skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He definitely could do a better job explaining what he is trying to accomplish, but I pity the person who has to use the barcode scanner he suggested, when you go below the $100 price point and are looking for a new in box handheld scanner, there is just crap for options and you will get to sit there and try to scan the same item repeatedly, until you give up and key every 8th item in by hand.

I would highly recommend buying a used Metrologic or Datalogic handheld scanner at or above $50, it'll work a lot better and (if programmed) can usually handle 2D barcodes. This is the major reason you see Fred Meyers spending $5k a pop on new Datalogic 9800i's, and why Walmart had the NCR 7878 custom built for them, scanning performance is a make it or break it deal.

On the Pi side, I'd sub in a OrangePi Plus 2E since it has 16GB of eMMC and has a fully libre stack now at a lower cost, and would likely nab a used monitor for $10 locally rather than pay for a low res 7" at a premium price.
Yeah. In place for those who can't afford to strike, yeah.
OK I stand corrected Energy and Food but New Zealand is definitely more an exception then a norm. We are running close to 400b trade deficit with China.
Trumpify – Make ruby great again
There's already welfare in existence to help poor among elderly or children. This at least appears to be an increase over that.
Or use hexl-mode in Emacs
For me time is money is less important than time time. 100 hours aggregated over interviewing for a few shops would yield $10k which is nice but not extremely useful, whereas those 100 hours taken out of family time is a real pain in the butt.

The solution to this I feel is a bit of a prisoner dilemma because the entity that can make this easier is the company the candidate is a planning to leave (!). If they have flexible working, make it easy to take vacation on short notice etc. then that ironically helps.
Moving forward together: Microsoft's thoughts on the US election
There's clarity in simplicity, in the same way that a 900 page TOS is not as clear as a 2 page TOS regardless of how precise the former's language is. Whether or not you trust and believe Trump is a different matter.
What's innovative about owning land?
What is a unit of "regulation"? I can pack five thousand onerous rules into one document and eliminate two documents that contain guidance with very minor impact. Is that a net gain?
>You can't just make changes to economic policy and hope for the best

Obviously you can, you mean shouldn't. I'm sure wisdom will prevail.
I just moved from Spotify to Apple - the Android app is good, but doesn't respond to all music intents, doesn't broadcast music info (so no Scrobbling) and downloading playlists for offline use doesn't seem to stick like Spotify did, where new tracks added to playlists would be automagically downloaded.
Your next startup could be a job board that specializes in this. I'd subscribe
Coding on a whiteboard works. There are just a lot of people who can't code, and complain & make excuses. I'm so tired of these clickbait posts.
The Big Bend area is just one natural area like that. Consider the Amistad Reservoir (http://cdn.onlyinyourstate.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/33...) for instance. Water levels there are about 1100 feet. Kind of hard to put a fence in the middle there. :)

Obviously I'm "sticking to the metaphor", but legitimately that Big Bend area is one of those reminders that this "wall" concept is ridiculous for other reasons. That area and others along the border awfully remote, which will make managing the infrastructure and obtaining people to work there a headache. It will also make building the actual infrastructure extremely challenging and probably quite expensive. Not that Trump would care, but it's certainly not an environmentally friendly proposal either.

If the economy is such where Mexicans still want to migrate, there's other possibilities. No wall will secure the sea for instance, unless you build that "wall" around the entire Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean. (Beachgoers won't be happy about that.) The wall does not stop exploitation methods such as visa overstays or smuggling in the heavier trafficked borders. Even the Berlin Wall -- well more fortified than any 2,000 mile could ever be -- was breached 5,000 times in its history, so there's a good chance that even these remote areas might get some activity.

How much is America willing to pay for "a wall" to stop the immigrants? Enough to wreck the economy? Well, that's one sure way to prevent Mexicans from crossing over. :)
The major argument against Sanders was that his platform was unrealistic. Remembering the disappointment that President Obama stoked when he was unable to execute much of his platform, many Democratic electors said they wanted the candidate that had a more modest platform that could be realistically achieved. In hindsight, sure, you are right. It's hard to know what do in the moment.
I can think of a few reasons.

1 - they might give you big bags of cash

2 - they think they can be the ones to turn it around (what, execs, big egos? unrealistic expectations? complete faith in their self as savior of mankind? surely you jest.)

3 - their career doesn't end at twitter
Billionaires that received millions in loans from their daddy? Not so much.

Great respect to all who went out and built something great. Trump is not one of them; he would be penniless if his dad hadn't rushed in and saved him on at least two separate occasions.
Yeah, I agree but unfortunately anyone who says that usually isn't going to be swayed in the face of objective fact. People act like the 2008 crash just happened spontaneously because Obama was elected, ignoring the shit show of the prior decade.
" Why do American voters expect their "politicians"(be it democrat/republican) to stop offshoring, when these guys seem to have absolutely have no control over individual companies doing that"

They do have quite a bit of control. The companies are doing it primarily because they lobbied politicians to pass laws and treaties to make it easier for them in the first place. Such things can be reversed although the consequences will be huge. Shouldn't be done suddenly which is what I don't like about what he'll probably do.

Far as voter expectations, those against globalization see the government there to meet their needs. This includes protecting their jobs and wages. The offshoring has been negative for those here while positive for them elsewhere (eg India). Incentivizing companies to hire Americans and pay them well increases quality of life here plus gives us stronger, internal economy.
I'm fine with words gaining additional definitions due to how they are popular used, but when a word is defined as one thing, and the exact opposite of that same thing, and both definitions can be equally valid within the context of the same sentence, then that's literally the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
I know, you also delete the proof about vaccines being little ufos.

Vaccines are little ufos and cause testy, breast and vagina cancer... Check the graphs! Hackernews deleted it and other reptilian posts. Reddit too. Shills!!

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/59otfy...
If anyone from Erlang Solutions is around they prob would be most qualified to answer.
It's getting some great commentary! Thanks!
So a hard drive, one with an onboard USB bridge no less, and a raspberry Pi.

USB performance on Pi is garbage, and you're sharing your storage I/O with the network I/O since they're both USB prehiperals.

This is a terrible idea.
Show HN: Hacker Path – Learn to code with a peer building a real project
Hey everyone,

I've been experimenting with collaborative learning and active learning for a while (I launched Coderoulette a couple of months ago) and I'm launching something new today that I'm really excited about.

Online learning is pretty passive (video lectures) and lonely, and I think we could create an online learning experience much engaging and effective than that.

Only 5% of people who start a Coursera course finish it. My hypothesis is that we can increase that number significantly by matching learners online in teams of 2-3 and giving them a real project to build together.

On top of that, we don't need to tell people HOW to do things with lectures, classes, and tutorials. We just need to tell each team WHAT to build (think about requirements or user stories) and they will figure out the HOW by themselves.

I've been testing this methodology for a couple of weeks with 10 teams and it's working wonderfully. I'd love to hear your feedback, suggestions, criticism, etc.

Also, if you know someone who might be interested in learning how to code (HTML, CSS, and Javascript), feel free to invite them to try Hacker Path: http://www.hackerpath.org/

Thanks a lot!

Ariel
I'd go on strike right now just based on the principal that he is totally unacceptable. I would love to see everyone from the blue states go on strike unless he steps down. We have wall street. We have silicon valley. We have the cultural and intellectual capitals. We have the major ports. The red states have dairy and corn. Fuck them. We can live without them. They can't live without us.
Would you be willing to pay for a subscription to a quarterly report for that info?
You're right!

It's also caused by, but to a significantly lesser extent, raising cattle.

(Deforestation and methane release)
wallbase.cc used to be an archive that scraped the various wallpaper boards on the chans, it worked brilliantly with colour searching, tagging and they had a fantastic supply of dual/triple monitor papers.
Here is a clickable link:
http://www.hackerpath.org/
Wow, so you want me to work weekends is what you are telling me.

I suppose it's nice that this is paid. A lot of companies give me HW problems... and frankly it doesn't scale.
I was talking about world politics, but you are bringing up some petty domestic issue.
And us tax payers picking up the bill for those stays in Federal prison is interesting as well. If the argument is they are costing taxpayers money in the form of jobs, isn't costing taxpayers money from paying for prison similar?
I'm a high school teacher, so my experience isn't directly relevant but I've certainly encountered my fair share of cheating.

The student that wrote the code can always explain not only how it works but why they made certain decisions along the way.

The student clueless enough to copy someone else's code usually can't even explain its function, much less explain tradeoffs.
That's what it was referred to because that's what many people did in the 90s. A lot has changed since then. Although still high, the suicide rate is much lower now than it used to be [1].

[1]https://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/no-of-suic...
> Would that qualify as ignorant

That wouldn't make them ignorant, it would make them something else.
I feel the same with my Nikon D5300. I bought it and saw "wi-fi" as a feature, so I assumed I can at least transfer photos over wi-fi from the camera to my computer, see each shot on the screen after taking it and perhaps use the camera as my computer webcam over wi-fi. Turns out you can do none of these things, at least with the default software.

You can transfer photos to your phone. You can also use your phone as a remote shutter, which is kind of neat at first. You don't really end up using it though, as a dedicated 1 dollar remote shutter button is faster than fiddling with your phone wi-fi settings and launching a dedicated app.
I think this is misleading. Certainly he's evidence of those things, but I don't think he won because of it.

His message appealed to people in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Yes, it's pretty sad that people were willing to vote for him despite the racism, sexism, and general demeanor. Did many really vote for that, or did they vote to get out of NAFTA and introduce protectionism under the idea that they might get some of their former glory back. They hear MAGA and think back to when Detroit had the highest average income in the country. When Flint didn't have poison in the water. It's about you first, others second. It's a powerful message, one that people who don't support trump seemed to fail to recognize under all the absolutely horrible awful things constantly coming at us.

Compare that to Hillary basically saying "meh, they'll vote for me". How much extra effort would it have taken to keep those 3 states democrat.
I don't know your specific situation, but HN folks tend towards "Money-rich time-poor"... so, donate to 3rd party candidates. 3rd party candidates have enough grass roots support to get started but many struggle with getting funding to get visibility.

Not just $5 here or $20 there. Donate to match your desire for a better future.
Serve America
I don't know, but in my personal three decades of experience "inevitable disk failure" is not a "tiny subset of risk factors."

RAID is huge defense for keeping "inevitable disk failure" from turning into "massive data loss."

Do you, personally, test backup and restore of ALL of your data that you care about at acceptable loss intervals? Are you sure?

And if your acceptable loss interval is "zero," then redundant synchronous storage across devices in one form or another is all there is.

Backup is a total real-world solution to data loss like antivirus is a total real-world solution to malware and infosec.
As someone pointed out to me recently, literally has had that meaning since at least when Shakespeare was pushing a quill around.
There's no "story," this is a post-mortem. She lost, we get to figure out why. That takes a bit of humility.

My lasting impression here was that the DNC's goal was not to win the presidency, it was to get Hillary Clinton elected to the presidency. There's a difference, and in this case, it was a vital one. During the Democratic caucuses I watched a lot of people vote for Hillary because it was assumed "she has the best chance of beating Trump." But the numbers at the time didn't even bear it out, and here we are.

What bit the DNC in the ass in a big way last night was that they completely miscalculated the importance of a large portion of the electorate that Trump actively courted, nominated a candidate that had almost no chance of swaying these voters, and ignored and denigrated them for the entire campaign. Whoops. Calling this a 'blind spot' would probably be an understatement.

Michael Moore called this one months ago. I hope the lesson of this election is not lost on anyone.

http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
Looks reasonable from my experience. Don't think I'd offer money for up to two hours coding test, but I've certainly offered money for something that took a whole day before.
Software from hardware manufacturers is almost always terrible. DSLRs would often come with desktop image processing software. It took advantage of RAW files before Aperture/Lightroom existed and before Photoshop supported RAW very well. The software was garbage.
I disagree.
The economy works as follows, the seller asks the price that the seller gets away with and the buyer pays the price that the buyer gets away with.
Anything else added to that is protectionism.
So if the seller gets a good payment then kudos for the seller.
Similar if the buyer is able to get it for free then kudos for the buyer.
Also there are many motivations that enable creators to create, narrowing it down to only money is a very shallow view of creation.
If you can't code under pressure, you aren't a very competent programmer. Real world projects come with high pressure scenarios for software engineers. Code monkeys may be able to get away with low pressure, minimally impactful projects.
It actually didn't register until my co-workers laughed at the name. I was just thinking 大job.
Even better, only let people own one residence to begin with. If they're not living in it, it's not theirs. That might solve the problem that there are more empty homes in the U.S. than actual homeless people...
Any time you enact a ban on potential employment of a person, your run into a bunch of hairy issues. Not to mention the required governmental oversight to ensure this is enforced
His stand on climate change scares me.

What can the public do to prevent him from opening energy reserves and backing out of climate change agreements?

Are there efforts going on to prevent this?

Building a wall along the Mexican border...I don't see the thinking behind the decision.
Interesting... Hadn't heard that before, source?
/tinfoilhat
implying its not
Atom 1.12
> ... but she did do a very good job amassing big names, capital, and fantastic media attention to Theranos[1]. Things that every startup needs to do well.

She did that largely because everyone wanted her a young, well educated smart white woman to succeed. Everyone wanted to be a part of an industry where she and other women like her could found billion dollar unicorns. They wanted her as a role model. They were willing to look past the signs that things weren't adding up until the very end when it all came crashing down.

So, no I don't think her story should be held up for emulation because it's unlikely to be repeated.

This industry still desperately wants a woman to make a billion dollar startup that isn't in fashion, or markets where women traditionally are greater consumers or have greater inside knowledge (fertility, ovulation, makeup, certain parts of the fitness industry, etc.)

I don't know if Elizabeth Holmes has hurt the image of women at the helm. She hasn't helped. I would like to think that I'm a part of an industry that doesn't think that every woman who wants to found a non-woman's industry startup is the next Elizabeth Holmes. I don't have data on that either way.
Trump should append this contract with "End Internet shills" because it seems there are a lot of them on this thread. Good golly, I thought finally CTR would close up shop after last night.

For the first time in generations the USA finally has a president who isn't a puppet. And this contract allows us to keep said President accountable from day one. Nerds rejoice! Fear not the knee-jerk comments from un/mis-informed trendies and especially ignore the talking-point bots still hating on Trump via whatever is left in the Soros/CF payroll account. After years of trying they ultimately failed and clearly cannot impact the will of the people at the end of the day. MAGA.
Ding ding ding ding. A lot of people don't want to be treated like adult children.
I can't code with people staring at me, talking to me, asking me questions. If you can more power to you, but if that reflects the nature of the job then they can take that one and shove it. It simply doesn't reflect reality.
Counteracting a me me me society with authoritarian mandates forcing people to give to the poor cannot be morally justified in my opinion.

The just use of the law is to punish those who violate the rights of others, not those who don't meet our personal moral standards on acting altruistically. The latter is treading on theocratic ideology.
Calling racism racism is NOT labeling and ridicule. It's observation, and there's a big difference. I'm not saying everyone who voted for him is racist, but a lot of them are and frankly it's absurd to say we shouldn't address racism for what it is. If calling out someone for clearly being racist is labeling then I think we need to hash out the definitions of these words.
Any suggestions for a follow on to 224D? Anything with larger systems would be interesting
No mention of the tax implications? Paying every candidate sounds like a wonderful way to increase paperwork.
Honestly if there's a clear high-school science argument here that clearly shows why this is commercially impossible, you haven't made it.
Well if you look at the behaviour and intellectual rigour amongst some Trump supporters i.e. http://reddit.com/r/the_donald then it's hard not to see why it would not be a good fit for HN. And many of the conspiracy theories that ended up on Fox News originated there so it's not without basis that this sub is representative of a significant number of Trump supporters.

Personally I have not noticed any particular bias here except for at backing up assertions with some facts.
Hopefully we can crack down on employers so that these visa over-stayers don't stay long enough for that to happen.
I agree that a true downgrade attack would be a very serious vulnerability in 4G, particularly one like I alluded to that could take the RRC down to EIA0-- but that isn't what's being discussed here, and calling it a vulnerability in LTE is inappropriate, just as calling HTTP fallback in browsers a vulnerability in HTTPS would be inappropriate. The vulnerability, to the extent it exists at all, is on the client, in this case mobile devices and in your example the browser.
Private prison operators are not worried about that. It's money, your money, in their pocket.

By the way, the scheme is already in place. It's part of the limited immigration "reform" that Obama managed to get from the Republicans. There's a minimum guaranteed prison time before deportation.

So the 2-5 years minimum is just bonanza.
Ask HN: How to help people that are being harassed by Trump's supporters?
I'm sick and tired of reading stories/posts/tweets about people being harassed by their skin-color, religion, sexual orientation, nationality and looks. It angers me. And it's just the beginning.

I'd love to help these people in any way with tech/coding.

Is anyone here working in something related to this? or any ideas how could a website/code/bot would help address this situation?

(I'm mexican and live in Mexico. I know software isn't the solution for everything but that's how I can help from here.)
Hrm! IANAL, I was entirely unaware this was even a thing, and now I'm deep down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. The more you know!

Looks like the legality of it varies by state / region / country. Maybe it's not illegal where I live; I'm in South Texas. I'll research it though, thanks!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
There's an inexplicably [dead] comment in reply to your comment here. I'm reposting it so more people can see it.

@throwaway4job, you appear to be hellbanned for no reason I can discern. :(

> throwaway4job 8 minutes ago [dead] [-]

> This isn't a viable approach for much of the hiring pool, as a majority of working engineers have contracts which explicitly forbid work for contract for other employers.
As such, if you hire any of those, you're hiring somebody with a proven willingness to ignore their contract, which is a strong anti-pattern.
I completely see the point of wanting to maintain and evolve the current set of social norms, rules and values in a society, and wanting immigrants to integrate well. But I do think that 'Muslim' as a category is too broad, not useful and in fact detrimental to smooth integration where it is possible.

You might as well use a different broad category - say 'foreigner' and whatever you say (erosion of society's values etc.) would hold true in general. Then you could draw the conclusion that foreigners are causing the social disruption and so any immigration is to be resisted.

Basically what I'm saying is, if you point to specific values that you respect and that are being eroded (e.g. 'I dont like immigrants that dont support womens rights') it may be better received than if you transfer the blame to a generic broad category, specially along religion or race, because then you might appear to be a racist.
It's scary really. Industry has the profits to pay for the marketing anyone needs to get elected, however it could take a 'lifetime' for someone who's educated and aware enough to be naturally get into power.
Be persuasive, ask for an assignment. Everything is negotiable.
You could even just fly in to Thailand without making any bigger plan from the outset. Stay at one of the more popular hostels with communal areas. For example your initial plan could be to just fly to Bangkok and stay somewhere on Khao San road.

When it's evening and you are enjoying drinks in a pool packed with other tourists, you'll hear all about their adventures and probably get invited to join some.