skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nokia and Türk Telekom collaborate to advance 5G development
Major Hurdles to Digital India’s Success
Digital India project is a highly talked about initiative taken by Indian Government. It was launched by the honourable Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi on July 1, 2015 and aims at ensuring that all the Government services reach every citizen of India electronically. - See more at: http://www.biz2credit.in/blog/2016/03/22/major-hurdles-to-digital-indias-success/
Since November ballot is near, These apps are worth to download
Much as I'm in favour of private servers in general, this statement doesn't really work.

Blizzard have to - legally have to - pay the people who do customer support, development, art, writing server ops, etc.

That adds up to a lot more than just server costs.
Apply HN: Grid –  a Decentralized AI Assistant
Problem: The internet allows you to know a lot of things but what it doesn't tell is the nitty-gritty details you want to know. And to give you that information, the app/web needs to know about you, a lot. And we all know how much we can trust someone with our data. This gap prevents us from having the connected experience we deserve, from knowing more about our vicinity and often forces us to make uninformed decisions.

Solution: A mobile application which creates a decentralized network using Bluetooth and WiFi and uses this network to power the AI assistant. The AI learns from your activities, preferences and routine and gives you suitable notifications when you need it. All your personal information and everything the AI learns is kept on your phone only. And if someone on the Grid makes a query that needs your data then it is properly anonymized first.

Extra feature: Just like any network, Grid also supports running applications over it. Anyone can make simple plugins for the network!

Status: The app can create a network and has been tested(It sometimes crashes on Android 5+ devices :p but me and my team are close to fixing that). The plugin framework is also complete and just the documentation is left. We are now focused on the AI part, and we believe we can have an alpha by the mid of may.

Background: We are a team of 6 and are practically in our final year of college. We are classmates and have know each other for more than 2 years and we have been working on this idea for the past 11 months.

The idea could sound quirky or boring, and I really really would like to know your opinion, your remarks, your rant. I am all ears to what you have to say.

Looking forward to your comments :D
If we're talking about shoplifting, I have no experience in this but surely the penalties for stealing a $2 item are different than for stealing a $200 or $2,000 item, and indeed a store will be less likely to press a prosecution for a low-valued item. Thus, particularly if you are a small-time or casual thief, it is safer to target very cheap goods, even taking into account the fact that you need to be a lot more prolific to realise the same income.
I know it with these meanings, but used it in the third form (here's from Wiktionary):

(1) A storehouse for maturing wine, a winery.

(2) A store specializing in Hispanic groceries.

(3) (slang, New York) Any convenience store.
It was made after Mickey Mouse.

Who are you kidding? It will never be public domain.
Hi Sajeev,

Seems very interesting. How do you compare with services like spark form readdle? Also how long does the categorization take the first time?
Not really. The relocated people generally arrived in Houston with nothing because they were evacuated to Houston and had nothing to return to in NOLA. Houston took in some of the poorest of the poor. I lived in Houston during Katrina (and actually was a catastrophe insurance adjuster,) so I saw it first hand. Many of those people got healthy FEMA money and were able to restart in Houston. However to be fair, the crime rate in Houston did spike due to some of the influx and the problems it brought (such as NOLA gang members getting into disputes with local gang members.) Overall though, it seemed to be a positive for most involved. (It did result in a much elevated Cajun/Creole cuisine due to the NOLA cooks that relocated!)
Haskell and Python are two languages that couldn't be more different. Are there developers that prefer both and constantly switch between them? Besides the obvious that Python has one or two cool libraries, why would anybody willingly do that?
I feel the author's pain. I had a short consulting gig recently where I was asked to speed up a simulation job written in Python by a mechanical engineer. Smart guy but not a programmer, so the script was full of global variables, side effects and imperative loops.

I parallelised the script, which is pretty easy in Python but involved refactoring into a more pure functional style. I abstracted out the algorithms and added in some persistent memoization as a bonus. It was clean and did what they needed, but... unfortunately was now completely unintelligible to the engineer who wrote it.

When I was asked back 6 months later to help again, they had reverted to using and modifying the old script. This time I kept the changes to the absolute minimum.
> To see why: when you type "x.foo()" we need run type inference on the complete data flow chain that produced the value "x", so that we know which particular "foo" you're using. Throughout this analysis we may also need to know a lot about the python libraries you're using, since you may be passing values into and out of arbitrary third party libraries.

I don't understand. The libraries I'm using need to be on my machine anyway. If you're doing type inference, there's no need to do the whole process each time: you incrementally add type information and keep it in an index in RAM and the disk. Can't there be a hybrid approach, where your servers are contacted only for libraries that are searched over but not imported yet?
Anyone knows how can I install it on Linux (Red Hat) when I don't have admin privileges? Any portable version I can just unzip and use?
You think Musk is the right guy? He might be but his ability to build rockets and be a 'visionary' is directly proportional to the amount of funding he has received. It would seem like there could be others that could be even more effective than Musk if given the same resources.
You might be thinking of LWN. They covered the scheduler multiple times over the years: https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Scheduler
i was used joomla
Visual Studio C++ Productivity Tips
His book, renewable energy without the hot air, is something that I frequently use as a reference and my last comment on Hacker news was a reference it. I had no idea he had cancer, as I read his other blog.

It's deeply saddening that someone who has had a significant positive impact on the UK - as an advisor to the government - and world, won't be able to continue to make more positive impacts. I imagine it would be hard for someone to fill the gap that has been left by him.
> If people like you (technologists) can get out of the pessimism of pro-aging trance, a lot can be accomplished in the next 20 to 40 years.

I'm a technologist, but I'm easily admit I'm just as useful as a brick-layer when it comes to stopping the progress of aging.
The answer is easily.

UN troops are simply troops rented by the UN from member countries. They are no less or better trained nor less corrupt than their fellow soldiers back home who are not wearing blue helmets.

Renting troops to the UN is a racket that nets a lot of money. Countries have even been known to cheat the UN by pretending they have more troops or equipment deployed than is actually the case so they earn more.

Think of them as Pakistan, French, Australian or Nigerian etc. troops wearing blue helmets, they are nothing more than that.
It's New Yorker slang for 'small convenience store usually owner operated.'
Microsoft tried that before the ribbon (with adaptive menus dynamically showing/hiding items based on use).

The ribbon is not fundamentally adaptive, IIRC the initial Office 2007 implementation was neither adaptive nor customisable, although it was partially contextual (some ribbon tabs would only appear when they made sense e.g. formatting when selecting text or cells)
Only the best writing service can met the expectation of the customer. Since the best essay writing service have the expert writers. The expert writers have deep knowledge in each subject. So it is very important to select best service.
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For me, the most important take away from this article is the importance of keeping files in formats that are open. On my Macbook Air, all of my personal files are in text, jpeg/png, pdf, or mp3 formats. Of course, even open formats can fall out of favor, but that doesn't seem to happen as often.

I also like that you encrypted your backups, although in doing so you probably made Senator Dianne Feinstein cry.
Yes same! Pics and a small vid of the gesturing with hot pink gloves please!
Comments, readability plus typabiliy where one of the main reasons I recently chose YAML for a configuration file. It seems YAML is a bit unloved these days, perhaps because it is more difficult to parse fully.

YAML references also proved useful in my use case.
How to get to a nearby galaxy in less than 20 years – using laser power
I think immortality, like flying cars, is a goal that will only come incremementally.

It may take 1000 years to make people who can live 10,000 years, and in the interm I doubt we can imagine the social and economic changes that will happen as people progressively live longer.

Take the current world, and allow everyone to live till they are 120 instead of dying in their 70s on average. Is it such a horrible thing?
TIS-100 made me wish I could have programmed in the 80s. I doubt it means I'm a good programmer, but god is it fun.
> I agree with you that some measure of notification that there's spam filtering would be good, but it's Google we're talking about. There's spam filtering.

Nonsense! I had no idea this was a feature of GAE. I pay for the use of GAE, and so long as I send less than my quota of emails, it's not Google's business what the content of those emails are.

There's no reason that there should be silent spam filtering on outgoing mail sent by my app. If they suspected that my app was sending spam, they should have notified me and disabled my app. That would have alerted me to the problem.

I find it absolutely abhorrent that Goole would just send private communications sent to me by prospective clients into the trash where they can never be retrieved or restored, and to do so without telling me is beyond belief.
Show HN: Net-Commander – Automation and iOT IDE
The Chinese have lost nothing of value. Terrible site.
I think they are saying only rich people can fully enjoy skyscraper trees (i.e. they can lie on the ground). Pleb can just watch but never touch the trees.
Reykjavik is available on the world clock, and if you go there it picks up the correct timezone automatically. The only missing part is that the system timezone widget which you would never normally use doesn't have it.

Also, while excluding a country would be a fairly crappy thing to do, Iceland is the 174th largest country in the world by population, so it's not big relative to very much at all
You believe theft is new? Check out Oliver Twist sometime!
I'm always surprised that PSPad [1] doesn't get mentioned much in these conversations. I find the built-in utilities are more numerous and work much better than Notepad++. It also handles large files much better IME.

It may be that the customisation is a bit less polished (eg, no way to quickly set themes) and the user community is less developed. But it really does everything and much better than the others IMHO.

[1] - http://www.pspad.com/en/

edit: words
Publish on the Amazon Store for your paid apps and on F-Droid for your free ones. Or publish mini games for Free on Fdroid with links to your own hosted paid games. Don't give up.
Hi Shanu,

That's a good question. Part of the problem is addressed by few startups like meta.sc and mohiomap, all in infancy like us. They both allow search for files across all storage. But they don't attempt to categorize the data nor allow data of offline devices to be kept within them.

We are complimentary to Dropbox and Googledrive. Users can continue to keep their data where ever they are storing now. We just make the discovery easier.

Thanks, those are some great questions. Happy to answer any further questions you may have.
You forgot the map operation (and I would also filter out nulls): (just to be pedantic)

foo.stream()
.filter(s -> s != null)
.map(s -> s.description())
.filter(s -> !s.isEmpty())
.collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
..."started by" or "(was) started with"?

Regardless of origination locale, can we (HN) try to be more universal with our topics?
have you seen http://json-schema.org ?
OctoMouse, open-source OS X app for measuring your mouse and keyboard activity
Is it open source? (VSCode)

Wikipedia: "Visual Studio Code is an open source source code editor"
Crowdfunding and Order Fulfillment Service from China to Worldwide
It can't be used right now anyways, so if it currently doesn't support your favorite language, what does it matter? Who knows what it will support once we get an alpha/beta/release version?

Do you also tell the people that show you a prototype of their product that they are misleading you, because they claim to build an extended product out of that prototype?
That upper floors get more light has always been touted as a benefit of apartments however, on the actual ground people are happy within forested or even brush covered suburbs where trees break up direct sunlight.

There may well be a market out there for people who live in short suburban apartments now, but desire to have the same kind of treescape outside their window but live in densely populated downtown.
Most people will, but this is written by a Debian developer and they're one of the few groups of people who actually make use of the OpenPGP web of trust.
Or being sold back to you by the thieves...
Baby Talk
This whole thread has just triggered me into finding out why current versions of MS Office are failing to open some 20+ year old documents that I have. Turns out, MS Office no longer supports Word for DOS/WordPerfect/AbiWord files - which is fine I guess, but to rub salt into the wound, there used to be converter plug-ins available, but MS not longer host them for download (I guess the 400kb archive was taking up too much space or something). I just had to resort to hunting down the archive and downloading it from some unknown/untrusted file directory. Anyway, it works and I can now open all my ancient documents in Office 2013 - which is not bad considering the converter plug-ins were written for Office 97.

Regarding the article - I'm not sure I understand the concept behind storing a set of the recovered files in a Cloud service. Surely a second HDD with the same contents stored at a second location would be cheaper in the long run. The HDD would last 20+ years if stored correctly - you can't guarantee that your consumer level Cloud service will still be around even in 10 years time.
In the other direction, Simon Tatham's puzzle collection (many implementations, including a good one on Android) generates maps for you to solve: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Anybody who's been in the army.
Do you think its realistic (honest question) to have 57,116.0 people per square mile and also have a fully functioning ecosystem?

I think if we've decided to build a skyscraper network, we've already decided against a normal ecology by default.
I do not follow Kernel Dev enough to have a good representation of what happened, but it seems to me that it was another example of smart people pushed out. Nowadays I think he is just maintaining his patches from one kernel release to the next, it was smart for Con to stop interacting with them and move to other types of devs, it comes a point where you have to keep your sanity.
I read it as "(not smart) is (not stupid)" and thought the article was going to be about how intelligence is overrated.
Is there any evidence that the deployment of the nepalese soldiers had any ill effects at home? That their absence handicapped responses to those crises?

On the other hand, deploying the nepalese soldiers equips them with practical experience (some of which might well have come in handy after the 2015 quake), and I assume they are fairly well paid on a UN mission too. Injecting some cash into Nepal is not a bad thing.
It's common usage to say or write UTC as a timezone when you mean UTC+0.
Will he in another ten years remember the password?

Happend to me. Encrypted an archive, and the funny thing is I did save the password into a password manager, but I didn't label it descriptively enough, so when I tried decrypting the archive I couldn't locate the right password. I could have just tried them all, but I had a copy of the files from the archive in another place so I just deleted the encrypted archive.
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It's the Guardian. That's their thing. That paper employs an admitted KGB spy (after his spying was revealed.) Same paper that supported Stalin. The Guardian has a deep rooted history in the 'class' struggle. Not a condemnation, just context. It's the American Left equivalent of MSNBC or analogous to the right wing Washington Times.
I heard from some architects that's the exact reason they stopped using photorealistic 3D renders. A lot of customers started to complain that the building looked totally different when finished.
Well, Nostalrius was hosted in France (OVH), and it didn't change much.
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Hi Vikas,

That's a good question. Spark is an inbox assistant which helps to improve the email tasks productivity. Eventhough the categorization of emails makes it looks like it is in the same space as Vaultedge, I think it is not. Vaultedge is a personal document organizer, which helps you to find your documents quickly irrespective of whereever it is. So we work across emails, cloud storage, offline devices etc. So in that sense, the purpose of these two tools are different at least as of now.

Thanks for the great question. Happy to answer any follow up questions.
Depends where you live. I grew up in scientific communities and there were always cafes. They were very much like coffee shops but the only choice was regular or decaf coffee.
I seem to remember that the countries providing peacekeepers are compensated for their efforts. Even if not, there must be some benefit or they wouldn't participate.

There could also be some benefit for these soldiers. It must be quite the learning experience for a Nepalese soldier to work in Haiti. I know there have been numerous problems with such deployments, but there's an upside to it even if it's hard to measure.
A repository where all pull requests are accepted
As an example, VS needs UAC permission to integrate with a local IIS install, so there's a big group of .NET-based web developers that really need it with such a setup.

But honestly, giving a developer non-admin privileges of their own (as in their work environment) computer is like giving a carpenter a rubber hammer to hammer nails. I find it insulting.
“Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists (1999)
The source code and the database required to make it work contains the names of all spells, instances, quests and their briefings, NPCs...

Maybe they could even claim patents on the protocol? Who knows.
Right, but I think its a bit unfair to compare skyscraper trees to parks. It doesn't have any relation to 'real' wilderness, these are more like balcony gardens with very large potted plants.
>I think even with no name brands, they'd still have to sell at a loss to be competitive with that kind of markdown. Hard to compete when the other guy's cost is $0.

Corollary: for a big store, selling at a loss could still be more profitable than having stuff stolen.

Actually just giving stuff away could still be more profitable if it cut big store security costs.

Of course you'd have to ration or otherwise control the volume of sales, otherwise you'd just cannibalise official sales from the big store.
Icons are the Acronyms of Design
Now that's an interesting idea. Starting a UBI in a poor country has to be an awful lot cheaper than starting it in a rich one with a high cost of living; a small charity can do a comparatively large amount of good.
Do not play this if you have work to do!
Should Agencies Focus Only on Emotions for Advertising?
How Democratic Is the Internet Governance and Policy Making Process?
You lost the opportunity for recurring jobs every six months.
>Those have no costs, except for limited maintenance, and the game development has paid itself years ago. So it is virtually pure profit.

Sorry for nitpicking, but ancient versions of the game client don't really work so well on modern hardware. Also, we don't know how much the server infrastructure has changed since then. It's not that easy.
Valuation Methods: Spotlight on the Scorecard Method
Thanks for sharing, might come in handy.

Doing it for the money is the losing battle. At least you're self publishing it and have full control over it, and do well with marketing. Otherwise it's better spending that time working on client projects. But personally did it for the experience. It was a really nice challenge and the best way to learn something is by teaching :)
How to shit your pants: An illustrative example
Somewhat related to this, I am amazed by the analysis done by bionerd23. Her study of cesium 137 levels in vegetation is interesting. She measured the levels in mushrooms found in Bavaria and apples found just 4km away from Chernobyl and saw that only 0.10 of cesium was found in apples. Interesting study.

You can find her videos on youtube.
>If they took this on contingency

can you imagine otherwise, i.e the size of their retainer and rates :)
Google is known for paying way above market average, but there's also the question of levels. I'd venture to say that most Google engineers I know work two levels below their capability. The concentration of talent is one thing, but the promotion process is so tedious that folks just tend not to go for it. As a result, what you call "average talent" will more than likely get less compensation at Google than they otherwise would. Certainly that was my case, even though money played no part in my decision.
Yes! There is the same ambiguity in Yaml, so syntax highlighters of the format don't agree where a string ends...

The site even has an ambiguous example:
three: 4 # oops
Well, is that "4 # oops" or 4?
I saw no rule about ending comments, and they say that
three: 3 times
is a string.

I have seen no formal specification of the grammar, so we already have lot of ambiguity. Good luck to implementers...

Seriously, removing the "no quotes needed" rule would improve greatly the format. If you want to include HTML with double quotes literally, just use the multiline string format and be done.
Thanks. Agree that it might have been better as 2 posts, allowing people to choose which parts of it to read. This actually started as simple reflection on pen&paper with a cup of tea, so mostly just kept the same format.
Which conference, Eurosys?
If the details of moderation rules were public, companies would be facing additional labor costs dealing with posters pushing hard on the edges of those rules.

If the rules have really hard edges. I think that's very unlikely. I think the substantial reason companies won't publish their moderation rules is almost certainly that they don't have much more than a few bullet points - and a page of "things the lawyers have said you mustn't let people say" - and otherwise leave it up to the whim of the moderators.

Having said that, it might well be illegal - or in contempt of court - to publish the list of things that are moderated for legal reasons.
Something I'm still struggling with :/