skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really cool project! Do you have a total cost estimate somewhere? I toyed with a similar idea a couple of years back, but a friend who was actually working on developing algorithms for medical ultrasound told me I'd be looking at several thousand dollars worth of hardware.

Importantly, how many transducers are you planning on using? I understand typical medical ultrasound uses a phased array with hundreds of transducers. That's what drove up my friend's cost estimate.

What you can do with a single transducer, though, is listen to a baby's heartbeat using the Doppler effect. (You can buy a fetal Doppler device on Amazon for about $40, that could be a good reference for calibrating your power output to make it reasonably safe.)
Lol, yeah.. Nothing makes me feel more secure than an operating system that ships with a built in keylogger and cannot be disabled. I'm afraid to even use the internet on my windows 10 system, I only have it for games. Get with the program Microsoft, people want an OS they can trust, I feel like the last time I trusted a Microsoft OS was XP.
Good point, it is important that the rentiers do not spend as much as renters would, otherwise the same amount of spending would take place.
In defense of hard work
Would you be kind enough to list the crates that your API is using?
I think they've just managed a good design - mostly by resisting the temptation to show off as so many designers do. It's very minimal - if anything it looks similar to the hand-written no-styles websites that academics often write (that look like http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ )
Same. They managed to fake me out for quite a while.

Then again, I only interacted with the site by following links on sites like this, reading the linked item, then closing the tab. My entire impression came from the quality of those posts (took time to see bad ones make it to the front page of HN, for example) and the post page design. If I'd ever clicked around the site or visited the homepage I might have figured it out faster.

These days I expect a level of quality slightly better than Tumblr when I see the medium.com domain name in a link, and am occasionally pleasantly surprised. The image/marketing only went so far.
This is fantastic news. Now, let's see Heroku use either this or Let's Encrypt and eliminate their onerous $20 per host SSL fee, which is making the Internet less secure.
Is there a guide to modern java frameworks and their use? I left java a while back when "EE" was full of shit.
What happened was that they forcibly migrated my Wordpress from shared hosting to a VPS to accept the traffic...but they didn't migrate the MySQL database. And the console showed it had a size of 0KB.

A few emails were sent out that day.
The lone person in the thread that mistrusts lawyers.

You're correct, btw. It does definitely result in billable hours if they do anything more than ticket you.

However, more importantly, you are stating to the police officer that even though you aren't able to defend yourself, you have someone on-retainer that will happily make him personally liable for his actions.

No bully will want that, and the good ones will just make sure they do their jobs.

(I personally fight back, but I do not recommend doing the same unless you fully appreciate the risk of having your windows smashed in and being yanked out of your car if you mess up during negotiations)
Raising Venture Capitalist Funding: Pointers from Jed Katz
One of the best professors I've had at Cal. A stand-up guy with an incredible story.
Mac build quality is fine. It's their accessibility and repairability with standard industry components.
I've been running a small hosting company since 2002. Started hosting just my blog, then friends, then their friends and so on. I used to have about 300 blogs total, now I'm down to about 250, and it's slowly dropping every month. A few of those people moved to other hosting, and kept the blogs, but really most of them just said "I'm giving up, no time to blog when I'm busy on Twitter and Facebook"

I think many people feel like they get out what they needed to get out on Twitter/Facebook. They used to write on their own blogs to get things out, now it's elsewhere.
Yeah but rain. I lived in Oregon for 22 years, and I've been living in California since 2012 and although its been through a drought, let me tell you some things I don't miss after being back in Oregon for the holidays.
Waking up to gray, gloomy skies, with rain pouring down.
Waking up to the dark at 7am in the Winter.
Sunset at 4:30.
It actually gets cold haha.

The summers are amazing though!

You get spoiled living here and thats why people like it.
The string manipulation is good in Rust, but in Rust strings are unicode and characters are unicode codepoints. IRC is an ASCII protocol and so I went with using binary slices `[u8]` for parsing.

For network stuff I used openssl[0] and std::TcpStream [1]

I didn't use a GUI. I plan on using piston.rs[2] to build games but there are Qt, GTK+ and even Cocoa integrations for rust.

[0] https://crates.io/crates/openssl/

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/net/struct.TcpStream.html

[2] http://www.piston.rs/
Actually managed to sneak some Rust into production. Nobody cares what language you wrote the DLL in, just that it does what the docs say it should do.
Are you serious? Where could Apple establish itself if not for the US? Or Google? Or Facebook?

The government comes first, as a guarantor of civilization. Everything else comes later.
In the case of refined carbohydrates, there is abundant evidence that they are bad for us.
What's the generation speed like with Hexo? I'm using Hugo but I'm not really enjoying Go templates so I'm curious as to how Hexo performs.
I understood that thorium was used in liquid form (molten salt) which you can separate a lot faster than a reactor using fuel in a solid state and that way stop the reaction.
I don't think the platform thing is that big of a deal.

Programming languages are pushed and promoted just like everything else in the world. But there are more programmers than ever before, more languages than ever before, more platforms, more everything. And reaching out to most of the programmers becomes much harder and convincing them to use a new shiny language even more so.

If anything, we are likely to never see any new language become mainstream again. And likely to see most of the mainstream languages fade away.
But in this case you just need a very rough 2d outline. I believe some stud finders use ultrasound. This might be more similar to that than a medical ultrasound.
For anyone confused about Medium's export feature, it's available under Settings->Export Content from the user menu. Worries about platforms not providing this are warranted, but I think Medium already has this covered, even if some of the export HTML is messier than some would like.

Until Medium, I hosted my own blogs on my own web servers (for ~17 years). I eventually got tired of dealing with updates, comment spam management (even with Akismet and friends), breakin attempts, and all the rest, so I moved there. I'd still like to see friendly URL and custom domain support, as well as some fixes to the editor (bulleted lists + blockquote indentation bugs are very frustrating), but overall, I've been fairly satisfied with it.

His concerns might be a tad overblown in this instance, even if I agree with many of his concerns about the open web (and I personally still think RSS should be everywhere by default. It's still incredibly useful, even if only used for API consumption.)
Now flip the situation around. If there was a missing girl being held there and the police didn't check it, how would people react? The chance of checking and making sure while in the process inconveniencing someone far outweighs the chance of not checking. Sure it sucks, but what are the other options? If you are the parent of this missing kid and the police tell you your child might be there but they can't look into it, you would be ok with that?
Thank you all for sharing your experience and thoughts. That gave me some insight.
> Plain text protocols suck

An honest question: Is it possible that they suck for you and people like you, skilled, experienced engineers with sophisticated tools, and with much less time than money - but they don't suck for less experienced, less equipped, hackers or tinkerers with time to try things but little money or expertise?

Remember that those people built quite a few things, from Facebook to Napster to Dell to the web browser to the web itself (just off the top of my head). Empowering them is arguably the key to innovation.
SQL is just one type of DB language we use, but yes we use JDBI with some extensions we've built (such as https://github.com/HubSpot/Rosetta and other non-opensource) for our SQL database of choice, MySQL.

But we also use a number of other databases with native java clients, such as HBase and ElasticSearch.
I think a big point the author is missing is branding.

If you use medium you gain some short-term cred, but in the long term you are missing out by being "in" with a group.

Social networks, any large scale networks stagnate creativity. If you are your own free entity I respect that a lot more. I always appreciate well done websites and I think mobile is passé. It's time to reinvent the web and 4K screens are very exciting tech for me personally.
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It's the man-bun that guy is wearing. Phone's are set to hunt those guys down and beat the crap out of them.</sarcasm>
There are wrappers for basically any C/C++ library you can think of. I found string support to be pretty great from the standard library (compared to C++), such as UTF-8 and string interpolation.

In terms of networking, I threw together a working console IRC client in about 60 lines of Rust (using standard library threads and TcpStreams). And I'm very much a Rust beginner. And Rust forced me to consider error handling in a way I wouldn't have otherwise.

I should also say that the community is unusually supportive: I've asked some questions on the IRC channel and got really helpful replies (and haven't noticed any of the snark that comes with a lot of IRC channels).
In support of betteridge, I still keep a personal blog on a vanity domain, and you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.
If Medium does go away, I suppose I'd take the backups and just go through and repost everything on another platform, or simply set up my self-hosted blog again.

Yes, that would be immensely annoying, but it's not really that terrible of a downside in a calculated risk offset against how much easier (and, again, free-er!) medium is to use, and to maintain.
I've seen some things I'd have to tone down to sell as believable fiction, and this was several years ago doing consulting for startups.

Standard issue asshattery include things like:

- Paper-thin mock up demos of a product being misrepresented as actual finished sale-able product. Sorry but the V in MVP stands for viable.

- Impressive people are touted as employees, even co-founders, and when you go talk to them it's news to them. Maybe they had a conversation with said founder once and expressed some interest and suddenly to investors and others they are the CTO. Sometimes this arises from the founder(s) being so narcissistic that they simply assume that anyone would of course feel privileged to join them. Why wouldn't they?

- Company/founder has sales/vendor relationship with other companies and misrepresents those products as "theirs," implying that they actually own them. In one case I saw rebranding without permission, which is flat out fraud.

- Signups/trials/downloads misrepresented as active continuous users or free users counted together with paid users.

- Lying about educational or work background. A skilled blowhard will do so in an ambiguous way, e.g. "went to MIT" means "attended one workshop there and read a lot of open courseware."

- Products that would violate known laws of physics or proven mathematical theorems. (Or sometimes even grade school math...)
> and it was hard to communicate.

I'm curious what the differences where in communication, here in the UK the black people I've worked with have been no harder to communicate with than anyone else, I have noticed there is slightly more of a communication gap with black people who come from London (but I've only known two and they where both deeply religious which I think had more to do with it).
Geez, that sounds like a complete PITA. At least you'll now have a nice version controlled setup, small mercy.
So basically don't use this if you care enough about security to pin your certificates.
Minor nitpick: AGPS, or Assisted GPS is actually almost the same as GPS. The only difference is that it gets the Almanach data off the Internet, instead of the satellites themselves (the satellites are constantly broadcasting that data, but it takes a few minutes to download it all).
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The Codeless Code: Fables and Koans for the Software Engineer
I mean, since they're offering for free what many others charge ~$100 USD for, I'm not surprised.

That said, SSL certs and domain renewals are the least interesting but high importance items of running an online business. As I'm already heavily deployed on AWS, I have no problem having them handle all of this for me, for what is free to me. (yes yes, not technically free)
"Static site generators are not a good answer for non-engineers, especially if customizations are necessary."

Could be. Content and templates could be hosted on S3. Unfortunately I haven't found a good admin GUI for a static site generator yet. I use Jekyll myself and as a developer that's great, not something I would recommend to normal users though. Which is a shame because most users (or small businesses) don't really have such complex requirements. Most don't really need their site to be dynamic, and what requires some server functionality can be solved with an external service (save data, send email etc).
SSL/TLS analysis of the Internet's top 1M websites in 2015
No more or less than anybody can track my bitcoin transactions, right? If I want to be anonymous, I use a new bitcoin address for each transaction.
If the companies spent their savings, rather than hoarding them, the economy would instantly grow, and we would most likely see more jobs with better pay.

The article makes it sound like these dollars are somehow being removed from the economy. If they're put in a bank, the bank loans it out to someone else. If they buy treasury bills, the government then takes the money and spends it. Even if all this money was converted to paper notes and stuffed into giant mattresses, the net effect would simply be to deflate the currency and increase the value of everyone else's money.

Hoarding money isn't like hoarding oil or rice or microchips. Maybe GM spending money would grow the economy more than GM loaning it to the federal government so they can spend it, maybe not. Depends on what they spend it on - the return on education is probably higher than the return on fancy pensions or factories for products that nobody buys.
Clojure is for Type B personalities
They could at least try harder to cover the new access method. I really wonder why they did not. They should have assumed that this particular backdoor will be disclosed. So even in the event of having legitmate use cases for access like this they still decided to endager their customers.
FWIW, the stable release purposely having this functionality removed is pretty annoying. Using periodic versioned releases is much nicer than sporadic snapshots (I've avoided the issue by not mucking with STM32 stuff in a while). A flag like #![use_unstable_features] would be friendlier.
I'm in the UK, I've eaten most of those but not in taco's

2) I quite like a tongue sandwich.
3) Tripe is not my cup of tea but I've had it
4) Fried pork blood, we have a thing here called black pudding (it's congealed blood soaked in oats, then fried, it's damn good and apparenly good for you).
6) Lots of times, don't see it much now, my nan lived on it
7) Used in stocks
10) Pork Scratchings are huge here also damn good but really bad for you.

Traditional English cuisine ate everything.

Chitlings are pretty grim though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding :)
California Introduces Bill to Ban Strong Encryption in Smartphones
Actually more like http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

:-)
I "self-host" using Pelican + S3. It's super cheap (< $1/month) and pretty easy, the only real downside is that all of the Pelican themes are really ugly, and I'm not good enough at design to make a better one.
In fairness to the author, the title is "black coders". Not "minority coders".
The hard part is not getting a website to serve an HTML page. It's that modern UI standards for HTML publishing are pretty high. Finding a theme that you like and most other people will like (let alone writing one yourself) is a hassle for most people who aren't front-end developers.

You can point to lots of web sites that are hard to read, but that just proves the point that people are rather finicky about it these days.
Since this release is focused on stabilizing libcore for embedded use, it seems a good time to ask a question that's been on my mind.

C11 (and C++11) defined a memory model and atomic operations for shared-state lock-free concurrency. But that model and the atomic operations aren't being used by Linux, because they didn't match up with the semantics of the operations that Linux uses. (See https://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p012...).

I'm curious what Rust says about this. Does Rust have a memory model like C11/C++11? I'm curious whether Rust (and C11/C++11 for that matter) will evolve to have primitives like what the Linux kernel currently defines and uses.
There are plenty of species of mosquito that don't transmit these respective diseases. Sure, the diseases themselves may eventually mutate so they are transmissible by something else, but in the meantime wiping out A. Egyptii (for instance) is fine as long as other species are still there for bats, spiders, etc.
It's not blazingly fast but it's good enough for me - a blog with about 50 posts takes about 30 seconds to deploy from a clean start. It does sensible things like caching the json database and only generating new posts.
Do you see sandstorm as ever hosting medium-to-large scale, externally-facing websites (as opposed to personal or intranet-type sites)?
Then it is time yet again to invent new ways for Americans to consume.

An economy turns not on capital but the movement of capital from one place to another (ie trade). Atm the money is with corporations. They don't actually want it. They would rather have customers buying their products than money sitting in a box. The role of government in resolving this impasse is to somehow make that parked money move again. Either take it via taxes (very difficult as the US does not generally tax assets) or get the corporations to spent it willingly.

I'd vote for a rule that would mandate dividend payouts by corporations that hoard money. Define a fixed amount that is acceptable, say 25% of net worth, and any liquid assets above that number must be paid as dividends. That will move a pile of money from corporations to wealthy stockholders, which in turn pay taxes and hopefully will spend some on products. Yes, it is a "trickle-down" approach, but I think that is the only approach the US electorate can stomach these days. Or, to avoid paying said dividends, corporations would invest in/hire people who would then pay taxes and otherwise keep the money flowing through the economy.
>c: burning a ton ton ton of fossil fuels.

Then, fine, that's the solution that should please you. Go ahead. No worries. E.g., you and Bill Gates might be very happy to watch the BBC

The Great Global Warming Swindle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Mx0_8YEtg

Thumbnail version: Human sources of CO2 have nothing to do with climate. Instead for at least hundreds of thousands of years to the present and the foreseeable future, essentially the main cause of climate change is just the level of solar activity. As that varies so does the rate of sun spots, the strength of the solar wind, the rate at which the solar wind blocks cosmic rays, cosmic rays hit water molecules in the atmosphere, water droplets are formed, clouds are formed. More clouds have a cooling effect. So, a more active sun blocks more cosmic rays, causes fewer clouds, and warms the earth. A less active sun, ..., more clouds, and a cooler earth.

CO2 levels don't fit the temperature data at all well, e.g., in the Vostok data Gore's movie used, the CO2 levels went up about 800 years after the temperature went up. E.g., the cooling from The Little Ice Age was not from less CO2 but from a very inactive sun. The increase in temperature coming out of The Little Ice Age was from a more active sun. The global cooling from about 1950 to 1980 was from an inactive sun while CO2 levels increased.

Net, CO2 is irrelevant. The cause is the activity level of the sun. Burn all the fossil fuels you want.

Solar? Maybe can find a use for it: E.g., maybe in desert areas, smelt aluminum, desalinate water and use it in greenhouses, convert water and coal to gasoline. A key to such desert applications is don't need to store the electric energy from the solar panels -- instead, just make the clean water or gasoline when the sun shines and store that.

Solar for the US electric grid? Nope: Need storage, and it alone is more expensive than the alternatives so that for the grid solar is not wanted even for free.
JaguarBoard Intel Atom Powered Single-Board Mini PC to Take on Raspberry Pi
Christ people, shut up about adblockers. We get it, you use one. Congratulations, I don't care.

But stop spamming every article related to ads with comments about it. Half of HN readers work in a company powered by ad-tech and some of us actually want discussion about the article in question.
Nice! I really like your analysis of Nim in the readme too. As somebody coming from Python, a REPL has been on my wishlist for Nim for a while now :)

One suggestion: you can get rid of the makefile and use `nimble build` to build instead. Take a look here for info on how to create Nimble packages: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble#creating-packages. You should basically be able to execute `nimble init`, then add `bin = @["dodge"]` to your .nimble file.
In short yes.
A) There are more white people in America in general (see really any/every census)

B) There are fare more white people in positions of power. So it matters more when a white person is racist than when a person of color is. Racism sucks but the real kicker is discrimination
> They were in areas where the $125/yr was equivalent to $75k/yr. We were looking at experienced developers only.

It sounds like you offered $75k a year [which you calculated as equivalent to a $125k/year offer for their location].

I'd turn that down too. People try to pull that adjustment trick on me all the time when I was looking to relocate, I'd go up there and they'd give me a number the day after I got home and I'd be like "...that isn't equivalent at all." and then politely decline.

Just fyi, maybe I misunderstood.
thanks .. hacker news hates my stuff though :(
At the moment we have so many other problems that security in the production is barly on the radar. If we are at a point were production is the major secuirty problem, we are in a good place.
from the #gimp IRC Jargon file:

irc client: Everyone's least favorite Gtk project. For whatever reason, at one time there were seven active projects to develop a Gtk irc client. Used to deride poor judgement in choosing projects or lack of knowledge about what's going on. Often used self-deprecatingly, as in "I know, I'll write an irc client."

Thanks for keeping the dream alive.