skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest study on the matter is unfortunately paywalled by Elsevier... until March this year.

You can read the abstract here: "The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27032491

And here is the global map of Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA it contains: https://i.imgur.com/SjrzV93.jpg

The figure legend reads:
Figure 2.

Variation in Denisovan Ancestry Proportion

(A) Proportion of the genome inferred to be Denisovan in ancestry in diverse non-Africans. The color scale is not linear to allow saturation of the high Denisova proportions in Oceania (bright red) and better visualization of the peak of Denisova proportion in South Asia.

(B) Proportion of the genome confidently inferred to be Denisovan in ancestry in mainland Eurasians plotted against the rate of allele sharing of each sample with non-West Eurasians as measured by an f4 statistic. Error bars (1 SE) were obtained from a block jackknife. The Denisovan ancestry estimates in South Asians are systematically above expectation (fitted trend line) (p = 0.0013).
Sorry for the very late response. I should have written it as "additions are safe." I am more reflecting on additions being more liability (commonly called "tech debt") that you have.

I think others covered the edge cases where additions literally break. The sibling that said I was likely referring to just plain bugs hits it pretty well, I think. I was not going for esoteric scenarios.

And yes, semver doesn't say anything about if a version is supported. However, it is a strong indication that it is. In a social expectations sort of way. If you don't plan on supporting old versions of what you are doing... use a new name for the new stuff. Nobody expects google guava to support apache commons, even though they are doing a lot of the same things. We do expect, however, that apache commons will make sure any bugs in old versions are dealt with.
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I personally am excited for the Switch and will get one at launch. And for me personally, the Wii U is the best console of this generation. But I'm not nearly as enthusiastic about the Switch in general as you are from this presentation.

So far it feels like "the Wii part 3". Yes the Wii sold well, but it didn't sell very many games. Most Wii owners were perfectly content with Wii Sports. The Wii U has pretty much been a flop. Nothing about this presentation suggests to me the Switch will finally do what Nintendo has tried three times now: make a gimmicky, low powered console that appeals in non traditional ways and is successful. So far (and sure, a 1 hour video 3 months before launch isn't much), this very much feels like the Wii and Wii U, and not in the good ways.

I love Nintendo and am a huge fan. But part of me can't help but wish Nintendo would just straight up compete with Sony and Microsoft.
Massacre of drinking cups at a 15th c. party
In line for the preorder would be my guess
Once you are a public company, you need a robust finance, accounting, and HR infrastructure, along with orgs like investor relations. Plus selling ads is tough. You need a large salesforce to constantly call people and try to sell them, you need account managers to manage relationship with the big advertisers. Now spread these people globally, you are selling different ads in different geographies. In addition, now you need ad operations to track metrics, report on it, and share revenue. This is even before you get into product and engineering.
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You're stretching it. The N64 was a beast even quite some time after introduction. I understand the point about SNES 3D ability blurring the line for the average consumer. But 1 minute into play and you'd understand the massive leap. I remember when Zelda 64 was released, a friend got all the latest PSX games (moto racer N, Tomb Raider 3, whatever).

We played Zelda a few minutes, but then switched to the PSX. We tried all games in a row less than 5 minutes each, they were disgusting in comparison. And these were mature sequels not launch lineup. When Zelda 64 was on screen we realized how much better everything was on the N64.
At least until the battery (surprisingly quickly) ran out and caused the thing to BEEEEEEEEP every time you turned the system on.
Curious why this article appears on hacker news. Do software developers use the marijuana?
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Direct link to download the full 395 Page Report (without paying $78)

The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids:
The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research => https://download.nap.edu/cart/download.cgi?record_id=24625
This is the first Nintendo platform from the "next generation" of developers at Nintendo that studied under Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto. During the presentation, the heads of software development (Yoshiaki Koizumi and Shinya Takahashi) introduced the hardware, and the head of hardware development for Switch (Kouichi Kawamoto) introduced the launch title 1 2 Switch. Staples of such presentations like Miyamoto, Reggie Fils-Aimé and Eiji Aonuma were notably absent (though they did appear in a short video at the end of the presentation).

They didn't mention this at all, but I think it was a brilliant way to demonstrate that the next generation of Nintendo is as integrated and collaborative as ever, and let the games and the hardware speak for themselves. It also demonstrates the efficiency of the teams now that both the portable and home console teams are working together in one building at the new head office in Kyoto. A great subtle touch to an otherwise quite clear, explicit conference, and reminds me of how similar Nintendo and Apple are.
I don't understand why everyone hates add so much, I understand that excessive adverts are bad, ads are the reason that the Internet is what it is now, if we hadn't had ads to monetize content, then everything would cost money + be inside paywalls.
The images are the same (same hash).
I am requesting in my comment. But anyway its a good suggestion to contribute. Will do.
After almost five months, Android 7.0 Nougat arrives on the Galaxy S7
It didn't look like a 2000 person company when I went to their office. They do a lot of random platform integrations / clients & testing themselves, which probably increases the engineering team size a bit.
You are well on your way. The fact that you are posing the question already speaks highly of your drive, so hold your head high.

I'm sure others will have better advice than i do about finding mentors. In my case my first CTO out of school was a major impact. I should also say that mentors may not be above you, but peers. Even in college i became close friends with other developers who, collectively, influenced one another with our learnings and opinions. A rising tide raises all ships, as it were.
How many chemicals make up marijuana smoke? Are any of them carcinogenic?
NCSU has something similar to the OMSCS. I took a few courses and had a positive experience: https://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu/grad_degrees.html

For those that need some background in Computer Science (say you have a B.S. in something else but want to learn Comp Sci fundamentals) there's also the programming certificate course: https://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu/PS/CPC.html
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> came with free supercharger access.

By no means 'free': there was a $2000 Supercharger access fee included in the purchase price of the S85, or $2500 to enable it after purchase for the S60.

Not available for the S40 variant which wasn't permitted to use the Superchargers.
For what it's worth, I don't think Lennart is against non-Linux systems; he just doesn't care. And as an avid OpenBSD user, as well as an avid Linux user, I can't blame him.

Linux has great APIs like cgroups, inotify (in my opinion considerably more useful than the equivalent use of kqueue), and others. OpenBSD is the other unixy system which I think offers something valuable and unique, and it has its own APIs to offer that.

I'm interested to hear how you got the impression that systemd is/was buggy. I have run systemd on a variety of systems, including pre-systemd-support Debian a few years ago; I was always shocked by how reliably it would bring up the system, consistently name the devices, and provide a convenient interface to the logs.

I have been running systemd consistently on my workstations since Archlinux shipped it in 2012, and I have never run into a bug or poorly-documented feature as long as I have been using it.
Indeed.
After talking to other people and thinking hard about my options, I have come to same conclusion.
But finding good people to work with or under seems really hard. I really don't know how to find good mentors other than contributing to open source and hoping someone senior likes my contributions.
> The special role of educational institutions in simultaneously sub- sidizing and rationing entry is common to all professions requiring advanced training.23 It is a striking and insufficiently remarked phe- nomenon that such an important part of resource allocation should be performed by nonprofit-oriented agencies.

I wonder if Arrow would understand today's higher education institutions as remaining nonprofit oriented?
Some of the later SNES games were even rumored to be N64 ones for a while, like Killer Instinct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Instinct
Your grandparents and their friends may have simply been lucky. You also have to be careful of survivorship bias.

Yes, a high infant mortality rate skews the figures. Still, I'd be willing to bet that the average 40 year old in 1929 had a life expectancy at least 10 years less than the average 40 year old in 2017.

Edit: Table 21 in this report is informative: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_11.pdf Expected years remaining for a 40 year old in 1929-31 was 29.67. In 2011 it was 40.58.
Possibly unpopular opinion here on HN. I almost went to VIT in 2007 (shockingly got into NIT Trichy instead).

1. Focus on becoming a good programmer (ie, SPOJ/Topcoder/Directi). That'll help you clear interviews, and get good at thinking about algos and data structures. I'd even prioritize this over other CS fundamentals.

2. Keep your GPA up and get into a good grad school. I disliked both the interview process and the classism (ie, recruit from top schools) of Indian companies when I interviewed there.

3. If you don't want to go to grad school, make sure you don't touch TCS/CTS/Wipro/<insert mass VIT employer here> with a 100-foot-long- pole. Given your passion, and assuming you use the next two years to become a strong programmer, you will find a good place to work in Bangalore. You might have to pay your dues, but please don't pay them at the above mentioned places.

And people who look at you as second class undergrads can fuck off (esp the professors at IIT Madras :) ). I know several friends at IITs that preferred to pot-smoke-away their time there. If you're near Chennai I'm happy to chat with you.
I'm fairly certain Battle for Wesnoth does this and it just made the game frustrating for me when very low probability events occurred. Probability doesn't scale mentally that way. I mean, I have a degree in Mathematics, and I know what this means. I still didn't like it happening.
They're demoing the system.
First off, I'm super excited by this. However, is it just me or is it a little disturbing to see Mario and his crew greatly out of proportion with the other "humans" in the world of Mario Odyssey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ti9rFafwTw&t=65m49s)?
https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/1004.pdf
As the dimensions of Switch is only a bit larger than the New 3DS XL, the XL is their best selling model and 3DS is already 6 years old and too slow even for direct Wii game ports without downscaling the textures, though it's still selling well - so the 3DS production will probably end in 2017/18.
Scam senses tingling. Once again.
Nice! "Do things that don't scale" applied by a teenager!
Do keep in mind that smoking is probably the most harmful of the many common ways marijuana is consumed. Vaporizing or eating cannabis renders zero carcinogenic chemicals from smoke.
If you are at Vellore (VIT appears to be Vellore Institute of Technology ), there is a world class medical institution in your town (CMC Vellore )that sends many of their graduates around the world to places like the Mayo Clinic and MGH.

They have a well regarded neurophysiology lab that was run by Marcus Devanandan. Perhaps you could do research / collaborate with them.
DS, not 3DS.
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I used to use what.cd before it was shut down. Now I'm not really sure where to go...
I work at a Fortune 50 in the US, and we hire a lot the TCS devs and others from Chennai. A lot of them whom I talk to say they feel trapped where they are, and exploited by these mass VIT employers.
The Martians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
Just a note that it's not actually progressive brackets - e.g. if you earn $90,000, you pay 7% of the $90,000, not just the portion over $85,719. It's not like the rest of the tax brackets which actually are progressive.

But yes, I really like the Australian system. The fact that's its integrated with the tax system means there's no other monthly payments to worry about, it sorts itself out at the end of the financial year.
I was expecting to see a lot more bad news in the report, surprisingly mild adverse effects in general, especially conpared to smoking, alcohol, overeating, etc.
The repository and build system are set up to allow you to disable almost everything (except core services like evdev, the "systemd" init process, journald, and D-Bus).

Distributions have just found it so pointless to strip it down that they've left it largely as one package. You're entirely welcome to use your distribution's packaging scripts to produce a reduced package, if one doesn't exist yet.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that it's a single repository tracking consistent, interoperable versions of each of the systems in systemd. This means that there are few dependencies to track.

People get upset because they're too lazy to run the build system themselves. People who are unwilling to run the build system and read the mailinglist are unfit to ship anything short of the whole thing anyway. In my opinion, if these people are complaining, it is meaningless. They are not the sort of people who can figure out how to fit their system into 8MB of flash on a tiny SoC, so them complaining that the systemd package is more than 10 megs is like a child complaining that their bedsheets are too barbie and not buzz lightyear enough.
I kind of prefer the Steam Controller honestly. After getting used to it even the DS4 feels akward.
People will be able to try out the console at the NY Nintendo Store at 9:30AM ET: http://www.nintendo.com/switch/nintendo-treehouse/
The one question that still hasn't been answered is will purchased eShop titles from the Wii U carry over to the Switch?

Wii purchased titles could be transferred and played on the Wii U, but the Wii U had the "Wii Mode" to handle that and Wii disks.

Right now it seems, sadly, backward compatibility is something that is dying off with this generation.
Dolphin EMU really highlights how strong and under-appreciated so many of the GameCube gen games are: Viewtiful Joe, F-Zero X, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Sunshine, Pikmin, Wind Waker, and especially the Metroid Prime series are outgrageously good games.

Hard to think of any real bombs in that entire library TBH.
Meh. You get used to journalctl awfully quickly. For someone who never uses it, it's going to have some friction. You need to remember the command and how to spell it, which I'll admit isn't trivial compared to "just dig around in /var/log" style we're all used to. But you get over that hump in an hour.

For the straightforward "?!$! something happened just grep for it in the log file" it's no harder or slower. And you start noticing things like -f and --since that have no good analogs in the text log world, and it seems like it has value.

And every once in a while you need to pull magic like "show me EVERYTHING that was happening in the 3 seconds before this event, including kernel logs", and that's where it actually makes sense.

I hated it too when I started using it. I don't mind so much now.
If you're confident this is true... why not short the stock? if correct, you could make a lot of money.
> for some reason I persevered and started reading some of the theory. What I read aligned so accurately with my previous experiences

This is called confirmation bias.
Where systemd is complex, it's because the use case is complex. If you know so much about these use cases, and you think systemd is unnecessarily complex, why don't you do it yourself and see where that takes you?
Shutdown date according to https://alpha.app.net/: March 15, 2017.

Shutdown date according to http://blog.app.net/2017/01/12/app-net-is-shutting-down/: March 14, 2017.

Which date is correct?
That REPL is awesome and an actual differentiating factor.

I grew to web programming with Rails and Django, and trying out PHP (where to my knowledge nothing comparable exists, or apparently even could exist) for a few years felt like I had entered the stone ages. And that feeling did not pass.
Wow, queuing just to try it, not even to buy it? That's extreme.
The Neo Geo is still popular for all famous arcade games like King of Fighters. And people still play them for competition. You can't really say the same thing for the Super Famicom and the like.

Plus "power does not matter" does not make sense. It worked for Nintendo before. The SUper Famicom was the most powerful console at the time and it sold better than the Megadrive. The N64 did not beat the playstation but it was more powerful 3D-wise but they made the wrong choice to go with cartridges then. Nevertheless the N64 sold well and had very good games too.

The started dropping the ball with the Gamecube in terms of Raw Power - it was not better than the Xbox or the PS2 or at least not significantly to make any difference. And guess what, this is when Iwata was leading the design of the console. He is at the root of "we don't care about graphics, old-gen is the best". It did not work well. Even the Wii was not so much of a success- they sold a lot of hardware but very few games per system. Most consumers bought it for Wii Sports and left it at that and most units collected dust soon within a year of purchase.
All due to Nvidia's influence. Hopefully this will make the hardware more compelling to 3rd party studios.
Creepy cool. In a good way. Super impressive and thanks for making the repo public!
The two elder people at the end that play with Mario are about the same proportion as Mario. So what do you mean?

But for a second you see that the New York level is really just a few city blocks. And all the skyscrappers are just a background skybox. So the city level is Mario level kind of small, not a complete city like in Lego City Undercover.

Overall the new Super Mario finally returns to the Mario 64 and Galaxy kind of real 3D gameplay. I personally did't like the isometric 2.5D style simplified 3DS and WiiU Mario World games.
I've made https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto/issues/519 for this particular issue, along with a sample way of calling out the important Client struct for each service. Thanks for the idea!
For sure. Also smoking is the most obnoxious and invasive to the people around you.
You could use a cubic meter of solution and store the heat underground then use a heat pump to extract it. But that could be also done directly by heating the ground using excess solar. Lye seems better suited for daily storage - store during the day, extract at night. Mostly useful in the desert or during the spring/fall when day/nught temperature variations are high and solar irradiation is good enough.
> In practice I much prefer having my current library in my pocket at all times.

This. Once I got a Kindle, I actually read more. Because you know it's convenient and has a build in light. Spotify let's you publish/share playlists, so that's also sorted.

The only issue I have is that you don't really own anything. I just de-DRM Kindle books and assume that the availability of songs I like to listen to will increase in the future because royalties will cost less for older songs. Who knows what I'll be listening to in 10 years time?

I'd also say not having a collection of <x> as a proxy for <personality trait y> has made my house more welcoming, less pretentious and makes moving easy. Not saying that you can't have a collection for pure enjoyment, or that everybody who has one is compensating, but if you think your collections "says something about you", it probably does but not in the way you want.
Same. I tried Spotify recently but the compression is awful - I prefer FM to Spotify's awful compression. What.cd had most content in V0 as well as lossless.
My favorites are:

Human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdb4XGVTHkE

Earthlings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZUuR1Udno

Samsara: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/
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I try to use Bandcamp whenever I can. Most bands make their music available to stream for free on there and you're able to play their albums straight. There's no playlists or queue for songs but you can buy the music you like for relatively cheap to support the bands. I don't think the Bandcamp cut is that deep on the transactions either.

You won't find many, if any, big names on there but I see it as a great service for independent music. They also have discovery pages to explore genres.

It takes some work to use but I at least don't feel like I'm cheating bands on it.
Oh for fuck's sake Nintendo. Just put all the NES and SNES games on a little ARM box, sell if for 100 bucks and watch the money pour in.

// ThatPlayer: Of course not, but they could make deals for the popular ones, etc.
By definition contrarian ideas are pretty harmless, since pursuing an idea in a society that disagrees with you is like pushing a boulder up a hill. The results are also very hard to predict - sometimes you think about the weird behaviour of light and set the stage for the atomic bomb, and other times you start out making explosives for Nazi Germany and end up feeding the third world. Finally, they can be the product of their environment as much as a single intellect, as with Newton/Leibniz. For those reasons, which make genuinely contrarian ideas unpredictable and unstoppable, I think trying to prevent them is a bit of a red herring.

Peter Thiel isn't like Haber or Einstein, because most of his potentially dangerous ideas are only contrarian in our little bubble. When he challenges democracy, he's on the side of millennia of kings and queens and emperors and chieftains, as well as everyone who has ever said "if I were king for a day..."; when he manages to be the highest profile Trump supporter in the tech world, he is backed by nearly half the voters in America; when he says that a monopoly is exactly what a company should aim for, a great many CEOs and HN readers privately nod. His genuinely contrarian ideas aren't frightening, they're considered laughable, which is why the media mocks him so much for seasteading and "vampirism".
Yes, I also think Nvidia played a key role in it. They saved time on reinventing the wheel with their Tegra chip and used existing Vulkan driver for it. At the same time, why can't AMD do the same with others? They should convince Sony to use Vulkan in the new PS#.
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I posted this because I'd like feedback from anyone who's used it before and information about any other alternatives. I really like the concept of peer to peer lending.