap could well constitute unlawful disclosure of inside information, and therefore, market abuse. And obviously depending on where you are in the diligence process you probably would have had to sign an NDA, so you would be violating that also.

The laws vary a lot by jurisdiction, but in Europe, the relevant regulations arise from the EU Market Abuse Directive https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... and from a quick reread this information would be considered inside information, so this would be market abuse if the company was traded on a regulated exchange.
Linux GUI is inconsistent. Inside the terminal, Linux has tab completion for command parameters and modifiers and no need to remap the keyboard so the alt and function keys behave. Additionally, you'll spend a lot of time on a mac writing scripts and such do deal with the difference between your Mac dev environment and your Linux production environment (if you do web dev). Honestly, being able to build for iOS and hardware quality were why Macs have been popular with developers. That keyboard is really terrible... so much so I did not buy a mac this time... And I really love Apple's product.
> I did. Because doing so contradicts your conclusion.

Going for the conclusion instead of the argument. You can't demonstrate where my reasoning is wrong, but saying that the conclusion is wrong. Congratulations, you're an ideologue.
It seems like Apple aren't actually practicing design any more

instead we have the superficial appearance of design - thinner, lighter, but less useful

same with innovation - what is the TouchBar except a desperate attempt to innovate, achieving only the superficial appearance of innovation while actually producing something of no value
How Professional Tax Reporting Works
Why assume technical skill in one area is the only variable in determining merit?
Congratulation on shipping it!

I definitely share the same values, so much that I developed a very similar Open Source RSS feed reader with the exact same requirements in mind (no tracking, no ads, no BS...).

https://feedsubs.com (https://github.com/NicolasLM/feedsubs)
I think the contrast is shirt vs. t-shirt, rather than shirt vs. bare chest.
I love the idea that there is a scarcity of "golden skirts" that make this too hard. It presupposes that the current male members are all "golden trousers", the cream of the crop, the best of the best.

I've met many many board members over the years and they are often very unimpressive. I'm sure we can find some equally unimpressive women to replace them! Better still anyone with even a modicum of talent would do!
The thing about nighttime is that thats when the car isn't moving around much. Best time to charge.
It's kind of a historical accident. Originally, CMake was supposed to be just a list of commands (CMakeLists.txt). Of course, it was heavily extended to what we have now.
That's true. But consider that in some majors such as software engineering there are 5 times as many men as women. If you try to hire women, your pool will be so much smaller you'll almost certainly choose worse candidates.
Shifting Gears
AutoModerator started as a third-party feature. Now it's built in to reddit (and IIRC the developer was hired, or at least collaborated with, on the integration).
It is stupefying to hear people argue that real estate in India does not involve black money.

You have to be wilfully blind to say this. In every part of the country, real estate transactions used to have a cash and a cheque component. The value is under-reported to avoid paying stamp duty and registration, as well as in many cases to recycle black money.

The proportion of these transactions has reduced since RERA, GST and demonetization. But it still goes on.
Download and backup the list of your GitHub starred repos
In Finland you get a tiny card filled with single use pin codes. It's pretty secure. Unfortunately, if your card is skimmed, the scammers will just -- for example -- associate it with an Uber account and sell the account. Because non-EU companies don't use 3D-secure there's nothing stopping them. I have tried asking for non 3D-secure transactions to be blocked, (I believe when a vendor doesn't offer it I can always find an alternative) but no such luck. (Obviously you can get the money back, but I'd like to avoid the inconvenience and the fact the scammers get money for nothing.)
Technology is easy. Technically creating a cryptocurrency is, more or less, Childs play. It's completely useless though unless people can actually use it.

It seems premature to declare your currency successful when no one can actually use it.
Pretty much everything bought in the UK, for example, has a 20% tax. How is that a subsidy and how isn't it an example of what you are talking about?
Remember, first and foremost, the climate change isn't something that will happen, it is happening. It's not like one day everything is just dandy and the next day everything is underwater and everybody's freaking out realizing how serious an issue it was all along. It is an extremely gradual process. The characteristics, locations, and composition of food production may change but global level starvation is not a realistic concern. One of the more cynical papers of recent time proposed up to 500k deaths related to food production by 2050. Work that out in terms of net effect on the global population over 30 years. It's certainly not something that should be shrugged off, but at the same time e.g. rising obesity rates will cause magnitudes more deaths before then.

Over time, if our models hold up, we'll see the desirability of coastal areas begin to gradually decline. As sea levels gradually rise we'll probably respond with pumping systems and other technological solutions and if/when technological solutions start to lose ground we'll begin to see demand for coastal property start to decline but as there will always be people with different appetites for risk and prospecting, it'll constantly be a gradual process. We'll probably also see the rise of entrepreneurs taking advantage of the changing landscapes to offer new solutions. For instance check out the ideas for ideas being carried out by Dutch Docklands. [1] Some phenomenal stuff there. For others, we'll likely see emigrations more inland as I imagine we've already seen, at least to some degree, from places like Louisiana.

In the worst case, there may be lots of change. But change is not necessarily bad in the longrun, even if undesirable in the shortrun.

[1] - http://www.dutchdocklands.com/Development/United-States
I didn't do that. Merit is meant broadly to encompass many things.
Productivity tool to scaffold new project, generate test stubs and docs
I just want to point out that some ORMs let you use SQL queries directly and thus you don't need to know much more than your model's layout.
> I imagine ordinary 2FA probably wouldn't work.

I don't know what you mean by "ordinary" 2FA, but it's pretty common in Thailand when making online payments to have an SMS sent to you, and in the UK my Amex card has been known to require SMS/email codes for online purchases.
If it's not an open-source client that I can run on my own machine, I wouldn't trust it.

There's nothing preventing a service from tracking you or giving away your data, no matter what reassuring words they use.
There is a case of Israeli-Egyptian border.

Israeli don't have to actively kill Egyptians because they, for almost all purposes, can't enter.

Nothing much wrong in having my daughter participate in some wall building.
Website says: "It will help you to make [...] the tiniest router in the world."
Got one of these and I'm pretty sure they're quite smaller: http://amzn.asia/d/idyKhjN

Makes me wonder if I could turn those Japanese routers into computers (they're dirt cheap at £8.50)...
They obviously should, but many don't. Some people don't like causing 'trouble', some people just quietly do what they're told, some people are just shy or introvert or have trouble communicating clearly. I good manager should be able to work with and get the most out of these sorts of people as well, without those people also having to the managers job for them.
This is untrue of cards with chips.
I don't know if you know what constitutes 'evidence'. Saying you know a few people to whom it happened does not make it evidence of any sort. I also know people who stopped getting construction work, and shopkeepers who had dismal sales for months. Now is what I said backed by evidence?

Bringing people into the tax fold means nothing if most people are added to the bottom tier where they pay nothing or very little tax. The IT department does not have the resources to audit and pursue everyone who filed nominal taxes in the financial year following demonetisation and is now reporting income below the taxable threshold.

And growth in actual direct tax collection this year up to July 31 has been dismal.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/dir...

We'll soon see what the extension up to August 31 netted. Unless there is a miraculous jump in collections in August, the entire 'we ended up collecting more income tax because of demonetisation' shtick will have fallen flat.
From reading the comments, it seems a novel sales tracking system, Novel Rank [0], which depended entirely on Amazon sales rank data, has had their access denied, essentially shuttering the business.

[0] https://www.novelrank.com/
Seems the answer to this more and more is to discourage men and encourage women. I wonder personally if men and women just have different interests. I worry that we're perhaps pushing men and women into jobs they're unhappy with than if just left to their own devices?
> You can have a human-readable public address but the first time a message is sent the sender has to commit $1 (or however much is necessary as a deterrent).

Requiring payments destroys the anonymity though, that's why I don't like it.

> But none of that works for email because it wasn't implemented that way originally and it's hard to change it now.

Actually, my system can be adapted to email but you have to give up typing in email addresses manually. Most people don't do that anyway, so no big loss.
Global social media regulation is coming – Alex Jones is just the start
Obligatory interesting read on the science that goes into paywalls: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/after-years-of-testing-the-...

Side-note: WSJ is the only news source I feel is worthy of purchasing, as a student subscription is only $4/mo
Lazydata: Scalable data dependencies for Python projects
This! Still have fond memories of reverse-engineering the screen-buffer encoding on my Amstrad CPC 464 by poking values directly into the buffer and watching what happened on the display (i.e. my TV).
Somehow got hold of the Z80 datasheet for opcodes - but working out the relative jumps with pen an paper was a slow process. Upgraded to Amiga around the time when I realized that assemblers had to be a thing...
I could not get this logic. Can you explain more? problem would have been, if he got that money before demonetization, or he would have bought lands/gold, even then , if money comes in bank, "blackness" goes away, no?
I remember my brother in law, who worked in very senior position in a large UK financial institution that "holidays are when you can go into the office and take your suit jacket off".

I don't even own a suit :-)

Edit: A few years back I turned down a second interview at the same organisation after they insisted I turn up "in standard business attire" - i.e. a suit.
In some countries a "shirt" means specifically a button-down. In the same way that "slacks" means long pants. So this likely just means that a button-down is required rather than a t-shirt.
Same here, the trackpad is so frustrating to use without this feature. I hope apple doesn't remove it in the future.
Is there an idea where to go with these quotas in the long run? I mean as I understand it, the numbers are just pulled out of thin air.

So we have a company, following the however implemented rules and has, let's say has 60% of group A and 40% of B on their board.

But maybe the ideal quota is 70% / 30%. Or 10% / 90%. Or the standard deviation is so high that there is a high probability that everything from 20 % / 80% to 70% / 30% was achieved without any bias but just because of differntly distributed skillsets. Point is, by setting a quota like that without any research, you're gonna end up with one group having it statistically harder to get their well deserved board place as the other, which is the problem that we're trying to fight in the first place, right? And now it is locked in stone, because abandoning the quota would have big political implications.

I understand that it is an attractive short term fix and that we might not have good other solutions, but where are we going with it?
When comparing to dell, I invite you to compare it to the latitude rather than xps. Latitudes are much more functional, not meant to be a fashion statement, have a keyboard with page up/down keys (which few other laptop keyboard have), while being light, powerful and upgradable. The only problem is that the fingerprint reader sucks.
Anyone using a E-Ink screen for writing/programming?
I was just wondering if anyone actually managed to get a e-ink screen for writing/programming - maybe the paperlike or a hacked e-reader or anything of the sorts.

And if so, how does it work out for you - is it even practical?
> Humans aren’t cogs in a machine.

Humans aren't gender either. Doing gender quotas reduces candidates to their gender.

> An assumption I suspect you’re making is that we already have THE correct fitness function.

> They aren’t just trying to filter the fitness function, they’re trying to improve it.

Ohh, no. My assumption is that current hiring is not perfect, but gender quotas are waaay worse. Gender-blind hiring would be better than both.
It would be nice if I could clip on a thin piece of plastic/foil to my card to block out the magnetic strip if I know the device I'm inserting it into only needs the chip.
That is not always a good thing. High sales with a bad keyboard is one reason why we see so many people ranting, although i don't think anyone has pinpointed the real issue. Sales can be driven by reputation and now that reputation is slightly being exposed.
I don't think they miss the point - the role of journalism in things like this is to detail in depth the failure of the ruse, thereby exposing the real motive.
I have a different take;

If we suppose a meritocratic hiring process is the best way forward, and that girls are equal to boys (and only considering those genders (if we surmise that there are more)):

Then, if we take the stance that there has been historic bias against girls then it leads to them not having the experience to be in the same category as boys.

It's not about "all guys being good", it's that historically girls have not necessarily had the same opportunity to gain experience and learn. (Except for the most dedicated or those who went to shops that did not practice any kind of discrimination). This leads to a small pot of experienced girls but a large pot of experienced guys.

If you hire "the most qualified candidate" you'll end up with mostly guys because guys have had the opportunity to work unfettered, and if you have a quota to hire more women and want someone experienced, then you're competing against many in a small pool of experienced women.

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EDIT: I should add that I haven't read the article; but the above is a topic I think about often in the context of discrimination and its role in the future. I don't believe in hiring quotas, I believe the problem should be fixed at its root- But this is not the current topic- and I would kindly ask those who downvote me to argue their points if they wish me to be more understanding.
I haven't read it yet, but I think Nand2Tetris was meant to address this.

Petzold's CODE is also really good going from logic gates to microprocessors to assembly language.

I still wish you could buy something like a Pi board that has just an interpreter and compiler on it as well as a textbook and you implement a simple version of a file system, text utilities, task manager...etc.
I no longer do.

My last MacBook was a 2013. It has 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD and I still use it. I'm somewhat desensitised to the price creep because I buy on the business but it just doesn't seem like I'm in the target market anymore.

I really like the aesthetic of a case that isn't a wedge shaped lump of plastic but that only gets you so far. I've bought an Intel Hades Canyon, put Linux on it and moved most of my development over to it. I'll probably get an XPS to put Linux on for when I'm on the move.

I am baffled though; the issues seem to be so widely felt I don't understand why a company with such wealth can't throw us a bone like the slightly thicker dev oriented machine suggested above. I'd have thought it in their interest but I guess not.
I looked at what you meant, and first found this article

https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...

which links this article:

https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/exploring-the-t...

So this is a Linux server in the size of an SD-Card that has 16 GB of storage. And Wifi. And lets clients connect to download whatever's on them.

I was thinking, wow, this must be some pro photography thing costing like $399 or something.

The cost (given in the second article) is £25 (which is $32.19 today.)

That is pretty cheap for a tiny Linux server of this size. With WIFI.

And it made the rounds 5 years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Transcend%20Wifi-SD%20card&sor...

What is the world coming to.

By the way here is the one where HN discussed it the most:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647434

And note the comment that Transcend released the firmware (though that link is offline today.)

However I guess there really just aren't all that many use cases for this kind of a server. Or maybe it has been superseded? One page[1] lists it as weighing just 2 grams, compared with the weight of 2.5 grams for a U.S. penny. That's gotta have some sort of applications. Why isn't this more popular at $30, or what are people using instead? Is it like, impossible to get any ports out of it, even a single serial debugging port via soldering, so you can't connect it to anything else?

It just seems so hackable!

[1] https://www.extremedeals.com.ph/products/transcend-16gb-wifi...
I don't think the output really needs to be readable since they're going for speed over anything else.

Who is normally reading this stuff?
in parts of Europe you can use Revolut, where you can choose whether to enable or disable contactless payments, chip and pin, ATM withdrawals and online payments, depending on what you want to use the card for. You can even keep all of them off and only activate a specific feature for a few minutes when needed.
RedHat files software patent on Blockchain
> I'm not sure if Apple is seeing the writing on the wall here, but why not just launch a developer line? Make it thicker, heavier, give it more battery, a keyboard with a proper amount of travel, larger keys, more keys, whatever. Ditch the retarded touch bar. More ram. More config options. More ports.

I would celebrate this if not for the fact that they'd find a way charge €3000-5000 for it. RIP if you like to use a MacBook as a university student.

> What? Don't care about the people who work on iOS/macOS software professionally? Don't need us? Why don't you go talk to Microsoft about that.

All the Macs together present about 5-10% of Apple's revenue. On their scale, that's still a big chunk of money, but that figure makes it quite obvious why it takes the bank bench to the iPhone. Hell, I'm surprised they put as much effort in their iPads, considering those also only present ~10% of their revenue. The iPhones are the big money maker with around 70% of their revenue.
Notice I mentioned actions, not sayings?
Nice way to wasting time and learn something new:D
Show HN: My ridiculously over-engineered Jekyll theme
I was surprised and encouraged to see that the Economist actually cited the papers they were discussing - this seems new, and progress. Way too often, news outlets refer to "studies" or "a study" without making it easy to find out what studies were actually cited.

I'll queue up the studies to read later, but I am skeptical. I've looked at studies that claimed quotas for women in boards = more profit before and without fail, they weren't controlling for confounding variables. Usually it was as simple as "companies in Norway do better than companies in Saudi Arabia, look at the gender differences!" which is of course totally invalid. Unfortunately the way governments have forced women into boards via legislative fiat means it's very hard to control for the pre-existing economic state of countries: you'd need to compare two economies that were basically the same except for gender differences, or compare the same country before and after and then try to control for all other changes in the world economy, which is very hard.

The article is quite balanced about the limits of these studies though. Which is good.
There's an axis of populist economic policies in there, too; in the late 19th century this was strongly associated with Democrats, while Republicans pushed harder for "pure" laissez-faire capitalism.

That one is a bit more interesting, since in the modern day there are populist-economic wings of both major parties, though with very different approaches to implementing their ideas, surrounding a more laissez-faire "center".
Thank you!

your RSS reader looks good, keep up the good work!
Idk about the US, but I imagine it's more similar to the EU than the press suggests....

Anyway in most of the EU, by law and by convention^ people don't get fired often. When they do, it's a part of a greater process where a department is reorganized, jobs have been made redundant or somesuch. Firing individuals for below average performance is rare. It needs to be an extreme. If it is dines, it's done as part of a performance review) evaluation process with feedback, time...

The reality is that

^The convention part is important. Regardless of laws, it's very hard to operate a business that's firing a lot. Firing someone is like exiling/outlawing them, to borrow analogies from older societies.

If you try, you'll encounter a huge pile of difficulties. Moral/culture will be one. Politics will be another.
I was worried before I got mine, and I'm actually really happy with it.

* I want a physical escape key so I configured caps lock to be escape
* The touchbar is pretty useless, and having it switching all the time is distracting so I set it to be "fixed" with only the buttons I use
* I like the keyboard, I just hope it won't fail me
* I really like the sensor to unlock with the fingerprint - I know it's been on thinkpads for years, but it's really convenient

So yeah, the only issue left is my fear of seeing the keyboard die because of dust... That's pretty much it.
> - touchbar = useless gimick - I actually used the F-keys and ESC a lot, now they are effectively gone.

You can go to the Keyboard section of System Preferences, and there's a drop down the lets you change back to F-keys ("Touch Bar Shows:")
> Which is a noble sentiment but simply doesn't happen in the business world (or in many other places).

On the contrary, all the evidence I've seen points to discrimination being a very small part of the gender pay gap.

The problem is that men and women are different.[1] So it becomes very difficult to even measure if women are being discriminated against much or are just different to men.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/oep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/oep...
I can do all of these with my normal bank, but there is no way to request a stripe-less debit/credit card.