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There was a comment here a few months ago which mentioned a term. I have forgotten the term since but it effectively described a situation where an expert in subject matter foo reads an article about foo in a well-regarded news source (like say the Economist) which is either pretty incorrect or pretty biased and then the subject matter expert goes "wow they know nothing about foo" and then turns the page and reads about another topic let's say bar (or maybe let's say Middle East politics) which our subject matter expert knows little or nothing about and then our subject matter expert says "wow, this news source is very insightful".

If we read about articles on key escrow or actually anything about cryptography and surveillance in general, we will find it hard to see BBC is accurate (neutral is not the same as accurate because to be neutral about anything -- and here comes Godwin's law -- involves saying that there was a legitimate excuse governments to act in a way that is not beneficial to millions of its citizens. Anti-terrorism rhetoric is way overboard and news outlets like BBC are fully on the bandwagon (although thankfully much less so compared to CNN, Fox News, and other low lives). Honestly, I think our fear of terrorists has caused more damage to the world economy than all the "acts of terror" combined. Ordinary people should not be afraid or even mindful of "acts of terror" in their daily life any more than they need to be afraid or mindful of a meteor shower hitting them in the head. Everyone goes over the top with "security precautions" because they don't want to be seen as doing nothing. The point here is BBC does not preserve this neutrality at all. I bet even CNN and Fox could do better if they were organizations that has their funding guaranteed, as opposed to being under the mercy of its advertisers. Sorry but what BBC does is nothing exemplary for someone in its shoes.
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Although even better than that is to sell your sea ports to a corporation and then rent them back at fair value in order to improve the country's finances.
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Definitely a "brave" move to push another browser into the already-crowded scene, but I do think this initiative shows a lot of value and promise. I think a privacy-centric and fast browser with those ideas at the core and onset are something that hasn't been done yet, correctly. Kudos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin

He believed this hypothetical planet of Nibiru to be in an elongated, elliptical orbit in the Earth's own Solar System, asserting that Sumerian mythology reflects this.
What's the real story behind the following:

The short haired sheriff who called in Theresa's licence plate + Make/Model two days before it was discovered...

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The licence plates were discovered separately hidden from the car
This is pretty solid science, even if, as others have pointed out, there's a bit of academic drama-rama and green jellybean stuff going on. In particular, their model made a prediction that they didn't set out looking for, which corresponded to existing observations. And of course, the whole hypothesis is easily testable. While they don't know where the hypothetical planet might be on it's orbit, it sounds like there's a good shot that small telescopes should be able to spot it.

Exciting stuff.
Agree - fraud is rampant in the current ad marketplace as well. Both with fake ad-clicks and malicious installs.

Facebook, twitter and other native ads/sponsored posts are the cleanest ads.
Funny headline -- like it was buried underground or found in a shoebox in an someone's attic.
My understanding is that we often test for a specific subcomponent in detection tests, since testing for the entirety of what you are looking for is not feasible. Unfortunately that can leads to false positives by correctly detecting the subcomponent, but it may have been provided from a different source.

It's trivial to find examples of this, but I don't know enough about the EDTA test to know how well they, or this reasoning, applies.
Small nitpick: "largest" refers to mean radius, "massive" refers to mass (aka weight). Pluto is the second most massive, but it is the largest. (To be fair, it is a very close call: its diameter is only ~25km larger than Eris)

I'm excited to see this story unfold, if nothing else because it's fun looking up the mythological[1][2][3] origins of the names given to new celestial bodies :)

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makemake)

[2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna)

[3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea)
Close, but I don't think so. The ISIS is supported by the Saudis; as long as they could sell oil, it saved the Saudis money. The Saudis have long opposed air strikes on ISIS. Saudis are using ISIS as proxies in their fight against the new Iraqi government and Syria.
I read that the FBI test actually tested the blood from the vial (blind control group) as well as some of the samples from the car. Out of 4 identical samples from the vial 3 tested positive for EDTA, and one did not.

I agree the FBI slide was shockingly dishonest, I was stunned at how blatant their false logic was.
A wild guess would be that roughly 90% of all systems handling this are written in COBOL running on z/OS or IBM i. And that most of the developers are currently close to 60, spending their free time with their grandchildren and not on Hacker News.

I'm not much help either since I work with mortgages, and having it all explained during a lunch break might be a bit much. There are also, depending on company and country, rules and laws about what you can talk about.
On the one hand side there's no shortage of users who want to crawl popular sites to monitor e.g. search engine ranking or prices. Which is kind of shady in some sense, or not - when there's no API there's no other way...

On the other there are also areas of the web where crawlers are simply not welcome. For instance, DARPA uses a number of our technologies to monitor the dark web for criminal activities:

http://opencatalog.darpa.mil/MEMEX.html
That is true of virtually ever murder case ever.
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If information by itself worked, I can guarantee you nobody would waste time using all these other techniques.
There are some dual-LAN mini-PCs available, although I'm not sure if Intel makes one. You have several options. I use one of these[0] flashed to FreeBSD (pfSense), but it will run Linux if that's what you prefer.

0. http://store.netgate.com/ADI/RCC-VE-2440.aspx
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The other big question is whether that small market for street merchants is really enough to justify the stock price.

I'm sure you can build a great business in that market, but is it a 3 billion dollar business?
Surely the graphics that they return should be returned, live, rather than passively occupying space even while unread? (I don't just mean 'should' in the sense of "that's the way it ought to be"; I thought, though I don't know for sure, that part of the appeal of the 'live' documentation is that that's the way it is.)
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Preach, sibling!

My wife and I have put in more than 20 unsuccessful offers attempting to stay in our unfortunately popular neighborhood in the last two years. We have been chasing the affordability train for some years now, our increasing bids never getting ahead of the frenzy... (today, it seems we're at peak market and it'd be foolhardy to buy perhaps...)

NB: we don't just 'move further out' not only because of 20 years of community, our love of bike commuting, and our great 'hood...

...we are bound by the location of our excellent public school. Non-parents may not realize the staggering import of lucking into a K8 public school you truly love... for two siblings in SF, staying in our school instead of paying for some private (assuming we could get into one) will amounts to well over half a million dollars in post-tax income over the next decade...

We too are part of the tired story of 'middle' class (by SF standards... :P) professional families with 2x full time incomes finding it almost impossible to hold on to a life of modest middle class comfort in SF (where middle class means: a 1000 sq ft 2 bedroom home for family of four; one 25K car; public schools; etc.)
I did :-)

Maybe they use Kerbal to render the results of "real" simulation software?
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Really useful! I actually started to build a similar utility as a side project with NW.js, but I never finished it because of lack of time... You should also add the ability to add chromium flags...

https://discuss.atom.io/t/how-to-access-chrome-flags-in-elec...
To add more context to this -- the markets have been sliding since Sunday due to Chinese intervention in the markets (including raising RMB reserves for Chinese banks), and there is a lot of shakeup expected from the lifting of Iranian sanctions and the Saudi Aramco IPO internal debate (could be largest IPO in history and it would be company with the largest market cap in history, yes bigger than Apple's).

The environment should stabilize by 2016Q2.
> What does the business test that drivers have to pass in Germany do to prevent previous abuses?

They ask questions like "What insurance do I need?" and "Which taxes do I need to pay?". All those things Uber is good at...

The test was introduced after many small taxi companies failed to do even the most basic accounting. Not every driver needs to pass these tests but the employer. If you claim your drivers are all "independent" contractors, well that's another problem.
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Even if you post a more informative title, the mods of HN will change it back to the original site title. It has happened countless times and is pretty much the site policy. The claim is that is prevents posters from making click-bait titles to gain karma, although in this case the original is the click bait.

So anyway, no, you did the only thing you could do. Anything else would have been degraded to the current information value by mods anyway.
So what does it mean to say that the EUR 800 came from income tax? Doesn't everything (mostly) just go into one general fund?
Apologies for being repetitive, but you didn't answer my question. Why does a country need to be able to build and/or launch satellites? I really can't see any reason for it. There are many countries with little or no shipbuilding and/or port capabilities.

Switzerland has done very well without a sea port, and I cannot imagine why any country needs satellite capabilities (aside from nationalism).
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Show HN: A job board for quality contract gigs (on-site and remote)
Anyone made an open source version of this?
What metric exactly makes you think things are in a decline? Currently GDP per capita $53,041.98 (2013). Human Development Index Rank: 8. Unemployment rate 5%. GDP $17T, worldwide rank #1 ($3T in 1980 which is $8.6T fixed for inflation, so DOUBLE the GDP of the 80s). Violent crime rate 4.4 percent, lowest since 1970s, etc.

Those pining for the productivity of the 50s and 60s certainly are allowed their biases, but be aware this includes making sure women and minorities can't get good jobs and keeping college enrollments expensive and out of reach for many. You needed to be a middle-class or higher white male to get the benefits of society at that time. Why do we assume in this hypothetical where we go back in time and enjoy those peroids that we aren't a woman or a black person or that we don't care about any of the social issues of the time?

Also, I hope you're not a steelworker in 1960's in this scenario or actually any manufacturing, because in a decade your job will disappear permanently due to foreign competition. Oh and all the good jobs are "company men" jobs so daily overtime is expected, drinking with your coworkers is expected after, socializing only with your coworkers is expected, and the family is the sort of thing your wife manages and who you interact with on the weekends.
You read it right - another job board.

In previous threads, I've noticed many people suggesting job boards are not the place to look for contract work. Many contract relationships arise out of personal and professional relationships. I generally agree. I have such an arrangement with my previous employer.

That said, I get lots of calls from recruiters, as we all do, and many of them are attempting to act as a middleman for a 6 or 12-month contract. They want to put me on their payroll to service a particular job, and collect the spread.

The idea of a contract economy is really appealing to me, so I wanted to see how the HN community would respond to this prototype.

I was looking for a project to dig a bit deeper with React and this seemed like a decent thing to toil away on. I've been working on it in my spare time for the past couple days. Functionality is really basic and there are surely bugs. Any feedback is welcome!

P.S. If you don't feel the need to comment here, it'd be awesome if you'd select yay or nay at the bottom of the homepage.
> Reading posts such as PG's pro-inequality posts I have realised that I have something no rich person could ever have, and that is an insight into how the majority of people in the world think and act, and why this happens.

Do you think you'd lose this insight if you somehow get granted a living fund that pays us say $10k every month for the rest of your life? I mean it is not much money for PG but it'd change a lot in my life. I could probably put away at least $6k out of the $10k every month and still live fairly well. It'd change my daily life. I think I'd still work but I'd probably be able to be much more honest to my bosses. What do you think?
Or is it perhaps the other way around. Did Kerbel use the same UI as a popular rendering program used by astronomers.
Disclaimer: I work at Mondo and am the one implementing the way we talk to our agency bank.

How it actually works is theres a Message Queue (IBM MQ) that is connected over dedicated lines (MPLS or point to point, but not over the internet).

Each side uses a couple of layers of Crypto, including using Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to actually encrypt and sign the messages.

The crypto signatures also have legal standing in a sense, if the message is valid and signed then the counter party or agency bank is authorised to process it.
I think you're right that that's one of the chief concerns, but I think you paint it incorrectly as a technical problem. ("Multiple comparisons" as you call it. Particle physicists call it the "look-elsewhere effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect )

The easy, though tedious, part of the look-elsewhere effect is to calculate a probabilisitic correction for all the various combinatorics of X objects in Y orbits over a time period of length Z that one might have seen. The hard, and borderline philosophical, part is to identify the proper reference class, i.e., what qualitatively different sorts of observations might have also considered evidence for planet nine, and how many other astrophysical searches are we running that might have given us weird results? This is really where frequentist approaches strain to be useful, and it's hard to avoid resorting to a Bayesian prior.

Analogously for particle physics, it's easy to compute the chance of getting a 4-sigma deviation for two different experiments in any gamma-gamma energy bins, so the after-the-fact corrections to the significant of a fluctuation in a particular bin are easy to compute. Much more difficult is to consider all the hundreds of parallel searches going on, of greatly varying levels of motivation, and correcting based on that.
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That's the exact case I just tried to make in a blog[1] yesterday. Ads are a BAD solution to the problem of financing content creation. There are business models out there, not fringe ones, but big examples, where free content with volunteer fan donations WORK. Ads were a quick fix, but if we want content created for consumers, money will have to come from consumers directly.

Yes, these models can't yet support a creator by themselves, but the share has been getting better and there has been a quite noticeable effect on content.

[1] http://thescepticalpirate.eu/adblock-destroying-ads-good/
Save it, reinvest it?

From a more corporate standpoint, at $7 a meal, schools are entering competition with "gourmet" fast food options, of which 15-30% is going towards profit margins.

If mall food courts at all compete nutritionally with school lunches, then, at $6-$7 a meal, schools should charge (at market, not cost) for the space and restaurants should have profit margins.
Keep reading, their simulation explains several additional previously unrelated trajectories.
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All these "little native applications" require lots of work. If I want to share these "little applications" with people that do not share my OS, I am forced to make at least 2 different versions of the "little application"... then maintain them.

Good enough, is good enough. Yes, the web is not as performant as native... the question becomes; is it good enough? The bonus in wrapping Chrome is that I don't have to dive into 3 or more system level API's to get a "little application" up and running.
> judicial activism

That's disingenuous bullshit. The spirit of the constitution protects individual rights, and there is no constitutional reason why an arbitrary religious definition of marriage should be respected over the rights of individuals. It's not activism to say that discrimination based on sexual orientation is unconstitutional. Any feelings you have about the definition of marriage based on culture, tradition, or god's divine law are irreverent to the legal institution of marriage established by our secular government.
Ask HN: Do you keep a programmer journal? If so what do you document and how?
I've been thinking of keeping a journal for a long time, I've had many false starts. If you keep one, how does it benefit you?
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Coins are up 8.3% on the day, which is strange considering all the bandwagon press universally condemning it.

Some of it is correction, but I think generally more people are starting to treat it as a hedge against general global markets--as a haven like gold.
EDIT: As I look at my closing paragraph, I see that it comes across as rather dismissive, and I apologise for that. Let me clarify up front that, though I disagree with you, I appreciate and respect your reasoned arguments, and your willingness to continue arguing civilly and rationally.

> > Indeed I'd say to the contrary that there are many societies where homophobia is the normal attitude ….

> … If we were in such a society, the annoyance I have for people who follows the crowd and do not think for themselves would not apply to you.

If you are not in such a society, then you live in a happier world, or at least society, than I do—in particular, one where Antonin Scalia is not a Supreme-Court justice.

> I have distaste for the intolerant of the intolerant, because on one hand, they know the harm intolerance can cause in society, and on the other, they engage in the very same intolerance they know causes harm, and then they have the gall to tell people they are morally superior.

I think that certainly there are people who are smug about their intolerance of intolerance, just as there are people who are smug about their intolerance of homosexuality—used as a running example just because it's what I started with, not because I think it's the only kind of intolerance. However, I don't see why it's unfair for me simply to be repulsed by intolerance, without having my repulsion automatically judged to be artificial, and in service of some ulterior motive.

I agree that the fact that I am repulsed by something that (in my opinion, to be sure!) is actually morally bankrupt, as opposed to someone else's by something that is not, doesn't make me a better person; but I don't think that it makes me worse, either. That, and possibly also what seems to be your blanket assumption that intolerance of intolerance can only be in service of some agenda (and not a genuine emotional or intellectual reaction), I think is where we do, and may simply have to agree to continue to, differ.
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Most of the people who own Macs got them because of OS X. It helps that the hardware is quite good, all in all, and for that you can also charge a premium. But if Apple stopped developing OS X and just sold MacBooks with Windows preinstalled, I think their sales would decline drastically; if they ported OS X to regular PCs and sold it seperately, their computer business would probably take a large hit, too.
I've had to write some gnarly XPath expressions to extract data with Scrapy.

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> It is very irresponsible to make statements like that.

I don't think so. It is irresponsible to suggest that you can secure a server you don't physically control. Full disk encryption doesn't protect your disk if someone can take a memory dump of the machine. Using sshd in an initramfs to receive the passphrase for an encrypted rootfs doesn't help if someone can modify the initramfs and wait for a the passphrase.

Encrypting your volumes does provide some security, but having to SSH into an initramfs to unlock the root partition has its own problems.
Because they have only been able to find the orbit. Not the current location in the orbit.
It is often argued that war times are actually great catalysts for technological progress.

Isn't it precisely during WW2 that a lot of advancement was made to develop the technology for space exploration?
It must have been: Brave co-founder Brian Bondy blogged about that purchase several months ago. http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/171/the-link-bubble-android-w...
FYI, RNNs are a form of Deep Learning these days (in particular LSTM and GRU RNNs, very popular for language translation and much more for a few years now). There is also research lately into weirder types of neural nets such as 'Neural Turing Machines' (http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401).
It IS NOT clear that s/he should not have been a lead, it IS clear that they made a poor decision, and are humble enough to admit to it and share it to the community. It is no surprise EVERY one of your comments is flagged. Your tone is continuously condescending rather than inquisitive.
> I mean, guys, you are already ton of money selling your printed version

Not at all. Printed paper is definitely on the decline - just compare what's easier to do e.g. at a train or while drinking your morning coffee: holding a huge-ass 1 m² newspaper while the train is shaking and the crowd makes it impossible to stretch your arm, or, holding a notebook/tablet/phablet to read.
I use this for one of my companies, and getting ready to roll it out on my second. It's worth every penny.
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