skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, Shoutcast. It will always hold a special place in my heart [0], if only because it reminds me of a more care-free time in my life.

But in addition to the complexities of licensing if you want your stream to be legal, it seems to me that there's at least one flaw in the design. To receive an uninterrupted Shoutcast stream, you have to have a persistent, unbroken TCP connection with the server. IIUC, this is a recipe for frequent interruptions on mobile. I think that Apple's HTTP Live Streaming and MPEG DASH have the right idea; instead of an actual stream, you get chunks of media from an HTTP server, based on a playlist. In Apple HLS, that playlist is even a variant of the Winamp .m3u format. I understand that these systems are primarily used for video, but I wonder if any radio stations use HLS or DASH for their online streams. Of course, the downside of these systems is higher latency, but that might not be so bad [1].

[0]: One of my first real projects in Python was Supercast (http://supercast.sourceforge.net/), a Shoutcast-compatible server. I was also a DJ on the Internet radio station for which I wrote that server. Not a particularly good one, mind you, but it was fun for a little while.

[1]: Back when I was into Shoutcast, I did think the latency of large buffers was a bad thing. One difference between Shoutcast and my Supercast server was that Supercast didn't send an initial large audio buffer to each listener. But priorities change sometimes, and now I think it's more important to avoid drop-outs.
The problem is that the Android SDK is a Rube Goldberg machine full of layers of over engineered complexity. It does not work well with anything other than Kotlin, Java, and to a much lesser extent C++. Even other JVM languages have a hard time working properly on Android.
Its only benefit is its ubiquity, showing the strength of the network effect and the herd mentality of humans. I totally agree that it's a step backwards if your goal is actual communication of information. Even forum boards were better.
Nope. I just did it once.
I'll look around and see if I drew up a schematic.
Britain to launch new scheme to pay households for unused renewable power
Guess someone slipped you a wrong thing instead of Node, because for me, about five lines and zero dependencies work fine.
Yep, pretty much! Sort of the reverse of what happens when you prevent employers from inquiring if you have a criminal background.
It is my experience that when people resort to sarcasm they have lost the argument and can't face it.

But I'll address what you are saying:

Insurance can charge people without using ageism.

Before, insurers found that black people needed to pay more. After all, they were barbaric said the insurers. Then it became illegal.

Insurance companies still exist. Doing away with barbaric old practices is a good thing and as has happened when women got the right to vote, or civil rights, or other major positive reforms, the world continued on without falling apart.

It's sad that even in a rationalist place like hacker news, ageism is still something that can be openly admitted to. At least racists and sexists generally have to hide their ignorance if they don't want to be shunned by society.
Judge orders FBI to reveal more parts of Comey memos
Still not even close. The U.S. has a constitution that gives its citizens legal recourse when they feel the government has gone too far and gives them some basic rights. The U.S. has elections to hold leaders accountable. China has none of these things.

I admit the U.S. govt probably envies the system China is putting in place and would love to emulate it, but the system of checks and balances built into the American political and legal system makes that impossible.

It is specifically the lack of checks and balances in China that makes what is happening so frightening. Their surveillance state is really just beginning. I wonder just how dystopian it will become in the next ten to twenty years.
> I'm going to rock your world: almost nobody uses the keyword scanners in the ATSs. Sending a resume is mostly a waste of time, if you find a job you like just speak to someone that works at that company, preferably the hiring manager, and your likelihood of at least getting an interview goes up by about two orders of magnitude. Happy to teach you other tricks if you care for it.

How are you supposed to find out the hiring manager's name from a job post? I'd be curious to hear some of these tricks.
Of course, to retrain Grover, you'd have to already know that they were machine-generated.
https://youtu.be/HWc5_4uKOg8

Molyneux's response to the article.
Given time, everyone would become producers in some form or fashion. There are studies regarding boredom and people would rather electrically shock themselves than sit still. If you had no job and money coming in, sure you would binge Netflix or do some other mindless activity, but how long can you keep that up? A week? A month? A year? Sooner or later you're going to get up and do something interesting. Humans have innate natural curiosity, like when you were a child, touching and noticing everything. Through excess work, that wonder is taken away because people must work to survive, but imagine an endless summer where you're tinkering in the garage, or writing code for a new project. Imagine the possibilities that people could come up with, new inventions and new ideas that eventually will propel the human race forward.
I wonder if your body is desperately trying to get rid of something in your diet (like organophosphates?) - have you also tried regular saunas?
I’m 100, I started programming using sundials before there were transistors
Where are the software jobs in NC? Who's hiring?
Everyone gets older, race is static.
I went straight to the comments on this HN submission because I knew NPM couldn't just be good guys.
The RadioInstigator: A $150 Signals Intelligence Platform
Alcohol is a type of sugar...
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. :)

I would do the same if I felt I had to.
Places like shopping malls use just your devices hardware ids to track your movements.

To me just the fact that these things are on when you ask for them to be off is problematic.
See also -- Marvel's legal team: "The X-Men aren't really people."

https://mentalfloss.com/article/92007/why-us-federal-court-r...
> you aren't resource-constrained (at this point, cloud-native infra is only constrained by budget)

Isn't "budget" just another type of resource?
I think this is a case of you don't know what you're missing. That's not a bad thing, but it doesn't mean you're not missing anything.
I think one should investigate partnering with their local library. Rent is a big hurdle, and if set up properly, totally win-win.
Go read the entire home page of the Politico right now and ask yourself if each article:

1. Benefits or takes the liberal side / attack’s the conservative side

2. Focuses on the issues that matter to liberals

I’d say Politico averages about 9/10 articles that answer yes to both, at least.

The difference from Breitbart is that Politico “dresses up” much nicer. Their tone is calm, the headlines seem objective. Their style is one of authority and objectivity, their content is entirely left leaning and oftentimes shamelessly so. I’m not left or right really, but it’s painfully obvious if you read from across the spectrum.

That they seem not as biased (and probably why they rate as only somewhat left leaning in many of these charts) is probably helped by that. To me, that they present that way is a negative not a positive.
Also, in my experience, the police will not do that for you. My wife had her phone stolen from her and we were able to pinpoint the exact location and provide it to the police, they said they would not act on this information.

Just one small anecdote, but I can't imagine many departments taking it upon themselves to do so.
I wrote some unpublished fiction once about a super computer that used light as the interconnect fabric between nodes/CPUs, where each core could talk to any other core with virtually no latency and high bandwidth. I guess it's never been used (widely) because it's easy enough to run copper.
If device A and B (both identified by their IP) both see device C (identified by hash of key) I can infer that A and B are close to each other.
I meant children as in its citizenry, metaphorically, as one could see the country as a maternal manifestation of the will of the people. Literally though, sure, we would need better public schools that are more equalized in teaching science and philosophy, or other such disciplines. I admit I haven't delved too deep in thinking about that part.
What I describe is plan B. Your plan A was tried and the result was as I described. Mandating timings doesn’t quite work.
Also sort of the reason why the Spanish have tapas (Wikipedia lists it as one of the possible founding myths) - the King ordered drinks could not be served without food
Pretty much all beauty products as well as fashion and luxury product advertising's first order of battle is to make the recipient feel miserable, and to position the goods advertised as the solution for that misery.

Maybe. I'm probably not the target market for most of that stuff, but that statement doesn't exactly jibe with my subjective experience. It seems to me that an ad can suggest that you could be (better looking | more fashionable | more luxurious | richer | getting laid more | whatever) without necessarily needing to make one miserable as a condition. All of those things are relative, and pretty much anybody can see an ad and think "wearing that suit would make me more appealing to women" or "wearing that lipstick would make me more appealing to guys" or whatever, without first having to believe "OMG, I am the worst of the worst, I look deplorable, blah, blah".
This reminds me of how weed is currently sold in DC. You pay $60 or so for a sticker or a dozen cookies, and a courier meets you somewhere and also happens to offer you a "gift". IANAL but my guess is that since possession of weed is decriminalized up to a certain amount (but dealing is not), this is a safer way of going about it.
> Excuse me, but at $200k you're making $100k net so about $8k per month. With rent at $2.3k, you should be able to save enough to buy something at some point, no? Or at least you could rent something more expensive, closer to work?

Without knowing regional pricing information it's hard to say they "should be able to save enough to buy something at some point".
I just moved from a city with a heavy police presence and no red light cameras to one with them placed sporadically throughout the place and almost no police presence (massively understaffed department) and I see far, far more runners in my new city. I see a handful a day. I quit walking to work. I think it's got a lot to do with driving culture/police presence as well. People get surprised when they get red light tickets. Maybe the cameras should look more obvious.
Caveat: the paper mainly focuses on the "standard quantum limit" which is the fundamental photon energy needed for the operations. If other things are taken into account (for example, modulation energy for the weights in this homodyne scheme, which scales with N² and not N, or the limits of the ADC) then the energy they are proposing is nowhere near possible. Furthermore, substantial alignment and packaging problems exist for free space optical systems, which prevents them from beating integrated approaches in the near term. In fact, it seems that Fathom Computing has potentially pivoted away from free space, based on the latest verbiage on their website, and they've been trying to get it to work for 3 years now.

However, it still presents an interesting case for the fact that the fundamental floor on optical scaling is absolutely tiny. It'll be interesting to see who wins in this space :)
The Mad Scientists' Club
I've done a 4-day work-week, and I was at least as productive, and definitely happier. I found myself screwing around less at work, because I had less time and there were things I needed to get done. And then, when I was really engaged in the project I had at work, I had enough slack that I was able to 'over'-produce for a short while (4-6 weeks), which was not sustainable but I didn't care because I loved it. When I'm working 5 days a week, it doesn't leave room for that kind of love; I spend my too-short weekends recharging and begrudging that I don't have enough time for the things I really want to do.
Wonder if they use the same tech to predict the outcome of football matches. I've seen them show it on the Premier League games.
> Their arrogance and ignorance is already affecting them as many people I know no longer use Google search.

You're kidding yourself. Those people you know who are switching are having no material effect whatsoever:

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

If anything, their market share is going up.
Pro choice to kill a baby? Yeah, I’m against that.
Look at their company/about page, then go to LinkedIn. Also most email address are fairly predictable.
Walmart hires old people as greeters.

I'm sorry, you don't get to say "poor old people who get discriminated on" while at the same time saying "young people should be discriminated on" or "it isn't as bad if the shoe is on the other foot".

Given the strong reaction I'm getting from mostly old people who want to see discrimination on the young (or at least are happy to justify it) I'm starting to see why the article didn't include both sides. It seems a non insignificant % of boomers want it both ways. And I'm guessing most of their target audience is older.
RAM is ahead of Chevy now but still behind Chevrolet+GMC
I have both on my European Ford, not used the limiter though.
No dispute. just bureaucracy.

it's royaltees from xblig (xna on xbox360). they admitted to not paying me in email, but don't know where the money went.

I actually emailed msft legal about it aprox a year ago, which got traction for a couple months before their activity died off again.

so yes, as you say the general plan I'll probably go with is to retain a lawyer to send threatening emails. that'll cost in the area of $350. Just tried my best to resolve this without that drama.
Could you elaborate on the work? Did you write about unexpected implications of this technology?
Man, 200k is about 8k a month after taxes... with only 2300 in rent, you should be able to save a ton... how do you feel you aren't getting ahead?
Yeah, It implies bad things about the expected performance of the JVM or the quality of the application being run. Either startup time or the time taken for the JIT to get a handle on things is apocalyptically bad.
I would rather not desire KFC or Powerade,

I may be in the minority here, but I am extremely skeptical of suggestions regarding the ability of ads to truly compel one to desire something they really don't want.

Anecdotally speaking, I've seen hundreds or thousands of commercials for Budweiser, Coors, Miller, and the like. And I watch a lot of football at sports bars, where I have plenty of opportunities to drink that stuff. Heck, they even have hot girls in skimpy outfits come in to the bar and give away random freebies, run silly contests, blah, blah, etc., to advertise those brands. And yet, while I am a (light) drinker, I have never felt any desire whatsoever to drink Coors, Budweiser, Miller, etc. When I do drink, it's almost always either a Sam Adams product, or a microbrew / craft beer.

Yeah, n=1 and all that, but if advertising were as powerful as some people make it out to be, surely I'd be drinking at least a little Coors or Miller by now.
How to Design a Voice Experience
To me, it looks like the right balance between the Twitter and an actual blog. I may give it a try. Nice job!
>It is my experience that when people resort to sarcasm they have lost the argument and can't face it.

Or they understand that this site is in the end entertainment. Sarcasm makes it more fun for both the writer and the other readers.

You're projecting how much you care about this issue onto me. Reality is, I don't care about it much at all, it's a mild intellectual diversion to me. You're hurt by this, you're infuriated by this, you're driven by this. I'm not.
The phrase is colloquial not technical and is meant to represent nights(24) weekends(7) and holidays(365).
I think you’re a little confused. Yes, you can fly IFR in class E airspace. The majority of piston airplanes flying IFR do so in class E (the portion below 18,000 ft). Class E is not uncontrolled.

I’m not sure about what you mean with “who flies in class A airspace?” Most airlines and bizjets cruise in class A because their fuel burn is ridiculous at lower altitudes.

The reason that class A becomes to class E above 60,000 ft is because hardly any planes can fly that high. This plane almost certainly won’t go that high, regardless of what the patent application says.

Edit for clarity on why helix’s comment doesn’t make a ton of sense- airspaces go like this:

FL600 (approx 60k ft) and up: Class E

18k ft to FL600: Class A, only IFR flight is allowed, no VFR (even if the weather is good).

below 18k ft to 700 or 1,200 ft above ground: Class E, except around airports, where it can be Class B (big airport), Class C (medium airport), Class D (small airport with control tower), or still Class E (small airport without control tower).

below 700 or 1,200 ft above the ground: Class G, except around airports. Class G is uncontrolled, but you still have to follow the law- no buzzing residential areas and such. You cannot file an IFR flight plan in Class G space, mainly because ATC can’t reliably see you and prevent collisions with other planes.

Class E is controlled airspace but you can fly VFR without filling a flight plan; you are required to fly at altitudes that are xxx,500 ft so you don’t hit planes flying IFR at the xxx,000 altitudes.

You would have to file an IFR flight plan to get to 65k ft because you would transit Class A airspace during your climb and descent.
As long as Moore's law keeps trucking along, there's no economic incentive to do so. This is similar to the explosion of Electron and other heavy technologies because there's no need to be efficient, or so some developers think. Of course, now that the law is slowing down, we might see more novel techniques, in both hardware and software design.
Never understood that. Living in the UK for example you never have to cary bills. Light wallet, so much more practical, I hate places that only accept cash.
Developer tests a new way to fund housing for the homeless: private financing
I get what you are saying, but presumably weekends still exist because families and friends want to do group activities at a time when all are available. If you have children younger than 12 or so you need to be available when they are not in school.
Copper is actually the faster way to interconnect electrical computers. https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Copper-Faster-Than-Fi...

For electrical computers connected via optics and vice versa there is also a latency cost to converting the signal types that makes doing so at <rack sized distances a painfully bad choice. Not to mention the cost & power associated with converting light to lasers and back. That being said any real world supercomputer bigger than 1 rack has a significant amount of optical interconnect as it's easier to get a coherent signal farther with optics at the same power.
The fact that it needs a splash screen in the first place is because it takes too long to start because of bloat, so in a way it's a negative feedback cycle.
Dodge has the oldest lineup there is:

https://jalopnik.com/the-entire-dodge-car-lineup-is-old-as-h...
Nice coincidence that the project is called ColorKitty too.
Where did you post these things for other people to discover?
Just like how fast food burger adds are 'honest' even though somehow, every damn time, the burger - excuse me, "sandwich" - they hand me in the restaurant never looks like the one in the ad?
Probably confused node and react.
Climbing Mt. Everest became a ticket to upper strata at many corporations these days that want "cool leaders".
It’s mind-blowing that this comment is flagged.

HN is not afraid to go anti-science when doing so fits the preferred narrative.
I'd like it if cars would take less space, and would give the right of way to pedestrians jay walking anywhere. Fuck cars.
I absolutely loved these books as a kid. I read them over and over again.

Those, along with The Great Brain, The Three Investigators, the Encyclopedia Brown stories, etc., were all really influential books for me.

I wonder if kids coming up today have anything equivalent?
"And in coding world, if you are over 30, you are considered over the hill"

Pure hyperbole.
Excellent paper. As someone who has worked with filesystems and ACLs, but never touched Spanner before, I have some questions for any Googler who has played with Zanzibar. (in part because full-on client systems examples are limited)

A check my understanding: Zanzibar is being optimized to handle zookies that are a bit stale (say 10s) old. In this case, the indexing systems (such as Leapord) can be used to vastly accelerate query evaluation.

Questions I have (possibly missed explanations in the paper):

1. If I understand the zookie time (call it T) evaluation correctly, access questions for a given user are effectively "did a user have access to a document at or after T"? How in practice is this done with a check() API? The client/Zanzibar can certainly use the snapshots/indexes to give a True answer, but if the snapshot evaluation is false, is live data used (and if so by the client or Zanzibar itself?)? (e.g. how is the case handled of a user U just gaining access to a group G that is a member of some resource R?)

2. Related to #1, when is a user actually guaranteed to lose access to a document (at a version they previously had access to?) E.g. if a user has access to document D via group G and user is evicted from G, the protocol seems to inherently allow user to forever access D unless D is updated. In practice, is there some system (or application control) that will eventually block U from accessing D?

3. Is check latency going to be very high for documents that are being modified in real time (so zookie time is approximately now or close to now) that have complex group structures? (e.g. a document nested 6 levels deep in a folder where I have access to the folder via a group)? That is, there's nothing Zanzibar can do but "pointer chase", resulting in a large number of serial ACL checks?

4. How do clients consistently update ACLs alongside their "reverse edges"? For instance, the Zanzibar API allows me to view the members of a group (READ), but how do I consistently view which groups a user is a member of? (Leapord can cache this, but I'm not sure if this is available to clients and regardless it doesn't seem to be able to answer the question for "now" - only for a time earlier than indexed time).

Or for a more simple example, if I drag a document into a folder, how is the Zanzibar entry that D is a child of F made consistent with F's views of its children?

E.g. can you do a distributed transaction with ACL changes and client data stored in spanner?

5. It looks like the Watch API is effectively pushing updates whenever the READ(obj) would change, not the EXPAND(object). Is this correct? How are EXPAND() changes tracked by clients? Is this even possible? (e.g. if G is a member of some resource R and U is added to G, how can a client determine U now has access to R?)
Sorry, but isn't every messengers try to load links to make fancy previews?
What if every store accepted both cash and cards?
I might be an incivil, self-righteous person, but could you please explain to this incivil person why ageist discrimination is OK when applied to the young but not the old?
TBF. This is because you only hang out with asian people. I live in the bay too and I don't know many people using wechat :|