skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct about the SWR only measuring the matching of your output to the antenna. But consider this: a signal with lots of harmonics (read: outside of your band intended RF signals) is going to make a 1:1 SWR match harder to achieve. If you've cut your antenna to the right length and you're not getting close to the match you need, something is wrong. It's a rough measurement to be sure, but decent in a pinch.

That said, you should always use a dummy load when working with a new transmitter project. SA is always a good idea, but I've been in a lot of shacks that didn't have one.

Of course, this guy used a FM radio to check his signal. He should have used a scanner and checked out the multiples of his center freq.
For most of human history, equality and poverty were much greater. People were equally miserable.

It is only in modern times that we discovered the productive capability to escape the Malthusian trap and improve the human condition. Because this happened unevenly, "inequality" rose. But this was not a bad thing, it was a necessary step in progress.

Today, much of the developing world is catching up to the rich world. This is reducing inequality.

Inequality is neither good nor bad in itself. Focusing on this one variable creates a far too simple model to understand the world.
To be honest, this facebook sharing idea would actually encourage you to snooze the clock rather than wake up, so you would be curious to see what kind of reactions it would provoke within your friends' circles. If you want this app to become popular, then you're doing it right. If you really don't want someone to snooze the alarm, then this isn't the way it should be, maybe ;)
I see you point, and with the advents of social media there is very little left for privacy. I suppose though in the end its a matter of personal choice. No one is forcing you to use these app.

I built this app because I wanted the extra motivation in the mornings. So far it's been working. I wake up with a smile on my face knowing that I won't be bothering my friends, and that now I have no choice but to get up.
except these guys claim they have something to teach you, i'm sorry but based on their sloppy design i conclude they do not.
JC bought a compulsory license to distribute his version of the song. That license effectively gives the copyright of his version to the copyright holder for the original version.
Okay good. Faith in humanity restored.
>Most content creators when they put a product out asking for money consider you legally paying them their asking price in exchange for their product as "credit".

It sounds like you are willfully misinterpreting the concept of "giving credit". Paying for something is compensation, not credit. The concept of downloading something without paying for it is totally unrelated to the concept of claiming that you created someone else's work.
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Actually if you pay with credit card you often don't have to pay the full fees, as with many credit cards a part of those fees is given back to you as reward points or cashback. So customers paying cash are essentially paying a higher percentage of those credit card fees, than customers paying with credit cards.
Monopolies are bad. Public monopolies are worse. Public monopolies whose unionized workers have a lock on the electoral system are even worse. All of these are progressively further removed from the incentive to serve their customers - the students.
While I agree there needs to be a responsible approach to population growth, there is research which indicates improved education results in reduced reproduction rates, increased economic growth, and better overall health. [1]

While you may view Bill's idealism and hopes as childish, the fact he's trying to optimize the measurement process of human progress shows an awareness and openness to adapt as the information changes. This is crucial to ensuring resources are continually distributed efficiently as our understanding evolves.

Are we humans selfish to some extent? Sure, but we're trying to live in an existence out to kill us. What can we do but fight?

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6042/587
Very cool. So did your app somehow manage to do video capture on the client hardware, or did you access something equivalent to a webcam?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5119521
It's just how they named the plan: "The Startup plan is perfect for businesses, side projects or individuals who get less than 500 brand mentions on Twitter each month."
Your title is still readable , theirs is not.
Having a family larger than you can consistently feed seems less crazy when you're in an environment where you'll be totally dependent on your surviving offspring in your old age, and you can reasonably expect some of your offspring not to outlive you.
Just tried this for my project, the alerting looks like it will be most valuable to me. Hopefully I can stop monitoring my saved Twitter search and just use this.
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The best answer to this is... Who cares anyway?

PS: In the end if this proves to be something user FB will buy it and then we'll have a change in the user terms, and... You get e idea.
Enterprise (Or b2b with tech customers) is really fun. My take on the sales process: you don't want a sales guy talking with the customer, you want a core engineer for your product or service spending time collecting exciting challenges / needs from your possible customers. Its fun to see all the variation in seemingly simple problems that get quite complex at scale in large businesses.

That said, my experience thus far can be summarized as this: "if you can make a product or service that derisks a company innovating within its business, they will want to buy your product"

Or said differently, as long as the value gained > your price, and resulting risk is less than any alternative, someone will write a check the moment you can validate this value prop for them. (Of course, if they can't pay they won't, but then they aren't a possible customer).

This seems like a much more fun way to bootstrap a real business than some b2c thing, and its what I'm doing with my efforts at wellposed. Or at least that's my short form thoughts on this matter.
Dudes. This is not at all helpful. Sitting at the front of the bus just creates more of an excuse for a crackdown.
Yeah exactly, and this seems to be the reason that android doesn't allow apks to be sent over Bluetooth, so we haven't really found a solution so far unless you count swapping SD cards.
I downloaded Vine a few hours ago - it's addicting. My personal favorite is viewing the #howto section.
Yes, at @benmanns.
The criticism is so stupid too. Just because there's another tool out there already that can accomplish the same thing, does that mean no programmer should try to do the same thing again ever? How else do people learn?

And if she wants some of her work online to show potential employers or just to share, whats wrong with that? People should just mind their own business, and not be assholes.

If you don't like an open source project, make the same thing yourself, and make a post about how it improves on the older one. Don't tear someone down for not being as "smart" as you.
There are a number of flawed assumptions here. The first one is that population growth is naturally unbounded, but that idea has been outdated for a long time. Population growth follows a logistic growth curve.

Another bad assumption you're making is that the West's population is growing rapidly, but it's not. In fact, populations in Western countries are barely growing, and often are only growing due to immigration, or due to higher birth rates among immigrant populations.

Finally, yet another bad assumption you're making is that we should limit population growth through draconian measures like… well murdering people, or allowing them to die unnecessarily. In fact, the best way to limit population growth is through education, better access to healthcare, and economic development. As people become more educated and financially successful, they naturally delay childbirth and have fewer children as a result. When people have access to health services like education, birth control and abortions, they can better make decisions about children.

You can google “overpopulation myth” or simply “overpopulation” to verify what I've written here.
When I started coding at age 12, it was on TI calculators. The code was in Zilog Z80 ASM, and TI's flavor of BASIC (TI-BASIC). I suspect many of the hackers on this site of used TI-BASIC, and possibly Z80 ASM.

This was all of the experience in coding I had for the next 4 years. I became extremely good at TI-BASIC and ASM. But in High School I started fooling around with Python and the world of Object Oriented programming bewildered me.

In TI-BASIC you get 27 float variables, 6 lists of floats, all limited to 999 elements, 10 strings, and 6 matrices of floats. That is all the data one gets. Very quickly one becomes a wizard of string manipulations (because strings were the only datatype without a default memory cap; they could be as long as your RAM could hold) and whatnot.

Whenever I moved to Python, I found myself following the same paradigm. I didn't make a single Python class until I was in college. I would use tuples and lists and just organize my data that way.

After my collegiate conversion to OOP (and subsequently writing heavily OO Python), I later found out that it is somewhat encouraged to use the built in datatypes over custom classes for performance reasons.

I was accidentally acting Roman without realizing it!
I like it. It seems you are aiming at geeks.
And I think geeks want a powerful search interface and this is why I haven't found a website i really like. I want to make queries like
"Recipes with Tomatoes, Paprika but without meat of type soup" or "I only have Garlic, Paprika, bread, Cream, flour, and sugar, eggs and spices , what is the closest meaningful lunch? Not in natural language, but with a interface. Like a textarea for "what i have" "what i don't have/like", and "What kind of meal would it be" each.
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Evidently you're not familiar with most of the First World?

You have less freedom than most of us, not more. The NDAA wouldn't fly in Canada, or Scandinavia, or ...
Branding it "isolationism" is a Fox News trick, which allowed people to quickly and easily dismiss Ron Paul as nonsensical.
I've always wondered this: why can't this same idea be applied to wifi signal?

Is it truly impossible to make wifi behave in a peer-to-peer/mesh network fashion?
I think a lot of people who have only been exposed to web based email don't realize what they're missing in a good native client. I have several friends in that mid/late-20s age range that went to work in corporate jobs, used Outlook 2010 for the first time, and then asked me for help getting their personal Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail accounts working with Outlook because they like doing email there so much more once they learn to use it well.

edit: BTW, I see your comment was downvoted while I was writing mine. I just wanted to say that I did not downvote yours; you make good points about Facebook and YouTube, to be sure.
Encrypted messages sent via Tor is reasonable. Also reasonable is posting encrypted messages to alt.anonymous.messages via some anonymity system (like remailers, or Tor again).

Unfortunately, many journalists still think that we are living in the 1970s, and don't understand what secure communication means in this day and age.
You are referring to the Immigrant Investor program, which is on hold.

The Start-Up Visa program does not require any investment from foreign entrepreneurs. It simply requires that the start-up itself have a funding commitment from a designated angel investor network or acceptance to a designated incubator network.

Part of what makes the program so historic is that it offers permanent resident status (the Green Card) right from the start. This is not affected whether the business fails or succeeds. This program actually recognizes the risk that entrepreneurs take.

You can learn more here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/...
Credit in this case means attribution. Pirate sites don't say "I made Game of Thrones" or rename it and try to pretend it's their own work. They present it as "This movie, released by whatever-group". People get far more upset about "stealing" attribution than copyright infringement.
Google updates image search UI
Looks cool!

I'm really curious, though: What is the “Standard Clock” checkbox? (What is a standard clock?)
So basically: overpopulation is bad, therefore human death is a good thing, therefore curing disease is bad.

This argument is simultaneously (1) viscerally horrifying and (2) completely wrong.

It is wrong because curing disease does not increase population growth rate. Birth rate is extremely well-correlated with infant mortality rate, and pretty well anticorrelated with both life expectancy and quality of life. That's why the countries with the highest population growth rates also have some of the highest mortality rates. If you want to stop overpopulation, you should target common causes of death, especially those that afflict young children.

Which is exactly what Bill Gates is doing.
I suppose that you could tie the authenticity token per form, but you would end up maintaining a list of every token per user per form.

You could use something like HMAC(form id:session id:secret) to validate forms, but then you run into problems with verification. The central issue is that tokens are generated in the view, but validated in the controller, so each controller would have to maintain a list of the forms that are authorized to POST to it.
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Ask HN: What are your thoughts on taking your kid to a psychiatrist?
My older kid is not some medical case, you could say he is normal, but still he is very childish and always behaves like a cartoon of himself, he never speaks in his regular voice, and in fact I have to tell him to speak normal, I get the feeling he has a problem of low self esteem and wondered if anybody has experience with psychiatrists and if your would recommend it in this case.
IMO, yes.
It helps if you're familiar with Sacha Baron Cohen's sense of comedy and aren't easily offended.
Please don't spread misinformation. If Google has a problem with your name, they will at most prevent you from using Google+ until you fix it. The other Google products you use will be unaffected.
Yes. There is no financial investment required from the applying entrepreneuer. However:

"The basic requirements will be intermediate proficiency in English or French and at least one year of post-secondary education. Beyond that, he said, it will depend on which organization is recommending the applicant.

They could be accepted into a designated incubator program, receive a funding commitment of at least $75,000 from a designated angel network, or a funding commitment of at least $200,000 from a designated venture capital fund.

Venture capital funds will automatically qualify to back startup visa entrepreneurs if they’re managing $40-million or more in assets. Those managing less than that would be subject to a peer review process “to ensure they’re credible,” Mr. Kenney said.

For angel networks, a peer review panel of NACO members will review the applicants, he said."

via http://business.financialpost.com/2013/01/24/startup-visa-pr...
Not really free for startups. Free for anyone under 500 mentions a month. I normally think of startups as companies who are less than 2 years old and under 10 employees.
Could you elaborate on what it is he "can do"?

Also I'm not sure his creation of DOS and Windows really has much bearing on his more recent philanthropic efforts.
"Now it's a few years later, and there's been a lot of HTML5 hype."

Since there is no real choice of what language to use on client side nowadays it is easier to pretend and say that HTML and JS are awesome.
Well, to answer your specific question, see the link in my reply to tptacek.

But I want to clarify that I am not condemning them (and I wasn't trying to use the term "ruthless" in a pejorative sense, so it was probably a poor choice). I am simply pointing out that if you want to use the engineering method to effect change on a global scale - and I think that is absolutely the right approach - then you first need to make sure that it is good engineering. Gates, who by all accounts is an excellent engineer, is (if the quote is genuine) aware of the problems with software metrics. It is less clear whether he is carrying that scepticism over to the use of other metrics, and that is my concern.
> It's also only at ~21% install base

You do realise that is around 250 million machines, which is the same size as the entire iOS installed base a year ago? There is still 15 months of support left.

Perhaps the most important thing about a browser is the other stuff it drags with it - for example you are likely to use the identity services (eg using Chrome makes having a Google account more conducive) plus other things (storage, photos, email etc). It is in Microsoft's interest to bring people into that.

> Just entices people to upgrade to Windows 7/8, and actually be secure.

You can't practically upgrade from XP. Well maybe you can, but the general public can't. It is a fresh install which means losing all your apps, settings, and personalization and worrying about what data you will lose (who has perfect backups?) And then you have to learn a new user interface. This still applies if you buy a new device. (Yes Windows Easy Transfer exists, but still has issues.)

If you are going to experience such a shakeup you may as well consider all the alternatives. My dad (as a data point, I mean anecdote) upgraded from XP to an iPad. That is even more secure!
If there is adequate competition, the market will solve this.

If there is not, then merchants don't need an ostensible reason to screw you. They'll just do it.
Interesting that there wasn't an actual question.
30 years ago you could actually "understand" the whole computer. While 64 KiB is quite a bit of RAM for human to keep track of, it was still possible to quite easily remember how the address space was laid out and what exact addresses were used for storing individual pieces of variables used by the OS/environment and what addresses to PEEK/POKE to interface with the OS services. People really knew how the machine operated at hardware and software level. Inside out.

20 years ago it was much harder to understand the whole machine or it's operating system. While there was direct access to low-level services(BIOS/DOS interrupts on PCs), some APIs started emerging, including OpenGL and soon DirectX to make things more complex. People had hard time understanding the exact inners of the hardware and especially software, although specialized understanding was still very relevant for many.

10 years ago it had became quite useless to try to deal with hardware directly. Compilers started being so good that hand-written assembly started having bad benefit/cost ratio. People stopped caring about optimizig code or really understanding about the hardware details. Software became already quite complex to truly understand, focus shifted from understanding the environment to understand the tools and some libraries.

Today understanding the hardware is essentially impossible. You can't really deduce what exactly the CPU is doing when you read the instructions, many programmers don't even know what an instruction or a register is, let alone understand branch predictors or memory caches. Lots of code run on virtual machines rather than directly on real machines. Operating systems have virtual layers here and there and programming culture(at least to some extent, my own observation) has opted some perverse idea that you should not optimize or even consider optimizing code, because "PREMATURE OPTIMIZATION IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!". Programming work requires very little understanding of the system or platform, and many skills are very short-living and focus on specific technologies/libraries. Most programming problems are researched from the Internet via StackOverflow. There's very little room for truly understanding the environment, things change so fast and are so complex that it's just not important.

Things get more and more complex at exponential rate. I find this quite sad because I for one love low-level tinkering with stable interfaces and problems/domains which require extensive studying and investigating to come up with creative solutions to uncommon problems, rather than running into problem X and asking on Stackoverflow about what pattern to use or what library call to make to get around the issue.
I would use it if you built in conversions for us that think in deciliters and not spoons or lb.

Ie a dropdown on the profile settings page.
I am pleased to hear that Gates's money is doing good somewhere in the world. In the US, I think, the Gates foundation has a much higher profile in education reform, which is very controversial because it drags in all of the baggage of accountability, slipping standards, unions, privatization, big government, etc.
Scene groups are actually very conservative with codecs. They jumped onto mkv format because they didn't have an alternative for hi def rips, but it took them a long time to get off the avi format until enough devices supported h264 mp4 containers.
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The mention of HIV in an article talking about bacteria confuses me. Do bacteria and the HIV virus share some physical/biological property that makes it possible for them to be targeted and destroyed via the same mechanism?
Standard Clock = Using 12 hours with am / pm. You can have it display military time if you like.
In general social policy is hard. Really hard. In part due to some of the things you talk about.

While the Gates Foundation did waste time and money on the small schools initiative, but in some ways I view it as a model for how social research should work.

They had a theory and some supporting data. They tried to implement a program to optimize it and measured the results. And while they may have been ruthless in driving this, they were equally ruthless with their measurement. They didn't hide their results. They came out and said, "we are disappointed with our results". http://www.gatesfoundation.org/speeches-commentary/Pages/bil...

If more social research was done in this way and was as transparent I suspect we'd make some better progress in education. But unfortunately, most people have taken sides -- the issue has been politicized. And so outside of groups like Gates, the data no longer matters.
Although I agree with a lot of the advice in the article, there's a "new school" of enterprise too, and ideas like virality from the consumer world often apply to the new enterprise.

"Old school" enterprise sales meant hiring an army of field salespeople. It meant on-site visits, and pitching directly to the CIO, CFO, CMO, hiring sales engineers to build pilots, negotiate with procurement for months, etc. And all that meant the cost of a sale was high -- often $50,000+ -- which meant that your contracts had better be in the six-figures if you want to be profitable.

That's now how most B2B companies work in 2013. Look at Stripe, Yammer, Parse, Github, or Twilio -- you can sign up directly on their web site, often get started for free or cheap enough that you don't trigger purchase approval. Most of the customers for those companies come in through inbound channels, like blog posts, ads, partnerships, or referrals. And to the extent that they have sales, it's inside sales, primarily working to convert existing, happy users of the product to paying customers.

Chris Dixon has a great related blog post on this:
http://cdixon.org/2012/09/24/the-rise-of-enterprise-marketin...