skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's well established that carnivores have much shorter intestinal tracts. Meat is relatively easy to digest and simply doesn't need a long break down and absorption process. So we know meat eaters don't need long intestines like herbivores.

Now, as to your question about long intestines making it harder to digest meat. They don't do that in exclusion, they make living at all more difficult, and digesting meat is a sub task of living. Research a bit on all the digestive troubles of horses and cows, colic and the like, and you'll find out that massive, long systems of intestines and stomachs have a lot that can go wrong and kill the animal.

Long intestines let the animal live off easier to catch food, yes, but there are definite drawbacks.
Here in Maryland (certainly not quite the South), it's conspicuous along the DC Beltway. It has definitely gone from "hey, is that kudzu?" to "holy crap, there's a lot of kudzu on the Beltway." Still, I've never seen it in one of our densely forested parks, or anywhere else but along the highways.
This is one of the financial barriers that severely impacts the ability of poor people to amass monetary wealth, but is invisible to the rich. Before they were overdraft fees, they were Non-Sufficient Funds fees for overdrafting, and these NSF fees still exist for those who can't even get the "overdraft loan".

> Banks originally offered clients this service as a courtesy.

Banks originally opted in at-risk customers. This was before payday loans became popular, and the market is one and the same. If you were short of funds this month, you'll probably be short next month too.

Source: personally being an at-risk customer who was opted in without asking.
One of the hats I wear is 'does numerics in python'. R is fine when you're playing to its strengths, matlab is an abomination, and I have absolutely no interest in julia.
And Japanese diets tend to have more soy which could lead to the explanation as to why Japanese men on average have more feminine characteristics. Studies have gone either way in suggesting this.
And this is what these folks are up to now.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-1978-photo-2011-1?o...

Some of them have done reasonably well.
Which (allegedly) doesn't actually stop the data collection.
I see your comment is raising some controversy, but I tend to be in your camp on this one. I do a significant amount of development involving PostgreSQL and I don't think I would want to rely on this. I don't want to belittle the work in question, but as someone that can develop for the database, I have other, better techniques which can provide defensive in depth such as injection prevention while not relying on yet another third party extension. I can set up stored procedure barriers, view barriers, and more between the data in my database and outside access from application tiers. Some of these techniques provide injection prevention as a side effect and in those cases where I do have to consciously provide such protection, I can do so in a central point of access that can service distributed application tiers.

Having said that, there are many development shops that don't have strong database development talent on hand and really treat the database as some black box where to stuff data. In these instances, the database development centric approaches aren't feasible as practical matter. In these cases, I think such a tool can be helpful since at least it gives you the choke point. Where you'd run into issues in this scenario is that this tool requires a learning period to know which queries are good and which aren't. When an application developer changes code, I would imagine that you'd have to address the SQL firewall training as well; a developer that might not be as comfortable developing for the database might not consider that factor and you might get some wonky deployments. I might be missing something on this count only having scanned the docs a bit for this extension.
I know the NSA has been involved in developing crypto for years but I still find it highly ironic that they are now concerned about damaging cryptographic technology after their last few years tampering with various standards and such to gain advantage in breaking them.
Modern Japanese are an admixture of earlier aboriginals who populated the islands first and an isolated group of later immigrants that was likely distinct from other East Asian groups. There is plenty of room for them to have unique phenotypes due to this.
Handy.com is a likely candidate, a flawed business model, one only needs to look at Homejoy's failure at the best of times.
Virtual reality should be used in the classroom
It's really not that hard to opt out. The search is just a default program, and you can replace it with whatever you want, like Classic Shell.

You could argue as others have that there should be a default search which is local only, but why is it so important that everyone uses Microsoft's default programs rather than the millions of third party programs available? There seems to be a double standard where people say that it's important that Microsoft not push its own software over alternatives but also that Microsoft's default programs should fit every need of every user.

There's plenty that Microsoft does wrong, but providing a search that uses their search engine while allowing users to install whatever search they like is not so bad. You are already contacting their servers for updates and other things. Having to install an alternative search is really no worse than having to install a web browser. Now you might say that the menu is basic functionality but the browser is not, but what's really the difference?
Lebron was clearly better at such a young age.
WeChat, Line, and Kakao are basically non-existent.

Yes they are probably non-existent in US, but each of them have at least 200Mln users (WeChat >800Mln)

It's not surprising that most Americans would use software developed by U.S. companies.

Good point
Ask HN: Successful founders (turned investors) – are you happy(er)?
I'm reading Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness. He was telling the story about how he sold LinkExchange, made a ton of money... and it didn't make him that happy.

Question 1: To the founders who've made a lot of money with exits (say, enough to retire very comfortably) - are you happy? Are you happier than you were before your exit?

Now I'm reading about the part where Tony starts getting involved as an investor, and it seems that he's happier.

Question 2: To founder's who've made money, and then became investors - are you happy? Happier than you were before you started investing? Before you made money?
How Much Does It Cost to Make a Hit Song?
> Just don't have the patience to hunt down third-party drivers.

For most modern distros, you don't have to hunt down third-party drivers; at most, you might need to enable some first-party or second-party "restricted" repo, at which point you can install the necessary drivers from there. And last I checked, Ubuntu and Linux Mint (among others) provide a "restricted hardware wizard" in the normal settings screen to do precisely this.
Women have lower body temperatures.

http://io9.com/why-do-womens-bodies-run-colder-than-mens-836...
Ask HN: Free SSL Certificates?
Does anyone have good experiences with various Free SSL certificate providers?
That's why I'm in favor of some level of standards on disclosure and some standard warning for these kinds of investments. Another possibility would be a waiting period. People are impulsive, so maybe you have to wait 72 hours from signaling serious intent to actually making an investment. That would help prevent casino-think.

I don't think it's wrong to open more investments to more people, but I'm also a bit wary of it being a total free for all shitshow.
Yes, you are right. It makes sense to see it that way.
It seems there's been a bit of research into Aluminum Tungsten systems[1]. The alloy systems described in the abstract are strengthened by particle formation (also called precipitation hardening), which is the primary strengthening mechanism used in most Al alloys[2].

In general, alloy design is an extremely high dimensional problem. You have composition, the forming processes, and heat treatments which all can profoundly affect the properties of the finished product. It's only since the fifties or so that we've really started to understand the internal structures of metals and how they affect properties like strength, and there are many open questions yet.

[1] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11661-008-9593-3
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation_hardening
Here's a video of him putting 331 lbs over his head...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8OexNKrug

At the age of 14. Most people can't deadlift that. This kid's a prodigy.
Pretty close.

At least 121 from Jan 2013, to Feb 2015:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucebooth/2015/03/20/biotech-ip...

And the Nasdaq biotech index (NBI) has skyrocketed, from 1,000 four years ago, to a recent peak of 4,000 before the plunge (after having barely moved for a decade previously).
Ask HN: Any web dev. material targeted to experienced software engineer?
It seems that most materials are either targeted to beginner with not prior programming experience or to experienced web developers.So they are either boring or assume to much prior knowledge.
Furthermore(and perhaps that's the main problem) most of those targeted to experienced web dev. are usually tutorial/course trying to each a new framework : they feel like a collection of how-to and example without really giving a big picture.
From someone who lives in Austin, the problem isn't the bag ban. It's the low impact of skirting around it. As another commenter mentioned, the only major retailer that sells reusable plastic bags in Austin is HEB. And HEB does move a very significant percentage of all groceries in Austin.

Whole foods, Randalls, Sprouts, Fiesta and Walmart all use paper bags. If HEB either switched to paper or charged more for each plastic bag this story wouldn't exist.
Then again, unmotivated people can waste four years in college and learn nothing.

There might be a sweet spot if you are dedicated enough not to just go through the motions at college and actually take advantage of it, and yet you are not motivated enough to do that outside of college.
If the last line of the article grabs you, here's the obligatory link to Courtney Love's seminal 2000 piece on the topic - http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

(And the previous HN discussions about it - https://hn.algolia.com/?query=courtney%20love%20does%20the%2...)
Interestingly, the people I know who have had the most success in the markets (and who have been around for a while) have told me this, each independently.

I have taken their advice and have done quite well.
The most egregious example that has happened to me: I had a checking account with a hidden $5 fee if the balance went below $5000 in a given month. I made a big purchase, left the account with about $3 in it and scheduled a transfer from savings for the next day... you know how it played out: $5 fee on the low balance, $50 charge to "borrow" the $2 all taken from the transfer the next day. They call that a "service". ha.
Thanks, let me know what you think!
Or GNU/Linux, or OpenBSD, or something else privacy-aware.

But yes, ReactOS could certainly use some love, from Russia or otherwise. Can't wait for 0.4.0 to come out; should be a nice push toward general usability.
this guy gets it, well said, sir. "darn kids and their forward hats"
The real "gotcha" for Powershell, for me, is the huge differences between versions. As the author mentions, v3 is much better than v1. The original version is pretty bad. A lot of parsing cmdlets don't work right. And a lot of the really useful ones aren't included, which also blocks some of the cool cmdlets you can download and install.

Having to port a script from Powershell v5 to Powershell v2 is dumb, but sadly necessary. Usually I'll write a script on the oldest server in the farm to ensure interoperability. But often the workarounds for v2 break v5's implementation of select-string or other parsing tools.

And this doesn't get into remote execution or remote script enablement, which are both separate. Powershell fragmentation is a serious problem that complicates Windows adminstration and use of this powerful tool.
Don’t I know this. As someone who runs a genomics company that started in 1999 I have been through this whole experience. When I started people were literally giving me money for free and by 2001 you could not raise a cent even if you were profitable.
Which required significant kernel additions in the case of the BSDs, and is a third-party kext for OS X.

In contrast, 9P is just a byte stream protocol that ranges from weekend project implementations in ~1000 LoC (yet still perfectly usable) to full strength client-server libraries. It's much more versatile and can be done entirely in userspace without special kernel cooperation beyond a basic POSIX runtime.
GNOME searches whatever you want it to, but they heavily advertise integration with online sources as a feature. OS X Spotlight does online by default. Finder and Windows Explorer search local files. I said very nearly since, although they're great, BSD, KDE, etc. have very few users.

I'm not arguing that having control over your computer is important. I think people should be using exclusively free software, but it's really hard to sell them on that. Just about the only thing going for it is honesty and consistency. I'm worried that if people start exaggerating issues and get exposed for it, the free software side will lose credibility.
My father was dying and I'd moved home to help him out in his last days. He'd lasted longer than we thought, and so I was very low on money. But he wanted something from the store, and it was cheap, and I went to get it. It went through, but I got a $35 overdraft fee for something like $0.50 over. I was angry, and the woman at Wells Fargo chastised me for not checking my balance by phone before charging anything. Mind you, this was after I told my bank to just decline any charges that would put me over.

I left Wells Fargo that day and have never been back to them or any other big national bank.
A different angle. But probably for the same reason. You kinda wonder why these poor communities don't have community-owned businesses. Crowdfunded works so well, why not in ghettos? It doesn't help when most people don't have any spending money to contribute because they are drained dry by the banks...
"hypocritically crusade against legally enforced morality" while actually expecting to live under the umbrella of such a system."

What does this mean?
Dave - anyone you can recommend in the .NET arena in the Philly area?
That's assuming that Windows doesn't circumvent such things because "well we know what we're doing and you don't".
The pain overdraft fees cause poor people is truly hard to comprehend unless you've been there. It's incredibly evil.

You've got $16 left for food and then then the Flickr account you forgot to cancel gets charged to your account, putting your balance at -$9. Now you have to pay $35/day until you get enough money to cover the overdraft fees. You end up paying $100+ for a $9 forced loan.

The bank could have just declined the charge and let you deal with it, but even though you have overdraft "protection" turned off, they've decided to classify this transaction as an on-going contractual relationship, letting the charge through so as not to "inconvenience" you. Bankers are inventive at skirting the law.

They know exactly what they're doing. They're rich bankers robbing poor people.

I won't be satisified until Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and all these other evil American banks pay back every single dime to their victims.

Until then, no one should even consider helping these evil banks when there are good ones available. USAA is great.
Not only opted in without permission, but receiving derisive reactions when requesting to opt out. "You wouldn't want to be embarrassed by having your payment refused would you?" Sure, that's fine, because there's invariably some issue with the store network, or the electronic payment processor that randomly refuses payment anyway. What's the difference?

"Are you sure you don't want this 'protection'?" I'm protecting myself from your fee. That's protection enough.

Furthermore, I worked in IT at a bank for awhile and witnessed many wealthy customers coming through to cash large checks for which they hadn't the funds - a head teller would sign off on the cash, no fees charged, and the customer leaves with the money.
Advice to whipper snappers, stop wearing 'vendorwear' after 30.
I wonder... how did they collaborate?
Here's a good breakdown of checking account profitability:

http://www.bankdirector.com/index.php/issues/retail/the-prof...
Very easy to say, most of the times in health.
I'm still waiting for [let's encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/)

StartSSL is free only for non-commercial uses.

For small/personal projects self-signed cert might be an option.
>Middle-class people don't typically spend years of their lives and tens of thousands of dollars on structured self-betterment activities.

But they really wish they could, and they actually believe they can, because there are always loans available to them.

I think the useless degree is an extreme form of luxury. You get to show others that you are rich (otherwise you would work or go to a vocational school) and that your money doesn't define you (because otherwise you would study something useful to make more money).
This is a quote from Michael Lewis' The Big Short, I'll never forget it:

Obsessing over Household [Finance Corporation], he attended a lunch organized by a big Wall Street firm. The guest speaker was Herb Sandler, the CEO of a giant savings and loan called Golden West Financial Corporation. “Someone asked him if he believed in the free checking model,” recalls Eisman. “And he said, ‘Turn off your tape recorders.’ Everyone turned off their tape recorders. And he explained that they avoided free checking because it was really a tax on poor people — in the form of fines for overdrawing their checking accounts. And that banks that used it were really just banking on being able to rip off poor people even more than they could if they charged them for their checks.”

Eisman asked, “Are any regulators interested in this?”

“No,” said Sandler.

“That’s when I decided the system was really, ‘Fuck the poor.’”
Startssl.com has always been useful for me. There's only a little bit of hoop-jumping you need to do to get instant free automated ssl certs (with some restrictions on their use).

But right now, I'm waiting for letsencrypt.org to launch in a few weeks.
Rails 4.2.4 Released
I love the giant banner font used in the printouts on Matt McConaughey's desk. And the Trash-80s.
Regarding special note 1: If you change the sizes of the segments so that they instead cover equal amounts of probability mass, then you'd be able to sample again from the same segment instead of starting over from the beginning.

But I guess this slows down the fast path a little, so with sufficiently low rejection probability it is not worth it.
Looks like Anandtech updated the slide of the die shot.

HVX is designed to handle significant compute workloads for image processing applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality, image processing, video processing, and computer vision. This means that tasks that might otherwise be running on a relatively power hungry CPU or GPU can run a comparatively efficient DSP instead
Something like ReactOS or Longene would be a feasible target for such efforts. Or even just a commitment to GNU/Linux or one of the BSDs.
"contains approximately 2.5 more years of Emacs documentation than version 24.2"

I really LOL'd on this.
I think one of the big lessons of this experience is that there isn't such a thing as a unified Amazon culture and experience, since there are so many and numerous experiences to the contrary. You can look at the hundreds of negative reviews posted on this site and anonymous gists published to see that this really is across groups and not present in a mere dozen of cherry-picked articles by the Times. My own interviewing experiences have been fairly negative as well and the burnout and long working hours stories that I've seen published by other software engineers are in line with my friends' experiences working for AWS. Your mileage obviously varies.
Their paywall is sooooo close to getting me. I enjoy their articles and blow through my allotment rather quickly. I would like to see a micropayment service that works on a per article basis.
Gordon Letwin went on to troll OS/2 users in the early 1990's on Usenet. He had some sort of bet that Windows would have a specific feature (multitasking?) before OS/2. The bet was the loser would fly the winner to any city the winner desired (probably US) for dinner.
Hacker News readers are lucky in that the things that interest us are also things that people pay you to do, so we are not likely to choose a degree that is worse than useless.

For people with different interests, there is a trade-off.
I have one of the pictured terminals (the adds regent 20) set up for my daughters to play hunt the wumpus on a raspberry pi (mounted inside the voluminous case, it even gets decent wifi with a usb dongle)

Oh, were there people in the pictures? The hardware overshadows them!
this is of course, assuming that VC money is any smarter than LP money. But is it really? Many LPs are successful business people or investors themselves. VCs are closer to the action and get better deal flow, but keeping deal flow constant, they are no better at picking stocks than my betta fish
I agree with you, just not on the money part though. I think family background and connections plays a more significant role in determining success.
After that, it doesn't look like she did much else. She raised her children and became a volunteer

Not a great way to phrase things...
Ask HN: Open source solution to receive Git push and manage deploys?
We want to set up a Heroku-esque service that devs push to in order to deploy. It receives the git push, builds the Javascript, etc, and runs a set of scripts given the (repo_path, commit_hash, branch) as inputs. It should make it easy to compile in an repeatable, isolated environment and "log" and "print" in a dev-friendly manner.

I'm looking at progrium/gitreceive and progrium/buildstep as two starting points - any other alternatives I can look at?

(I've looked at dokku, but it seems tied to 1 instance and based around containers. I'd like to use EC2 tags to discover which instances to deploy to, and I'd like to be able to use our current deploy scripts first + migrate to Docker if desired later.)
> GNOME searches whatever you want it to, but they heavily advertise integration with online sources as a feature.

Right, and so does KDE (to an extent), but I don't recall either actually using those online sources for searches. Maybe GNOME3's managed to get worse since last time I tried it, however ;)

> OS X Spotlight does online by default.

TIL. I guess I don't use Spotlight enough to notice...

> but it's really hard to sell them on that.

It depends on the approach. I've managed to get quite a few people switched over to openSUSE (for example) on the simple grounds of "your Windows XP machine can't handle Windows 7 very well; here's something better that will save you the cost of a Windows license and the cost of upgrading your machine and won't slow down after a few months of use".
That is just plain naiveté. Big corporations don't have the accountability as individuals or smaller companies. They can just scrapgoat someone. Just watch some docus like the enron one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016268/. Those dystopian futures many writers romance about are going to come true soon.
It's fascinating just how much printed material there is in these photos. How much of the work they were doing back then was not digital. It's an interesting contrast to the modern era where a very high percentage of the work in software development is done using a computer.