skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really no big deal biologically. Think of DNA as the actual code and of chromosomes as the modules/files that hold it. The man in question still has all the "code" that a normal human has except some of those modules got accidentally concatenated. It is sort of irrelevant to individual survival (except for reproduction/future generation) how the code is organized as long as it is present in its entirety.

Similar events happen all the time. I worked at a clinical genetics lab for a while, and some tests that were performed (FISH analysis) tested for whether a fragment of one chromosome is "embedded" within another. The term is chromosomal translocation. Apparently there are quite a few translocations that are completely benign and happen all the time. Usually the bigger the translocation, the higher the chance that something goes wrong. However, when an entire chromosome is translocated, the boundaries of one of the chromosomes remain intact, so there is no surprise that it happens.
I wonder how many people harbour strange genetic surprises like this. How many of you have had a karyotype made, let alone a complete DNA analysis?
Is Your Company Geek-Compatible – Meetings (part 3 of 5)
If you're going to change the font-size, at least increase the density while you're at it. Google+ displays 3 stories in the space that Facebook can fit 5 or 6 just from the whitespace alone.
It's often good to look at how other companies do things to see if it's out of the ordinary. Turns out this line is extremely common. Google, for example:

You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in
Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a
perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive
license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly
perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit,
post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the
sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the
Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the
Additional.

http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS

Also, Drew and Arash just posted an update to the blog with clarified language: http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846
It's kind of like doing a 'merge' in a repository. If you take a module and split it into two modules, it can become difficult for the merge tool to piece it back together even though the code is still there. I hadn't thought of genes or chromosomes like this before the article which is what makes it so interesting I think.
So much speculation. Interesting to see what this year's PDC will reveal. WPF seems less and less relevant everyday. Sounds like MS would rather make C++ and Silverlight better than promote/fix WPF.

I think the whole "sky is falling" hysteria around HTML apps in Win8 is uncalled for. .NET isn't going anywhere and you better bet that these new HTML apps will interface with .NET libraries.

As a SL/XAML developer, I'm much more interested in seeing how MS will improve the work flow of developing with XAML. Right now the work flow is still very awkward and Expression Blend simply sucks. MS has no more excuses. Blend is currently testing version 5. They've had five tries to get it right. XAML is way too fragile and breaks way too easily. Nevermind hand-editing XAML. It's too easy to produce broken XAML with Blend. Making the XAML visible is a crutch, not a feature, because you have to constantly fix/cleanup the resulting XAML. Reminds me of cleaning up Frontpage produced HTML.
If you're banking on science fiction life extension technology rather than planning for a time, frighteningly few decades from now, that your eyes, fingers, and mind won't be able to keep up with the demands of work anymore, the odds are still quite against you.
The trouble is that most of the other services can be improved by access to the social graph. And since Facebook isn't likely to share the social graph with Google, Google have to build their own. The driving force for the change was a company wide belief that Facebook would eventually make Google, by offering competing services that was superior because they had access to the social graph.

Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...

That is also why Google+ is everywhere (and why it was named Google+). It is Google plus the added value you can get from social graph. The +You part of the service itself is not the main point, even though it of course provides some potential ad space.

Yes, there are potential anti-trust issues. They can be seen as somewhat analogous to Microsoft bundling IE with Windows. That gave Microsoft a lot of trouble at the time, but today few would question that a consumer OS should include a web browser. Bill Gates saw where personal computing were headed, and reacted rationally.

Maybe search (and friends) can stay competitive without access to the social graph. I don't know. But Google don't believe so.
Google will even ignore terms in quotation marks these days.
"Humans have 46 while chimpanzees (and many other great apes) have 48... Over time, people with 46 chromosomes won out over people with 48."

Well guys, I think we found the future of the human race.
I hope they ask for a huge amount like $1 billion, so they never dare to censor like that again. Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and others set a bad precedent then by becoming the Government's private arm in censorship of the Internet. In many cases the Government can't censor directly, so they get companies to do it for them. That must not happen again.
more insane valuations
A frankensolution like that would in no way be superior to using canvas.
More creeped out than Facebook? No, definitely not. The kind of data Facebook sells to advertisers is MUCH more private than the kind of data Google sells to advertisers.
I would also recommend reading hginit.com, a really good hg tutorial from Joel Spolsky.
Google completely ignores single quotes, but strings enclosed in double quotes are searched for about as I'd expect.... minus the punctuation.

For instance, search for a phrase like

'imag' leader

You get "Showing results for 'image' leader. Search instead for 'imag' leader."

Change them to double quotes, and it actually finds "imag". Google suggests "Did you mean: "image" leader", but does not automatically change the search as in the other instance.

However, search for something like "image.url", and it is the same as searching for "image url" (not imageurl). Google appears to replace the '.' with a space.
> They [Google] have ten times more potential for evil than Microsoft ever dreamed of having in the nineties.

I disagree - Can you clarify why you think so?
You see, Google is probably the most vulnerable of the tech giants: If users stop visiting their sites for <i>whatever</i> reason, they'll die. It's really easy to switch to an alternative if you don't like what Google does, and Google even promotes this ease because they think people will be more willing to try out their services (think about the DLF team).

Microsoft, Apple or Facebook on the other hand, have already sold their product, and now the consumer depends on <i>them</i>. MS, Apple and fb sell products that tie people into their services once they buy into them. After that, they don't have to care what Joe thinks about their business practices anymore, and can therefore act almost any way they want.

I get the impression that the folks at Google actually take their unofficial motto "Don't be evil" seriously, but even if I'm mistaken I don't have to be scared - Google would quickly be out of business if they piss consumers off. And they know it.
See, I wouldn't trust say my source code to AT&T or Facebook. I already get a fishy feeling with them having some of my pictures.

Drop Box on the other hand is a private data storage service (at least I thought they were) - where I expect to be confident with them having my sensible data. Such TOS additions are just undermining any trust I might still have to them (after their "encryption" and password fiasco).
First "startup" was a music company I made which lasted 1996-1998. I had been composing music since 1994ish and got really good so decided to get a few people and make a music company. That is, multiple "artists".

We actually got quite popular on the Internet but then I got a girlfriend.
Decentralised Currencies Are Probably Impossible
I hold an unpopular opinion that lawyers and lawsuits are a great way to motivate companies to "do the right thing", where in this case the "right thing" we're talking about is protecting customer data.

Another great motivator for doing the right thing is knowing that customers will vote with their wallets. Unfortunately this isn't always a strong enough motivation because some markets don't have enough competition, or the cost and hassle of changing the companies you do business with is too high. (Don't you wish customers had left AT&T in droves over the NSA spying ordeal?)

That's where another force comes into play, which is government regulation. I lean libertarian, and although I think some regulation is an absolute necessity (especially on environmental issues) my preference is to have the least amount of regulation necessary. That brings us back to the attorneys. When a company like Sony screws up and exposes their customers' data, I'd rather see them get their pants sued off than have the government step in and regulate. Fear of being sued is a much more compelling reason to "do the right thing" than fear of breaking a law, which might only get you a slap on the wrist.

Do frivolous lawsuits exist? Yes, and they piss me off like the next person. Do scumball attorneys exist? Yes, and I hate them like you do. Ironically, I think some of this problem could be solved with new laws, but I haven't really thought about it enough to more specific. (Maybe something along the lines of the loser having to pay the the other side's legal fees, but I can also argue against that from ten angles. I really haven't spent enough time thinking about how to minimize frivolous lawsuits to feel like I can say anything intelligent about it, other than to say that I bet something can be done.)

Anyway, my point is that companies have different forces that can/should/do motivate them to provide data security, and the threat of lawsuit is an excellent one, right up there with fear of losing customers and fear of government regulation. Too much of any one of these forces is bad, but we wouldn't have a healthy mix without attorneys and their lawsuits.
I, as mostly everyone else, was not paying attention to Opera. I rely on shortcuts, so pentadactyl and FF seemed the only way to go. Well, I have to say Opera with vimperopera is better. The shift-arrow navigation is a killer feature.

M2, the mail client, actually makes me open gmail much less...
The reason not to use underscores is because people don't understand them. I learned this the hard way back in the late nineties the first time I set up an email account for a business. I chose yyy_architects@emailhost.com instead of using a dash because of the connotations the underscore carried regarding computer programming conventions. Then I enjoyed the opportunity to explain over the phone exactly which key was required to correctly type our email address many many times. [Stylized conversation]

It's an underscore not a dash
Huh?
It's the the same key as the dash, only hold shift.
Huh?
See the dash key?
Yeh.
Just hold shift when you press it.
Huh?
Do you have our fax number?

That's why you don't use underscores in a URL. Of course, today nobody uses dashes either if they can help it.
The way that DepthJS works is through three technologies: libfreenect[1], OpenCV[2] and then a simple Tornado (push) server. libfreenect is what grabs all of the data from the Kinect device and OpenCV is the 'interpreter'. This translates to just getting events such as 'move' in the browser.

[1] http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

[2] http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
In principle it's a good idea. There is a problem with this particular set, though. The icons are represented by ordinary characters like "A", which is confusing for users without webfonts, or on screenreaders. Some of this can be fixed by remapping the font to more appropriate characters, but you may not want to go to that much trouble.
Not all academic fields are so subjective. In math, science, engineering, and so on, it's entirely normal to build a good or bad reputation based on the actual quality of your work.

(Full disclosure: about a year ago, I came to the conclusion that Zizek was full of shit, and that his main real skills were sounding profound, avoiding testable claims of any consequence, and getting other people to venerate him. I can't remember the specifics, though, so take this with the usual salt grain.)
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Ask HN: What tricky questions you were asked during Ruby/Rails interview?
For folks who were interviewed for Ruby (and Rails) developer positions: what technical questions you were asked? Especially the ones that involved writing some code. Like algorithm/data structure puzzles or something like this (taken from rubyinside)

"Take the result from http://api.twitter.com/version/statuses/public_timeline.json and output an array that meets the following criteria:

has usernames as elements

that has the text 'Ruby' somewhere in the tweet

ordered by follower count of user who posted"
TL;DR blogrolls aren't useful to me so I hereby declare them to be outdated.
I wish there was more information for potential residents. What is involved, what do I owe in return, etc. This could potentially be right up my alley (and a saving grace), but without more information it's tough to say...
Interesting scenario, but what happens to RIM's investment in QNX?

Abandoned like Nokia's investment in Meego?
Google doesn't sell any data to other companies, only fb does.
Of course they would have the same genes as other humans, just distributed on less chromosomes. For all practical matters, they would be indistinguishable from 46-chromosome humans.
This article has the best summary of what the different social functions Facebook, Tmblr and Twiter provide.
They've updated the blog post to clarify some stuff.
Agreed, not just Samsung and HTC but also the likes of LG and Sony are better positioned to wind up as Android top dog.
It's going to work for about a year, then when there is a security failure the company will turn around run git/svn blame and sue the individual employee. Hopefully the laws would be written so that when you post security best practices in your TOS and the customer does not follow them the liability can be mitigated (eg. don't reuse passwords on multiple sites)

Re: AT&T where are they going to go? T-Mobile?
Then I misunderstood DP when I signed up. I thought it was a nice way to keep some files in sync on multiple computers. Didn't expect it to become the facebook of text documents ...
Matt Cutts
https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts

He's sharing a lot of links.
I remember seeing news broadcasters in the 90s that didn't know how to pronounce the '@' symbol. So while I find your story all too plausible, I have a hard time believing that people still don't know how to type an '_'.
The meta-problem here is automatically determining how to allocate tasks among different types of processors in a large, heterogeneous data center. There are workloads for which wimpy cores have a serious advantage, and ones where they don't fare as well. Also, assigning jobs to cores that aren't perfectly suited for them may still be a good idea if you need to meet load spikes. The profiling and scheduling could be tricky, but for a company the size of Google, it could save a lot of power and money.
Samsung drops US countersuit to focus on Apple patent defense
i agree.

any reasonably complete unicode font should already include many of those glyphs. for the glyphs that aren't in the unicode standard, there are private use areas that could accommodate them.
WorldBank prides itself on carrying almost no internal IT staff, and outsource the bulk of their rather large IT infrastructure.

In my opinion, this leads to a disconnect in that the people who would be exposing the data via APIs likely don't have the understanding of how the data might be processed as it isn't a part of their business function.

Long-term IT contracts typically bridge that gap eventually, which I am only guessing is how they're able to expose the data effectively now, if in fact they can.
Tom Anderson: Google+ makes Google a better, more integrated set of services
Go Daddy Sold For $2.25 Billion.
Dropbox Communism: what was only yours, now it's everybody's
Thank you Lance. I needed to read that.
There were not any ads, so why have this article on two pages.
Jeff McWeeney : http://McWeen.com - Very down to earth guy, very affordable, a very impressive portfolio. An expert at listening to the customer.
So if we discovered the last Tasmanian Tiger out in the wild somewhere then it wouldn't count as a species any more because it's the last one and... aww, this is too nitpicky a semantic debate even for me.
> Google has pretty much all my private and professionell emails already so there is little left they could find out about me through Google+ that I'm worried about.

That's the point: why is Google interested in the social graph? They already have GMail, they can scrape twitter… what do they need G+ for?

To me, the conclusion is that they do this to crush FB, which they might perceive as a threat. Or, the other idea is that they might just want to extend their brand to encompass more of the consumer market. More adspace, and the likes…
"But, let’s face it, no one discovers blogs through blogrolls any more."

This is only true in certain parts of the techie world. There are lots of bloggers who discover each other primarily through blogrolls, and only connect on Twitter, etc. afterwards.
Business meetings
At the risk of turning into reddit:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/secondgryphon/Sket...
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. I agree the demand has to come from the consumer end first no matter how hard devs push out.
No it doesn't. It gives them license to use your stuff as required to provide the service.
Zizek is highly interesting and entertaining.

Many of his articles are collected here: http://www.lacan.com/frameziz.htm
It's interesting to consider how the ancestors of modern humans who first had 46 chromosomes became dominant. It could have been due to simple genetic drift, maybe the family with the translocation had a high number of offspring by chance for generation after generation, until it became a significant portion of the population of the early hominids.

More likely, (in my opinion), is that the translocated chromosome itself contained some beneficial alleles (gene versions) that gave its carriers an edge. This has nothing to do with the translocation itself, it just so happens that that particular chromosome could have a version of a gene (or versions of several genes) that increased the carrier's fitness in the environment. Some of theories regarding early hominid evolution cite a movement away from heavily forrested regions into more open grasslands. Maybe this early translocated chromosome contained alleles that were beneficial in the savannas.

At this point you'd have a number of individuals with one copy of the translocated chromosome and 47 total chromosomes (meaning the other homologous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homologous_chromosome) chromosomes are not joined together, "normal") and a number of people who still had the original 48 chromosomes. As the article mentions, only 1/3 of the pregnancies of a 48-chromosome individual with a translocation individual would survive. However, if there was inbreeding present individuals with the translocated chromosome could be mated with each other. Here we have an even less likely chance of a successful pregnancy (8/36 or only 25%) but on the other hand we now have the possibility of individuals with just the translocated chromosome. Instead of a joined chromosome and 2 unjoined chromosomes, these individuals have 2 joined chromosomes and a total of 46 chromosomes.

Now remember that I postulated that the joined (translocated) chromosome could have carried beneficial alleles as opposed to other, unjoined versions. Some of those alleles may be recessive, meaning they'd be eclipsed by other alleles. For an individual with two copies of the translocated chromosome they would only have those recessive alleles, so they wouldn't be as likely to be eclipsed. Again, these recessive alleles may have brought about beneficial traits that weren't expressed in individuals who only had one joined chromosome. Thus, individuals with 46 chromosomes could have had an even higher chance of survival and finding other 46-chromosome individuals, thus continuing this trend.

Anyway, I admit that much of the above is really just guesswork so take it with a grain of salt. I'm primarily exploring the possibilities that could have resulted in the original 48->46 chromosome shift. It was probably a mix of genetic drift, having beneficial alleles, and the founder effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect). Hope you enjoyed it!
I do have a 15" antiglare in my MBP at 1680x1050.

I don't see the point in removing items that don't take up space (e.g. SD). Sure, a GSM slot would be more useful there for many people, but I wouldn't pay more for a machine without that port.

(and I use my ethernet most days)
This article is interesting, but it's really old (2005). There has been discussion about it since then.

Here is an article from 2007 on Matt's blog: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/whitehat-seo-tips-for-bloggers... It says, at that time, Google was looking into making underscores word separators.

Later, in 2009, Matt mentioned in a Google Webmaster Help video that he'd still recommend dashes if you can, but don't worry about it if underscores are working for you. They might still get around to making underscores separators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SFVfDIS5k

As of 6/20/2011, Google still recommended using Dashes in URLs here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
I guess Google didn't have any lisp programmers in the early days!
While translocation is cool, this certainly isn't a novel case and Robertsonian translocations are covered in undergrad genetics courses. Well written if not for the way that it starts off, making it sound like the doctor in China has made a unique discovery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertsonian_translocation
I've been wanting to move back in NYC for a little while but can't do it with my current funding. This could be a pretty good opportunity but the resident form was really basic. I guess they are trying to gauge interest and will send people who are interested a real application once (and if) they get funded?
I particularly wanted to create something that was cross-browser, however there is still the problem of those with older browsers :(
I'm sorry, we only accept bids in dollars, not joule-dollar-seconds, which is what $h would be.
He's one of a whole family of postmodern bullshit artists, similar to lacan, derrida, etc.

Read up on the Sokal hoax if you want to learn more about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair .
I'm rooting for it for rather more personal and selfish reason:

1. I'm a shareholder in GOOG

2. All the Facebook employees I've ever met have been kinda annoying, so I don't want to see those individuals get rich.
Ask HN: How do you keep yourself Organized?
Keeping myself organized is a devil of a problem. I don't default to being organized and I think it really is an asset when it comes to creativity - but alas life demands it. What tools / methods do you use?
Anonymous: ‘We’re Going To Disney World’
Can you offer any criticisms or arguments to support the claim that Slavok is a "bullshit artist," outside of the claim itself, or your own qualifications to so easily dismiss a prominent and respected public intellectual who commands respect and has a severe and extensive resume?