jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"A 2003 FCC licensing window for new translator applications resulted in over 13,000 applications, most from religious broadcasters. Due to the number of license applications, LPFM advocates called it the Great Translator Invasion."

It isn't limited to religious programming but it the major component.

Translators are really just re-broadcast mechanisms, and because of the various oversights in the regulations, the original signal does not have to be over the air or local, so networks can spawn off in parts of the band that were, in the spirit of things, intended for programming created by the same people the LPFM signal could reach: those in the nearby area.

There's a long, long history of lower power stations and tons of inside baseball on the topic. Unfortunately, removing market caps in the nineties caused a wave of consolidation in the radio industry that swallowed up many local stations with higher power. The Great Translator Invasion similarly purged the local stations with lower power.

Despite that consolidation and what you would think would be efficiencies of scale at the cost of programming from locals, many of the media companies that "borged up" the little guys have gone bankrupt. I won't pretend to know too much about all of this, I can only say that due to my contacts in the radio industry I have had multiple points of input giving me an overall negative opinion of how this has worked out over the years.
Fast forward 10 years of development: ;)

> Amazon sued for emotional manipulation of customers using AI voice assistant.
i have nothing but contempt for the industry at large, even though there are occasional companies that are not completely horseshit. its great to have the inside experience so you can speak with authority about all the ways its fucking garbage. most people here have their personalities too wrapped up in it to realize. pretty pathetic overall, but everyone's motivations and particular jobs differ, so i dont want to paint with too broad a brush. above all, im truly grateful that i feel like ive made sense of the whole thing sufficiently for my own peace of mind. its a huge part of where my politics comes from. work is not that complicated if you dont stake your entire ego on it, and recognize that money is not the be all and end all you think it is- with that realization, you can work plenty of jobs and enjoy them for their intrinsic value, while getting paid a nominal wage. pursuing money too singlemindedly can easily wreck your life, as far as i can tell. tech basically represents the pursuit of money- everyone here tries very hard to focus on science and the tech part of tech, but its pretty obvious from what gets upvoted that a primary focus is getting rich as quick as possible. i truly despise this, but again, everyone's situation is different and for some people its less egregious. at least finance bros admit what the game is. also tech companies are largely built on lies- the products they produce are often worthless, and ad sales, which prop up lots of other ones, are probably a bubble. the ads and data are ultimately of limited value, and i dont think the industry fully realizes it. i guess if i could summarize, i would say that you shouldn't underestimate the negative effect of doing worthless work, no matter how much you are getting paid. you cant connect with the people you work with because none of you are there for the right reasons that foster connection, most likely. and then every now and then, you find a tech company that does something useful well, and so i guess its just very complicated.
I am most impressed by the parallel-resistance / thin-lens calculation.
Reminds me about one time when I've spent a week debugging random, but quite consistent kernel crashes, which turned out to be a gcc miscompiling kernel driver code to decrement stack pointer before ceasing to use some values in that stack area. There was one or two instructions, where if a re-entrant irq happened, would reuse that stack part and corrupt data there.
School is included in the shared environment because if you had identical twins they would be going to the same school and same classes.
Apparently one of the guys involved in early Air Force space suit research had lost an eye in an accident (no, not Yeager, can't remember the name right off). It created a bit of a stir when they tested him post-accident and discovered that his depth perception had actually /improved/ now that he only had one eye.

Unfortunately, despite this, they weren't willing to let him go back to flying fighter planes, which is why he got into space suit research...
No, they're hashed. It's very easy to do.
It would seem that the ultimate solution to this problem would be an implantable artificial kidney. Given that the technology for dialysis has been around for so long, it's surprising that there hasn't been more progress in miniaturization over the last 40 years.
Really nice - wonder how it converts / runs as a phone app
The best thing about PHP is that the entire 'world' for each script is torn down after every request. Pair that up with APC in apc.stat=0 mode, and you have the easiest deployment method for a production site anywhere.

The worst thing about PHP is that it's PHP.
The one created by Leiningen is pretty good.

.cake
pom.xml
*.jar
*.war
lib
classes
build
If you see the FAQ on the site he mentions you can contact him if you're interested in doing translation.

You can also volunteer for his web app which is open source so he can spend less time on the website and more time making videos:

http://code.google.com/p/khanacademy/
> Casting a u_int32_t over a 4-byte string (like an SMTP verb) to get a value you can switch() on.

This is awesome beyond words. If I stumbled across this in the wild I would flip flop between awe and disgust until my head exploded.

Let me guess, "SMTP verb" is not a hypothetical example?
I think that part of what's going on is that savvy users have become wary of trusting companies to securely manage their data. I first started reading Slashdot shortly after they launched; that was almost 15 years ago. It wasn't long after their launch that they started running articles on technology companies doing bad or stupid things with users' data, and there have been so many examples on so many forums in the intervening years that, to be honest, I'm literally disgusted every time another one comes around.

Trusting companies to, for example, only give access to our data when forced to by law just doesn't cut it anymore, for a lot of people. Not when companies collectively have a very poor track record in this regard, and not when the law continues to be murky and dynamic (and abused).

It's the abused dog effect: even if you, personally, treat a previously abused dog really well and swear up and down that you will never hurt it, if you raise your hand around it, it'll cower.

Since technical solutions exist for this problem, Dropbox's reasoning gets a bit thinner.

> If they're going to supply access via the website, or allow you to share with others then they need to be able to decrypt the file.

Not necessarily. For example, a key derivation function could be used to transform a password into a key, and that password could be required for users that want that kind of thing. As far as website access goes, I'm about to commit a terrible security crime here and suggest that the key derivation function could also be run in the browser. This would prevent direct access to your data by anybody at Dropbox, at least until the next time you log in, at which point they could serve up some malicious code that would record your password and ship it off to them. There are workarounds for that, too, though.
If you believe that a) links are good for the web, and b) everything disappears at some point, then link shortening services are bad for the web.

A shortened link will disappear when (not if) the shortening service disappears. If that is sooner than the site it was linking to disappeared, then it's a net negative for the web.

Link shortening services for the domain they live on are slightly less bad, since their lifespan is somewhat more likely to be equal to that of the destinations of the links (although it's still likely they'll live shorter).
Nobody keeps track of everything – this would require omniscience.
The whole thing is clearly an exercise in describing use of variables and (perhaps) string interpolation.

Amusingly, your comment is a fun example of short abductive reasoning just like the student in the other guy's story.
Kinda like aquameta[0]?

[0] https://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta
MIPS’s choice to shove details from the instruction decoding pipeline into its visible execution model is still kinda annoying though…
What's the alternative? I'm not sure how a client can query a server for updates without exposing its IP address beyond obfuscation like TOR or perhaps a VPN.
Does this product work for males as well?
Hey Patrick, for those of us who don't read Kanji could you explain the difference?
I don’t think it’s a good idea to build an API and then build an app; when you first work on an API and an app, I think it’s important to build the API with the app.

Earlier this year I wrote a blog post that mentioned this[1], but in short: great apps have great user experiences, so working on the app’s user experience should be one of the first things you do. If you’re able to figure out exactly what you’ll need in an API to build the best user experience, then building the API might work for you; however, if you’re still trying to nail down down how your app is going to work, solidifying an API before building your app will probably result in an inefficient API or an API that needs to change.

[1] http://chasenlehara.com/blog/api-first-and-only-features/
Actually, I'm assuming that the person I responded to supports these policies in order to protect human life.
I work at an IaaS company and we hear the same thing daily most want to focus on what they do best and often it's not server hugging.

Also companies that embrace the cloud have changed how they do things because they see the efficiencies and recognize that they don't want to be in the business of managing servers.
My argument would be that it's not so much about technical functionality as it is about mindset. To do what ChromeOS does you would have to "take away" functionality from Android to force people to use cloud storage. No one would ever go for that.

Google's goal here is to prove a cloud based environment is viable without native access. That's what ChromeOS does.

So yes, from a technical perspective you're absolutely right. But from a real world perspective Android could never do what Google hopes ChromeOS will.

Edit: jsmcgd's comment in this same thread makes a good point. ChromeOS' killer feature (if it succeeds) is "storing everything in the cloud" and you don't get that just by storing some things.
Step 1: meet possible co-founders in person: http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/

Step 2: test if the person is a possible co-founder for you: http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/10/15/how-do-i-know-you-ar...

Step 3: make it official http://foundrs.com

That's (literally) how I do it :-)
How come Goodzer is not on the list? They've been in the news just recently. It's a Reston-based company I believe.
What it means to "open a hole" or what a "hole" would even be are hard to imagine in the case of bcrypt.

First of all, none of this security even comes into play until after your password file is stolen, but your and jim's comments imply you believe that using bcrypt would somehow make an existing site less secure.
Wouldn't individuals with 'hi' Karma on Hacker News count?
Actually, it's essentially PBKDF1, but that's close enough for non-cryptographers.
Don't expect to get the perfect job right away. Get any job and start paying down your debt! Once you're settled and your network is more established, you can look for other opportunities.
I think Mirah (previously named Duby) really has some potential.

For the curious, I mixed JRuby + Duby to create (realtime) audio processing (VST) plugins.

https://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/blob/master/plugins/Dub...

https://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/blob/master/plugins/Dub...

In this example JRuby provides the "declarativeness" and ease of use of Ruby, while Duby makes the "heavy computation".

Duby in this case is just as fast as Java used on floats (it's actually translated into Java).

Of course, to get to write VST plugins with this, you already have a C++ <=> Java wrapper (jVSTWrapper), then a Java <=> JRuby wrapper I wrote.

https://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/blob/master/src/JRubyVS...
Why are you moving to Philly to begin with? Is your wife's family from there? Why are you moving to a city with no contacts and no job offer?
"The Seed Bubble Has Popped" has popped.
James was in a car accident in Mexico:
https://twitter.com/jill380/status/549016126035095552

I briefly did work for Normal this past summer, where James was the CTO. He was a great guy and I'll never forget the standup we did while standing on our chairs at the Quirky office... That was James' idea to do that.
> they don't offer download links

1. Add fonts to your collection.

2. Click the download button in the upper right corner.
Just a note (and please tell me if its OT/inappropriate), but with these types of events, people often concentrate on the 'what' that made it happen. However, the way a man dies does not define him. It is his work and contribution, which James had a ton of. I personally think celebrating James' contributions to open source, and his talks, and writing does him much more justice than speculating at a cause of death.

RIP
I don't think it is so rare, that you could call it occasional. That's the author's point and mine as well. Sometimes I need sqlite, other times libjpeg, giflib, libpng and some simple image processing with at least some low-level code. And it takes a lot of effort to make these things work with other languages on different platforms. Golang tried to make it easier and it still isn't.

Optimizers is also one thing I was worried about, LLVM is not the only compiler out there. And also there is friction. Most of the systems already have C compiler installed, if you target it, there is no friction in setting up building environment and so on.
Thanks! I forgot to check my model number!
>a likely cause of many Morgellons' disease cases is actually tropical rat mite

Many? You made that conclusion from a single self-reported case of finding that bug? Seems rather far-fetched to me.
There's precedent for this in America, where Coca Cola's representation of St. Nicholas did something similar.

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/holidays/the-true-history-of...
I looked into building SBCL using chibicc last weekend in the hope that one could build a truly portable lisp runtime using the ape toolchain (Yes, yes, I know you couldn't possibly pick two more different approaches to software portability). Turns out the GNUC extensions for __asm__ are the primary stumbling block (though I'm sure there are others). tcc supports the GNUC extensions needed, and chibicc supports the thread local storage needed for dynamic variables. Looking forward to future developments!
> The Biden administration has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it conducts a wider review of agreements worth billions of dollars made by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told CNN Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/politics/us-pauses-saudi-uae-...
I think they would. Facebook products are a huge part of any app ecosystem, and without them, Apple customers would be pissed.

Ecosystem concerns aren’t as relevant today, since both Android and iOS have everything you’d want, but in the olden days of Blackberry, Microsoft, and many other mobile operating system vendors trying to compete, they were always seriously hampered by their lack of ecosystem.
Um, merely declassifying this report already is a major change in US policy. Furthermore, Biden is reportedly refusing to even speak with MBS, as reported in the NY Times article about this:

"Ahead of the report’s release, Mr. Biden spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia. Although the official White House description of the call did not say that the two men discussed the report, other officials said the purpose of the discussion was for Mr. Biden to explain why he was releasing the findings and outline the administration’s next steps. The administration has made clear that Mr. Biden will speak only to King Salman, his counterpart as head of state, and will not speak directly to the crown prince.

Whether the new administration’s attempt to bypass the 35-year-old crown prince and deal only with his 84-year-old and often ailing father will succeed remains to be seen."
You make a good point. There are trusting people, and then there are software devs and lawyers.
Imagine a world with 0 tracking on any website/app. It would be horrendous. Advertising would not stop, it would just be so bad that we as users will be in even worse situation than today.

Now, current situation is also not good, with the amount of tracking/ers not only affecting privacy, but also the look, speed and size of the web pages in a very bad way.

Also no advertising on the web at all, as much as people say they would want it, I think they would even less want the effect of no advertising at all. So many services would be not be feasible, and everything else would be pay per month to access kind of thing. And you can only pay so much.

There should be a middle ground. But me personally would rather prefer _some_ (where that amount is less than today) targeted advertising to the alternatives. Even though I almost never click on ads, on any platform.
I took a class with a guy who was a subpar student, and he spent most of the lectures on LinkedIn and reached out to anyone and everyone. He had no shame and "fear of rejection" when it came to cold messaging.

A few weeks to a month after the class ended, he got a job and was the first in our class to get one. It was for a Sales Engineer position, rather software engineering (which the rest of us were gearing up for), but based on his interests it seemed way more up his alley.
Natural Selection is going to select for who's best able to survive in a man-made world. We already see that happening with animals. I'm not entirely sure this is a bad thing but simply how the entire ecosystem is evolving.
So a game dev would need to do something that a front end dev wouldn't have to do. OK, I'm sure the front end dev has to deal with a lot of things the game dev doesn't need to touch.
This is the basis for my new bubble investment strategy. You wait until you start reading articles about how X is going to go up forever, then you want 3 months, and short X. They said the same thing about housing prices.
If you get to stipulate browser support, you can do much more interesting things than OpenID. Not requiring browser support to be viable is part of the point of OpenID and OAuth.
Isn’t it strange that you have to make a disclaimer like “please don’t judge me?”. Quite literally 1/2 of the USA voted for Trump, should you automatically be ashamed of that?

(It’s easy for me to say ofc, I have no horse in this race)
Ironic that their guy was the one behind the attacks on net neutrality. Might have helped in their case with their ISP.
This argument isn't valid when literally 80 million people support a different idea. At some point when a platform gets large enough it's egregious to shut down so many views especially when any rational human can see the reasons are incredibly biased.
I for one would love to see a script. Haha.
>If they had no revenue are they even required to file at all?

Yes.

> Since they didn't get 501c3 status until 2012, the 990 doesn't seem appropriate except for this most recent year anyway.

All nonprofits with an EIN need to file 990s even if you don't have 501(c)(3) status. Corporations are not individuals so there are different rules. The rules for registered nonprofits are stricter than for-profits - AND screwing them up can jeopardize attempts to get 501(c)(3) down the line, although typicially the IRS will be reasonable, if you make a handful of trivial mistakes here and there they won't kill you.
As far as I understand, it can go either way. But that's almost purely anecdotal (like much in the bee world).
"Directory of urls" is a bit geeky and not quite accurate.
> Microsoft has been a stain on the last decade of the computing industry.

Wrong decade. Microsoft has made a lot of positive changes these past ten years.

If anything, I'm betting that we are going to uncover some pretty dirty business practices exercised by Apple this past decade (I'm predicting that the e-book price rigging is the tip of the iceberg).
People should be happy! I'm sure that the wealthy will be paying extra for their ground-water to be "infused" with methane before we know it!
Has there been a wave of consumer harm caused by Uber? What makes taxis safer than Uber?
they check balance by JS in blockchain, i no see in JS code they got info about result. If someone find btc wallet of Satoshi im sure what he got in donate (link exist :) ) enough for him ;)
i personally like this idea. free lotto :)
> It's better than PDF. Text in PDF is not reflowable.

This is relative. Many people dislike reflowable text, and often it is not very convenient. Book typesetting is hard, and once it is done, reflowing the text changes the book, usually for worse. Maybe not for plain text, but definitely for math and poetry, were the "flow" is a crucial part of the work, and it was carefully set up by the author. You do not ever want to "reflow" math or poetry. For these two subjects (my favorite ones, incidentally) pdf seems to be the best option.
holy friggin' adorable puppy. that was worth the wait.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/5129013658/

Try that one.
"Imagine their surprise [at RIM] when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it."

Step 9 iFixit teardown of original iPhone:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone-1st-Generation-Teardow...

Witness the size of the magical iPad battery in Step 22:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Teardown/2183/3
Here's a blog post about this issue that you should find interesting. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tinted-lenses/200912/scr...

My personal point of view is that I do not want to cause any suffering when I can avoid doing so (i.e. when my survival does not depend on it). Only a conscious being can suffer, and, as far as I know, plants are not conscious. There are organisms of all levels of complexity between single-cell organisms and homo sapiens, and no-one knows for sure where true consciousness begins, but the line between things and beings needs to be drawn somewhere. I have personally drawn the line between plants and animals, just to be on the safe side. It may be too far, and there's a risk that I'm not using some things for fear of causing suffering to a conscious being, but I'm OK with that.
I have never understood why some people find 24-hour charging cycles to be such a problem. Humans have a 24-hour charging cycle too, and while charging they are unable to use phones, so I don't see why it's such a trouble to charge the phone at the same time.
If it turns into something in a couple of years, I will be incredibly impressed. They've discovered something about the physics of domain walls -- not created a working demonstration!
"Did anyone else own one of those Archos 20gig Jukebox players in 2000?"

I doubt it. The 20GB Archos Jukebox was released in October 2001. Archos' models from 2000 had 5GB and 6GB hard drives. [1]

Just like the 20GB Archos Jukebox, Apple's 5GB iPod was released in October 2001. [2]

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_classic#First_generation
To sum up, tools will get better and faster, and we will develop for more than just desktop browsers. Way to go out on a limb. Filed in the "duh" category.