skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this turns out true, that planet needs to be called "Tartarus". :D
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Using money and budgeting expenditure doesn't alone make something a startup company. Or a company. Paul Graham says a startup is simply a company designed to grow fast. ISIS is trying to grow but are they a company? When do they issue an IPO? What benefit does analyzing ISIS as a startup provide, judging if they are more innovative than other terrorists groups? Can they literally capture enough market share? It's a silly concept, would make a good SNL skit
So I might not have a great enough understanding but isn't 3.8 sigma not high for this kind of announcement (with the current title)? if someone wants to report finding a planet in the solar system ten times the size of Earth wouldn't they do so at more than @3.8 sigma. In particular, the prior is quite low because it would affect a bunch of other astronomical calculations, wouldn't it? So you would want the confidence that much higher....

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-calculate-six-s...

What I mean is that in human terms, Google says the average man is 5'9" with standard deviation 2.9 inches, then 3.8 sigma (the chances of this happening by chance) are the same as the chances of finding someone 6'8". It doesn't seem unbelievable - https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101208183308A...

If a woman is set up on a blind date and told the guy is 6'8" would she find it like not credible?

My understnading of statistics then is that the idea that there just so happens to be a planet ten times the size of Earth in our solar system is pretty unbelievable. So I'd want the chances of it being an experimental fluke to be lower than seeing a 6'8" guy, anywhere, at any time, in any context. Because I would think that's what happens when you look at enough data.

- Aren't the chances of this being completely spurious literally exactly the same as a researcher saying "I saw a 6'8" guy somewhere", meaning anywhere, in any context?

Wouldn't you want higher evidence before stating "evidence found for ninth planet in our solar system, ten times the mass of Earth"?
I haven't seen the original research myself to judge, but it sounds like they're being careful about these effects. Looking at their discussion on the main page of http://www.findplanetnine.com/, the claim seems to be that this isn't "we spotted six out of the solar system's zillions of objects that formed a cluster" but rather "the unique six known objects within a certain range of orbital parameters all form a cluster in a different parameter".

More specifically, quoting from that page, "all Kuiper belt objects with orbits that do not veer into inter-planetary space and spend longer than approximately 2000 years to complete a single revolution around the Sun... trace out elliptical paths that point into approximately the same direction in physical space, and lie in approximately the same plane."

That could be just an observational coincidence, and that's where they claim the statistical figure that you've cited. I have no idea to what extent those figures account for the multiple comparisons issue, but the range of orbital parameters that I've quoted here doesn't look very fine-tuned to me. (The upper bound certainly isn't, anyway!) So it's just a question of how the lower bound was chosen. And on some level, I'm not even sure that that's an issue: an observation that's based on "the longest N bound orbits all show this pattern" feels meaningful to me even if I'm not sure in advance how big N is going to be.
There is a strong case for there being satellite and launch providers/provisioners; this does not mean that every country needs their own.
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I realize that this may be a possible explanation, but it strikes me as unlikely. The evidence that oil has a special status in US foreign policy are legion, the evidence that other countries' infrastructure has a similar status are substantially less numerous.
Reminded me of http://www.econlib.org/library/Bagehot/bagLom2.html

Remarkable how little has changed.
> If information by itself worked

There are two lessons we can learn form "information by itself doesn't sell $WIDGET". One is that properly informed people don't actually want that product, and the product should be changed or replaced to meet their actual needs.

The alternative lesson - which is unfortunately very popular - is that if people that are properly informed won't buy the product, then they should be kept ignorant and scammed into buying it.
The recipient is clear. Google can known with perfect certainty whether you receive messages using Signal. The sender of a message is not; only Moxie has any real ability to see who communicates with who. Google and those pwn Google can only see who receives messages, how many, how long, when.
Perhaps one of the "stubby hubble" telescopes the NRO donated to NASA would be useful for this task[0]. They are essentially the hubble telescope with a much shorter focal length(hence the nickname), so one of the uses suggested for them is observing faint objects in the solar system like asteroids.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
> the software on a space probe that gets launched into space and cannot update itself definitely needs to have a "done" date.

Actually, those get updates too. As scary an idea as that is. NASA engineers are some crazy folk.

But I don't disagree that software can be done. It depends on the software, and the supporting ecosystem just as much. A microwave doesn't need or get updates, but it's also not networked, or rendering across different browsers, or needing to support a lot of users.

But I think in the larger sense, done is relative. There is always a vision, and growth. And deadlines. This isn't such a problem so long as you are always working at making it better. But if all you ever do is ship features and never address the underlying design... good luck.
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Is this going to be recorded? I'm on the wrong coast to actually attend.
Here's slides for a talk I gave about an interesting approach to scraping in Clojure [1]. This framework works really well when you have hierarchical data thats a few pages deep. Another highlight is the decoupling of parsing and downloading pages.

[1] - http://slides.com/escherize/simple-structural-scraping-with-...
Show HN: Time Frames for Product Goals and Initiatives
I think you're right; when skimming, I read the following section, which made it sound like they were updating it to send additional metadata, based on their mentions of the "codecs" and how they "will" allow radios to do useful things with the metadata. Also, I'm used to codec meaning "software program", not "machine".

>>The NICAM distribution system also carries the RDS data. This will enable the radio in your car to automatically retune when you can get a better signal from a different transmitter. It will also display the station name (for example “Radio 1”) and the current song name (for example “Now Playing: Coming With You by Ne-Yo”). RDS will also indicate when a travel announcement is being made on BBC local radio so that a radio can switch to the travel announcement at the right time.
I never thought I'd say this, but banks in the UK are actually pretty good. Over the last few years I've lived in a few different countries and banks just dont compare.

In the UK you can open a bank account for free, with no minimum balance and no stupid charges (i.e. ATM withdrawals, even at your own bank).
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Yes but particularly for restaurants where us Americans will tip 99% of the time, the "pending" amount is often different from the finalized amount. You won't usually see that until the item actually posts, which could be several days.
I've heard of Gordon before, and I've understood his important point to be less about innovation and productivity, and more about the remarkable historical and technological circumstances of post-war America and the associated economic growth that Americans tend to accept (insist?) as de rigueur.

It was a perfect storm of capital, values, and scientific progress, but notably, it has never been seen before and it is unlikely to last forever.

I think because comfortable (say, median income or better) Americans literally cannot even imagine how uncomfortable things can actually get (or how uncomfortable they actually are in some places) these conversations tend towards unwarranted optimism.
That podcast answers a lot of the questions that people have in this thread. Definitely worth listening to.
It's called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, a name coined by Michael Crichton: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2011/07/the-gell-mann-amne...
I'm really not sure where the oil-exporting Saudis benefit financially from ISIS undercutting them on the black market. Or indeed where you've got the idea they're opposed to air strikes they've even participated in.

Any tactical enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend inclinations towards supporting ISIS that Saudi might have are are also rather tempered by the fact that wresting control of Mecca from the American-allied kleptocrats of the House of Saud is rather close to the top of the Islamic State's to-do list. Which actually makes them more of a threat than Assad or Iranian-backed Shia militias

The suggestion that Turkey is a sufficiently influential ally for the US to not just disregard but actively encourage cross border black market oil trade with ISIS is almost as silly.
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If you don't want to see ads, don't use ad-supported content. Simple as that.
BT. The combination of "bad boy" and overpaid UEFA thugs is enough to stop me buying any of their services.
Does programming really suck?
No, in terms of the overall cost of operation of the system, bitcoin is most definitely not cheaper. Transaction costs paid by the users are low because of the inflation subsidy paid out to the miners.

Now compare that to the subsidies in the form of bailouts to banks, and we'll see what's cheaper.

Yes, I'm being facetious, but my point is that if you want to include such costs on one side, you must do the same on the other.
That's an interesting idea, but why does Tony Hawk want to spend the time tagging all the parts in his skateboard? Does he get a commission?
But then I have to keep patching the code every time a new one comes out. Too hard!
The left is perfectly happy to enforce their views using the same mechanism. Absent a claim that there is a scientific basis for the institutionalized racism of affirmative action, for instance, it seems no less religious. Being the "correct" opinion isn't a saving grace here.

This isn't my attempt to scuttle affirmative action, by the way. If you believe it is, you've missed my point
This article does a disservice to Meteor. The article feels drama filled and says many things are broken when they are not.

"Blaze is threatened by React". You can use React or you can use Blaze. If React becomes so popular that Blaze is not longer used, that's OK... nothing to be threatened about. It's nice that Meteor can move with a trend.

"Tracker and Minimongo might eventually disappear as well". Tracker and Minimongo aren't giant stick bugs near Australia that need to be preserved. It's ok if they are replaced. They are internal tools for Meteor provide its "reactivity". I doubt reactivity is going away.

Other non-scary things: Routing is solved by community packages. Pagination, forms... really? Server-side rendering has the "spiderable" package, but the SEO / server-side rendering problem isn't unique to Meteor.

The database issue is valid. Meteor uses MongoDB. But, you shouldn't go down the Meteor road and try to shoe-horn a relational DB into non-relational DB, then say WTF. You knew from the beginning that non-relational DBs have their own set of problems. My limited understanding is that MongoDB was picked because it was the easiest way to get the reactivity that the MDG was looking for. Meteor road maps says SQL support is on its way.

I don't know where the OP is going with this. Maybe this is the part 1 of the late night TV commercial where they list all of our problems (think Slap Chop), then in Part 2 he'll solve all of our Meteor problems if we buy the next book he writes.
A big reason is many college's cost DEPENDS on your family's income. So if you look at Stanford it cost $65,000, but if your family makes less then $125,000 it is actually free.

http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/04/02/3642085/stanfo...

If the family makes less then $65,000 you don't even need to get any sort of financial aid.
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> it would be company with the largest market cap in history, yes bigger than Apple

Apple is not remotely the largest company in history, when adjusted for inflation. The The Dutch East India Company, for instance, was worth over 7 trillion dollars at one point. Likewise, Standard Oil held a monopoly on all the USA's oil at one point and certainly had a several trillion dollar valuation.

Saudi Aramco will be massive, certainly. But not without precedent in history.
When it comes to small (-er than, say, Jupiter) bodies in the distant outer Solar system, here's one relevant piece of information:
Because these bodies' light is purely reflected solar light, whose brightness drops as the sun-object distance squared (d^2), their brightness as seen from Earth drops as the sun-object distance to the fourth power (d^4), making them incredibly faint.
Cheers, no I appreciate that. I mention my issues with org-mode in the post, but it's mainly for simplicity, portability and to save time learning and configuring (and reconfiguring between versions). It's explained a little more fully in the post. In fact the system is a bit anti org-mode, or any productivity software that takes more time to learn (or implement) than to use.
At first I thought this was another one of those planet x articles that talks about some hypothetical planet way out but then I saw that Mike Brown was involved and immediately got really excited. I hope they find something out there and we can send a probe to it in my lifetime.
> Juries don't believe police officers would ever lie during testimony.

> The public has to let go of this naive view of the world

I think your words, reordered in this manner, are just as true. It's just as naive to believe that juries will trust a police officer just because of their profession without any consideration to further supplied evidence as it is to believe that police officers are infallible. We're talking about people here, with all the complexities, history and motivations that come along with that. Let's not degrade this discussion by stereotyping the groups involved.
I think the cynical thing here is assuming that the Elite class will continue to grow and make the lower economic classes suffer at their expense. The thing is though that being overly rich in a shit world is not much of a benefit to anyone. The Elite could set up there own little world (I'm kind of thinking like Elysium), but even that eventually will break into some elites who have more than other elites, and the cycle repeats.

The system will improve once we democratize resources more and more.
I find it's helpful to at least be aware of what is going on with other 'specialists'. That way you can hopefully get some mental (or physical!) prep done long before it gets to you.
It might do more than just deflate pressure a little...
Anybody interested in browser automation, can try http://api.phantomjscloud.com

disclaimer, I wrote it. No crawler yet, though that's next after a new website.
We should just prevent accounts fresher than 24 hours from posting comments.
embedded.com is one of many industry rags run by UBM, which is "the largest B2B event and media company in the world". They crank out articles in highly specialized fields and slap lots of conference invitations and links to paid subscriptions everywhere.
For certain definitions of track, yes. They'll be able to associate your IP address and related fingerprints to the cache hits.
Of the old ad networks only doubleclick survives and they only do so because of google massive anti-fraud measures.

Anybody that gets into ads these days will have to take abuse as their #1 priority to be able to compete so if this is to work at all you can bet that anti-fraud measures would make up a very large component of the package.

Tying the end-user and one of the primary beneficiaries to the same chair is a risky thing but not all forms of advertising are equally susceptible to this kind of risk. For instance, performance based advertising and to a lesser extent branding are not all that much at risk.

On another note fraud is present in all forms of online advertising at the moment (with the same qualifications listed above) and it is simply priced into the ad rates.
I think you can consider them all the same thing in the scope of macroeconomics. They are so closely tied together change in one will inevitably reflect in the other.
Internal testing with Win8, which is still in the casual testing stage of "lets see what breaks" has like 3+ showstoppers for us and a dozen bad but not showstopper issues. XP to 7 had zero.

That's ignoring the metro apps/store nonsense, which I imagine I would just disable outright when we launch with it.

I guess one could argue that 7 wasn't a "real OS" and just Vista SP3. Still, I think 10 took a lot of gambles and wasn't the refined and less tablety Win8 everyone thought it would be. It clearly was rushed to save MS's image.
Personal experience/anecdote alert.

I found that it took a few 'goes' at the vaping thing before I properly 'got it'. I enjoyed and saw the benefits of the vape from the first time I used it, but went through a few cycles of vaping-and-the-odd smoke, then a few weeks of only vaping, then back again, and almost gave up on the whole thing. Then for some reason last February, it clicked and I ditched the smokes completely. Not had one since then. No interest in smoking again, ever.

I've described it to friends and family as being a bit like I imagine methadone is to junkies, though no personal experience there. It doesn't initially fill all the holes in quite the right ways (for me anyway, some love it immediately but I suspect those are the 'odd ones out') but is 'good enough' that it can work - it does however take a little effort to make work, it's not a magic silver bullet.

It certainly was a lot more effective than any time I've tried to stop smoking using anything else, though.
Tech's 'Frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life for Forseeable Future
IMO for web apps that you have open all the time (maybe Asana, Google Docs), native OS navigation and window management is significantly better than tab navigation. Of course it doesn't have as much of a benefit if you do it for every tab you have open.
If you want a framework to turn a web application into a mobile app, try Crosswalk: https://crosswalk-project.org/
You are freeloading.

You're taking advantage of content that was paid for with the attention of people besides yourself. This is no different than grazing on a green you don't maintain.

If you're so opposed to ads, don't read content. Don't pretend that anybody is forcing you to visit ad supported content.
After Bitcoin’s Great Kow-Tow, It’s Time to Decentralize Mining
I wish bootcamps were something different from what they are. Right now, they seem to be for taking people who are otherwise unemployable up to a level of competence sufficient to pass job interviews.

What I NEED, is a bootcamp that I, and experienced developer, can attend using the 2-3k and and 2 weeks off that my employer is willing to grant me. I'd like to take an advanced, high level course on unix administration aimed at people who don't do it full time, but are expected to be able to put out fires if needed.

Or a course in advanced jquery magic. Or a course that teaches me how to optimize a massive and archaic codebase. Or a variety of other things that I'm struggling to slowly learn on my own time.
This is hugely important for "normal" people. Most people have care a lot more about the value of their house not going down than not going up. Breaking even on a house is find because it provides roof over your head.
Love the Model F keyboard. If I could make my MacBook 1" thick and 2 lbs heavier in exchange for the Model F key feel, I'd do it. This machine's keyboard is probably shown in Wikipedia as the anti-Model F exemplar.
You decide: What is the most beautiful equation?
haha yeah, I remember when I visited it was cool seeing all the monks taking selfies at the pagodas
It's the opposite surely. Some of the companies and concepts that seem to survive in SF are considered barmey in other wealthy western cities. Startups whose customers are other startups..
> “Surviving at those latitudes requires highly specialized technology and extreme cooperation,” Marean agrees. That implies that these were modern humans, rather than Neandertals [sic; UK spelling] or other early members of the human family. “

Hasn't the idea been debunked that neanderthals were ape-like idiots incapable of cooperation or sophisticated tools?
Being underwater is only an issue if you want to sell the house, or lose the ability to pay for it.
Nifty, I feel like it's really missing a simple 8-segment label so you can easily remember what you've mapped various actions to.
I was being intentionally coy to avoid replies from people not interested in what i was actually saying, but in bitcoin flamewars.
So, full disclosure: I recently co-authored a book on Meteor which comes out in a few months[1]. I don't think Meteor is a cure-all panacea or that it's the Best Framework Ever®. I've come to Meteor with a fair bit of experience (Play 1.0/2.0, Sails.js, Flask, etc.) and a fair bit of skepticism. However, I really don't think much went wrong with Meteor. In fact, it treads some of the same ground as its predecessors. As far as OP's article is concerned, I have some very specific squabbles with it:

> This creates a bigger barrier to entry compared to front-end frameworks like React and Angular, or server languages like Go or Elixir.

Okay, Meteor has an arguably bigger barrier to entry than React or Angular (maybe), but definitely 100% not Go or Elixir. I think this is just disingenuous.

> I believe some of Meteor’s early choices may have ended up handicapping it. For example, Meteor’s focus on real-time applications makes them a lot easier to build compared to any other platform out there. But it does also come at the cost of hidden complexity, and potential performance problems down the road.

This is the #1 problem of every framework, ever. Mr. Greif is not saying much, if anything at all.

> Once a new Meteor user starts to go beyond the basics and look into things like routing, pagination, subscription caching & management, server-side rendering, or database joins, they realize that the difficulty curve quickly ramps up.

Here, he's conflating things that are easy (routing and pagination) with things that are hard (subscription caching), so it's hard to see exactly what the criticism is here. Not to mention that Iron Router are pretty mature. I haven't run into a routing issue yet that it couldn't solve. As far as joins and caching, etc., these are definitely difficult things. I don't think any framework out there completely (and in the general case) solves these out-of-the-box. Maybe someone could introduce me to one.

> The result of all this is that Meteor has ended up in an awkward place.

I think it just ended up where almost all other frameworks end up: useful, but not completely generalized. In fact, I think striving for a very high degree generality might be a mistake, lest we want to end up with something like Hibernate.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Meteor-Josh-Robinson/dp/14...
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