skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mention in the project I bought one of these:
http://www.priority1design.com.au/shopfront/index.php?main_p...

Turns out the antenna that comes with it is way too small for anything other than manually brushing it against the cats neck knowing exactly where the chip is.

However I got some mails from another guy that built a cat feeder thingie. He ended up doing his own, much bigger antenna so that the cats head fit through it (he made a structure in cardboard wrapping the coil around that).

Anyway, he had some contact with the company, and they recommend using the RS232 version instead of the USB one for such applications... They had some better spec in some way.

EDIT:
I looked up the mail, and to summarize he used 0.6mm enamled copper wire and a 120mm computer fan (minus the fan in the middle, that he wrapped the coil around. The reader then outputs the MOF value so you can know what frequency you're getting.

I've bought some copper wire myself and I'm planning to make a better antenna myself, but haven't yet.
I think you're confusing loss of value with loss of savings. So if your stocks lose half their value, then you now have "less cash equivalent savings" but you still have savings. Even in the dot com crash (where I was not diversified and had a lot of tech stocks) the reduction in value across the board was, in aggregate, about 70% even though some stocks it was 99.9%. But all of that was "ok" because I didn't need that money to live on, it was "savings".

Similarly with house values, if you own your home outright it doesn't matter if the real estate market crashes, you can still live there. But it might make moving less desirable (or not if you can find a good deal somewhere else).

The article is talking about people who find themselves unable to pay for repairing a vehicle after an accident without going into credit card debt. That can start a spiral into insolvency.
Mozilla has a similar tool: https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generat...
To give a simple example:

"nearest gas station" - Google gives 3 in the next town over, but skips the tribally owned one (which is $.05 cheaper) that you pass on the way to the ones listed.

Siri gives one station 10 miles away that you pass 4 stations to get to.

"nearest grocery store" - Google gets this one correct listing the two on the reservation and the closest one in the next town.

Siri skips both on the reservation and directs you to the one in the next town. You need to drive by one of the two on the reservation to get to it.

Phone book yellow pages has all of them listed.

This is the easy stuff. Asking about oil changes and tires is pretty bad.

// Siri and Weather.app on iOS is actually incapable of finding the town by zip code or name and give results "Not Found" or more bizarrely a town in New York state even though it correctly interpreted North Dakota. It also gives Fargo listings for Jamestown. Google keeps giving the college location I work at as in a town 40 miles from here.
> I'm having a hard time coming up with a definition of "web technology" that doesn't include Java

Neither Chrome nor Edge support Java or Silverlight.
Yes, that's the fantasy reasoning, the bears no relation to how mass slaughter actually does and does not happen.
Care to point out specific examples? Curious what you see, exactly
yes, exactly that, drag an xml file into excel, choose "generate a schema", then you can drag and drop fields from your nested structure,

parent records will be repeated intelligently for nested sub-records.
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Whoops, you're absolutely right. Eg:

'?tag(implemented-in:c\+\+)'

On a different desktop right now, so can't check -- but that'll probably lower the count considerably (eg: on a different server I get 226 for "c/c++" and 19 for just "c++" ("c\+\+)").
BlackBerry could quit hardware as early as next year
That's incorrect.

Similar numbers you could pull during 4.5% CDs we had just a few years ago (I still have couple of those on 10 years basis that every time I go to Bank of America, rep is trying to lure me to break it and "go have fun spend it", since obviously they don't make any money on 4.5% CD 6 years old CDs anymore).

Living in this country for a while, and comparing to my home Europe, I imagine US versus Europe to be like two party houses next to each other. One called "Europe", where admission is paid and when you get inside and everything you want cost money, up front. Music? Sure but you have to pay. Drinks - fine. pay before you drink. Etc. Eventually when you leave they will say "come back for more" and that's all. The party over there might be boring because invitees can only afford as much as they have in their pockets - not a lot. Versus US is totally different story. They welcome you without admission (just swipe your credit card), and party as much as you want to, virtually free. Music? Anything you want to just swipe your card. Drinks - sure, open a tab and you good to go! Everyone in US house has fun and colorful life goes on. Eventually you might seen US house being more fun, but surely more reckless with 18T in debt (T for Trillion). But also what I noticed is that a lifespan of someone's party in both houses eventually comes down to be their entire life!! So while normally when party house is getting closed down at 2am and everyone is forced to pay and leave, in real live living in USA, you party until you die and perhaps some of your debt is pushed toward your children, but that's all. So eventually you just don't care what will happen at 2am when the light are up. You be gone long before. And that "reckless" approach is what makes Americans don't want to safe. Eventually, there are just not enough incentive to save. Also, in Europe a person cannot bankrupt, only corporations. That makes a bit difference.
Even 1% is still abysmal. Some of that 100k should be in cash, because liquidity is useful, but long-term returns on capital should be much closer to 5%.
The traffic. Ugh. ...I remember, even twenty years ago, having to slog along under 40 mph from SeaTac to Seattle on a Saturday - early in the afternoon.
Perhaps I'm being dense, but the Forbes title doesn't seem to match the text, which only asks how the CEO navigated the harassment claim. The response given seems to be the bland "companies should think about company culture from the beginning."

Can someone point out what the CEO learned from the harassment scandal?
You sell the stocks and bonds and have cash the same or next day. You can also take a home equity loan.
I vigorously support the notion that bank executives who have broken the law should go to prison.
First off this looks amazing, congratulations on building something I'd love to use and good luck. I have two questions.

1) Is MUBI available in the UK?

2) Do you support or are you planning support Plex?
God's temple must always be perfect and without blemish. Backward compatibility is never a concern. Mostly, it is not for 3rd party software, so each person must keep his own code operational.

We are different because we almost ban 3rd party and deliver the ultimate for user developers.

We will get a committee and make a perfect ROM burned into all x86_64 chips in the Intel factory that does not change for 7 years. Over time, experts will make the 100,000 limited lines of code into a diamond of perfection that crystalizes over the centuries.
Less than 86% even have enough for a proper emergency fund.
This is very sad.

Either they have found a place to put it other than a savings account (which we all know doesn't provide even enough interest to cover inflation), or people are in a world of hurt right now.
A market crash severe enough to whipe out stocks, bonds, and real estate, is also going to effect fiat currency. In order for the FDIC to actually cover the saving accounts for the defaulted banks, we would have to create many many new dollars.
Ah, my loose reading. I read it as "he must find something Twitter can be successful with, as Facebook... etc"

I see now that I was wrong there!
everytime someone says that, I always think of a great quote by Nouriel Roubini:

"asked whether he invests in stocks, he replied, "Not as much these days. I used to have a lot in equities—about 75%—but over the past three years, I’ve had about 95% in cash and 5% in equities. You’re not getting much from savings these days but earning 0% is better than losing 50%."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouriel_Roubini
Me too. For a while, I lived in a largish place with two nice fireplaces. Every catalog, junk mail, etc... went right in. There was some door to door guy who would come by asking about my interest in various things and offering catalogs.

Question: "Sir, how do you use catalogs and the yellow pages?"

Answer: "Home heating, please sign me up for more."

He laughed his ass off, "Seriously?"

To which I replied, "No Joke, why not?"

The conversation moved on from there, and we did discuss how and if people even care about these things, and he indicated many elderly people absolutely did. Turns out, he was door to door in my neighborhood due to a fairly concentrated set of these people who do buy and follow up on direct mail, catalog and use yellow pages regularly.

I suspect YP is going to face a generational fall off of business over the next 10 years as their prime demographics age out.

In addition to YP, there is the whole "direct response" type of campaign, most often executed via the mail, used heavy by televangelists, and others who would be associated with late night TV infomercials. The sweet spot demographic is over 50 for all of this, and as people age out, there just won't be the kind of back fill we saw through the 80's and 90's.
Best example ever: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/05/20/what-im-teaching-m...
That is true but why should I let the bank make all the money off my savings? If I were to lose my job today I could easily find a bartending job like I did in college to support myself in the time it takes to find a new job. My situation may be different than a lot of people and I live in a large city.

If I had 15k in savings to buy a house in two years I could put 10k into a CD and still make something like $300. The 5k could be for emergencies and the 10k is still more liquid than a 401k.
Ask HN: How to ship laptop to Europe?
They say at the post office that they can send it only without batteries. Is there a way to send it with batteries?
Minor point, but I think you mean inelastic goods.

The only solution I can see to solve my rent problem is to move to a very low-demand market. Looking into hunkering down in a cabin in Alaksa for a while because rents in the Boston area are just dumb for a recent grad.
You should be able to pay off your mortgage and still maintain & increase savings. If you can't, you have too much mortgage.
That's like blaming an illegal addition to your house on rogue contractors. It's such a poorly conceived lie that it is actually insulting.
Any given dollar is primarily a representation of someone else's debt. Since the number of dollars can only expand through debt, the sum total of dollars (savings) over all people will always be near 0.

You'd need most of the debt to be taken out by corporations or governments for the people to have a >0 average savings.
FBI chief: 'unacceptable' that Guardian has better data on police violence
Beacuse .38 rounds are impossible to get anywhere but from the police department.
>We need to get away from this whole "The browser is a poor man's operating system" model anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing hypermedia and then hand off to specialized programs when we want to do something outside that paradigm.

While I don't believe the Web should be an OS. There absolutely needs to be vendor neutral, hardware/system independent software runtimes. And I see no reason for one of those not to be the Web.

The idea of software applications running on a specific system or machine is about as useful and sane as video, audio or image files with that same limitation.
Cap Hill used to be a gay / artist / low income district of Seattle but is increasingly wealthy tech workers. I don't see this as a bad thing but obviously some people do.

I think this comparison misses the point. The think the main complain with the change is just that, change. Capitol Hill used to feel much more eclectic and diverse. Today, personally, I don't feel that sentiment.

FWIW, I've lived in the neighborhood for ~7 years.
Funny as it may sound, the Razer Blade might fit that bill for you, depending on what you mean by 'ultrabook'.

It's a 14" Retina-like notebook, great trackpad with click buttons, extremely powerful internals, all-metal chassis, and only slightly bigger than a Macbook. They sell them at the MS store and if you buy from there they come with plain-vanilla Windows installed, without crapware. They also run Ubuntu extremely well.

There are downsides: it's very expensive, you're buying from a less-well-known supplier, parts are proprietary so home repair is out of the question, and you have to be OK with the black chassis and 90's-hacker-green keyboard.

But the system itself is outstanding. Don't know why it's not recommended more often, especially considering it's very Linux-friendly.
You are actually taking on more risk than if you had some invested in different vehicles. The truth is you're losing more money by not having any of it generating higher potential yields. Likewise, putting all your money in higher yielding vehicles (for instance, call options) is a lot of risk too.

There's a calculus to understanding how much you should have put into different vehicles (including cash in a savings account) to take on the most conservative position.

The way you're playing is you are forfeiting and losing by taking on more risk than you think. It's weird to think about but you need to factor in inflation and cash becomes worth less when it is just sitting there. It isn't volatile but it is mainly deterministic. Some diversity in your arrangements would protect you better.
He mentioned having some of the funds as "cash on hand." Let's assume it's some sort of investment (eg. sweep) account, like at Charles Schwab [1]. The funds are FDIC-insured, just like a savings account; they are also just as accessible as a savings account. But they are actually an investment account, from which you can trade stocks, bonds, etc.

Of the (mostly affluent) people I know... none of them possess a traditional savings account. Most use a checking accounts for direct deposit and a brokerage account. There's no reason to have a traditional savings account.

[1] http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/accounts_produ...
We've tried tweaking the CSS several times, but it didn't work well enough, so we've been working on revising the underlying markup instead. It's coming.
Interesting - I moved from VA (Originally from PA) to Seattle a bit over 3 years ago, and my experience has been pretty different. However, I work downtown and live on Shoreline, which is quite different from Bellevue.

I've found Seattle quite friendly to newcomers (Some friends visited and it took 3 days before some stranger didn't cover their drinks when out for dinner), and open and welcoming to me on multiple levels (as a tech person, as a board and RPG gamer, and as a geek in general, not to mention as someone far more socially liberal than Virginia was kind to).

That said, I've learned there are a ton of neighborhoods here, each with their own flavor and style, and I've only "known" a few of them. Woodinville is not Freemont is not Bothell is not Bellevue.
> I'm having a hard time coming up with a definition of "web technology" that doesn't include Java, outside of "things that are baked into the browser out the box" which is awfully narrow.

By that measure, Mobile Safari has never used Web technology.
6 months is usually far too long to keep in direct cash / savings.

I think 2-3 months direct cash/savings/checking is fine, then move excess cash to CDs or something semi-liquid. You totally CAN get money out of CDs, just sometimes lose your interest. If you have some kind of CD ladder or such going on - you can have a new CD coming out every 1-3 months anyway, which will give you the cushion you need after savings run out.
I'm not criticizing, but would like to point out you may fit the definition of "asset rich and cash flow poor" and, under certain circumstances, could essentially be bankrupt due to an inability to access funds. A recent example would be the entertainer 50 Cent declaring bankruptcy in the context of a judgment totaling in the millions. Also, based on my experience on Wall Street (note: not a licensed advisor or broker), I remember when the Auction Rate Securities market collapsed, and hundreds of millions of dollars in "as good as cash" (sic) structures were suddenly rendered illiquid. I mention this simply as context for what can happen in the financial markets in undesirable scenarios.
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Depends on the institution. I understand that higher tier research universities have a better graduate student ratio for domestic/non-domestic. My institution seems closer to 90% non-domestic for EECS PhD students.
I'm confused as to why NASA has patents to begin with.

If we already paid for the research, why should we have to license it at all?
Stocks are a pretty liquid asset in those cases. And for things where the need for money is sooner than a sale would go through it could be put on a Amex/credit card and paid at the end of the month. Totally guessing but they've also probably got a fair amount of money in a checking account as their 'cash on hand'.
Money isn't everything to a lot of people. On top of that, how much do they benefit if they end up chased out of their neighborhood?
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What?

You don't have to take advantage of every opportunity.

I generally buy anything that sparks my interest, and manage to bank a lot more cash than I spend.
To be specific. I only took the general idea from that project. That is, to match the cat head against a lit background to make it easy to get a good profile image.

None of the implementation has anything to do with that project however.
I don't know about the poster but my investment account gives me access to it as "cash" if I chose to exercise that option, the brokerage essentially loans me the money and briefly and then sells some of the stocks in a pre-arranged priority to cover that cost. The "real" life implementation of this is that my kid's college tuition is auto-deducted from that account, so if the cash on hand balance got to 0 it would liquidate money markets, and then long term stock holdings, to cover the draft.

That said, I personally have tried to balance dividend (income) paying stocks and short term bonds (6months to 1 year) which feeds into the cash balance, so that covers some of it.
I'm taking a 15-minute look at their IoT developer guide (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/what-i...) to get a feel for what, exactly, this service is providing. My guess is that they're trying to compete with Thingspeak, DeviceHub, etc. I'm not totally sure I'm capturing this right, because their documentation isn't great at "getting to the point", but here's my read:

1. Internet-connected stuff needs to be able to talk, so awsiot needs to support messaging. So it looks like they're currently offering http (publish only) and mqtt (bidirectional pub/sub). They give each awsiot account a unique IoT internet endpoint (some-random-string.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com), and then parse everything into a stored state in the cloud (that's the device "shadow")

2. Ideally you'd be doing this securely. awsiot appears to be generating its own x509 certs here, -- are they then an intermediate CA? Not clear on this. The documentation here is terribly vague and I have no idea what's going on. Not good for transparency. I can't even tell if they're forcing security, or if it's optional.

3. State management. awsiot cloud-stores the state of devices, allowing you to check them (or to issue commands to either from a third-party device like a phone app).

4. Communication between devices. They're claiming some kind of wholly undocumented authentication system for access to and control over device state. At any rate, they have a concept of device-based identity, and then based on that identity, devices are (or aren't) allowed to talk to each other.

I've done some IoT development, and though it's a bit hard to tell by their terribly inadequate documentation, I'm pretty sure this is intended for enterprise developers with massive IoT product offerings and very high product volume. AWS is much too complicated for a lot of the small device manufacturers, at least the ones coming in from the hardware side. To use this scalably (especially given you can only access it from CLI) with reasonable product volumes is going to require a lot of setup scripting to register devices, and I don't think companies will be able to afford the tooling cost until they're enterprise-level.
This is in fact not how "societies have worked since the dawn of time".[1] The innovation of the monopoly of use of violence by the state is a relatively recent one, and not demonstrably necessary or sufficient to maintain an orderly and just society.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police#History

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
The TPP was supposed to be the lever that pushed governments that have comparatively weaker worker and environmental protections to higher standards.

We won't know until we read it in a month, but it sounds like corporations were over-represented in the negotiations and a lot of that leverage has been lost. If true, that makes the agreement very dangerous.

People will argue that the third and second world are better off now than they were but that is a low bar, IMHO. We need to catapult them to our modern standards. Workers must be represented more in these negotiations. We must rethink the 'exploitation is ok as long as it is profitable and legal' idea that underlies a lot of our policy both at home and between nations.

It is not a 'free trade or nothing' discussion as so many free trade advocates would like to paint it.

In short, I think I agree with you but there is a lot of changing of minds that will have to happen to foster support of these ideas.
"What the fuck" got me:

1. Explain what this blog is.

2. Did the storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing someone call their life?

3. How is someone fucking desu, kid?

4. Are someone sharkbait, fool?

5. What place featured the use of fuck someone in print?

6. How many reason that the word fuck is so hard to trace etymologically is?

7. Explain why fuck was considered the third most severe profanity and its derivative motherfucker second.

8. What are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word?

9. How did adulterers lock the stocks in village squares sported `FUCK?

10. What times when conquering forces have engaged in rape has been there?
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This is not a Show HN. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Good thing immigrants go to graduate school or CS research would completely cease in this country since everyone else is trying to cash in.
Most of us don't see any reason to continue doing interesting things beyond making ourselves look appealing during courtship.
Google also does a horrible job in urban areas, giving businesses a dozen miles away (~ 1 hour travel time) over businesses within a five minute walk.