skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very little revenue from broadcast stations goes back to the feds as renewal fees.

Visit

http://www.fccfees.com/query_all_2008.asp

And enter your local station callsign, it seems my local NBC affiliate in a top 30 market paid $23550 last year to the FCC. This is actually pretty extortionate for the FCC compared to my ham radio license which ends up being less than a buck a year. From memory marine radio licenses were like $5/yr?

Note that you need more than a broadcast license, many stations have microwave studio-xmtr links and maybe a mobile van or two it can all get complicated. Maybe its $16K for the big xmtr and everything else boosted it up to $23K.

So license fees are not being used as a centrally controlled market or whatever, it really pretty much only accounts for the costs of paper filing and professional evaluation of facilities WRT safety etc.

Auctioned off licenses for new stations can be quite expensive and that's a different problem.

An excellent way to make a small fortune is to start with a big fortune and then go into the broadcast industry. There's not much room for innovation or leadership, its pretty much all about financing. He who raises the cash the cheapest, wins.

This is a fed issue, as for municipals, the feds let them charge up to 5% of gross cable co revenue as a franchise fee, which is a separate issue.

As far as I know the state level usually doesn't get involved beyond tangential DNR wetlands protection type issues.

I think it inevitable that OTA broadcasting will end soon enough, except perhaps for PBS stations and religious broadcasters. The future of the TV bands looks a lot like the shortwave broadcaster bands today.
All of it's definitely solvable, it's just harder than lots of Monte Carlo problems that are embarrassingly parallel.
Don't forget to segment your visitors by their CPC bid!

You'd be surprised how differently a visitor who clicked through to your site from the first ad spot behaves compared to visitor who comes from the 7th or 8th ad spot. For one thing, people who are clicking the lower ads tend to be more price conscious!

So if you have e.g., $20 per day to spend, it might be better to buy 5 clicks at $4 each than 20 clicks at $1. You could very well convert half of the expensive clicks and none of the cheap ones!
I really, really dislike that the bookmark button has been taken out of the address bar, that's my biggest pet peeve, along with the slightly less customisable look.
No it would mean you'd have new mandatory sports channels to pay for along with all your other mandatory sports channels.
Hooray! Been waiting for this for a long time. I'll be especially happy if Mozilla can manage to improve the default look of Firefox on Linux, where it's just absolutely dreadful (and where I'm usually forced to resort to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/ to preserve my sanity).
Or she was referencing this username... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult
Can it be disabled? Not everyone is going to like it or it may break a useful extension.
Ask HN: Are you selling, holding, or buying your Bitcoins? Why?
Apple seeds iOS 7.1 to registered developers
> I love the freedom of the platform.

> I couldn't have reasonable discussions there.

Total freedom and lack of regulation and curation + everyone gets in = the apocalypse of mediocrity. Same goes for the comment section of any hugely popular website (see Youtube and all big news agencies).

Absolute freedom is not for everyone, or even for a majority.
Agreed. I do a lot of graph visualization and find the immediate rendering model of GDI a lot easier to work with. Also, WinForms is an object-oriented UI, which just makes more sense in my head than the XAML/document/delayed rendering model. But this is just my personal preference.
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I agree. It's still more beautiful in my opinion though.

I don't like Chrome either, but a few parts of it are nice.

The thing I dislike most about recent Firefox releases is that the selected search engine influences URL bar search, which is rather annoying in my opinion, but then I removed the search feature from the URL bar, making them at least somewhat distinct again.
Not to mention that stigmatizing obesity is not going to solve the problem. What is this, grade school? "haha, fatty-fatty-fatty!" Maybe some empathy and support would go much further in helping the obese to conquer their problems.
WinForms is still there. I don't understand why the author dismisses WinForms. I also don't understand why the author feels WinRT is the way forward. Sure, WinRT confused people about Microsoft's strategy, but saying this is the only route left is, well, stupid. Especially when you consider the huge industry investment in legacy tech (WinForms and WPF). There's no way Microsoft will just abandon support for it.
Good Luck OP. It's fantastic to see that you're getting many offers of help. I really look forward to seeing what is created.

Some people are suggesting research. I'd be interested in suitable papers and organisations.

One good place is the University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research:

http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/
"History gives us plenty of episodes of deflationary growth, such as America after the civil war during resumption of the metallic standard."

You're referring to the period known as "The Long Depression", from 1873 to 1896?

It had an extremely high unemployment rate during the quarter century that it lasted. Ten states went bankrupt. The US manufacturing output virtually stagnated, with periods of significant decline.
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Perhaps we ought to try it, and then ditch the laws that don't work. To me that's way better than partial and/or selective enforcement, where laws are wielded as weapons by police, lawyers, judiciary and politicians to stamp down on whoever they don't like.

I always thought there should be a one-in-one-out rule. Want new legislation? Cool. Find something to repeal!
Way to go! Can I send you any books via Amazon to help you out?
+1 for whoever's idea this was. We need more guides like this that ask that answer the basic questions on just dev process and work flows. Let's make it easier for people to contribute!
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Sure, you can subvert copyright law by making file sharing easier, just as you can subvert drug laws by making it easier to buy drugs.

The actual problem for most people though isn't that copies or drugs are especially difficult to obtain, but that they might find themselves in a courtroom for procuring them. Technology hasn't changed that; arguably Napster and SilkRoad made it easier for vested interests to generate moral panics around pirating and drug use, and to ensnare people attempting to download music or mail-order contraband. You didn't get children facing lawsuits for making mixtapes in the 1990s.
I think so, haven't tried to be honest, but this article http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-australis-in-firefox-...

Also this only affects the nightly and add-on developers should be testing nightly anyway so they should prepare to update their add-ons in the future to adopt to the new UI.
"Once you have something that grows faster than education grows, you’re always going to get a pop culture" - Alan Kay

and yes, the resulting S/N ratio is an extremely tough pill to swallow.
Mining.

Why, because I had $30 to waste and wanted to learn about it. Bought a simple USB miner. Using a pool at at 0.00063331 BTC since Saturday morning. Pretty sure I am never going to break-even, but it was just an experiment to try and understand Bitcoin.
If he's already familiar with front-end development, I'd recommend something like Meteor rather than Ruby. Because it's JavaScript, it will seem a lot more familiar than Ruby. And it will hide a lot of the complexity of client-server interaction until the point when you feel like diving into it. It's really perfect for fast prototyping and proof-of-concept sites like the poster is looking to build.
You left out the most common way: stealing your way to the top by breaking into insecure centrally managed wallet sites.
Yes your employer, and maybe competitor like carolina, would be a good supplier in the US but to keep shipping agony to a minimum maybe some place in europe would ship to europeans.

On the other hand amazon can probably ship blank unused new microscope slides anywhere in the world, so maybe they get to ship to .UK

This kind of coordination of which supplier can ship what, where, would be what the proposed startup would do.
Probable cause is not necessary for a search. It's necessary for evidence from the search to be admitted. If the lawyer does not require a proof of probable cause for any searches that were permitted, he's not doing his job.
You stated you "want to make programs for them to learn".

It sounds like you did it! Is there another goal that you were going for? Yes, there are lots of educational/edutainment apps out there, but it does not affect your goal of wanting to make programs for kids to learn.

It kind of sounds like your goal is actually to make money?
Why the down voting?
You're using the phrase "conspiracy theory" to describe a possibility you hadn't yet had any reason to think exists.

One could argue that the entire NSA program was such a conspiracy theory until Snowden.
I was captivated by your statement. I am strictly middle class, not very accomplished, not well traveled, not a leader. You seem to have the ability to have an impact which will go beyond the ordinary. I think the effect of your future efforts will be very positive, but I have to admit the chance of failure; your failure and the failure of those who should support your efforts. Including myself.

I made another comment today. Maybe I should keep it up until I learn how to make a difference.

By the way, I like the significance of your login ID. In the long run, that's quite a good sentiment.
Our company has doubled down on Meteor. We start all greenfield apps in meteor now.

The biggest negative is simply the immaturity of the ecosystem. Everyone has different standards. There are no de facto standard packages (yet). Everything is changing rapidly. What worked well last week may not work well this week. The bleeding edge truly bleeds.

From a pure technology perspective, I'm excited about meteor because (to use a cliché) it shifts the paradigm. I wouldn't compare it to Rails/Ember/Backbone/etc because meteor is full-stack. There is no client/server. There's no ajax. Everything is one codebase. Even though it's built on top of node, it doesn't even feel like node because of the reasons above, and most of meteor is synchronous.

We wrote a couple blog posts about making the jump to meteor. I think the 1st one directly answers your question. The 2nd caused quite a stir here on HN.

http://differential.io/blog/the-current-challenges-of-buildi...

http://differential.io/blog/meteor-killin-rails
>…poker table…

>If you're spying on your own people, maybe your intentions are not what you purport them to be.

Considering that a non insignificant portion of SIGINT is contracted to companies owned by a handful of private equity firms, I would say that the poker table has more participants who are not nation states who are all vying for their own interests as you say.
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Exactly! Check out this TED talk of the founder of redditgifts. It will provide lots of insight on what works and what doesn't. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoUVH05kEg
Technically speaking, the Nightly Build is only for testing purposes and is the most unstable version of FF available.

Here's a brief explanation:

In order of development - some new features may come and go from channel to channel.

Nightly - Under heavy development. Least stable/secure. First tests of new changes/features; some changes/features introduced in Nightly may be removed before Release and other versions. Only for testing. Should only be used by very experienced users/testers.

Aurora - Still under development. More stable/secure than Nightly. Some bugs may still be present that need resolution. Should be used by experienced users only who can post/report reproducible problems and work around issues.

Beta - Final development stage before Release. Usually good stability/security. Major bugs resolved. Working out final bugs. Preview of what Release version will most likely contain in the way of changes/features, though some changes/features can still disappear before Release.

Release - Final channel released to public for everyday use.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/970739
MVP should always be about minimizing the number of features or things it does -- but never about delivering features that are broken or buggy.

Everything you _do_ deliver needs to be polished and robust, or people are going to write you off.

It's really hard to pare down the feature set and figure out what features are really needed.

On the other hand, it's really easy to throw in a bunch of features, but have them all be half-broken crap with a poor UI.

The hard one is the one you actually need to do to be successful. You do need to pare down features to an MVP, because otherwise you're never going to finish, or are going to deliver crap. You need to pare down to the MVP, so that you have the resources to make every feature that remains high quality.
Ah, and with the link further down to the TokenAdult username, it all makes sense. It was the link between Woman and Adult that was baffling me, as I've not been around the HN comments long enough to know who TokenAdult is.
I would say HN brought a couple of new products to my mind... and I doubt here are any ads hidden ;). Instead they do, what is incredible powerful with their voting-system. And they don't cheat on their readers. That is great. At least to me.
This is awesome. I think the main thing I did when I was 15 was sleep....

I'm actually working on an application (www.happsee.com) for tracking happiness. Somewhat similar, but not exactly. It's already had some huge benefits for me as far as understanding my own emotions.

If you want to chat more about making an app (mine is for android), machine learning (predicting stuff from other stuff), or building a backend, let me know. Email is in my profile.
I think this is one of my favorite features that we've added to Light Table recently and it shows one of the benefits of being connected to a running process of the language you're working with: you can use the tools of that language to write code for you. There's nothing that makes this Clojure specific - you could do these same things in any other language too.
I feel like these posts lately haven't really been in the spirit of the "Excel-like spreadsheet in < 30 lines" post. These games lately have just been ultra-min'd versions of standard programs. The Excel-like program used full variable names and a clever trick to take advantage of the dynamic nature of JavaScript and some features of modern browsers.
What is the point of keeping your social network activity secure if using this system will make you a person of interest, which will likely increase surveillance?
Reminds me of this recent incident where the Whitehouse appears to have caved to chinese pressure to dis-invite a reporter.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/china-blocked-ac...
I expect it works like this
a) run an awareness campaign about suicide prevention disguised as a competition among young people to get them talking about and thinking about suicide prevention. Probably do some education in there labelled as 'how to come up with good ideas for our competition', with increased interest due to a potential 'win money!!' hook.
b) who knows, maybe you'd actually get some worthwhile ideas, or something useful could be created. Not really the point, more of a bonus if it happens. But the winners will continue to be aware of the problem, possibly become evangelists, and you can get some more publicity when they release their thing later = more awareness.
Holding. They've had 10x growth per year roughly. It would be smartest to hold them long term, in my opinion.
Sorry, I meant SVG, not PNG.
Well, the SEC said that bitcoins "likely would be securities and therefore subject to our regulation", which would seem to indicate that it would be considered capital gains, rather than income. It's too early to know for sure, though.
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No, (US) congress will simply have children signing paperwork in Pentagon, or inspect bolts in a Boeing factory.

I'm from a country with conscription. The major difference it makes is that the military treats soldiers like shit, because a new fresh batch of soldiers will always arrive, no matter what. In the extreme cases, your son will be found dead with three gunshot wounds and the military decides he committed suicide. In the more benign cases, you end up digging ditches with a shovel in winter, because soldiers are cheaper than machines.
There is a not-so-well-known trick. Type % into the url bar and you can quickly navigate tabs opened. :)
Compare and contrast Bloomberg's stance on investigations regarding another government: http://nypost.com/2013/11/15/bloomberg-boots-china-leak-scri...

Jeff Bezos made a point when he said he wanted the Washington Post to survive as an independent voice. Bloomberg is subject to its customers, which is increasingly in China, which they have decided makes certain stories off-limits.

Due to the generosity of Jeff Bezos[1], the Washington Post does not need to worry about being beholden to its customers like that, at least not for the short-term future. We'll see how it turns out in the long term over time. This is not saying that if it were not for Jeff Bezos, the Washington Post would do similar things, because it's not like they have a lot of readers in China anyway. Just saying that thanks to Bezos, the Washington Post does not need to be beholden to its customers for now.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jeff-bezos-on-post-pu...
> Death does not give life meaning. Life gives life meaning.

I never disagreed with this.

> You can choose to live each day to the fullest without embracing deathism.

I almost disagreed with this.

My point is that procrastination has its payoff as well, but, even if you don't die, the payoff from doing as much as you can is higher.
If money is any indication, which it probably is, then it's a lot.

Toy Story 3 cost $32K per second of screen time.
Submitted several times, but never any discussion:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A(inter...
Not all the cards will be nice and fluffy, but the subset that are might still make her happy.

For religious/political/belief oriented cards, you can imagine filtering them, too. With that said, sometimes it's the thought that counts. Even if you don't believe in someone else's god, the fact that they wish you well is uplifting.
It isn't clear exactly how the app will work, but my guess is it will establish an online support group for depression and encourage communication within the group. Even if it only reaches a tiny audience it could have a major impact on the people who use it. The app itself doesn't directly prevent suicide, but it gives communication tools to a community that does. Sounds like a great idea.
> Cool your jets, man. It wasn't meant to be offensive.

Please do not tell me to 'cool my jets'; this isn't 4chan. Now that the parent has explained what she meant, it's clear that it had nothing to do with conflating Woman and Adult.

That said, if it had meant what I thought it meant then it would have been worth calling out, whether offense was intended or not.
The steps that I'd take in your position:

1) Determine how much back-end I really need (or whether I need one at all). I'm going to assume your grant proposal contains use-cases (or user stories) that describe the interaction with the back-end.

2) Decide what framework(s) your front-end will be using and make a list of the back-ends that you believe would work with the front-end.

3) Define the interface between the front-end and back-end ... an ICD or API document will help you with both sides of the connection.

4) Find a mentor who can get you started with your chosen back-end technology as well as help you out when you get stuck.

I'd use this as a means to learn at least a little about back-end architecture. On the other hand, you could ignore the typical back-end development and go with something you know - e.g. CouchDB uses a RESTful API to store JSON documents, provides facilities for making views, lists (an HTML transformation of a view) and shows (an HTML transformation of a JSON document.

4) Find a mentor who can get you started on the chosen back-end, and help when you get stuck.
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I am currently doing the AppSumo Wantrepreneur course. The course has instructed me to contact individuals that I know and communities that I frequent to get a sense of validation for my idea.

The idea is very simple: a mobile photo-sharing app that allows you embed (via steganography) encrypted messages inside the image.

I understand that there are many particular questions concerning the execution of this idea, but I wanted to make this validation process as inexpensive as possible, in regards to both time and money, through the use of emails and community submissions.

Any feedback in the form of comments to this submission or emails sent to me personally would be appreciated. Thank your very much for you time.

Email: mjstahl (at) gmail (dot) com
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>"You can't leave and start your own brand new world."

Of course people can, and will. Humans have endured great hardships and mortal peril many times for political or religious or other reasons. For Americans, the Puritan emigration to a harsh new world is the most familiar. Hundreds of African migrants, almost all reportedly Christians, died last month when their boat sank during an attempt to escape to Europe. An excellent New York Times article last weekend described a harrowing crossing by refugees from Indonesia to Christmas Island; the reporter was told by Australian officials that "if we had left a few days earlier, the boat would have capsized."

The moon and Mars and the rest of the solar system can and will be colonized eventually (barring an existential event that Stephen Hawking and others have warned of). Yes, it's rather more difficult when there's no free atmosphere or radiation shielding. But it's a question of economics, not will, and every generation in the west is wealthier than the last.

The interesting thing, and this is what apparently alarms folks who would prefer HN to be Status Quo Anti-Innovation Political Curmudgeonly News, is that there's no guarantee that the political systems that emerge in the diaspora will be democratic. Some, I imagine, will be non-democratic and worse than our current system. And some will be far better.
f you're spying on your own people, maybe your intentions are not what you purport them to be.

Spoken like a true gentleman. Thank you for acknowledging the rhetorical fig leaf that covers the immodesty of dragnet surveillance.
Agreed, thanks for the feedback, and, after having worked with end-dash I've come to a lot of the same conclusions you just made.

The dashes were initially just to shorten the common:

<div class="thing" data-text="thing"></div>
to
<div class="thing-"></div>

Using dashes for polymorphic attributes was a bad idea, and is being removed, the data-each was recently added to replace a dashed syntax for collections. We're adding interpolated variables, so that the dash syntax will only be used for scoping.

> Not only that, but check out something like ianstormtaylor/get[2] to see how easy it could be to add support for backbone-like models alongside regular properties and terser, single-method models.

https://github.com/Amicus/end-dash/blob/master/lib/util.js#L...

This does exactly that.

Thanks, from Amicus