skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct on all points. Kepler's already done wonderful work.

In order for us/Kepler to detect an exoplanet through the brightness dip as the planet passes between its host star and Earth, that planet's orbit (i.e. the ecliptic about the other star) must be in the same plane as Earth.

Consequently, if someone else has discovered Earth with the same method, they must necessarily lie in our orbital plane. If someone knows we're here (and, say, have a lot of water, as might be discernable from spectroscopy) they might be more apt to signal us.

For directed signalling, it's not as important that they be close as it is that they're aware of our planet.
For those of you who don't know, Bootstrap 3 uses border-box for everything by default. Anyone who has worked with front end design a bit has probably cringed many times at the thought of having to assign the full dimensions of the box you want to an outer div, then create an inner div with padding in order to achieve the same result that border-box solves. Didn't IE also invent @font-face?
The registration and title were in my name because title had cleared the German DMV. He basically didn't believe his own DMV and started calling previous owners in the middle of the night.
What technologies did you build this with? What database are you using? Why is this preferable to something like a Facebook group or tumblr blog aggregator? For example, if I'm interested in Heavy Metal why wouldn't I just follow a Heavy Metal blog and join a Heavy Metal Facebook group? Thanks - the site looks functional and I appreciate your enthusiasm. Looking forward to your relies.
Author here. Some updates: I raised my salary to $25k, and just finished that trip I mentioned — three months living/working in Belgium, Germany, and Prague. Happy to answer any questions about working abroad or anything else!
The Blockchain.info number he bases it on comes from:

* Electricity consumption is estimated based on power consumption of 650 Watts per gigahash and electricity price of 15 cent per kilowatt hour. In reality some miners will be more or less efficient.

ASICs (which I believe are the majority of the hashrate nowadays) are more on the order of 10 W/GH (Block Erupter claims 7.5 W/GH/s, the Butterfly Labs 5 GH/s ASIC looks like it's around 6.5 W/GH/s).
Based on an electricity price of $125/mWh and power consumption of 650W/gigahash, Bitcoin costs $9m a day, or about $3.3b a year to run. The total value of Bitcoin is about $7.5b. Incidentally, the US mint and federal reserve combined 2013 budget was $8.1b for 2013 and the total value of US currency in circulation is about $800b.

This raises a few interesting questions: will the logistical cost of running Bitcoin rise linearly with its total value? If so, are Bitcoin's running costs too great to make it a viable global currency?

Sources:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/budget-review/fil...

http://www.treasury.gov/about/budget-performance/Documents/2...

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60ztgSzm1g10zm2g2...
I'd like to see a "where are they now" of the commenters' views on Bitcoin.
The financial industry uses up 20+% of US population (albeit this is more than just the currency), but it gives you an idea of how many resources need to be diverted to the process of allocating capital. Many communism nations failed because (along with many many other reasons) there weren't a lot of people figuring out the best allocation of resources.
An API Blueprint renderer with theme support
American banks loaned the Nazi regime over a trillion $$ before World War II
You might checkout the Jot Script. I had this same dilemma and just ordered. Unable to speak to it first-hand but looks good.

Oddly enough, the expensive styluses seem to be cheaper than buying a moleskine notebook every month or so at $15+ a pop.
They have that, it's called VISA, Mastercard, etc.
So the biggest problem with this post is that blockchain.info specifically says that they assume 650W per GigaHash. This is just out of date.

Modern ASIC miners (which are doing the majority of the mining) are doing more like 10W per GigaHash.[1]

So we only need 1/65th of what is being estimated.

1) http://millybitcoin.com/does-bitcoin-mining-use-a-large-amou...
It's worth noting it's pretty easy to setup good IntelliSense-style behavior for emacs, too. I often try to press people who are fans of VS on why they think it's the best and I have yet to see anything that improves on a well-configured emacs with CEDET, magit, etc.
Vancouver’s ban on the doorknob
What did you use to create it?
Slightly OT, but does someone has an introduction on how to build a minimal kernel for people who have absolutely no clue on how this works?
No, it's not that difficult. Modern cars have been able to tighten safety belts before a probable collision since years.
Honestly, I read the whole page and I have still no idea what this is. It says it is a Pencil which works with Paper, both pencil and paper with uppercase letters which seem to indicate that they mean something else then a carpender pencil and a peace of paper to write on, so does the price and that you can load some battery and connect to something unspecified with bluetooth.

Could someone tell me what this is for and why they have a beautiful website which doesn't tell me what the product is for?
I literally did zero marketing or anything else in order to get traffic, other than checking which posts brought more traffic and write about that more. So I don't have much advice in that regard.
Bitcasa launches Developer Program and releases Secure Storage API
Beginning Android Application Development
Likely the best investment opportunity ever posted on HN, possibly in the history of the world, for simple buy/mine and hold ROI.
Wow, that was even more nauseating than the Blair Witch Project or Cloverfield.
1. There is a finite number of Bitcoins that will exist

This is a good thing. It makes Bitcoins similar to gold. There is a finite amount of gold in the world. Artificial scarcity is an innovation.

2. Whilst there is a finite number of bitcoins,
there are an infinite number of Bitcoin-substitutes

That's true, but the network effect, being first to market, and having an enormous community counts for a lot. There is only one Facebook. Also it would take lots of additional software overhead for businesses to support other currencies in addition to Bitcoin, not to mention it would confuse consumers.

3. Large companies couldn’t adopt Bitcoin, even if they wanted to

Then explain how Shopify adopted Bitcoin? This is simply incorrect.

4. Trust and transparency"

If someone steals your Bitcoins, they committed a crime, and the police will go after them. Bitcoin also leaves a great audit trail.

Continued existence of currency – as noted in
section 3 above, whilst there may be good reasons
why cryptocurrencies could replace traditional
currencies, there is absolutely no basis for assuming
that Bitcoin will be that winning currency.

Yes there is a good basis - the fact that it's survived for 4 years as the leader. TCP/IP, HTML, etc. is still around.

5. Reliance on cryptography

Everyone relies on cryptography nowadays, and in the slim chance it becomes broken, the Bitcoin community would come up with a new encryption scheme.
We used Sketch.
A TSA employee gave me a series of rapid fire questions about a pizza place in Boston after he physically removed me (via a firm grab on my arm) from a line of passengers about to board a plane (ie, well after the normal security checks).

Something along the lines of:

"Where have you been today?"

"Santarpios."

"Never heard of it. What's that?"

"Really? It's right next to the turn off to get to the airport."

"Never heard of it."

"It's a pizza place."

"What sort of pizza did you have?"

etc. A whole bunch of quite specific questions at a rapid pace about a famous restaurant right next to the airport that carried on until his colleague had finished rummaging through my laptop bag.
In the age of plastic, wood becomes unique and interesting. I'd love to see more components made with a beautiful wood casing rather than unfriendly plastic.
Never said it did.

If one wanted to, one could argue the baby boomers were pretty amoral and self-oriented; leading to millennials seeing and adopting that.
Google XX-Hacker
Its quit old, but still fun ( you can add ?hl=xx-hacker in every google links ). The Google says hi to all the hackers and crackers.
And you have to log in once a month or your buildslaves break. So much for fire and forget
The special language syntax is being removed. Its now just a library.
Do we really need to dig massive open pits, extract 3 ppm gold molecules, dump the rest, cast the gold into blocks and store them in locked vaults to have gold reserves?
I'm a happy user of Tarsnap. Why should I consider this solution? Also (playing devil's advocate for a moment) what's the best reason you can give for me to just keep using Tarsnap?
Does HN like dogs?
Stephen Wiltshire - detailed cityscapes by memory
If it has interesting content, people will find it in Google. Getting traffic isn't about SEO, it's about having good content.
Why hadn't they had a video chat and let the two old friends see each other before they could meet in person? Their network speed looks good enough for FaceTime or Google Hangouts.
Sucks, but I don't get the lawsuit. Corporate officers negotiated deal terms that resulted in dilution. Several times. Over 8 years.

Seems pretty straightforward.
I find it to be useful as a discovery tool. I can type

String.

and then it'll present me with a list of methods and properties on String. And then, when I've typed String.Substring it'll tell me what the arguments are.

For stuff I use all the time it isn't so useful, but when I'm unsure it's a lot quicker than running off to read an extensive reference guide. (and type completion is a time-saver too - no need to type out full variable names)
Communicating Sequential Processes for JavaScript
"If you see a stylus, they blew it"

- Steve Jobs
Fucking seriously? I know it's popular to hate "America" lately -- since it makes a nice big clean target and it gives you a nice fuzzy "edgy" feeling to do so -- but it seems more like Australia's leading the pack when it comes to overreaching soft-authoritarian policy.
It does look very interesting. I was surprised to learn that it cross-compiles to C before being compiled. I'd be even more interested if there was an IntelliJ plugin for Nimrod.
All of the troubles that I've had have been relative to compiling the JVM Python code and linking it correctly to my Java binary at compile time. Once I've gotten that working, I've found Lucene to be quite simple - and faster than Whoosh!
I too have worked with major automotive OEMs, and all the 'security' I've seen is nothing but lip service. The quality of embedded software in the automotive world is laughable. Forget anything advanced, they're just getting into the what-do-you-mean-bounds-checking stage of computer security.

There's just starting to be real external research into the current state of the automotive world:
http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf

Even the proposed new standards are busted:
http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/143639....

I for one, am going to have a hard time buying any car made after 2006.
At today's rate... millions.
You may afford to get a new passport first, but the author said that he was traveling continuously and just wanted a last segment before reaching his home. There was therefore no preparation in advance that could include getting a new passport, and also there were no bad expectations.
Technologies That Transformed Warfare
Remotes are incredibly hard to design. My company builds Smart TV Apps we have just about every remote imaginable and that Samsung one you chose "just works" its like the Nokia 3310 of remotes. You can pick it up and use it without thinking about it.

Show me a remote that works better then that one and I can probably tell you why it sucks.
You can target Mac/iOS from Visual Studio with Xamarin. :)
Tesla cars do not sure solve the energy problem at all. They don't use significantly less energy than a modern diesel BMW, they just use batteries not oil. The energy crisis we have is more related to how can we produce the energy for the batteries.
Have You Seen Spring Lately?
^^^ Of course. I've actually wrote a minimalistic ruby library, then done the same library in javascript in similar code..just a nice curiosity.
DevSense makes a nice PHP extension for Visual Studio (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8292e47d-8ed2-...). It's not free, but it's inexpensive.

On a related note, DevSense has also taken over development the Phalanger project (a PHP compiler/runtime for .NET). It's Apache 2.0-licensed and on GitHub if you're interested: https://github.com/DEVSENSE/Phalanger

DevSense does provide some free tools for VS if you're using Phalanger, maybe they'd be good enough for what you want: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/419916fb-ec89-...
> future power consumption per GH/s to go down.

But you'll need more hashes, so it'll go back up.

The current price of a bitcoin is almost exactly equal to its energy cost, and that's not going to change because if the price was higher people would spend more energy, if lower people will cut back.
Do you mean control Privoxy with little snitch? I'd be interested in any links about that, I'm not finding any.
Bitcoin would probably gain value because people see it as "digital gold".
Built with PHP (looking backwards, I'd use Python) and MySQL, hosted on AWS EC2. While following Heavy Metal blog on Facebook will expose you to relevant content, you will still miss other blogs and what they have to say. Following a broad facebook page of "Heavy Metal" will probably expose you to a whole pile of spam and ads. This is why Interestin has upvotes so spam and ads won't get to the top. Also, I hope to develop some sort of anti-spam mechanism, but this will take a while. Thanks!
The earliest price I can find for BTC is $0.074 USD/BTC from about a year later, but if you bought $1000 then, you'd be sitting on about $9.7MM worth of Bitcoin today.
Both, really. Neither shared_ptr nor Boehm are perfect, but that hasn't stopped C++ from being fast in practice.
The fundamental problem with bit-coin is anyone willing to pay for twice the current mining costs can double spend and destroy the currency. As such there is no way even 100 billion in mining can protect 10 trillion in value. QED: the long term viability of bit-coin as a cheap world wide currency is impossible.

Anyway, the secret service and possibly the FBI one run anti counterfeiting operations so it's slightly higher than that. Beyond that, I think there is a fair amount of diplomatic operations that support the USD but it's still far far cheaper to run relative to value than bit-coin right now.
From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop
You said "identical behavior by Canadian agents" and then you said they let you pass. That is obviously not identical and is in fact contrary to a major point of OP's story.

Just asking you to consider your adjectives more thoroughly before writing them.
That doesn't address the point - many mainstream 'news' outlets work by rewriting stories syndicated from Reuters and AP - not by having their own reporters.

The comment I was responding to was attacking the wsws for not being 'news' because it doesn't have it's own reporters.

It's perfectly reasonable to criticize it for having a political stance that you don't credit, but I don't see a case for somehow categorizing it as 'not news' when its practices are the same as many traditional news outlets, just with a less mainstream perspective.

Note: I'm not supporting whatever wsws's stance might be - I'm just pointing out that much of mainstream news is similar in how it operates.
The spirit of using strong typed safe languages for system level programming instead of unsafe languages like C and C++.

I did like Oberon a lot, as a GC enabled safe systems programming language with module support, and the ideas of Native Oberon exploring Smalltalk dynamism in a static compiled language.

As for Wirth's minimalism, specially the latest Oberon-07, I don't like it that much.
Two things that are not very clear:

1. The kickstarter is for an upcoming cloud version of Cryptic?

2. Parts are open source (Eclipse), but not intended for self-hosting?
I tried my hand at a couple affiliate marketing style blogs thinking the same thing - I'm a web dev. Never made more than a couple hundred dollars over the course of months of occasional fiddling.

You have to love writing, what you are writing about, self/product promotion and project management like outsourcing tedious SEO things for cheap otherwise it will rarely amount to much.

If you are a developer and love these things, then sure it would be great if you could spend an extra hour or two for some months to make $36k in addition to a regular income, but I would say the kind of effort and results achieved by OP is an outlier. YMMV even if you have all the skills.
Gumby CSS framework
> All I had to do was mention I was going to take a class, and the guy made us go into an interrogation room where he asked repeated, annoying questions

When I got my Canadian work visa the one point that the immigration agent specifically highlighted on the visa paperwork was that I wasn't permitted to attend university while I was here.

Damn foreigners coming here to get subsidized education? Not sure why it was such a big deal for them.
Not sure if you are aware of it, but Amazon has a share in this space too, Amazon Cloud Drive[1]

[1]- http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=cd_def/186-4662895...
Should I Attend a Conference Via a Telepresence Robot?
I'm about to blow your mind here: Rust has never had a GC. Managed pointers were always backed by reference counting, and the cycle collector stopped working sometime in 2010 and was never brought back online. Note that I said "were backed by reference counting" (emphasis mine), because managed pointers no longer exist in the language (unless you turn on the backwards-compatibility flag for them, which is only being provided temporarily).

So there's no longer even special syntax for a theoretical GC. Instead the plan is to greatly expand our support for custom pointer types in general, which will make all user-provided pointer types (implemented in whatever libraries our users come up with) first-class citizens. Our own stdlib will include several pointer types of this nature, including: `Rc` (reference counting), `Arc` (atomic (thread-safe) reference counting), `RWArc` (memory-safe Arc for mutable objects), and, yes, a `Gc` type.

And while it's true that we may provide hooks into the runtime to allow the `Gc` type to be implemented more efficiently, any user library will be able to use these hooks to implement its own GC. There won't be any implementation in the language itself.
This is inspiring to me. I've run one reasonably successful business, and two the flopped hard. In between that, I've worked various full time and part time development (and sales, when I want to do something different) jobs.

I've recently found myself at somewhat of a crossroads. I have an idea that I think is going to be able to make decent money. Not FU money, but more than enough to live the way I want.

But I've been looking at going back to full time work for someone else... And I'm unsure on where I should go. I have time, I'm only 23, and I can get away with mistakes (I live in a country with an excellent safety net, and a pretty okay family -- they would prefer I get a "real" job though).

Glad to see someone out there is living my ideal life though :) maybe I'll spend tomorrow crunching some numbers to see how feasible it is.
> If I said that "much of the problems in the deep South in the United States are due to the prominence of Christianity in their culture" nobody would bat an eye

I would.

There's a complex two-way interplay between the particular forms of Christianity that are common in the deep South and the deep seated history of conflict, division, etc., in the region, but to portray the problems as the result of Christianity qua Christianity is, at best, simply useless.
Ah! I didn't see it happen on Chrome, so I missed it. Went back with Firefox after I saw your comment and now I get it. Very nice.
PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than retail price
kibwen is not speaking for the Rust team.
Sounds like a lot of tech startups.
Interesting, my wife works as a physical therapist with special needs children. I'll have to forward this on to her for some feedback.
Why wouldn't Amazon just then dedicated "all" of their free resources towards mining them, and keep whatever profits other are making?..
Meh, IntelliJ is the gold standard for IDEs. One reason is because it supports multiple languages and frameworks. Not just .NET.

Eclipse is also gold standard in my book because the ecosystem around it is way much better than VS.
This is a parody site

http://www.p4rgaming.com/

Foxconn Employees Should Think About the Lives They’re Ruining by Making Faulty PlayStation 4s

Exclusive Interview: First PlayStation 4 Owner Joey Says Life Still Unfulfilled

Mario Party leading cause of Video Game Violence
That's a nice idea, might open an issue to request it.
While relevant, to be fair he meant as the primary method of interacting with and navigating a handheld device, as in needing a stylus to scroll through your email, make calls, etc. This 'pencil' is simply for painting and drawing on a tablet, arguably a different scenario.
It's free. :)
"Startup life is hard."

I imagine that depends on who you are and what motivates you. For me, I found the opposite. Physically it's absolutely no harder than any other low-paid, long-hours job. Mentally it's very taxing but only because it's (usually) hugely creative - it's no harder than working in a salaried role where there's an expectation that you'll be creative all day. There's an element of difficulty beyond a normal job that comes from the level of independence - you can't slack off because things just won't get done - but that's not very different to having a difficult boss. Essentially you become your own difficult boss. And you always have the awesome incentives that both the short- and long-term rewards are potentially much better (freedom, interesting work, perhaps a huge payday at the end).

I've done career jobs and I've done startups. Startups were easier for me.
This is a great article and you can read countless examples the importance of sales and marketing for tech focused startups or small web based businesses. I agree 100% with most of what is being said. Also very cool to create a bootcamp focused on the other end of the business.

The irony of the title, Don't Learn to Code is realized in CTA of tradecrafted.com. Under Business & Social, point 3 is "Basic Programming"

Maybe this should be renamed to: Don't Learn to Code, [much, yet, etc.]

I just point this out because there are varying degrees of what people mean by learning to code. I don't believe that learning to code is bad for anyone, just as I don't believe that math, reading, writing, literature and the arts are either.

Are there any self directed guides to traction or learning this stuff outside of attending a bootcamp?
A benevolent individual who now has $2B in bitcoin.
Bitcoin is different in that is the purest form of a fiat currency in the sense that it is backed by nothing and thus has no intrinsic value whatsoever. Traditional currencies, on the other hand, are at least fractionally backed by (usually) gold and government bonds which in itself are backed by a government's ability to tax its citizens.

There is also a second problem in that BTC is deflationary by design. Deflation leads to hoarding of currency units while reducing the velocity of money and suffocating the economy. Most people will agree that deflation is the worst thing that can happen to an economy which is why central banks will do everything in their power to avert it. It is hard to imagine how a stable Bitcoin economy could develop under these inherently flawed circumstances.