skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the experiences are equivalent.

Private universities don't have to admit anyone if they don't want to. It's silly to talk about them, when they do all sorts of wonky things.

There is no doubt there exists discrimination against Asian-Americans in some American public universities.

I think the real question is whether or not there is a systemic or conspiratorial discrimination.

In the Soviet Union, where anti-Semitism in education was known to be organized, the State gave harder tests and used the poorer test scores as proof of legitimacy.

In the United States, Asian Americans perform above average (though not necessarily substantially so). It doesn't seem to match the character of a conspiracy, at least as we understand it historically.

Black students perform considerably worse than average on the ACT standardized tests nationally than Asian Americans perform better. They are underrepresented in college, overrepresented in poverty.

Black children, who cannot choose to whom they are born, are overrepresented in the worst school districts.

Our government's interests in affirmative action are incredibly complicated, much more so than in the Soviet Union. Recall that until 1954, less than one generation prior to the experience of the gentleman in the article, black students were generally not co-educated with white students in much of America.

Pre-Brown v. Board and Jewish Questions is the evidence of systemic, organized discrimination. Not excellent test scores. You and many of the commenters have the consequence of the evidence completely backwards.

There is a solution: We live in a free country. If Asian Americans are discriminated against in universities—which I remind you I believe to be true, just not in a conspiratorial way—the best solution is to found a goddamned university for Asian Americans.

That wasn't an option in the Soviet Union. Now do we all understand why the experiences aren't equivalent?
I saw this earlier today. Does this mean that the threats are for real or is this just more posturing? Surely, NK doesn't want to be blown out of existence and I'm not sure if I accept that the young leader really has this amount of control yet.
340,000 years as of the time yahoo posted this story, or as of the time the study paper was published, or what? At what time was he born (UTC)?

Not so long ago it was proven "The father of all men is 170,000 years old."

If we determine every time that the most recent research is correct, we make all future research obsolete.

Here is a much better link : http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-al...

Scientific Paper : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.02.002
Everything is possible.

Cloning whole chip is probably economically not viable, but definitely possible (it's cheaper to design from scratch with modern automatic design tools), but retrieving secret keys is a popular task.

For a company having all the tools (electron microscope with bells and whistles, polishing machines, microprobes) it might take hundreds to thousands of human-hours (0.1-1+ million $).

Companies like http://www.chipworks.com/ can do that, if your request is legal.
I look at it as a spectrum rather than a binary choice. I find, for myself, that in the last few years I've gotten screwed too often by spending weeks (amortized over a few months to a year) fixing bugs and patching up hacks that I could have avoided with a few hours of upfront cost.

So I try to move my default a little more to the best practice side. I also don't see this epidemic of overdesign in our community, although it exists. I see people hit a design debt wall and have greatly reduced velocity more often. Sometimes laziness reinforces a desire to move quickly and the wrong tradeoffs are chosen. Sometimes the upfront cost is higher because you have to train people in those best practices, or at least teach them the new tools.

I also have noticed that different fields of programming have different sweet spots so it's not surprising that people don't agree on the one true way either.
It would be hilarious if a cracked version allowing offline play would appear on TPB :)
By that point Sauron was convinced (among other things, by Pippin and Aragorn's contact with the Palantir) that the Ring was in Gondor.
Firefox supports H.264 on Linux via the Flash plugin
> agricultural machines

You’re probably thinking of tractors and harvesters.
wow, you actually know wtf
Does any one know, is there any chance that any advanced, isolated civilisations arose-- tens of thousands of years before the agricultural revolution that we know of?
#Ahem# Aqualonde #ahem#.
This has little to do with what is "human" and what isn't. "Father of all humankind" is just a figure of speech, not any scientific assertion about this character.

Ignore species distinctions for a moment. Just tihnk about all the organisms that begat the people alive on earth today (that is, all their parents), and then the parents of those, and so on back. Eventually, you will find a organism that begat every person alive today in a direct line. The question is how far back in history you have to go to find such a person/thing. Note that there will be many such people (and this person was by no means the only person alive at the time, or anything like that -- just one of many, who had several children, who all had several children, who eventually interbred with all other humans). In fact, that person's parents are also the common parents of all mankind, and so on, so this isn't going to be a unique or special distinction; we're just curious about the most recent.
I've been looking at cheap VPSes over the last few months, as I don't really want to spent $20/mo on Linode anymore for a static site and VPN. I've tried a number of different providers, and they've all had issues.

Things I've experienced:

- being rebooted without notice

- poor performance (IO and / or CPU)

- provider being DDOSed

- provider moving to a new DC and telling people not to give out IPs (???) due to being DDOSed

- hosts running old virtualisation software which doesn't support recent versions of Linux, so I'm can't use an OS newer than Ubuntu 10.04

- provider being banned by PayPal then suspending my account being I couldn't pay then

- provider going out of business

I liken it to poor quality manufactured goods. Take the Android tablets you can get for less than $100. If you can afford it, you would never buy one just to save money, because it is much less hassle to spent another $100 and get something that works well.

It just isn't worth it, especially not for a business. I would love to see someone who can make a proper fault tolerant system that works on these type of machines though :)
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I doubt that many people will bother replacing

<img src="foo.png"/>

with tons of javascript to handle browsers not supporting SVG.

If something is well supported except for the 25% of cases where it isn't, it isn't well supported.
honest question: can you please point out some of the original Darwin absurdities?

The more I read about it, the more it seems that Darwin got right more things that he's usually accredited. I.e. he's depicted as father of the original idea but that it was only a rough prototype. But, according to evolutionist like Richard Dawkins, there no good new theories actually displacing the core concepts, and which don't merely refine or provide slightly different interpretation of some statistical cases (like Gould's Punctuated equilibrium theory).

Given the amount of funded anti Darwin bashing, I wonder if your comment is based on actual knowledge or some distorted information. Can you please elaborate?
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Balanced has no-brainer API and next day payout.
The article uses somewhat confusing language, but I think this is about the most recent common patrilinear ancestor; now older than what was assumed before. So, the father of a patrilinear MRCA would obviously also have been a common ancestor, but not the most recent one.

"Patrilinear" means that all male humans can trace a path to the ancestral individual that contains only males. Whether the same individual is also the ancestor of all living females cannot be known based on the Y-chromosomal evidence.

If we allow paths that contain both males and females, the MRCA of all living humans may have lived remarkably close to the present time - circa 3000 BCE, based on many estimates.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor
As one of the commenters said, it's not only in family business, however you should ask for your rights with preparing a backup plan of finding another job, this is to be in parallel.
So I should be registering my domain with Network Solutions for $34.99/year, right?

Can you explain this to me? I'm not sure I understand. If it's domain management you're after, MarkMonitor's the usual choice IIRC.
> And seriously you either need to put up or STFU. If you have some prior art that invalidates specific patents then speak up. Plenty of companies would be very, very interested. But I'm going to take a guess that you don't.

To quote Seth Meyers -- Really?

So you honestly believe that all the MPEG-LA patents are true innovations? Or just perhaps, having 100+ patents, an army of lawyers, and an FTC antitrust pass is intimidating enough to trump whether the patents are for the most part frankly crap.

Not sure who I'm misquoting here, but in reality you can patent a ham sandwich.
grumble... I didn't grab it the other day for a prototype I am going to make because "it's on github when I need it" ;)
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This game will get pirated (like any other game), it might just take a little longer. Not sure how they still believe they can stop piracy/reverse engineering.

I do not think it was worth it, given what has happened. Very sad that it happened to one of my most favorite games.
Dave McClure's answer to 500 Startups: What is 500 startups business model?
I was thinking of the original Deutsch one; though I vaguely recollect that there was a similar list that originated as a technical report circulated within Sun.
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Downloading and watching a TV show means installing and using 2 applications (utorrent and vlc for example). Downloading and playing a game from a torrent means installing and using 4-5 applications (utorrent, winrar, daemon tools, the crack, the game its self).

This is why steam and GoG wins. Before I look for my old CDs or search on p-bay for that old game which I wouldn't mind killing a few hours on, I check to see if it is ~$5 on steam or GoG. The process is so simple and next time I feel like a trip down memory lane I know it'll still be there in my steam/GoG library waiting for me.
Yes, Sony is so firmly against VP8 that they sell millions of devices that ship with VP8 support every quarter.
Even if you concede that the basques did have an early start on exploiting the Newfoundland fisheries, that would have given them an edge for a few centuries after the year 1000 (more like 1400 if you wait for the necessary navigation technology). By the 3rd century AD, all of Iberia except for the Basque was speaking a romance language.

So, this theory -- very poorly documented in itself -- fails to explain at the very least these mere 7 to 10 centuries of preservation of Basque identity.

EDIT: by the way, I totally buy that Europeans were fishing for cod in Newfoundland before Columbus, and that at least some of those were basques. 15th century Portuguese maps calling those waters "Mare Baccalearum" are proof enough for me.
And the colors used are exactly the same: http://pixxel.co/feed/layervault-issues-dmca-takedown
I love Linode but the paltry RAM got me to move to someone else that I have been happy with for the last month. The customer service was great but the specs were bad. If they double the RAM for the same price I would move back in a heartbeat.

Hopefully Nextgen v.2 adds RAM for the same price.
I think there is a broader cultural loss though.

In the future years when "study of video game history" becomes a thing, people will be able to examine and analyse old games like SimCity 2000 by actually playing them as they were. Since they have been archived and preserved by wide distribution.

Then as you get further into the future maybe you start to come across games where you have to say "sadly the only existing copy of the server code was lost in the great github fire of 2020, so all we can show you is this archived footage".
Good luck Layervault, you might want to think about this some harder.

Github search found 116 repositories: https://github.com/search?q=flat-ui&ref=commandbar

There are 48 forks alone of this single fork: https://github.com/iurevych/Flat-UI/network/members

The project itself shows 129 forks.

You really prepared to piss off hundreds of people by sending a DMCA takedown to each and every one? Really? Do you know when to stop digging? Is the hole deep enough yet? Found some suspicious odorous dark substance? I can tell you, it's not oil.
Interesting behavior of creationists: science is good when they say something close to their existing believes.

I'm not sure we share a common definition of what science means. It's more about understanding the reality via observation rather than seeking to confirm the "truth" by possibly filtering observation that would point away from it.
Damn people are so dumb.. way to ruin your reputation. This is why I should start my own start-up :|

Oh and did the developer of Flat UI file a counter takedown notice?

Edit: Sorry if I offended anyone, just posted what I thought.
> Wouldn't it be correct to call him a dictator the day that he was a dictator?

Dictators are a really poor example here, often it is not quite as clear-cut and there is no point in time you can say then he became a dictator. Not even in hindsight, it is usually a rise to power over years until their power becomes absolute.
I'm absolutely stoked about their low-end dedicated servers. I have 13€/mo and 18€/mo instances (located in France) and I'm in Finland. No issues whatsoever, connectivity or uptime, and I use them to run both my personal and company mail, and some web stuff. If you go over traffic quota (5TB / mo) they will limit your speed to 10Mbit/s, not cut you off or bill extra (but you can purchase extra quota). But I have no idea how good their support is because I never needed it.

After initial setup you may want to change the grsec kernel to something else (according to preferences, it's not bad), and by default they have root ssh access to your box (key-based auth), which you may want to revoke.

Ovh has one data center in Canada, but that's in Quebec, not west coast.
Layervault answer on Flat UI DMCA takedown
I know that answer is not in this forum. However I expect someone may be heard of a good book to explain this. A book based on research an anthropological study but not on sentimental history of the problem. (By the way somebody down voted my question. Isn't this a legitimate question?)
His Darwin bashing is probably bullshit. Given that Darwin didn't have a theory of discrete (Mendelian) inheritance he got a truly insane amount right. There are things in Origin of Species that were ignored for generations and when investigated were incredibly fruitful in understanding evolution, like sexual selection.
In general, I agree with you. However, AWS services are different in the sense that Amazon has become like a large utility company and betting your business on the long term availability of these services seems like a safe bet.

Just renting EC2s like expensive VPSs does not make much sense, but using DynamoDB, SimpleDB, Elastic MapReduce, etc. as appropriate and in effect composing systems from your own and Amazon's services seems like the modern way to do things.
Possibly a 'combine'(com-bine, with some oomph in that om)... kinda appropriate....
PHP has a test suite, but it's released with over hundred tests failing. See here: http://gcov.php.net/viewer.php?version=PHP_5_5
Flash vs HTML - Waste Invaders
You can do this for any three sets of 1-bit images. There's nothing special except for ensuring that you have thin connecting pieces so that any "island" where material would otherwise be surrounded by empty space remains connected to other pieces.
Available for free in practical terms vs available for free in legal terms..
That's a really "crass" statement.
And the colors used are exactly the same

Google uses the same:

http://i.imgur.com/qJXJUaH.png
Interesting. If that's not enough royalties, Spotify is charging too little. According to last.fm (who can record all track plays from Spotify), I've played 10672 tracks over the last 4 months ($55 in royalties at the 0.0052/stream rate), but paid $61.9 to Spotify for their highest premium subscription in the same time.
This is a depressing read, honestly. I can't believe it's 2013 and we can't reliably use SVG images.
Either. They can be roughly converted between eachother.
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A 'friendly' tutor listing directory (http://www.tutr.com.au) Note: Only works in Australia (Try suburbs: e.g. Collingwood, Leederville, Taringa, Newtown).

Nothing too special, just wanted to create a very user friendly site.
Good design is good design. Focus on the product and if your product requires a news feed - use it. This mentality of "They will sue" keeps many great ideas in the closet.

Also, no one will sue for User Interface - they will sue for code if that. It's harder in court and not worth much because the same companies looking to improve their UI on a regular basis doesn't want to start a "This is my UI idea" war.
Does somebody have a tl;dr of this statement?
Tractors, exactly. I even googled the actual thing: http://www.bwphotography.pl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/...

The text below says, roughly: "Let's fight for the betterment of socialistic Polish villages".
These problems are not hard - they were typical at regional (and above) math competitions. I.e. thousands of applicants, which are winners of regional math competition, were able to solve them each year.
Google and MPEG LA settle up, free VP8 video codec for the world wide web
You can try a lawsuit for anything, about anything. It comes down to how likely it will be held up in a court of law, and generally, it helps if a precedent already exists.

As unlikely as it may sound, there have been lawsuits somewhat like what you describe. Perhaps most notorious is a tattoo artist claiming IP on Mike Tyson’s face tat visibly shown on Ed Helm’s character’s face, being used without permission. The artist sued Warner Bros. (I believe) for damages and asking to be taken down. IIRC the judge was very close to issuing an injunction against /The Hangover 2/. Not sure what ended up happening; probably settled out of court.
"How much does it cost?
Per transaction, contributors will be charged 3.5% on whatever they chip in for a Credit Card Processing Fee. GroupMe charges a .99 convenience fee."

They also state that they are using Balanced Payments to process the payments, which charges 2.9% + 30c per payout (and additional 25c per deposit). I'm skeptical that users would even be willing to pay this rate...
Might you send me the sass files? I want to use it in a recent project too. s at zenhacks.org
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19 out of our 152 employees are women, so a little over 12%.
I'm falling back in love with last.fm because of all they've been able to accomplish under CBS's wing. If only they'd drop the idea of "internet radio" and focus on stats.
Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game 
Show HN: 6 months ago I quit my job to pursue indie dev. Here is our first game
A recursion example
To be fair you might expect that, if you have a command economy you can say "how can we get more women in IT?" and answer with "Take women out of nursing and put them in IT".
There are several options for software load-balancing. You can go all out and use heartbeat, or you can use something like varnish/pound - both of those will work as a reverse proxy to route traffic to N backend servers.

I wrote about migrating to a cluster here:

http://www.debian-administration.org/article/683/Redeploying....

In brief I used "ucarp" to have a virtual IP which was always up on one of four hosts, then on that virtual IP I have pound listening for SSL, and varnish for HTTP. Pound forwards to Varnish, varnish does some caching and works as a load-balancer to the Apache back-ends.

I've had a couple of outages where two webservers died, and it was 100% transparent.
guilty until proven innocent.

thanks for the explanation, I never realised it was like this.
Just to be clear, I'm talking about the web - not OS. In OS there is VERY high consequences due to limited competition but in web - a medium available to ALL, the risk is understood.
I guess it is possible, but without any actual evidence this would just be speculation.
Thanks for the hat tip.

I did think about implementing comments like Reddit / Alien Blue, but I found that it involved too much scrolling up and down and having a button at the bottom reduced that.
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That's correct. And ssh-agent doesn't give access to the private key either, only to perform operations like signing. The only way to extract the key is to search it in the process memory, which I believe would requires root level access.
I think they copy that from kuler from adobe.
It is not the first time i see that colors for sure.
They are very similar, but not exactly the same - you could as well say that LayerVault used Google's pallete: http://i.imgur.com/JaR2foO.png

There is no doubt that the Flat UI was highly inspired by LayerVault, but c'mon, you can't restrict a certain style or color pallete from being used.
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Although it is always referred to as a set top box it (*7) was more like a Tablet. You can see one here:

http://gcc.uni-paderborn.de/www/WI/WI2/wi2_lit.nsf/64ae86483...
Which OVH cdn? Did you rent servers, or do they have a cdn service I don't know?
They did: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2013-03-06-LayerV...
If so, this is almost as absurd as Apple's attempt to trademark an ellipsoid.
Root cause? What makes you think there is one?

The original root-cause was sheer politics: the pagan rulers of Egypt (not talking about Exodus, Egyptian Empire was heavily influential in the Levant) and the Roman Empire despised henotheists and monotheists, because their/our religious practices pretty well implied disloyalty to the conquering empire.

The sheer number of revolts we threw against them didn't help.

But after that? Well, by now it's just persisting because it persists. A virus needs no reason to exist.
Links please? I'm Jewish and have never heard of this. At all.
The NTSB server is overloaded, analysis can be DLed from the trusty AvHerald
http://avherald.com/files/public_54000-54499_54251_520521.pd...

some grim stuff in there:

During this incident, the supply valves (which are electrically driven) lost electrical power after the APU shut down because the APU was the only source of electrical power being used at the time. As a result, smoke generated by the APU battery could not be effectively redirected outside the cabin and aft E/E bay.
Great. Thanks for the link. That's one thing I can cross off my list hopefully.
I have mixed feelings about what to take away from this article. We actually rely exclusively on SVG in the startup I work at, so it's nice to see this topic getting some love. Then again, the lack of serious support, especially in mobile browsers (no mention of SVG not really being supported that well on iOS 4 or lower) means we have to carefully pick our battles or perhaps rethink our stack. Sad.