skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Davies and Lineweaver are currently testing this prediction by comparing gene expression data from cancer biopsies with phylogenetic trees going back 1.6 billion years, with the help of Luis Cisneros, a postdoctoral researcher with ASU's Beyond Center."

Press releases for untested scientific conjectures (further nerd-rage inducing by calling it a "theory" in official communication) raises a red flag for me: it suggests that the investigators aren't fully skeptical of whether their conjecture actually represents the real world, and increases the probability that they'll introduce bias in their investigation.

The article (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/2013/jul/01/expo...) is 100% hand-waving imo:

"Could it be, we wonder, that cancer’s predilection for a hypoxic environment reflects the prevailing conditions on Earth at the time when multicellularity first evolved, before the second great oxygenation event?"

"Wondering," alas, is not science! We need a model, a hypothesis, and a well-controlled experiment to actually discern truth.
How much potentially rentable space is currently being held off the market by disgruntled landlords?

I seem to recall an article about at least one owner who was tired of bad tenants. He had mentioned that he wasn't the only one and that there were many who just weren't leasing out otherwise empty space.
You're still presuming there's a top down gathering; that's not what's going to happen. It's going to be a bottom up thing like flickr is to photographs, people uploading their own shit real-time and storing it online. The host will not be responsible for user generated content and the law isn't going to be able to police hundreds of millions of users anymore than they do now, which is basically none. You don't have a right to privacy in public; public means public.

More importantly, laws can't stop the progress of technology; the genie cannot be put back into the bottle because some people are uncomfortable with it. You can't stop someone from photographing you and putting it on the Internet and it will be no different with video. It's already no different, see youtube. Things like Glass will simply make it easier, but it's already being done.
SoMa, the Tenderloin and the Mission are ugly but the rest of the city is as good as it gets for urban scenery in North America.
If it's not a bluff, then it would behoove anyone with an insurance file to give the decryption keys for at least some of it to the intelligence agency that they are protecting themselves from to prove that it is not a bluff. If that wasn't done, I would naturally assume a bluff.
>only to discover Google was facilitating snooping from a third party whistle blower.

This directly contradicts what he is mentioning above. When you are compelled to do something, it doesn't mean you are facilitating. It means you are being forced.

> Who at Google failed to tell the truth until it served their own interests?

Has anyone up until the last month when the press decided to take up the Snowden case 24x7 actually asked Google if this was going on? Books about this subject and the NSA goings on have been published for 5+ years now. Maybe no one cared enough to pay attention? Or it was known and ignored until now because no one thought it newsworthy? That doesn't mean Google was keeping it secret.
Uh, everyone who gets clearance gets told about this.
Its not like these people don't know they'll get in trouble for reading classified material...
Close.

Average # of Days Above 90 degrees: 111

Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
Public-sector unions are the only unions left in the U.S. with much political zorch, more's the pity.
It's not as though they let the garbage man write his own pension.

It's funny, when a bank NINJA-loans a half-million dollars for a 1000ft^2 bungalow, it's always the-purchaser-took-advantage-of-the-bank, and never, the-bank-should-have-known-better-and-deserves-to-go-broke.
I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
"Recapitulation theory" at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory
Most popular steam game DOTA 2 - got released for linux
Is the United Nations racist?
How does this differentiate from YouTubers selling their gear on existing online stores like bigcartel, cafepress, zazzle, etc? Not sure there's much you could offer on the basic premise of selling shirts with a logo on them.

Many youtubers also already have existing partnerships with brands that they hawk in the descriptions and by actually wearing them in the videos.
Bitcoin: The Movie - A documentary about Bitcoin's global socioeconomic impact
Please note that while it doesn't list linux it is available for everyone right now.
Study suggests neutrinos are not their own antiparticles
Neutrino Study Fails To Show Interaction Of Weird Subatomic Particles
Finny is a perfectly cromulent word, sir...
The banks are presumably going to take a huge bath on bonds they bought from Detroit.
From your second link "dramatic decline in overall union membership." which is what I meant to imply. Unions are fairly impotent today.
4 days for what?
Ouya console review: "Pass on it"
How To Price your In-App Purchase Items - Real Life Examples
I'd be really interested to know what ends up being the root cause. I know properly transactional databases ain't so popular in some parts of telecom, but it's pretty simple to insert a record of the charge transactionally. Then the only real failure path is the lack of distributed transactions to the credit card processor, but it's unlikely you're going to run into many repeated commit failures.
There appears to be a bit of crime in the area (shootings, specifically). Much of which has happened in the last 2 months.

http://spotcrime.com/mi/detroit

Coupled with Detroit filing bankruptcy it'd be interesting to see if that creates more opportunity in the area; thereby decreasing crime.
reactos is my preferred opensource project indeed.
Quite amazing to work in something like it
I Would Fund That
There seem to be quite a few crowd-funding websites popping up. This is great for people who have awesome ideas and want to try and get at a relatively simplified source (and generally smaller lump) of cash to fund their projects.

I think there is something missing though. What about all those people who NEED an app or a website or just have an idea. They don't necessarily need the funding themselves - let's say they CAN'T actually design/develop/build said idea - but they might be able to say "I'd fund that!"

Maybe others agree. Maybe even some engineers/designers/developers would be interested in signing up to help build the product and related services...

Maybe without any money ever having been committed to anything yet, thousands of people could all subscribe to an idea. Then a team could be set up to achieve the goal and actual pledges made via Kickstarter or a similar crowd-funding service.

Now, I would fund that!
OK, had a break so I looked around a little to see what I could learn [1], [2], [3] and [4] are my launching points.

So I read that asphalt is actually a colloid and that pitch is not the same as asphalt. The Wikipedia page on pitch [3] says it is a "viscoelastic polymer".

So I have to ask. Can a polymer be a suspension or a colloid on its own or is pitch a polymer colloid in another "host" substance?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_(chemistry)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin)

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloids
Win32 is a much, MUCH larger beast than POSIX. POSIX is a fairly small specification compared to Win32. A lot of the useful stuff on Unices is vendor-specific, but a lot of software is written with portability in mind so not a lot of them require vendor-specific APIs.

Countrary to Windows. You wouldn't believe the enormous amounts of stuff that Windows has, and apps rely on almost everything they can rely on. COM is huge. DCOM is huge. DirectX is huge. The list goes on and on.
It's all well and good to talk about "honoring commitments made to retirees", but if the city can't provide basic services because 40 cents of every dollar it spends goes to debt service, the city isn't in a position to honor those commitments anyways; it will simply fail harder and more painfully for all its residents in the futile attempt to honor those intractable commitments.
That's a mallard.
Hey all good conspiracy theories have a few holes in them.
Offtopic: One bank I use enforces 8 characters max and changes every 3 months, I ended up with /.+[0-9]{2}/ as the password since I would never trust my bank credentials to any means to save the password, and I would never write it in anything that it's not a password input (that includes a piece of paper).

If my bank get's hacked, don't be too harsh with my password, I swear I can't remember a new, unique, secure and constrained password every 3 months :(
There was a tweet on the @twbootstrap account today, looks like August 19th: http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2013/07/18/ante-up/
The famous man's Vital Signs API. ;)
This looks really cool. I spend a lot of time on YouTube and most of the more popular YouTubers eventually start selling t-shirts or some kind merchandise through sites like Shopify or CafePress. The "pay what you want" option and fan spending leaderboard are interesting features. But at the core, it still looks like another shop creator site. So what makes FanHero different? Is it purely a marketing play to appeal to sellers with a fanbase?
When you believe your cause is so just as to be more important than obeying the law - go ahead do it, and then face the consequences of a fair trial judging your actions.

How does this case differ from Snowden's situation?

Someone who breaks the law while furthering the interests of the government is going to get more than a fair trial (c.f. the air force colonel who was pardoned by the prime minister of italy for his involvement in this same crime). Someone who breaks the law in contradiction to the interests of the government is going to get the least fair trial that the government can arrange for them.
I hope, for everyone's sake, you are the minority.
Why the fsck are all of you people commenting running OSX? We were fighting for a free, open OS, remember?

I really can't understand why hackers, coders, etc are happy to sign up to the shit Apple are doing. I do understand that "normal" people love Apple, but I just can not understand why coder people, who grew up learning to code in a GNU world (like me) can succumb to go Apple.
The deindustrialization and depopulation really hurt Detroit. But what also strikes me is the rapid change in racial demographics. In 1940, Detroit had a 90% white population and was the highest standard of living city in America. During the course of WWII, 350,000 blacks moved into Detroit. In 1943, the Detroit Race Riot caused by tensions between whites and blacks resulted in 43 dead, 433 wounded. In 1967 it happened again, this time 43 dead, 1189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in the Army to quell it. In 2010, the demographics are 10% white and 82% black, and Detroit is a bankrupt wasteland.

Deindustrialization happened in other cities such as Pittsburgh - but they've recovered by transitioning into technology/medicine industries and the like. Pittsburgh has not seen a demographic shift like Detroit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Race_Riot_%281943%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
No, you can do N of M encryption using Shamir's secret sharing.
Judge upholds most serious charge in Manning case
How long did it take before Betali.st featured you? i submitted my app over 8 weeks ago
The issue is that if your motto is "Don't be evil.", you can't later pretend it was "Don't be evil (unless you're forced to do so)."

Especially for a company that big, you'd expect some backbone.
I second that, SCSS/SASS is awesome. Btw, Bootstrap is available in a SASS version as well, actually multiple conversions by different persons, but this is the most popular and actively maintained https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass .I still prefer Foundation over anything Bootstrap though, or Susy (http://susy.oddbird.net/) if I don't need any of the extras a full framework like Foundation offers.
I actually think that as an inexpensive XBMC TV device + emulator gaming Ouya is an outstanding offering for its price.
But if someone expected current gen console compatition here - it means that the product was misunderstood.
Well, have you ever not thought that after a password leak?
How do you make generic manufacturing more attractive? With subsidies? That's a kind of soft nationalization, and is all I meant really. I guess that's different than the government contracting out work to manufacturers, or buying them outright.
Minimalytics took about 2 weeks, I think HookFeed was 5-6 weeks.
People are mad because google led people to believe their data is completely secure. Which was not true. They should have gotten out of the business of amassing personal information if they truly believed in 'dont be evil'.
If they do, it's only because Detroit literally has nothing of value left that can be taken.
No, certainly the garbage man doesn't write down his own pension. His union negotiates with the government over how much money (that doesn't belong to either of them at the time) to promise to all garbage men.

Banks deserve to be exposed to the risk they assume in general, but this issue has problems in addition to the problem of banks being sheltered from risk.
http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/don%E2%80%99t-confuse-an...

Yes and No.

Russian Gangs are known to fly the flag of Anonymous, but I bet you that the rank-and-file members of Anon would prefer not to be confused with those guys.
"If they do"? Help me understand the word "if" there?
I'd focus talking to potential customers and building out whatever features make the product "minimally viable" for them. If you're pretty sure you know what they need out of your product (which, unless you have credit card numbers, you probably shouldn't be), get your payment system sorted, throw Google Analytics in, and launch.

At that point you can start selling, selling, and selling some more. Dan Shipper wrote a great post about this today: http://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made
Linguist here.[0] Yes, this is a nitpick, but no apologies, because this is Hacker News. :)

Unfortunately, languages don't always work the way that logicians would like them to do. Yes, we can read that sentence as the English-language summary of a logical formula (something like ∀x [Sx -> ¬Fx]), but English (and many other languages) treat the scope of the "not" as ambiguous. It's not a matter of "interpreting what you said literally", because there are multiple correct literal interpretations of what he said---he is not using a metaphor or anything. There are many cases where "not" can scope out to an enclosing quantifier (one of the better-known is "All that glitters is not gold", famously by Tolkien), and this is not just because all these speakers are in error.

[0] Also computer scientist, but I'll wear my linguist hat for now.
Somewhere, someone is reading this over a data connection going over some fiber that has been pulled through an old unused pneumatic tube mail system that was installed in a subway tunnel.
I know, it's a shame for Detroit that it isn't "Too Big to Fail."
The Daniel Suarez book "Daemon" and it's sequel use this idea as a fundamental part of the plot. Intelligent distributed systems reacting to public news. It's a neat book.

Also, getting servers isn't very difficult. Buy prepaid credit cards or Bitcoin via cash, leave cards/BTC on account for various VM providers.
Nowhere did I say that. Respond to the comment I made, not the straw man that you've created.

To restate my point:
While you shouldn't be a jerk, friendship as described in the article is unnecessary. Clarity is more important, and often lacking.
You've had much better success than me. Congrats!
Microsoft took a $900 million hit on Surface RT this quarter
Keep your grubby hands off Alameda!!!

Which really is the jewel in the bay area. SHhhh....

Actually - what I would prefer is to create a massive floating platform and build a large number of micro-apartments on this platform - with workspace, conference rooms, cafes and grocery.

Put this floating place just off shore and let singles and couples rent the places.
Where can I read more about "luck" and startups? Is anyone collecting these stories?

I'm familiar with the lean startup gospel. I find it too neat; it's too close to the protestant work ethic to be believable. I'd like to hear more about the "luck", grease, handshakes and other details that don't fit into the usual startup narrative.
Abstraction is the trading off of information for power
Going Places with Location Services on Android
Grid for iOS reimagines Excel, but ditches the formulas
Is there some constructive alternative you have? In your dream world, how would Michigan have handled its Detroit problem?
I haven't seen the inside of either project, but Wine seems like a much more difficult system. Cygwin is able to port large amounts of their stack from existing software (mostly gnu), whereas Wine needs to reimplement almost the entire stack. Furthermore, Wine needs to maintain binary compatibility whereas Cygwin only attempts source code compatability.
I'm someone who used desktop Linux exclusively for 10+ years before switching to a MacBook Air running OS X.

I made the switch because I no longer had the time and interest in maintaining my OS - I wanted it to just work. Much can be said for Linux distros' improvements in hardware support over the years, but it pales in comparison to paying for a superbly built computer (even Torvalds uses an MBA) and never having to think about hardware compatibility or OS breakage again. That's worth the (significant) premium in cost for me, and it is worth it for many others on HN.

(This is only on the desktop side, obviously; I use an Android phone and run Debian/Ubuntu on my servers.)
In my opinion, city governments are about personalities. Mayors can wield tremendous authority, so a single person can drastically reshape a city (e.g. Giuliani and Bloomberg in New York). So I guess the hope for San Francisco would be to find a politically opportunistic mayor who realizes that: 1) tech could become to San Francisco what finance is to New York; 2) most of those tech yuppies want to live in a modern city not a quaint charming one, and moves aggressively to court that demographic.

Of course any such reform is a long shot. It's hard to change the character of a city. The best hope for San Francisco is for the tech industry to find it worth staying in the city despite the costs (like finance has done with New York). Otherwise, you might just see a lot of that growth shift to friendlier places like Seattle.
If, as in if the Federal Gov't doesn't bail them out.
You're obviously right that anyone with means will try to leave a high crime neighborhood. But "white flight" was absolutely a thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting
DO NOT USE GLASS FOR DRIVING.

It is illegal, is not safer than a car docked phone and since it moves your eyes away from the road is extremely dangerous. Stop being so selfish and stop the car. Studies have shown that when you are distracted you are more likely to crash. So innocent people's lives are at stake here.
Suburbia is not always sexy, but it is very cost-effective for residents and it provides options for people that want or need them.

Houston gets flak for its miles of suburbs, but if you want to live in a nice wooded neighborhood right in the middle there are a number to choose from: Bellaire, West University Place, Memorial, Hunter's Creek Village, and of course River Oaks.

Just be prepared to shell out 3-4x as much as you'd need to out in a suburb. Make that 4-10x for River Oaks. Suburbia exists in places like Houston for two reasons: (1) there's space for it; (2) the vast majority of people don't believe in paying upwards of a million dollars (or more) for a house even if they can afford it. They'd prefer to commute than blow that kind of money just to not commute.

The interesting problem that places like San Francisco and NYC face is that there simply aren't cheap suburbs. You've got a lot of people making a whole heck of a lot of money, but they have to be geographically located right in that particular place to continue making that money. There are so many of them that the prices skyrocket even outside the city proper. In the end, almost ironically, that money ends up losing a lot of its value because through competition with one another they all end up pushing housing prices to their limits.
What Happens When a Country Abolishes its Army?
Thanks for the info. Were both of you using flootty? The web integration as actually better, since we use a JS PTY which lets us control the output much more easily than just shoving data into stdout.
Off-topic: Does it bug anyone else that this guy's desktop is 3/4 covered in icons?
Ugh...the "rent control" argument again.

First off, rent control doesn't apply to apartment building built after 1979, so, as noted below, its less relevant - especially with the new construction in SOMA.

Second, the anecdotal stories about landlords holding units off the market is just that - anecdotal stories. The owners of those buildings are Prop. 13'ed with a 30yr old assessment and are doing just fine. Opening a new unit means they can collect more rent at todays market rates. Its a silly story promoted by landlords that would like to make more money during the booms. Of course, its also those very rent control laws that protect landlords during the busts (2002, 2009, etc).

Sorry to say this, but rent will come down when companies in SF start running out of their free, investor money and have to turn a profit or sell themselves. More people will lose their jobs, won't be able to afford living in the city proper and people will move away. Thats the way it has been here for at least the last 20 years and probably longer.

By the way, also anecdotally since I can't find the reference, rents in the area have decreased by 5% on YoY basis.
Where on the Peninsula would you live that's substantially cheaper than SF? The area around Stanford is fairly pricey.
Unions in general are impotent, but the public unions (teachers, police, etc) are among the only ones that still have a lot of leverage.
Yeah, it's truly sad and I don't get it either.

In fact, I was in a conference a couple of weeks back and people were mocked for using Windows and especially Linux. Devs were asking others to get a 'real' OS. Practically 90% of the conference had Macs.
I'm not part of Wine, but it seems like their project is uniquely vulnerable to regressions. They not only need to write their software correctly, but they need to write their bugs correctly as well. Unfortunately, their is no good way to test for these regressions other than time.
what's that red spot in the middle of blue?
In Oregon, the highest paid state retiree is a former football coach that was paid millions[1] during his career. Agreed, the system is broken.

[1] http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20111122/NEWS/111220...
The riots are part of the story, but absolutely not the start. Population was significant declining before the riots. A number of choices, including a long history of racial segregation in housing before the 60s combined with US housing policy (the GI Bill) to create strong incentives for people to build new houses outside of the city. That, combined with a lack of dense housing in the city, created cascading problems that are difficult to recover from.

A good source on this topic is Thomas Sugrue's "The Origins of the Urban Crisis".