skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if "some point in the future" is taken liberally enough, then at "some point in the future" the Sun will be a red giant whose radius is greater than Earth's orbital radius. Earth is getting destroyed in about 5-6 billion years no matter what we do.

Of course, if that's what you're planning for, the much more sensible plan is to wait for about a billion years, and see if either A) Technology has made this cheaper or B) We've already died for some other reason.
I wanted to see the definition to find out what the values were for Venus and Mars:

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

Turns out Venus is at 0.444 and Mars is at 0.697 so 0.98 is really close.
http://crossdysfunctional.tumblr.com/post/92902946302/valrol...

Funny, but that blog had a "pitch" for Twitting toilet somewhere as well. It seems Microsoft combined both jokes into a single real-life product.
Startups: Don’t Choose Profit Over Innovation
Here are some other planets we've found with comparable similarity. Note that earth-like similarity does not imply that it is habitable.

http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/dat...
I made the decision that no amount of benefit from nature walks is worth the gamble of being screwed-for-life by Lyme Disease.

Clearly, that math works for some people, and good on them. I just can't make the odds work.
Ask HN: What are the biggest problems with spreadsheets?
That seems like a really shallow set of criteria.
It's not yet in shape for general use, nor for being advocated. There is some tech there that's unique in terms of handing matrix computation on rich formats nicely.

I'd prefer if we reserve advocacy for when i get it to the point where there's public documentation, or at least examples :)
I have an opposite question/concern - for many years I've been senior/lead/"irreplaceable"/etc.. person in many small shops (most of them were IT though). Now I'm thinking to get a job in BigCo - but I have that gut feeling/concern - I'll be just yet another cog in the wheel. How do you handle such feelings?
You probably mean EDT, just FYI.
Frankly, if 7 billion of us were just incinerated (including me and everyone I know and love), I don't really give a shit if a couple hundred homo sapiens are still scraping around in the red dust for another few years until their far less sustainable existence collapses.

Incidentally, the kind of impact that it would take to wipe humanity out will almost certainly result in an astronomical amount of debris being strewn into space. So the Martians will be fucked too.
I checked the numbers. Expected cost of Mars Semi-Direct: 55 billion over 10 years. Cost of an Gerald Ford class aircraft carrier ~12 billion. So my memory was bad, it's a few more aircraft carriers, around five.
These interviews are always just annoying. Make me feel forced, unnatural, memorized and stupid. How many times have you faced a linked list or a matrix in your real work? How about fibonacci heap? I usually fail them and I don't think it has anything to do with how I hack or solve problems.

We're in 2015. Isn't it time to move on and flush these interviews for our industry?
Who wants to file "Method of assigning exclusive rights to an inventor." with me?
Maybe modern Xorg config files are not rocket science, but surely you remember the days of manually listing video modes, and trying endless combinations of video drivers. Hell I think you even needed to add special directives to get three button mice to work properly.

Fortunately those days are gone, but you definitely could debug xf86 config files.
Under the Mattress (or Compiled Code) Is Not a Good Place to Hide Passwords
How to create an unfair coin and prove it with math
Not everybody that patents a [generic description of] a system they're developing has any intention of doing anything other than protecting themselves from others' claims.

Aside: I had an interesting conversation a couple of months back with a guy who had a very broad patent on methods of operating a digital auction dating back to the early 2000s which as worded clashed with everything from Betfair to Priceline. He's still far more interested in building a consumer business once he can find people to run it and fund it rather than flogging it to a troll.
BTW, there will be a Chaos Communication Camp this year (in fact in less than a month) [1]. You shouldn't miss it, the CCC does amazing events with tons of great people there. If you can, go there.

[1] https://events.ccc.de/camp/2015/wiki/Main_Page
Thanks for sharing that. I've been looking for something like this. Traveling and juggling meetings in multiple timezones is a big source of anxiety for me. I'm always wondering if I did the math wrong or if there is a daylight savings I haven't accounted for.
I liked his books about the moon colony :)

Best thing was that they went flying, like we went biking here on earth. It really got me longing to live there.
It seems to be a DSL to describe alerts over whole clusters. That's probably what a monitoring system for the cloud age should. It can monitor Logstash and Graphite, which are proven ways to collect data in a disparate environment.

But many in the comments compare it with Nagios which I think isn't really fair. You could probably easily plug this into Nagios and it's dependency rulework can figure out who to page when. Because that's what Nagios is, not the default checks it ships with.
Is it this one?

http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOver...
Creating Mock API Server in Suave. A Low risk way to use fsharp at work
Searching google news for "earth similarity index" gives me no indication that NASA will make this specific announcement.

Is there a source? If not, it makes sense to change this title to "NASA to make announcement that 'astronomers are on the cusp' of finding 'another earth.'"
> One does however chose to believe in a religion.

That's a remarkable contention, and one which strikes me as flat-out wrong. One doesn't choose to believe in something; one either does or doesn't.
Microsoft and IBM Earnings: The Battle of New vs. Legacy Businesses
Ford develops smart headlights, but an old law will make them illegal in the U.S
Corporations: People who find pleasure in their personal lifes

Startups: People who don't

If you don't have friends, just work hard and be good at something at the very least. Even if its annoying people for a living (I am looking at you, Tech-Recruiters!)
I've found that React isn't comparable to larger frameworks like Angular and Ember. While the latter two provide a sort of "batteries included" solution, React is simply "just the ui".

There are many articles on the Internet debating the frameworks, so I don't see any reason to go into much detail about that in particular. But what I recommend is giving them all a try and finding what works best for you. After all productivity and thereafter maintainability is really what is most important when building a product.
I read that book twice. Once with the german title "Der Mond is eine herbe Geliebte" (direct translation), then years later a friend recommended the book "Revolte auf Luna" ("Riot on Luna"). I got half way through the book before I realized that I was reading the exact same book. Great story nevertheless.
> and hence competition

I don't think you understand evolution. Evolution has nothing to do with competition. If the environment is setup such that all beings get 'the prize', which is possible in environments of abundance, then there really is no competition.

We as humans have advanced such that we typically can survive every environment. And this is because of technology AND society. We have created for ourselves an environment of abundance. We are just not smart enough yet to realize it.
Mutant daisies reportedly grow near Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan
I found it interesting to see how - if the story is true - your enemies may not be who they appear to be. He thought the labels hated his business whereas they may have actually been quite partial to it in slightly different circumstances. That's useful to know for when your circumstances change.
You are correct regarding the low tps and the incompatibility with stock market transactions, but the rest of wall street dwarfs the stock market in market capitalization. The bank debt market they discussed in the article is very low transaction volume but high value and it would most definitely benefit from bitcoin or 'blockchain' technology. Recording and transferring ownership of securities is really just the tip of the iceberg. If interest payments could be made through the ledger then default status would just be a query into the public database. With smart contracts you could also produce automated structured securities where the waterfall rules are encoded and executed in the network. The main difficulty is the border where the network interfaces with the real world. The network cannot enforce collateral transfers, foreclosures, seizures or similar transactions that occur on physical assets so you still need a system of courts and sheriff's.
Google’s Nearline Cold Data Storage Service Hits General Availability
WordPress 4.2.3 Security and Maintenance Release
Ad-blocking is the biggest external threat to online games journalism
I created LogCroc to monitor visually for server exceptions at the company I work for.

It was handy to have a visual dashboard running on a TV in the office that gave everyone an overview at a glance of what's going with our servers.
Sometimes there are games that are awesome and important and I am glad that they exist… but that I don't think I ever want to play. Pretty sure this is one of them.
This is a great start.
But there is more to it, if you wanna learn.
Eg. Double final consonants 닭, and all the "Consonant assimilation" stuff.

The Korean Wiki Project has a more indepth look.
http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/Learn_hangeul
Even after a dinosaur killer class 10km asteroid impact Earth would be way easier to live on than Mars. Despite the particulates in the air the surface would be warmer, the air would be breathable, and even with the reduction from dust the surface sunlight would be comparable.
Just to clarify: green cabs are allowed to pick up street hails in Manhattan, North of West 110th street and north of East 96th street. http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/industry/shl.shtml

The city now also promotes its own hailing app called Way2Ride, which has Uber-like features (pay by mobile and request hail to location). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.verifone.w...
Brivo Systems is Hiring
Brivo Systems INC is currently hiring multiple positions, and will be looking for additional engineering and operations positions in the near future.

We're seeking motivated, and friendly people to work in our Bethesda MD Office and remotely in the field.

Feel free to email me at zach.dixon@brivo.com with any questions, or comment below and I'll try and answer them as I get time.

Thanks!

http://www.brivo.com/about/careers/
It's crazy to think that there may be life everywhere in space and incredible things we haven't seen yet, that our mind can't even conceive.
Indeed, "earth similarity" should not be taken as "potential habitability", if Earth's unique geological history (the Theia collision) means that it is at the lower bound of mass for a habitable planet. Already there are super-Earths discovered.
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2008-02
A few zones some think need to overlap and be dialed-in to come close to offering a habitable place:

water habitable zone

ultraviolet habitable zone

photosynthetic habitable zone

ozone habitable zone

planetary rotation rate habitable zone

planetary obliquity habitable zone

tidal habitable zone

astrosphere habitable zone
https://imgur.com/SbOzKdJ
certainly, i am not suggesting that traveling abroad [for nature] should option #1. i live around Chicago and i have been to hundreds of places in the States with thousands remaining. that being said, there are many things that simply do not exist here and are quite unique to other places, mainly a combination of flora/fauna/geology/climate.

while you can find 20 forest preserves nearby, you cannot really experience the vast diversity that truly exists without traveling some significant distance.
Do you aggregate response times correctly?
Civilizing the Barbarians Lecture 1: Introduction [video]
> "The parseInt() function parses a string argument and returns an integer"

This seems... factually incorrect? Shouldn't it say "a double"? (or a "number", which just means "double" in JS)

It might ignore any characters after a ".", but it's impossible to return an integer in JS...
TL;DR: It's going to be $39 after the Kickstarter.
In my experience working in some "speadsheet heavy" businesses:

- complecting 'data' and 'presentation of data' together

- lack of tools to help with 'correctness'

- lack of version control

- horrifying and error-prone programming model, both hard to write and hard to reason about.

- spreadsheets full of pivots and charts rapidly become the 'truth' of a business, but without any checks and balances to ensure that what they show is actually true, leading to confusion and great badness.
it won't drive up their rent, because it's a really not a great neighborhood and doesn't show any sign of improving
Links to http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html, which was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9931041
There are actually plenty of tools for problems related to timezones, for example here is one for finding the best time for Skype conferences: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
<sarcasm>Thanks for this submission of outstanding quality.</sarcasm>
You should never leave your room then; coming near people is more dangerous than going into nature. As long as it's not caught too late, lyme disease is curable.
A major issue with DNSCurve (and, to some extent, DNSSEC) is that you can't really do validation on the client.

Routers frequently redirect anything going to port 53 to a local cache and anything that doesn't look like regular, unencrypted DNS queries, will be dropped on the floor.

It's also fairly common to have routers only support some DNS records, or to be unable to return more than one record type in a response (e.g. no RRSIG records and A records together). Wi-fi access points are particularly good at making any attempt at making DNS more secure next to impossible.

I've been working on DNSSIG, a DNSCurve-like protocol that encapsulates signed responses in TXT and CNAME records, similar to what ip-over-DNS tunnels do. The end result is pretty ugly.

DNSCrypt initially used port 53, similar to DNSCurve, but it turned out to be a terrible idea, as it didn't work for the majority of home users, that had routers redirecting DNS queries.
"It is against the law for a taxi driver on duty to refuse to pick you up because of race, disability, or destination within New York City." http://www1.nyc.gov/nyc-resources/service/2599/yellow-taxi-c...

Write down their licence plate if this ever happens and report. Otherwise, as has been said: get in first then address always.
This is generally true. "Today and today only" is usually a red flag.

But those who aren't willing to pull the trigger quick enough miss the great deals.
PayPal is now worth 33 times what eBay paid for it in 2002
Powerunit – A new Java test framework
Commodore Is Being Resurrected as a Smartphone
I spend every Lyft ride I take talking to the driver about what it's like driving for them. The majority also drive for Uber. They always say positive things although that may be due to self censorship.
1) Well, web servers are always evolving, think of HTTP/2 :)

2) During the beta, they didn't receive enough feedback to evaluate the criticality of the problem, they assumed that the fix could wait 6 weeks.
You mean if it hadn't been for those cops you'd have happily driven home while under the influence?
Gas taxes are less equitable now with more electric vehicles.
or a pentacycle :)

https://horshamphotography.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_5...
The article is dated back to October 2003 it would have been nice to mention it in the title.

And it's basically an apology for torture (as long as it's done by the "good" guys).
What to expect during an ISO certification process
Can confirm this is one of the best text-based sites out for there for learning Korean. On days when I'm really studying, I typically have 4 or 5 tabs open from just this domain alone.
Here: http://www.amigaforever.com/
Much of that could pass for footage of iPhone games today. Often the clearest giveaway is the slightly lacking colour depth.
In case you have questions about exoplanets, there is an ongoing AMA by exoplanet researchers on /r/science: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3ebavu/science_ama...

(They mention the upcoming announcement, but they don’t know know what it is about either.)
So the first version of the Apple watch has failed, but the author hopes for a better second version, which may even be cheaper. Meanwhile he's happy about the software updates.

I guess the "sold more units than the ipod" argument refers to the first generation ipods, too?
Now can you link one that uses the ISO 8601 date standard, for those of us who also dislike date juggling?
Not regularly but it is still mixed, particularly in literature. People still learn Hanja for benefit, albeit relatively minor.
No Morse code required since the 2000s.
It's now truly possible to walk a mile in a someone's shoes.
The bank debt market [...] would most definitely benefit from bitcoin or 'blockchain' technology.

Why?
This really was vapid clickbait drivel, though it was almost worth clicking the link just for Eric Elliott's hair (phenomenal!) and this astonishing piece of wisdom from the same hirsute genius:

"15. Choose your programming language wisely

JavaScript has the potential to help a lot of more people, because it's the most popular language in the world. If you write a library for JavaScript, it’s going to help a lot more people."
From the sounds of it you've made up your mind and post-rationalised some of this.

a quality of life far below that of a prisoner in a second world country

Quality of life isn't just about food & accomodation.

for the people staying behind, you get to pay exorbitant sums of money so
that people other than you get to survive an asteroid impact

Sure, Homo Economicus might not want to pay for that space mission, but Homo Economicus (a) doesn't exist, and (b) if he existed would be a douche.

...make more sense to just live in space

Maybe, maybe not. We don't know that much about the long term effect of living in space, or on Mars, or the Moon. What happens when more people than expected get pregnant in your space colony? At least on a planet you have the opportunity to use mined resources to expand. Or maybe someone will invent a self-printing orbital colony ship. We're stone-agers trying to predict the iron age here.

What's the crux of your disagreement? If you dropped all the other arguments, which one would you hold onto?
Everything has got problems.

The first person to suggest building the electrical grids we already have would have seemed a bit of a visionary, because they are truly epic bits of engineering but lots of problems have been solved along the way and continue to need solved as thing evolve.

Throwing your hands up at the first hint of potential problems is basically a variant on the FUD we know so well in computing, as is claiming wind turbines are "hideous" for the environment. People love that old switcheroo, "electric cars are worse for the environment than ICE cars", "Solar panels use more carbon than they will ever save" etc. except when you look at the serious studies done by actual experts you find these questions were dealt with thoroughly years before, and the people who keep repeating them aren't interested in facts.

Wind turbines aren't magic fairy dust, they're technology. They can be used well, they can be used badly, they can get better. One of the big changes is that larger turbines can be deployed successfully in lots more places and take advantage of slower average windspeeds. That's not revolutionary, but that and thousands of other improvements are making wind and solar cheaper every day. The problems that remain are far more solvable, and cost-efficient to deal with, than dealing with the consequences of continuing to pump carbon into the atmosphere.

Many nations are already building/converting gas generators just to avoid using coal, an on balance this is a good thing from a pollution and carbon perspective. Making use of stuff that already exists to plug gaps as we go forward really isn't that radical a suggestion.
I take cabs daily and my experience does not match yours. Most NYC cabbies are quite friendly. Most are also immigrants with interesting stories.

In Harlem, where I live, cabs will actively honk for any potential fare, especially to the airport. You'll have multiple cabs trying to get you if you have a suitcase. From my conversations with drivers, they prefer airport fares.
> As far as I know big trucks have meters that monitor how long you have been driving (at what speed).

Most freight companies have an existence and operations outside the grey market. They can be subjected to this sort of regulation. An independent guy with a van? Enforcing that will be a whole lot harder. He won't install it. Or he'll install it and disable it, or otherwise thwart its well-functioning. If you set up checkpoints to verify that the device is installed and functioning he'll detour around them, over rural highways.

And if the lawless independent guys with a van can undercut the lawful one, they'll get the business.
It's interesting to note that the highest ESI so far has been Kepler-62e with a score of 0.83 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Similarity_Index). So a score of 0.98 would seem significant.
Accessing this with HTTPS Everywhere and Firefox leads to http://www.ustream.tv/embed/9407922 being blocked, so you don't see anything other than the text.

However, The stream has reached "maximum capacity" at this time.
Introvert like me? Few tips I've learnt for networking
The biggest problem with spreadsheets is that they are often used in lieu of more appropriate tools because of poorly considered IT policies and organizational practices which leave no other tools available to users and fail to provide adequate support for users on some tasks for which programming is required and other tools are more suitable.
Yea, sustainability is largely a collective action problem, and it's quite difficult for 7 billion humans in hundreds of interacting societies, governments, and economies. Moreover, "sustainable" has a somewhat different meaning on Earth, which already had an enormously productive biosphere.
Why would the Theia collision mean that we're at the lower bound of mass for a habitable planet? What does the moon do that would be compensated for by having a larger planet?
I'm getting really sick of these monad tutorials
> Eighty-four percent of respondents said blockchain could reduce the risk a trade won’t settle and the time that process takes, while 74 percent said it could alleviate the chance your counterparty to a trade won’t make good on the deal.

Karma to anyone who can explain this to me. How does the blockchain reduce counterparty risk. The counterparty can either produce the required shares or they can't.

And to be honest, currently cash equities settle on a T + 3 days basis and options settle on a T + 1 day basis. Most people view that as a feature not a bug.

If the markets wanted instantaneous settlement of cash equities they could do it, no one does.