skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This all began in the 1970's when National Semiconductor brought out a series of integrated circuits for alarm clocks, clock radios, clocks for cars and so on. These chips included the LED display driver and the timing clock usually came from the mains.

Here is an example with the page of the data sheet regarding how the snooze function works:

http://html.alldatasheet.com/html-pdf/9252/NSC/MM5387AA/168/...

When the alarm goes there is a 'latch' that is operational for 59 minutes. Pressing snooze does not turn this 'latch' off, it suppresses the alarm output for 8-9 minutes. Turning the alarm off is what resets the 'latch'.

Chips of this era worked on BCD - BCD ruled once upon a time, when people did things in FORTRAN...

I don't think that National Semiconductor deliberately sought to emulate the snooze time of analog alarms from a previous era, it just was do-able to do 8-9 minutes in available silicon.
Good for these thieves choosing illegality over starvation. But looting a shop in the night is a very individual solution to what is afterall a very widespread collective problem.

The question in my mind after reading this article is: in a country rife with corruption and starvation, why are mass expropriations of food i.e. food riots not more common?
I would imagine the "unreasonable search & seizure" protection would protect people until the ship was actually moving. Maybe even until there is good reason to search it.
WTF Sublime Text
> is there anyone left who is producing high quality content?

http://www.lynda.com
so if I have such a copper heat dispenser I got from taking a laptop apart, I can feel cool ?
SOS is the Somali shilling. It seems currencies for Slovakia (No idea what currency XSU is) to South Georgia have shifted one country down.
Thanks, I was wandering whether it is a good idea that the desk allows or hinders this posture.
"Imagine a country where anyone could apply for a state loan for 18 months to start their own company. Then after these 18 months, the loan becomes either an allowance or remains a loan, based on company performance."

Isn't that what angel investing basically is? Well, except for the loan part - often it's not required to be paid back.

If you're not capable of convincing a few people to invest a minimal amount in your idea, you probably won't be able to sell it to those you need to (customers, or at least other sales people).

"Why is filling a job position rewarded while creating one is not? Do employees add more value to the economy than entrepreneurs? I doubt it. "

Well... the 'job' as it were actually exists - the 'value' of the 'entrepreneur' in this case is still unproven, otherwise there'd be revenue for him to live off of and hire other people.

Possibly too, the idea of 'entrepreneur' gets blown up in the media to mean 'mark zuckerburg' and 'google', and certainly many large companies the press lauds tend to have a habit of avoiding taxes which help pay for social programs like what this one might be.

Also, encouraging someone to go in to debt doesn't seem a good way of life. How many "entrepreneurs" now have 6 figure credit card debt after chasing the dream because they watched "the social network"? Not trying to trivialize it, but I know far more failed entrepreneurs with moderately large debt issues than I do successful ones (and I know both). Someone trying to start a business which now has extra debt burdened on it (which might not be dischargeable in bankruptcy - see student loans in the US) might just adding on problems. Certainly, for many people, trying to cope with looming debt while they try to work on a business is a heavy burden that contributes to the business failure itself.
She's Uruguayan, she had been demonstrating Google Glass here, so media is all over the thing :)

She says they were not on while she was driving.
If your body continually feels like you are jumping into cold or hot water, wouldn't that induce stress?
Interesting team up between Quest for Creators and Adventure Mob
First thought that passed through my mind as well :))
I'm sorry I don't see it the same way.
The contract between job-seeker and employer is necessary and is already influenced by several external factors that are difficult to account for (such as lies, poaching, money).

I don't think that introducing an unnecessary third party with a whole new set of objectives and factors is going to simplify the process.

I'm not saying that search is easy, but every one of us is ABLE to search, aren't we? And people built search engines, or improved searching even if it's not that easy.

I would like to think that the same can be done for recruitment, I have an idea, and ideas are a dime a dozen, and I'm probably too lazy or not smart enough to do it myself, but it doesn't mean it can't be done.

Maybe in the future we'll see a new post on HN about a startup titled "How we revolutionized recruitment".
Seems like nobody has read up on Halloween for a while. The Wikipedia page is a good place to start. I don't think there is an event on the calendar that is so far lost-the-plot as Halloween. Nobody knows the slightest thing about the origins of it and this stunt is just a million miles away.
Here's yet another (mine) attempt of addressing this problem.
https://pokelog.com/
GetYourCrayon: Graffiti for the Web
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Video games and programming languages ARE being studied in the humanities [1].

This is, in part, what the Digital Humanities doing, engaging with digital modes of cultural expression [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities
That doesn't seem to be much of a problem as the point is not to actually cool you, but to apply a temperature change of a fraction of a degree to a tiny part of skin to trick you into feeling colder.
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Pretty crappy search, query for "india" returns "British Indian Ocean Territory" as the first result.
Interesting article - awfull title

The device can make you feel a bit better but it can NOT replace an AC.

It was never designed to replace an AC.

If this was up for purchase i would get one especialy because it is portable and maybe it can be coupled with additional technology (measure blood preasure , acceleration, rfid access tags,...). People have been wearing wrist bands for ages (and even used them as currency) so it seems a good position for a gadget.
Oh, so I am not alone in expecting Chat and IM be a different concept. I would actually like seeing a public Chat among everyone, as it was in good 2000's.
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hi, would it be possible to see your dissertation somewhere? thx
But that wristband doesn't actually reduce your body temperature, sweating does. Unless I'm missing something obvious here??
Key words:
"I’m a lawyer not a scientist but in my opinion..."

Sounds like he's not a lawyer but a politician.
Why Teach and Study English
I want an Eben Moglen in my office.
I think that was a layman way of explaining the technology rather then how you actually feel.
“College is increasingly being defined narrowly as job preparation, not as something designed to educate the whole person,”

The author keeps making this point over and over again, so sure, I'll bite.

First, I'm a huge fan of a classic liberal education. It truly enriches life, and so much of that kind of an education is literally priceless.

Having said that, colleges are only ending up exactly where they wanted to go: at the bank. If colleges keep charging more and more money, it's perfectly reasonable for the people paying for and loaning the money (not to mention the poor saps going into debt for most of their life) to ask themselves "Am I getting something for this money where I know the money will be replaced one day?" Because money, you know, doesn't grow on trees.

It's one thing to be independently wealthy or a trust fund kid and take ten years of ancient Greek pottery. It's another to have mom and dad mortgage the house for it. And while a classic liberal education can't be replaced and is priceless to have, lots of things in life can't be replaced and are priceless to have. Life is full of things that we don't put price tags on. But that doesn't mean they don't cost anything.

Colleges are pricing themselves out of the market. Humanities are the first to go. Our system of higher education needs rethinking and refactoring. There's a huge pivot coming, whether these institutions are ready for it or not. And while that might not be such a good thing for overstaffed humanities departments, that's a great thing for people wanting to make their lives better.
There's a catch-22 in deciding safe driving behavior.

I think I'd prefer everyone being technologically conservative with respect to driver distraction. Until something can be shown to not be a dangerous distractions, drivers can't have it. When we ban things after they prove to be a distraction, that usually means we proved them a distraction via a body count. Waiting for a hundred or a thousand people to die so that you have statistical certainty is the shittiest kind of science.

This is a bit of a catch-22, because we're pretty piss-poor at proving the negative, that things aren't a distraction. We're still way more paranoid about electronics on an airplane than most people think we need to be.

What should happen -- in my opinion, and for all I know what does happen in some situations -- is a series of trials. First, laboratory, simulation-based trials. If drivers in a simulation are distracted by a new gizmo -- GPS, dash-mounted phone, Glass, car console, whatever -- we can eliminate it there, with zero people dying. Then and only then, if we have reason to believe no one will die because of it, we can have real-world trials, followed by approval for the general population.

Obviously, this would suck for early Glass adopters, since it would likely take a year plus to complete good trials, but you could approve broad classes of devices and fast-track similar devices in the future.
Definitely interested! epaga.oib.com@didsum (swap sides)
The New Coke & Your Startup
It's just a bit of fun.
Floating point arithmetic is some of the least abstract math. (That doesn't make it more interesting without the right background and mindset, though.)
I had the same thought, then wondered, upon seeing the title image, why anyone would want to pass AC current through their wrist in the first place.
Finding R in a Hadoop World
"the former Swedish foreign minister" - right before the bit you quoted.
For performance sure, a java based solution is going to kick rail's ass. For speed of development though developing with EJBs is not even up to the standard of rails 1. The funny thing is, java is generally used to build enterprise apps which don't need anything like web scale performance. For this profile of app rails really shines, it's plenty fast enough and will hugely reduce development costs.
I think the author might be referring to clocks not counting in binary, rather than clocks not counting off power cycles. Full text:

> (6) "I figured it was actually 512 seconds (2^9)," one informant speculated. "Or maybe, since the clock is counting (typically) the power cycles from the wall socket, it's because nine minutes is 32,400 cycles, very close to 2^15 (32,768)." Engineer's comment: Nice try, bub, but clocks don't count that way.
Body temperature comfort is subtle. Is not the same 24ºC with an AC than by the sea shore, under a tree shadow with warm, slow wind.

For some reason i don't think a heat sink tricking my physical feelings will do for my quality standards regarding temperature control. I already detest AC, as in, I can't stand in ACed places.
Sorry to hear about your work situation but I can assure it is not like that here.

Our own MD is hooked up too, as is the designer. We don't have that divide here everyone's opinion is as important as the next.
According to the out of office thing, at 8:10 AM EDT these guys have lunch, and a 4 hour and 50 minute one at that. I wonder when they have breakfast.
Show HN: 2studentbodies, a Django-powered dating site for the college crowd
How the NSA is infiltrating private networks
There are toys and games that give people mild electric shocks. Did you never grab an electric fence when you were a kid?
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I think that situation was probably just sloppy coding of some sort, not an intentional act.
From Dropout to Full Time Rails Blogger
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To clarify: DO NOT DO THIS.

1. Never give your private key to anyone

2. Especially not if it is sent over an unencrypted connection (the site doesn't even use https)

3. Don't. Just don't.

This is either the weakest attempt of the NSA to collect private SSL keys ever, or this company actually has zero knowledge of the product they're selling and shouldn't be trusted with your site's security
It's always lunchtime somewhere.

(In this case, it's noon in England)
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I was hoping it was at least javascript...
Woah, I couldn't ever envisage ever trusting a "security company" that not only encouraged you to disclose your private key, but also provided a form for doing it over a non encrypted connection!

My personal opinion is don't use these guys; this is either a school boy error/complete incompetence or totally dubious.
My interpretation of "dark" is that "you can't see the inside"
Thank you MIT for this opportunity to be found frozen to death and smiling happily
Haha it's definitely lunch here. But our lunch is being spent spinning up more servers and load balancers! Traffic has been a little crazy...
Wow, I didn't know fluoride conspiracy theorists still existed. Thanks.
Simple: I'm a front-end developer by trade and Meteor gave me something I understood (JavaScript) on both the client and server. To build this in Rails would have meant learning both Rails and Ruby.

My app doesn't need to be realtime, and that's a narrow way to look at Meteor. Real time is just a nice bonus that the framework enables.
My point was I dont want to listen to a lawyer or politician. Give me the words of a scientist, preferably a nuclear one.
an answer to many of you :)
There is no single discipline that is better or more needed than another. The debate Science+Technology vs Arts+Humanities is useless: just like your body needs all nutrients, your brain needs all types of inputs and stimuli. We have areas dedicated to math and others dedicated to language, both require the connection to logical reasoning. You should work them all out.

Moreover there is large evidence that Art (and humanities) can set you in the mindset of hacking.
PG himself says that painting can teach many things about hacking [1]
and I am living proof that Art can definitively teach you how to hack (and also be an entrepreneur): I received my first computer only when I was 19, but I had been hacking since I was 3 years old, through the art of Berrocal whose sculptures can be taken apart, transformed and combined, they are like 3d puzzles, tactile problems that need to be solved [2]. It has taught me practical tools, methodologies and ways of creatively find solutions that can be applied to both programming and to the day to day challenges of entrepreneurship.

There is actually a necessity and a current trend to connect Arts+Design+Humanities in the STEM education.
it's called "from STEM to STEAM" [3]
and it's backed by great figures in both art and computer science such as John Maeda

Don't despise arts+humanities, you'll be only limiting yourself.
A good old poem can hack your brain! give it root! ;)

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
[2] http://berrocal.net
[3] http://stemtosteam.org/
Schopenhauer said it 200 years before Orwell did, a fact I discovered only this week.

I recommend Schopenhauer's essay if you liked this one.
Read essays 1-3
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/
Perfect tool for freelancers, designers & agencies
> Germans, as I have been told, learn UK English in school. But eventually all their clients are American, so they end up learning American vernacular and spellings.

Eh?

The UK is a very large trading partner of Germany.

German exports to UK 2012:73 Billion euro

German exports to US 2012:87 Billion euro

German global exports: 1095 Billion

So, please. Who's the imperialist and marginaliser now? The US accounts for just 7.9% of german exports, so "most of their clients" abroad - rubbish.

It is deeply ironic that you're complaining about foreigners studying classics of British English, while contrasting with classics from American English as though that would be an obviously superior and more rational choice.
Sure about that ? The Milgram Experiment would suggest otherwise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment).
Maybe they should've ran the site through the 'meaningful use' certification process first...
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Dark matter: Absence of evidence, or evidence of absence?
How Much is Too Much A Cost For Your App?
In the world of mobile applications, the creators and the users are always concerned about the cost of the app. Any app entrepreneur would want that his app should not cost too much; neither for him, or for the customers.
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One frequently sees scripts relying on the GNU extensions to echo, often the support for escape characters, in installation scripts for commercial (but also the one for oh-my-zsh...) software when not run on a OS where sh is symlinked to bash (but to a simpler shell).

\033[0;1m ** CONGRATULATIONS! **\033[0m
Your program is now installed.
From my very limited experience SF is not that humid, yet has a lot of AC.

Things like painting roofs silver or insulating buildings are great starts to reducing AC use. (Dark roofs can reach 66C to 88C in hot weather, better roofing helps a lot. (http://www.epa.gov/greenhomes/ReduceEnergy.htm#advhome))

But this? I'd freakin' love to try something like this. I'm almost always too hot, even in England.
> Thus, if your Bitcoin funds are stored in an address that you have not spent from (so the public key is unknown), they are safe against a quantum computer – at least until you try to spend them.

Uhm, no such thing? Every mined bitcoin is instantly sent to an address
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These issues have been bugging me since long. Thanks for writing the solutions!

I am not sure whether the server treats /d/file and /d/file?v=1 as different files or same. Need to check that.

Regarding the mime type, how can I test it without downloading it..? It downloads and then match. If irrelevant then discards. Need to figure out a way to check mime before downloading.

Your /satic/videos/ idea is excellent. This solves a lot of issues. I will take that path along with name, email & host.

And the account will go to "readOnly" state after every update of these critical account details. We need to test manually the path and host before removing the "readOnly" mode. (any other solution?)

Thanks again for delving this much into this. Shoot me an email if you wish to discuss more on this :)
I was hovering over that pretty "kudos" button, and I accidentally kudo'd.
Hopelessly naive. An air conditioning system is used to cool spaces yes. But where I live, it is just as important to lower the humidity. This device will not help with that.
I appreciate your comment. You caught my conventional language and prodded me. I should be more careful. Toxicity is a factor of everything in medical science involving substances. ...in life rather. Medicine of all various forms is vast, highly varying per person, often contradictory over time in understanding, and constantly evolving. Conventionally, I consider medicine to be [something that is beneficial down to the personal level].

I'll rephrase. It isn't good medicine.

Fluoride treatments and water fluoridation are medicines like mercury treatment was once medicine. Explicit forms of "medication" must be relegated solely to an individual's active consent when consent is possible. That means a conscious choice to partake in the "medicine," on or in one's body, without medicating other people in the treatment. That's basic ethics. The benefit:negative ratio would have to be astronomically high to justify any less standard where medicine is concerned.

Medicine is very personal. Speaking for myself, when an extremely toxic substance to humans, no matter the dose, is intentionally added to something as important as water and thus a food chain, it has already lost the ethical equation. Massively "medicating" passive "patients" through the water supply is just sad. Worse still, ingesting fluoride hasn't been justified on any beneficial, medical level -- and quite the opposite with negatives. Thus, it's hard for me to associate the term "medicine" with it. I completely concede to that point though.
Apple added memory compression in Mavericks, so upgrading to the latest OS may improve your situation. Disclaimer: I don't actually know.
Reminds me a little of this, though this uses a constant fan rather than a pulsing schedule of cooling jolts. I've used one before, and it works surprisingly well for such a low-tech contraption.

http://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/CoolWare-Persona...
NSA already has your daily data, make a wrapper service around it?
Pretty good explanation of the motivation behind scripts:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195.msg1611#msg1611
I originally read this as "Alternating Current" and I thought "Oh Gee, not this shit again."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Every single alarm clock I've had has given me seven, and I always wondered why.
My startup sympho.me is working on this challenge. Trying to help people get a holistic view of their lives though quantified self.
Please send feedback:D
You mean students aren't forced to take humanities courses?

For my business degree I had nearly 2 whole years of humanities courses...
That's pretty impressive. Looking at how close the produced output is to what I used to write various things was very cool.
As far as I was aware the reactors at Fukushima shut down correctly as soon as the earth quake occurred. While the crisis definitely continued I think the reporters portrayal of the reasoning is somewhat misleading. As it insinuates it was the fuel rods inability to control the reaction was the problem, rather than the cooling system's inability to deal with the excess heat generated post shut down.

"When a uranium reactor overheats and the fuel rods can’t contain the chain reaction, as happened at Fukushima, the crisis continues."
Wow, at first I seriously thought this site was a fake copy of the official Trustico site (they have trustico.ca, trustico.com, etc)... but the form exists on all their sites:

http://www.trustico.ca/ssltools/match/cert-and-key-pem/check...
What particular interpretation and stopping point in history do you think is probably the correct one?

From what I see people have a party, which harkens back to the whole harvest festival thing.
True, I wasn't clear I guess, but I was trying to say that not explaining WHY we had to learn something was a general feature of my university education, e.g. group theory in the case of math. They just put us physics students with the math students and we were expected to be motivated by the pure fun of learning math. If I had known how much group theory gets used in physics, I'd have put in more effort.

Same thing with the IEEE standard, it's not hard, but it was presented in a dull way, all theory.
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The fact is, we already support filesystems on UNIX with restricted filenames (eg: FAT and NTFS). If you ban terrible filenames from the filesystem, those filenames would not exist because they could never be created in the first place.
Have you guys had a problem with people scripting tweets? I know there are some command line twitter clients like TTYter.