skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you are saying chimps or dogs can make their own space shuttle let's say in next 50,000 years? or for that matter any other species of animal.
Its enough for a few hundred genomes to be sequenced at low coverage. Development of a proof of concept is probably possible with this.
I think the kind of people who are bothered about Linus' tone are likely to be bothered about similar things in other people. For my part I've never found Linus particularly offensive and I'm equally puzzled by people who disagree with Joanna's style too. Perhaps some people are just too easily offended.
Netwars: interactive web series exploring cyberwarfare
New innovation case on THINK: Wizzit
https://delicious.com/ ?

They have an app (for android at least, not sure about iOS) with which you can share stuff to.
So from your (mobile/desktop) browser you can store anything that has a url.
Depends on the country you're based in.

In the EU, where the market is heavily regulated and favours consumers over entrepreneurs, it could be an offence against Consumer Rights.

Therefore you could be penalised if a consumers organisation finds out and reports to the authorities that you have not included "Terms and Conditions" on your website or that your T&C contains parts that are agains the Civil Code or legal rules (for instance you must allow your customers to file formal complaints about your product or to withdraw the purchase order).

The same is true for information about cookies and privacy. Be very careful as fines could be very severe for a startup or private individual.
If you are talking about running Windows specifically under KVM, then switch your display from VNC to Spice, change the video adapter to QXL and inside the Windows VM install spice-tools from http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-too...

This alleviates some of the problems you are referring to.
I read Marquez's master piece '100 Years of Solitude' in my native language Malayalam 25 years ago and it got etched into my mind forever. In the next 2-3 years I read almost all the works of Marquez available in English. Later a lot more Latin American Authors including Borges, Huan Rulfo, Carpentier, Manuel Puig, Fuentes,Cortazar, Paz etc. became popular among the reading public in my region, but GGM was the one who started it all and remains one of my favourite writers of 20th century. Have a feeling that Marquez' did his best in the short story genre - despite his reputation as a novelist.

It is a coincidence that one of the first magical realist novels of my mother tongue - 'Khazakinte Ithihasam (Legends of Khazak)' also got published almost at the same time as '100 years of Solitude' was being published in Spanish and both works present highly resplendent and almost spiritual language and journeys (almost untranslatable).

Opening line of 'Legends of Khazak'- 'When the bus finally reached Kooman Kavu, the place did not seem unfamiliar to Ravi'.
I got an offer from Uber...and it looks like I won't be able to take it for the same reasons :(
Yes, of course -- there's nothing special about humans that sets us apart from other animals except a few accidents of evolution. In the right circumstances, any other animal could take our place. But not in 50,000 years, more time would likely be required.
On my last OS reinstall, I tested out Qubes but was put off by the lack of AppVM graphics card support (I do game development) and lack of bluetooth (wireless mouse + headphones) support. I understand these are key security holes and are absent for a reason, but in my view being able to enable these would have been an acceptable compromise between usability and security - the reality is that my personal security situation is not so critical that I am going to go without these modern conveniences, but I would still like to make it as difficult as possible for attackers otherwise.

Surely Qubes even with these security holes would be better than vanilla Linux? (This was roundly shot down as a proposition on the Qubes mailing list)
Feedly delivers to 15 million users with App Engine and Cloud Storage
Nice work. Answering should be easier though. You should be able to click Yes/No directly next to the questions listed on http://www.imodoe.com/#asked_questions . This way you could quickly answer a lot of questions.
somebody tell this to the node.js crowd
You would be wrong. Torvalds gets some regular hate-machine action here every couple of months. Someone finds a frustrated mailing list message of his and posts it out of context, and half of the resulting comments are about how Torvalds really shouldn't be a project lead with an attitude like that, or how he's damaging open source, or all sorts of pronouncements on his behaviour.
Anything could be "The Great Filter". The best candidates for Great Filters are things which took a long time to happen on Earth (suggesting it may be a fluke or statistically rare event.) Conversely things that happen quickly, or things that independently happened multiple times suggest they aren't rare or unlikely events.

On Earth, high tech civilization appeared relatively shortly after humans evolved. Agriculture was independently invented half a dozen times in different places, and cities and civilization at least twice in the new and old world. We were also moving in the direction of science and technology even before we discovered coal power so the "other planets don't have fossil fuels" doesn't seem like a great candidate either.
RIP. I felt a shock when I discovered this when I woke up. He is probably the author that has influenced me more strongly in my literary tastes. Gabo wasn't just a great writer but loved by many in spanish speaking countries. His mastery of the prose and outstanding ability on his craft are laudable but Gabo was as well a great person. A friend had the chance to meet him in the context of his PhD, I guess I'll forever envy her for that.

Being this my first HN comment (thanks Gabo for the strength) I'll go all out with a second unrelated part of the comment, less emotionally charged but perhaps more HN-like:

There are many comments in the thread about the translation of the first sentence of "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Translating is such a hard task, there is no way part of the meaning/subtleties will not be lost in it since languages are not one to one. And even if we get to pass most of the meaning keeping the flow will be so hard except for very similar languages (spanish/portuguese). What is an impossible problem for computers is one as well for translators, we can only hope they give as a tasty human take on the task. I wonder if one day automatic translations of literary works will have a "style" options to simulate different translator sensibilities or we will settle for a winner-algorithm takes all the translations.

Something more I'd like to share, I'm very curious if other people feel the same because part of my homemade theory of the language depends on this :). I'm lucky enough to read high level literature in different languages, however even if I can appreciate it, the pleasure I experience while reading Spanish is in a different level. Somehow a similar experience happens while talking, I feel more strongly bound to spanish in a very subtle way, it's not something I usually notice, just on some occasions. I only started learning languages after 8. A possible reason is how the brain gets bound to words and language when very young, another is that I have lived more emotional experiences in that language. The second hypothesis would have to explain why I do not feel that way in french even if I've lived in Paris 10 years. Obviously one case study, apply a grain of salt ;)
I don't know about Linode, but I do know that DO does not report most of there outages on there status page.

With 3 out of 4 outages or 'troubles' at Digital Ocean, there is no report on there status page. Even when tens of people complaining about it on twitter and they replied on the tweets that they have an outage, there is nothing on the status page.

So I would not recommend comparing there status pages.
Interesting question, that ...

I was out of the industry by 2002 (do not ask me about what it was like to be part of a team making our first pitch for VC seed investments on September 12th, 2001 ...). But I am informed by a barrister of my acquaintance (over a pint) that because of a very interesting precedent set in English employment law following the collapse of BCCI in 1992, if SCO were still in business in the UK, and I was still in the field and had difficulty getting work because of the aforementioned vitriol, I could sue them for damages to my reputation and have a good chance of collecting.

(The Bank of Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, collapsed in an epic scandal of corruption, fraud, and money laundering: innocent former employees of BCCI subsequently sued the liquidators and received damages in compensation for the trauma and injury to their reputation, which in many cases rendered them unemployable in their industry thereafter. More on BCCI here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_In... )
Here's my DO results (AMS1).
This server was busy and we're actively using it for 4+ months

[root@server ~]# dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.29244 s, 171 MB/s
As soon as some characters are not allowed for passwords I always fear that the service did implement own hashing and password storage methods instead of using standard ones
A CEO explains the merits of a tiki lounge next to your cubicle
This would hurt sooo many newbies... You're much better off with a normal axe that won't try to twist and jump out of your hand every single time.

For wood cutting, the size of the axe head matters a lot - too small and it doesn't have enough force, too large and it gets stuck very easily.

The length of the handle is also important - you'll fare much better with longer ones, but the longer it is, the harder it is to aim and control.

As with anything, practice is key, but I'm pretty sure you don't want to start with this axe.
I am most impressed by the use of the tire to keep the wood upright and positioned.
> I was under the impression it was the Class?

It is the class. But it's not the class in which the method is defined it's the class from which it is called.

So in one case it's the superclass and in the other case it's the subclass.
I really don't get the intention with the default visual style Ubuntu has settled on. I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it but it's just not attractive.

I previously thought it was growing pains and they would eventually land on a great style that was still "theirs", but at this point it feels like a lost cause. Personally I've stopped recommending Ubuntu on the desktop because I already know what the initial reaction to a fresh install is going to be.
DO @$40-AMS1

1500+0 records in
1500+0 records out
768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 1.17399 s, 654 kB/s
Unix, schmunix. With a 7 Mhz processor and 256k RAM, the Amiga delivered multitasking, a GUI, interprocess communication, hardware accelerated graphics and a whole heap of other features in 1985 that the MS/Intel world didn't deliver for another 10 years.

CPU, RAM etc were not the constraining factors here.
Mocking of HTTP Server in Java
Yeah, that wood looked like stiff butter.

I used to split ironbark logs to sell for firewood. Your aim had to be pretty accurate, first marking a groove with an axe and then a few good hits with a log splitter. If you hit a knot the bloody thing would bounce back like it was made of rubber.
Twitter is also included in the list of annoying sites. I think AppleID is one too, their password policy just sucks anyway, I'd love to see the stats on the amount of "Forgot Password?"'s on their service
LockerRoom – Distributed lock manager in Python
ACM Honors Computing Innovators Who Are Changing the World
You sound like Michael Dell in the 90s saying Apple should be liquidated. I'm not saying Yahoo has a second act coming or anything like that, but rather that your armchair analysis ignores the reality of Yahoo's DNA as a company.
Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population
Spaces do however sometimes cause some problems on html forms. For instance, they get trimmed off the end of each value of a form when the request is sent (happens on Chrome at least).

There was another gotcha I noticed with spaces and html forms once; an option in a select list with multiple consecutive spaces in the middle of it had those spaces reduced to one space when the request was sent (once again, happens on Chrome at least).
Cassini spacecraft finds sign of subsurface sea on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
This time, they are supporting a lot of different "flavours". In my case, I will for example use an Ubuntu "Gnome" flavour or maybe XFCE. They are reintroducing long term support of the diversity, which is really nice.
"It's also a very young system and there hasn't been enough time for it to develop any form pf intelligent life."
The easiest answers I can intuit are a) space concerns and b) passwords being stored unencrypted. I reckon point a is valid because malicious users may attack the provider with very long passwords via creating bogus accounts, to disrupt the service; and b is valid because if the developers are lazy enough to store unencrypted passwords away, likely they are to defend against injection attacks via disallowing characters like (').
The article is a waste of reading time, but you can click through to http://www.vipukirves.fi/english/description.htm, which is marketing material, but way more informative.
For me the greatest part of this innovation was putting the log into a car tire.
You give zero arguments for what you consider wrong with the visual style of Ubuntu. I'm sure there are flaws that graphic designers and other people trained in the topic can point out, but until you do it's just... yeah, well, like... your opinion man.

And the lack of a flat UI does not count as an argument - that's just a fashion trend.

Also, my own anecdotal experience does not match yours. I often get surprised (as in "wow, that looks nice!") questions of "That's not Windows/OSX? What is that?" from people when I show something on my laptop.
I'd be more concerned the aliens would be militarily superior to us, considering the millions to billions of years head start on technology.

Or that there are no aliens, raising concerns that most civilizations inevitably destroy themselves.

Or that there are, but they haven't made contact because they don't care about us. If they don't care they might wipe us out because they want our resources, or see us as a potential threat.
Thanks for the reply, and indeed it was the update corrupted of my browser, thanks for the reply
I have enjoyed Louis de Bernières, in particular his Latin American trilogy, which Bernières acknowledges as highly influenced by GGM. I don't know that it's philosophically consoling, though. I guess I might call it Márquez-lite.
Raindrop outsources some of their development to Ukraine. Perhaps, someone left `<html lang="ru">` somewhere. Many IDEs and editors use system language inside their HTML templates by default. I think, WebStorm does it, maybe some others.

In addition, many companies like Facebook offer localized versions of SDK downloads and Widget scripts. Thus, when a developer somewhere in China downloads the SDK and puts the <script> tags on their page, people from all over the world will see Facebook authentication dialog in Chinese.

Localization can be tricky.
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604177
I just took XUbuntu for a spin. It's just as great as the 13.10 release. If you're a GNOME refugee and looking for an excellent desktop then I can't recommend XUbuntu enough.
Just upgraded from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 .
already liking the locally integrated menus.
What's the difference between a product and a feature? In my eyes, if people are willing to pay for something, it's a product.
It has always struck me how Magic Realism seems to be so prevalent in the literary tradition of such distant and otherwise unrelated areas as South America and India.

I am no expert in any of the fields that could try to provide an answer to this so I'm unable to provide a data-backed explanation. All the explanations I can think about are quite "magic realists" so better suited for a short story than for hacker news ;)
You may try to install blog (like wordpress or similar) in your on server. With some plugins and themes functionality may be replicated almost 100%.
Given that we know for a fact that large employers have been actively conspiring to depress salaries, call this the visible hand of the market.
From what I can tell, Apple's low post Steve Jobs return was $12.72 on April 2003. I believe that was the month the iTunes Store launched. Sort of shocking that was their low point after the success of the iMac and the iPod. Investors must have thought the store would go bust like all the other music store attempts before, but man it just goes to show how clueless market analysts (or maybe everyone) are when it comes to tech.
Silicon oxide? Take it with a grain of... quartz?
Bitcoin - When you can and can’t rely on 0 confirmations
Way better. Xubuntu have done a ton of prettifying. Wish they'd upstream this work.
Hetzner Robot is 32 IIRC.

Disappointing.
This is great! I've got 40 tabs open in firefox and my browser is straining under the pressure. A lot of them is research for work (servers, services, reviews). Some of it I don't care to bookmark. And some of it I'd like to read at home but have no way to get it there except emailing the link to myself.
On an XTen you could potentially do a few thousand genomes for that price... If they allowed it.
Wouldn't submitting a link to release notes than the desktop download page be better?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes
Just FYI, that first comma usage is erroneous.

http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/03/david-foster-wallace...
Fortunately, Linode runs Xen.
Why your selling shouldn't always start with a demo pitch?
I have to say I was expecting a bit more than him just spraying a big dirty tag on the side of the building. Pretty lame and costly for the museum to deal with.
Being richer doesn't mean the free market did it (as the other commenter here noted). If you don't bother checking other factors at play (like a history of having undemocratic regimes and having started from far poorer conditions), then so much for using science /s

Not to mention that you can be filthy rich and not by using a "scientific system" in any sense. A king is not richer from a peasant because he is more scientific -- just because he has the power, and a family heritage.
I've used it across 2 different desktops during the nightlies, and the xfce text keeps bugging when editing a panel, but only there.

That is the only weird issue I've had, apart from that 14.04 is a very solid release.
The yum install xorg-x11-apps bit is so you can use the xinput tool as a demonstration of the problem. Fedora doesn't have it by default apparently so you need to install it.

A malicious app could just directly use the X protocol, no need to call this app, so unfortunately no additional privileges are needed.
So we should just give up completely on trying to make better things?

I don't think that was the point of the video (some amount of gratitude for the things we have) -- but then maybe I'm misunderstanding your point.
Want to start your own business? First things first.
"The only way of restoring a backup is to deploy that backup as a new server."

Not true. You can restore a backup to a node as long as it has enough unallocated disk space. The simplest ways to create enough unallocated disk space are to create a new node or to delete or resize all your disk images.
--- src/lib/libssl/src/crypto/rsa/rsa_crpt.c	2014/04/15 21:06:10	1.2
+++ src/lib/libssl/src/crypto/rsa/rsa_crpt.c	2014/04/17 13:14:26	1.3
@@ -189,14 +189,6 @@ BN_BLINDING *RSA_setup_blinding(RSA *rsa, BN_CTX *in_c
else
e = rsa->e;

-
-	if ((RAND_status() == 0) && rsa->d != NULL && rsa->d->d != NULL)
-	{
-	/* if PRNG is not properly seeded, resort to secret
-	* exponent as unpredictable seed */
-	RAND_add(rsa->d->d, rsa->d->dmax * sizeof rsa->d->d[0], 0.0);
-	}
-
if (!(rsa->flags & RSA_FLAG_NO_CONSTTIME))
{
/* Set BN_FLG_CONSTTIME flag */

The diff the post is linked to.
Sand. Probably meant a grain of sodium chloride! :)
I have yet to see any data that supports ANY programming syntax as easier to learn or in any way a good thing.

Knowing a few C-style languages, a few lisp style languages, and a few ML style languages, I have found unsurprisingly that the language I'm using most becomes the easiest to read.

But since all we have is anecdotia and talks about our feelings, cracks knuckles, I'll give my two cents.

I think ML style is the easiest to _learn_ to read. It's sparse, simple, and almost always obvious. It's probably my favorite to read, and I usually find myself able to read it quickly.

My favorite to write and edit is a lisp style. With paredit and vim, I feel like I can edit code effortlessly. Every time I'm back in a C or ML descendant, I find I'm always wishing I could easily grab this expression or that parameter, and whoops, don't forget that comma there, nope this line it is a semicolon, nope this line it's a period. The irregular shape of the code with a different character for each concept (period for chained method call, comma for chained list or argument, semicolon for end of line, etc) makes it very hard to edit quickly. With so many different representations it is hard to add keyboard macros to help you structure code.

Specifically, in C# and JS, I always feel like I'm just pounding the text like a blacksmith, with sparks of commas, periods, semicolons, colons, brackets, square brackets, and angle brackets flying around. With lisps, it's usually just parens, and with paredit and Vim's in/a parens commands, they mostly work for me, not against me.

That same simplicity of representation is why macros are so fluid and simple in lisps. Can macros exist in other styles? Theoretically, yes, but all the issues I mentioned would be barriers in the way.
Wal-Mart introduces money-transfer service
Do you want to grow as a programmer? Do you just want to keep doing what you're doing? Or do you want to be exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, new techniques, and possibly better ways of solving your existing problems?
Whither print.css? A Rallying Cry for a Web That’s Fit to Print (2013)
I love how the rounded window corners are now (finally!) properly anti-aliased [1].

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/unity-7-to-get-new-window-dec...
Here's a list of resources : http://superherojs.com/
My page had a "Русский" button in the corner so maybe that did it?
Oh, that is really cool. From the FAQ:

>Candidate teams are limited to five members. They must be genomic researchers, entrepreneurs, startups, or early-stage companies from academia or industry that aim to take their promising NGS applications to market.

If I were starting a company in the genomics space (maybe someday), I would definitely apply with Illumina. They recently hit a milestone whereby a complete human genome can be sequenced for $1000 [1], which has been a goal for over a decade since it "neatly highlights the chasm between the actual cost of the Human Genome Project, estimated at $2.7 billion over a decade, and the benchmark for routine, affordable personal genome sequencing" [2].

This will be one of the more exciting, and yet at the same time terrifying, areas of research and innovation. Personalized medicine is the future of healthcare, but we'll need brilliant, well-intentioned people to lead us there in a way that benefits us while avoiding the numerous ethical challenges along the way.

[1] http://www.illumina.com/systems/hiseq-x-sequencing-system.il...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$1,000_genome
It makes sense but it still strongly violates the principle of least surprise. No other language I know of does this, nor do I think this would be a particularly desirable feature.