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I think the days of generic local and national radio services, which play a mix of popular music carefully chosen to be as inoffensive as possible, and provide a diet of celeb gossip, political squabbles and local roadworks, are numbered. The era when half of, say, London listened to Capital Radio every day is long gone (and Capital itself now resembles an iPod on shuffle with the hits of Rihanna, Adele and Katy Perry all day and night with almost no speech). If being bland enough that no one switched me off was my business model, I'd be filling out my application for unemployment right now.

Where radio still has a significant role to play is in the discovery of new content, new information, things you might not already know you're interested in, and that might be so far outside your sphere of influence that the computer hasn't been able to guess you'd like them yet.

I work in the community radio sector these days; small, non-profit local stations staffed by volunteer presenters passionate about what they play. In my own opinion, all the algorithms in the world can't replace someone who knows their specific style of music and has the enthusiasm to present it to the world. This, I believe, still has a bright future.

I guess we're looking at two different approaches to the same problem of discovering new information and content. There are those who advocate an automated approach--you like X, lots of people who like X also like Y, try Y, here's an automated feed of Y--and there are those, like me, who prefer the more curated experience of broadcast radio, from a studio, with a presenter.

I don't sit still, sticking my head in the sand and pretending everything will be the same forever, with people gathering around the wireless to listen to the latest Bob's Country Music Hour on 1170AM. It's my job to reconcile this stuff, and make sure we move with the times, give people what they want, and leverage this new technology to benefit communities for years to come.
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This describes me for the past several years. It makes it challenging when dealing with managers who assume all humans must want to climb someone's ladder but remote work is fulfilling nonetheless.
One bad apple can poison an entire team.

This is the second time in as many weeks that I've seen these exact words on HN...is it from a specific essay or book?
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What? He used it correctly...
Spamhaus may be "bad guys" but the DNS manager company is clearly the one at fault here, what they did is way worse in my book that a false spam positive from spamhaus or even their vigilantism.
Funny... that was the first thing I noticed, too.
yeah, still gotta fix that, but it works to create a QR with text data.
I would be surprised if 37signals value is .1% of Google. Google's market cap is a little over $200B, so .1% makes for a $200M company.
It's 'free' so it's not selling. Developers are allowed to 'give away' copies of their apps with promo codes. Obviously this is super-gray area, but it's 'technically' not disallowed.
I've seen the very worst managers a lot more frequently than the very worst programmers. While some structures may reward bad programmers, structures far more frequently reward bad managers and very often prvide them with a place to hide their inadequacies very easily.
hey ellioth, which image is loading slow, the QR code or all images?
SOPA is a war on communication, not directly on computation.
glad you liked it. thanks.
Google can do whatever they want (and probably will), and I can respond however I want if they do something I don't like.
Oh, sure, Twitter and Facebook will probably go away. I was mostly looking at the inclusion of the Internet.
Interesting aside about coworker friendships. Is that common? In over 20 years of professional employment, I've had a friendship like that develop only once. Not that things weren't friendly and cordial at work, but very rarely did that extend to a personal friendship outside the office.
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Not one that I've read.
"Their" air? Who owns the spectrum again?
You may be surprised about how challenging it may be for "anybody's mother". Anyway, DeSopa was a quick way to prove a point. I expect that if SOPA passes offshore DNS services will advertise their IPs for manual setup (resolv.conf, TCP/IP windows settings etc), and local applications will be developed that circumvent SOPA in this and other ways.
In many companies the same rigid structures that allow them to operate with average and below-population-average employees reward those who can game them andreduce their own output to the lowest levels toleraed by the structure.

I have freed many good programmers from this trap, but not nearly enough and many remain to be saved.
the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention

Nope, doesn't qualify

A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of what is written literally

Don't see how this works either.

I'll skip over Socratic irony and Dramatic irony- hopefully it is obvious this is neither.

I could be wrong, of course. The colloquial & popular use is so different from the actual meaning of the word, I am never quite sure I have the right of it.
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I was talking more about things like cutting off Nintendo, EA, Sony, etc. from deals with Netflix, licensing music to use as game soundtracks, and things like that. Basically, not letting their media hit the game consoles.
Yes I agree that local cache is the way it will go, but I do not think think that SOPA will be a blessing in disguise. In fact, I think the internet will begin to more closely resemble the television industry, with a large technical underground. Perhaps some P2P DNS service will become popular, however if I recall correctly the bill outlaws blacklist evasion software.
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We Americans often think we have a well developed public infrastructure until we visit almost any other developed nation in the world, from Korea to France, to even China, they all have 'expected' rail systems.

Why is America so far behind in a developed transit and public infrastructure?
Both my cores were pegged but if you can get this to perform as good as Minecraft and turn it into a game I might buy it. Especially since us Linux users don't have as many good games to choose from.
Why? Computers are really cheap, and everything is in the cloud. Why do I need to plug a smartphone in? Any screen soon will probably have a smartphone class CPU in it. For that matter keyboards could too at little cost... Arguably a tablet is just a prototype screen with a smartphone CPU.
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One word: Laches

(IANL, but they probably lost their opportunity for a suit a /long/ time ago)
This sums it up for me:

"The decline in driving by younger Americans is fed by many factors: the high cost of gas and insurance at a time of economic insecurity; tighter restrictions on teen drivers in many states; and roads that are more congested than ever, making driving less fun than ever."

But I'd add that cars used to be cool, and right now there aren't any cars I seriously want to drive. My dad and his brothers could afford muscle cars and they loved driving them, it was cool as hell. I can't relate to that at all.
I think this is less a story about a failed News Corp. ambition and more a story about how the music and telephone industries have developed first rate competencies at stifling innovation.

Hearing stuff like this makes me really sad for the future of the Internet if everything new & exciting will need a gatekeeper or two to sign off on it.

I don't know how viable the business model was, or why they needed $87m to prove it wasn't viable, but I can't help but think that we would have had services like this 10 years ago (okay, 5 maybe) if media and networks weren't so tightly controlled.

Thank god for the Open Internet 'cuz the closed one doesn't seem to be doing much...
Anyone get the link yet?
Very nicely done...I've just doubled my Google+ circlees.
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Pressing the button to get a QR code and a link is instant.

It's the general page load, your logo and the actual front page that takes a while, especially given how little is on the page itself. I suspect it's to do with your hosting speed. I'm in the UK so if some US hosting is v.slow to here.
Not every company has this fear. In fact, some large companies are the most progressive with the ability to work remotely and have a huge investment in infrastructure to support this. On the negative side, the employees become more replaceable in the minds of many execs. This includes project and middle managers, so it's not just on the leaf developers.
Excited that fogus included core.logic https://github.com/clojure/core.logic as one of his favorite code reads of 2011. Most of the credit of course goes to Dan Friedman, Will Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov (+ many other miniKanreners), Rich Hickey, Clojure/core, and the Clojure community for providing the literature, implementations, tools, and enthusiasm to make it all possible. Looking forward to seeing where it all goes in 2012.
"Furthermore, some young people feel that driving interferes with texting and other electronic communication."

I totally don't understand this. I am 17, and a normal teenager. But I know for a fact that TV and the stereotypical "teen" doesn't walk around texting 24/7 nor do we fashion our day around whether or not we will be able to text. I.e. a car.
Density. And the perception of funding public transportation in the same realm as alternative energy, global warming, etc.
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"It means you don't get a board seat, and you probably get common, non-voting stock." Most likely this is what it meant.

Although it might not be as bad as it sounds like in your explanation. I dont think anti-dilution clause is common, but I may be wrong
funny, I use IM with someone that sits next to me.
We figure it'll happen someday. Of course, it may be centuries in the future when the roach kings rule, and our paperback book may not last that long.
"Their polymorphic factory isn't returning "different types." They're both returning A."

No, they're not. One is returning a pointer to A, and the other is returning a pointer to B (which just happens to be a subclass of A). It matters, and just because you can do it with a naked pointer doesn't mean that you should. The problem you've described is a code smell.

If I hand you a pointer to B, you (client code) can do everything that is exposed by B. If I hand you a pointer to A, you can only do the set of things exposed by A. And that's a fundamentally different interface guarantee.
So what? Surely the aim is to reduce the number of companies financially supporting SOPA and similar legislation, not punishing companies for wanting such bills to pass?
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Serious question: Why is it that we generally see only toy systems being done in these languages.

I don't mean to offend. If I'm unaware of major pieces of software done in Modula-N or Oberon, then feel free to correct me.

I only know of some teaching-level and research OS work, and some GUI work, but little in the way of commercial stuff.
and yet it's not necessarily around big successes. companies aim to exit modestly all the time (not every company can be a google)

i run a company that employs "remote workers" but all centered around one city so that there is some in-person interaction and 4-6 big meetings across our two offices. i think the compromise between the talent demand "problem" and finding remote workers scattered across the world is to pick a 2nd/3rd tier city that's reasonable and set up shop there. it's worked for us and i don't think we're any company special.
What should we make of the failure of PyPy's users to fund Maciej's work? The value of PyPy seems much, much greater than one engineer's salary.
and just to support my assumption here is thread on quora on anti-dilution
http://www.quora.com/How-common-are-anti-dilution-clauses-fo...?
I would like to see how this scanner tells the difference between a plum and a nectarine. Or stack of DVDs ranging from $9.99 to $19.99. This seems incredibly complicated with the existing "throw all of your groceries in the cart" process. I think that it would much easier (and cheaper all around) to design a warehouse where you give a computer your list and robot goes to the back and to fulfill your order.
The TSA recently got billions more dollars to search peoples' shoes. I'd say they know exactly what they're doing, and they're very good at it.

Follow the money. When a proposal has an abstract/amorphous benefit to everybody, and a direct benefit to a small group, realize that the intentions are to benefit the latter & not the former, no matter what bullshit they try to feed you.
While I absolutely share your confusion as to why this particular link sat towards the top of HN for so long, there are lots of reasons to be interested in Backbone.js.

Ideally, there is little to no configuration, a very minimal set of conventions imposed by the library (especially when compared with others in the space), and as many or as few files as you feel like using. But to be specific:

Backbone.js is a minimal implementation of the foundation that many MVC-ish JavaScript apps tend to acquire during their lifetimes. I would imagine that in many of your visualization/data apps, you have models of the data, and UI components that render the data and react to changes in the models. Backbone gives you convenience methods for those basic operations: binding events to changes in the data, granular re-rendering of UI components, map, reduce, filter, reject, serializing models to/from JSON ... and leaves the rest of it up to you.

Off the top of my head, here's an example where having data modeled in Backbone was very helpful to implement a visualization: http://blog.documentcloud.org/blog/2011/10/entity-charts/
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Developers get a limited number of promotional codes that an be redeemed on the app store to get the app for free.

The supporters will still d/l the app from the app store, but for free.
May I suggest running this in a Virtual Machine such as VirtualBox. Then you can control how many cores are pegged by how many you have assigned to the VM, and leave the rest of your machine responsive for other things.
backbone.js is made for CRUD apps. It's not surprising that a library designed for CRUD isn't immediately helpful in visualization. It may help you organize some of your data though.
The growth of the suburbs in the middle of the last century and the subsequent flight from the inner city. These two factors contributed to the death of railway transit systems in all but a few of the large and medium-sized cities. From that point one, most of the transportation investment is in expanding highways from the suburbs to the city and maybe bus services as well.

It is only in the last 10-15 years that serious efforts are being made to rebuild the inner system rail ways system. In the face of public apathy (and sometimes outright opposition) as well as interests depended heavily in highway transportation, it is been slow going.
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I associate cars with constant paranoia. Will I run out of gas, will my tire explode because I forgot to put enough air in it (or put too much), will I lose focus for a second and kill a family of four? If I leave my car somewhere, will it still be there when I come back? If it isn't, was it stolen? Was it towed? How will I find out, and what will I do if I'm able to find out? Will it disappear when I am sleeping, or will parts of it disappear along with a broken window?

Or... I could put a card in my wallet. I could tap my wallet on a turnstile[1], a gate slides open, a train arrives every 5 minutes or so, and I ride anywhere in the city for a flat rate. This seems a lot "cooler" than dealing with maintaining my own personal transport pod.

[1] in Boston, in New York you still have to take it out and swipe.
Because we haven't made it a priority. We've spent our resources fighting abroad and cutting taxes at home, leaving little money left over to repair our current infrastructure, let alone fund any ambitious public works projects.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the nation faces a $2.2 trillion infrastructure backlog. One of every eight bridges is "structurally deficient," and 85 percent of public transit systems are struggling to carry the growing number of riders. As ASCE President Blaine D. Leonard puts it, "We are still driving on Eisenhower's roads and sending our kids to Roosevelt's schools."

http://www.governing.com/columns/potomac-chronicle/The-Loomi...

We also have one half of our two-party democracy steadfastly against public transit. Despite the fact that trains and rail were a central theme in their cultural touchstone, Atlas Shrugged.

Why did President George W. Bush try to zero out Amtrak funding in 2005? Why is the conservative Republican Study Committee suggesting that we do so now? Why does George Will think "the real reason for progressives' passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans' individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism"?

"You need to distinguish between Republicans and conservatives and libertarians when you look at this," says William Lind, the director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation. "It's the libertarians who push this crap."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
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First, I think it's easy to ignore the fact that the US Interstate System is a monumental public infrastructure achievement. You can learn this the way I did: cross over from rural Montana to Alberta. Even the bleakest, most desolate part of the US has roads better than the TCH, and you don't get to the TCH for several hours from the southern border of Alberta.

Second, for its core purpose --- not moving people from home to vacation, but for moving products between manufacturing centers, ports, and consumers --- the US has a powerful and reasonably effective rail infrastructure. Read Buffett's shareholder note after buying Burlington Northern.

Third, if (say) 80-90% of public transit is commuter transit, keep in mind that most US major metros have tolerably effective public transit, and many (NYC, Chicago, DC, &c) have extremely good public transit.

While you think about that remember also that the real estate bubble and artificially low commuter costs (cheap gas, &c) distorted public transit in our metro areas by encouraging the development of exurb suburbs that can't cost-effectively be addressed by rail. It's possible that within the next 20 years, they won't be cost-effective for cars either, and that problem will self-correct as housing values in exurbs plummet and families move back into the public transit rings around the cities.

Put differently, because maybe that point seems banal ("suburbs bad!"), consider that in complaining about transit, we may effectively be complaining that it is hard to link a city with what should be a corn field in the middle of nowhere. Well, yeah?

Then read everything everyone else writes about long distance high speed rail.

I'd love to have it. People made fun of STL->CHI high speed rail, hoping instead for coast-to-coast or Chicago->Detroit->Cleveland->NYC, but STL->CHI would link two major metros and allow companies to expand between the cities; for instance, it would allow us to hire out of STL and serve STL companies as house accounts.

But the flip side of high-speed rail is that it's simply not cost-competitive over the distances we're dealing with, especially once you factor the cost of deploying it, which is spectacular. Just look at the problems California had with secure rights of way.

It's easy for Europe to have effective rail, because Europe is comparatively tiny; the distance from Berlin to Rome is just a little more than twice the distance the Acela runs; Acela's got nowhere to go north of Boston, and extending it to Atlanta would make Acela longer than Berlin-Rome.
Considering they didn't even manage to seal the deals, where did all the money go?
If you buy used and can handle doing maintenance yourself, you can buy an older e.g. BMW convertible for less than $10k. That's somewhat cool, if you're into the whole drop top thing.
I worked for a company like this, honestly I didn't really like it, at least the meeting in cafe's part, personally I find the comforts of an office superior in this regard as a conference room with no distractions and a projector beats sitting in a noisy cafe huddled around a laptop. I'm not against the not having an office idea completely but I think that if I were to be involved in something like this again I would want them to at least have one of those "shared spaces" offices where you can go in sometimes to work collaboratively and have access to conference rooms, etc.
Driving has definitely "lost its cool" for me. My permanent residence is in a small suburb of a small city that is right on the border of Randolph County (i.e. Redneck Central), and before I went to university, I drove everywhere.

But I didn't take my car with me to university. Instead, I use the thrice-daily Piedmont train to get back and forth from Raleigh and home every couple of weeks, and while I'm in Raleigh I either walk or ride the bus to get around. And now that I'm at home on Christmas break, I have realized how much of a bother driving really is. Sure, you can just get up and go whenever and wherever you want, but you have to deal with traffic, buy gas, pay for maintenance on your car... It's a pain even in High Point (a small city of only about 100,000), and I have no doubt that it would be even more of a pain in Raleigh, to say nothing of Charlotte, Atlanta, or New York.
Good to see people getting into dangerous (read 'political incorrect') discussions. But we still have a long way to go. It's rather obvious that articles authors of articles like this still walk on eggshells.
"One bad apple spoils the bunch" is a common proverb; this is a pretty simple adaptation.
Driving sure has lost its cool for me. The traffic and wasted time. The fuel and insurance costs. Making time for car services, oil changes, smog checks. Dealing with the DMV.

Yuck. I hope our relationship with the car changes.

Self driving cars. Cars-as-a-service. Improved public transit. Bike-friendly cities. Remote work. Etc. I'll be watching with interest.
I believe the memory usage has been adressed lately (either last release, or shortly after). There was an article about it on HN, which i can't find atm. Do you mean some specific use cases?
See explanation. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
America doesn't have a well developed public transportation infrastructure because of the auto lobby. You can't build a train without annoying GM and ford.
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It's really a myth that public transit is cheaper, more convenient, and more efficient than people driving their own cars when and where they want to go. Public transit appears to be cheaper only because of massive government subsidies. If passengers had to pay fares commensurate with the true cost of the service, it would not be competitive.
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