skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the in-depth reply. The example of HAM radio was a poor one, I was associating it with Low Frequency [1] radio when it in fact covers a much larger spectrum.

I agree that telecommunications is a hard subject, and even more so that different technologies are useful for different purposes. That is why I think the original comment was off:

> If you could rig up visible-light laser communications, you wouldn't need the fiber. Fiber's just a convenient container.

Something we haven't really talked about, and I'm not sure how relevant it is, is the saturation of the wireless spectrum. Point to Point wireless is obviously a different beast, but for broadcast wireless is there a saturation point where we can't safely send more data over the airwaves?

I like that fibre is by construction point to point, not restricted by line of sight, capable of very high bit-rates with relatively low energy (correct me here if this is wrong), and excellent quality of service.

Wireless has a lot less infrastructure, particularly when used for the last mile, and is definitely extremely convenient in many situations. I don't think it is the solution for general purpose network infrastructure, though that may change in the future (and is clearly the choice for some countries already).

I wonder what the replacement for fibre will be in 20-30 years time - is wireless the only frontier at the moment?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_frequency#Propagation_of_L...
You're looking for The OpenPhoto Project. Comes complete with web and mobile apps, all open sourced and available as a hosted version.

http://theopenphotoproject.org

https://openphoto.me
Isaac Asimov Died 1992
Gregory Benford Alive
Algis Budrys Died 2008
Gerald Feinberg Died 1992
Sheldon Glashow Alive
Frederik Pohl Alive
Jerry Pournelle Alive
Tim Powers Alive
Orson Scott Card Alive
Robert Silverberg Alive
Jack Williamson Died 2006
Gene Wolfe Alive
Dave Wolverton Alive
Roger Zelazny Died 1997

A lot more of them have survived to be embarrassed by their predictions than I had thought.
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>Gunpowder is not fundamentally harder to make than methamphetamine.

I think it's actually considerably easier. If you have saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, there isn't even any chemistry involved, and the only one of those ingredients that is remotely plausible (and I'm stretching the term "remotely plausible" here) to regulate the sale of is saltpeter. And even if they went that far, Wikipedia mentions an old process[1] for synthesizing saltpeter using only wood ash, urine, and straw. And your setup isn't even likely to explode or leak poisonous gas into your home in the process.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_nitrate#From_urine
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So what are these trackers? What material should you look for?

It's no good saying "There's this cool little news site all the smart people hang out on (HN)" without telling us how to find it.
> Not even in computer science;

What did you specialize in? It's pretty easy to hit upon co-routines, if you have an interest in Scheme or even Haskell. But I can imagine, it's much harder if you are into, say, the innards of database schemas. (Just a random example.)
Do the map-reduce results get put back into redis? I always worry about OOM problems when I'm putting a somewhat unbounded set of things into redis.
Thanks for the input! I am considering just cutting the about us section out completely, because I really doubt anyone cares who made some no name product. Whitespace wise, that is something I will have to tweak and adjust. It does look quite cluttered on bigger screens.
Failed to launch
Just wondering how many people on HN actually have products? Everyone? Is anyone else struggling to get users? If you have launched and succeeded, would you mind sharing?
Alas, nobody has written a really good IDE for Haskell, yet. So we still have to run the show for that statically typed language manually.
Orson Scott Card wins.
Is there an easy way to find these people? Or even to easily highlight their posts?

Need a twitter follow for HN!
I love dumping my stuff and know my mother will take care of it for me^^
A gallon of gasoline costs ~$3.50 and weighs a few pounds.
I don't know why I didn't come across it. Maybe if I took Operating System II ..
Heh, why not form another committee with just the web guys and without the enterprise guys and create your own OAuth 2.0? You'll get something done before the enterprise guys and they'll be inclined to use your working protocol.
Static typing also makes overloading your f.unctions on return type instead of just arguments types possible. Not a lot of languages do this, though. I only know of one, but it's invaluable there.
By far the most accurate:

DAVE WOLVERTON

In 2012 We will see:

1) That economic cycles caused by rises in technological levels will begin to level out—countries that have a falsely inflated economy will be forced to export their technologies to third-world countries where people are willing to work for less money. This will lead to a situation where knowledge, the key to our technologic success, will be spread across the world. We'll see rapid decreases in starvation levels, but will still be plagued with political turmoil.

2) Men's Rights—We will see a reaction to the women's movement. Men will demand to be portrayed by the media as the sensitive, caring creatures that they are. They will also demand equal rights in custody battles where children are seldom awarded to a father because our society chooses to believe a mother is a better care-taker by nature.

3) Introduction of x-ray microscopes in the early 2000's will lead to rapid progress in gene splicing. Look for rapid growth in medicine and mining, and food production. We may also see bacteria being engineered to simulate parts of the immune system (which could cure immune disorders such as AIDS and allergies).
History says all 'Rakshasas'(the demons in sanskrit) have been killed by a savior. I don think it's inescapable.
Some more discussion of these monitors here: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/26.htm#korean_ips27
You can consider this an officially sanctioned response.
I do too but I'm finding that a lot of the time there are so many untyped inputs to a system that the static typing doesn't buy you that much. There always seems to be a ton of xml configuration data, incoming JSON from web services, databases with different type schemes etc.
I suspect the main difficulty is not in finding the glider pattern, but in proving that it is in fact a glider. This is not brute-forceable with an aperiodic tiling, pretty much by the definition of an aperiodic tiling.

Let's say you have a pattern P, and you want to check if it's a glider. In Conway's Life, this is straightforward and mechanical: iterate the future states of P, and check if any of them are P but translated some distance. But on a Penrose board, this is not possible: if you translate the pattern, the board is different. You cannot assume that because P translated successfully once, it will translate again (i.e. you cannot "induct").

Furthermore, because the tiling is aperiodic, even brute-forcing the possible patterns is troublesome. Every pattern must specify its origin! On Conway's life, there is only 1 possible 1-tile starting pattern, and only 2 non-trivial 2-tile patterns, because it doesn't matter where you are. Starting your pattern at (0,0) doesn't make it any different than starting at (12,-156). That's not the case on a Penrose board: there are an infinite number of 2-tile cases, one for every possible board location, because they're all different!
I think you would have had to go deeper into programming languages, not deeper into operating systems.

Disclaimer: The above is definitely true for coroutines in general, but I don't know much about Go and whether its coroutines are truly unique.
I grandfathered existing customers in so they still have their existing plans.
From someone that went from being in the military to software engineering I really believe this is a great mindset. We shouldn't feel like we are chained to one profession.
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I think you're trying to create a single bucket, where people may fit into more than one.

Personally, I've worked on 5 sites for myself the results have been

1) launched, received little traction, received an acquisition offer (didn't go through)

2) launched, moderate traction, some industry acclaim, one acquisition offer (didn't go through)

3) launched in beta, a few tire kickers, no traction, shut-down after 2 months

4) still in development, lots of interest, great feedback, brutal how long it is taking me to develop

5) getting ready for beta after 3 week of work, so-so response so far, just looking to get it out there and see what happens (and use it myself).

Outside of these, I've also developed tools for other businesses, and some of these tools have been quite successful, resulting in one of the companies being acquired.

Not sure if that gives you the data you're looking for, but if you think about it, if you had asked this question of Odeo, they would have fallen into the "has product struggling to get users", but then they created twitter...
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The threat of nuclear conflict was very real during the Cold War. I remember my teacher asking the class (in 1984) who thought that a nuclear war was "likely in the next 10 years" and virtually every hand going up. Some teenage angst there perhaps, but it was as high in the collective conscious then as climate change is now.
Minor correction: we are not YC funded; I've e-mailed Jolie to let her know. I had mentioned that I started my previous startup in YC, so think that's where the confusion came from.
Frederik Pohl's essay is great. By 1987, he had been writing science fiction for nearly 50 years and I think had become embittered by the course of 20th century history. Read Gateway (which I think came out that same year) to see his vision of 21st century Earth -- humanity lives on an overpolluted planet, with only a tiny portion of the population able to have access to "Full Medical" and live in clean, domed cities.

He's still alive, incidentally. And has turned to blogging: http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/
Thanks machi.
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Oh. Yes, now that you have mentioned it, I do recall "space" being used in math classes in a unique way. It never occured to me that that is how "space" was being used.
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Are you sure about that re LinkedIn? Given its narrower customer base and usage model, LinkedIn is already employing a freemium model and charging for a higher service level. Their actual users do constitute a revenue stream in a way that Facebook's never could.
Well, there's people like dons and ibdknox who are famous from their open source contributions who make good comments and are worth following, or those who show up and make worthwhile contributions in their domain space like cynicalkane in finance threads, grellas in law threads, tptacek and daeken in security threads, or garbowza in patents ones. These days some these users don't comment as much however. Mostly it's a matter of lots of lurking until you come to hate the site.

There was/is a chrome extension for following hn users I used a few years ago that was useful, but I haven't bothered to reinstall it after a few OS moves since, mainly because it didn't sync the friends list across computers.
I had more people signing up for the higher tier plans when I a/b tested the plan names. Don't remember what the numbers were exactly but it was interesting to see behavior change because of the plan names.
As always, it's smart to have redundant backups. However, your stuff is way, way safer, in terms of destructability, on Google's infrastructure than your own, especially in the case of tornadoes when your storage media is likely to be flung a half-mile away if you get hit.

Tornadoes are actually one of the more mild natural disasters. They are certainly not any more likely to knock out your ISP, whose cables are underground, than any other natural calamity. California's earthquakes pose a much greater threat to infrastructure than Kansas's tornadoes.

And like chucknelson, I lived in KC for years and can't recall a weather-related service disruption for my ISP.
its kind of depressing to think of someone with a masters degree hoping to land a job that pays less than a fifth of what I make with an associates degree . . .
I think I need to alert one thing - particularly on a page like this. If in your settings you have 'showDead' set to on, then you will see a incoherent comment at the bottom of this page from losethos.

Some of you folks might remember a discussion involving Losethos sometime back on HN. I can't find the discussion but here is the article which was discussed: http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html . In that article, one kind person had taken some effort to understand the reasons behind such incoherent comments.

I am not sure that people who marked the comment as dead, are aware of that discussion. Perhaps we need a policy at HN to handle such situations better.

PS: I got the above link by doing this search 'site:news.ycombinator.com losethos' on google. You can also see some more comments on the same here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4189669. But can't find that original discussion
Fails in IE9

Half-fails in Firefox 14.0.1 (Win7)
So just because it's good for X means it can't be critiqued on Y?
Yep, people tend to assume that everyone knows what they know by default. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_dista...
Yes, perfect timing! I've been needing something like this for a video streaming project I've been working on. I've been using Node for everything and haven't wanted to resort to (and purchase) Adobe Flash.

Thanks for making this!

Are there are disadvantages to this in terms of optimization compared to something like Flash?
Anyone else notice that on his second graph, the wedge labeled "34%" is significantly larger than the one labeled "39%"? I'm honestly wondering if he just got sloppy while drawing the lines, or if some numbers accidentally got swapped around.
How do you, I guess, "bring up" that you created the sites? I have a few sites too that I've made but as well as being unaccustomed to applying for jobs, usually "my list of projects is here" doesn't cut it. And I never know how to bring it up in a cover letter either.

Either I'm coming across wrong or (sort of unlikely) they just aren't too great of an example.
I highly doubt that there would still be 623 job seekers applying if this much work were involved.
Wow, sounds like you have a lot on your plate. Do you have a regular day job too or do you work for actual startups? I'm in Melbourne, Australia and also have a regular day job. So all this is on the side for me. Sounds like you are in Silicon Valley and right in the thick of it!

In regards to data. I'm not really looking for anything in particular. More wondering how many HN people have finished products. And then hear their stories.
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R http://cran.r-project.org/ is scriptable, install anywhere and can make plots.
You left out the "just as today…" which rather changes the tone.
Right. The Germans and Japanese are trenching new territory applying innovating construction technologies. Here in the US we will fail to even attempt to launch anything even remotely close to this because unions will raise hell and they'll get politicians to protect their ridiculously expensive jobs. Of course, private industry unions will be joined by government worker unions who will vie for their portion of the "screw the American people" fund and the rest will be history. Just ask Boeing how painful it is to actually clash with these forces. I was secretly hoping that they'd say "fuck it, we are moving all of our operations to Canada" or some such thing. Only something of that scale will finally send the message to washington and our voters that unions need to go the way of the dodo bird as fast as we can possibly make it happen.

Free market innovation rocks. Anything else is a straight road to third world nation status.
PS I forgot to mention, as I am guessing it is the same for most people, I want to turn this "on the side" into "full time"!
I've been working on tubalr for 2 years this september. It's allows you to take advantage of all the great music content on YouTube.

I'm out of features for now, been improving on UI and design lately.

http://www.tubalr.com
I agree with your posts, this one was the best. Maven has caused me more pain the goodness. Ant is dependable and predictable and Eclipse works far better IMO with Ant than when Maven tries to Mavenize a project.
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Can you explain this a little more please?
"Of that 96 percent drop, Amazon estimated that $65 million of the net loss was due to its acquisition and integration of Kiva."
The article links to what it describes as the paper that was presented at Black Hat. I haven't read it, but given that it was Black Hat and that the link is to a PDF, I thought I'd run it through Google's online Doc Viewer:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.toucan-system....
Good points, I agree that the drug war alone is responsible for a large percent of gun violence.

Also our massively larger per capita prison population probably has something to do with it. I doubt people are coming out of prison less violent.

Just a glance at the link you provided, I can't see a link between high gun ownership and murder rate at all.

>Canada and Australia are pretty comparable on all counts.

--comparable history, demography, economy, and culture.

Ignoring the economy, and population size.

Neither one had to deal with slavery on the scale America did.

Neither fought a war for independence or a civil war (the effect of the Civil War and the * massive* death toll can't be discounted. Not to mention the huge increase in gun ownership after the war).

The demographics of both are completely different.

Australians of European descent make up 93% of Australia, according to wikipedia.

As for Canada, they have more asians, who in the US commit less crimes and make more money than average. And they have significantly fewer blacks and hispanics, who in the US commit far more crimes and make less money than average.
Nope, it was Christopher Tin, who seemed to be trying to make a joke while actually not knowing what it is. Honestly, while his music sounds good, I thought his pitch was quite bland, and the video would have been better with no talking at all, just music and on-screen words.
This is extremely interesting in concept; I know essentially nothing about music theory and have been interested in learning more about it, and a logical/mathematical approach sounds perfect.

But is the book suitable for someone seeking to acquire a foundational knowledge of music theory, or does it require some level of pre-existing understanding?

I ask because most of the material on the page refers to learning "more" about music, and the sample material does seem to assume some background knowledge in musical notation, etc.

If this isn't suitable as an entry-level primer on music theory, can anyone recommend some other works to read first?
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IDEs are just another potentially-useful (some of them are better done than others) form of abstraction to let you focus on the important parts.
>I'm asking what y'all wish to do about your crime rate.

End drug prohibition.
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I like it. I would probably go to five times as many events if there was an easy way to sync with friends that were also interested.

(I suppose they'd have to solve the awkward "I'm going, but don't really want to go with you, esp if it's just the two of us" problem.)
SOme lesson to learn from this: most people are wrong, and totally wrong about the near future (provided 25 years is considered "near").

That should say a lot about not listening to what's being said currently about what will happen in 25 years from now.
I agree that $2,000 is a decent chunk of change, but as has been pointed out by others the hoops to jump through to get the $2,000 excludes a huge quantity of Amazon's workforce. So again, Amazon gets good PR, while conditions and compensation for much of their workforce stays the same.
Boring also probably means "I can build an enterprise level business on it"
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You can build a streaming Flash app without having to pay a cent to Adobe, the Haxe compiler or the Flex SDK are some of the solutions available. So I don't really understand the "(and purchase)Adobe Flash" part.
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Out of curiosity, what's the model # and specs?
They are selling a bunch of audio files, right? So why are they even mentioning what it works on ? It works on anything that can read MP3 and FLAC, thats it. Or am I missing something?
Nah, just making it shorter and easier to parse.
It's a strange phenomena. Sell content attached to a charity and the Linux users end up the most charitable on average. I don't think the break down of total payments reflects the install base of Windows, Linux & Mac either.

Why is this?
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"Any 'gigabit wireless' scheme will likely look the same it does today: a handful of key players with reciprocal data roaming agreements, and a few MVNOs which piggyback off the big guys. Wireless infrastructure is so expensive that carriers don't even have full coverage: ... "

Ubiquiti, among other vendors, now sells various flavors of cheap ($50-$100US) 802.11n and now 802.11ac radios that purport 100Mbit/s of actual throughput. I use slightly older versions of these radios outdoors, and can verify 40Mbit/s throughput on point-to-point links spanning a mile or so.

Furthermore, Ubiquiti has also just rolled out 20GHz unlicensed radios with expected 700Mbit/s throughput on p2p links, costing $3k per link, a price which will likely go down as time passes.

The wireless hardware does not have to use a licensed band.
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"Mostly it's a matter of lots of lurking until you come to hate the site." - eddie_the_head.
Hehe!

"There was/is a chrome extension for following hn users I used a few years ago that was useful" - eddie_the_head.
Thanks I'll check it out
It's an awesome motto that's served them extremely well. Google's ability to frame themselves as the "good guys" is the only real marketing advantage they have.
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