skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "recent"-ness of common ancestry (or lack thereof) is what separates you from a Chimpanzee. 80,000 years of evolution matters, so you will find that peoples from Europe have many different genotypes and phenotypes from people in Africa (or any other part of the world, for that matter). For example, people in Europe have no incidence of sickle cell disease, a recessive genetic disease that in its heterozygous form grants resistance to malaria. Malaria is not prevalent in Europe, so such a mutation would confer no survival benefit to Europeans as it does in Africans. And indeed natural selection does work so we see no sickle cell disease in Europeans as we do in Africans. Lots of other traits vary across the world, too. Almost all Northern Europeans can digest milk as an adult while few Africans can. West Africa consistently has the fastest runners in the world [1].

It is not hard to take a listing of the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a persons DNA and compare them against a database of genetic sequences from various parts of the world to tell where they came from. The same mutation occurring in parallel in two different populations and persisting is rare enough that you can use SNP data to construct a phylogenetic tree of the human population (here is one I googled up[2]). We can tell interesting things from human population genetics, for example that Amerindians probably came from Asia, since the East Asians are there closest genetic cousins.

You should have a mixed-race friend send their spit into 23andMe and see what happens! When races mix, you have genetic admixture. It remains trivial to see which portions of a persons DNA comes from which part of the world because those portions contain SNPs which are only found in certain human subpopulations.

If you are the child of an African father and a European mother (like Barack Obama), you get half your chromosomes from your father and half from your mother. A few bits from each chromosome swap over, but it is not hard to unravel which bits came from Africa and which from Europe.

The government's big racial categories are somewhat inaccurate (especially hispanic, since some hispanics are European and some are Amerindian). But distinct human genetic populations are very real. Razib Khan's blog[3] is great if you want to move beyond the sound bytes and get into the real science of human population genetics. Sadly, liberal views on race tend to be extremely unscientific.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2012/08/12/the-dna-oly...

[2] http://imgur.com/ZPkTc2C

[3] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/
step 1: get traffic for your site (kickoffboost.com) first.

step 2: nah do step 1 first.
Demolition man anyone?
> Really, production environments are not the place to try un-vetted academic crypto research.

A very salient piece of cautionary advice. Disable gzip to protect prod. Figure out what to do to allow compression off prod, and engage the devs of your stack/framework to do this correctly.
I sent you an email to the one via your contact us link. I like the page!
Wierdly I knew that craigslist was and somehow completely forgot when I made the parent post. I stand corrected.
Wirelessly-charged electric buses start public route in South Korea
Focus on whatever positive things came from that experience and how those things can benefit a potential employer.
My company has had an unlimited vacation policy for 2-ish years. According to the HR dept, it hasn't really changed people's vacation habits... they still take about the same as they did before: 2 weeks.

The biggest thing has been to make sure that you aren't leaving anyone hanging. This is probably a bigger deal for some departments/teams.
Can you point out some more info/sources on these performance gains?
Ask HN: How can i get Designer News Invite Code?
Hello everyone,

I want to sign up Designer News and i have to find an invite code for signup. I don't know how can i find it. Is there anybody can have information about this or send invite code?

Thanks.
Is the extra portability worth it with the Air? I still have a chunky 15" MBP with 16GB RAM (despite supposedly being limited to 8) but it's relatively heavy in the backpack.
This is a really well-constructed piece of marketing. Yes please, I do want to code like Yehuda Katz! Sure, I'll connect my entire web presence to your service to earn credit!

But is nobody else concerned about needing an internet connection to write code? It looks possible to sync a local repo with their boxes when connected, dropbox-style. But the use case they appear to be focusing on is their in-browser collaborative IDE, which is all kinds of problematic for me in cases like using my own bash settings, coding on airplanes, simulating my production environment, coding on life rafts on approach to a refugee flotilla in the Pacific ocean, and just plain hating latency.

Looks like a perfect for coding on a Chromebook or similarly handicapped machine. For the time being, though, I like my dev environments like I like my video games - offline.
That's fair enough but then why put in a giant 'SHOW PASSWORD' button. Why not just remove that button.

I expect a hacker using my computer with admin rights to get everything. I don't expect my GF to get my passwords simply by pressing the 'show passwords' button.

And it's not very realistic for me to tell my GF she can't use my computer or to log out every time I give it to her. She's going to be kind of insulted if I do that. I just expect you guys to understand that in this day an age people DO actually share their computer with people without expecting them to have a giant 'SHOW PASSWORD' button in their favorite app.
So you log out of your computer every time you give your computer to your wife?
I wonder what abused tags today we will have a moment of silence for 10 years from now?
> a new "social operating system", really.

As a species, humanity is about 50,000 years old. Millions, if you include our most obvious ancestral species.

The claim that neologism-of-choice is a "new" system is extremely unlikely to be true. What is more likely is that the new system is a reinvention of a system that has been seen hundreds of times under hundreds of names. Social structures tend to be evolutionarily convergent, depending on prevailing constraints. If a given structure is rare, that is because it relies or can only exist in a peculiar environment (eg Valve + massive profitability).

Truly. There is nothing new under the sun. Including totally "new" social systems that "work" because of short-term enthusiasm.
I'm going to answer your first question with a question: what do you think he means by "nasty crash"? Because I guarantee it's not what happens post-excursion.

There's no difference -- postprandial excursions are a diabetic phenomenon, and have nothing to do with what non-diabetic individuals think of as the effect of sugar and fiber on their health and mood.
Not everything can be thrown under it, only.. marketing can. Sure, marketing may be why Ferrari sell cars, but that doesn't mean that marketing is the only difference between a Ferrari and a Ford.
For those few precious moments that I'm not coding, I shouldn't be coding anyways. I've been using nitrous on a 4G Virgin mobile hotspot while I travel. It's a bit slower, but fine. Still easier than keeping my machine configured and the IDE is quite good.
FWIW, Cassandra 1.2 is the latest production/stable version.
Tortilla: Route all TCP/IP and DNS Traffic Through Tor
Even though I'm already subscribed to betali.st and erlibird, I just can't seem to get enough of sites like this. Bookmarked.
Not quite: cw deletes until the end of the current word from the current position and then enters insert mode. ciw deletes the entire your current position is in and enters insert mode. Go ahead and try them.
I find it a little ironic that in a story that indicates that the system is horribly corrupt, you would advocate that the same system be allowed to destroy lives.
No, the founders are personally responsible for their own actions.

The corporate veil may protect them from liabilities of the company (barring fraud/breach of directors' duties), however in this particular instance we have a founder, Rob Rhinehart, who seems to have done most of his marketing and made most of his claims personally. That is, Rob, not Soylent Nominees Ltd, made the statements.

Therefore, if he has breached laws, civil penalty provisions or acted negligently in doing so, he is personally liable.

Source: I recently acted for a home owner who sued her (incorporated) builder in negligence (for building a house which fell down). The company was unfortunately insolvent. Luckily, the founder/director of the company made a number of claims about the expertise and abilities of the building company on the company website (which he hosted personally). We sued the director personally.
This one might be a bit more important....

"Enable JavaScript" preference checkbox has been removed and user-set values will be reset to the default
<table>...</table>
How else would you display data?
Irrelevant, but a site that lets you comment without putting an email? I like Microsoft.
Eve Online: WebGL Tournament Battle Simulator
Ask HN: My Firefox doesn't Start.
This morning, I updated Firefox to 23.0. But when I click it, it didn't start.

I followed solution from Support of Firefox, then it worked well from Terminal but still not worked from clicking icon.

hence I uninstalled Firefox and deleted profile, and turn to Chrome.

But I really want to be back to Firefox, what should I do then?
> So things like Valve and Medium try to say they are not "traditional companies"

In Valve's case, it's true. They are so unstoppably profitable that the company can be run in just about any fashion at all. The profitability is now largely due to network effects.

Any system from totalitarian dictatorship through to hippie commune will work, so long as it doesn't decide to dry up the river of money.

Normal businesses have much tighter constraints, tougher competition and far less free cashflow to play with.

Drawing universal conclusions about populations from extreme outliers is generally considered to be a mistake.
I'd add authorization. Right now you can access all the edit and show pages as long as you're signed in
I've used Putty Connection Manager for tabbed management of multiple Putty windows for a few years now. Here's an older article about it:

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/putty-extreme-makeover-u...

Unfortunately the URL for the download is down at the moment. I know, inspiring, but here it is:

http://puttycm.free.fr/

It can be found on the Putty "links" page under "Multiple connection" here (along with some other options):

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/links.html

I used to use SecureCRT until I got tired of their weird format for private keys (not sure if that's still an issue since I stopped using it a few years ago).

Anyways, for what I was looking for Putty Connection Manager worked fine. Open many connections and cycle through the tabs with CTRL+TAB.
> > Having a rake angle on the front wheel makes a bicycle self correcting ..
> No. If you actually read the paper linked ...

Please don't start replies with a "no", especially when you don't disagree! You reply that it "is not necessary" which does not negate your interlocutor's point!

(probably going to regret going meta, but the initial 'no' in forums and irc really bothers me)
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>The same reason "separate but equal" wasn't good enough for black people in the mid 20th century: It isn't equal at all

"Separate but equal" when it comes to schools is very different than equality under the law; the latter being much easier to achieve and can be rectified by law when it falls short. Separate but equal in schools is intrinsically unequal, this is not true for civil unions. I know that the attempts to hitch gay marriage to the civil rights wagon is a stumbling block for some people.
>I am honestly a little shocked that the two numbers for Republicans are identical to 3 significant digits.

drives home meaning of "conservatism" :)
Also, if you use the Thrift service as an interface to HBase (we do), you can have it running on several machines on the cluster and be able to set them up using a failover architecture - as long as the cluster itself is healthy, Thrift should work from any machine you have it running on.
Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie and new Nexus 10 to be launched by October
You're right, everything else I can think of is worse for data, tables are pretty good for that (minus the weird vertical centering thing that sometimes happens in cells.)

But seeing tables being used for layout annoys me far more than the blink tag.
This is partially correct.

If you manage to sell the corporate entity to a third party without making any warranties about latent claims, you will not be concerned about the corporation's liability. And the purchaser of that corporation is pretty foolish.

However you are still responsible for your own personal liability when you operated the company. Did you breach your directors' duties? Did you commit fraud? Did you sign a guarantee for the obligations of the corporation?

There are three ways to become personally liable off the top of my head. I'm sure there are several more.
When Yehuda needs money he came online to tell us some funny story.

I think he isn't happy for 50K DOLLARS got on kickstarter (1) for doing "nothing". He is a "writer" and "performance guy" but after merging his "thing" merb into rails 3 he quit leaving rails with a lot of issues and poor performances (compared to rails 2.0) and Merb... dead, as 99% of his "open source". He started bundler (badly) and leaving it in a bad shape to be fixed by someone else, same for thor and moneta ...

Now, late evening, his crew is giving him some points and comments to this crapware in order to get some visibility.

Give him your money!

He use the "opensource" only to increase his income, nothing else.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp
A shining counter-example to this article's core argument is the city of SF. They release tons-and-tons of data in hopes more people make cool new apps with it in ways they didn't think of. http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/open-data-page/ https://data.sfgov.org/

In general though, NYC especially appears to leading an ultimately bankrupt, economically-ignorant policy of pandering to monopolies. Killing innovation hurts the economy and makes cities like NY less desirable. Disruption is competition, and these monopolies better adapt or die.
Solid-state revolution: in-depth on how SSDs really work
Yep, direct object vulnerable. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-A4-Insecure_Dire...
With a bit of patience, you can also just train yourself to break your fast later in the day.
... just for it to be 'compiled' back to JavaScript...
10 Technology Jobs to Check Out This Week
Depends on the company? We hire tens of thousands of people a year, and are ridiculously profitable.
Personally I prefer a humorless HN. A culture of humur on the internet devolves fairly quickly into 4chan themed cat pictures and nothing but funny pics.
The people that disable javascript either do it by accident and then stop using the browser or are nerdy enough to figure out how to turn off javascript in the configs. Javascript will also be configurable using plugins.
> If you can defend the idea that it is such within that context, I would like to hear the argument. But simply repeating time and again the same old "everyone has always done it" argument isn't making that case.

I have no interest whatsoever in defending principles I do not and have never held. Google can defend themselves without me, in any event.

Rather, I advocate something entirely different than "neutrality" as a principle from which to confront the real threat net neutrality was formed to prevent. That happens to align with what Google is currently doing, if not why it is doing it. The idea of "neutrality" has a lot of weird corner cases that make no sense at all in practice. I'd rather advocate something good than something... neutral.
I mean, I understand this, but plenty of people identify it as NoSQL. I'm sure the people on HBase are intelligent enough to understand it's a meaningless phrase that would make them look silly.

EDIT: By which I mean, "NoSQL" doesn't even make sense as an approach by name. ACID relational databases and high availability data stores both have their places so evangelizing on either side is just silly.

Though I would like to point people toward http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html.
>People who bought houses in residential neighborhoods did so pricing in the fact that those neighborhoods would not host hotels.

but they didn't price in the risk of technological innovation like AirBNB.

the corner stone in your logic (and in modern economy) is property rights. With my background (USSR), i'm used to think of property rights not of as something God given, instead as of something that was invented at some point and has been very useful so far in the development of our civilization. The property rights itself has evolved, from slavery societies to the modern day, from people as a property to ideas and RF spectrum being considered as property. The property rights will continue to evolve, and probably, God forbid - my townhouse is well over-water now, real estate rights disappear, while rights for DNA or human soul(mental footprint, dreams, etc..), something like this will come, or one day property rights, as exclusive license on something, will just stop being useful for human civilization at all.
Why did you break up?
- Macbook Pro 13" (128GB solid, 8GB RAM), magic mouse (I almost exclusively use the trackpad).
- 2 year old custom built gaming rig (i7K @4Ghz, 16GB of Ram, GTX 580, 256GB Solid, 750GB secondary, 27" Samsung Monitor, Shitty logitech gaming keyboard, shitty cyborg 7 mouse)

I almost never use my pc other than as a media center and occasionally some hardcore games. All my work is done on my mac.
Heavy HBase user here. My two cents, FWIW.

I totally identify with both sides of this article, but if we had to do this again, we would probably go for HBase again. Its quite a pain to manage unless you have someone on your team with a PhD in HBase, but:

1. The main HBase committers are also the ones who contribute to the Hadoop project, so its in a forward trajectory with good velocity, since its fairly coupled to the Hadoop ecosystem. Cloudera is a big contributor, as are Facebook and Salesforce.

2. Facebook, Adobe and other BigTM companies use it in production and at scale. (Granted they have armies of smart people to maintain HBase.)

3. For all the pain it is, its reasonably documented and has a growing community that fills in the gap. I could be totally totally wrong about this, but Cassandra doesn't have that same level of community as HBase does.
Hey apu,

Do you have any info on APIs available to use Bigshot camera features by programming?

Anything generic that doesn't use gphoto would be awesome.
> Get rid of it for what? This is purely a troll; you offered no solution. I can't even imagine what you're referring to; is OSX or Ubuntu going to make managing my windows any better?

Try XMonad on Linux. It does allow me to manage my windows better.
Would it be possible to combine a parametric model of a given type of key with a device that can detect where the shear line is for each pin? I'm envisioning a device that you can stick into the lock one day, then go away and extract data that describes the key, which you feed into a parametric model, which you then use to produce the correct key using a 3D printer. Then you come back the next day and use this perfectly valid key to compromise physical security.

A device which can do such detection could be far less expensive than a device to both detect and actuate the pins.
Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3: The Critical Power of Free Software
My observation was mainly that people seem not to be finding what they would like to rent. I don't have a silver bullet for this, but I think you're right by trying to iterate over it and find something that works. Here are a couple thoughts:

I don't know if you show products, or have product pages, other than what is "listed" by lenders. If not, you don't really know what people would gravitate towards. I would want to create a detailed product page for every piece of gear I could think of. You will know what was needed based on traffic stats. You could create a "wait list" or something more desirable sounding.

What about social integration? If you had product which was unavailable, do you allow people to do something like tweet - "anyone have a Canon EF 135mm f/2L lens I can rent? {url} @cameralends" This might trigger some offsite renting/borrowing but you will still benefit from the exposure.

As far as growing traffic, my opinion is if the SERP/SEM/etc methods aren't working. You're going to have to grind it out and start promoting your brand offline. Hosting events seems like a good way to get your brand out there. Sponsoring photography shoots may work well. Hire a model/makeup/etc, rent/find a cool venue, promote it through a local photo group eg. meetup/etc). This could probably cost as low as a few hundred bucks per event. You might even charge for the event (maybe free if they rent something from the site). As you could imagine, this can go many directions...

Best of luck.
Wave coming.
pure, speculative BS.
choice quote:
"This means there is no way of knowing when, or even if, Amazon will unveil a reflective, full-color display of its own devising."

modern journalism, aka pulling shit out of your ass and selling it as insight.
Putty has nice nethack support.
I have the newer Macbook Pro 13" (retina & solid state) which is substantially lighter and more portable than previous Macbook Pros. While I typically work at the same area most of the time, it being light weight is definitely a bonus.

An air is even lighter and thinner.
I can empathise, but that is not the role of the courts. Particularly when the problem is systemic.

The court's role here should be to sentence in a way that a) offsets the incentives that exist for corruption, and b) provides restitution where possible.

The problem is not evil individuals, but that incentives for corruption exist in the first place.
Forgot to mention it's the retina version.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13955163/imitating-a-blin...
The author theorizes that Amazon could combine the Paperwhite display technology with that of Liquivista to create a reflective full-color display, but acknowledges that it might take a decade, or never happen at all, and also there's no evidence to suggest they're currently working on it.

Kind of a fluffy piece, no?
Lenovo Thinkpad T420, Mint 14, intel core i5, 16gb ram, nvidia nvs 4200m,60gb ocz ssd, and is regularly hooked up to a 22inch acer monitor.
If it's only about the windowing system, you might want to try out a few X Window Managers on Linux. There's more than what comes out of the box with Ubuntu.

(I like tiling window managers like XMonad for example.)
Let me guess, an angular guy?
"Big _____" is a Progressive catchphrase [...] used to villify [...] taking away some freedom from the marketplace

This all sounds much more ideological to me than the comment to which you are objecting.
Client-Side Storage Options
<table> wasn't actually abused; it just happened to be the best way to do things until CSS 2.1 was rolled out.
MacBook Air 2013 13"/8Gb/i7/128

Lenovo z580 15"/8Gb/750 with Arch Linux, i3wm

Sometimes I plug in a spare monitor if I need the extra screen space but I really prefer a portable setup.
We discovered that we had very visions for the company, and very different ideas about how to achieve them.
Yeah, they're trying to remove the settings that people set to goof up their browsers from the look of this. There's this one, too:

"Load images automatically" and Always show the tab bar" checkboxes removed from preferences and reset to defaults