skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will this person have a possibly slightly longer maximum lifespan due having 4 fewer telomeres thanks to the 2 fused chromosomes? It is known that telomere shortening is responsible for aging.

Is there some sort of weak correlation between the lifespan of a species and its number of chromosome?

And is it possibly the reason why 46-chromosome human ancestors prevailed over 48-chromosome human ancestors?

(I am no biologist; these are probably stupid questions.)
10-13: Ran automated java bots which played game characters and gathered currency --> sold virtual currency in bulk --> Made $3000 my first summer "working"

13-17: Established a reputation on well known forums related to virtual goods / gaming --> bought in accounts at a lower rate from retired veteran players --> sold accounts for a premium to players with time constraints but still wanted to exceed in the game --> led to the creation of www.accountsden.com (which is for sale as I've lost the passion; still a profitable, fully functional business model).

17-Current(18):

Wholesale premium vehicles -- purchase directly from Lexus, BMW, Mercedes etc.. auctions as well as leveraging the CDN dollar to import vehicles in to Canada and sell for profit. Can save a buyer $20,000 on a new BMW in Canada in difference of Canadian MSRP.

Launching a niche job classified site targeted towards high turn over jobs/entry level positions. Accommodating the 15-28 age range -- launching within a month.

Want to connect? FB me @ http://facebook.com/mikeho.fb
If we are intelligent agents per Dembski's description of intelligence, then there is a logical proof that we cannot be artificial intelligences.
CSS Techniques for Horizontal Rules
Interesting idea, but the examples seem very awkward. I was expecting an in-page UI instead of an HTML popup. I was expecting a cookie to save my favoured intent for later use so I didn't have to choose a service provider every time I wanted to shorten a link. I was expecting to be returned to my originating page once I was done with the intented service.
Ask HN: Best simple mail server/MTA for a web server?
What's the best mail server to run on a Linux web server for local delivery and delivery of e-mail generated by scripts? I found this old Ask HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240713), but the responses were less than helpful.

I was recently bitten by a supposedly-simple Exim configuration that hasn't been changed in years. My VPS host recently made some datacenter changes, but failed to mention the requirement to change the name servers in /etc/resolv.conf. Since Exim couldn't deliver mail in the face of total DNS failure, and the web server continued to function, I didn't find out about the problem for quite a while. Exim was intended to be using an external SMTP server strictly as a relay for external mail, but instead was sending all mail, including local mail to root and postmaster, through the external server.

The result? Messages from my sites' contact forms (and the resulting delivery failure messages) were discarded rather than winding up in /var/spool/mail/. How did I find out? Google Analytics was showing hits to my contact forms, but I wasn't getting any e-mail.

I've fixed the DNS problem for now, but I don't want to keep using this fail-deadly setup. All I need is something that will forward mail from PHP and Ruby scripts to an external SMTP server, and deliver mail for local users into /var/spool/mail/ or similar. I don't need to receive SMTP, I don't need any custom routing, etc. I don't want to have to manage a full-blown e-mail server. Is there nothing simpler than Postfix, Exim, and Qmail?
I have the impression that experienced Python programmers don't feel comfortable with web2py's controversial (some would call "unpythonic") approaches, like automatic imports or the use or exec.
This is actually something that we can work on over the project, cookies are something I am pushing for, but it would be entirely up to the User Agent.

If you check out the cloud picker for example, it does return you to the original page.

On the subject of in-page UI, at the moment there are too many risks embedded an in-page UI... IMO, also for a non-built in solution we have to deal with popup blockers so it limits what can be done.... However this should be a core part of the web platform soon so the current shim won't be needed.
Um, yeah, whatever. It's your conflict; why do you expect me to resolve it for you?

You can go into complicated justifications or simply believe that the animal should, while alive, be humanely treated. And that it should be killed quickly and as painlessly as possible.

And then enjoy its expertly cooked flesh.
"I'm in a poli-sci department with a bunch of continental political theorists."

Since when is this some kind of feature for quality or authority?
Photos. With good tagging. And now facial recognition.
Turning staff into startups
Contact me at steve@thisisalifestyle.com I will answer your questions to the best of my ability
I meant each type of job; sorry for the ambiguity. So, for example, if you have a job type that is "look over a chunk of text and return term frequencies", you could test this on a few hundred chunks of text, and then use this profiling information to guide the scheduling any other time you run a job of this type.
Correct. The real application will be sent to everyone once we collect a critical mass of interested applicants.
Invites were not random. Google chose those to invite.
I have this problem with nearly every startup mentioned on HN -- it's not that some of them don't have good names -- there's just too many of them. Then, when I have the actual problem that I saw the solution for, they have no SEO yet, so I can't find them by description.

The best solution for this is what Hipmunk is doing -- no way I'd remember it except -- they buy lots of remarketing style ads. I clicked through to the site the first time I heard about it, and I get tons of ads for it all of the time everywhere -- I remember it now.
Haha. That's a valid concern. We are all about work/life balance in the house.
I'd put you on the losing end of those odds.

Google's key to driving adoption is going to be integration of all of their services into Google+, which means that they have very natural and robust funnels for acquiring a userbase, so long as their tools are integrated properly.

Given the money that Google is pouring into this, and the incentive structure for engineers and teams at Google, i have no doubt that they will come up with clever ways to make their tools more social.
Ask HN: Quit my job and learn to code in Thailand for a year?
I currently work as an account manager at a large company and I'm building a web app on the side with a freelance Rails dev. It's always been a goal of mine to work in technology but my career is taking me in the opposite direction. After teaching myself HTML and CSS, I've started learning Rails so I can begin contributing code. The problem is that with my job, progress is slower than I'd like it to be and it will probably be a few months before I achieve basic competency and can do anything useful.

I'm 25 and have a fair amount of cash saved up, no debt, mortgage, or family I'm beholden to. My idea is to take a load of cash, move to Thailand, and live very cheaply as I teach myself to code. Hopefully, after a year, I can come out the other side armed with the knowledge to build whatever I want whenever I want. It'd also be one hell of an adventure; I just got back from a trip to Beijing a few weeks ago and loved it so I'm at least a little familiar with how things work in Asia.

Has anybody in the HN community done anything like this? I'd like to know if I'm completely delusional here or if there are solid points to this idea. Also, would a year be long enough? With no income to speak of I'd have to make my cash last for as long as I'd plan on staying there. Any advice/insights would be appreciated!
The long awaited Espresso 2 is finally available in a beta release. Here’s the announcement: http://macrabbit.com/blog/espresso-goes-kaboom/. CSSEdit, probably the best stand-alone CSS editing app has been rolled into Espresso—no more having to switch between apps when switching between editing HTML and CSS.
Alexa is a estimate and a poor one at that. Quantcast is directly measured.

Anything else?
The $10,000 is not the full cost of the housing. The problem with IndieGoGo is if you don't meet the goals they take a very large percentage. The hope is to exceed the goal by a wide margin. The actual amount will come out to be around $400,000. Most of it will likely be covered by outside financing.

This raise is to directly offset the minimum rent we have to charge to be sustainable. That number is looking to be around 700 - 1000 depending on size of the room, much less than the $50 a day guest room rates. Think of that rate as more of an airbnb deal, but with a lot of extra perks.

Thank you all for your feedback. Hope that clarified some of the confusion.

Regards,
Steve

If you have time I would love to talk to you personally about some of your concerns steve@thisisalifestyle.com
This is a chilling tale. To think that the very act of monitoring Hemingway contributed so directly to his demise.
Well I like postfix and it is fairly easy to setup, from what I have heard exim is as well. With that said you did not have a exim failure, you had a dns failure that broke the delivery of mail because exim could not map host names to ip addresses.

The best way to fix that is with a monitoring setup to check that dns is working. use something like monit or nagios(much heavier) to do a local dns look up on the server box every so often, once every 5 minutes, and get an alert form a different box that does the checking. Another way is to setup a cron job that send you email and filter to a folder put a time stamp in the subject and look at it every so often to see new stuff is there, run job once an hour and filter into a folder
so are you using one of those helper libraries/project django-norel ?
You can try out guys like payoneer.com they offer loadable debit cards worldwide or try to get SWIFT transfer facility with your bank.
One thing you can do to combat the issue is use a templating framework that is multithreaded like mine: http://github.com/spullara/mustache.java It spreads all the requests work over multiple cores so single request latency doesn't suffer when you have a lot of cores.
WikiLove: MediaWiki's Dynamic +1
I'm fine with opinionated filmmaking, and I even agree with much of Moore's messages, but at more moments than I'm comfortable with I find Moore's filmmaking to be dishonest, insincere and deceptive. Very well edited and engaging though, so I wish I could like him.
>Lastly, IANAL, but I doubt promoting one of your products on one of your products is in any way illegal.

Wasn't that the whole issue with the Microsoft anti-trust suit - that Microsoft bundled ("promoted") IE with its other product (Windows)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
How Right Free Auto Classified Can Help You in Getting Your Car 
New car cost in Canada reports which grab a car is providing can be of great significance to those who are intending to buy new car because grab a car is providing some special features which will lead you to a resource house you want at a single place all in one place.
I'm unable to read that post, the font is terrible: http://i.imgur.com/6jrjt.png
Enter

javascript:document.getElementsByClassName('text-block')[0].contentEditable=true

into your address field and you can edit the isometric text! Pretty neat.
Perhaps that's why there is a FastVM fork?
Theoretically, it could do, at least in this case, I think? Very risky to rely on that though! I doubt compiler writers have people who haven't heard of the switch statement in mind when they decide which optimizations to put in.

(The "fast" branch uses a switch statement - I guess the author is going for minimum number of lines in this one? I'm not sure saving 2-3 lines compared to a squeezed-together switch statement is a great tradeoff, though. You could get better results by just putting everything in one source file. Easier deployment, too. I bet it wouldn't affect readability significantly.)
As the proprietor of http://cleverna.me, I can confirm this. No-one reads my blog. At least, anyone who does isn't pulling down the analytics script.
I'm a co-founder of Ninite. We hear this a lot, but I don't think it's a big deal. Traffic has been growing well since we launched and we install 1,000,000 apps every week now.

The real problem is that there's not really a term for what we do. The key part in all these stories is that even searching for us is hard. We're doing something totally new so we might as well call it something totally new.

I'm also just aesthetically opposed to descriptive names.

The other part of this is that we made the product so lightweight that it goes away after you use it. This is one of the reasons people love it, but it does hurt retention.

I think we got this choice right though. It's way more important for people to love your product than awkwardly hook them somehow. If they love the product they'll get back to you.

That said, we have just released an auto-updater product that helps solve this retention issue in a natural way. https://ninite.com/updater/

It will be interesting to see if that reduces these complaints about Ninite being hard to find and remember.
'Social' is the new 'cloud' buzzword.

What does it mean to have social products? To tap into a users social network? That is what Facebook offers to any company that wants, and that is why 2/3rds of websites now have a Like and Facebook Connect button on them, it is very easy for any service to attempt the social route by tapping into the thing that only Facebook so far has, the social network.

Google cant engineer a social network using code, a social network requires specific steps to be carried out in perfect order, it cant be done overnight, you need to build smaller networks and connect them to larger networks as time progresses. It takes a long time, years even.

Reddit is social, hackernews is social. None of them have what Facebook has, real world information about living people and their relationships. Here on HN I could have 5 or 6 accounts and no-one would notice, HN, reddit and any other "social" product does not have relationships between humans. Google mail is close to a social network, except the fact that email is mostly used for business and so is most suited for something like LinkedIn, I personally have more companies mailing me than my friends. If I tomorrow made a new google mail account and began using it instead of my old one, would google be able to tell? Facebook for sure would.
Also, patents can function at the very least as patent lawsuit deterrents.
I came to the same conclusion as grandparent after watching the following video:
http://fora.tv/2008/09/16/Violence__the_Left_in_Dark_Times_A...

Highly recommend it. In it, Zizek's arguments look pitiful and irrelevant next to BHL's, and I am in no way an admirer of BHL.
Wouldn't it be better to split up the datafiles for each node? Unless do you need a copy of the whole dataset?
I agree. I think overall Google behaves more like a grown-up than Facebook does.
This is really a great idea.
This is almost like Oracle support telling me "There is no problem" after I call them about my database corruption.

The author, who obviously loves your software, couldn't find you enough times that he wrote a blog post about it.
There are several reddit thread about this issue.
Several replies to this thread express the same frustration - they can't find your software when they know it exists and want to use it.
You hear it a lot yourself too.

But still you don't think its a big deal.
I'm wondering what kind of evidence will convince you its a big deal.

It sounds like awesome software. I'm glad I've heard of it. I just hope I'll remember the name when I'll need it.
When were these things implemented?
Žižek is a brilliant writer, and Perceval doesn't really understand Žižek at all if he thinks he's a "postmodernist", but I have to agree that it's easy to waste a lot of your life and mental energy studying Žižek and not get very much out of it.

I say that only as someone who spent a lot of time reading many of his books, and discussing his work only in a rather informal, amateurish context, so perhaps I am pretty unqualified.

But my warning to HN readers about Žižek is that while his columns and short commentary can be very clever, his real theoretical work all starts with a foundation built on top of Marxism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Granted, Žižek reinterprets both of those disciplines in clever, Hegelian ways that might make them unrecognizable at first glance to the modern reader, but if you're of the opinion that those two disciplines have little to offer intellectually (and I suspect most HN readers are in this boat), you'll ultimately look at the time you spent puzzling out Žižek and want those hours of your life back.
I picked up a paper route when I was 12. At 14, I ended up taking on three more routes then promptly hired some neighborhood friends to run all four, all for nickles and dimes per house. Realized then that "free money" is the best kind.

I made a bunch of icons in Paint when I was 18. Sold them for $20 in AOL chat rooms. Received checks by mail. Looking back, it was a lot of hustle / border-line spam for little return.

Started two companies since then. Mostly consulting, freelancing, web programming, etc.
I think the reason for your success is that Ninite is simply an excellent product. If your product is truly great, it'll usually overcome problems in naming, promotion, design, etc. (I remember there was a Joel on Software post about how Naptster's UI design was terrible, but it didn't matter, because it was Napster). But, we'll never know how successful Ninite could have been had it been easier to remember.

Of out curiosity, how did you come up with the name? EDIT: Ah. http://blog.ninite.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-named-b...
For me it's sixth in the google search results for "automated setup tool." I don't see the problem.
I think it's less of a name issue, and more of a customer engagement issue. If your customers can't remember your name, you're not talking to them enough. Doesn't matter how light weight your app is.

Having said that, I'm not sure why the OP wouldn't just google "automated setup tool"....
Ask HN: Suggest a technology to build a restful API for our wbesite
We recently developed a website to collect consumer feedback. The application has become popular with our user base and now we realized that we need to provide a developer API so that others can write clients. More specifically mobile and data mining applications.

The currently the site is written in CodeIgniter.

Please suggest a framework technology to build the developer API so that

1. Fast to develop assuming programmer is experienced in the given technology.
2. Efficient. Should be able to handle minimum of 200 read-only requests per second on a decent server.
3. Should be worth investing our/developer's time into it. We dont want to work with something outdated.

Options that I have in mind are

1. Ruby on Rails
2. Django
3. Symfony
4. Facebook's tornedo
5. NodeJS.

Which one would be ideal ? (you can suggest beyond these as well).
>How many rich guys buy a $500k Ferrari that is never driven?

None. No Ferrari costs $500k outside of an auction house, and even then that's a very rare price. The classic collectable ferraris go for far more, and the "average" ferraris go for far less.
As a c programmer I find it quite odd/unnerving actually. It may be simple to understand its structure and it may look clean, but that isn't much to say of a project this size, especially if you know what it does.
I found the file division & include pattern quite strange actually, and don't get me started in the cascading "if/else if" for the instruction dispatch: Not only is it almost impossible to optimize for the compiler, it's also more difficult to read than the obvious switch. Also, if the instructions were enums instead of defines, the compiler could even generate warnings when there are unimplemented opcodes. I don't use github but I'm tempted to make a branch and a pull request because it's driving me crazy!

EDIT: I was about to fork it when I noticed that in the other two branches (fast & simple, default is master) the dispatch is implemented with a switch. Please somebody explain to me why this wasn't moved to the default branch...
Supposedly the human brain is only on the order of petaflops, so we should be able to simulate it at this point.
OS X Lion and Time Machine on your NAS (not)
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you want, but even as a Rubyist, I wouldn't recommend Rails for this. If user creation/editing/etc is all handled by your normal webapp and you only need a fast API endpoint, frameworks like Rails and Django are overkill. In Ruby, I'd suggest Goliath, instead: https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/

I'm not into PHP but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a way to build a scalable, efficient separate API app in that too.
The last paragraph of the post acknowledges that, and points out the problem: "Nowadays, Ninite finally shows up on the front page on Google for “automated software install”, so the problem’s fading away for them. But in your early days of your project, you’re not going to have a good search engine ranking to rely on, and you’ll want to keep as many of your early adopters as you can. Name your software appropriately."
Skip to 21:30 for the beginning.
Nice ideas. It sounds to me like you should be doing a Phd.
Building an Ubuntu LAMP Web Server
Step by step instructions! This helped me multiple times building instances on EC2. Kickass!!
I've been going through the "Learn You a Haskell..." book for the past week or so (mainly to procrastinate on my main project). After the first few chapters which basically just show the syntax for things you might do in other languages (e.g. lambdas, maps, recursion, etc.), I've gotten to stuff that's new to me (mainly type classes, though I'm sure there's more) and I'm sort of getting blown away by the possibilities.
I found many bugs and lack of features, for example, there is no advance search, you can only search by names, not company or place or gender?

Have not figured out how to send messages to my friends, or do I have to share something only with them?

The "Limited"/Public link to view who you shared something with is kind of hidden, would be nice to see which circles a share is visible without clicking something.

There is actually not very much I can do right now. I click on cirlces, yeah it is a nice interface. A lot of my friends dont seem to understand how to share content with me even after they added me to a circle. Not much happens at all.
Only you can analyze yourself and determine whether a "year out" could turn into a procrastination-ridden year of hedonism. At 25, though, you're not too old to have a "gap year." If you can realistically make it work with your resources, what's the worst that could happen? You come back with your tail between your legs in a few months?

The key thing you mention is not having any family to support.. once you go down that road, you're highly unlikely to be pulling off stunts like these unless you have an extremely liberal significant other and the derring-do to stay strong with a family in tow. I'm married and have a daughter now and even getting out to California for my once-regular vacation is now a project with logistics on the scale of invading a small country.. :-)

Hopefully someone else can come along and give you the specifics on how easy this is to do in Thailand, but in terms of actually doing it, if you see no significant downsides, go for it.
Sinatra with Ruby. Pretty good play by play instructions on Paul Dix book Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321659368/1n9867a-20