skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology tends to be value-neutral. The application of technology could be for evil or for good. To claim that the primary purpose of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (NAVIC) is for belligerent activities is to claim knowledge of the intentions of the Indian government at the time of the system's creation.

Couldn't it be just as likely or more likely that multiple positive and negative rationales were in play at the time?

- reduced dependency on the US
- chance to learn something for oneself
- give boost to the Indian aerospace fields
- home-grown navigational abilities for war but also for civilian use
- pride, wanting to be seen as a global tech leader
- any other number of things?

I think it is amazing that we now have not one (US) but five (US, EU, CN, IN, RU) navigational satellite systems, two of which (US, RU) are globally operational and two more will be (EU, CN) by 2020. What interesting times we live in.
IMHO, it's pretty useless compared to the current government and country's scenario. They better electrify the villages and provide better sanitation to the people rather then spending millions on mars, moon missions to prove their superiority! What a waste!

It may stop working in a year or two like any of their indigenous inventions!!

I'm not undermining any Indians, nor the way they work but as they are governed is by far the worst considering the current and past situations.

No quality, no nothing.
Software licenses as non-fungible tokens
Stored procedures are a little easier to handle provided your deployment system does a wipe/replace, similarly to overwriting scripts/executables.

I was thinking of a grimmer scenario, where the system has an disquieting aspect of polymorphic, run-time code editing... central to its "flexible" production behavior. There are more things in heaven and earth than dreamt of in sane philosophy.
If the companies that offer their employees enough to live on are driven out of business by companies like Uber, then of course it will be the best deal they have available.
Underpaying what baseline?

A recently hired software engineer at Tesla, while not giving specific figures, said that the base comp was competitive and the options were $100k+ over the standard 4-year vesting schedule. I've heard similarly from a handful of others; I'd expect the comp to be inline at SpaceX.

Not to mention the growth potential for your stock options between SpaceX and Tesla may be higher than comparable companies.
You're assuming that if an app offers you encrypted conversations, it is okay for it to let a cottage industry of piracy marketplaces to thrive. If that was an okay thing to do, WhatsApp, Apple, WeChat and others would allow it to. The article illustrates that Telegram has a piracy problem. Piracy is not a cool thing. Anyone could search for "movies" etc terms and end up on these channels. They are open and you don't have to join them to read the content. The least Telegram could do is monitor open channels. Check Twitter, and other forums, there are countless posts from creators asking Telegram to take down the channel, but Telegram doesn't seem to care. If these creators were able to find their own stuff floating around on these channels, Telegram should be able to do that, too. Don't start the encryption debate, that is not what this article is trying to talk about.
As good but works only in the Indian subcontinent and its neighbourhood.
One of the first pieces of info FB asks for is your DOB.
I thought the only treaties affecting weapons in space were specific to nuclear explosives?
I didn't consider using it for piracy cause I didn't even know Telegram had groups. Heh. Talk about drawing attention.
I hope so too :) but what I mean is even removing apocalyptic scenarios, I still think serious space travel with flesh and blood humans is never going to happen
Price transparency makes a lot of sense in general. With Hospital EHR purchases IIRC there was a ten time difference in price between similarly sized organizations as an extreme.

Here is a version of price transparency as a bill: https://revcycleintelligence.com/news/house-reps-introduce-h...
Telegram lets you upload content directly on the platform -- as long as the file size is under 1.5GB. Once you have uploaded the stuff, you can share it with others, who only need to tap on the download button to directly get the file on their device from Telegram's servers.
Sydney has had a huge influx of population and the lack of infrastructure to accommodate this growth is a major issue.

I just don't see how splitting into three cities solves any of these problems. Now they are three separate governments with different amounts of funds/budget.

The Easter Harbour District with the CBD should garner the highest budget and thus have more runway to build infrastructure, but what about the other two cities?

Will they still be able to benefit from the tourism revenue from the CBD and Harbour?
You make a case for shorter patents, that would encourage rapid innovation and and short term profit.
It's probably in Apples best interested to let this firm operate. It might be even a long term strategy for them. It relieves pressure from them and keeps law enforcement happy.
There are neither inherent negative effects nor positive effectives of genetically engineered foodstuffs. GMOs themselves are just a class of invention, which is why their conflation as a thing in and of themselves is so inappropriate. And so one must consider each and every GMO on a case by case basis, which is exactly the opposite of what we're doing.

And this leads to the next problem. Genetically engineered products are patented inventions that come with a litany of terms and conditions on their usage. Among the terms Monsanto includes is that their seeds cannot be used for public research without specific permission from the company. [1] There was also an editorial on this here [2]. In other words most of every study you've seen on Monsanto products has been rubber stamped by Monsanto. There couldn't be a conflict of interest there, could there? As an aside Monsanto in turn then uses this bias to create appeals to authority. When new work is done that does cast their product in a negative light they then immediately appeal to the quantity of their 'approved' work to try to discredit the new work by authority alone. It's like arguing that the Sun must indeed revolve around the Earth because we have 200 years of science showing it does! Again, anytime you see an appeal to authority - I think it should make you rather curious about why somebody would go this route.

And there's also the issue of retaliation. The examples on the individual level are extensive, but let's consider how this goes all the way to the top in large part thanks to Monsanto's extreme success in we'll say 'influencing' the US government. Here's a quote: "Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits. The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early victory." What is that from? That was a response, proposed in a confidential US cable, to a retaliation against a grievous act from France. What was France's decision? The heinous and unspeakable act of ceasing cultivation of Monsanto Corn!!!

The exact tactics vary, but in general themes this is very similar to how leaded fuel persisted as long as it did. Similarly with CFCs. And again there are also plentiful other issues and themes in play here, but I'm trying to avoid writing a novel!

[1] - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-seed-companies...

[2] - http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/13/opinion/la-oe-gurian...

[3] - https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/07PARIS4723_a.html
Telegram would be blocked in Russia by court decision made today at 8:33 UTC, so this article is a bit outdated.
If it turns out to be the case that Uber drivers fall between the cracks, so to speak, that’s kind of the legislature’s job to solve. Not that they will, of course.
> It is no longer possible for small producers of movies or documentaries to fund themselves.

When was this golden age? Before the internet was widespread, small producers could not even get broadcasted due to the prohibitive cost of broadcasting methods.

> The piracy era was incredibly beneficial for society because it gave a lot of people access to software tools and knowledge they previously could never afford to access, but when it proliferated too much, the companies and individuals that produced software and books and video could no longer sustain themselves financially.

There's currently no research suggesting that piracy makes creators lose money unlike the movie industries are claiming.
Transparent _reverse_ proxy, which very likely was not the originally intended use case.
> It is no longer possible for small producers of movies or documentaries to fund themselves.

KickStarter allow small producers to fund themselves, YouTube allow to monetize your views.
It’s easy, but poses massive problems in the public sector or finance. Say you’re terrible at paying your dept, but manage to do so 10 years late.

Now your transaction is complete and you have the right to be forgotten, but I wouldn’t want to ever lend you money again. How do I keep that record?
Aside from the 401k, you need health insurance too.

I can tell you from experience that your cost per month as a tiny company is MUCH higher than being an employee at a larger company.
GPS is the US system. GNSS is the generic term.

The basic use is navigation (the N is GNSS). That capability can be used for both civilian and military purposes. Chances are that even though it will be used by the Indian military it will be used far more often for civilian purposes.
I like Dutch people. I really do. They have this sense of honesty, that if they don't like something, they'll blatanly tell you "that sucks, throw it away and make a new one". No sugar-coating involved.

That said, Dutch people tend to be (let me say it nicely) 'very considerate on their spending patterns'.

The biggest object I've moved with Uber was a 40" TV which I carried and placed in/removed from the trunk.
Drug development is really hard - the odds are stacked against you.

Any successful drug with half a business case will be launched - no company can afford to be picky about cure vs. chronic treatment - there just aren't that many successful drug discoveries to enable it.
Writing a Wikidata Query: Discovering Women Writers from North Africa
Welcome to why the cryptocurrency market exists. Can't wait till the accredited investor rule dies
MS play this game because they have to. If they had the option to cut Google off cold they would take it in a heartbeat.
Civilization is having the gun and choosing not to use it. Not bothering with the gun, singing kumbayah and depending on human goodwill is never going to work.

Human history shows there are competing interests who are willing to kill to get their way. Those lulled into a sense of complacency by fantasy narratives about the how the world works learn the hard way.

See the list of recent victims in the middle east starting from Iraq, Libya and now Syria. Tens to hundreds of thousands killed, families destroyed, infrastructure, education, healthcare destroyed and countries sent back decades if not hundred years in service of human greed.

And 50 years later commentators will dismiss these 'third world' countries as utter failures and insinuate some deficiency without any context of history. You can debate for ever but the man with the biggest gun gets the last word.
I don't understand, could you elaborate on how compression around your neck prevents anything from rising into your upper chest, considering the higher positioning of the neck in relation to the chest?
The BBC stated 25 minutes ago (from this posting) that the block has started to take effect.

>The Russian government has started to block messaging app Telegram, according to reports from the local news agency Tass.

>Russia's media regulator had sought to block the app because the firm has refused to hand over encryption keys used to scramble messages.

>Telegram had missed a deadline of 4 April to hand over the keys.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43752337
Chat applications have mistakenly transformed code into emojis and links for as long as I remember. That isn't new. But facebook takes it to another level by blocking your messages because it doesn't like the urls.
The rise of cognitive work (re)design
I don't see any reason they couldn't fly more satellites if their customer base justifies it. The problem they have relative to ground-based systems is the satellites are not stationary. So to increase coverage density on one spot, they have to increase density for everywhere else on the same orbit.
Show HN: Elman – Full text searching linux man pages
A good way to teach that for native users might be to teach why that is the case and leave the specifics to happenstance.
How can you tell which nav systems your phone can see?
Australia: Murder charges dropped against Muslim who stabbed two to death
That sounds like a bug rather than a feature.
Head of Nobel literature prize panel quits over sex abuse scandal
The NSW government abandoned a forced amalgamation of 14 city councils in Sydney in July last year. My question is this; are they proposing amalgamating existing local councils into three major cities or are they proposing three major urban planning “zones”?... hence the “split” of Sydney into three. If it’s the second option, I wonder how local councils will cooperate considering the animosity toward forced amalgamation in the past?
Everything you always wanted to know about scroll*
Show HN: I made an extension to count items tagging you on Facebook
Here's a map that shows how many deaths in traffic are occuring per 1 million inhabitants in europe: https://etsc.eu/wp-content/uploads/map_twitter.png
Why it’s better to outsource software development
Have you seen comments on this article on the original site? What is wrong with those people?
Private placements are normally for accredited investors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor

In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence, or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year.
Can you generate React code and use React widgets?
By that logic, developer should not be paid if there is a bug in the systems. Besides formal methods that is always the case.
Is this article satire?

>Law-abiding citizens: Please do NOT download. Thank you.

Is this in jest or not?
Android API provides this:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Gns...

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Gns...

You can also use apps like GPS Test [0], etc. They can tell it as well. QZSS is represented by square icon(s) in that app.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chartcross... (not affiliated with them in any way)
>Who does this article really work for?

An important point. Criticism so far of Telegram has almost exclusively been of the fact that they refuse to hand over encryption keys to governments. For P2P piracy, there are more effective and more popular options than Telegram.

When encryption is being debated, you can be sure a few cards will always be played, among them are: intellectual property (piracy), black market commerce, and child pornography.
[citations needed] I'm not aware of any research demonstrating that despite hearing this from the movie industry.
Funny you'd mention that, the parent's post reminded me of my experience with Discord a while ago. I was trying to paste some code and basically nothing made it through unscathed because the chat kept interpreting the text in... interesting ways.

IRC has its quirks but at least it's relatively easy to send arbitrary ASCII text.
I think that this one answers the question pretty good: https://xkcd.com/209/
In Europe, UberPOP is considered a transport company and not an IT service company which has different rules.https://tweakers.net/nieuws/137241/eu-hof-lidstaten-mogen-ub...
Car Rental Application Development: Cost, Timeline, and Features
My GF worked on an mmo's tweens. Said one experiment with filters ended with a 12 you old boy writing, I'm going to stick my giraffe up your pink bunny.
> Also...yes, you can transfer files over IMs. Yes, having good encryption protects everyone. Duh, where is the news? Maybe that's part of why the article feels extremely sensationalist to me.

According to the article, you can upload as many files as you wish, each up to 1.5G in size to be hosted and shared publicly by telegram and you can do so anonymously. No other IM system allows for this.
Which is the basis of all salaried jobs ie you don't have fixed hours of work
These are essential national security assets, used for military purposes, and which a hostile (or even neutral) owner could turn off in case of war. The civilian use-case is a handy side benefit.
The corresponding number of fatalities in USA is 115.9 per 1 million inhabitants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
To do what?

In case you ever stopped paying; and because stopping displaying ads _and_ stopping tracking was more work than just stopping display.
So we agree medicine cannot be managed as a business, right?

It's ok if healthcare losses money, in fact it should be ok for all public sevices to operate and not being profitable.
> if you need to forget that a user you simply burn whatever is behind that UserID [...]
you need to break any associations that would allow you to identify a natural person

The problem is that as you collect more "impersonal" data, the probability that your collective data can still be used to identify someone approaches 100%.

"We don't know their name, but Deleted User 4510 was friends with every single member of the John Doe family except for John Doe himself..."
Space is vast... far bigger than you're imagining. Probably the best analogy, that I've heard, to put your mind at ease: think about how many cars are on the road today.

There are about 1 billion cars.

Is the surface of Earth crowded?

Well, not only is the surface area of a single sphere in low-earth orbit (LEO) bigger than the surface area of Earth, you have to remember we're dealing with volume. We can move in three dimensions and thus there are many "surfaces".

There's an order of magnitude more space for things in space. ;)

We're not even going to get close to delivering 1 billion objects to orbit anytime soon. And even then, it wouldn't be crowded.
While Discord has many other limitations it's use Markdown so it's super easy to send little snippet of code using it.
thanks, creating https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16827968 was easier
> Slack does not even scale to corporate size

I don't understand what corporate size is. Care to give some numbers?
>If you assumed that artificial intelligence itself couldn't run for mayor, you're absolutely not wrong; that just happens to be where things get truly interesting. The two-person team pushing Michihito Matsuda consists of both Tetsuzo Matsumoto, the vice president of mobile provider Softbank ($74 billion revenue), and former Google Japan representative Norio Murakami.

So what they claim is artificial intelligence and automation is actually the long arm of 2 huge conglomerates. Seems like a persisting trend.
Which is the problem IT contractors and IR35 in the Uk.

Funnily IR35 is written so that self employed barristers don't get caught - even though they work on the same case for the same employer for over a decade.
Disagree. The tech to reach Mars has already been invented, and while the cost needs to decline Musk has a plan to get there from here; conversely nobody yet knows how much we have yet to learn about brain function in order to make the simulations people instead of p-zombies (or even non-functional, not sure which is worse), and right now (despite Musk’s brain interface side project) full brain scanning requires death.

Further, the only estimate I have for how much processing power will be needed to simulate a human brain in real time is 10^19 flops, which means Moore’s Law needs to carry on for another 25 years just for the hardware to beat Musk’s Mars ticket price.
One minute after your comment a court made a decision to block Telegram in Russia.
Introducing Pixelcoins
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Isn't this just like paying insurance premiums ?

Whenever you are sick, the doctor / insurance company loses money curing you.
The current events are most likely motivated by legal concerns, and have nothing to do with the decision to shut down hate subs, and happened a long time after Pao left.
> The case is Razak v. Uber Technologies Inc, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 2:16-cv-00573.

I would just like to commend Reuters for giving an explicit, concrete citation of the case in question.

We should really hold journalists to the minimal standard of actually pointing us the the primary source. It's not hard; they know what it is they are referring to. All they need to do is to put it into the article, as was done here. Good job.

(The same goes not just for "some court has ruled that X", but also for "a new study found that Y".)
Healthy people are less willing to pay :-(
For people from the US - we do "cities" differently here.

If you superimposed that map of Sydney onto San Francisco (and lets mirror flip it to get the coasts on the same side) - it'd extend from say Mill Valley in the north down to somewhere past Cupertino in the south - and east (away from the coast) to about Pleasanton.

What we think of as "Sydney" is about 40 miles north/south and east/west. The area GoogleMaps tells me is "San Francisco is about 7 miles by 7 miles.

Not saying either is right or wrong, just that you might not know just how large a piece of ground what is meant by "Sydney" represents. We call Sydney a city of 5million people. You say San Francisco has a population of ~850k people. The "San Francisco Bay Area" with 7.8 million people is pretty close to what we call "Sydney", and I think that's 8 or 9 "cities" the way the US divides things up...
That is an interesting point - a photo by itself is personally identifiable information[1] - so you should blur/distort/remove that particular face - or, to stay on the safe side - all faces, just like google maps does to be GDPR compliant, i guess. Jesus, this regulation is such a can of worms...

[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-a-photo-of-a-person-considered-PII-...
How can we tell if the loss if from inefficiencies, corruption and laziness? Case in point: Air India.
You take Art 6 (f) of the GDPR. You write down that your processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by you. E.g. I don't want to lend money to a you ever again.

But to identify you and not mistake you for someone I need to keep information like Name, Passportnumber and a reason why I put you on the list in first place.

Now you can keep these information.
At least in the us, it’s not against the law to download pirated content, only to share it.
We have a single Accept queue for all the ports. For TCP it doesn't create any problems - the new connection rate is rarely significant.

For the accept-queue load balancing see these blog posts:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-sad-state-of-linux-socket-ba...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/syn-packet-handling-in-the-wild/
Guessing they’ll find some unrelated things to complain about instead of admitting amazon makes Usps a lot of money.
> Underpaying what baseline?

Facebook / Google
Keeping your design files organized
Cheaper launches gives defence new use cases too. They'll start to launch smaller satellites into more orbits. It'll take time to change their processes, but they'll be launching small/cube/chip sats with all sorts of sensors.