skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tricky part is that the techniques for detecting extra-solar planets work best for large planets near its sun.

But to get to your question, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance#Possible_past... :

> A past resonance between Jupiter and Saturn may have played a dramatic role in early Solar System history. A 2004 computer model by Alessandro Morbidelli of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice suggested that the formation of a 1:2 resonance between Jupiter and Saturn (due to interactions with planetesimals that caused them to migrate inward and outward, respectively) created a gravitational push that propelled both Uranus and Neptune into higher orbits, and in some scenarios caused them to switch places, which would have doubled Neptune's distance from the Sun. The resultant expulsion of objects from the proto-Kuiper belt as Neptune moved outwards could explain the Late Heavy Bombardment 600 million years after the Solar System's formation and the origin of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.[43] An outward migration of Neptune could also explain the current occupancy of some of its resonances (particularly the 2:5 resonance) within the Kuiper belt.

I think your statement "that earth is unusually dense" is incorrect. Earth's density is 5.51 grams/cc and Mercury's is 5.427 grams/cc. These are quite close. Earth's density is higher because of its higher gravity. When considered as "uncompressed" density, Mercury is much more dense than the Earth. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_planet#Density_tren... .
Aa can be in the middle.
YMMV. Personally my circles (20s-40s Seattleite nerds) say "Hearts" to each other on a regular basis. Depending on context, it expands to either "I love you" or "I love the thing you just said", just as if we were typing "<3" into an instant messenger window.

That said, the spurious asterisk in 'diaspora' does look pretty inexplicable, and needs way too much explanation to people who haven't drunk the kool-aide already. Add in the fact that 'diaspora' is never capitalized, even if it begins a sentence, and you're kind of way off into the eccentric orthography zone.
Start with Swift because it's easier. Move to Objective-C when you are ready for lower level hacking. It's the same trajectory we all followed: first learning BASIC, then doing some grovelling in assembly, then moving to something like C or pascal.
Bill Gates received a large trust fund when he was born. Microsoft's first major deal, with IBM, was facilitated by his mother's connection to the IBM board.
damnit, now we need to build a new one to figure out what the question was
Who killed VB6 and thought VB.Net would be a good idea? I remember a long gone Channel 9 video where the VB guys had arguments for .Net and showed a demo of the third part transition tool, that ship as Lite-version with Visual Studio 2002/3.
Waking up to urinate in the middle of the night could also mean that you're over 40 and probably male (though women often have the same issue for different reasons).
The one question you really want answered from any "secure" or "private" browser fork of Chromium or Firefox is: exactly how, in excruciating detail, do they track upstream security fixes? Are they getting notification of issues alongside the browser vendor, or do they find out only when the public does, when the embargo on disclosure is lifted?

Keeping up with vulnerabilities in browser codebases is a full-time job and there are very few teams in the world who can fund it, so odds are, forked browsers are going to need creative ways to piggyback on their upstream.
He didn't watch 'Simple Made Easy'. He watched a different Hickey talk, 'Simplicity Matters': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI8tNMsozo0
The big question of science is "Why...?"

The big question of religion is "Who...?"
Well, Amazon also had to define what it meant to be a web store at scale.

I think that mpdehaan2's point was that (from the outside looking in, at least) almost everything Etsy's doing seems to be a minor variation on a solved problem. That was definitely not the case for Amazon.
That's not exactly the sort of team where you'd expect MIT Ph.Ds to work. It's precisely big teams of mediocre people who run into issues based on not knowing exactly what the database is doing and how it's supposed to work that lead to data corruption due to misuse. It's almost always a boring problem (e.g. retail business software). It's almost always a clunky commercial "enterprise" solution (e.g. Oracle). It's almost always a big team. I'm not sure if I even need to go into application engineers -- you put your best and brightest into the core product, and solutions typically gets those that can't quite cut it there.

Regardless, your comment was about PostgreSQL, not Oracle. Oracle is a giant piece of software written by a corporation with over 100,000 employees. Something like that is bound to have bugs, and it has bugs indeed. Data corruption with Oracle certainly happens. PostgreSQL is written by a small, ultra-elite team. It's a much smaller codebase, so an expert developer can understand how the whole system works. There's a big difference in robustness between the two.

Of course database bugs can cause corruption. I've certainly had MonogDB eat my data. But the level of robustness of different databases is very different. There are many databases which are essentially bug-free. If you're losing data with PostgreSQL, odds are you're the one losing the data, not PostgreSQL.
isn't media goblin a bit like this? at least for the media sharing bit.....
Which is why we still work towards a vaccine. Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
"Among these, Pony is the only language that concurrently garbage collects actors."

I must not be understanding that claim correctly. Erlang does garbage collection on a per actor basis (at least that's my understanding). If the claim is that multiple actors can garbage collect simultaneously, then I guess that means Erlang only GCs one actor at a time. If so, why can't Erlang GC multiple actors at a time? It does full SMP for actor execution.
> It is, for example, fairly trivial to build a class based model on top of a prototypal model, while the other way around is a far more difficult task.

not in languages where you can control method dispatch and object allocation (smalltalk, ruby, python etc), than it's quite trivial.
Yet in nations that have recently moved into the income levels needed for automobiles their usage has exploded. China, India, and a few others, all seem to be burgeoning car markets.

I think one area over looked in their study of people streaming into and out of cities is the less need for the city itself to provide for the needs of the people. Combine that with all the congestion style pricing and it drives development outside of the city where those who cannot afford the entry costs.
It's "Rumours". If you're going to make a mom-rock jab at Fleetwood Mac, get the spelling right. :P
I lived in LA for 7 years, in a variety of locations. Living within walking distance to your job isn't possible unless a) you make a lot of money or b) you don't mind living far from everything else.
Anders Hejlsberg – What brought about the birth of the CLR?
It takes guts to write like this. And I fully agree with Derek.

The sheer momentum created by the pontiffs, academics and pundits on this subject who exhorted the virtues of layering architectures moved us into a blind alley. The OO crowd (barbarians) were at the gates first. After two solid decades of this slow exodus of logic from RDBM systems to Java, .NET and whatever other middle-tier architecture we dreamed up, we were inevitably back to the same problems we thought we were avoiding: remove complexity, improve maintainability and portability. And we gave up a lot to get that: we gave up reliability, we gave up performance, we gave up security and we gave up simplicity. Ah, but no worries, we thought, we could write faster iterating loops, introduce threads, write custom access control and authorisation, custom caching solutions ... yeah, we will do that but do everything to eschew the simplest of set-based operations on SQL databases! :-(

But there was no lying about how we missed the database in our business tier. Oh we missed it. We missed the database so much outside the RDBMS that we REcreated it! And we christened this compromise of an ingrown toe-nail an "ORM". Two decades have come and gone and we are still agonising this unwinnable war that Ted Neward infamously called the "Vietnam of Computer Science".

So, while we jettisoned the relational database onto the scrap heap of software development tools, ironically the makers of the RDBMS software (both open source and commercial) continued to advance and mature it. Patiently. We have CTEs now. We have parameterised tables.

It takes all of 5 minutes to show a developer who has never seen the impact of doing a set-based business rule implementation vs one in Java etc that we are too far gone in our craft!

Derek is spot on. Respect.
Becuase our language is not pictographic, it is alphabetic. So that is wrong. Reading a heart symbol as "I love you" is just as wrong as reading it as "I heart you." A symbol is not a word.
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Although, how cool would it be if we could git clone a genome and then grow a plant based off of that? Maybe we should get them all in a room together...
Given that Chrome (and Google in general) has possibly the best defensive security team in the world, it's hard for me to take these security-oriented forks too seriously. Indeed, the last "secure Chromium fork" I heard about, WhiteHat Aviator, turned out to introduce a bunch of new vulnerabilities:

https://plus.google.com/+JustinSchuh/posts/69qw9wZVH8z

Even if the fork doesn't add bugs, you are now relying on the fork's maintainer to push security updates. Will they be as good at this as Chrome's team? This is unfair, of course: no startup or small project is ever going to have Chrome's resources. But when it comes to security, speed of updates really does matter.
This idea could sound controversial probably, but maybe spacial agencies should focus in the more accesible planet by far. Maybe some of this talent, team and resources, could be destinated instead to save the thousands of critically endangered earthlings that are vanishing and can't wait a decade. To burn all the ships to find a new bacteria in mars will be very interesting of course but also a bad choice in terms of huge costs/uncertain real benefits.

Maybe the funds could be spent into how to solve the nuclear residues problem, how to design a catascope to look under yellowstone or inside the etna, how to predict and minimise the next fukushima/three mile island, or how to study sea currents and discover if those yummy school of anchovies from japan will cause you a leukemia in two years.

Just an opinion
Anonymity and lack of susceptibility to a certain class of quantum computing attacks
I'm glad you suggested that - will do.
Where is Bosnia and Herzegovina?

I can understand removing some of the smallest countries, but Bosnia has a larger population than Albania or any of the three Baltic countries. I guess this would have been much more legible if it wasn't presented as a map.
> your one-sentence explanation of seeds and pods above should be the first or second sentence on the landing page

I don't think this was aimed at me, but to be clear, I'm not affiliated with diaspora. I just happened to be reading the page relevant to gp's question at the time.

I agree with that their exposition could use improvement.
The advantage is in them hoping you don't know that machine doesn't work.

In fact they try to check for it. Like they might say things like "it looks like you pizza-ed on this one when you should-a frenchfried, ... hmm that's interesting'. Where say "pizza" and "frenchfry" are polygraph specific terminilogy. If you don't ask "hey what does that mean?" they might assume your read up on and research about how to beat polygraphs.

And on your point of "what if I really don't believe in polygraphs". The problem is the polygraph measures involuntary emotional response. You might rationally not believe in efficacy of polygraphs. But emotionally you'd start breathing faster anyway. Maybe because you are afried the polygraph examiner will figure out that you really know how polygraphs work.
Aa Bb Cc is identical to Cc Aa Bb (or bB aA cC). That's why we fixed one chain, to simplify the rest of the calculation.

EDIT: on reading TFA I find Norvig does essentially the same thing: "So let's arbitrarily say that all tours must start with the first city in the set of cities. We'll just pull the first city out, and then tack it back on to all the permutations of the rest of the cities." Interestingly he doesn't also eliminate the Aa-aA redundancy, because "First, it would mean we can never handle maps where the distance from A to B is different from B to A. Second, it would complicate the code (if only by a line or two) while not saving much run time."
Hmm, will look into that error not showing the message. Unfortunately, currently ESM doesn't support international numbers. The service I'm using too send costs more in those countries so I'm still trying to figure out the financials on that side. Thanks for checking it out though. I'll let you know through the email you gave me when the version with international numbers is ready.
It looks good, but is language alone enough these days? Reminds me of Axum C# research dialect. Microsoft decided to implement it as a framework in the end - Orleans. So did Scala. And wouldn't F# + Akka.NET be just as safe?
"But it does call home to Google." This doesn't seem to be that much more secure if it still has to contact their servers.
PC Engines, Netgate.
Monotheistic religions and Hellenistic mysteries offered a more fulfilling concept of Afterlife. They were bound to overtake the grim Hades.
Then either interpret the sentence in context as an atomic concept or conclude that all sentences are merely strings of symbols devoid of meaning and without informational content (this way lies madness).
I'm pretty ambivalent about the picture I've gotten of Uber's management but would generally advise against labeling people we don't really know as "sociopaths".

Though, hustling senior citizens with bizarre Wii tennis mastery does make one think.
Kivy is really cool, but getting started on it sort of sucks. Lots of compilation errors (especially if you're trying to install on windows) due to its dependencies on pygame (and therefore cython, and therefore a particular version of MSVS for the specific dll... all a hassle). The on-site tutorials are sort of obtuse too, if you're looking to do UIs rather than games - until other resources[1][2] became available, I sort of just gave up because it didn't seem worth it to jump through the hoops for a new framework.

1 http://inclem.net/pages/kivy-crash-course/

2 http://pythonthusiast.pythonblogs.com/230_pythonthusiast/arc...
A Month of Amazon Kinesis in Production
But neither you nor they can do that math with sufficient precision. Certainly not to the degree of accuracy where 150k vs 130k will make or break them. There are a lot of unknowns: your raw talent + their code base + how well you will work with others + market opportunities + experience you have that could help them break into new markets + your ability to mentor and hire friends from your network + a lot of other factors. Your job is to present yourself as top of market, worth the gamble to pay you extra to secure your talent. Again you don't have to be a celebrity. And they simply can't reduce your potential value so accurately.
Understanding the ISO 27001 Language
Have lived in LA for 12 years, have lived walking distance from my job for all but one of them. Just takes planning, like anything else.
I agree, it's not a right if you have to ask permission first. OTOH I can see why cities require it because as another comment pointed out a random guy could sit/stand in the middle of the street and call it a protest but I still feel there are better ways to address that other than requiring a permit. A permit requires a level of planning that is not needed for a lot of these protests that get organised over social media and the like.
Inequality in many instances is a series of poor life choices:

-Having children at an early age
-Having children without the means to actually support them
-Education not being stressed in the home. I know a few teachers in extremly poor areas and when the students leave the class room, their parent(s) and family work against anything positive that they might get from school.

From the article

"Every child should get a "child benefit" payment to keep kids out of poverty.

People can get more government assistance when you have more kids. How is giving even more money (which isn't working) going to get anyone out of poverty? We need to encourage people to have less kids if they can't afford them, not more.

It's clear that the answer to "inequality" from this article is instead of bringing more people out of poverty (IE: more education, earning a better job through skills and getting a better life) the suggestion is to take money from the people that earned it (65% taxes) and just give it to the poor. This will only create more generations of people dependent on the government.

The top 1% pay ~50% of the federal taxes in the US.

The bottom 60 percent are expected to pay less than 2 percent of federal income taxes.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102581780
Yes. And Aviator is what happens when you put an unusually security-conscious team in charge of one of those forks.
Exactly, it's just an interrogation prop like when the East German police would have the fake telephone where they pretended to make calls to family/friends and verify your story, and had a button under their desk to make the phone ring so they could pretend to get just in time information to refute your story. Modern police will go into an interrogation with a decoy file folder full of random papers and then go through it claiming the contents refute your entire story and you'd better confess too.

A standard polygraph trick is to switch it off, and then have a casual interview during the middle of the test. Then they claim they never switched it off and you've been lying the whole time as your casual results differ on the magic box. Props tend to work to get people to trip up on their replies even if the prop is just a box that randomly scribbles on paper with absolutely zero scientific credibility.
Is the NOC still viable according to ITIL?
Yeah, I don't see how taxing a citizen is unequal treatment (hence my confusion at you bringing it up).
There are lots of other 'flavours' of Chromium out there. Try to avoid any closed source binary blobs like Comodo Dragon, and others. I like this because at least we can inspect the source: https://iridiumbrowser.de/development Rather than download from their site, I would much prefer to build this from the source code they provide.

All the browser does is prevent phoning home to Google, which is preferable if you've decided to permaban Goog. from your Internet traffic. Google is so tightly woven into Chrome and is a huge privacy risk.

On the other hand, you could route all your vanilla privacy waiving stuff through Chrome and use Firefox to do real surfing. Excuse the bias here, but I know my way around the web and Chrome likes to think I don't. I suspect Chrome is some sort of fisher price browser designed for non tech savvy folk.

So use Chrome for Facebook, Youtube, other Google products. But don't use it for actually surfing the web.
AXEL. Modular headphones with a difference: Soundscapes
I lived on 37th and 10th for a while (working about 10 blocks south). You don't have to live a block from your office to make it enjoyable. A 15-20 min walk is more enjoyable than a 20min (more likely 40min) subway trip.

While it obviously wouldn't work for everyone, it worked for me and was more pleasurable than living in even nice parts of Brooklyn and dealing with crowded trains in the morning.
Sure! But there are lots of situations in which a counterparty in a discussion has an off-putting advantage (see: every job interview), and yet we don't generally offer advice to candidates along the lines of "tense and relax your anal sphincter repeatedly" or "visualize your happy place on target questions and your worst nightmare on control questions".

Is where I'm going with this clear? I feel like I'm just confusing everyone with this line of questions.

I'm literally just asking:

If I was given a polygraph tomorrow, knowing what I know now (in fact having conviction about what I know about polygraphs), wouldn't a reasonable strategy be to ignore any polygraph-specific advice, and manage the process the same way I would if there was a Magic 8 Ball adjudicating it?

I know there are differences between the plastic toy and the fortune-telling billiard-ball, but are they meaningful?
If you need a state, where you want those functions, checks, triggers etc, using a stateless db server and providing state with business logic is still the same thing.
The Git tree is already outdated: https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/log/, last commit 2015-04-09.

In the meantime, Chromium 42 has been released: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.de/2015/04/stable-chann..., including a bunch of security fixes.
Putting React in yo React
The lower-end PFSense rebranded hardware [1] seems pretty competitive to me, with the $300 box they're expecting to release at the end of June looking especially nice in comparison to the soekris boards. Alternatively, if you're willing to spend a few dollars on RAM, there are a number of barebones systems out there with Atom C2[3,5,7]58 processors that will give ten times the performance, so you could do some file serving with the box too.

[1] http://store.pfsense.org/hardware/
On Ubuntu it's really easy though.
This is why I switched OSes a few years ago. Things are just easier if you use the same platform as other developers.
The developers of Iridium don't reveal that their browser phones home to their servers, and that's cause enough for distrust here.

A quick "grep -r iridiumbrowser.de" of the source reveals that they replace calls home to Google with calls home to various hostnames of the form "trk-NNN.iridiumbrowser.de", where NNN is a three-digit number. Presumably these hosts act as proxies. For example, lines 37-38 of chrome/browser/history/web_history_service.cc:

const char kHistoryQueryHistoryUrl[] =
"https://trk-139.iridiumbrowser.de/history.google.com/history/api/lookup?client=chrome";

Edit: The git log for this change:

https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/commi...

"Replace URLs to Google services by URLs to our own server, so as to analyze where we still have to patch the browser to make it stop blurting data out."

That's an acceptable excuse in a debug branch, but there's no reason for this kind of privacy-impacting debug code to reach a public build.
Previous Century Thinking
Okay, so their current release is based on chrome 41, supposedly with some security improvements. You know what else made security improvements over chrome 41? Chrome 42.