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If 1-4% of the Eurasian genome comes from Neanderthals, but sub-Saharan Africans have no Neanderthal genes, does that mean that the EA genome differs from the SSA one by 1-4%? And even more so the Melanesian genome, which has 4-6% Denisovan DNA. But at the same time, chimpanzees and humans supposedly share over 99% of their genome. How is that possible? Are these all percentages of the same whole, or is there something else going on?
On which TV's does this interface run? Or how can i check it? I didnt know it was HTML on TV interfaces.
Wat!
(Or Solaris SMF)
Aboriginal genocide? In Australia? Is this even a thing?
Thanks, I was just wondering why the OP didn't compare Rax to Inferno.
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The article's full of them! That wheel doesn't need reinventing.

I get that you like Git's UI, or at least don't mind it. That's fine. Others feel differently. That's fine too.
systemd session handling is also particularly joyful to debug.
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Honestly, I think calling something "a social construct" is meaningless political rhetoric.

If humans and Neanderthals interbreed for a long enough period without annhiliating each other through war, wouldn't their offspring converge over time?

Some ethnicities are more susceptible to certain diseases. Is that a social construct?
Good points. His position must have been tenuous anyway as it was a requirement of Cambridge that all Fellows become ordained Anglican priests. Newton only avoided this by special exemption from Charles II and it is not likely that he could afford to be exposed as breaking other regulations. Maybe this is part of the reason he was so reluctant to publish, he may have wondered if his physical reasoning could be construed as somehow against the prevailing religious beliefs of the time, especially when you see the approbation Newton's intellectual predecessor Galileo suffered for his new physics.
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Awesome, just in time for Britain to leave and for it to no longer apply to us. :(
Did you check the original images or the downscaled ones on the website?
Of course I don't. But Mum's job was to stay at home, look after the kids and have dinner on the table at 6pm. That was a very gendered households, not uncommon at the time.

Are you saying that this gendered language should continue?
For every age we will surely have a bogeyman in our impact, whether it's urban streets covered in manure, excessive smog, food shortages, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer, or climate change.

The point in reading a text like this shouldn't be to be scared, but to assert yourself towards whatever the empirical evidence shows will improve matters. After all, there's no trick that will let you escape this fate, whatever it is.
Plenty of the "separate" components share core code at compile time. If they were truly separate they could be downloaded piecemeal and compiled independently.
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Inferno is gonna be really tough to beat, at least for non-keyed implementations. We don't have a keyed implementation from them, so it's hard to say exactly how they do there, but i dont doubt that it'll be at or near the top. For now kivi is likely the fastest possible but the way you have to write your code with kivi is rather unpleasent. However, the whole point of kivi was to push the perf boundaries, not to be useable directly.

At the end of the day, there are numerous <= 15KB libs that come within 3%-15% of Inferno, so the perf and size difference is really becoming secondary to lib ergonomics and features.

If you wanna read a lot more of our convo, head over to: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5m2u0s/infernoj...
In an ideal world, you won't need MOOCs. One thing I keep repeating is:

Make > Learn > Read

Where Make = Actually working on a project, Learn is actively learning a topic (via a course or a book you're following), and Read is just reading through books or online guides.

This has served me well as a guide, however it doesn't apply neatly to all areas. Invest in Skills, not Credentials.
I switched to mostly Safari when I got the new MacBook Pro because I understood that there were efficiencies built in that would maximise battery life. Not sure how large a difference if any there really is. In any case I get a few hours when all I'm doing is light browsing. No Atom open, etc. Which is for me OK as I'm usually not away from a socket for very long.

The figure of 15.x hours, however, seems completely unbelievable to me.
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There is change and there is change.
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I like and use Play Music, but find their recommendation engine to be less great. The channels work a bit differently, too.
IIRC, they always try to sell their consoles at a profit, unlike the other companies in this space. It's part of why the Wii was such an amazing success for them (combined with their successful Blue Ocean strategy[0]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01299
They could be deleting encryption keys to the tapes? All speculation.
How did they try to screw you? If you resign you withdraw most of your termination rights surely, as you are the one terminating yourself.
Am I the only one finding it weird that they call it a render engine?
Besides being an indicator of inefficiency, RAM uses a lot of power. In the region of 10-20% of overall system power. That's not even factoring swap space into account, which is a greater burden on power.
I am also in the middle ground, but I have moved from the opposite direction. I used to like systemd a lot, especially for its simple unit files (compared to ugly System V shell scripts) and the fact that it could properly track processes and restart them on failure.

I have become a bit more skeptical, because most of the problems that I recently had seemed to be related to systemd. Including some networking problems, long boot delays because systemd decides to wait 90 seconds be default on some conditions that it considers to be errors, and problems such as having to restart systemd-logind manually because of some d-bus update [1]. Before the update, logging in via SSH blocked for a large amount of time.

The most annoying part is that some of the problems take quite a bit of work to debug due to the opaque nature of modern systemd/d-bus/...-based systems.

[1] https://major.io/2015/07/27/very-slow-ssh-logins-on-fedora-2...
Pandora did it first, and not just by a few years.
networkd doesn't know about wpa_supplicant, just as it doesn't know about openvpn, vpnc, ...

If you want a network manager that does know about those and might give more helpful error messages if they fail, use for example NetworkManager.
> people who disagree with me politically

Problem is, the truth is pretty hard to determine based on the usual suspects (studies, facts etc):

"I worry that most smart people have not learned that a list of dozens of studies, several meta-analyses, hundreds of experts, and expert surveys showing almost all academics support your thesis – can still be bullshit." -- http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-s...

Yikes. what we really need is to discuss the practicality of citing studies performed by third-parties, and of trying to "prove" truth individually rather than collect evidence over time, as a community.

> do it with compassion and generosity of spirit

This is just good-faith, and it needn't be "compassion and generosity" which can easily be abused.
Don't think it's really about privacy in this case. I mean how can anyone seriously be a Twitter user and caring about their privacy.

Would be like standing in the town square screaming your thoughts into a loud speaker then being upset that everyone knows what your thinking.
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F-Zero GX I still play quite often (agonisingly badly, but at the moment I'm still a bit better at it than my kids are). I'd love to see another F-Zero.

Also of course the two excellent Zelda games. What a fab console.
At least you are not an AI struggling to understand human communication.
> The University of Mississippi grows and harvests cannabis for studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, yet because NIDA's congressionally mandated mission is to research the harmful effects of controlled substances and stop drug abuse, the institute isn't interested in helping establish marijuana as a medicine.

http://www.popsci.com.au/science/why-its-so-hard-for-scienti...
>>>Flexible: the increasing number of LibreOffice users deploying the software on different hardware platforms (for instance, a desktop and a laptop)

Er... speaking of "different platforms". Have you heard of this thing called "mobile"? Apparently it's going to be quite popular soon. Might want to get on board with that!

For those of you who missed the sarcasm:

Way back before Microsoft had even toyed with releasing Word for mobile and Google Docs was a barely usable web app, LibreOffice announced they were working on a mobile version of LibreOffice. Users were excited. It seemed like a real opportunity for LibreOffice to exploit the newly burgeoning mobile apps market and gain bucket-loads of new users. Also, this was all taking place about the time various local governments and authorities were starting to insist on 'open' document formats for their documentation and some were moving away from .doc to .odf.

So LibreOffice really couldn't have had the cards stacked more in their favour if they'd dealt them themselves. Their discussion forums were full of LibreOffice users, urging them to grasp this opportunity and pledging that they'd be willing to pay for a LibreOffice mobile app.

What did LibreOffice do?

They released a completely pointless "me too!" cloud app that was subscription-based and could only store LibreOffice documents and nothing else —which was coupled with an equally useless and crippled 'read-only' viewer. This was while Dropbox, Google Drive and Sky Drive [as was] were all bringing out mobile apps which offered free cloud storage for any type of file.

Fast forward several years and LibreOffice still haven't released a mobile version. In the mean-time Microsoft have brought a pretty impressive version of Office to mobile and Google have improved Google Docs mobile so much that many people use that instead of even bothering with a dedicated office suite.

And now, even at this late stage, when the game is probably lost, but there might just be some slight hope, what do LibreOffice do?...

They excitedly announce they've invented "UI preferences!!!!11" and hired some team of 'creatives' to come up with a torturously contrived acronym and a picture of a bun, to accompany it. All announced in a press release which thinks "a range of platforms" still only means "desktop and laptop".

It would be laughable, it wasn't so sad.
Always felt like a case where they bought the domain name for another reason then one day decided to build a twitter clone.

Branding wise is made absolutely no sense.
I don't think the kernel has a session concept that corresponds to the session concept of PAM or systemd. (Yes, PAM also has sessions.)

It has some sort of sessions for processes, but that is just something sharing the same name, not the same concept.
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You don't invent an entirely new hinge mechanism, a completely new keyboard mechanism and integrate an entire computer subsystem with touch based interface, together with thorough updates to all your software to support it, in a product you're neglecting.

The only credible criticism I've seen of the new MBP is that it's limited to 16 GB RAM and that's because that's the maximum limit of low profile RAM the Intel mobility processors support. That should change this year.

For the iMac, the move to 5K and wide colour gamut were huge upgrades. I think they bought themselves a few more months of runway on those, given the paucity of Intel's roadmap over the last year.

The real pain is with the Mac Pros. The situation there is just plain embarrassing. But looking at the Mac as a whole, Apple has been pouring in innovation and attention to detail. No other manufacturer is coming close to the level of effort going into their systems. Contrast the Surface line with bought-in commodity touch tech and clunky component choices (5400 rpm hard drives? Really?).
It's 10 lines of shell code to do it badly. Poor Man's Dæmon Supervisors written as shell scripts are inevitably flawed in one way or another. It is, however, easy to do with one of the many toolsets that have been around since the 1990s for doing this.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html

One of the exhibits in the systemd House of Horror results from people taking multiple Poor Man's Dæmon Supervisors written badly in shell script, nesting them inside one another, nesting the result inside another service manager, and then recommending against service management in toto because this madness goes badly wrong.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/systemd-house-of-horror/wso2.html
Of course nobody benchmarked. Rarely are there programmers in OSS these days that benchmark anything. (not nearly as common as those who claim "speed")

There was a bug though where the journaling was so slow it caused the whole server to crash. (sorry, can't find it right now; something about them using mmaped files and the access pattern was.. or something, interesting stuff:)

Binary logs should be faster, in theory, and should/could be as robust as text logs (if not more), in theory. edit: note that GNU grep is insanely optimized.
I used to live about ~20 minutes out of town by bike (Netherlands). My friends used to say that the biggest problem with coming by to play F-Zero is that the bike ride home always felt so ridiculously slow afterwards.
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Sir, if you were superior you would not have written "more superior than"! A neanderthal would simply have written "superior to". I tell ya, these homo sapiens they come over here they take our jobs, talk all foreign and mangle our grammar. When I were a lad all this were pygmy and dinosaurs.
I'm in the US but I've had employer's hold on to final paychecks out of spite and refuse to payout vacation time. My state department of labor took care of it after a few months.
Use "-std=c++14" unless you need the gnu extensions for it to build, that ensures that you don't accidentally introduce non-portable code.
Very informative.
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In 20 years, I've owned 3 washing machines. I dealt with maybe 3 or 4 malfunctions over those 20 years, and each of them required only buying some spare part and installing it, or cleaning something inside.

Surely this kind of reliability is a good trade-off Vs having to pour some detergent for each wash?
There's tons of people here on HN that know this stuff by heart, but as far as I understood:

1) I guess so, the blockchain contains the bitcoin transactions.

2) In order to add a block to the blockchain, you need to mix the block's fingerprint with a random value and shake, hoping for the mix to get a special and very recognisable appearance. If it doesn't work, you have to try a new random number (the block's fingerprint of course stays the same). When you've found a good number (which takes a lot of tries and luck) you raise a flag and say "hey, found it", and you can add your block to the chain. Then you're rewarded with some amount of bitcoins that are created from nothing (hence mined). I don't have clear how this reward is granted, whether it's already written in the block you're trying to add or in a new one, and in which form.
> The GPUs should be on boards like they are on the current MacPro and attached to the monumental heatsink

This is the exact problem with the trashcan, it's a computer made for GPU computation (one of the trashcans GPUs isn't even hooked up to the display it's purely for computation) yet you are stuck with proprietary versions of GPUs that run the wrong sort of code.

Almost the entire GPU computing community works on CUDA, the trashcan cards don't run CUDA and because they're proprietary they can't be upgraded.

The right solutions are either this design or one where there is a heatsink+liquid cooling bracket system where you can attach a GPU after taking the stock cooler off to. Which is also very common thing to do for people in GPU computing. The latter invalidates your warranty so this design actually makes sense.
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Thanks leromi! I was trying to solve my personal problem here, as usual: my favorite site once asked me to whitelist them in ad blocker. I did so as I wish them to be there tomorrow. After struggling for a few days, I couldn't help reverting the change, feeling guilty. But thank-u works perfectly for me to fix it. I wonder if it will be accepted to solve torrent problems and copyright in general.
My UK ISP (BT) has this:

"Access to the websites listed on this page has been blocked pursuant to orders of the high court.

More information can be found at www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk”

They do at least tell you which organisation applied for the blocking order at http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk
The way to use it is for preprogrammed playlists. If you want some Christmas music or jazz music or classical for the background, they've got something, with no commercials. Or you might use the playlist to discover a thing or two. It's worthless for finding a specific piece of music on demand.

I would never pay for Prime Music on its own but it's a nice throw-in. I can also see why it would be good to have with an Amazon Echo.
> It's not tearing, it's called affine swim, and on PC is a tell tale sign of a software renderer.

I've never hear the term "affine swim" before. Is it an artifact in rasterization (leaving gaps between triangles) or texturing (the term "affine" suggests that)?

For the rasterization, I've heard the term "watertight rasterization" (or airtight?) being used for a gapless rasterizer. It's not necessarily a software vs. hardware render issue, you can implement a watertight software rasterizer (of course) but I guess in the 1990s this was a performance vs. fidelity issue. And even with early 3d accelerators, the vertex processing was still done in the CPU.
There was a talk about the backup infrastructure. The speaker talked about the issue of keys, but didn't provide specific details:

http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/3/how-google-backs-up...
> BTW sorry for the ramble :0

No, that is the best kind of ramble. Thank you for the interesting and thought-provoking comment!
Sapiens by Yuval Harari defines "human" as "any member of the genus Homo". I don't know how common or accepted this definition is.

It could become problematic if, as has been suggested, some or all of the other great apes are reclassified as Homo rather than Pan, Gorilla or Pongo.
Personalized searches can at least be disabled. AMP on the other hand, not.
These technologies are existing since 115 years (heat pump) and have been mass produced in the 1950.

The article is unwillingly misleading. It is not new technology per se, it is an improvement on a very old technology that is as simple as the Sterling engine.

Britain (France) has been a massive adopter of this, having a paradoxal effect on aggravating the power peak in the morning inducing the use of coal plants to be massively used in the morning to face this peak since pump were electricity driven.

But with mechanical wind mill, or solar power maybe they could finally become green.

As usual evil lies in the details, and most new new techs are deceptive because we lack knowledge. This is an old tech, and we know the trap.
another +1 for speedy doggy

that title will definitely catch my eye a lot more

just make sure it achieves 5 stars next to it's name too ...

good luck!
Would it be OK to publish criticism of Chomsky's work in linguistics 3 years later when Chomsky shook hands with the leader of Hezbollah, which targets civilians and children in its offensive operations? Or would Chomsky's standing as an intellectual have gone up at that moment because Hezbollah targets the right kind of civilians and children? Which political views should shield a scientist from criticism in their own field? If you can tell, I'm sure many will rush to adopt those views, and great benefits to science will follow.
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> Typically the best games on the whole platform.

Also perhaps the only worthwhiles games on Nintendo's consoles.
Sure, I do hope that those scientists are not totally irresponsible.

Still another heat exchanger will further lower the efficiency of the system. In my experience (maybe a tad bit dated) common heat exchangers (water/water) are difficult to maintain as - generally speaking - the most efficient ones have smaller passages for the liquid and they tend to become clogged and it is "normal" to clean them periodically.

I have no idea how large must be a heat exchanger (where one of the fluids is lye) to be efficient enough, considering also that the temperature is relatively low, but most probably it won't be exactly "compact".
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> "analog" shoulder buttons

I think they also introduced the "click" if you pushed all the way down. Such a satisfying, IBM Model M-esque feeling.
The Witcher 3 is much more open world than Uncharted 4. I don't think this is a matter of optimising for the specific hardware, it is mainly the trade-offs inherent in a large open world game vs a linear game with small well defined levels. They each optimise for different values.
This tells something about usability... I remember we tried some automated testing, got it going but it sure aint anywhere near as intuitive as it could and should be...
Automation will create countless jobs.

How? Take retail as an example.
Sure, an online store is cheaper to set up and run. Until every company has a web shop and you need to advertise to drive traffic, requiring a large ad budget and a marketing team just for digital. E-commerce becomes table stakes, and how you really stand out as a brand today is by opening physical stores that improves customer experience and brand.

In the same way, automation will cut jobs until it is ubiquitous. Then, searching for competitive advantage, firms will find new ways of adding value and hire people to do so.
Poor people are more susceptible to certain diseases than rich people. That doesn't stop money being a social construct.
Different kind of TV interface, but still: I have a Sony 46HX853 and it really bugs me that after turning it on from standby it still takes many seconds before it will respond to the input select button on the remote. UI responsiveness from startup will definitely be on my list of things to test the next time I buy a TV.
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I find it interesting that the "solution" to the scientific question if all living humans are the same species is to claim that all the ancestors of living people belong to the same species despite all the genetic evidence saying otherwise.

Rather than deny reality, the alternative would be to say that current populations are not the same species, but that the differences are unimportant. Why does it matter if we are not all the same species if the differences are minor?
>The word 'cat' will hash to something that no other word hashes too, but it will always hash to the same thing.

Don't hashing functions have collisions?
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Where can I get a PS4 with a game for £200?
Or just power your house from the car parked in the garage?
Not to mention that some sites will block you if using a VPN :(.
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That includes wolves.