skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that morphology has proven to be a poor way to determine evolutionary relationships in light of modern genetic sequencing and beyond extant species or those of the recent (evolutionary) past it becomes increasingly suspect. The most recent common ancestor of humans and whales probably looked shrew like.

By the time one goes back half a billion years, morphological similarities become like snakes and earthworms - likely to arise independently based on environmental factors.

Let me put it this way: The elephant bird of Madagascar and homo sapiens evolved bipedialism as their primary form of locomotion as an adaptation to their environment. Until historical times, neither was extinct. Imagine our evolutionary successors claiming that the elephant bird is the missing link between birds and bipedal mammals of the world 500 million years from now.
I'm not sure those are anything but coincidentally related.
1) many muslims disagree that there is a difference between islam and sharia. The word itself disagrees with your assessment. Besides, ever met a muslim that didn't care what halal was ? Ever wondered what "halal" refers to. These people that call themselves muslim use the sources I referred to as guidance on what is halal, they do not decide for themselves.

2) slavery, incuding kidnapping people, even children into slavery is halal. So is raping them. Yes there's limits to exactly who, when and where, but frankly that doesn't matter to the morality of that. Halal = morally reprehensible.

3) Even seemingly stupid parts of the islamic faith, like halal food (practiced by the vast majority of muslims), you're going to find discriminatory/racist at best (religious discrimination in employment, to start with). Even that part is morally reprehensible.

4) I disagree strongly with your assessment that "those who see the West as the devil come from countries where the West has severely harmed in the past through selfish and corrupt interference". Aside from the fact that that statement reads like a conspiracy theory, those hotbeds you refer to are Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Pakistan. In a different way Egypt has been a hotbed. You might be able to build a weak case America has harmed Somalia, but the others have massively benefited from America's influence and help.

I propose instead that those who see the west as the devil come from societies (or at least families) that take islam very seriously and let it guide their life. The stronger the place of islam in their lives, the more hate for everyone they have (not just for America, in case you truly are that naive. Israel, Holland (because there is a whore at every intersection, one Egyptian explained to me not very long ago), France (something about a Jewish school that you just can't repeat, and the "fact" that they support ex-muslims in Lebanon), Ethiopia, Kenia, ...).

> Religious rhetoric aligns itself with realpolitik. It is naive to see it in any other terms.

Everything, including your rhetoric, aligns itself with realpolitik. That's the definition of realpolitik. Your statement is true, but it contains no information, other than what's in the dictionary. Barbie dolls align themselves with realpolitik too, and it is equally naive to see things otherwise.
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Rxvtdoesn't accept saveLines more than 32767 (see author)
No one said the same button/chord had to perform both of these commands.
If memory serves me correctly rBase could so something similar in the late eighties.
Better to have others write your history than yourself. Less hubris that way. History has it's own way to deal with the notability criterion: everything that's not notable will be forgotten.
It isn't. The Note 3 has a list of blacklisted cellular operators outside your region, if you try to use a sim card created by one of them you get an error on the screen and it refuses to connect.

The leaflet is just a leaflet, the issue here is that Samsung have added software intentionally designed to block cross-region usage.
I love Stripe as much as the next guy but this post seems a bit biased in that direction.

You've added the caveat (and it's appreciated) but saying someone/something is the best at anything is a tall, tall order. Never align yourself to a tech, service or company so much that you miss anything else on the horizon.
The only right way to do it is left index finger, right index finger, forehead.
Why does being first to put up a gas station matter? What stops other countries from putting up their own?
It's a prepaid plan with T-Mobile. No contract. Every Nexus 4 owner loves to talk about it. Go look at the Nexus 4 subreddit, it's a circle jerk of people who are "beating the system" by using a low-end phone on a sub-par carrier and getting "unlimited data".
2011 is almost two years ago.
Yes I do, it just comes from Apple themselves. There are several icons you can't get rid of on the iphone for apple products and services.
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My answer was referring to your comment that you didn't know what the average salary of a junior-to-senior developer in Germany was.
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That is not my point.
Wasteland is an interesting result. I've watched it come and go as the metagame changes, and I also can't help but wonder is it the most powerful land? Or truly the second most powerful card.
OK, after read the two blog posts, and all the comments here, this is my tough:

I've a poor's men backup solution too, from my personal droplet to gmail.

I use it for backup /etc, /root, /usr/local/(s)bin and /html, with excludes and rotations (about 15MB total), encrypted 4 passes with 4 different algorithms.

I did write two scripts, one for backup-restore (and encrypt/decrypt, secure deletion, html email generation, etc) and other to list-retrieve remote backups using IMAP.

On gmail I did put a filter to send all to the trash, so I get 30 days backup rotation. More complex rotations could be implemented using different cron tasks, with different config files, pointing to different accounts (srv-month-number@...), but for my personal VPS I don't need that, 30 days is enough.

But.

Now, I go to the digital ocean panel, to the "backups" tab, and I read:

"Pricing is set at 20% of the Droplet's monthly cost (e.g. It will cost $1/mo. to enable backups for a 512MB Droplet)."

And I can only think: facepalm.

It's not only the price of the implementation time, that me and this other person with ruby/dropbox have spend...

Even if it looks like "you get a gratis backup solution", really it may be more expensive (because of all the network bandwitch)

Well, at a side of the fun of implementing your own backup/restore scripts, you get:

* provider independence (if all DO is down, you still can restore from gmail or dropbox)

* no periodical costs (but remember the implementation cost maybe bigger the first time, then is just reuse and edit a few variables).

* Security (you control how and where the data goes, otherwise you can save and restore from the provider, but implementation, management, internal policy, budget, team or technology changes, etc around your data is up to you).

But, I will never call again my solution a "poor's man" solution, because counting implementation time and network traffic, is much more expensive than $12/YEAR.

Edit: formatting a list.
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Ask HN: how do I start learning about personal finance?
Hello!

I'm a 23-year-old web developer with few expenses. In fact, I can count my expenses on my right hand: rent, utilities, phone, Internet, food. I believe this is the right time to start building up some savings. However, I have no idea how to go about doing this. I recently got some health insurance, but that's pretty much it. All my money is in a single bank account.

I want to learn how to correctly manage my money, but I don't know where to start. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I live in India, so India-specific information will be very useful. But general tips are also welcome.

Thanks.
this worked for me after googling it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230398390457909...
This seems to work on a very similar principle to automated industrial cutters like those you would in factories slicing fabric or even automated drawing machines or dock cranes.

Two tracks on either side with one main gantry and tool in the middle. The design is very simple (which is very good) and I think the principles are straightforward enough for the DIYer to begin tinkering almost immediately. 3D printers, while getting cheaper, aren't as cheap as inkjet printers and until that becomes are reality, making parts will be a bit expensive.

But for a small green house version I can see someone using furniture drawer tracks or screen door tracks from the nearest hardware shop and begin building one of their own. Someone with basic woodworking skills can put together a basic version fairly quickly. Arduino programming is also pretty simple that a novice can get working quickly. A motor controller board will really help with a smaller version.

I especially like the design for the Crop Circle Bot :
http://wiki.farmbot.it/file/detail/Sketch%2C%20FarmBot%20for...
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Android 2.x is rapidly becoming the new "Windows XP".
>> such evidence seems weak to me, and hardly enough to present those ideas as facts.

Maybe the problem is that you don't have the full context of the evidence being presented. How was the material found; was it in the exact same layer of dirt? Was it dated to the time period of the rest of the site? Some bowl fragments don't provide evidence independent of the context that gives them validity.

But you should be comforted to know that the evidence for evolution from DNA is so overwhelming that there is no room for doubt at all. Species are related to each other and the approximate time that their common ancestor lived can be established as well independent of any fossil evidence. There is no other plausible hypothesis besides evolution that can be presented to explain the evidence.
I'm curious what version of Adreno they worked with. There have been serious improvements as of late, particularly with the 300 series.
True but irrelevant to the parent's point.
The nice thing about the key combination is that the constituent keys are still useful on their own and in other combinations.
I feel the pain!

I'm building a iPad POS and finally forget about provide credit card payments for my latin-america customers (except using paypal).
I think the follow up circular design is far more efficient. A huge X-Y table is terribly expensive in materials.
surprise surprise, the only people who do are Apple. Airport extremes are genuine pleasures to set up, there's a literally an app for your iphone you can use which lets you do most basic tasks.
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If the directive of Goldman Sachs wants to hack your website, the break attemps will come from the NSA offices (and probably you won't notice them in your logs after they got in). But individual persons (that could have an IP in that range, or get an unsecured access point) and individual computers (parts of botnets, running trojans, something that works as a proxy, etc) are everywhere.
Used the report error to google option to, so they can fix it.
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It's that its porcelain is a clusterfuck. The staging area is a hack that greatly convolutes the UI, and it would have been better if it were left out and you just had a way to cherry-pick what you want to commit at commit time (if it wasn't everything).

There's no symmetry in commands. The opposite of "git commit" is "git reset --soft HEAD^", not "git uncommit". "git reset" is three commands in one. I could go on and on.

git was designed as a data model and then a series of slapdash commands that enabled manipulation of that data model. It wasn't designed from the end-user perspective backwards, and this really, really shows.
The article appears to completely ignore the issues of liability and malpractice and whatnot, which are critical to any discussion of anesthesia. This makes the article somewhat useless.
In some places natural light is legally mandated, hard to use a large chunk of floorspace, have natural light and give everybody a room of their own at the same time. Especially older buildings can't be adapted to this.
The desk space recommendation almost certainly no longer applies. In the '70s, it was not uncommon to work with printed listings of code and printed memory dumps for debugging. These were printed on large fanfold sheets.

If you were working with a code listing, a memory dump, and the program output, that could easily take up almost half of 30 square feet. Toss in a giant reference manual or two, and a desk calculator, and it is easy to believe that desks under 30 square feet could interfere with productivity.
This just seems like blatant advertising. Why is it on the front page?
I'll refer to Nutter on this one. Refinements appear to be a method caching nightmare.

http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html
Right, but it's distinguishable from encrypted communication.

We have client-side signals for those things. http means unencrypted, https means encrypted. To do encrypted-but-not-authenticated, I guess you'd need a third URL scheme for it, to know when you're supposed to get that, since you can't shoehorn it into https safely.
I wrote a little post on processing credit cards and some of the challenges I've encounted: http://jimkeener.com/posts/everyday-numbers-1
This is mostly the fault of the SSL certificate providers, which vary in complexity between the obnoxious GoDaddy and even more obtuse and impossible to deal with.

Compounding this, the configuration file formats for each web server platform vary wildly, selecting the correct format and installing it properly can be tricky.

Making matters worse, it's very easy to set up something that looks like it's working, but is actually broken on some subset of the browsers out there.

These problems can be solved with better standards, better documentation, testing tools, and most of all, providers that actually care about the user experience they're selling.
> Why are Al Gore's finances any less relevant

Because Al Gore is not a part of the scientific community and has no relevance to whether anything is happening or not. Any invocation of his name in this debate is simply a sign of severe bias and an attempt to manipulate the argument with emotions instead of facts.
I think it's dumb to "compete" with a new space station, when the Earth already has a space station that could use some more support and innovation.

I can't wait for China's leadership to get through their "look, we're a power too" phase. The world would be a much better place, and I would argue China would be a better place, if China's leadership was not so obsessed with the optics of whether or not they are a superpower.

The U.S. and Russia spent decades as opposing superpowers, and so what? That's not the culture of the world anymore. Now U.S. astronauts ride to the International Space Station on Russian rockets, and that's ok.
Both IRC and XMPP cheerfully supports group messages?
I believe that's because Heroku's on AWS and using ELB, so they have to have an ELB just for you ($15/month).
True, but at least nothing from third parties
It checks out okay for me (Safari) and with a testing tool: http://www.digicert.com/help/
I'm obviously a Stripe fanboy but I hope my point comes through that I think all credit card processing is a hard business where it is hard to make a lot of money. Stripe is best in class in my mind right now - but being the absolute best in a commodity business can be a hard position to be in.
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I would still be concerned about the cable though. If it uses a rugged metal cable, then the worse case scenario is that it stops generating power when your fire gets a little out of control. If you're just using the standard rubber insulated cable, then you might ruin your cable and be SOL.
I've used both. Gitolite does everything on the command-line, including access management.

Gitlab is essentially an open-source clone of Github's web UI. Of the two projects, I think Gitlab is harder to deploy and far more resource-intensive on the server, but easier for users.
95's "Close Program" box had a message that hitting it again would really reset it.

http://i.technet.microsoft.com/dynimg/IC190256.gif
> not because their claim is weak, but because the evidence required to plead the claim is difficult to come by

Could you provide an example? As a layman, I'm having trouble imagining how you could have a strong case without basic information such as what exactly the tort was.
For many introverts, you'd prefer not to interact with those you don't know well - in an usual social setting you are already getting more interaction than you want/need, and any extra is unpleasant and unwelcome. You can use a phone not as a distraction, but as a (currently) socially acceptable excuse to avoid interaction.

I mean, if someone you barely know wants to make smalltalk, it's generally not okay to tell them to fsck off, even if you'd prefer to be left alone, social norms are generally made by and for extroverts. But being "in phone" and ignoring them works - and if you can use it to connect with the few people you want to connect with, it's a plus.
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Yeah, there have been countless combo decks built around pretty much the exact same set of support cards. Individually the support cards usually don't appear to be a key part of any given deck, but to a large degree that's because no one would ever call a deck a "brainstorm deck" even if brainstorm was the central card the deck was built around. They'd name it after the other things that go well with brainstorm, because that's the part that's actually different.
On a meta note:

Do duplicate submissions count as an upvote anymore?
A good marketing piece.
I gotta say it - those 160 column printouts of code were awesome for debugging over a cup of coffee...

And they still are. When you can look at 500+ lines of code at once spread over a table, you can immediately see all sorts of things that aren't evident even on a 30" screen.

Those printouts remain one of my secret weapons for isolating really heinous bugs.
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This is really great ! Especially all the April fool days Google gave us.

It reminds me of one of my friend. He had to explain "How Google works" in the class. He accidentally read half of this prank:

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

and explained it in the class. Everyone enjoyed !

But the thing to be noticed most was that most of the students, including the reached believed ! !
Indeed there is a lot of overhead in Fraude detection and avoiding and PCI compliance. This is a big cost in payments. It's all about financial risk mitigation.

A small bug or issue can have severe financial consequences! For the party that is impacted: merchant, bank, processor and clients.
Serious question: in these completely open plans that so many startups seem to favor, where does one pick one's nose or scratch one's nuts? [1]

[1] The commentator is asking out of curiosity about what other people do. This comment is not an admission of either nose picking or nut scratching at work on the part of the commentator. [2]

[2] The first footnote that disclaims nose picking and nut scratching at work is not meant to imply that the commentator picks his nose or scratches his nuts at home.
One interesting thing that stood out in terms of Google-the-startup: they incorporated on Sep 4, 1998 and raised $25 million in June 1999, and made their first acquisition in February 2001. The traction they must have been able to show must have staggering.
Small presses would make money if Amazon didn't exist. So really, this is a plea to put Amazon out of business, or at least get them to use their almost-monopoly power over book prices to give a little more margin back to the small guys.
Sergey Brin probably had the snazziest profile picture in those times:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980418143602/http://www-db.stan...
Porting features usually mean to redesign them to match the new codebase/paradigm. It's not as simple as copy/pasting code...
There's also the tPOD1 which would be less expensive, it operates off tea candles...

http://www.buytpod.com/

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tpod1/tpod1-thermoelectr...

$50

The tPOD5 can charge a smartphone, it's a bit more expensive, and doesn't run on tea candles, you put it over a camp stove.

Point is, these things exist, this kickstarter doesn't seem to improve on any of them except perhaps make the designs cheaper, but they cost more. I'm sure they can make a nice profit on these devices if they sell, and if they can handle their manufacturing costs. If not, it would be cheaper to buy one of the alternatives and ship it to people instead of running your factory.
Why can't it be

assert("a === 3", a, b)

And then it can say "a === 3 failed. (2, 4)"
"If a patient ends up dying because of preventable circumstances, that's not going to be acceptable because we are trying to save money"

Let's not pretend that every anaesthesiologist has a perfect track record. Machines can make mistakes with horrible consequences, but so can humans. Similar arguments are used against many forms of valuable automation, such as self driving cars. The benefit of using machines is that mistakes are quantifiable and can be fixed en masse. There's no way to know if any given anaesthesiologist is having an off day and there's no one fix for the potential problem. Most automation issues can be fixed with time and more data.

The outlook is grim for automating similar medical tasks because of the same problem that Sedasys is facing: the human inclination towards turf protection. Professional organizations make a lot of dues money from their members, which is then use to purchase enough clout to delay the FDA at least once. No one wants to lose a job that they've committed their lives to and the threat of automation extends across all of society. But we can't afford to be the species that shoots itself in the foot by refusing to reap the benefits of ever advancing society.

I look around and see a world filled with repetitive and mundane tasks. I love it when one of those jobs is automated away. Congratulations to Johnson & Johnson and I wish them the best in their fight against our own backward tendencies.
I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. As a former anti-social-randian-nerd, I used to shun social interactions in favor of reading. But guess what? You can learn a whole lot of things just by having an honest conversation with a stranger. And despite the stress of initially approaching a stranger (and the few times your attempts get embarrassingly shot down), I would say that its worth it.

I was reflecting for a bit on why it made me feel better to be good at conversations. Maybe its the way society is set up. Or maybe I have genes which are the result of generations of my ancestors being social (which may have a very tangible benefit if you're living in a pre-modern society)
I don't think it's cost cutting - the price of office space is far outweighed by knowledge worker salaries. I think it's a whole range of factors, but the largest is this: when a tech company becomes successful, they grow fast and are too busy to do a search for a proper office. So you see a lot of successful tech companies with tight, open layouts. Then you simply confuse causation and correlation and say "oh it must be their cross team communication!"
I think he's suggesting that he can "Show me a company working as a purely Internet bank..." without pissed off customers.
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