skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The criteria for clearing an orbit are apparently somewhat involved[1]. It can't just be a matter of no other bodies having the same distance from the sun or Pluto would disqualify Neptune and Jupiter would be disqualified by its trojans. Because the planets in these cases mass so much more than other other nearby bodies those other bodies dance to the planet's tune and aren't counted against the planet in terms of clearing it's neighborhood. But if you look at the large bodies in the asteroid belt or the TNOs then their influence is very much mutual.

It's not entirely obvious if the new body would be a planet under the listed criteria since I don't think we have a good handle on the total trans-Neptunian population. In fact by Soter's µ criteria we might just need a single Pluto-sized object to cross this planet's path to disqualify it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood
I think we're back to email/pass as a preference. Because folks are so wary of apps requesting permission to their social accounts or people no longer using said social network. There's definitely social fatigue in the air.
Giant, weird orbit, debate ... there can be only one name. This is Planet X.

Also because X would be 10th discovered planet, a reference that pluto, while not a planet today, was indeed the ninth _discovered_ planet.
10x the mass of earth is about 60% of the mass of Neptune or 80% of the mass of Uranus. So it's smaller than all of the gas giants in the system, but considerably larger than the rocky planets.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/
It's been taking a beating the last two weeks as well.
It's just uber's job to comply with all regulation. Insurance, training, safety, etc. Generally those laws are in place for a reason. Claiming they are a "ride sharing" app to avoid commercial transport regulations is disingenuous at best.

Edit: Obviously artificial quality reduction legislation is a bad idea, but uber as a company has been pretty adamant about ignoring all regulation. Even if it is a bad regulation you don't ignore it, you lobby to get it changed.
Not really. Tech stocks are more volatile because more of their value (compared to someone like GE or P&G) is based on hypothetical growth projections- revenue and profit. Any market news can swing these stocks wildly- up or down. Hortonworks HDP dropped 35% y'day just because they decided to raise more money $100M and investors felt that something is wrong.
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More from the folks behind the paper: http://www.findplanetnine.com/
From what I understand, it has cleared the space but there are still harmonic crossings that can't be cleared. Interesting challenge to the new definition - must the orbit be clear, or only clear sailing through the orbit.
Honestly, the spectrum around here.

You knows what's better than having someone else's removable permission to use their sea ports at their convenience on their terms? Having your own sea ports.
In addition to the time needed for ACH, some or most of the lag may be due to fraud/money laundering concerns, even if it's low-risk. If that's true then it's a regulatory issue.
Hortonworks shares are tanking after news of secondary stock offering
Mostly if we're discussing how equity compensation might not be the best option. Or how preferred investors and founders took what they could from the workers (in response to "refragmentation").

The Square IPO was less than employees who started after their last round and preferences made it even worse, meaning even though there is a liquidity event, employees who took options are out. With this significant drop, other employees who exercised their options (and paid taxes) are also out.
I am not sure you could ever get a consensus of contemporary people to agree that they are in the best of all possible times no matter what era. It's a well-worn joke that the last generation is always assholes and the next generation is always useless and heading to hell, going back to Socrates and I'm sure beyond even that.

On top of that, being depressed about it certainly isn't a reasonable reaction to reality, just an emotional reaction to perception. It's probably worse than pointless since the most likely use would be as a rationalization for giving up.
Do you think pro-lifers don't want an abortion ban, just sonogram laws and they'll be happy forever after that?
> I don't think your logic follows at all. If the test isn't reliable, it may well falsely indicate EDTA is present, even if the blood didn't come from the vial.

No, it's a _detection_ test. Suppose it can detect EDTA above a certain threshold only. So it would be able say if EDTA is present _above_ that threshold; but its inability to detect would not implay that there is no EDTA, but just that there's insufficient EDTA to be detected. Which could be for a variety of reasons: evaporation? Exposure to UV light?
> Batygin and Brown inferred its presence from the peculiar clustering of six previously known objects that orbit beyond Neptune.

This raised a big red flag in my mind. This must produce a literally astronomical multiple comparisons problem. Yes they reported sigma = 3.8, but if they didn't do their multiple comparisons correction right (which I am in no position to determine), they're basically reading tea leaves.

If you're not familiar with multiple comparisons, it's kind of like [this](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/649893-you-know-the-most-am...) or [this](https://xkcd.com/882/). If you look at enough extra-neptunian bodies, some of them are going to be in an odd looking cluster.
As a steady reader or that sub, I can say Enterprise never got on the Win8 bandwagon and the reception to Win7 was a lot more positive. We barely had any issues with our migration to 7 and we did it same year release.

> /r/sysadmin is where people go to complain and ask questions.

That's /r/techsupport. This sub is supposed to be only IT pros. A lot of the issues I see are outside of the "I just need a facebook machine" use cases, so a home user like you may not ever have these issues, but trust me, your IT department sure as hell is having issues.
I love it, but find it takes around the same amount of effort to send money by PayM as it does to send it by regular bank transfer to somebody already set up in my mobile banking app (my main use case is usually sending smallish amounts of cash to my kids, like a modern-day Al Bundy). PayM could do with a really nice streamlined app of its own, rather than being buried deep within each of my banks' own apps.
Can you expand on that? I've never seen any problems with -D
That's harsh pinkrooftop. I'm not a startup employee or founder, and I read HN because I find the non-startup related submissions interesting. I was deployed at the end of 2012-2013 and my boss called ISIS as a big threat even as it was developing (although he may have just gotten lucky). I wasn't trying to force this into a startup picture, I just saw a lot of parallels between ISIS and a lot of "unicorns" that look awesome and then deflate once reality takes hold and it turns out their business plan is unsustainable. And a lot of startups have an exit strategy to get bought out by a larger tech company. The point I was trying to make is that they can't keep acting like their growth will continue forever and they just realized that they don't have the money to pretend like it will.

If you want to pick apart my comparison, use specific details rather than complaining that the "analogy fails" without offering any support. Sure, startup companies don't kidnap and murder innocent civilians, but I think its a fair comparison when talking about financials and paying employees.
Ask HN: Is GoDaddy violating ACPA with new .family TLD?
A new TLD .family became available today. I went and checked for my name on various domains, and the only one that showed it available was GoDaddy, at the price of $1299/year - they mark it as a "Premium domain."

On 1and1 they displayed a 'legal reasons' message. When I called their support, the sales rep said a "big conglomerate" bought the domain.

I believe GoDaddy bought the domain (and probably others) during the pre-release period and is now selling it at their own "Premium" price.

Considering this domain is targeted at last names and family names (it could be used for whatever, but I think its intended purpose is apparent), I'm wondering if this violates the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act [1]

Specifically it mentions:
> In determining whether the domain name registrant has a bad faith intent to profit, a court may consider many factors, including nine that are outlined in the statute:
> 6. Registrant’s offer to transfer, sell, or otherwise assign the domain name to the mark owner or a third party for financial gain, without having used the mark in a legitimate site;
> 9. Extent to which the mark in the domain is distinctive or famous.

Not to mention that GoDaddy could easily query their own userbase and find the most common last names in an attempt to profit.

Anyway, I'm not trying to whine as much as I am genuinely curious about the legality around this, as this domain in particular introduces its own grey area.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticybersquatting_Consumer_Protection_Act
This is amazing. I work in digital publishing at an art museum, and we are creating digital books as static HTML/CSS/JS files which rely on client-side interactivity for most features.

Some people have asked about getting a desktop version of these books which they could download locally (scholars doing fieldwork, etc). I knew something like this was possible using Electron, but I figured I'd have to build it from scratch if I wanted it.

Instead I just pointed this script at the beta version of our latest project[1] and the project built flawlessly in under a minute.

Nice work! I know that the web as a platform has its problems, but it is the only truly universal runtime we have right now, and tools like this help realize this potential more fully.

One question: is there a way to package pre-built copies as .dmg or .exe files so that non-technical users can download an app that is ready to go, without having to run the build script themselves?

[1]: http://gettypubs.github.io/Terracottas/
Netflix will have trouble blocking VPNs used to stream blocked content
So you just negated your entire point.
Everyone there is getting into trouble with Russian intervention. They are not fighters for the civilisation, they have their intentions and they intervened for those. The problem of middle east is a historical one, and it does not concern only the middle eastern states and people. Since WWI with the fall of the empire, the people started having identity problems, given that until the inception of the twentieth century these people lived under empires, and suddenly then they got their own states, even though there is not and was not such a great cultural divide among these countries, nor a great cultural unity within them. The western state did not work out in the proche-orient, and now we have these problems. Time is the remedy.

With regards to the oil traffic, I do not understand why we, instead of bombing, get a hold of those tankers and use that oil. Oil is precious and finite.
International subscribers want access to the larger US Netflix catalog of videos that Netflix threatens to block. The subscribers will succeed using a growing arsenal of privacy and anti-censorship technologies created to protect freedom of speech and political dissents in repressive countries.
I'd disagree--a lot of the JS folks I've met are like magpies and will star anything that looks remotely interesting on Github. It is exactly chasing shiny.
Yes, of course. But I think there's a difference between (say) "I play WoW (as opposed to some other MMO) to play with my friends who play WoW because of advertising" and "I play WoW because of advertising".

And I think logingone or joosters were talking about the second, not the first.
Goldman posts smallest profit in four years; revenues top estimates
No I was and still am confused about it actually.
Generally the sites who have more ads than contents usually have poor content (buzzy-clickbaity websites). In my opinion and AFAIK we can't change the business model of the web but each user can decide which site to go in order to seek high-quality content (I usually see less intrusive ads in those sites). Things are not as bad as we would think.
Confessions of a Paleo Diet Pioneer
Increased participation in city planning produces extreme wealth segregation
Oh yeah, that would be really easy.
As mentioned in the article, this planet could have formed closer to the sun before getting thrown out by Jupiter/Saturn.
I was curious too, found this:
https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/blaze-react-meteor/
Predictions for the World of Gaming in 2016
That's the thing, we were all supposed to be living luxurious lives, instead we're working 60 hour work weeks. And the elite think that more of that should be in store for us, you know because the economy just isn't doing all that well. Mainly because they are busy disrupting everything and automating it, using massive piles of capitals they have amassed on our backs to coerce us to work harder and produce more with less money -- productivity.

With automation they need less of our work, so we should work more for less, while the capital they have amassed does most of the work through automation.

Logically nothing we do as a species makes sense unless looked through the logic of economics, consumption, and production. It's a system with its own logic and we are so conditioned to think in its terms that we can think of no other way of organizing people and/or work.

The best days for America was the American Dream as George Carlin said you have to dreaming to believe it. It was simply a hope that more of that money would trickle down to pretty much anyone if they worked hard enough.

That hope is no longer there. No matter which way you frame it.
Most router/firewall distributions can be described in such overly-simplistic terms.
It is pretty well impossible to discover a planet by occultations. For one thing, in most parts of the sky the density of stars is pretty low. People do study occultations by known distant objects -- that provides some of the best available info on physical size and presence of atmosphere for KBO's. But in most parts of the sky, it is years in between occultations, which last just minutes. You have to be looking in the right place at the right time. And the sky is full of variable stars, so just looking for changes is hard.
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Researchers prove surprising chemistry inside a potential breakthrough battery
Video: Oracle CEO Mark Hurd Buyer of Startups in Enterprise
The Firefox Media Playback team will be tackling issues around multiple videos and background videos in Q1. For example, pausing videos until the user has viewed the tab (bug 1187778). Infinite-scrolling of Facebook's timeline page with multiple videos is another problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187778

I hope we can push the Graphics team to enable hardware acceleration on Linux eventually, too. :)
Fantastic article!
Yes, but as soon as you buy one you will want housing prices to go up, just like any investment.
This is a terrible false-equivalence.
That's two for flinching!
That they are not portable to the web and vice-versa in Python, first. Second, I can not do justice... so I will give you a great blog post that sums my thoughts nicely: https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2015/09/software-you-can-use...
I can't submit at all without an insider.
Richard Dawkins would say it's the gene's tool for colonizing other planets.
Plus if genes are going to survive the sun exploding they are going to have to get even more mobile :)
> However, to be completely pedantic: would this actually be a planet?

This is one of the paper's author's answer to that question.

http://www.findplanetnine.com/2016/01/is-planet-nine-planet....
I've never cared about Google ads because they are totally unobtrusive. In fact, I actually have clicked on a Google ad at least a few times in the past.

On the other hand, I have literally never clicked on a non-text ad on a browser, except accidentally due to some sort of dark patterns.
A New Ninth Planet May Have Been Detected, Scientists Say
If they block tracking, does it block Google Analytics?

That's one of the biggest trackers out there, so it would be a pretty poor blocker if it didn't.
WaPo: Global markets plunge on oil/China fears.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/01/20/n...
Itself. It is deploying tons of resources on non-core activities like scheduling & food delivery. All the ceding online payments to Stripe, being last to release an Apple Pay terminal and having almost no international business.
The C++ use of the word "functor" goes back to the original use of the word "functor" by Rudolf Carnap (to mean something like a word which combines with other words as arguments to produce a full term; a word that acts function-like, basically).

Saunders Mac Lane took the word "functor" from Carnap and gave it a particular definition in category theory (when founding category theory with Samuel Eilenberg). The ML languages and Haskell use the word "functor" in reference to this category theory sense of the word.

But category theory is not actually where the word "functor" originated. So perhaps we shouldn't say that C++ got its use of the word wrong, but rather, that there were simply two independent paths of evolution of technical uses of the word since its original creation by Rudolf Carnap for use in philosophy of language.
I'm always a bit shocked when I see people express this. I work in a office with roughly 100 macs and 100 windows. The macs are FAR more stable and less buggy. I've had this experience three different times at various companies. Yet online I see people saying that OS X is just as buggy but they never point what part is.
I'll give that a try! Thanks.
Brand awareness is the most important part of apple's product. "Better hardware"? Nobody cares.
This has been my experience too. I have every intention to use npm tasks but wind up pulling in gulp when my js "glue" gets too lengthy. I wind up wondering yet again why I wanted to omit gulp. The tasks are super readable and, I think, easier for new contributors than the pipes and ampers and glue scripts that my npm tasks were growing.
Did anyone else notice that the rendering of the orbits in the article looks strikingly similar to Kerbal Space Program's orbit UI?
Where is the magical solution that puts food on my table for the art I create?

I'm entitled to survive off the art I'm creating after all. Everyone should be paying me for making art. Regardless if it is of good or poor quality. I made it - thus people should be paying me!

Does that argument sound absurd to you? It should.

If people aren't willing to pay you for your art (or "journalism" as is often the case) then guess what? You aren't entitled to their money. Stop making art/journalism and find a better career. If people really value your journalism (or simply "journalism at all") they'll pay for it to be around.

If nobody is paying - nobody gives a shit. Content creators don't get some free pass to do as they want and expect to get paid for it. If they aren't producing work worth paying for - guess what? That's their problem not anyone else's problem.

E:

Figurative third person use of "your" and "you", for clarification of the usage.
The problem with that though is that housing prices are tightly tied to surrounding economic factors. You could go to some crappy neighborhood in a depressed area of the USA and get a great house for "nothing" (relative to, say, CA). If housing prices go kaboom, it's likely because there aren't as many people moving there, and people aren't moving there because there aren't jobs that can support people.

And be careful what you wish for, because once you do own that house, if the prices continue to fall, you could be underwater fairly easily. If a $1m place falls to $750k, which you can afford, but then the economy continues to stutter, it could fall to $500k or $350k. Remember that your mortgage doesn't reflect what you could sell your house for, once you sign the papers, you're on the hook for it.
Same curiosity here...114 relays...G-Earth shows a house with several outbuildings surrounded by farmland...
Yes, you are right, my bad :)
Probably a blank screen since AMP requires this in your pages: <style>body {opacity: 0}</style><noscript><style>body {opacity: 1}</style></noscript>
If you're not picking up the smugness in his two comments then you must have a tough time with reading comprehension.

Aside from that, it's not a white issue at all. Opiate addiction, including heroin, afflicts all communities, and in particular those of lesser means.
I've been toying with this idea for personal experimentation. My idea for an unattended unlock is to involve some sub-Rasberry Pi sized machine to be somewhere on the LAN that stores the key (or part thereof). That small machine would be on local WiFi and physically hidden, like under a sink.
Thank you for educating me on this matter.

Though from what I've witnessed, even though it is unreasonable, it seems most non-techs expect the carriers to do it automatically for them without their involvement.
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The Problem of EBooks Business Model
> I know the situation sucks on Windows,

It sucks on Linux even more. On Windows, at least everyone (including the build tools) is used to shipping dependencies, on Linux not so much.

You have all sorts of crazy dependencies on (system) libraries (not to mention libc versions), and you probably don't want to fool around with dozens of package managers (apt-get, rpm, whatever Gentoo is using, hand-rolled distros), and you pretty much don't want to store stuff in /usr/local because you might overwrite stuff already present there.

> but on Mac, why not use the system WebKit framework?

Because Chrome is far faster to pick up new stuff than Safari. Also, most people these days prefix and test only for Chrome, which disqualifies embedding a Firefox runtime.
For a moment there, I thought of Nibiru :D
The correct content for a new tab in a browser is a blank page.
Many producers' batches of HFCS used to be contaminated with mercury [1]. Thanks to the efforts of a lone FDA whistleblower, industry no longer uses mercury to make this substance. But high fructose corn syrup may still be contaminated with starch - chains of glucose - thereby giving HFCS a much higher calorie count than is on the label.

Sugar is fine if your liver is healthy. It keeps me from wasting away.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01...
Well it's true, it has been an arms race, but until recently it's been between relatively small numbers of blockers and the advertisers.

Now that Apple have taken it more mainstream it's going to be interesting to watch what happens.

But you might be right, sadly. More of the same and worse...