skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
semi-related: a couple months ago I found a large industrial shipping scale in my parents basement. I grabbed an FTDI USB -> RS232 cable and a DB25 -> DB9 cable, plugged it into a Raspberry Pi, and hacked this together:

https://gist.github.com/sielickin/8cc79f0cb6a4b4c229b9786dff...

There are some nasty hacks in there and probably a few bugs that I could fix up at some point, but it works just fine!

I love how in a little more than 100 lines of Go code, I can so easily have a program with a dedicated thread to reading data from the serial port, a dedicated thread to serving up the initial http page to clients, a dedicated thread for sending data to websocket clients, and all of it works together so cleanly with messaging through channels.

I copy-pasted some d3.js code from around the web, retrofitted it, and in maybe 2 hours of work I have something pretty cool.

My Mom runs an ecommerce website and uses another scale for shipping, I wonder how hard it would be to write a driver for Windows that consumes data over the network and would interface with her shipping label software.
I like this document: http://restful-api-design.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Hey.
I'm the developer of this kernel.
If you want to read a blog post about how and why I made PowerNex you can read it here.
http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/24/project-highlight-the-power...

AMA aswell I guess :)
That involves compromises on battery life. Why not just run Linux instead?
I don't think thats true
My guess is such field won't be explicitly optional, it will just say "Twitter:". People will assume it is mandatory and fill it in.
Any person who would even briefly read the wikipedia article you linked would see obvious problems with your comment. Did you read the article before linking it?
That's not the one I was thinking of, but it's a similar sentiment.
I mean, you're dealing with a planetary megacorp. I know it's facebook, but you should expect to have to fax something and be ready to pull out a DUNS number, SOW, and MSA. The fact that you don't is a miracle.
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For a long term goal I'm targeting a hybrid design.
But for now I just want stuff to work.
Well, this is missing the point, in both cases. Opponents of neither Hillary Clinton nor Oculus are opposing them for the sole reason "they used to have this opinion".

In Oculus's case, this DRM was only the most obscene manifestation of their exclusivity strategy - the one that would set them up to be, going forward, between a legal rock and a PR hard place if they kept it in (they'd have to either leave ReVive's DRM-breaking alone, making their case in court harder if suing someone breaking DRM with the intent to steal games, or they'd have to send ReVive a DMCA takedown, and face a fatal PR backlash).

While Oculus has extricated themselves from that strategically untenable position, they're still pursuing a market-dividing strategy of exclusives through every other, subtler and less-ambiguously-legal, avenues, like timed exclusivity deals. THIS is why people are continuing to rail against Oculus.

If Oculus genuinely changed their position on exclusives (ie, they removed that restriction for every game they'd "supported" with such a deal), the VR enthusiast community would, reluctantly, welcome them back into the fold. However, that is nowhere near what Oculus are actually doing here - they're just adjusting their course so that they'll face less resistance to do the stuff everybody hates them for.

So as to keep this comment "apolitical" (as if corporate actions are less consequential than outright political ones), I've posted my response to Savage in a separate thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973600
Evidently the company realized they were fighting a losing battle, particularly after the CEO's disastrous response:

https://forums.comodo.com/general-discussion-off-topic-anyth...
After the whole brexit fiasco i do not want to hear about the wisdom of crowds.
Used 997 GT3cup cars sell for approximately the same as the one year engine and trans rebuild. Too much.
> Currently in the USA we are seeing a wave of racist nationalist isolationism

We have that in the UK with UKIP - the UK Independence Party.

They've tried to move away from the blatantly racist core who find them attractive. You can't join UKIP as a member if you used to be a member of the National Front[1] or BNP[2].

They think this shows how they're not racists. I think it's telling that they need a rule to stop racists joining their party.

I guess the rise of UKIP is good if it's meant a decline in the BNP.

There are also other groups such as "EDL" (England Defence League) or "Britain First", who are anti-Muslim groups.

These are just the well known groups. Organisations like Combat18 are also on the rise.

[1] violent far-right thugs. Much worse than UKIP.

[2] less violent, but still far-right thugs. Much worse than UKIP.
And isn't it ironic that this name was used to re-enforce Hugo Chavez's "Bolivar Revolution" aka dictatorship. Now Venezuela is in shambles and the poor people can barely afford food when the government controls more proven oil reserves than Saudi Arabia.
> There is nothing in the treaty about automatic invocation of the exit clause following a referendum

Sure there is not. The details are necessarily vague, since it is not possible to know the exact situation in which a withdrawal from the union is done. It can be a referndum or any other process. But the vote is clear: you have chosen to leave.

> The UK government -- the entity that would leave the EU -- has not made a decision to stand by (except a decision to hold a legal nonbinding referendum.)

Up to now I have not heard a single politian (british, EU or otherwise) which puts into question whether the UK is going to leave or not.

But it seems that instead of accepting the consequences of your decissions, you have started to play internal politics (actually the same petty politics which brought about this disaster). But frankly, the EU is not interested in your petty internal quarrels anymore. All EU politicians seem to agree too: they want to start negotiations asap.

> that can work with the EU on a minimally disruptive exit agreement

Let me quote here Mr. Juncker (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/683042/EU-referendum-Brexit...):

> Talking from Brussels after an emergency meeting with EU leaders, Mr Juncker told Britain the other 27 member states wanted to negotiate its exit plan “as soon as possible, however painful this process will be”

We do not care if it suits you or not. Just go.
If you're worried about water, pelican tests their cases to be IP57, IP66, or IP67 rated. I don't see anything about that kind of testing on the zero halliburton site. Also my gut worry is that aluminimum cases w/ metal framed closures would have a tendency to accumulate damage and leak over time more easily than the plastic Pelican cases.
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Thailand and Malaysia- same. Chip card was skimmed, though- or the account was somehow compromised in the British Virgin Islands a couple months later. So the security isn't perfect.

Edit: I believe the BVI heist was from a wifi purchase.
In the Hillary Clinton case, it's not because she changed her opinion - it's because she only changed her opinion once it was clear she'd face more backlash for holding it than abandoning it (indeed, the opposite appears to be the only reason she'd ever held her original stance in the first place). This indicates that, on future civil-rights issues to come that will have a similar public adoption curve (ie. transgender acceptance), she'll take the same strategy of appeasing the opposition until she can no longer get away with it - and, by turn, if the political winds blow the other way and the makeup of her constituency regresses toward a majority of bigots, she'd be perfectly willing to strip those enfranchised by her previously-enacted positions, so as to be continuously pleasing the majority.

Voters refusing to fall in for Hillary Clinton are holding out for a candidate like Bernie Sanders, who has made it clear that he will follow his moral compass, even when the people around him have been whipped into a hateful frenzy. Considering the history-repeating-itself rise of nationalism and racism in the face of economic hardship the world is currently barreling toward, this is the only kind of leader that Sanders supports feel could possibly help to right the ship.
I keep telling myself, "The next cryptocurrency that comes along, I'll take the time to investigate it, to invest my time and effort into it, just so I can be one of the few people to make a few million maybebucks by discovering one of the plethora of security vulnerabilities in the design or implementation.
-1 for Stripe. The API is designed without any thought how the use cases need to use it. Leaks the JSON structure of the document to the client. This breaks your code when they change the JSON structure.
Social presence is your research keyword. There's a long history of research done which can be pretty much summed up with Cliff Nass's contention that people confuse humans with computers a lot, and transactional status ends up being important because of this.

I think that in practice, VR will not promote empathy for the same reason that social networks have not: because status aggrandizing products will be too popular. You already see this in horror games, where they become literally too scary for VR because the lowering of status in transaction feels too real.

Look up the Proteus effect: that will lead to some detrimental things whenever it gets implemented in the social applications that people will come up with. So there will come new Instagrams, and they will be more terrible than the old social networks.
> 'speak up for the innocent'.

That actually surprised me.

They were so angry and willing kill, yet as soon as someone said the person was innocent, he was left alone - even though he was black (and supposedly targeted for that reason alone).

To me this means the story is more about rape than about race. (At least this story.)

Obviously it's not for a mob to decide guilt - but still, it really surprised me that that was their motivation. I always assumed it was racism.
It's still early, at this point this shows that the people involved are human and have emotions they're expressing.
Brexit: 'Surge' in searches on Irish passports, says Google
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I like cryptocurrencies but they seem to be stolen a lot.
In a way. It's hard to stay focused; they used to say the ultimate for a CS grad was to write the Great American Compiler ( as for an English major it may have been the Great American Novel ). As per Orwell, the hardest thing anyone does is to see what's right under their nose - to stay focused and commit to the most relevant work.
> Kindly fuck off.

After you
Yes, but it's not quite the same thing as "all". Around 9% of the population (as of 2011) were not born on the island of Ireland. Of course, this does not preclude them from having parents or grandparents who were, but certainly the number of Northern Ireland not eligible for Irish citizenship is not zero.
It wasn't just Kickstarter giveaways, but all pre-order sales. They severely underestimated volume iirc.
Unfortunately to achieve the 'holy grail' of being able to scan every item in a customer's basket would need a one cent tag on a thirty cent can of beans - which just doesn't sound economically feasible.

And that's assuming you can get a tag that will read reliably when stuck to the opposite side of a metal can for that price.
The idea is to save the file on Dropbox, but wrapped in symmetrical encryption so that they don't know what it is. You know your key because you created it, but they don't.

Your torrent client would see the normal file, they wouldn't see anything except random garbage.

Why? Um, perhaps to have a "torrent box" which stored data in a more accessible place?

Perhaps just to crap on someone's stupid censorship.
Major evidence is fake. Do you know any other evidences?

Throughout three decades of US hearings, an extradition, a death sentence followed by acquittal in Israel, a deportation and now a trial in Munich, the arguments have relied heavily on the photo ID from an SS training camp that indicates Demjanjuk was sent to Sobibor.

Claims that the card and other evidence against Demjanjuk are Soviet forgeries have repeatedly been made by Demjanjuk's defense attorneys. However, the FBI report provides the first known confirmation that American investigators had similar doubts.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4056137,00.html
> We've banned this account because you've repeatedly violated the HN guidelines both in this thread and elsewhere on the site.

No I haven't.

> If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and promise to follow the rules in the future.

You should probably tell me what rules I've "repeatedly violated" all over this site then (despite this being the only thread I've posted to for 4 days).

That might be difficult though, since I haven't violated any rules. Far from it in fact, I've received positive karma (still rising) for most of my posts in this thread (23 points from 8 posts) and not a single one has negative karma.

Even this one you "detached and marked off topic" (despite it addressing exactly what the parent posted, in the same way the parent posted, even using some of the same words the parent used), was upvoted.
A: How do you know they were, or weren't innocent?

And B: 100%? You don't even know who spoke, how can you possible decide what they would, or wouldn't be OK with?

> Not exactly a voice of love speaking against hate.

Or maybe they thought the first two were not innocent, and the third was?
Real numbers here.

http://openeurope.org.uk/today/blog/how-would-key-export-sec...

Some key UK export sectors - especially finance - have a very low probability of being able to carry on as normal.

The German car industry accounts for around 3% of GDP. Sales to the UK are less than 1% of German GDP.

The UK financial industry accounts for around 10% of GDP. Sales to the EU are around 4% of UK GDP.

As a rough guess estimate, post-Brexit disruption is going to lose 1-2% of that, and could lose more - because there's very little London can do for Europe that can't be done just as easily in Frankfurt.

The UK has a lot more to lose than Germany does.

But the EU traditionally plays hardball with negotiations. Ask Greece.

So there is no chance at all the UK isn't going to have to make significant - expensive - sacrifices to keep trading.

This vote is literally the most staggeringly stupid and self-destructive act I've seen in my lifetime.

Take away the jingoism and the flag-waving and the blatant lies about immigration and sovereignty, and you have a country which relies on a huge captive market voting to - at best - change the terms of access to that market in ways that cannot possibly be more advantageous than they are now.

Some trade will continue, but the overall effect on the UK is going to be very negative indeed.
Direct democracy over representative democracy?
Sousveillance instead of surveillance?
A politics of abundance instead of rapacity?
Actually I'm not targeting a POSIX structure at the moment, I'm more towards implementing a OO api for stuff.
Maybe I will target POSIX in the future or make a wrapper around my apis for it.
> Great saying (I think Israeli) - "the army is a system built by geniuses to control idiots".

That's a variation on a line from Herman Wouk's World War II novel The Caine Mutiny, in which one character says that the Navy is a system designed by geniuses for execution by idiots.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...

Even recently, 30% of older people support laws prohibiting black and white people from marrying each other. Only 4% of young people do. Twenty years ago, the vast majority of older people held those opinions(!) I think you'll find the same trends for many similar social issues.
> The UK left screaming, huffing and smashing the door

Huh? This is your characterization of a referendum on membership?
I don't understand.

The EU has been extremely ineffective at negotiating trade deals between the 28 EU countries, and non EU countries.

We (UK) will be far more effective at negotiating our own trade deals with non EU countries. It's far simpler for a start.
Even more loathsome than their tactics was the fact that they were basically tricking men into signing up, with mostly fake profiles, then charging money to have your account removed.

It's one thing to offer a service that people find distasteful, but another to lie and cheat people.
The Development of the C Language* by Dennis Ritchie (1996)
I would want to create a microkernel, but that would be really hard so I'm targeting a hybridkernel design.
Great to see a resolution to this issue, but this doesn't change the huge distrust in the organisation I've now gained. I won't be for the foreseeable future be buying any Comodo service again. They're clearly horribly misaligned with my values.
That's a combination of cheap SD cards and an OS/File System that isn't very conservative on write calls.

Older Pi's basically just eat SD cards for lunch when they were used especially if you had swap enabled which you kinda had too for any realistic desktop performance on the early boards.

It's slightly less of a problem now they have more RAM and tweaks to the OS made the Pi slightly more compatible with SD cards but you are still going to run into problems if you can't fit everything in RAM unless you are really buying high end SD cards (and even then it's a bet).

The same holds kinda true for all of these embedded boards and memory cards (unless you go for CF which are somewhat designed for "HDD" level of RW/ops).
If you are going to build Pi style PC I highly recommend to either get one of the Pi like boards that has SATA or get an expansion board like this one http://www.suptronics.com/xseries/x300.html and just use a normal/low power 2.5" drive.
Because they can sell more ads if they have more shows.

People do not only watch the "housewives of..." that's from their own part of the country.
JK Rowling beat him to it: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/746203541929234433
I give him credit for actually talking publicly with people.

Most CEO's hide behind the PR department, or speak only one-way, without replies.
Which means your chemistry is within, and stays within, the variances and probabilities that the FDA reviewed and approved.

When you start to slide wildly of those bounds? That's when you get shut down. Where was Theranos?
Hey, guys!
One of the developers behind SessionStack here. Looking for some feedback about the idea of allowing users to record problems directly in web apps instead of filling up forms, attaching screenshots or doing remote desktop sessions with the support team.
During the recording of the problem, all unhandled JavaScript errors are being logged with the corresponding stack traces to provide additional context.
Have fun with a long sentence:

"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature."
But hey - that's capitalism.
You're making an inverse "no true scotsman" argument. Actually the vast majority of humanity is racist to some degree, including most of us posting here. It's something people need to learn to overcome.
Well perhaps I condensed too much, but Irish citizenship is a little unusual in that it automatically entitles anyone born in NI (being part of the island of Ireland) to nationality too, rather than stopping at the national border. Add in the entitlement for anyone with a British or Irish parent and the parental residency and it's covered nearly all. So no special eligibility other than that achieved by the terms of their citizenship act.
It's like some people here are basing their opinions completely on "I read it online".
My opinion is most likely biased :-) But I still want to help you so decided to leave a few words anyways.

Task management - google calendar works great, also Microsoft Outlook does the job (was working for corpo for a few years and found MS Outlook a great tool in this area).

Employees satisfaction / feedback - what can I say :-) this seems to be closely related with performance reviews corps run every half year (with decision on pay rise every second review). My experience is - everybody knows those reviews are, well, formality because managers distribute budget across people they believe are most valuable (and then those people leave anyways).

Also - in the field of task management you have a very strong and dynamic competition - SalesForce. Your product needs to be different from theirs, otherwise your chances are lower when you knock to corp doors...
It's not in the same league even Pelican makes tools, ZH makes 1000$ posh suitcases and 300$ lifestyle/everyday carry bags.

http://zerohalliburton.com/collections/
Israel, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan (and now even Australia!) participate in the Eurovision Song Contest. So I guess the concept of Europe is flexible enough to allow for that.
"URLs should never be constructed by an API client. Instead, the client should only follow links that are generated by the API itself."

I really hate this notion. It makes jumping to page 100 of a 345 page result set impossible. You would literally have to follow 100 pages, or have some ridiculously long index with 345 separate links.

I believe that it should be possible for an API to document a URL formula, and rely on the API client to follow that formula to generate a URL.

That's where things get sticky, though, because as far as I know, there's no good standard defined for how an API can document a dynamic URL formula that is programmatically discoverable.
FAKE evidence. Moreover, he was freed by Israeli Supreme Court.
You could easily setup and experiment to verify this.
The EU is not some sort of sovereign. It's an organization staffed by bureaucrats (i.e., unelected officials) for the purpose of furthering the agreed upon goals of the member sovereign states. Comparison with U.S. is ridiculous.
Why can't a person be opposed to mass immigration even if it won't bring economic benefits?

I'm not in UK frankly, but I'm definitely ready to sacrifice part of my income if that would curb mass immigration.

Unfortunately, nobody ever proposed so.
Perhaps, but it may also weaken the strength of ties to the mainland as views diverge.

Only time can tell. None of us have much idea how this is going to play out! Even those leading the Leave group.
Quote from Wikipedia:

In 2011 the Associated Press had uncovered a secret 1985 FBI report which indicated that a Nazi ID card showing that Demjanjuk had served as a death camp guard was a Soviet-made fake.
Yes for the question "Are you authorized to work in the US" you can answer yes.

For the question "Do you require sponsorship" you can answer NO.

This is ok as long as your are TN visa eligible.
Do you think the breakup of the USSR was a good thing?
They'd have to pay someone if they took any suggestions. Or even acknowledged being exposed to suggestions.