skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.rediff.com/computer/dec/18super.htm

I agree that it is awful writing. I hope the article above is written better.

> Does the author mean Cray? And if so, why was the scientist asking the USG? You would normally want to get such computers from the manufacturer, not a foreign government, however friendly.

It's not possible to directly purchase from manufacturers if the US Government is going to block the purchase on various grounds. Don't forget that there was a period where sanctions and arms embargo was also imposed on India. It's a different thing that today the US considers India a "strategic partner" but it wasn't always the case.

As far as Cray goes, they even setup an award in the name of the scientist mentioned in the article (who also served as the President of India from 2002 to 2007 [1]): https://www.cray.com/blog/cray-hpc-awards-honor-achievements...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam
Whatsapp is unblocked because blocking it would not significantly benefit Russian intelligence operations overseas.
Moscow Court Telegram ban after company's refusal to hand over encryption keys
Note also that you can use it just like regular Sci-Hub, i.e. you can append a paywalled link to https://whereisscihub.now.sh/go/ to be redirected to the unpaywalled version.

Speaking of Unpaywall: that's actually the name of a browser extension that can give you legal open access versions of paywalled articles. See https://unpaywall.org/
Two of the domains the judge ordered to be disabled are "sci-hub.onion, scihub22266oqcxt.onion" - I kind of laughed when I read that.
It's not a conspiracy. The sale of Cray supercomputers was indeed blocked by the US Government. Just because the article is badly written doesn't negate the facts on the ground.
I did, for all of 5 minutes.
There was nothing compelling about that product.
Orkut's death was unnoticed and unmourned.

I am mildly surprised that Google wasted money on it for 10 years. However Google's lack of focus in it's pre-Pichai years was notorious, and undoubtedly explains this.
People are happy to post business details on a FB for Work (tm). Really makes one think that Zuck was never wrong on his assertion on why people people trust him.
Because we do know how neural network works and our brain is a huge one.

Why would you wan't something like this to be in our brains anyway? Its already a problem to have data an processing divided.
Slice is the same company that said the Apple Watch wasn't a hot seller either. So I would be taking this with a grain of salt.

The fact is that we just don't know what Apple's internal targets are. Nor do I think lacklustre sales are all that worrisome anyway given that the HomePod quite firmly locks users into the Apple ecosystem e.g. only works with HomeKit and Apple Music.
Is the problem with transportation in Sydney really that unique in Australia? I've only been there once for a couple of days, but I've spent a few weeks total in Melbourne, and it seems to have a similar issue - public transportation seems almost exclusively arranged to get people to and from the CBD. I have a friend who lives in Kingsbury, and going to the airport can take him more than 1.5 hours compared to driving there which can take less than 30 minutes.
But they pay for insurance.
New ‘high definition’ vinyl promises longer play time and louder, clearer audio
How to build a calculator–part 3
The Postal service seems to be a stepping stone for Amazon. It appears that before human delivery people are replaced with drones, Jeff Bezos plans to replace postal employees with people at least contracted to Amazon.
In a private healthcare system, where the government doesn't directly pay for its own citizens' healthcare issues, the government also lacks an incentive to keep its population healthy - which can go from allowing food companies to put as much sugar as they want not just in sweets, but in meat, sauces, and so on, to allowing companies to pollute the air as much as they want.

In a private healthcare system the insurers are also incentivized to pay for as few treatments as possible, hospitals are incentivized to make patients pay as much as possible for all the tests or unnecessary surgeries they make them have, and Big Pharma, as you said, is incentivized to make drugs that don't actually cure people and to price the drugs based on "value provided to the citizen". So if it's something like cancer, the value is a lot, even if the drug costs little to make.
> 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.

Sounds like you didn't read the article:

> It is a culmination of 17 years of rigorous work by Indian space scientists. India took a firm decision on IRNSS in 1999 after the US government refused to share GPS data that would provide vital information on Pakistani troops position during Kargil war.
The package delivery business side of the USPS is a profitable venture. The USPS is in the state it is in not because of Amazon or last mile delivery that is doing for other businesses. The core problem is Congress and the requirement they put is the USPS that they prefund 75 years of pensions. A requirement placed on no other institutions in the US.
It's somewhat amusing that their business model, i.e. "we break software protections", is 100% dependent on their own software protections working.
The whole "USPS is a in a fiscal hole" thing is part of the privatization playbook. It is in a hole, but it's a deliberately created hole:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/the-right-wings-assa...

Note who owns the newspaper cheerleading for privatization:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/09/2...

I wonder if they have any ideas about potential buyers?
I wonder how much of this problem is based in the subscription, or being satisfied with how existing networks already work? It's sad how current Facebook is seen as still not having enough disadvantages to it that they outweigh the advantages from a big following.

This seems to be such a key factor that you have to almost intentionally wreck the network for people to eventually, reluctantly, leave.
Fair enough - I've really only spent enough time in San Francisco and Portland to have felt the "Hang on, what do you mean it's a different city just across that river" weirdness (weird to my Sydney calibrated sense of "how the world works". (Although Reno/Sparks feels odd to me too. Kinda like Albury/Wodonga here - but at least there some sense to there being two cities there, with one on each side of the state border...)

Having said that - "Sydney City" maps closer (in my head) to "The Mission District" than to "San Francisco" still. Google Maps draws Sydney City as around 1.6 miles north/south and 1 mile east/west. (Although I thn there's a larger "Sydney City Council" area than that, I know some of Newtown has Sydney City parking rules and the rest has Marrickville/Inner West COuncil parking rules, and Newtown is a half mile or so away from where Google Maps draws that border...)

Melbourne has a similar sprawl to Sydney (and lets face it, Sydney and Melbourne are really the only "cities" in Australia, everywhere else is just big or small country towns! ;-) )
If your luck gives you a billion dollars, yes you don't need any other talent after that.
This is the dangerous side of data being exposed by poor system design being discussed / referred to as a "breach".

This is the law in Canada he was charged under: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-342.1.h...
Discord is (a subset of) markdown so you just use [`] to denote inline code and [```language-name] and [```] to denote code blocks.
I also did. Although it was a long time ago then the vague memory of it is that it was pretty similar to facebook, perhaps the minus the advertising. But groups and friends were there, could leave testimonials, send messages, etc.
On the one hand you have a company who's business model depends on milking patients on chronic treatments. On the other hand you have a company that is able to develop a permanent cures for that disease. Guess which company is a threat to which company (hint: if there are no longer sick patients to milk you no longer have a business model).
You should seek work in Whatsapp's PR department. You sound just like them.
The NSW Government is so crazy that they’re adding new tolls to a previously free highway to pay for a ridiculously expensive new toll road.

Sydney and Melbourne’s populations are both growing way too fast for the Governments to keep up with infrastructure, schools, hospitals, etc. even if they were competent... (The Federal Government sets the skilled migration rate, which is unusually high compared to other OECD countries, but the states have to pay for the infrastructure. At the same time, there’s huge slack in the employment market with up to 20% unemployed or under-employed).

I’m so glad my family moved away from Sydney when I was a baby... If you can find a good tech job, life is much better (and cheaper) in Brisbane.
Agent Smith: The story of my cryptocurrency arbitrage bot
There's history to suggest that alcohol was used as currency to pay workers in ancient times [1].

Alcohol has been with us for the long haul and has been available to our ancestors in large quantities for most of our history. It's almost engrained in our history.

Not that it makes alcohol healthy but, I don't agree it's safe to just look back and say, "Yo, great-grand-papa could only afford to get wasted once a week - maybe that's the secret?"

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/5000-year-old-pay-st...
Fair enough.

The world has managed to not blow itself up for 60 years, we can speculate on whether that will hold long enough to build a self-sustaining base on Mars.
This is interesting but I would like to know how their methodology measures up against SWIR imaging which has the ability to a certain extent to see through fog / mist / smoke [1], and probably provides a better / higher resolution image.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-sPAqDmZ0
Yes, every messenger operating in Russia has to share users' information.
Uber launches car-renting service allowing strangers to rent eachothers vehicles
> Posted in: Hackerterrorcybercyber

:)
Why hasn't Telegram implemented domain fronting? Did they really have so much hubris that they thought this would never happen?
You're not thinking about problems hard enough. Instead just giving up when something sounds vaguely hard. Get rid of the vagueness, figure out exactly how hard it is.

As per your example, have you done the research concerning health codes and what sorts of operations violate them and which don't? I'm pretty sure off the top of my head that if you're not actually selling food, as in taking in payments and delivering food, you're not on the hook for what other people are doing in their homes.

So I can envision a service facilitating neighborhood meal swaps. The state might not exactly like it, but it won't have anyone to go after for health code violations. This is pretty much exactly what Uber did, they kept toeing ever closer to the line of the actually illegal until they had both the legal budget and a public mandate to fight City Hall.
Centralized =/= easy to block, let alone proprietary. They've said they were preparing for that, so let's see.
Actually, that's why I bought an Android device. I got enough of this iTunes bs and searching for 3rd party apps to do something as simple as copying an MP3 file or e-book from my computer. And still, I have to buy and install some software as Apple want to make it as difficult as possible not to have them as the intermediary.
So now I carry two: iPhone for general use and Android for listening to music, reading e-books and many other things.
I'd say they are both.
They sell you expensive shovels to take part in the FOMO gold rush, and they take a considerable cut of everything you buy with that shovel.
I believe it. Siri is woeful. Plus they sell it as a high quality speaker yet it has no line-in for me to use with my entertainment system. For £350 that’s a hard pass from this Apple fanboy.
Supercompilation for free with the abstract algorithm
They're similar in the sense that you don't see what you need to see; in the limited locus of "ability to safely control a vehicle" I consider them similar.
Upwards of 20.000 employees in my case here, with some serious variance and fluctuation because of the work being seasonal.
Spaniel: Time span handling for Go
Ok, yes, I mean free-gratis OSS; apologies if I erred.
Spyware and adware 10 years ago were considered extremely shady and unacceptable and certainly not in the mainstream like now with Google and Facebook.

Who would have thought then it would take these shady practices a mere 5 years to transition into the mainstream.

Advertising via textual context and immediate location is ok. Everything else is a dark pattern and incentivizes uncontrolled surveillance, profiling and data hoarding and should automatically be disallowed in a civilized society.
Ride-sharing, like a fry cook, was never meant to be a life’s career ambition. Jeez people. Folks are complaining that a fry cook can’t afford to buy a house and an Uber driver doesn’t get a 401(k). Wake up and smell the coffee. Let these positions continue to function as gap-filling opportunities for the young and those who need massive flexibility or want side-hustles. We drive up employment cost massively and wonder why less people get employed. We come up with creative opportunities like ride-sharing and then try to kneecap it. Guess what? Driving cars for hire has always been a shit way to make a living, ask anyone who’s driven cab. Now some dim people are shocked their career ambitions can’t end with Uber? Let them learn that lesson and move on. We don’t need to anihilate the awesomeness that is Uber and the benefit it has for drivers who use it with the proper expectations.
Wow. I thought the subscription fee of my suggestion might be problematic, as in too high. But if true, this is just plain ridiculous. That would also give you a chronological timeline and a much quicker way to sift through your feed and know when you're "done" than now.
For what it’s worth: the expected behaviour to swap code snippets internally is to share a link to an internal version of pastebin/gist that allows comments, version control and referencing. Whether that has to be compulsive or whether casual code is fine is probably a worst contention that vim vs. emacs so I’ll just leave that here.

On Workplace by Facebook: I can see how that seems counter-intuitive, but I’ve worked for four distinct companies who had it or moved to using it, with or without Slack and (given some hints on how to use it properly) this is the most compelling solution to a lot of internal communication issues. It’s about as impactful as email or cellphone: you can’t really understand how things work without. I am not considering working for a company that doesn’t use it (or an improvement).
> Apple Watch wasn't a hot seller

Is it a hot seller ? I don't know, but I don't see many smartwatches around me. The only one person I know who has one and wears it is the boss of a friend and they make iOS apps specifically.

But I don't have any numbers, and I can't find really any...
I find a motorcycle with lots of storage to be a nice compromise. Cheaper and more fun too.

Of course you do need to take a safety course and be aware of the dangers, but at least people acknowledge their danger. Cars somehow get a collective free pass despite their astronomical death tally.
I'm getting tired of all the Russia bashing. Sure Russia does a lot of bad things but it smells a lot like someone wants everyone to look elsewhere.

Russia blocks Telegram while the US splits cables and installs snooping devices between data-centers, use secret courts, monitors everyone, etc. Why do we pretend Russia is such a problem when a lot worse stuff happens closer at home every single day?
Japanese people seem to be in a pretty good place emotionally. They are pretty closed-off, as I expected, but they're more laid back than people in many Western countries and definitely much less stressed than Americans. I'm speaking in generalities here, of course, and I haven't been to Tokyo yet.

> There are several reasons why satisfaction is rising. Partly because of the cost of housing, more young people live with their parents. Masahiro Yamada, a sociologist, calls them “parasite singles”.

Yeah, accomodation is ridiculously expensive here and it's reflected in the price of hotels and how small everything is. It was pretty claustrophobic my first few days here. There's an interesting article[0] talking about the housing situation but I don't know if it's accurate or not.

> Life is pleasanter in other ways too. On every street corner is a 7-Eleven or similar convenience store where young people can buy everything from stationery to ready meals (and heat and eat them on the spot), flick through manga comics, and buy tickets to baseball matches.

My favorite part of Japan is that you can walk down an average block and expect to pass a dozen vending machines with coffee, energy drinks, and beer. Always gives me a good laugh. In this sense life is pretty convenient, but in Korea it is even more so (their skyscrapers literally have miniature malls in them).

> Although rapid economic growth is history, they appreciate that living standards remain high, and that life (apart from housing) is affordable.

This seems true, stuff like food is not as expensive as I expected (coffee is a dollar, a sushi dinner for two is 60 dollars maximum and usually more like 20.) Korea was even cheaper, though, and the food was much better.

> That is good news for a country where the word “youth” tends, with good reason, to conjure up images of gloomy misfits: hikikomori—people who shun society—and otaku—nerds.

Most "otakus" I've seen so far were foreigners and not Japanese. I can't comment on the number of hikikomoro here, for obvious reasons, but I do think these are exagerrated stereotypes. Perhaps these stereotypes were more true in the past.

Just some observations, I've only been here a week. Oh yeah, and Japanese people drive less, bike more, and tend to be rather fit (or at least not obese) -- that gives them a big leg up on Western countries in the happiness department :)

[0]: http://thejapanfaq.com/FAQ-Prices.html
He had enough time to grow in his position.

He has enough money to grow as well.

Bill Gates is/was an guy who build Microsoft. Zuckerberg got lucky with facebook. There is not much to build because the whole it world already exists.

He as a human being brought more distress to this world as anything he is doing with his money to help, can't fix.

Tx to his luck with the Zeitgeist, he is facebook and because of his incompetence, facebook hurts us all.
Not a single piece of interesting facts in the post. And Telegram still works as of right now.

As the proverb goes:
“Undue strictness of Russian laws was always compensated by it being optional to follow them.”
Not to mention chat services don't provide any unified API and you need a different app for each of them.

Just counted, I'm currently logged in to 7 different chat systems, none mutually interoperable.

I'd pay for an application that provides me a unified view of all those, for phone and for desktop.
I wish it could at least be an option for those who'd prefer this way.
It's pretty odd that a man would lie about being a virgin, but I suppose that's the western perspective.
> Because accidents are inevitable, Swedish regulations aim to make them nonlethal.

I sometimes wonder how it would be possible to just adopt new laws and regulations wholesale from countries that have aimed to do a thing well, and succeeded. I know countries take ideas from each other, but it always seems to be small things and adapted with local modifications. Laws are obviously not for "move fast and break things" approach, but feels like we could achieve so much more.
Hmm probably because height and width are converted to transforms as FLIP animations. Maybe I’ll look into making that opt-in. Thanks dude.
The Book of Sand
THE BEST PC GAMING CONTROLLER
> Slack does not even scale to corporate size, instance sizes are too limited. Also, they have no corp sales plan to speak of.

Your information is outdated. Slack recently introduced an Enterprise product (on-premise AFAIK) where you can have multiple workspaces for each division, but auth is managed centrally and organization-wide channels can span across all workspaces. We're using it at SAP.
It's called AMZL, and it's been awful so far.
Between a WaterPik flosser and a Sonicare electric toothbrush, I've knocked my daily dental hygiene time down to like 4 minutes.

It would be really hard to improve on that combo.
1. De-mail it in the preferences.

2. STFU notifications, then carefully tune back in.

3. The feed is crap. Do not read the feed. Make a bookmark bar:

3.1 https://companyname.facebook.com/chat/t/<..> Chat link

3.2 https://companyname.facebook.com/notifications/hub/all/ Notification hub link

3.3 https://companyname.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr Feed, force-chronological order, for hard cases only

3.4 https://companyname.facebook.com/profile.php?id=<your id here> Link to your profile, to write notes et al

3.5 https://companyname.facebook.com/groups/?category=membership Group Overview. This is your cockpit,
basically

3.6 https://companyname.facebook.com/saved Saved Posts. Because their search is crap.
Those maps will get outdated with construction, etc.
Are you serious? Should I remind you of Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and various other countries that have been invaded and destroyed? If the big powers can't keep their thirst for more land and resources in check it's obvious that smaller powers will start taking matters into their own hands. There are incursions happening on a daily basis on the borders of India from both sides of the subcontinent and threatened by military incursions in the peninsula.

I would love it if there was a global world with no borders. But that is too idealistic. No one will give up weapons of mass destruction.
Take the Confusion Out of Analytics User Access and Security
Choose Latest Mobiles and Smartphones with the Best Features
Choosing the best smartphones and mobiles with good features is possible when you are able to find the perfect online store. https://tigmooghana.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/choose-latest-mobiles-and-smartphones-with-the-best-features/
This article talks a lot about child seats... And only mentions the important parts speed bumps, separation of traffic and requirements for driving licenses.

I like speed bumps, bus lock, and round abouts... These features are self-enforcing and violators are punished with swift justice.

When you run over a speed bump too fast, the good old laws of physics will meter out an immediate punishment :)
This is a good point. We ourselves use and contribute to many open source software and we are constantly debating if we could open source at leat part of the stack.

The problem is that some parts of VaultOne may be patented in the near future to protect our IP, in the interest of investors.

For large contracts we already make the code available for review under a NDA.