skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember that during the previous regime India imported a significant portion of the coal consumed despite having one of the largest deposits of coal in the world. The coal mines are probably one of the biggest corrupt sectors in India but a great deal of changes have taken place recently which has given a fillip to local production.

A lot of Indian thermal power plants ran severely under capacity a few years back and that is changing now. India needs a rapid scale up of energy capacity and needs all the Coal, Solar and Nuclear energy it can get. I am really bullish on the first two (Coal for about a decade or so, can taper off later). I really hope our Nuclear capacity expands fast as well, it is the only environmentally friendly option we have for our size.
I use buildyourownjeans.com for this.

They are somewhat spammy, quality control is dodgy (I've gotten a zipper when I ordered buttons), the website is a joke, but...

The price is right ~$75

They offer things I cant easily get elsewhere that matter to me, 14oz fabric, raw denim, and customized cut
Collage is often not a free choice for many students. Parent or guardians are likely to pick such places and students who 'wake up to reality' or 'lose faith' are a long way from voluntary association.

Now if you want to argue about how narrow blinkers need to be before a horse is blind then your just missing the point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkers_(horse_tack)
MSN was way more popular than AIM in parts of Canada (maybe all, I can't speak nationally).

Probably, AIM usage correlated with AOL's marketing strategy, meaning it prevailed in the US, though I'm not even sure about europe.

Anyhow, your assertion that MSN was only dominant in 3rd world countries is unfounded.
I wouldn't be too afraid of the Linux GUIs. With the amount of customization that is available for these you can probably make it operate very similar to the way your OS X GUI does. Granted that could take some extra work on your part.
I tried overwriting too. But did not get the popup.
> It's really expensive to setup your own server to distribute an application.

I haven't found it expensive at all. I've been selling apps outside App Stores for over a decade and never needed more than my $9/mth shared web hosting. Accepting credit cards is even easier & cheaper through someone like Fastspring or Kagi, who only take 8 - 9% instead of Apple's 30%.

> It's also really annoying to have to patch your apps without a store.

On the Mac, Sparkle is your friend for auto-updates, it's been around since 2006 (long before the Mac App Store existed): http://sparkle-project.org

On Windows, there's WinSparkle, though it isn't quite as elegant: http://winsparkle.org
I certainly hope you'll submit a patch to this open-source project so that others don't have to face the same problems.
So who made "Civilization: Call to power"? Or was that just the publisher still owning the civ name at that point, and neither SM nor BR were involved with that?
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Some ideas seem rather hard to erect and maintain...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
I think the modern equivalent is called Twitter
It's funny, too, that Apple feels there is enough development time to do things like implement completely non-standard UI components but not enough time to fix a growing list of real problems.

To this day, I click on things and assume my click just didn't "take" because nothing seems to be happening. Sometimes that's true, and other times it's because the Mac decided to display progress in the least obvious places.

Ironically the one thing that doesn't update cleanly through the App Store is the OS itself, even though I suspect that was Apple's main reason for creating all this. When El Capitán came out, at first I thought it wasn't even available because it wasn't structured as an "update" to anything (in direct contrast to the way every other upgrade works, including the minor 10.x.x updates!).
In my albeit limited understanding: The older generation completely dominates voting policies, and the younger (Sub 25) generation is mostly indifferent towards politics.

As reference Shinzo Abe, and the Japanese Prime Minister, the man behind Abeconomics is fairly unpopular among the younger generation (Citation needed, this is something I mostly understood from forums), and he still won his re-election.

Again the above should be taken with a grain of salt, as most of my interactions with the Japanese are done through a couple of forums, which could lead to a very skewed perspective.
Global warming of 6 degrees could suffocate life on planet Earth
They already wrote all of their GUI in a nice and compact Tcl. Still such a bloat.

Cadence is using Lisp extensively, and their distributions are also not very small and are hard to maintain.
The Ross Spiral Curriculum - Visualizing the evolution of human consciousness
No mention of why this was rewritten, or any comparison to the existing code...
Two things about this:

1. What does that say about the companies that are allowed to remain?

2. What are the parallels to this and what the US does to its technology companies? I've never heard of a company being "kicked out" of the US for failing to comply with its laws, they're simply penalized.
Which is ridiculous when Steam is there as a shining example of what a store could be. Not having to worry about keys and updates is fantastic for me, plus good discovery and upselling opportunities for developers.

Someone is going to crack desktop app stores one day and do very well. The cost of entry is high (not necessarily in cash, more in reputation) but there are plenty of players who could do it. There's even scope in the SME market in terms of rolling up licencing and deployment. Hell there's even a use case for families.
Food Delivery Startup Good Eggs Has a New CEO
Gee, think you have enough scare quotes around? There absolutely are victims on college campuses--victims of sexual assault, of racist acts of violence, of acts of intimidation based on their sexual orientation. I knew people who suffered these things. It's crap to act as if this is all made up.

The purpose of safe spaces isn't to impose thought control, it's to allow people who have suffered a chance to recover. You can choose to enter one, or you can choose to stay out of one. It's purely a matter of free association. (Perhaps you're thinking of "speech codes"? I agree in opposing those, but it's a separate issue.) A safe space is nothing more than a "free and voluntary association of like-minded people."
Out of unrelated curiosity, what is stopping someone from using this database for nefarious reasons?

I checked a few links for a Game of Thrones search. All were in working order. Seems like this database could be a prime vetted source for getting hard to find torrents/streams/music.

The RSS feed would make it easy to stay updated on new content.
sanoid

https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid
> One of the best programmes on offer (...). A class of primary-aged children ‘“adopts” a real live baby for the year (I’m not joking). Every few weeks the baby visits the class with a parent and programme instructor. The kids sit around the baby and start talking about it – Why is she crying? Why is she laughing, or looking back to her mother when reaching for the toy? The children are trying to empathise – to step into the baby’s shoes.

Many do this without needing government programmes. It's called family: siblings and cousins.

Reinventing the wheel?
I would hardly be surprised that a google product would fail because you are blocking google servers.
I came to know the existence of this project because it listed it's translation messages on TranslateWiki.net, the platform where MediaWiki software (software that runs Wikipedia) got translated. But I never tried to go on and play the game. Maybe I shall try this out sometime.
Fair point. I got a little word-happy.
As a recovering schemer, I often heard how Javascript is very closely related to Scheme, but I've never really seen the resemblance. Granted, both languages possess:

* Dynamic Typing
* Garbage Collection
* First Class Functions

However, Python also meets those requirements. Now, looking at it from the Scheme perspective, Python is missing

* Tail Recursion
* Macros
* Continuations
* Concise Language Spec

However, Javascript is also missing those same factors (though I might be wrong about the tail recursion). Yet, I rarely hear of Python described as an infix version of Scheme, yet I often hear that remark about Javascript.

I really want to like Javascript and I already do like Scheme, so I have a vested interest in seeing the connection, but I'm still missing something. What's the strong resemblance between Scheme and Javascript?
While I never worked directly with dkarchmer, he was a pretty well respected director at Altera. I value his opinion here highly (not to mention it makes sense).
One, international ridicule is a notable consequence. Two, you have no idea what else has happened to them, so you have no grounds for suggesting they have experienced nothing that might aid them in learning. Three, most useful motivation for learning is intrinsic, not extrinsic, so what matters most for their learning is their own opinions on what happened, another thing you don't have access to.
Back when the web was relatively new (say 1998), NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) had a great page that enumerated most of the exotic alternative launch ideas and presented simple graphics and short formulas on what their problems were.

It was back when a much higher portion of people browsing the net could be expected to be relatively technically competent and to care about content and not gloss. Maybe it was removed since it didn't come up to some visual standard. Sadly I haven't been able to find it on archive.org
Its funny (and ironic to me given the topic) you mention Netscape and Apache. One of my first jobs out of college was rewriting an old LiveWire application (yes ... the original server side Javascript) to a JSP Tomcat application.
FWIW, there are real intentions to standardise all the JS extensions or drop them.
Whale Fall
> It could be that it was also result of the character recognition.

That's what I initially thought. But then again, it seemed a bit too paranoid.

The name of the service is discardmail.com
Ignoring security or subversion concerns, there's still plenty of reasons to want access to the bitstream. The brilliant work below gives several use cases in its opening section along with a clever workaround:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150906122018/http://www.isi.ed...

Back to my analogy, the current situation is like having everything to produce assembler or binary but no tools to work with those. You can't debug them, modify, hotload, do JIT's, app restructuring... any improvement to your software that requires access to assembler or binary in RAM. Quite limiting eh, esp given JIT benefits?

Situation is similar for FPGA's with open bitstreams allowing them to be manipulated in situations that would improve performance, flexibility, and so on. Instead, we get these closed bitstreams done all at once by inefficient tools. Poses artificial limits esp for embedded or dynamic scenarios. Opening them up opens up the full power of academic and OSS innovation to those areas. Much of the best innovations in ASIC and FPGA came out of academia so we want the rest opened for improvements.
It means that the correct application of capitalisation is not part of the syllabus.
Chrome for Android skips images for up to 70% data savings
Xbox Kinect technology helps create higher-quality X-rays
Buying WhatsApp made plenty of sense. Paying 22B was 22X what it was worth.
This is a great comment, because it leads in right to the heart of the problem. Why is running a server so hard? This is actually really weird -- the cloud should mean that you can set up a server with a single click.

Of course, a Linux VPS needs a fair amount of love (fiddling with settings, updating, and so on). But there are other ways: https://sandstorm.io/
Didn't know you can do that :( Thanks.
Serious question, would anyone expect to have much in the way of sales for a dice rolling app or a stock gif collection on any other platform?
It's complementary. Both Eclipse Che and Eclipse Orion are part of a new top level project called Eclipse Cloud Development. There are other technologies that are being consolidated together.

Collectively, we are working on a broader platform that has a goal of letting anyone anywhere make contributions without first installing software.

Orion is primarily a client-side technology. It's designed to offer a multi-page browser experience that has simple plug-in approach for customizing the client side experience.

Che is primarily a workspace server, with a focus on workspace portability and interoperability.

In fact, Che embeds Orion as the core editor, the diff editor, and some other components.

Che has a browser IDE that we have built that embeds Orion on the client side, along with adding in additional constructs that we needed for debugging, single page management in the browser, and some other items.
Brew is not even tech-person friendly. I'm comfortable with the command line and I had a ton of problems getting cask to work. I LOVE the idea and I will use it every time I setup a computer, but there's so many issues to work out. Mainly, some apps not updating correctly, the storage of app versions in cask, settings, licensing. It's a mess.

I really hope it gets better. I'd contribute if I was knowledgeable enough to do so.
Yes, actually, I do see conservatives running around upset because people don't use the correct conservative propaganda terms to describe things, our reading against people for using certain words or not using certain preferred words just about every day (one of the joys of having a politically drivers Facebook circle); these only difference abroad the political spectrum that I see on that issue, besides the particular preferred terms, is that on the right there ideas more offense at people not using favored terms, and on the left there is more offense at people using disfavored terms. But there's offense at both on both sides.
Kaggle's annual holiday optimization competition: Santa's Stolen Sleigh
That's not data science, that's middle school multiplication.

Data science would be trying to find out why and putting it into context, especially if there are variables in play that aren't shown by a cursory look. Which a white supremacist has little interest in.
> getting your heart broken

I did the whole Santa Clause bit with my two daughters. Part of it was reliving my own childhood and wanting them to have the same fond memories I did. I don't recall a heart break moment for myself when I realized it was all a ruse. My parents never formally told me. It came on as a sneaking suspicion that eventually became obvious as I grew more aware of how the world really works. And I don't ever recall being pissed off at my folks for leading me on like that. There were still presents under the tree, so what did it really matter?

I'll ask my younger daughter in a few years how she sees it. It's especially interesting in her case, because she cracked the code on Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny all at the same moment, when she recognized that the notes she'd been receiving from them were all in the same handwriting, and that didn't add up for her.
No, I said that AIM was first overtaken by SMS/MMS and then by Facebook/Google/Skype. I didn't say that SMS/MMS died out, just that it was joined by the others.
Not having to worry about keys and updates is fantastic for me, plus good discovery and upselling opportunities for developers.

It's not that great for me. I've had a bunch of my Steam games put out breaking updates and there's nothing I can do about it but wait for subsequent rollbacks. It's a major flaw in the system that a breaking update can be forced down users' throats.
Sandboxing is one of the pain points of Mac App Store. I certainly would like to see sandboxing being more prevalent on the desktop, but not like the MAS way. The user should have the final say of the way in which a sandbox allows and restricts the application. Just for example, I should be able to completely trust an app with access to the filesystem, not with all the popups and confirmations, while disallowing network access from it.
If they're doing that level of scrutiny a million times, they should have released a tool (or even built it into Xcode); something like "Consistency Checker".

It's silly of them to reject apps entirely over checks that anyone could do in advance, if only they knew what to look for.
oh man - I thought this article might just break hacker news the minute I saw the title.
Very interesting, though I would love to see more data in there. 3840 is such a small number for what is actually out there.

I noticed that a lot of the automated stuff, like glasses, is getting a pretty high false positive rate. ~25% of the 'glasses' ones are actually no glasses. Would be very cool to see more out of this though.

Also, don't they need to attribute the image back to where they got it on instagram to comply with the API usage terms?
Slings might work well on the moon and asteroids.

The high gravity and atmosphere becomes a problem for all such stationary schemes here on earth.
So, flex looks to be a better way to create/handle responsive design; rely less on bootstrap and stuff?

On a similar note Im curious if there is a responsive typography framework that's out there and people are using? A framework where the text automatically shrinks down without having to change the font-size in various media queries?
Just looked up the author and found this: http://www.aaaivideos.org/2013/06_task_relevant_roadmaps/

The eyes are so creepy.
It looks like they're using Polymer.js (aka web components), but I've never seen it used for a video game before.
By that standard, basically nobody is smart because practically every person is irrational about something.

I mean, I try not to be, but let's be honest—I wouldn't know if I was.
I understand, but send these guys an email. One of the founders will likely respond to you.

I used to run all my own stuff, but when my children came along, I didn't want to spend all my time chasing issues with servers.

Look the Fastmail guys up. If anyone is doing email correctly, it's Rob, Bron, and the guys at Fastmail. They actually write some of the code for the Cyrus IMAP server, so if you were in doubt as to how talented these guys are, don't fear. I would now NOT trust my email to anyone else. They are that good. Yes, I know, I'm some random guy on the Internet, but I'm an IT guy, which in itself says nothing, but I'm nothing if not extremely picky about my own IT. These guys can fix any issues you may have and probably give you some awesome suggestions. They are approachable, something you will never get from any other company. They are based in Melbourne, Australia, but use NYI here in the US. Worth a call if you value good service and top-notch know-how from guys who know email better than anyone else I'm aware of. They routinely post in the Email Discussions Web site forum.
Don't use VPN services
I agree. It is also worth noting that what goes into GDP in terms of trade is net exports, i.e. exports - imports. Lower commodity prices have given a huge boost to that GDP component as India is a net consumer of commodities.

That said, I don't know how accurate India's official figures are. But I doubt that they are less reliable than the Chinese ones.
My brother with autism started texting, now we're closer than ever
Yes, you missed that adults lie. A truth needed to be learned the hard way. Also: learning that Santa is not real allows you to question religion. A turning point in many peoples lives.
Images + spreadsheet? This is strange, but I see it being very useful (I just realized this utility after reading the use cases on the landing page, but I wouldn't use it the way it is shown on the actual examples).

The problem will be to drive adoption of such a strange new concept.
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Site is down right now. Here's Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150424222319/http://terralang....
I know this is HN but could we (maybe for 2016?) quit confusing Silicon Valley with the rest of the world. There is nothing in TFA or Facebook's new headquarters (or Google, or Apple) that says anything about real work being taken place anywhere else.
This reminds me of assertions we used to take for granted about DRAM. We used to assume that the contents are lost when you cut the power, but then someone turned a can of cold air on a DIMM. We usually assume that bits are completely independent of each other, but then someone discovered the row hammer. The latter is especially interesting because it only works on newer DIMM technology. Technology details change, and it's hard to predict what the ramifications will be. A little extra caution isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Frankly, the slowness of the Mac App Store and its connection in China is the starting reason that some Chinese developers seek Xcode outside the official channel, hence the XcodeGhost.
This may be my paranoia talking, but is there a way short of an examination with a scanning electron microscope to ensure that the erase command is actually doing what it's supposed to do?

Not so much that the drive manufacturers are engaging in malfeasance (though that's certainly not off the table), but that it's not unheard of for certain agencies in certain governments to crock low level system components (intercepting them in shipping and so forth) so they work against the user.

..or just plain ignorance. A study indicates that back in 2011, half of the major drive vendors weren't doing the erase correctly. https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast11/tech/full_papers...
Don't know about other countries, on my case in France, it was MSN-only, I've never seen anyone with a AIM account ever. I had no idea it used to be popular in the US, I've actually learned that now.
"Having a proper hygienic macro system (instead of C's very limited string-replacement "macros" or C++ template hell) is a really helpful abstraction, and the compile-time stuff you can do can basically act as a build system."

Exactly. I long ago came to the conclusion that any modern systems language should have a hygienic, macro system to balance productivity/maintenance against performance. Just makes things so much easier. That morons can abuse it is no reason not to have it in the language as they abuse everything haha.
I don't know about support, but my experience is it works fine on Windows.
This may be a reference to a SciFi trope where a space faring society has use of hyperdrive technology that it bought/stole/inherited from an older civilization, but doesn't have any ability to create and/repair
To be fair, if you stick to the good parts, any language is good.

It's the good parts : bad parts proportion that tends to ruin things.
Many Steam games can be rolled back to previous versions using the "betas" feature.