skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free Money! Just buy the stock of all Wiltshire 5000 companies with a female CEO and we should be good. Who wants to subscribe to my index fund?

More seriously there's research on company performance before and after either Norway or Sweden put a quota of woman members on company boards. I have heard differing things on it, positive and negative and would be delighted if someone who wasn't skiving off work could add to the discussion by citing some of that research. In general female and male executives are dissimilar in their career trajectories. Women are much more likely to be company lifers for one. That's not going to be the only difference but it is plausible that there are more intervening factors than whether or not the CEO has XX chromosones.
Somebody should tell Apple to change their docs then:

> Darwin 1.4.1 is the UNIX-based, open-source foundation of Mac OS X. It is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. This release corresponds to the release of Mac OS X 10.1. https://support.apple.com/kb/TA25634?locale=en_US

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> The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
A stat that I can share. My iOS Hacker News Client which is currenty number 4 on AppStore has between 550 - 600 daily unique users and roughly 2.5k daily sessions on average.
Do the "wells" offer any real benefit over a regular split keyboard? Also, the idea of a split keyboard was popular some time ago. Is it still considered important? From the reading that I've done, it seems like the mechanical switches (e.g. Cherry Browns and Blues) are the big win. Rubber dome and scissor switch keyboards are just harder on the hands.
Windows has moved to an evergreen OS model: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/01/21/the-next...
Not sure why this was downvoted. I agree, after the 10th discussion on how designers are breaking scrolling, I'm not sure what is achieved apart from "yeah, that still pisses me off too!"
Actually, I think a lot of the CVEs are in the shipped java classes. But it's sometimes hard to tell, with such fine descriptions as

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 6u85, 7u72,
and 8u25 allows local users to affect confidentiality,
integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related
to Deployment.
It's tendentious to describe gevent as deprecated.

Like Twisted, there are many projects that continue to choose to use gevent, and consequently (for either of those libraries) Python 2. They solve real problems, as does the codebase we extracted SuPPort from, and we hope to help these projects rather than shun them.

Additionally, asyncio doesn't provide the same user API that gevent does: automagic task switching. Whether or not you like that API is a separate issue.

Finally, even if a person has no interest in using SuPPort, we hope that it might provide her insights into problems she'll likely encounter when using asyncio (or Tornado or Twisted or eventlet or any evented system.)
Reminds me of Kitepower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjcJljXGW9I
Are there any good kits or exact instructions/part lists?
There are middle grounds that would still be better than a plaintext internet. Cert pinning, even self-signed certs, would be better.

First time to https://example.com - I get a prompt and a UI element telling me it's self signed. I accept the risk (This may not be who you think it is! - but it probably is)

2 - nth time to https://example.com - UI element tells me it's self signed, but the same as before. Whether it's the NSA or the site, it's the same person at the other end.

Next - does the cert change to a PKI-trusted? Then great! I get a UI element (no prompt) showing the site is trusted. Does the site get a new self-signed cert? Back to the first step.

I believe this, and the parent notion of default cert generation by apache installs, is better than no SSL. It's not as good as fully verifiable auth.

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And son of a gun, I know this isn't an original idea, but I can't believe it took another post to remind me this is exactly how SSH works. Sure, you can get the server key to your DO host and transfer it to your client, but how many people do that? They accept the fingerprint they see at first, assume it's good, and probably raise an eyebrow if it changes. Don't like it? OK, let's go back to telnet.
The Public Voice of Women (2014)
California Vehicle Code, §22500:
No person shall stop, park, or leave standing any vehicle
whether attended or unattended, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a
peace officer or official traffic control device, in any of the
following places:
[...]
(i) Except as provided under Section 22500.5, alongside curb space
authorized for the loading and unloading of passengers of a bus
engaged as a common carrier in local transportation when indicated by
a sign or red paint on the curb erected or painted by local
authorities pursuant to an ordinance.

So I guess they aren't using SFMTA bus stops. At least, they aren't supposed to. § 22500.5 is the exemption for school buses. I don't live in SF, but is this rule usually followed? In Seattle it seems a lot of the city bus stops are quickly becoming inaccessible to non Seattle Transit vehicles by design (lots of new construction for bike lanes and separate lanes for public trans). So beyond the legal issues, I think something like this would start to run into real world physical limitations of which cities could actually support something like this - at least in the urban core. The sort of satellite commutes you see in cities like Minneapolis would be a different story.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh...

Edit: first link pointed to an older .gov site
I hate Apple design, but I just don't use their products. All Apple products have a good alternative...not necessarily true for Google, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.
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>"Was British rule actually a net negative, in retrospect? Have there been studies done using objective criteria (not emotional) over counties that were colonies versus ones that weren't?"

It's both a positive, and a negative. But if you want to calculate whether it was a "net" positive or "net" negative, then I'm afraid you're going to have to quantify very difficult-to-quantify concepts. And you'll have to do it on behalf of a lot of people, some of which don't exist anymore to answer your question. In essence, next to impossible.

However, particularly in the case of colonialism. I will add that because it's such a difficult concept, it is being exploited by manipulative scholars and politicians for personal/political agendas. So you have politicians in these countries claiming that it was a net negative, without any way to quantify it, and without acknowledging any good that came along with it. Now, of course, colonialism was bad, period. It can never be justified to enslave people, and it should never have happened.
First, you don't have to buy a new computer to get a newer version of Windows (especially since 10 seems to run just as well as 7/8 on the same hardware, if not better). Second, since MS is apparently offering free upgrades to 10 for consumers on 7/8 it doesn't seem like cost is really a factor. The China case is interesting, but I'd like to see some more recent figures on usage, since that article is about 2 years old. I did some quick searching, but everything I could find seemed to be from around that timeframe.

I don't know that the browser is a primary carrot, but it's part of the deal. If you can get enough of their new software to run on, say, Windows 7 to duplicate major functionality of 10, what's the point in upgrading at all? It doesn't make sense to have (people who will stick with the old OS no matter what) + (people who might upgrade, but don't because they can keep the old one and still get the cool new features of the new one) using older versions of Windows, thus increasing maintenance on old software.
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I thought 12 was a red flag too. Not exactly the standard increment of 5 or 10.
Actually, Steam is using P2P for content delivery, and have been for quite some time now. I'm not sure about the underlying technology, but the kids at the local data party get all ecstatic when they see download speeds of >100MB/s.
The not compiling part was really what piqued my interest. :)
> Unicode implementations are required to evaluate these two versions as being equal in string comparisons

What do you mean by "required"? There's different forms of string equality. It's plausible to have string equality that compares the actual codepoint sequence, vs string equality that compares NFC or NFD forms, and there's string equality that compares NFKC or NFKD forms. And heck, there's also comparing strings ignoring diacritics.

Any well-behaving software that's operating on user text should indeed do something other than just comparing the codepoints. In the case of searching a document, it's reasonable to do a diacritic-insensitive search, so if you search for "e" you could find "é" and "ê". But that's not true of all cases.
Granted I'm biased as I'm primarily a scala dev these days but I've always preferred the square brackets over the angle brackets. At least for me it is actually more readable.
I have really detailed feedback from the GNU Social community as well. I could invite you in their group, if you want to add your comments there and read all of it.

Generally, the feedback is that the the
milestones are sensible and useful, and model is interesting, and worth exploring.

We did some brainstorming on several long iterations.
Thanks! We're starting to clean it up a bit and hopefully as the feedback moves in, will figure out exactly who are target market is and how they respond to it.

Sometimes it's easier to relate to the folks on HN than it is to the rest of the world. Maybe I'll reuse the copy from here and throw it on the site.
Archimedes on Mac: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/archimedes-latex-markdown/id...
A pre-processor for PHP is a nice idea... like all the ES6 ones for JavaScript.
Here's some more:

http://www.asx.com.au/documents/asx-compliance/the_bottom_li...

https://finsia.com/news/news-article/2015/03/13/boardroom-ge...

http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/do-more-women-on-...
See here for scaling issue fixes for firefox/chrome: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
Yeah, there's certainly something rotten with Microsoft's App Store. I'd hazard a guess that most of it is outsourced to India and there's some internal bureaucracy putting it outside of purview of the people who could fix it. It's hard to even search for top apps that you know the name for.

I think its one of those things when Microsoft gets around to focus on it they'll "fix it" but for now, crappola.
It only has to save you enough to make that a rare-ish problem.
this does not include the many kind of fees, fleet maintenance expenses, other staffing costs, etc
I think it depends... at a certain level, you need software to be as fast as possible for the systems above... I think more user-space applications should be written in safer languages (C#/.Net, Java, Go, Rust, Node.js, Python, ...) and low-level drivers, kernels, rendering engines and the like should be in the lowest-level possible.

Unless we want everything to run as poorly (relatively speaking) as a web-application in a browser on a less-than top of the line computer... User-level applications are written on top of lower-level systems... the lower they are, the more important raw speed, and limited use of memory is.
you can grab a full kit here: http://atreus.technomancy.us/

but it's pretty easy to source the parts, see https://github.com/technomancy/atreus/ (which also has links to build instructions)
I dont speak Bengali, but some european languages have similar problem. In Czech language letter "ch" is a single character with its own place in alphabet.
I have only looked at the Credit Suisse paper that I think started this meme, and they clearly use a cut off point that makes women led companies look good. If they start their comparison a couple of years earlier, suddenly it looks different.

What does it look like?
If you really wanted, you could do this in C with a fork+exec. FWIW, sshd does do this, for a couple reasons.
Maybe CEOs of ill performing companies are more likely to be fired, and their replacement less likely to be a woman (since there are few candidates overall).

Just guessing - that's probably not it. But I think results like that are generally interesting as something seems to be going on. I just can't stand it if people jump to conclusions, usually to the ones that support their biases. It would be great to learn what is really going on.
> Could your program ignore it all and just let users edit text however you choose?

Sure, that's what happens in my text editor in my terminal, the unicode rendering rules are ignored, each code point gets one character on the screen, from left to right. Once things look how I expect them to in there, I test on real devices, in the real output context to make sure things are looking how they should; often I also have someone who can read and understand the text check too.

This works for me, but I'm a software developer, and I'm also not fluent in many languages, so seeing code points in logical order doesn't cause me problems with readability.
Tesla’s Elon Musk Says Autonomous Driving Not All That Hard to Achieve
One that is not 13". This is meant to be a compact machine, not a desktop replacement.
>Then two buses show up at the same time

Just two? You've never caught a bus in Chicago then..
I disagree with you - "gem install rails" is setting up Rails, but not what I was talking about: hosting the result.

I wonder if PaaS providers like Heroku would have taken off so quickly if Rails apps had been easy to set up the hosting for? It would explain their popularity outside the PHP community.
My concern is that he didn't calculate internal rate of return (IRR) correctly, and adjust for market conditions when the female CEO was hired/fired. It's hard to tell without verifying the details.

For example, suppose a company hired a female CEO during the market bottom in 2002 and fired her before the crash in 2008. Then, that would cause the "female CEO" statistic to be inflated relative to the S&P 500. If you calculate the relative IRR, it's more correct.

I.e., instead of a buy-and-hold S&P 500 investment vs buying/selling when the female CEO is hired/fired, you should instead buy $100k of the S&P 500 and female CEO stock SIMULTANEOUSLY, and then cash out both holdings when the female CEO is fired.

If you buy-and-hold the S&P 500 for 12 years vs buy/sell during a female CEO tenure, that's an apples-to-oranges comparison. That isn't properly adjusting for the market conditions when the female CEO was hired/fired.

He didn't provide enough details for me to check. I'd need a list of female CEO Tickers, hire/fire dates, and split-and-dividend-adjusted share price on the two dates.
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CPF is great. I originally found CPF when I was Googling the most powerful (flash)light ever and found this thread; http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?92396-1kW...

Click that link and tell me that doesn't make you chuckle. Now I just need a tank...

Edit: It has been a couple of years since I paid attention, but finding a Cree (flashlight) LED with a high-CRI is tough. My HDS has a Cree with 90+ CRI with a 3700k tint which is somewhat rare. Nichia made the best high-cri with more preferable 4400k+ tints.
Curious, as I'm not sure when that would actually happen in real life (in Chinese). Generally in mainland China , the ROC would always be rendered with 国, even officially [1]. And in Taiwan the PRC would be rendered with 國 [2].

It gets a bit weirder in Japanese where the word is distinctly not the same - one is a traditional version (proper noun) of the other and you could imagine a text using both (William vs Wilhelm vs Will).

[1] http://baike.baidu.com/view/2200.htm
[2] https://www.google.com.tw/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E...
That looks like a pretty bright idea. Would the schematics be considered illuminated manuscripts?
I don't care who does it or why - I just want higher quality software platforms. I'm glad that Microsoft didn't immediately give into the "open web" because it's a horrible mess of designed-by-committee compromises.

I wish someone would just make a new browser that lets people browse a mix of native apps and web pages so we can stop bolting more crap on top of HTML/JS/CSS.
I was really hoping for them to implement this, because I like to keep relevant scientific papers next to the code.
If for example I were to implement an algorithm described in a publicly available paper, I'd much rather have it sit right there in the repo instead of having a link to some other site (which may or may not be reachable at any future point in time).

Also I view PDFs as only "half binary". It's just a bunch of text streams, some of which may be compressed with deflate. (Granted, there's also stuff like embedded images, fonts, etc.)
"You’ve heard that companies with women executives at the helm tend to perform better than those led by men..."

What a nice sexist introduction.
> and more like small community centers, in line with the historical role of coffee shops.

People have been talking about this recently, and I've even gone to a handful of local cafes that explicitly state this as their purpose, but I've never felt that this was achieved. I've never been to a cafe where I felt comfortable chatting up strangers. If this is what Starbucks is doing, and they do it successfully, I'll go out of my way just to go to their cafes.
Is there an "autoplay" tag that could be added to this? I tend to open a large number of tabs from hackernews at once, then work my way through them, so it's particularly irritating to be surprised by one that suddenly plays music to me.
How about static analyzers? I'm sure there is one that prevents heartbleed if you follow its suggestions.
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wait im confused, why a torus and not a sphere?
Why should they even control this? It should be an open system by default....
> What strategic advantage is there in developing and maintaining their own browser?

You hold the keys to the default search engine for that particular browser, to name an example. Even with the Mozilla-Yahoo deal it's still in MS interest to own a browser so they can push Bing and their other cloud services there.
Yeah, I started to look through OpenJDK commit history to get a better sense of the proportions here, but I haven't gotten far enough to have any useful data.
> So that's probably more of an indication not to build complicated sandboxes that rely on fine-grained classloading permissions systems

Web sandboxes are full of holes too. That's why modern browsers have sandboxes within sandboxes. I don't think an HTML5 sandbox is less complicated than the JVM sandbox.
Remember: Heartbleed was a consequence of the OpenSSL implementors avoiding using glibc for allocations. A "fair" comparison is with unsafe rust code, which of course can have the problem.
They would indeed. Once I polish off a couple of things on it, I'll post up the whole build.
They already made a lot of transactions before so they already own a lot of credit card info already:

* gifts

* promote personal posts on news feed

* ads (promote page posts)

* some messages (you had to pay to send a message to mark for example)

* people who enter it just so they can recover their password more easily
Bram Cohen, the guy behind the Bittorrent protocol, worked for Valve for a short time.
Well, them prove your claims, because 100 billion dollars spent in research in the past 20 years has proved nothing. The defenders of the AGW are the ones misinformed and lying. But as I said, it is very simple. All that is required is for them or you to present the arguments. This is science, not mythological interpretation.
I'm not sure which one I looked at (thought I would have saved it to hd but can't find it right now). Googling I find for example this (it looks different than the one I remember, but still): https://www.credit-suisse.com/newsletter/doc/gender_diversit...

Only skimmed it, but they have for example a chart for 2005 to 2011. Between 2005 and mid 2007the zero-women companies outperform the at-least-one-women companies, then there is some sort of crash and the roles reverse. Would be curious to see the chart for pre-2005...
Interesting. In Australia, I think the limit is $50 (which is about the same in pounds) but there's no entering your PIN number every 5 transactions.

This is in the country that has the highest adoption of contactless payments.
Except you can still recognize the 'a' as 'a' no matter which way it is rendered.

Not so with Chinese characters. For instance, the character for "fly" in simplified (飞) and traditional (飛) look very different. Someone who only learned simplified may not recognize the traditional character as being the same.
Can't upvote hard enough.

User-to-user is just one piece of the puzzle. Facebook has faced a REAL uphill battle convincing advertisers of the value they add in the path to conversion. Anyone who is familiar with cross-channel attribution knows this all to well. Many of FB's recent updates have been big slaps in the face to many advertisers, but this could be a huge win.

It would in essence enable them to go from being what is typically one of the first points in the "generating awareness" stage to being a last touch success. Most advertisers are not savvy to things like attribution (hence one of the reasons AdWords still focuses on last click in their main UI), so being able to say to businesses "here is how much money you earned directly and immediately from your ad" is a huge win for proving the value they add.

Any PMs or engineers at FB--would love to chat with you about this and how it ties into the attribution picture. Seriously--it's a huge problem for you right now.
And yet, Apple is still doomed!
Thank you for the link, I was wanting to read that article but had forgotten about it.

I met Don on a return flight from SJC to OGG. He seemed very kind and passionate about the Makani Power project at the time. The idea, as he explained it, originated from plans to build a self powered kite boat [1] that could circumnavigate the world. The "self powered" part interested his friends at Google and they started funding him. He confessed that he had accidentally become an engineer in the process, but his real passion was wind surfing and kite surfing and he was eager to get back to that.

[1] http://project.kiteboat.com/
I don't understand the rant. So BMW's smartphone app is flawed. Meanwhile my 2005 Prius has keyless entry that simply works and last a several years per battery change. It's single purpose and only works when very close to the car.

80% of the author's frustration could be resolved with a lockscreen widget that launches the app into the appropriate action, preferably authenticated with fingerprint/TouchID/passcode.

Then it becomes a) pull out phone, b) unsleep display c) use lock screen widget d) authenticate using passcode/TouchID.
Never heard of it but already love it!!!