skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a reasonable measure of surface gravity, which, along with an idea about the distance from the star it's orbiting, gives us a good idea about what kind of atmosphere we can expect (i.e. the lighter and the hotter a gas is, the easier it can escape a planet with a particular escape velocity), at least a basic idea about what kind of surface features we might expect and so on.

It's also a parameter that is quick to compute starting from radius and mass, which are often the first things you know about an exoplanet due to the way they're found.
I run a web site that produces original content at significant cost. We charge a small monthly fee for access. We don't carry ads, and have no plans to.

That being the case, how exactly is someone who values our content and pays us for it going to get more ads as a result, no matter how much any third party might want to advertise to that person through our site?
If you're interested in fact checking, be sure to check out http://www.politifact.com/ . They put a lot of care and effort into what they do. They are run by the Tampa Bay Times. If you have any questions, I can pass them on to the founder (Bill Adair) and he'd be happy to answer them for you.
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Pretty good book about this incident:
http://www.amazon.com/Idaho-Falls-Americas-Nuclear-Accident/...
Okay, let's try an obviously ridiculous thought experiment:

Can we apply the same argument to physical books?

I bought a book a few weeks ago for about $20, from a physical book shop. It is a non-fiction book. It is pretty good. I am about 2/3rds of the way through it. The book contains no advertisements. Shock! Why is this?

I suspect the argument is glossing over a few details!

Maybe we could get a firmer idea by trying to quantify things. E.g. estimating how much people would pay, and how much that would be worth to potential advertisers, etc.
Wait? Everybody is running an outdated version of Wordpress?
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Totally agree with the author.

Obligatory quote by Bill Hicks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5LEYG5TqaI

And a deeper analysis by George Carlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW2JInyMoPc
It HAD an ESI of 0.98 1075 years ago. By now, the inhabitants have burned through all their fossil fuels and then annihilated each other with nuclear weapons leaving the planet in both a long-term nuclear winter and with a runaway greenhouse effect. Its ESI must be at least 1.0 by now.
We only show you stuff that affects you, we automate the process, we light up your call tree and we'll be providing metrics and audit logs.

It's definitely a leg up over just being spammed by pkg audit.

Further, we also cover your app dependencies :).
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I actually thought it looked pretty good. If it wasn't done by a designer, I didn't notice it (probably my barrier is too low :) ).
I have generated thousands of reports in the form of excel spreadsheets. Here are my biggest gripes

1. lack of good meta data so I can process spreadsheets after they have been reviewed. Right now I use named ranges with a keyword but its very limiting.

2. lack of a good build in scripting language that is easily to use, has good 3rd party libraries, and makes automation easy. I am not big on excel macros, it would be nice to have a lua or python built in as an addon.

3. difficult/not straight forward to interact with external data sources. It would be great if I could easily pull data in from a web service. I guess if #2 was there, this might be easier.
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It's actually not particularly difficult to charge drivers directly for their usage of roads in the Manhattan CBDs:
http://iheartmoveny.org/

It just would require a heavy political and bureaucratic lift.
Ads aren't bad by themselves. Annoying ads that take my time and focus away are bad (for example video ads are mostly annoying as they always take my time away even if it's just a few seconds)
> So the more you pay to keep ads away, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in

Except people are not paying to keep ads away, that's the point. Basically what happened to artists 10 years ago is happening to ad backed websites :Most People just don't want to pay for content on the web, period. Online advertising won't save the Buzzfeeds or the dying press when people use ad block massively. They'll have to find other ways to make money.
I am working on a pre-kickstarter marketing my project at the moment and I love the idea of not having to do what you mentioned the 1001st time in history :)
Maybe we should create some kind of startup-knowledge-sharing community. Your contribution would allow you to use the knowledgebase. What do you think?
Man, I was fully onboard with the Parallella back when it was on Kickstarter but I backed out towards the end once it became clear that they weren't going to be shipping the 64 core devices. To my knowledge there still is no way to connect them together except for the Nic that is integrated into the Zynq SoC.

I own a couple of ODROID boards and while the network performance is better than what you'll see on the RPi, it's still nothing to write home about. And that's sorta my whole point... if you're working with large enough problem using these low power boards that you've got to offload compute work to multiple devices, the interconnect fabric has got to be much better than what is commonly available right now.
Interestingly, Google has just launched a project to test that theory: https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

What happens when you let readers become bidders in the ad auction for their own attention?
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I'm happy saying "file-writing conjugated by putting-a-file-into-scope".
Wouldn't radiation and meteorites be a huge concern?
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As far as Bosun goes:

* Self-Hosted: √. (We didn't want cloud monitoring at Stack Exchange)

* Scalable: 1/2 * √. The web interface doesn't have pagination, so series with larget tagsets can cause some GUI problems. We have been having some trouble with OpenTSDB lately. People have much larger OpenTSDB installation than we do though, HBase isn't one of our best skills. But it is scaling okay for Stack Exchange

* Remote Poller: √. Our agent Scollector can run in a polling mode for things that need polling like SNMP, VSphere, etc

* Windows Support: √. This is one of the main reasons we built scollector. It is a single binary with no dependencies. We spend a lot of time digging into the WMI Raw performance counters to get the best data we could.

* Backward Compatible with Nagios Scripts. Negative, but sc ollector can use external scripts, but they are not in the nagios format.

* Thresholds: √ This is the most basic form of alerting Bosun does. You can also construct forecast, anomalous, and multiple condition alerts as well. The power in what you can do with alerting is really where Bosun shines.
Good question. Care to share where I can find your site? There are sites like LWN that have a long record of quality content that people are willing to pay a subscription for, that either have no advertising or very limited, unobtrusive advertising that they have not increased for a long time.
http://blogs.wcode.org/2013/09/howto-netboot-a-raspberry-pi/

http://www.whaleblubber.ca/boot-raspberry-pi-nfs/
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Does surface temperature imply an awful lot in this situation? How accurate are we able to measure?
I have one question for somebody knowledgeable about this market.

Why companies like YellowCab do not offer something similar to Uber? They developed the app but the app is jut front end to dispatcher: so there is no guarantee that cab will actually come (I tried it).

For example, ability to pre-pay taxi via iPhone so that there is guarantee that cab will actually pick me up. Or maybe hailing taxi via iPhone? Or something like Lyft Line?

Is management of cab companies to blame? Or is it taxi drivers?
Does your website have a business development team that discusses the best way to drive revenue for the enterprise? If not, you may be comparing apples to oranges.
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Quarterly Earnings Reports.

You start a startup and offer subscriptions for content. You go public and everything is great. Then you have a bad quarter. Then another. Your stockholders are going to pressure you to find ways to quickly increase revenue (because thinking further into the future than a quarter is for losers, right?). You introduce ads. You have an amazing quarter. Then another. About this time your core user base is exiting for a new startup with a subscription model and no ads. You then have a string of bad quarters. You're in a downward spiral. Was, Rinse, Repeat.
Brilliant. Measuring how well typical users understand/implement security measures has long been overdue.

Personally, I find Figure 2 (on Page 5) of the paper most interesting: it shows the difference between expert and non-expert mentioning certain practices -- which to me seems roughly equal to how under-/overappreciated that practice is.

The top contenders for underrated (i.e. used more frequently by experts compared to non-experts) are: System updates, 2-factor-auth, password managers, unique passwords and checking for https. Most overrated: antivirus, password changes, only visiting known sites and using strong passwords.

As a security community, we appear to have gotten the point across when it comes to antivirus and strong passwords. Anyone giving general advice should consider this and emphasize the "underrated" measures.
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The hypothesis in the original article is that advertisers will be willing to pay an unlimited price for the eyeballs of your readers, as their demonstration of the desire to pay for content implies they have money to pay for other things. For this hypothesis to succeed, there must be a price at which your readers' attention can be bought from you.

This is a simple theory that falls apart on the details. Of course advertisers won't pay unlimited funds. And if the entire business model of your content product is "View it without ads," there is in fact no price at which advertisers can buy your readers' attention (short of "The cost to buy your entire publishing entity," which is up to you).
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As someone else who's also built a cluster of Pi 2s, I would agree that the primary purpose is education and fun/tinkering, not performance.

That being said, for light web hosting purposes, a cluster of six Pi 2s performs roughly 70% as well as a similar cluster of 6 VMs on Digital Ocean. See more on this project's wiki, in the performance/benchmarking section: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-dramble
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The beauty of law being a human institution is you get to look past such fig leaves. Here, the fact that the author billed SeeqPod as a "streaming music startup" tells you all you need to know about whether his service just incidentally facilitated copyright infringement, or was designed to profit from its users' copyright infringement on a mass scale.
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Poor Comrade De Blasio didn't get his way.
Basically every show I tried just gave me a word cloud with a big "Fuck" in the middle.
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Any asset can be created on top of the bitcoin with meta-layers such as CounterParty [1] (which is what Symbiont is basing their solution off of) Colored coins [2] or a hybrid approach [3] recently demoed by Deloitte

[1] http://counterparty.io/
[2] http://coloredcoins.org/
[3] http://rubixbydeloitte.com/

(These platforms have received recent backing by NYSE and NASDAQ, respectively)

Assets created through Colored coins must use a gateway in a quasi-centralized fashion, however Assets created via counterparty can be traded p2p without a middleman, as they can be natively escrowed by a protocol which enforces atomic swaps and a fair deterministic order matching engine.

DTCC's status quo is T+3(days), if there are trades that can be settled on a blockchain, that can be reduced to T+1(hr) or less.

IMO Bitcoin is a horribly inefficient trading platform, (aside from the 'advantage' of HFT bots being on equal footing as retail investors) but an ideal settlement/netting/clearing layer. As a minimum there are huge transparency gains to be gleaned.

The introduction of Smart contracts potentially opens up the field for a whole new paradigm of smart securities, as well. There are a whole host of established entities researching on blockchain securitization and/or smart contracts at the moment, a subset of them are below:

CBW Bank
ANZ
Westpac
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
BNY MELLON
LHV Bank
Barclays
UBS
Goldman Sachs
ABN Amro
ING
RoboBank
SWIFT
Santander
Standard chartered
DBS
USAA
BBVA
KPMG
InfoSys Finacle
CitiBank
DTCC
Deutsche Borse
Markit
EuroCCP
CME
Collecting new private information that wouldn't be collected otherwise, for the purposes of targeting ads, is also a bad thing about ads IMO. There's nothing wrong with Gmail showing me relevant ads to my email, but there's something wrong with Google Chrome collecting my browsing history (under the guise of a "Sync" feature) for ads.
Bosun uses a custom DSL, not javascript. What you are saying is fair - bosun is currently targeted at an advanced audience currently.

There is active discussion about making alerts GUI creatable to make it more accessible. Can hopefully be less vague about that in a few weeks.
I'll add to that list "consume my device's energy to no benefit," in the days of mobile dominance. The battery and network resources wasted by ad content that doesn't result in a conversion adds up, and I don't know that price is yet reflected in the cost of the impressions.
I have yet to read an article complaining about a code of conduct that isn't actually complaining about not being able to be an ass without consequence.
2. Checkout Data Nitro (YC S12) https://datanitro.com/ It allows you to script excel with Python.
In the primary market, when debt is first issued through a syndicate of banks, there is not really much of a problem. There is a really great chapter about this process I think in the "The new Market Wizards" book by Schwager, though it might be in the first book, "Market Wizards." The banks call all of their customers and get commitments for dollar amounts towards the deal. Then they put together the paperwork and issue securities. It's kind of like a bond, but it's technically a loan. Each of those investors receive some sort of documentation that they own some piece of that loan and the bank (or some administrator) distributes interest payments to the holders.

The problem arises in the secondary market where initial holders want to sell their piece prior to maturity. There is a long process by which they have to prove ownership and transfer ownership. It's kind of like the process of closing on a home where there is a title search and deed transfer. During this period the buyer and seller are both open to shenanigans from the other party trying to back out of the trade or change the terms. It's also very labor intensive and archaic. If title was stored and transfered through a public trusted distributed ledger system then it could be done instantaneously with minimal effort.

As I said above, there is much more potential here, which makes bitcoin way more promising than just a system for recording and transfering ownership of assets.
Ack, I said I would attach a blog post, and then didn't: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/199
Welcome the world of pain that is timezones and DST... As someone who has had to write an extensive amount of deal with these two concepts they are the worst things ever. We should just abolish timezones, DST, and move to the International Fixed Calendar. Time sucks. I'm even in favor of moving to a seconds-based time unit like kiloseconds, miliseconds, etc instead of minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years/etc. "Metric Time" if you will...
50,000 requests aren't enough for the JIT to warm up?
+100 to this comment.
Ads that don't take your time and focus away aren't really worth anything, are they?
The similarity index measures things that can be worked out without needing a precise image of the planet. These are things like radius, density and surface temperature, which can be measured by examining its orbit and how much light from the star is blocked as it passes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9930929
My suggestion is not to do it. You will want to get back to IT industry, but it will be rather hard to do if you don't spend tons of spare time acquiring needed knowledge and skills, which is not so easy especially after 30. Source: worked for 7 years as the only developer in a non-IT company (oil and gas industry). The company had a sort of IT-department but 3 persons working there were busy reinstalling Windows, printers, PBXes, LAN, support and so on. I worked at R&D department with engineers and designers.
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Or anything "killer" in general. As evident by every MMORPG that is coming out being the "World of Warcraft killer" an then disappearing into obscurity after a few months of hype while WoW keeps on going.
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1. Only compare radius, density, escape velocity, and surface temperature.

2. Ignore the confidence intervals around those values.
A natural transformation between endofunctors? How exactly? That's just a family of functions

µ : F(x) -> G(x)

such that for all (f : x -> y), (F(f);µ == µ;G(f)). I don't see how that's capturing anything interesting here. If µ were a natural isomorphism with inverse µ- then there'd be laws like (F(f) == µ;G(f);µ-), but this exactly involves introducing an inverse so the natural transformation didn't buy much.
It's a fair criticism. However I think it's too early to be telling startups to stay away from the Netherlands. Both because the new law may be prevented yet, and these types of laws are occurring simultaneously across most of the developed world. I'm not sure where a startup would flee to, to avoid them.

I might take the opposite tact here. I'd argue instead that startups should feel perfectly comfortable making the Netherlands their home, for all the positive reasons, and they should all focus on slaying these bad qualities. The Netherlands only has 17 million people, it's still very possible to have your voice heard. A focused group of startups can probably still make a difference.
Nearly all of the ways we detect exoplanets involve indirect observation. Most of them are based on observing the star(s) in the system of the planet. The two main ways we detect exoplanets are:

* Radial Velocity - just as the gravity of a star effects a planet's orbit, the gravity of a planet also has an impact on the star's. It's just this impact is extremely small. By measuring variations in a star's movement due to the planet's gravity we can both detect the planet and estimate its mass.

* Photometry - when a planet moves in front of a star it reduces both the brightness and spectrum of the light we perceive. By carefully measuring this we can determine not only the size of the planet, but also it's chemical make-up - light from the star travels through the atmosphere of the planet, changing its spectrum in response to the elements present.

There are several other ways we can detect and examine planets, but nearly all of them are based not on observing the planet itself but its impact on much larger, detectable things that surround it. There's a comprehensive list here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methods_of_detecting_exoplanet...
In the cases that I can't escape ads by paying, I tend to move away from the content with ads.

For example, Hulu - I was a paying customer, but the relentless advertising drove me away. It's slightly different with HBO Now - I get ads, but for other entertainment on the same provider; this is much less bothersome. Ars Technica: I'm not a subscriber, I read often, but I tolerate the laser-focused advertising because the content is excellent, the ads are not obtrusive and they actually target me quite well.

tl;dr- It's always more complicated than a simplistic blog post indicates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_...

Once you look in to how we're currently able to clear and settle say stock trades, I think you'll agree that there is some room for improvement not only technically but from a trust perspective.
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But that works for movies. When you go to the cinema, you pay, yet you get ads before the movie and sneaky product placements during the movie.
IANAAP, but I saw a similar question about how the Hubble space telescope could only get blurry pictures of Pluto. The answer was that it was akin to using a microscope as a telescope (or vice-versa), if that makes sense?
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And that's why there are Linux distributions with security teams doing that work for everybody.

How is this service different?
Lipton wrote a pretty decent and short intro to QC that builds the theory a little differently from usual. It is aimed more towards Mathematicians and Computer Scientists than Physicists, I believe, but I think it is pretty understandable in general.

I think Sipser is probably the best introduction to Computation if you do not have a background in Computability and Complexity. Arora and Barak's text has a much larger breadth and is much more detailed as far as Complexity goes. It is the more appropriate of the two if you are just interested in Computational Complexity.
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Ask HN: What is a good system for program specs?
I am looking for a system that I can use to manage and collaboratively edit programming specifications and requirement docs.
1. web based
2. open source
3. Have basic access control
4. Show history / changes of a document
5. Be easy to use for non-technical people ( not command line git)
6. export to popular formats such as docx and pdf
7. have a basic search feature where I could look by keyword of changed docs by a date range or all doc versions as of a specific date.
For those more interested in the map, I found the source here: http://www.wellingtonstravel.com/index.html#wall-map-london
There is no web version that I see, but you can hang it on your wall
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Excellent work condensing the alphabet into a single fun-to-read comic. Shameless self-promotion: http://langintro.com/kintro ; much slower paced, with exercises and other stuff.
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By induction rather than direct observation.

This page contains the measurements of the planet which might be the subject of the announcement; it gives you an idea of what kinds of metrics drive such an analysis:

http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOver...
Distance, time, and amount of light. All these things come into effect. The reason why Pluto took so long? Imagine trying to read a magazine with a pair of binoculars vs. somebody taking a picture right next to it. Which do you think will be easier to read?

We've had a pair of binoculars up in space for a while, but it was designed to see way further than Pluto. That is why we have always had blurry images.
We can also determine the rough composition of its atmosphere by using different sorts of spectroscopy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy