skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you could do that. I guess there's just not really much need for ESI to be defined across the domain of "all things". A similarity index of zero just means "not at all similar to Earth", which, yes, applies to the Sun and Jupiter, but also to a blob of tomato ketchup, or moonlight, or schadenfreude. Most things have an ESI of zero, then.
Twice daily "Adobe updates are available, please download and install!" - annoys me to no end
You have no idea my background, how I use Scala, and assume that the small project I reference is the only project I _could_ reference. It was chosen due to being near the size of the situation you describe as "compiling ~200 Scala classes at a time would take ~2.5 minutes."

Being a condescending asshole doesn't help you communicate with others. Frankly, it strengthens my opinion that you don't know how to organize a medium-sized project, since being able to do so obviates requiring to compile 2000+ files for each build _in any language_.
I don't know another publication that employees 70+ fact checkers. Even The New Yorker which has a similar circulation and is well-known for their fact checking has less than 20.
". I also spent time through the years developing algorithms and predictive analytics associated to uncovering patterns in historical stock market data. "

A bizarre comment — did he expect to see it coming? How does this relate to the story at hand? "Somehow, even someone as sophisticated as me, didn't see the downturn coming" ... if he could predict any kind of change in the stock industry better than investing professionals he wouldn't be running a questionably-legal streaming startup.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9934323
The ESI defines a hyperspherical gradient across several different axes of earth similarity. And since each of those axes are defined by a ratio to an Earth value, zeroes would only be found for objects with the following properties:

- Infinite mean radius.
- Zero mean radius.
- Infinite density.
- Zero density.
- Infinite escape velocity.
- Zero escape velocity.
- Infinite surface temperature.
- Zero surface temperature.

As such, the only object I can think of that might qualify would be a theoretical zero-entropy singularity that might have existed existed prior to the Big Bang. Zero radius, infinite density, infinite escape velocity, zero surface temperature.

Given the nature of the calculation, it probably would have been better to define perfectly Earth-like as zero, and assign positive indices to bodies, with higher numbers indicating greater dissimilarity to Earth. It would be a distance calculation along multiple axes of similarity, but adjusted by scale factors to coerce the differences between comparison axes with different units to have an order of magnitude proportional to perceived importance to humans.

If you have a difference function for each axis that yields a number from 0-1 for comfortable, 1-10 for tolerable, 10-100 for survivable, and 100+ for lethal, then you can take the square root of the sums of the difference functions for the overall index.

Anything less than 1 would be a near clone of Earth. Anything less than 10 would definitely be habitable. Anything less than 100 might be explorable. Anything greater than that, and you might just seed it with Earth extremophiles and ignore it for a few million years.
JSCity: Visualizing JavaScript source code as navigable 3D cities
NASA's about to make a big exoplanet announcement
For those interested in Python 2 string encoding, I've spent some time writing about it, here:

> http://stackoverflow.com/a/6539952/19212
Yes, minimum-wage increases are likely to be supported by the robotics lobby, as it makes a robot more competitive. Increased adoption of fast-food robots would then drive down the costs of restaurant mechanization.
In terms of only visiting websites you know. Unless you block adverts most websites you know serve a lot of content from organisation you don't know.
So does Dutch law actually recognize the UN's International Covenant[1] ? While a country can be a signatory to the covenant, it is just a popularity stunt until there are locally enacted laws which provide for enforcement of its provisions. It isn't like UN Peacekeepers are going to come parachuting in to your rescue.

Also the comment about Mass surveillance is incorrect. While it may not have found any terrorism suspects there is ample evidence that it has impacted drug smuggling (as implemented in the US) where the DEA was fed information that it had to lie about where it got it. While I find the whole parallel construction thing a huge violation of civil liberties (and generally should be illegal) it is pretty clear that mass surveillance did identify a number of drug operations. So in that regard it "works". It might be better to say that it hasn't been shown to be an effective tool against terrorism.

[1] http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx
> The "ridesharing services" rectify this problem; I've never had an Uber driver refuse to take me anywhere. If the licensed taxis want to be free from competition, they need to follow their own rules.

This is because all hails on Uber are tracked, and enough refusals would be noticed, and the driver would be fired.

It's shitty that green (or yellow) cabs do this; there should be a way to hold them accountable, but for now there is a stop-gap solution: lie.

Get in before telling them your destination. If they don't let you, lie and say you're going to somewhere in Brooklyn, then change your mind. As soon as you hear them begin to complain, snap a photo of their cab number, and start dialing 311.
During Polymer was in beta I had same problems (safari). Would be good to check if that is solved with 1.0.
Here's the Polygon article about the game, which IMHO is far more detailed - http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/4/16/8374481/that-drago...
This is what the average Linux distributions repositories are for.
Anything that takes more than a dozen steps is not trivial.
Many stores in the US offer wipes near the front of the store to wipe down the cart handles. I'd recommend using them, especially since so many people carry around raw chicken / meat products that leak.
Ask HN: Should size 0 elements be visible?
If you go here: https://jsfiddle.net/r6zmvdwj/3/, I've added some css that sets the width/height to 0px. But I blow up the border and padding. Even though the width/height are set to 0px, the box is still rendered. Why?
6 months of free storage is a no brainer business strategy. Once you get anywhere near 100PB of data loaded, are you really going to move it elsewhere after 6 months?
Scientists are building a system that could turn atmospheric CO2 into fuel
But is it only BER?
As mentioned int the article - what about Stuttgart 21 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_21) etc.?

It is possible that these sites exist as new financial "loopholes", transferring tax-money from the government to private contractors without much oversight.
Show HN: Google Analytics for Excel files
> it's not competitive in terms of algorithms, ratings systems, predictive taxi distribution, etc.

Isn't that for the market to decide? :)
> For a header called "HTTPS" to be turned into $_SERVER['HTTPS'] as opposed to $_SERVER['HTTP_HTTPS'] would require quite an impressive misconfiguration of the web server which also requires additional work compared to default settings (including possibly even patching PHP itself depending on SAPI).

I'd just like to say that this, indeed, appears to be the case. Apache bug most likely.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7987113
Instead of re implementing could something like ikvm work for their users/usecases?
Alternate title: "It's hard to build a church on top of a native american burial ground."
The fact that "it works" is not a good argument imo. Slavery works to get shit done.
Physicist Builds Supercomputer from Old PlayStations
> It is possible that these sites exist as new financial "loopholes", transferring tax-money from the government to private contractors without much oversight.

Yes, absolutely

http://www.zeit.de/2015/29/imtech-flughafen-berlin-ber-verzo... (article in German)
What would be problems where multiple Raspi-like systems are be better than a single more powerful system?
Your comment reminded me of

intelligence is a kind of lethal mutation

comment made by Ernst Mayr.

Here [0] is Noam Chomsky's talk referencing that in it's entirety. Quite fascinating. I'll link to the video when I find some time.

Edit:
Video snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBqPiSpgVA

[0]: http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20100930.htm
I'm not a security expert, but I don't use any 'continuous scan' anti-virus on my Mac because I strongly suspect it would make the system more vulnerable, not less.

See, for example, https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/sophailv2.pdf
I like how utterly homemade the mouse looks.
What happened to the NASA exoplanet post?
The NASA post about the .98 earth-like exoplanet just disappeared (checked first 3 pages of HN), after ranking position 1 with hundreds of votes.

What happened to it?
Sorry, that was just what two different patent officers told me. If they were wrong, I wouldn't be surprised.
> driver claimed he couldn't give me change.

Are taxis in Paris not supposed to be able to accept credit cards?

In New York, if a cab's card reader is broken (hey, it happens) they're supposed to inform you of this before beginning the ride. If they don't, you get a free ride.
And if you are a developer that likes working on these sort of things you should come work with us!

Details at https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/92395/site-reliabilit...
One of the main selling points of YC is that they promise not to legal obnoxious things. Saying "nothing's done until the papers are signed" is completely missing the point.
The coolest thing one could do with a legacy XF86 config and a CRT monitor was invent new "overclocked" video modes. I had one monitor that was rated for 1280x1024 running at 1600x600 to match another monitor for a Xinerama setup.
Couldn't agree more, his videos are extremely detailed and very easy to follow! I followed his A4000 audio repair video and managed to fix all the problems with my board.
That is because wordpress has just had another update. So basically everyone is outdated at the moment. But luckily the automatic updates of Wordpress will update most in the following hours/days. So it will become green ;)
Introducing Product Hunt Books
Kind of light on the details
Just slowness and usability. Also: as a defense, it's imperfect.
The level intellectual laziness is immense. Most of the developers, me included look at Microsoft for guidance than embracing hard problems and solving it for ourselves. This does not mean .net is filled with incompetent programmers but it is full of "unless you pay" programmers.
The OSS "weaknesses" of .net are a chicken and an egg problem; the more people who come from a community software background that use a framework, the more community software there will be for that framework.

Having what reads as a very angry and negative blogpost about the state of .net oss isn't really helping.

Contributing software is though, and that really should have been the focus of the post, not how weak and terrible .net oss is.

Be the change you seek.
Isn't the Chrome sandbox a better assurance than Chrome-under-Docker?

Except for the obscurity angle of course (nobody writes exploits against Chrome-under-Docker).

To be fair, VMs are also mostly about the obscurity angle too, and if you do all your browing in a VM the cookies alone will make the attacker sufficiently happy that they will probably not care. People don't hack because they want root on the bare-metal OS, people hack because they want to steal data. If it's in a VM or container, then getting there is enough.
But are the security experts actually safer online?

The study seems to assume that they are. It may be a fair assumption, but it would be interesting to know if it actually is true or not. It would also help validate the security practices.

If it turns out that the security experts got infected just as much, or only slightly less than the non-experts, then following their practices might not be worth the effort...
TLDR: .NET developers need to start tackling bigger problems and open source the solutions.
Pluto to Earth
The Man Behind Area 49-3/4
I'm wondering if this idea will make it to the browser vendor so that their whole runtime is by default in a VM.
They seem to completely miss the story about Imtech's involvement that broke this week which sheds some lights on this catastrophe and is a tale of corruption: http://www.zeit.de/2015/29/imtech-flughafen-berlin-ber-verzo...

Unfortunately I'm unable to find an English-language article on that at all. There is only this Imtech response: http://imtech.com/EN/corporate/Newsroom/Highlights/Imtech-re...
It frustrates me that EVERY day when I open the Pandora windows desktop app(lication), an Adobe AIR popup asks to install an update. EVERY day! I know Agile is hot and all, but is their AIR framework so fresh that they constantly have to fix things?
Because the css box model defines width and height as the dimensions of the content. Padding and border are added around the content.
​Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 rolls out
Plotly.js is free now?
The fact that until recently .Net only run correctly on windows where the licensing is more expansive than linux, and that all the big player use linux to develop their cloud capacities; it means that the ones who seek to develop at scale didn't bother with .net. Now that .net is open source, MS has still at lot of work to fix all the issues on linux, but maybe the ship has sailed and developer won't bother to port on .net all the hard work done for java as they are really similar.
I understand, but that's a synthetic benchmark. We actually have no idea why Earth has life and other planets don't and similarity to Earth may not be a big factor (see theories on life in Europa's seas for example or non-carbon based life).

I just feel everyone gets excited over nothing solely because its extra-solar. Our own solar system is fairly diverse. If life was common, we'd probably be seeing more of it here.
The announcement hasn’t been made yet. It should be at 9am PDT. The posts you saw on HN were linkbait.
The movie came out years after I left the Navy. But yeah, watching it gave me that same sick feeling. The images seem to combine with memories in a way that makes me feel like I'm there. Parts of the film are unrealistic, but I won't watch it again.
How do I apply my patch,patch,patches to TurboTax, Adobe Reader, and Skype?

I don't think we're talking about the same applications here when comparing security experts and non-experts.
If your using a Linux distro already you have to:
1. install virtual box from package manager
2. download .iso of some distro
3. install
4. update virtual machine
5. browse

Of these someone who's installed their own OS has 2 slightly novel steps. So yeah trivial is maybe the wrong words but still easy.
That seems to be slooowwwwwwly improving, but honestly the biggest improvement for me will be the light rail from downtown.
What do most users do with a browser other than open the thing, browse websites, and download files for later?

The download part is the scary one. An average user can’t make the distinction between an OS message and a malware disguising as the former. Thus they download shit that wrecks havoc on their PCs. Besides, you could be infected by a compromised Flash banner so you don't even have to download anything.

And I don’t think that containers are a feasible approach for the average user. I doubt VMs are either. Our best bet would be browsers running in an isolation context simulating a VM. But that would require more RAM than the average user has available.
A contract isn't complete until someone actually spend money (or something of value) in reliance. The standard remedy for breach of contract is to unwind the victim's situation to the position they were in before the contract was signed.

So at the moment you sign the paper, but don't hand over money or burn other bridges or whatever, it is trivial to tear up the paper.
I didn't see the top comment as negative, more tongue in cheek... I definitely saw your comment as negative however...
Hm... http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice...
South Koreans Get Prizes for Locating Slow-Internet Access Spots
They are relevant, you're just misinterpreting. None of these are meant to imply "X must be like Earth for the planet to be habitable," they mean "X is an important factor for habitability and must be considered in our models if we want them to be meaningful, unlike the ESI which captures a mere handful of variables".

For example, "tidal habitable zone" doesn't mean "we need [ocean] tides to survive," it means "tidal heating effects have an enormous impact on planetary conditions". For example, an Earth analogue in orbit around a tiny red dwarf in a seemingly "habitable zone" would be subject to tidal heating effects which would bake the surface, whereas a similar planet in a similar orbit around a sun-like yellow dwarf would not.

Similarly, "rotation rate habitable zone" doesn't mean "the planet must have a ~24 hour day", it means "all else being equal, a planet's rotation rate can greatly affect habitability," mostly due to weather patterns and air/heat circulation. By including rotation rate in our models, some planets previously thought to be inhabitable may turn out not to be, and vice versa.
Parallel construction should be unlawful. The point of the exclusionary rule for evidence is to address the incentives of law enforcement. It's not a recognition that specific pieces of evidence are somehow tainted and untrustworthy. That's a broken premise parallel construction seems to rely on.

But then a follow-on question: for the big 3 EU countries, what are the exclusionary principle rules? From a little research last year, I know that the exclusionary rule in the UK is more complicated than it is in the US.
It's hard to say because few people are well-versed in US law and the law of their country (actually, many Germans seem toknow more about US law than German law because of TV), not to mention several European countries.

One thing pointing to the importance of privacy in mainstream German law is that our Constitution Court literally invented a basic right to the integrity of information-technological system. Actually invented it.
Browsing makes sense, but why email? Unless you run an OS and email client that 1) renders HTML mail by default (making you vulnerable to browser engine attacks) or 2) makes it too easy to run executable email attachments, then is an email client really higher risk than many other pieces of software?
IKVM is slower than JVM and more error prone, so for big class of work why bother if you can directly use the JVM ?
It would actually be less secure to run your browser in a Docker container. If an attacker can break out of the container, it has root access to your system.

https://zeltser.com/security-risks-and-benefits-of-docker-ap...
Five Views of 2 World Trade Center – An Interactive Graphic for Your Phone
In a simplified way you can use the Bitcoin scripting system to make binding bids and offers without needing a central exchange. And you can achieve person to person atomic swaps of currency for securities – delivery versus payment – without needing a custodian.

Let's assume MSFT shares are represented as specially encoded satoshis.

Below you can find is examples of (fictional) MSFT shares [1] [2] being represented on the blockchain in that way. I'll use an example of CounterParty, which is a meta-layer on the blockchain. The Counterparty protocol acts as an escrow service, and thereby eliminates counterparty risk from the exchange of assets.

[1] http://blockscan.com/assetInfo/MSFT
[2] https://coindaddy.io/search?network=xcp&q=MSFT

Now that MSFT asset is stored on the bitcoin blockchain. Actually it is encoded as an OP_RETURN script in the transaction, an breakdown of such an asset you can see here:

434e545250525459|00000000|000000000004fadf000000174876e800000000000000000000000000
| | |
| | └── All of this is the operation data (maximum 28 bytes)
| └──────────────── This is the transaction type identifier (4 bytes)
└───────────────────────────────── The string CNTRPRTY in hexadecimal (8 bytes)

A breakdown of the sending of such an asset on the bitcoin blockchain:

000000000004fadf|000000174876e800
| |
| └───── quantity (8 bytes)
└────────────────── asset name (8 bytes)

There's some further reading in the links below in more depth than I could hope to go into here:

http://counterparty.io/docs/counterparty_features/#overview

http://counterparty.io/docs/counterparty_features/#protocol-...
The shortcomings of .NET’s open source ecosystem are your fault and my fault, not Microsoft’s. Do not point the finger at them. Actually, maybe blame them for Windows Server’s consumer-app-hostile licensing model. That merits some blame.

Well, Microsoft itself created a whole ecosystem of the proprietary lock-in type.
Only very recently they seem to jump on the open source bandwagon.
And don't hold your breath for a free software MS office...
German EUR bonds have the second lowest yields globally, with Switzerland being the leader. Also their ratings are higher than f. eg. the US bonds. So the German government does not really have to worry about borrowing money.
Not a fan of DFW's terminal setup and roads. All that space and that tangle of off-ramps and on-ramps and bridges is the best they could do?

Satellite shot:
https://goo.gl/peXr25
The Amiga came with AmigaBasic, up until AmigaOS 2.x, , which was way more advanced than the C64 basic. There were also other commercially available basics (AMOS for example.)

The Amiga had commercial C compilers (Lattice/SAS and Aztec), as well as freely available ones like DICE (not sure of license.) This was certainly better for "advanced" programmers (I taught myself C on an Amiga when I was 14.)
How to Research Startups Looking for a Growth Hacker?
One bit of advice that should be up there is to run an ad blocker and a flash blocker (not so relevant anymore now that FF started blocking by default). I know, I know, websites depend on ads for revenue. But ads are also a great way to deliver exploits, in addition to all the personal tracking ad networks do. Our number one priority is to protect ourselves, not to protect website revenue.
Antonin Scalia's Angry Opinions: The Supreme Court's Decisions Are Dangerous
Batches aside, is the "constant" volume high? I think that's what OP's getting at.

I think the time of day makes a difference as this is mini-break/lunch-break time for US HN'ers.
9 things to know about kids in foster care
[Review] Squares for the PSVita from LEAP Games
I didn't particularly mean a single-page JS app. I meant, that everything on any particular page would be constructed using React components. Rather than a combination of HTML and React components.
Well maybe that works against the bone structure changes. On the other hand gravity (or the lack of it) has other effects too on the human body[1]. One needs to use body forces to compensate the lack of gravity. Contact forces won't help here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_h...
> Chrome in a Docker container?

Please dear god no. Kill me now.
So they intelligently crawled the web for music files to download which were... not purchased.

The reason why they failed is because they, like many others, were "nebulously/quasi legal." (You know what was ALSO awesome yet not legal or respectful of creator pay? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogalaxy .) At least Apple was trying to make it all legit. They did start with DRM (note: no longer the case for years) but this was to make the record companies more comfortable with it.

The reason why SeeqPod was sued is because Warner Music (and others) had a case. It was not a purely frivolous, harassing lawsuit.