skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll just say upfront that I'm the cofounder of Periscope (https://www.periscope.io/) which is specifically marketed at data scientists, so I have a horse in this race. :)

There are two kinds of charts: Charts designed to find information, and charts designed to sell information. The latter are often gorgeous and many-dimensional: Heatmaps, animated bubble charts, charts with time sliders, etc. And by all means, if selling the data is required, then sell it with the best tool for the job.

As for actually investigating the data, it's usually a lot of tables, lines and bars. They're simple to understand, and there's no cleverness in the visualization that might hide critical information.

To answer your questions, at Periscope I've seen:

1. A line graph of amplitude over time. You should see the frequency emerge clear as day. If you want to calculate frequency explicitly, you could overlay a second line with its own axis. Again, super simple, but gives you the answer directly.

2. I've seen a lot of fancy graph visualizations, but nothing that makes me happy. Depending on what you want to know about your graph, maybe a simple table with a structure like:

[node name][node name][weight]

Or:

[timestamp][node name][node name][weight]

A pivot table on top of this data, transoforming the second node column into the table's horizontal axis, can also be useful.

3. OK, obviously I think Periscope is a great choice here. Loads of data analysts use it to visualize time series data on many tens/hundreds of billions of data points.

That said, other good choices are: Excel, R/Stata/Matlab, gnuplot, Apache Pig. And for the data storage itself, IMO Amazon Redshift is unparalleled.
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Forgot to add something relevant to other commenter's claim about needing to be "big" or whatever. I was one of last holdouts of 1 logical function = 1 physical hardware as I liked to customize software for function (esp security TCB). On a related note, having lots of redundant systems for protecting files takes all kinds of servers and is expensive, right? Especially with all that hashing and crypto?

They're called VIA Artigo's:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=via+artigo&_sacat=&_ex_k...

Stumbled onto them looking for accelerated crypto & cheaper x86 boxes. So, 6x Artigo at $300 (back then), 3x UPS at $50 each, 2x network switch's at $50, and 12x cables at $5 each = a very high availability solution for 100GB+ data for $2,110 plus tax. Breaking 1TB just took an extra grand or so. At that time, getting a similar level of storage with only two-way redundancy from "bargain" server vendors was more like $10,000-20,000.

Just gotta invest wisely and your problem turns from "cost too much" to "wow I'm sinking a lot of time into this project." The latter is more fun, at least. :)
And indeed the fact that the observed transits were "fuzzy" told us that Pluto has a (very tenuous) atmosphere. Indeed, Pluto's diameter had considerable uncertainty before New Horizons arrived due to this (unlike Charon's whose transits were always tack sharp.)
The second reference talks about the star, which is named Kepler-452.
I think "Kepler-452" is the star, and "b" is the 2nd planet in the system. I'm not certain of their naming convention. Edit: Another poster says "b" is the 1st planet found in the system, regardless of position in the system.

Earth is 12,742 km in diameter, so "b" must be 20,387 km in diameter.

Our Sun is 1,391,684 km in diameter, so Kepler-452 must be 1,530,852 km in diameter.

Since the star is 10% larger and 20% brighter, but the same temperature, does that mean it is burning fuel 20% faster, and will enter its later stages earlier?
What people remember them the most, is their R&D. The beat Intel to create the first 7nm chip process recently.
I also thought about making it have the elements background-color or some other attribute animate from teal to gray over time so new nodes would be brighter. I haven't had a chance to try it but it would be really cool to see visually how many DOM nodes are getting completely rerendered (in other words, how well one is using React).
>marriage is a religious institution, seems pretty clear.

No one is debating marriage the religious institution, you can go have whatever private marriages you want, and religions can still discriminate. What was being debated was the somewhat different, marriage the legal entity that effects inheritance, joint custody and all the other legal benefits that spouses get. They commonly occur together but they do't have to.
I've been tempted several times to build a small cluster of low-power boards for a compute cluster. Not that I have much direct use for that at the moment. I recently got a new laptop with 16GB of RAM, so just running 8 VMs with 1GB of RAM each still leaves plenty left for development. With the VMs, I can just run regular 64-bit Linux, so that makes software and setup a non-issue.

I've got so many other projects on the back-burner I shouldn't even be reading about this sort of thing. But it does look fun!
The home on the web for eXtensible Flight System (XFS) is http://www.xfs.aero/

A big concern being worked now is how to build a community around XFS. Mark believes license terms are make-or-break for this. See “Licensing Discussion” at

http://xfs.aero/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6
Really? For me, only some parts of the page are teal/blue. On Instagram, everything is (when logged in). On Facebook, only comments on posts and other UI items related to other people (chat list and some bar on the left).
Developers protecting the user experience, while finding some way to make revenue.

I'm not saying it's right. But revenue is a puzzle. People hate ads in apps.
There's some less great new stuff in 2.x, too, sadly:
https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2076
Kepler names are numbers for stars and numbers followed by a letter for planets. 452 -> star, 452b -> that star's second planet.
Indeed this is exactly what New Horizons did very recently. After shooting past Pluto, the probe spun around to view it with the sun behind it. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?...
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The HTML imports polyfill shouldn't be much slower than native, since native imports are also asynchronous, but block execution of subsequent scripts. Any (small) slowdown would be from the browsers pre-scanner not knowing to optimistically load imports. This can be avoided completely by using the `vulcanize` tool which bundles all imports into one file.
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Yet more irony: One of its prime attractions is that it is not tied to JVM. JVM is a pretty well optimized system till you have to touch JNI
Sure. To the general public GMO has become synonymous with genetically engineered food crops. At Ginkgo we genetically engineer microbes (brewer's yeast mostly) not plants. We also wanted to highlight that designers at Ginkgo spend time designing the microbes to specification for customers. So we went with designer organism as the term.
You forgot disk pricing for apples to apples. You also lose multi-provider redundancy [e.g. Everything must be on Google cloud or you are maintaining multiple builds of your production database machines ]

https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#localssdpricing

$0.113

So its:

[apples to apples; local ssd]

$186.95 = (7 * 50 * .01) + (30 * .05) + (30 * .1213 * 50)

[persistent provisioned ssd]

$54 = (7 * 50 * .01) + (30 * .05) + ( ( ( (.17 * 96) / 720) + .01) * 50 * 30)
IT doesn't seem unreasonable to plan a project in stages, focusing on the most critical components in order, and only starting on the next once the first is ready. For instance with an airport you could build one terminal at a time. Obviously this would have limitations, but it could be a better system than trying to build a gigantic airport all at once, when it's already somewhat modular (i.e. terminals)
This is unfortunate. It has nothing to do with the acquisition, but I hate to hear it.

New Relic and MMS were previously relatively fragile, hand done addons for some customers. Since the beginning of 2014, we've made an attempt to cut back on snowflakes and build reliable, self service features instead. It doesn't excuse you having a suboptimal experience, I know, but that's what's going on.

I'm happy to talk more about things if you want to email me.
> Are you suggesting humans will damage the planet that much?

Yes. Now that the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, I would imagine that total human annihilation will happen sooner rather than later. The only way to guarantee survival of the species is to take to the stars and spread out.
I do use vim. :)
>I think "Kepler-452" is the star, and "b" is the 2nd planet in the system. I'm not certain of their naming convention.

Yep, you understand it correctly.
Ask HN: Was my ISP hacked?
Hello, I noticed this morning at work none of my passwords and log-ins don't work. No matter how many times I tried to input my passwords, none of them worked, all errors were like I typed the password wrong.

I tried same websites/logins on my phone that wasn't connected to the work network, also a totally different ISP, and the passwords worked fine!

A few minutes after, the entire internet went down, I called tech support and got an obscure answer that "They had some problems, but they are fixed now".

What the hell could've happened, was the ISP hacked? I already changed all my passwords I entered this morning.

I don't have a lot of knowledge around net-sec but this looks like a fishing attack on an ISP level to me, if that thing is even possible.
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), American Cancer Society (ACS), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) are good sources for reliable information on cancer. There are many sites that talk about cancer, but if you want information based on research (both lab and clinical) these three provide the most trustworthy information.

Regarding tests, some are already available, such as mammography, and many people are working on creating molecular diagnostics that can identify cancer early from a blood sample. A few blood tests already exist, such as CA125 for ovarian cancer, PSA for prostate, CEA for colon.
Kepler-452 is the parent star around which Kepler-452b is orbiting.
Having to know where you are (and how far you move when you turn the spool) requires a stepper motor, which makes everything more complicated. This way you can just use a normal DC motor, and stop when you reach the right point. And since spools probably slip a lot (given they're not designed to keep things from moving), the stepper solution might just fail completely, since it wouldn't have much confidence in what it thinks is showing.
>AppCanary then doesn't monitor for the fact I have an outdated version of httpd for example?

It does! So long as you've installed it via the package manager. Right now we support Ubuntu, and Debian will be out soon and RHEL systems in the very near future.

In the near future we'll add the ability to scan hand-compiled binaries, but that's a technical challenge that depends on solving the first part of the equation (knowing what's vulnerable) really well.
You're not wrong. People who don't work in "enterprise" or even in small/medium business IT shops will never know it though.

However, I think the downvotes are probably a reaction to the hint of attitude which suggests that you're not overzealous about OSS.
Maybe we are them. We used to live there, and conditions reached a point when we had to leave, and we came to present Earth. Haha.
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Kepler-452b is the planet, without 'b' is the star.
I don't know what "I think your priorities are closer to what they should be for a natural biological being." means.

Social circle is of no significance to me - having a nice house and car in the city or suburbs (where I live, the suburbs are the place to be, not the city) wouldn't matter to me. The upper class here lives in the suburbs, but to have the same house in the city would be ok with me, so long as it's a house that I like. A nice car was specifically mentioned because I'm into cars. Some people love sports; I love cars. To own a hand made Ferrari or Lamborghini or ... is a great achievement IMO.

Some people and some I know could care less - they strive to go on great relaxing vacations. Some strive for security with money in the bank. Everyone has their own goals. These are mine.
We have also found their support and general attitude towards us (as a long term customer) getting worse recently, so much so that we are migrating off their platform.
Kepler-452 is a star.
Kepler-452b is a planet.
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> And you can. There is absolutely no law stopping your from picking up people in a car and taking them places. On land you own.

Imagine you could only wear blue socks on land you own, but anywhere else you'd need to pay $250k for permission to wear them. Would that be alright?

> When it is communal land, communal rules are made (sadly they far too often benefit a well connected minority, but the concept itself isn't bad).

You're kind of seeing a problem, but not really wanting to.

But for starters, the word "communal" doesn't work when you have a small group of "community leaders" imposing their will on ~330 million "community members" they've never met.
Very good question, but I'm not sure how you imagine this could be addressed.

Security experts may use a lot more password managers and want to use unique passwords, but you could say that's just because they have a lot more accounts than normal people. Most people have a couple accounts for social networking, their bank, perhaps a local library... experts usually work in the field, spend their days online in an office, and have lots of accounts for various tasks or activities.

The attack surface is very different: lots of accounts versus just a couple. Lots of time online browsing various sites versus browsing your average social network in spare time. Perhaps I'm overgeneralizing, but it probably matches a good percentage.

And then there is the definition of "safer" or "expert". Are you an expert when you got a degree in the field? When you followed some online courses? When you work in the field? Or when you read a lot about security?
My conjecture on Nearline is that it's unused disk space on disks that are mostly I/O bound.
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But Java had a lot of open source projects around it before Sun released the source code.
Besides Emacs itself, Magit is the greatest tool in my arsenal for making clean patches and making me a more productive programmer in general. It's made doing more advanced git tasks so much easier, interactive rebasing and staging/unstaging hunks in particular. Can't live without it.
Kepler-452b is the planet; Kepler-452 is the star around which it is orbiting.
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First, are you using Polymer 1.0? It's much lighter weight than Polymer 0.5.

Second, is this a big project with lots of transitively dependencies? Like ES6 modules, HTML imports encourages more granular files that can be referenced and loaded individually. With HTTP/1 this can cause slowdowns as you hit the browser's request limit. HTTP/2 loads a bunch of small files significantly faster. For production we recommend the `vulcanize` tool which concatenates all HTML imports into one file for fast loading.

If you are using 1.0, do you have an example that shows the 2 second freeze? That shouldn't be happening.
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To colonize or seed life you don't need to launch huge space vehicles with enough life support to maintain a breeding population, though. You can just launch some kind of self-replicating microbes capable of directing themselves into the forms of life you want to encourage over time. The precise ability to do this would depend on your current state of technology, but we're pretty close to developing full blown synthetic biology and genetic engineering ourselves, so it's hard to imagine they'd need to be more than a few hundred years more advanced than us at most. Microbes can be engineered to be immune to most dangers from space travel as well, similar to tardigrades.

To head off the common rebuttal of "maybe they wouldn't have any interest in it," with more advanced technology smaller and smaller groups of individuals would be capable of instituting such a project, to the point where any high school kid with a synthetic biology kit and some toy rocketry kits could colonize the entire universe (owing to relativistic effects). You'd have to assume their society underwent some kind of massive convergence of social norms away from any individuality such that no few members of their species ever had both the capability and desire.

The entire plan is mostly laid out by: http://www.tedxvienna.at/watch/why-aim-for-the-stars-when-th...
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Any tips for getting a fairly significant amount of data (50TB) from a local NAS to Google quicker than a 5mbps upstream will allow?

Amazon has Import/Export which lets you ship drives, is this the best option?
For instance both INL and Hanford have suffered unusual radiation leaks from tumbleweeds blowing into waste cooling ponds, picking up contaminated water, and then being blown over the facility's perimeter by the wind.

Radioactive tumbleweeds. There's two words used together that I never anticipated.
Yes I also keep my own backups. I use Crashplan for the iphoto library, as well as a local SSD backup.

Fortunately iPhoto libraries are just folders so by backing it up you can always take out the folder of originals and put them in Google or anything else.
There are several parallels depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. Reports of feeling accepted and loved, and the "tone" sound in the beginning which seems to me really similar with the one you hear when you astrally project out of your body.

But we are fast getting out of HN accepted topics of discussion so.. :-)

Ultimately one should (not must) explore these things on his/her own instead of reading it on the web. All this quickly degenerates to entertainment if one only reads about them online.
I used to use Crunchbang whenever I wanted a lightweight, easy and modern GNU/Linux virtual machine, but they seem to have pulled the plug.

Debian is what I'm most familiar with, so that's my new place to go. Still quite big with a relatively basic install, but not as big as Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

Really lightweight stuff is Damn Small Linux (old) or Puppy Linux (never tried it), but I'm not sure how usable that is for day-to-day tasks.
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This is the most ridiculous, hyperbolic, clickbait bullshit I've ever seen (today).

First contradiction: "you will never" and "With the way the world currently works". Which is it?

Second contradiction: "you will not escape ads by paying for your content" and "So the more you pay to keep ads away, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in." No. If you are paying for your content, by definition there are no ads. If advertisers outbid you and get ads into the product, then by the definition you are only partially paying for the content. To maintain your "I pay for my content" status you would demand the ads be removed or stop consuming from that publisher.

And no, the solution isn't to make advertising illegal. It is to render it irrelevant, impotent, wasted money. We achieve that with:

- a reliable fully crowdsourced independent recommendation system that consumers can base purchase decisions on, allowing them to reject ads as biased at best, manipulation and lies more often.

- a movement where people stop using any ad-supported products[1], realizing that said products are not only not free, they are more expensive[2].

- shifting all the greatest minds of our generation from working on getting people to click ads[3] to figuring out micropayments, crowdfunding or an entirely new model to make the web accessible to all, without ads.

-

[1] Don't Be A Free User: https://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

[2] Advertising makes nothing free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8585237

[3] "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." – Jeff Hammerbacher, fmr. Manager of Facebook Data Team, founder of Cloudera
Producing CO2 is an exothermic process, and therefore easy - just set stuff on fire and it keeps going on its own. Removing CO2 is an endothermic ("energy-intensive") process, and therefore hard; moreover, a lot of our energy-making just makes more CO2, thereby stumping any CO2 removal attempt.

In other words, low CO2 is uphill from where we are, whereas high CO2 is downhill. And the slope is steep due to the laws of thermodynamics and chemistry.
Good sci-fi material here.
That would be a case of the "great filter" being in the future, no?
Sure, "enshrined"... i.e, useful to the state. When not useful or maybe harmful, enshrining doesn't take place. Instead they send federal agents to burn your compound down. And thus it has always been.

I personally don't care for organized religion (nor organized much of anything for that matter). But this bias is irrelevant to the point. That is... belief systems are not the same as intrinsic characteristics of a person and don't in any way deserve the same respect. The comment about "my religion" was to illustrate a simple point. That is, it is practically impossible to respect and refuse to counter all belief systems. Which why would we?

Now, for a workplace where people need to get along, yes, there should be rules about not being rude. But that might include not mocking the kind of shoes someone wears or their preference in movies. Or their religion. But that's as far as I would take belief protections. Religion has gotten a special pass for far too long, probably because it has been useful to the state.
That was true for the federal government however I would expect the rates for states and local governments to be quite different.
Do you honestly think if you hadn't haggled for 3 weeks that:

a) They wouldn't have turned around for advice from YC

b) YC deciding to come over the top once hearing the news

I agree with your assessment that YC was probably trying to keep dumb money out of the cap table but I also hypothesize they originally underestimated the team and once they saw they were actually able to put a TS together that was proof enough their original calculus was wrong and they circled back around. I don't think you were getting this deal either way.
Thanks for the Seattle tip! I'm up there somewhat often as part of my team is there. I have done the Columbia Tower but not that bridge.

As for taking fewer photos, I like to capture as much as possible and then I distill that down later into my photo sets/stories. I want a big funnel to choose from and not have to do that on the fly. This is my hobby and passion and I love it. :)

As for the nearly identical photos aspect - I always take a few shots & similar compositions of the same thing to make sure that at least one shot is super in focus.