skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are the SF Bay Area's current TV broadcast stations: [1] High power stations get a channel for the entire area, while low-power stations share channels. The FCC has a computerized model that takes into consideration antenna height, power, frequency, and terrain to figure out what won't interfere.

(There are a large number of low-power religious stations. For people thinking about repurposing "white space" in the TV bands, they're going to have to get rid of some of those Voice of God stations. One God Ministries alone has 17 stations licensed in the Bay Area.)

There's more space available now for TV stations because the tuners for digital TV have much better adjacent channel rejection than analog TV tuners did. There used to be restrictions to prevent harmonic interference and such. That's mostly gone, and all the channel slots can be used. If you wanted to set up a broadcast TV station in San Francisco, you probably could.

[1] http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=1&dist=100.000%20...
I'd be surprised if there are more than a handful, but I often wonder the same thing about posts about systems programming and, well, basically anything that mentions Rust in the title.

For my own part, I find this kind of post fairly easy to digest, but that's almost certainly because I'm a Mathematician by training (PhD in numerical differential geometry, but did a lot of abstract algebra as an undergraduate). To me, a lot of the programming-related topics on HN seem to be written in some form of Ancient Greek, but they seem to be pretty popular and attract a lot of comments.

I think we have to simply assume that there are minorities of niche experts on HN, and that these minorities are large enough for such posts to do well.
> trying to imagine the action-movie-like intensity they were attributing to what was probably a predicted and fairly routine part of the project.

As someone who is one step removed from the EHT project (several friends/colleagues of mine were up at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array [ALMA] assisting with the data-collection), these types of observations are not routine at all. This was part of a special campaign, coordinated between major observatories across the world. In order to ensure the data are useful, the precision of the calibration and timing is typically in excess of what the observatories do normally as part of their day-to-day operations. So while the observing campaign was set up well in advance, it is certainly not a routine part of operations.

Regarding the title, it's a little bit click-bait-y, but it's also true that we don't know if there will be an image of the black hole (shadow). The data are not yet in their final form; even the cross-correlation between observatories (necessary to resolve the approximate size of the black hole's shadow) haven't yet been done. So it's entirely possible (though perhaps unlikely) the data that were acquired end up being unsuitable for making an image of the black hole (shadow).
I agree with you for companies that require physical presence. But services like Amazon AWS allows you to effectively contract 1000s of employees. A company like Netflix could be ran by 5 people.
I'm not sure why, but whenever I see a link pointing to sourceforge my instant gut reaction is that it'll be a decade+ aged code that doesn't work properly anymore. I always avoid sourceforge when searching for solutions. I don't know why I have this bias
In natural languages, established use is what defines rules, more or less. This particular one is not very consistent, I agree. Nevertheless, "na" is normative for a bunch of country names.

Personally, I use "v Ukraine", if only because it's a middle finger to the Kremlin. But I also don't think that the use of "na" necessarily denotes disrespect, or that people should be told how to properly speak their language.

I guess the nearest abstract equivalent to this would be the debate over gender-neutral pronouns like "xe" in English. You have one side laying arguments (many of them pretty good) as to why having such a thing is a good idea; and the other side pointing out that it just feels awkward and non-English-like.
If you don't have a comprehensive set of test inputs, then "compare the outputs" doesn't suffice. (If you do, then by all means, take that approach.)
I was already a fairly creative writer when I got into MUDs, but my coding skills were weak and pretty disorganized. Programming a DIKU MUD back in the early 90s that people actually used and enjoyed required me to step up my focus and skills, which got me ready to enter the tech industry proper in the mid 90s.

In-world Lua is a great idea. All of the core MUD programming back then was, of course, written in C, but player (and admin) scripting was done with an embedded Perl interpreter.
Is there a slight chance that they are not "holes" but massive vantablack spheres?
Apple is probably waiting for a tax holiday. I really hope they get it.
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What do you see as the benefits of having a patent system?
But: very good money, and a lifestyle that can be pretty glamorous at times (if you want it, of course).

I'm currently in the process of slowly moving away from it because of external forces, and to be honest I know I'll miss it. The first couple of years were as harsh as you describe, but then I learnt to pace myself (and VPNs got truly mainstream so traveling decreased dramatically). Is still a pretty good life, all considered; after all, any good career these days requires brutal hours and lots of flying.
Well, I'm pretty stoked to hear that! What does 'feature complete' mean? Like, 'MVP' sort of thing? MUDs and friends tend to have a never-end, never 'complete' feature set. (:
I hope Apple gets that tax holiday. It is Apple's money that they want to keep themselves. Ideally government should have pro actively worked to give them a tax break.
What do you run on it?

I have one in a closet, somewhere.
At which point the question becomes: does it react like the Girl, and just stare you down going 'I don't care because this is important on a whole other level'?

Pretty much the whole concept and the intended message of the artwork is 'falling back on power alone is not good enough', or indeed 'justice matters'. In that context, it doesn't matter if the fund underperforms its peers or a simple index fund, it matters whether people can be persuaded to support it on other grounds.
> will likely hinder the use and development of CRISPR.

What is your thought process leading to that conclusion?
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I think this is a perfect example to test the theory they bring up about the gender pay gap. If so much value is being left on the table ignoring older workers, gather them all up into a company and beat the market.
How would you know when it is playing a commercial? Commercials are at predefined times? There is a DB of the times? Or the software just figures out its a commercial (higher volume?)
I work at Target and we have a weekly class on algebra, category theory and Haskell because people are interested. It's a mix of programmers learning some of the math and mathematicians learning some of the programming :).

It's actually a lot more accessible than it seems at first—these ideas are not complex, just abstract. Thinking at a high level of abstraction is very much a skill which requires specific training, but it's a skill worth training and, when you have it, learning things like this becomes much easier.

The same thing is true of programming, by the way: once you start "thinking like a programmer", it becomes much easier to learn a new programming language or to understand some low-level programming concepts. And thinking like a programmer is, in the grand scale of things, not that different from thinking like a mathematician!
I don't really know enough about Turkic languages to say whether Latin is a better fit for them than Arabic, or not. I would expect modern Turkish alphabet to be better at it, if only because it was specifically designed for that purpose, and not just organically adopted the way Arabic was.

But my point wasn't about which one is a better fit, but rather which one was historically used for that particular language first, and for the longest period of time, and used to produce the most past cultural artifacts. And in this case, it would be Arabic.
Also the biggest contributors to KVM support in the Linux kernel, which is directly driving most of the container craze.

Also HBase, Hadoop, Guava, GWT, Closure. Tons of others we probably don't know of. I would guess Google has around 500 notable open source projects where they're either major contributors or authors.
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A russian film is just made on this topic. Here a link with trailers on the page:

http://ctb.ru/en/films/salyut-7/
Watched Sense8 (over here in Germany) for the last couple of days on NF. Every episode has a disclaimer at the beginning „This show contains product placements“.

From first view: Ben & Jerrys, Pepsi (?), Sennheiser
Are you saying 6 is all you need for most locales? Or that is the case in your area?
I did the initial work of porting this emulator to the browser (most credit should go to the original emulator author however: http://hampa.ch/pce).

I wrote up the process and hacks that went in to making this possible here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/porting-pce-emulator-browser

The most gross/fun part was how I made the Mac OS mouse position align with your real mouse cursor: by writing its position directly to the emulated computer's memory. Classic Mac OS held the mouse position in a few fixed global memory locations. I realised I could just write to those memory locations every few CPU cycles. I could have instead written a driver which ran inside the emulated OS to communicate with the emulator program, but this was simpler!
Show HN: Ever wondered what's that icon on your colleagues's computer?
For the specific case of X = Math, https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/41/differences... .
I mostly agree with the sentiment of this article but converting a bunch of shell, Awk and Perl into Python 3 is probably a good idea. It's not like Python is some newfangled untested language. Making the build system portable and easy to use is really important for an Open-Source project.
What is a native script, though? If you mean the one that is completely original, then very few languages could claim such a thing - most cultures borrowed their writing systems from someone else, and then adapted them to their needs. Most people would say that Cyrillic, for example, is a "native script" for East Slavic languages, but it's clearly derived from Greek (and its historical version more so than the modern one).

For Kazakh and their predecessors, the script in use before Arabic was Orkhon. But it was also derived from other scripts.
But if we're all being trampled by the finance system, then endorsing it is hardly the intended message here. I think it's legitimate to use art to represent shifts in the zeitgeist. It ain't the Eighties anymore, and the Bull sure as hell did not represent an end to financial crashes and catastrophes.

Hell, the Bull predates Enron. I think it's wholly legitimate to re-examine notions like 'the strength of the finance system'. There's a saying that insanity is making the same mistake over and over. The Bull is in a sense the perfect artistic representation of this very mistake.
Is this bit nonsense or am I just sorely misinformed?

> [...] theory of superconductivity, an important technological aspect underpinning supercomputers.

What does superconductivity have to do with supercomputers?
I hear you, mate.

I sometimes hear stories from older relatives about how life was for them 40+ years ago. They also were working some crazy hours and situations, my grandparents living apart for the first 3 years of their marriage. He was a hotel manager, so she'd come up to visit once a week or two for a night.

In some ways, I suspect we don't have that different a life in terms of hours worked than a while ago. I'd love to see data on it (hint, hint, history stats people?).

I think a lot of the additional stress and frustration of 2017 life comes comes from the internet, being always connected, seeing so much 'positive happenings' in other peoples lives on social media, and so much constant negative stuff from the main news.

I have a theory that we have a signal:noise ratio in terms of relationships and news, that we've got to keep balanced. Having 100 'friends' all at a mild level of depth is actually adding noise, compared to the 1 or 2 really close friendships. And the few close friendships actually lose a lot of their value when we're constantly bombarded with the news and minor 'noise' relationships.

So when we're on facebook/twitter/etc, we're constantly adding noise to our emotional inputs.

A couple things I'm trying to do, or at least find kind of interesting to ponder/think about, are taking some old old practices, and thinking about integrating them.

The Jewish 'Sabbath' idea, of one day completely off per week, is pretty awesome. One part that I missed for a long time was that sabbath starts at sunset on the day before, and ends at sunset of that day. So if you count Sunday as your Sabbath (typical Christo-Western) you don't have to worry about getting everything ready early Monday morning, you can get stuff sorted Sunday night. And Saturday evening, once you've had dinner, or even at the start of dinner, make a big deal of turning off phones, and leaving them off until the next evening.

I dunno. I'm also in a long... discussion... with depression about who gets to run my life. I've been off medication for a few months now, but it's still complicated. It's so much easier when low on energy to flop on social media, or netflix or whatever. But it doesn't seem to leave me feeling better the next day.

I hope you can get some rest. Deep rest, in your soul.
Ok we added "soon" to the title above, "may soon" being a nicer way of saying "don't".
Facebook is sitting on the largest audience of real-world identities and hasn't entered the market of microtransactions in exchange for content (like news) yet [1], even though they could single-handedly wipe out the half a dozen or so other firms -- the likes of Flattr, Brave, Webpass, the rebooted Medium, the half-thought-out never-advertised-then-mysteriously-vanished Google Contributor --
the ones who had to build their audience while trying to make this model work for years. This is just bizarre.

Instead they let themselves caught up in the 'fake news' fiasco (a factor absent from the article), re-prioritized personal posts, and deprecated their previous actually-kinda-nice attempts to give a proper home to professionally-written journalistic content, such that it's not jarringly intermingled with memes, baby photos, and humblebrags.

Part of their problem, perhaps, is the insistence on using the Facebook brand for their homegrown stuff, which is ironic considering they run parallel services under different names. No doubt a lot of it comes from having to harness the idle time of massive numbers of Facebook users sitting in their flagship website or app, but if they started a news portal with micropayments, cross-pollinated with their network of apps and backed with their identities, they would still do more volume within a month than any of their competitors managed to do so in years.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13375917
The big problem with hiring older workers is that they're better at knowing what they're actually worth. They also tend to avoid personal sacrifices (mainly time and health) that are of net benefit to the company but not to themselves.
I think you're somewhat understating the effect of the voting/like feedback. Even on HN which is fairly neutral to the whole social aspect of a message board, it's very clear that people take their karma seriously, even with rules specifically forbidding the meta-comments on down votes/up votes. The praise system works, it's addictive, and the biggest and largest source of the feedback is already set up, available, and provides exactly what people need. They know how to get what they want from it.

To me, it doesn't seem that people are using Facebook for anything but the feedback loop; for every business, self employed person, or personality using Facebook to connect to fans, there are dozens of people just looking to get in on the feed to get a taste of that feedback. Look at announcement posts from any entity with a large following; the comments on it will get into the tens of thousands in an hour or two. The comments aren't discussing it, it's people seeing a vein open up for the feedback, and trying to tap it to get some likes or feedback. Reddit seems to have the same issue with the top rated posts on more populated subreddits being nothing but dumb puns that people rush out to be first with; scroll down far enough, and you'll see the exact same pun repeated by others who were too slow to post and missed their chance.

Facebook isn't a communication platform really, it's a steady drip of endorphins as you can repeatedly live out your 15 minutes of fame over and over again, all while advertisers throw ads at you. Messenger is just a means to keep you in the platform.

The point of my banal rant is that the idea of alternative networks has been bandied around since everyone's mom and dad got a facebook account, but every time it's addressed, it's always about feature parity and improvements instead of acknowledging that Facebook currently is best situated to feed that need for acknowledgement. Trying to fight on features, on policy, and so on is pointless because that's not why people are using Facebook. We saw how Twitter and Instagram started to steal Facebook users because of a more efficient means of providing the same feedback for users. Wider audience, less effort, and Facebook took notice, copying features directly from both platforms.

It won't be just incorporating it, it will be ensuring that it's a better, faster, more efficient system for giving that gratification.
I stand corrected. I believe that my assertion is still valid, if confined specifically to RSFSR.
Talk to some university students or programmers at local tech companies and see if they'd be open to participating if their organization sponsored the event but it was not compulsory. Try to get honest feedback on what things would draw them in, i.e. awards, recognition etc.
(1) Atomic clocks.

(2) They mix the bands of interest down to intermediate frequencies that can be readily digitized. It's the same old superheterodyne principle we've used for the last century or so.
It's hard to understand because it's utterly unenlightening. It's a restatement of the definition. It's like saying "the number two is just the sum of one and one." It's trivially true yet utterly fails as an explanation because it requires more concepts to convey the exact same content.
How do you measure a lumen?
If your friends are the sort who post, and like to read, actual textual comments, FB is happy to show that to you. I have some friends who posted mostly photos and/or videos but by unfollowing only them my feed became interesting.
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Sure, my thought process is as follows:

Hindering the development is the increased caused of licensing from a monopoly instead of a duopoly where they would need to compete. Higher cost of development hinders the use, as we are talking about a tool, wherein its usefulness is linked to its use.
>> email

I agree that it's likely not "either" but both email addresses matching but I'm convinced that some friend recommendations come from gmail. There's no other way.
Author here. When I'm at a meeting and a colleague of mine is presenting something I often wonder what's that app they have in their menu bar. But I rarely ask because I don't want to interrupt the presentation and by the end of it I usually forget.

So I put together this simple page listing a few apps. For now it's macOS only and only has a few icons. Any comments?
That sounds awesome!

Is Haskell (or other fp languages) commonly used at Target?
22,000 years of history evaporates after freezer failure melts Arctic ice cores
sorry, should have been more clear. 6 was what I need for my area.
Worst case scenario: use Syncthing to sync one folder across two computers.
No,your doctor actually is not allowed to upload your contact information as a patient to Facebook. It is against regulations. Patient information is private, including contact information. If he or she has done so it IS nefarious.
They just want us all to give up and learn English. ~
Discussed in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100115
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If I'm in my shop working on a Saturday afternoon, AM radio is still the best, if not only way to receive college football games from the local state university. Even when they play on tv, the games are often not actually accessible.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoring_rule#Proper_scoring_...
At first I thought this was just reinventing the wheel, but now I realize what they're really doing: taking what was formally an incompatible, proprietary set of enterprise solutions and turning it into a set of standards that can sit on top of any platform.

The big win is actually cross-platform compatibility for user, system & network management protocols. I don't think the goals they want to achieve matter to users, and are antithetical to corporate interests. But it'll be neat to have these protocols work with so many existing systems.

This is going to be a fucking security nightmare, though.
Have you considered that the licenses made need not be broad, and that university licenses include milestone requirements to maintain the license?
Don't do that unless you actually intend to accept the pull request. Saying this was a way of telling someone to go away is not right.
I recently started going through Bartoz Milewski's Category Theory lectures [1]. I think they are a very nice place to start learning these things.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I8LbkfSSR58
> English has ... a single, mostly phonetic writing system.

You've got to be kidding me.
TL;DR: “Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.” -- George Burns
My apologies, I believe, after your explanation, that my intent was to use the word "assign" instead of "recognize".

Thanks for taking the time to explain the difference.
I wouldn't say news broadcasts and talk shows are a fair comparison here, as those are often watched passively (while cooking, cleaning, getting ready, chatting with friends) as opposed to film or dramatic television which are usually watched actively.
I'm amazed it's not better known. (Of course, the USA had to send an emergency repair crew to their own Skylab station when a bit fell off during launch...)

Re station-to-station transfers: Mir and Salyut 7 both had the same orbital inclinations (probably deliberately) of 51.5°; Mir's apoapsis was about 360km, Salyut 7's was about 250km. So a transfer would be relatively cheap. The vehicle was a Soyuz T only had about 320m/s of delta-V, which was also needed for rendezvous and deorbit, so it would have to be.

I think this was the only station-to-station transfer ever done. It was probably only feasible because they were in the same orbital plane.

(Although I'm a little surprised they didn't build Mir using Salyut-7 as a core module. Even if they ditched the module later as it wore out, it'd provide power, attitude control and automated docking.)