skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google "ARRL Band Plan"

http://kk4mes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/arrl-bandplans....

I roughly split spectrum in my head as "longer waves" (kHz, AM radio, needs impractically large antennas), "HF" (thousands of miles of range, largish antennas), "VHF/UHF" (line of sight, 25 miles, walkie talkies), and "microwaves" (1GHz+, short range, tiny antennas for wifi).

Someone already mentioned the Baofeng style of cheap Chinese radio. They're good enough but they also produce pretty dirty signals that there's a chance they aren't legally compliant. That being said, everyone seems fascinated with them right now so they get away with it for the moment. I wouldn't let that stop you since if you stick with it, you'll move up soon enough and it'll become the backup/beater radio.

I'll add on that $25 RTL-SDR (get a "TXCO" one like a Nooelec Blue) is also a pretty cheap entry into listening to absolutely everything. With that, you can start making antennas, listening to satellites, running your own FlightAware ADS-B scanner, etc. To listen to HF, you can add a $75 upconverter.
>If not a ruse, this is a dumb post that discredits itself and calls makefiles hacky, not noticing that they are used by many people for most native programming on most (unix type) platforms.

Bah, you just take things too literally, and can't process/appreciate some obvious and light-hearted cultural signs.

A post that makes a joke comment != a post that discredits itself.

A post that warns that its own makefiles might be hacky != a post that calls makefiles inherently hacky (in fact this is obvious, since the post's goal is the inverse: to promote Make to people).

A post that tries to introduce Make to a whole bunch of devs who don't know about it != a post that doesn't notice that Make is used by many people for native programming on unices
What if the AI just thinks that it understands itself ?
I subscribed to Maximum PC and PC Gamer and my wallet has never been the same :( Every issue I feel like my peripherals and hardware are out-of-date.
I started monetizing https://sheetsu.com two months ago. It's profitable right now. I'm the only one involved, wearer of many hats. I'm opening my Baremetrics.com dashboard soon to be transparent.
Behind Apple’s Advanced Computer Vision for Photos App
It's more like we haven't discovered Mars yet.
> The Real world is more collaborative compared to our schools

People keep saying this. I must be living in a different shard of the real world than those people. Collaboration is nice, but at the end of the day, the work has to actually be done, not just talked about.
Properties which both have to be built on top of the raw communications medium. Amateur radio is as private and secure as a basic TCP connection is, which is to say that it's not on its own but is ready to have additional protocols built on top that give you additional properties.
Is this based on how US spends money or generally speaking a global problem?
I run a one man B2B SaaS (www.hrpartner.io) and marketing has proven to be a real mystic art for me. I always thought the programming would be the tough bit, and the marketing the easy part, but it has been totally the opposite in my experience.

My biggest issue has been finding the right channel to market. I've tried Facebook and Twitter advertising (on a small scale - about 5 campaigns at $100 a pop) without much result. I've spent over $2K on Google AdWords with limited success.

In all above cases, I got a lot of people visiting my site, with about one in 20 visitors actually signing up. But after that, very few signups stayed around for more than one or two login sessions, and even fewer signed up for paid plans. (We use Intercom to track conversions and activity)

Don't get me wrong, I am not really complaining as I have a steady core of users who seems to use the app regularly, but I am mystified at the very low rate of converting visitor and initial account creators into regular users.

Next step is to look at specific review sites such as GetApp and Capterra. Our product also integrated tightly with Xero so we just advertised in the Xero User Magazine this month which will be distributed to thousands of users at their US convention soon, so we will see what comes out of that.

My biggest struggle is that because I am still actively developing and adding new features to the app, I have problems putting down the coding tools and building momentum with marketing.

Oh, and as for pricing, I've got a free forever plan for smaller companies (up to 10 employees), with paid plans after that. Expectation was that smaller companies could onboard for no cost, then as they grew, they would upgrade to a paid plan, but because we have only been live for a few months, still too early to tell if that will be a great strategy. I may drop the free plan later this year.

We also built a totally free companion site (www.staffstatus.io) that integrated with HR Partner and made free to ALL sizes of companies to see if we could get some side business (similar to what crew.co are doing with unsplash.com, but so far it doesn't seem to be doing what we intended - though it is really early days for that too).

Looking forward to keeping an eye on this thread to see what other solo SaaS drivers are doing. Feel free to ask any questions or critique any of my methods.
>Mozilla's bug tracker has only 1.3M entries

Your definition of "only" is quite different than mine. :)

Dozens of these bugs have been reported by me (same for Chromium) and I'm not even that much of a bug hunter. So yeah, I'd say it's common.
> What is the dollar value of clean air

Paris happens to possess among the most polluted air of any major first world city. So based on your premise, the French value their diesel pollution over their clean air - they found a (very low) price to put on it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-20/breathless...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-19/paris-smog...
So, even though you "agree it is fine to prefer either solution," you are willing to use literal, blunt force against your own neighbors to prevent them from using the solution that they prefer? That's neither self-consistent nor very neighborly.
A rule can depend on imported files and exclude them with a modification to the variable for rule dependencies:

a.o: a.c a.h
cc -o ${.TARGET} ${.ALLSRC:M*.c}

This is bmake though, I don't know the posix way because I always confuse $*, $>, $+ etc. There is also mkdep(1), tho I didn't ever use it.
I read that the first draft was using a much more reasonable concept - the Matrix needed our brains as CPUs to run itself. No idea if it's true, but certainly a lot less implausible than what came out in the movie.
Why was China banned from buying Intel chips?
Facebook rafforza prevenzione suicidi
The company that brought you mind-controlled cat ears just raised $1m
What's the caveat? How do they plan to keep the lights on? I hope they don't resort to dark patterns to keep afloat.
Hello, Tensorflow
> but that does not make it a proven fact

Sometimes scientific thinking can be just as dogmatic as religious thinking.

Remember, wisdom (or truth) is somewhere in between - at the intersection of 'mind' and 'soul' - the rational and the instinctive - the present and the ancestral.

"Proven facts" mentality has given us a technologically advanced world, but lack of wisdom results in the world being at the verge of collapse.

It's not yet clear if this method of thinking will eventually help us (or our children) survive on this Planet.

That being said, the "do good" thing is easily provable - but it cannot be expressed in words - you have to experience it yourself.

One healthy dose of acid or mushrooms or ayahuasca or mescaline should be sufficient to see that the rabbit hole goes way deeper than our rational minds have access to.

Our ancestors have been doing it too and then shared what they saw in songs, poems and texts, some of which are now 'sacred'. But the message was more or less universal - do bad and you will get bad, do good and you will get good.

Not because "God" is vengeful or bad - but rather the opposite - it is God who is on the receiving end of our actions - through the very simple fact that 'we' are God experiencing himself subjectively and simultaneously.

To quote Einstein - "Time is an illusion", meaning future past and present are all happening simultaneously - now.
Everything else follows from that, including "should I do good or bad".

Peace.
Seriously? You have a fair point, but did you really not have a more subtle way to phrase it?
Are you sure you can live with family members for over a year?
What Is Reverse Debugging?
> You'll see the military and federal response

For the whole life of the service the regulations state that one of the many reasons for the service to exist is to help the public during emergencies. And for that entire time, there's been endless philosophical / political arguments over if helping the government equals helping the public or if the government and corporations can take care of themselves or only take care of themselves while hams help the general public. Does the public mean random dude off the street or does it mean licensed ham radio operators or does it only mean the government and corporations or every possible combination of the three? Furthermore there's a dimension of some people see emcomm as a calling for survivalism and societal collapse and post-earthquake exclusively, whereas 99.99% of actual over the air emcomm activity is just another boring day until one guy reports a car accident or medical emergency in a rural area with no cell coverage and it'll never make the news.

I don't want to fight the argument here, but the point I'm making is for decades there's been healthy debate, so if the loudest definition is making cognitive dissonance in your head, that's OK, because a very significant fraction of the ham population sees things like you do. For all values of what you're seeing.

Ham radio is extraordinarily big and one thing many people have in common across the entire hobby is a viewpoint that their small corner of the very large hobby is the only real ham radio and their interpretation of the rules is the only correct interpretation. That is about the only ham radio stereotype that is really true most of the time. If someone claims the only "real ham radio" or "real path to ham radio" is local FM repeaters or 75 meter SSB voice or contesting or not contesting or emcomm or not emcomm or restoring old radios or building new radios or microwave experimentation or pretty much any ham radio activity, the only thing that is certain is they're completely wrong.
> In a notice published online the US Department of Commerce said it refused Intel's application to export the chips for Tianhe-2 and three other Chinese supercomputers because the machines were being used for "nuclear explosive activities".

http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/04/us-will-make-180-petaflop-s...
Avast Antivirus uses http for updates, enabling MITM. Avast retweets that
Drowning in a Sea of Information
I'm not really familiar with the service, but from where does Amazon get the groceries they deliver? Could they not enter into an agreement with Parisian stores to deliver their products?
>> Besides OVH having pretty crappy support, it is worth noticing that Oles (the ovh ceo/owner) basically only tweets in French, despites having customers from all-over the world. This is plain rude.

> Many US-American companies have customers all-over the world and still only tweet in English.

And this is right.

English is the de-facto standard language is business and science.

It doesn't matter if your company is french, american, italian, brazilian or something else: you really SHOULD write/tweet in english, at least to your customers/clients.
>Please excuse my ignorance in this area, I was just wondering - why does it matter so much who has the biggest and baddest supercomputer? Shouldn't that which we process on them matter more?

Yes, until one starts to lose on most such trivial metrics, and then they have a more substantial problem than losing on trivial metrics...

Those things can be long term signs about where the future is going.

>A while back I recall reading rumors that China didn't even know what to process on their Tianhe-2.

Yeah, those yellow people are so ignorant -- it takes white folks to show them what to process in their supercomputers. Sorry, but those rumours sounds openly racist.
The same could have been said about a lot of electronics not too long ago. I feel like the tide could swing back with the resurgence of hardware tinkering/Maker movement. It wouldn't take the form of cranky old vacuum tube radios though. More likely HackRF digital stuff controlling a wide area of IoT widgets or something.

I'm surprised we're not seeing more Amateur Radio style equipment used in drones but perhaps the FAA line of sight restrictions don't make range such a priority.
I previously started Roll20, and it is now a profitable SaaS business. It started off as just myself, then very quickly I added 2 Co-Founders, and now we have 8 people total working on it full-time. For that business, we used Kickstarter to get it off the ground, and then just slowly built through word of mouth and a strong built-in networking effect.

I am in the process of starting my next project right now; it's a VR small-scale MMO called "OrbusVR". I've been working on it for about a month now, and I've got a blog up (http://blog.orbusvr.com) where I've been posting development updates at least weekly; I've also been posting frequently to Reddit in places where potential players are likely to hang out (e.g. /r/vive). I have around 50 people already signed up on a newsletter, and every time I post about it I gain another 10-15 subscribers. I plan to launch a Kickstarter for this project as well probably in the next month or two; both to "fail fast" if there isn't going to be a large enough playerbase to support it, and to get a boost to the funding (which is 100% out of my own pocket right now).

So I guess in my experience, the trend has been:

1) Make something people really want already, but don't have.

2) Work on it in the open as much as possible to build up an early evangelist community.

3) Do a Kickstarter campaign or other event to gauge actual "I will spend money on this" interest.

4) Continue to grow slowly via world of mouth until you reach a tipping point where a network effect kicks in and then just grow from there.
make is not used in this post. He wrote shell scripts with a single tab indentation.
China builds world's most powerful computer
They're definitely in deep economic trouble. The French economy hasn't expanded in real terms in about two decades, not since 1995 or so. That can only go on for so long until the mounting problems begin to drown you.

And then there's this:

"France’s unemployment rate rose 1.1 percent in the month of February, pushing jobless numbers to a record 3.591 million people, the Labour Ministry said Thursday."

http://www.france24.com/en/20160324-french-unemployment-hits...
It's not future-proof. There are already ships too big for the new locks. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax#New_Panamax
I replaced a crappy tool (think Windows only client) with a web based version.

Emailed everyone in the industry.

Profitable ever since.

(Somewhat simplified, but not really)
If I recall correctly MapBox used to have better pricing when they first started. The government agency I worked for was quoted a reasonable rate per 1,000 addresses but the minimum required usage to use it was too prohibitive (paying tens of thousands even although the actual usage was < $1,000/year).
It is absolutely fine to let Amazon come in Paris, I would strongly be against a ban.

The issue is their economic power might erase a bit of the charm of Paris and lower my quality of life.

That's why the political power counterbalances this.
Humans use other mammals for all kinds of stuff and AI will be seeded with our knowledge. Humans are plentiful: https://xkcd.com/1338/
JavaScript (nodeJS) Error Driven Development
BetterExplained has a Patreon
That was pretty impressive. I watched a walkthrough of the tool and yeah... that's cool.
Review of the Mintos Platform After One Year of Investing
To be fair, what's wrong with valuing community over economic growth? If the country has enough to support a high quality of life, why sacrifice principles and values for more?

Economic growth is not the be all end all of human existence.
> I consider the general health of the population much more important than the money that can be made by private companies.

There's a feedback loop in the cost of innovation. Better medicines, fertilisers, preservatives, insulators, et cetera have increased both the health of the populace and wealth of their creators. Ceteris paribus, in a world with more innovative potential than downside, the less cautious society will outcompete the more cautious one.
That's imagining this system in the most perfect light: shiny, new and not gamed.

The opportunities for misinformation and asymmetricality are huge. Don't like someone? Clone their license plate for a day and drive like an ass. How could you ever prove your innocence?

Loan your car to a friend and they could tarnish your reputation. It would make it inhibitive to share vehicles.

This is technology that drives us farther apart as people in favor of a few insurance companies making even more profit than they do already. Think critically.

It would also give police even more excuses to profile innocent people.

If you want people to drive more safely, then think up ways to get more people to drive more safely. Don't expand the surveillance mechanism to every moving vehicle.
Sure. But this really comes off to me as a self-interested move by the people who have the time, and money to shop in expensive local shops, and want their existence to be subsidised by those who would prefer to save time & money by choosing Amazon, but will be forced not to. I can get restrictions to business sometimes, this just does not seem at all justified.
I've only stayed at places with good reviews as well. For the last one with the false location I can only think of a few possible explanations

) the users didn't look at the AirBnB map and only looked the instructions received a day or 2 before arriving

) the users noticed but didn't care

If you're visiting a city you've never been to you're more likely not to care. If on the other hand you're visiting a city you're familiar with (me) then you're more likely to be using the map to choose a place you actually know.

I don't know where you live but I'm sure you know some places where the difference of a 1-3 blocks would be the difference between some place you want to stay vs some place you don't. Next to a freeway/highway vs not. In a safe neighborhood vs in a dangerous neighborhood. On a scenic street vs on a non-scenic street.

For others maybe people are more forgiving. Example: I only rent 1 bedroom or larger because loud refrigerators keep me awake. (at least in the USA where they are loud) So when a listing lied about a studio being a 1 bedroom it meant I didn't sleep well the entire time. If that kind of noise doesn't bother you then you're not going to complain.

Similarly if you rent a place that says it comes with parking but you don't bring a car then you're not likely to complain about false advertising. If you come to a place to sight-see then you might not care about limited internet where as if you rent a place for a business trip then you probably do care since you'll likely be trying to do work from the place.

Finally the fact that hosts are people you actually interact with one-on-one makes it harder to leave a bad review for most people. It's easy to leave a bad review for Marriott. It's not so easy to leave a bad review for Jane ArtStudent renting out her apartment for extra cash while she stays with her S.O. She was really nice when she handed over the keys. It feels bad to give her a bad review so I'm guessing people pull their punches. I know I have even when I probably shouldn't have because the people I rented from felt like nice people even if they were falsely advertising.

I've learned my lesson though and now leave 1 star reviews if they lied to me.
BetterExplained is a ridiculously awesome website for intuitive explanations of complicated maths concepts (that most of us pretend to understand but secretly don't). It's a really well-loved site (gets posted to hn every couple of months -- typical top comment: "This site is a hidden gem on the internet. This guy deserves a lot more credit") and is all the work of one guy, Kalid, who writes it as a side project. It's really important to him that the site stays free for anyone to access, but he finally agreed to start a Patreon so that those of us who want to support him can tip a little something in his hat. Personally I'm hoping that if enough of us donate he will eventually quit his day-job and write full-time, but in any case it's nice to be able to show some appreciation for one of the best & friendliest educational resources out there. I don't think he's promoting the Patreon at all so I just wanted to share it here for others who feel the same.
In practice you have many more challenging question that calculate how many GPUs would do the job. For starting how would you connect the GPUs? And so on.
(the answer is yes)
To prevent them from building a powerful supercomputer.

No, seriously.
Related VW Beetle floating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB0lb401ZU
Yeah, that's poor writing- if you just swap exhaust for intake though, it becomes accurate.
It helps to use "x" instead of shift-8 (star) as the star is used for italics which is why your comment is a little hard to understand at first.
Exactly! The point of static analysis is avoiding the need for "millions and millions" of tests.
Discount supermarkets are less expensive than Amazon.
Detecting duplicate images using Python
If it's August and you're in Greece, you just hire someone in the other part of the hemisphere to do the job.
Yes. When writing JS you have to explicitly do a lot more validation.
A Node.js developer’s feature wish list for Microsoft Windows
Loved the site and became member few months back and went on my first nomad trip in South Asia. Keep it up your good work.
Or spaces "lock size from 1000 * 100 * 42 feet to 1400 * 180 * 60 feet."
The Path to Learning Requires Failing: The DAO
I really wish the "Internet of Things" was like the world of Mega Man: Battle Network (AKA Rockman.exe) [1]:

- Digital Assistants ("Navis") like Siri, Cortana, Google Now with customizable personas and avatars.

- A standard protocol for interfacing "smart" interactive devices like phones and laptops with "dumb" ones like ovens and toasters.

- You indirectly interact with your dumb devices by telling your Navi what you want to do with them.

- ???

- Eventually, semi-autonomous little R2D2s rolling around, projecting holograms of your Navis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Man_Battle_Network
Survivors of the Hydrogen Bomb Cleanup in Spain 1966
Here's what I learnt running a bootstrapped business
Once you get past the initial import, the incremental updates are essentially no-maintenance. The situation has improved since a few years ago, IIRC - the toolchain got significantly better.

But yeah, for the occasional geocode, running your own instance is overkill.
The local discount supermarket is less expensive than Amazon.
As an unlearned, what do you mean by differentiable?

What comes to mind for me is quantum annealing as seen in D-Wave's concept videos.
The ASN.1 one is a different kind of crash though still sounds controlled (SIGILL).