skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Earlier this year I did some development for a hardware designer who has been getting into energy-harvesting. He had a Bluetooth-LE profile miroprocessor running wired up to an energy-harvesting chip, meaning that we were able to build a network of Bluetooth-LE devices that didn't require any power supplies.

These prototypes are working (the app is made to render the whole kaboose as a point-cloud) and as far as I can tell, the only reason these things haven't hit the market yet, is timing. He's also not the only designer working on such products - as a result of contact with the LE/Infinergy industry, I see quite a few other startups attempting to 'capture' this space before it launches.

So I predict it won't be long until we have such devices out there. I'm already using one of the prototypes to find my keys .. only problem is, I can't use it to find my phone, where the app is installed .. ;)
People like you - the genuinely transparent and fearless - are the only ones capable of sincere gestures. The scoundrels and cowards hate you because your honesty makes them self-conscious, so they'll fight you on grounds of "politeness".

Thank you for your honesty. Whether you care or not, know that the people that value it -truly- do (unlike the cooze that reacted on you).

Also, thank you for your amazing coding lessons. Your CLI book/guide is largely responsible for helping me land my current job. I have ADHD:PI and find your "cut through the bullshit" method of teaching INCREDIBLE. I've purchased your Python book and look forward to the experience.
And that's what they do. They are supposed to be guarding us against threats but then they start to preceive everything as a threat, including lawful political activitism.
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You can use ast.literal_eval[1] which is supposedly safe (only accepts literal values, not code).

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Everyone has something interesting to say. I like meeting and talking to new people, it's fun. Is that a bad thing now?

You're right on your second point, I agree entirely.
There are turnkey manufacturers who will build all this for you, but the starting place is a manufacturable design. If you started with off the shelf modules, then one of the first steps would be to get there. So, schematic development and PCB layout to come up with a single PCB that incorporates everything, into an off the shelf plastic housing would be the first step. Then you've got something to build 5 or 10 of, and see if people want to buy them. Bunnie Huang's blog has some good material on this.
for me everytime i hear it or say it, i feel like communism must be involved somehow. :)
I really despise the word creepy, its like rapey and its used to slander men all the time.
PNGout is a pretty decent program. I install it when running Windows.
Go careful though - some of those systems are kludged to fit on the end of accounting packages. Something that can do payroll, which has been extended to handle ordering, which has been extended to handle BOMs, is really suboptimal.

I have experience of Sage line 50 / line 100. They were awful for the bits most of the company needed to do.
Nice post.

For leaving a conversation, I rarely bother with an excuse, I just say something similar to "Hey it's been really awesome meeting you, $person. Ill definitely $contact_in_future_plan!"

Seems to work just fine :)
The other aphorism about boat ownership is something like "the two happiest days are the day you buy it and the day you sell it".
No, you have it wrong. Early detection _generates_ them money, since they can mark up your insurance fees.

Whoever reads this, be careful before having your DNA tested. In some countries (as, for instance my native Germany) you have the legal obligation (!) of sharing any relevant results with insurers before buying insurance.
its probably best to simply consider it a convenient label i guess. i am not however thinking about 19th century socialists at all, even if they coined the term... it may not have had a name as such but there were people in the previous centuries who researched and promoted the philosophies. adam smith's wealth of nations comes to mind as a sort of canonical example of such work...

i'm sure it evolved organically in the sense that it happened 'naturally' but i do disagree that it is the default human position - its a recent fad. its taking natural behaviour to one extreme interpretation of it.

not being utterly self-motivated, or altruism, is a very well attested human trait and we have a lot of the vital aspects of civilisation and society as a result of that drive. the ideal of pure capitalism could utterly inhibit such things from forming at all imo...
These rules are not actually from the bible, but from the Greeks, who had much stricter rules.

1) no abortion never jamais, under no circumstances. Nor advising women on how to do it themselves.

2) no euthanasia never jamais, under no circumstances. No advising people on how to DIY it either.

3) no refusing medical aid to anyone for any reason

4) never go against patient wishes for not getting treated

5) never, ever, advise anyone on the use of poison

Some highlights from the Hippocratic oath. The first source of which is, unsurprisingly, not the Bible.
Is Doctor Who a lefty?
The article doesn't make it very clear, but I think there are two things going on.

One is that genetic testing possibly increases the overall cost of healthcare, by introducing new tests preventive treatments that people are advised to get. Before modern cancer treatments, many cancer patients were untreatable and they died. Now there are new and expensive treatments that are worthwhile, but they cost money. So, total amount spent on treating cancer goes up. Genetic tests & subsequent tests and testaments are a new cost, that will probably increase overall medical costs and insurers liabilities. Eventually, premiums will just go up to cover this. It's a long term problem.

The second thing for insurers to worry about is information asymmetry & adverse selection.* This is a more structural problem. The more predictable future costs are, the less suitable insurance is as a way of paying for things. If you have a 1% chance of huge medical bills in the next ten years, you can pay 1% of those potential bills as a premium and get pice of mind. If you have a 50% chance of those bills, you probably can't afford the 50% premiums.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
Aether - distributed, anonymous and encrypted forums
Just got whooped 11-2 against someone who knew what he was doing. Easily the most fun I've had losing 11-2 in anything ever.
Building a Pinterest Clone in 60 Minutes with PyCharm
Is there any concrete data to support "You still get the best performance in Firefox"? I get around 26fps for 1920x1200 fullscreen on the latest Firefox nightly, but 40fps on the latest Chromium. Ubuntu precise.
> We were building a complex and big management system

Sounds like long sales cycles + probably a longish period between "sale" and "integration done, workers trained, in production" (which may be the point when the cash starts flowing...).

> My idea is to finish the MVP and giving the project the opportunity to find another client without expending more money.

I don't know the specific market you are in and the technical ability of the persons you are trying to sell to. It may be that a finished MVP vs. a 60% done MVP doesn't significantly improve the chance of a sale. It may be that for the sales process, slides-only or a 5 min click demo are enough to convince the client of your technical ability and the discussion will move on to other topics.

Apparently this has worked before, and the owner may be looking to replicate that before investing further time into building the MVP.

Sales is tough, really tough, and may be the far bigger problem for the startup. A finished MVP doesn't necessarily make this easier, sadly.
They still require to be fed and watered and moved. You could neglect to do that.

I do think we should mention that there are definitely 2 cases to consider, maybe 3. First, if that person has made his choice clear. Second if he hasn't. Second case can be split up into "family/friends/significant others want to end it" and otherwise.
PNG Wizardry
I actually like your personality. You're one of the few people that don't take shit and actually stand by your actions/words.

Even with all the people shitting on your online persona, you continue to work, you've produce some stuff that people enjoy (learn the hard way), it's really admirable.
Failure is a feedback
The article links to that article, come on!
Don't people read stuff anymore?
Why exactly is that important? Because it suggests that Citi is involved in hiding the identity of Satoshi and that implies their involvement in setting up Bitcoin?

Or am I missing an angle here?
>I had a plan to do something similar - motorcycle up the pan-american highway. Unfortunately every time I think I have a friend or two sold on the idea they drop out...

Just go do it. You'll make some friends on the way...
I could never quite get my head around his clue style. I'd usually manage cryptics from the other setters, but seeing his name I'd get a sinking feeling that I'm not going to get far.

And then... I found myself skipping the puzzles set by others, but tackling the ones from Araucaria. As Camus put it, "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
Thanks, but I was specifically referring to the same voting ring that appeared to have put the article on the front page in the first place. I would hope the rest of the community would recognise a blogspam repost of a marketing puf-piece puff piece when they see one.
That's not the point. The question was why government support is necessary. What if the courts refused to recognize that Bitcoin is an asset? What if the courts ruled that a Bitcoin debt could be settled by simply starting your own Bitcoin alternative and making a payment with that?
You'd be surprised:

Guerrilla, noun
a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.

Just because a word is written like in your language and/or is derrived from it, doesn't mean it's meant to be read as belonging IN your language.
Hyper Text Markup Language. It's in the name. If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct.
Show HN: Turing Planet. Find a human among chatbots.
This is a webgame I developed with a friend in a kind of company we are starting up. In the game, you will find yourself in a room full of robots. One of them is your human opponent, but you don’t know who he is. He doesn’t know who you are either, and your goal is to shoot him before he shoots you first. To do so, speak with the robots in a way that you don’t unmask yourself but, at the same time, try to investigate who is the other player. I'd like to know what do you think about it. Thank you.
1sheeeld lets you do almost everything with your Ardunio using a smart phone
This is exactly the reason why I don't want to do anything like this.

I didn't get marry or get kids or build any asset because I want a stable career first before I start taking the plunge into starting a company.

Hell I thought about it. And that I can even mitigate the risk to with LLC/INC and I can do it on the side while having a part time or a consultancy job. If my bet doesn't work I can continue to work anyway. My plan was to get a stable and consistence income while having something on the side because it would lower my risk.

Anyway, thank you for posting this and I hope it gets better for you.
It's not even metonymy proper.

It's the adoption of a spanish word in another language, in which it IS used as a noun in the first place.
Well, read the hippocratic oath. Learn that not everything comes from the bible. The world will make more sense afterwards.

And if that doesn't clarify things, read some Greek plays about just how wrong things can go, and you'll understand why physicians would want to avoid any involvement and keep things secret. It'll make sense. It'll make make clear even to people who assume the very worst about people that people can go much, much further than they ever dreamed in their worst nightmares. It'll make clear to even the most liberal person that, yes, there are things consenting adults can choose to do that justify throwing them in jail, even execution. Not just one, but plenty.
Enthusiastic noob here. I can usually fathom what is going in these neat CSS demos, but this one baffles me. Could someone provide a few pointers as to how it's doing what it does?
"Sacrilege!"

Unless you're a code auditor, where you have time to spend looking and analyzing the code, there's no reason to not trust anyone who didn't code the website from 0. Bootstrap as well other frameworks are just that: a conjunction of best practices and some other modules that proven to work well across several browsers and devices.

We can argue speediness and all the yada-yada, but in the end, pro developers repeat the same things even missing one bigs when do all from 0. Using frameworks is a way to avoid those mistakes and, to have a development line well documented. You still can extend, trim the framework as you want.

Think other professions never distrust anyone because he's using that library, that gem, that framework. In the end everyone has limited time to execute work, so if other programers enjoy those libraries why the frontend ones don't?
I will miss his puzzles enormously. One of my life goals was to get drawn as one of the winners of one of his Saturday puzzles. Despite submitting a few hundred completed puzzles over the years, I was never drawn out of the hat (perhaps there's a moral here about making your goals dependent on random events over which you have no control). There were clearly lots of other people who also enjoyed completing his puzzles.
Windowx XP give me the blue screen of death, with Firefox 25.0.1
> As the great card overlord I salute you. Here, join the ranks of my army by taking one of these. For the glory of the business card empire!
Still... no linux.
This is just fake posturing by insurance companies, their risk is unchanged in the post-ACA marketplace. Policymakers aren't all stupid, this scenario is exactly why having health insurance is now a requirement. As you noted, it's quite risky to both cover all pre-existing conditions and not have a mandate.
Hat tip to Guido van Rossum for passing (nearly) all the tests in Python 3.

Is the "ffl-ligature to uppercase" test really relevant? Isn't that fixed by appropriate use of string normalisation?
Help scale the npm registry
I'm looking for a lightweight CMS and was thinking of rolling my own with Node.js + MongoDB but I might give this a go instead.
Bitcoin: tulip mania or a disruption?
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The citadel demo, if anyone's looking for it: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/

The article seems pretty doomy regarding asm.js - is it really going to take off and become an unweildy/frozen standard? Or is it of interest only to people writing game engines in pure JS / vanilla browser technologies?
Very true, but victim blaming gets us nowhere.
I think what was meant was a $400k building filled with roach trap apartments.
>Go's GC's support for internal pointers means it can use a pointer-and-length representation for substring references

Only if the String class is implemented in pure Java, which it currently is. But it doesn't have to be that way. Oracle could go around the Java language features and implement the String class in native code just as Go does with several builtin types. You may be right that it would be more difficult to do than in Go because of garbage collector specifics.

But I guess the real issue is a philosophical one. Is it a good idea to let the standard library use features that are not available to users of the language?
I like how zedshaw is moving to HR and job placements. It'd be nice to have a rebel in suits world.
Use Sandboxie, it makes stuff like that trivial.
If you mean something to strip css libraries, I wasn't able to find something equivalent on google. I also wasn't sure what to google for though.
This article is a blast from the past. The past before having health insurance was required and when pre-existing conditions could be omitted from coverage.

The worst case scenario they used was if someone at risk for breast cancer got mammograms early. The horror, but also the cost savings from early detection! If you claim your grandmother had breast cancer you will no hassle getting a mammogram at an early age, there should be no difference if you have genetic hints at the same risk-factor. No insurer would pay for a preventative mastectomy without strong medical evidence (e.g. not just a genetic test), there's no sense in bringing up a world-famous rich actress who almost assuredly paid for her surgery out of pocket.

The most expensive thing for a health insurer is the customer who doesn't get a mammogram when she should.
Narendra modi should be person of the year. Modi is a real hero in india. He can change india ,he can make india developed county.
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference

This is a book on STL (updated for C++ 11) is a classic, and actually very readable. Quite a lot for advanced users, but also not too dry!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0321623215/ref=pd_lpo_sbs...

I'd also recommend Zed Shaw's C The Hard Way, because although C++ is not C, getting good at C helps you understand C++ when it goes wrong.
>I don't see the problem with asm.

That's because you didn't read the article.

Which among other things, already points to that blog post.
I get 60+ for both

chromium (Version 27.0.1453.93 Built from source for Fedora release 19) with Hardware acceleration disabled
Firefox (25.0-3.fc19.x86_64) with GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1 Basic.

System:
Dual Graphic:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1688
Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Whistler [Radeon HD 6630M/6650M/6750M/7670M/7690M]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Radeon HD 6750M
Kernel driver in use: radeon

edit: formatting.
Extreme open source/DIY conference at Europe's second largest physics lab
Removing the Word shackles: getting started with plain text
The linked website has an horrible animated background picture. Reading the text is almost impossible with IE 11. Screenshot: http://postimg.org/image/46p2krx95/
Ask HN: maker and manager, is there a job where you are both?
I am McKinsey consultant that is terribly bored with my current job, even if I am very good at it. On my weekends, I pull all-nighters programming and rejoice.

Before joining McKinsey I did my masters in electrical engineering and a couple of long (6+ months) internships (Sony, Daimler) as an engineer. It was great - but lacked a certain "business" fun to it - I was expected to come from 9 to 5 and develop whatever I was told to, not much responsibility, not much planning/working on the big picture.

I would like to do both (say, 6 hours of making and 6 hours of managing). Is such thing possible? In your experience, is someone that is not that specialized valuable for a startup? I've been looking through startup "hiring" pages and never saw a similar position...

Have you been in a similar situation? What did you do?
[edit:] ah, ok, so on python 3 it depends how it's constructed.

[originally i had a post here saying i couldn't get the noel to work on 3.3.2]
Dollars? How quaint. 911 should only be for the BitCoin-using technolibertarian elite.
Microsoft removes censorship restrictions on new China version of Skype
Goldman Sach's massive Open Source Java collections library - an interview
Happy to see that ruby (2.0 at least) passes all the tests except the "baffle" one.

Edit: sadly, it doesn't.
It really depends on the definition they are using of on call. In many small companies/IT teams everyone is "on call" 24/7, but it just means you may get called on 24/7, but there's no availability requirements. Being actually on call should mean compensation, defined hours, and expected response times.
> Everyone has something interesting to say.

No they don't.

Like that.
It is safe to use. It's how people react to it that is the concern. I think it's perfectly fine to take a reactive approach for that. Similarly, one in a million people might not pay attention to the maximum consumption of many (otherwise safe) medicines. It doesn't mean those medicines should be sold pill-by-pill until we know the number of people who will read instructions.
Pontes do Rio Douro em Exposição no Instituto Superior Técnico
Ask HN: To which sites would you submit a charity deal?
We are running a "pay what you can" sale of the entry-level edition of our product with net proceedings going to charity. Someone posted a link to our campaign to MyDealz.de and we had dozens of orders from Germany within the next 24 hours, even though our product is fairly specialized - it's a Java development tool.

I am now wondering what sites in the US and other countries could do such magic. I have pinged BitsDuJour, but have not heard back yet. Any pointers?

I would also appreciate any other thoughts on how we could increase the exposure of our campaign. Just in case you want to check it out before providing any pointers or advice: http://bit.ly/PQahwD

Thank you,

Dmitry
Salesforce Signed Request not working
Is anyone else having issues with a canvas application that uses signed request not work. Seems that there is a problem with the authentication infrastructure
Only Narendra Modi deserve it....
Transpilers are just a work-around, tooling is not mainstream yet. At the moment debugging the script is easier despite being unpleasant. I work with JS almost daily and understand it's strengths and weaknesses. I do not consider it a silver bullet which seems to be a shared sentiment around HN. A language designed to make documents more interactive should be just that. Especially if it is evolving in 5-year cycles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#Versions).
Powerful roles do attract power hungry people. You know who else they attract? People who have some skills and want to put them to use for the betterment of society.

Not all policemen are corrupt, not all politicians are stooges, not all regulators are conmen. Quite often they are people who know how the system works and feel that they can bring their knowledge to bear to make it work better and ensure that things are done right.
I also doubt the validity of the upper-casing, it feels like in an internationalization/localization context, converting a string to all upper case is not a valid thing to be doing.

Not all languages (or even characters) have a well-defined upper-case versions of their glyphs.

Even if they all did, I would expect the interpretation by a (human) reader to vary culturally.
The different styles of the setters is one of the nice things about the cryptics. I could usually complete an Araucaria puzzle (admittedly after more time that I'm prepared to admit here :-) but show me a puzzle by Puck and I'll probably just sit there staring blankly at it. Different setters suit different people.

Apart from Rufus, everyone should be able to solve a Rufus puzzle ...
These people seem to be making a decent business out of selling scraped data - http://www.aggdata.com/ There might be others too.