skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. Some users are happy to see quirky behavior that serves as an "in joke" for them, but any who failed to understand will not find any comfort during a site emergency.

Status messages should be communicated with no unnecessary ambiguity both internally (where unicorns may be the clearest term) and externally (where it is not).

Lack of clarity during periods of heavy human workload is a common cause of e.g. plane crashes. Operations people of the internet would do well to learn from mistakes made before the cloud was a thing.
I like the inclusion of social issues which shows it's important to feed your heart as well as your head.
Why not point out viable alternatives while making the criticisms of those two? Debian has a pedigree of broad, long-term professional use and is 100% free in both senses (barring a couple of firmware binaries in the 'speech' sense).
This is what you end up with — http://i.imgur.com/bmdVc.png

Not the most comforting feature they've ever introduced. Especially as it shows you your history previous to this point.
Pirates is way too heavy a term here. Canonical is large enough and the issue muddy enough that I don't think this is a warranted accusation. They're also shooting themselves in the foot, instead of coming to some kind of amicable arrangement they've now accused canonical of a serious crime which will lead to a response to that accusation rather than to a solution that would have been beneficial to all parties.

If you deal with a company that is much larger than yours that made a mistake or did something you don't agree with publicity is a means of last resort, not your first avenue for redress. And if you truly believe canonical pirated your game then you should sue them.

This is an excellent reminder why I prefer open source to closed source, projects like Arch and Debian would never suffer from this.
The chrome book is extremely light. It was also 250, much cheaper and lighter than the lenovo.

I've also been able to use a local ubuntu on this machine, not that it matters too much since I'm on a VPS, but i guess on planes or something I can have code available to me by means of a git before i get on the flight (or cron or something similar).

I don't know what a system 76 is...
Time to lawyer up!
Choosing a subset of users to satisfy will not protect the freedom of users as a whole.

Choosing to protect the freedom of users as a whole will dissatisfy developers who would like to have a different set of freedoms.
I don't think there's a market for a terminal product. I just want a terminal emulator that's pretty. Part of what I love about term + tmux development is precisely that it lacks so much visual noise.
Far more than that -- I'm talking about welfare one can quite comfortably live on. Let's make work a lifestyle choice. If technology allows for that to happen, perhaps even opponents of the welfare state, who are mostly found in the US, will come around. I mean, maybe even they will realize that it makes sense even for the richest person to be only so many times richer than the common folk.
??? I'd hardly call "sold someone else's game without permission or royalties for a year" a "mistake".
Just as an example of extending sed, I introduced "sed -i".

Yes, it doesn't require much maintenance, but sometimes you can be surprised. I started maintaining GNU grep 3 years ago because it was in a really sorry state. Some parts were almost rewritten to make it faster and more correct.
1. You should know vi comfortably. When you get on a low space embedded system vi will usually be there: emacs is too space prodigal and forget any GUIs.

2. But vi isn't the best for iOS dev or J2EE and I recognize this. But my work is usually CLI or web, so this works for me.

3. Offline: REcently I've gotten an ubuntu running in dual boot...so ... keep your eye on my site, I may post soon.
seems to be more complex than that, they (Team Meat) wanted SMB in the store but never signed contracts, but canonical put it in the store anyway, so it isn't as if they just saw the game and decided they wanted it... it was a deal being discussed that wasn't completed. Negligent, but not malicious...

http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406960226210700795
Welp.

Good luck!
Looks great, thank you!
Try it on a command line web client in your terminal. I use w3m as it has vaguely Vim like shortcuts.

Loads the front page in about 5 seconds on a 24 Kbit/s connection in the UK.

They could include a 'skip to content' link for those using text or audio interfaces, because the entire navigation stricture of the site appears to be included on every page. They also could make comments available in a way that makes them visible to a basic http client. Two minor mods like that would mean fast access to their reading material for cli nerds
I don't see any proof of that in the article. Again, if that's exactly what happened then they should sue them, this kind of trial-by-media isn't the way to resolve this. Canonical may be in the wrong, they may be not with just one side telling their story it could be just a silly communications issue or it could be that canonical's left hand doesn't now what it's right hand is doing. That isn't unusual at all. I'm pretty sure if they had sent Canonical a C&D they would have received an adequate response.

Of course blog posts are cheaper than lawyers but the end result is that they've now made themselves toxic and no distro will touch them from here.

Keep your dirty laundry out of sight until you've exhausted all other avenues seems to be a good rule of business. Once you go down the name calling road there is no turning back.

Mistakes happen, but this blogpost was not a mistake. The intent here is to inflict damage and it will likely be dealt with accordingly.

edit: and it looks like Canonical already paid.
Google is the Internet's emperor with anti-democratic tactics
Fair enough. I never travel, so the plane argument isn't really applicable. I also have linux running on this thing now so, i think that objection will go away soon.

And yes, the VPS/month is a cost, but I pay that anyway regardless the platform. I like having my contexts preserved and constant on a machine whose costs I can expense for tax purposes.
If the deal is not done then you DON'T put it in the Ubuntu Store, period

Sign the papers first

Of course, since Canonical did that, they should try an amicable solution.
Please just link directly to the FormSpring rather than the blogified version. It gives all the relevant info.

http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406945771976419136
Andrews & Arnold is one of the best and most nerd friendly ISPs in the UK: http://aaisp.net.uk/

You can get a good idea of the company's general philosophy from their owner's blog: http://revk.www.me.uk/

Unfortunately they are quite expensive compared to the bigger ISPs but in their case you really do get what you pay for.
See my comment to the grandparent post. Just a 'skip to content' link at the top of the page and a way of accessing comments without javascript. People on text only clients are away then.

http://diveintoaccessibility.info/day_11_skipping_over_navig...
Feather even exists today: http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta and works as far as I can tell. You can opt into it using the link.
Any list will vary some. You'll do well to read and listen to the works in this list: http://home.comcast.net/~antaylor1/greatbooksstjohns.htm

If you have the time and the interest I recommend learning Greek and Latin and reading the books in their original languages.
This assumes service industries will remain untouched, which is most certainly not true. Service industries are probably the next industry right after manufacturing to be decimated by automation (the time scale is unpredictable, though).

For example, a company called Momentum Machines is making a burger-producing machine (http://momentummachines.com/) that produces fresher, customizable burgers at a rapid pace. Obviously there are cost issues to be worked out over time, but it's just the tip of the iceberg.

EDIT: Reading the website would make clear that this replaces the people who make burgers in fast food restaurants. That's not manufacturing, that's service (in this case, food preparation / cooking).
That's pretty neat, although I couldn't figure it out from that video. This one explains it in detail: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUEcagEmmZo
Did your regular workstation cost 250? Does it weigh virtually nothing so that you can tromp all about town easily?

Can you pick up your hacking session while at the apple store if you happen to have no computer whatsoever with you? That's worth a lot to me since i rarely travel and, if I do, my goal is to get away from computers.
So very true
Then is it even possible to make a program that can use libraries written in Rust and Go and C++? If everyone wants to control main(), is there an escape hatch provided by any of these languages, like a C function that can be explicitly invoked near program start?
ya, but for some wierd reasons, i find the cheapest tickets on bing, and not on kayak.
Understanding that you're a "newbie to economics" I'd like to point out that the concept of the production-possibility frontier is misapplied here. The PPF deals with economic efficiency (whether an economy is producing at its potential) and relative allocations of production of capital goods vs. consumer goods. An economy is said to be producing at the edge of its PPF if there is 100% efficiency (full employment). An economy producing at a point under its PPF is associated with inefficiency (unemployment). The way you use the term does not make sense.

Secondly, economics is concerned with the efficient allocation of scarce resources among unlimited wants.

Human want is insatiable, and that's a pretty fair assumption. Even in some hyper-futuristic world, someone out there is going to want their own planet or some other kind of luxury status good. Even if everyone gets their own planet, you still have the dilemma of the fact that having a planet won't be a luxury good anymore (and something else might). This is one of the fundamental assumptions of economics.

Whether or not natural resources are scarce depends on whether you want to factor in resources in the Solar System / universe. Even in that scenario, it's a question of time scale:

The problem is that I believe we are likely to achieve levels of automation where 99.99% of human jobs are eliminated before we can utilize natural resources beyond our Solar System, and before we can achieve a point where humans are so satisfied they desire nothing more (excepting the occasional planet or two).
Are you trying that old "who is more freeest, GPL/FSF vs apache" thing? Seriously, its getting so old that it start to be a pain to answer it.

The world is not so simple that either you have total freedom to do anything, or you have complete locked down control of everything. Some freedom is about maintaining others freedom with the use of restrictions. The most common ones are "you must not kill, you must not steal". Those two are social control, but with the goal and effect of more freedom. That's not poison that kills life, rather that is protection preserving life.

Having products, be that a phone, a book reader, or a browser that users buy, this same users will think that they are the owner of it and thus in control. If then by technical means someone else actually has the complete control over the thing, that it is at least morally wrong, if not something that should simply be illegal.

To take an example, if my browser suddenly got infected with spyware and disabled ad-block, I would get angry and consider that the people behind said spyware should go to jail. If my browser suddenly got pushed with a remote update which by it's developer decision permanent disabled ad-block, I should be completely accepting of it? If Firefox did this, they would get forked as by MPL. If Firefox was proprietary software, no such thing could happen.

A foundation that say clear No to giving the developer control as if they had property owership of my phone, my book reader, my browser, is not a foundation about political, social, and technological control. Its about ensuring political, social, and technological freedom by restricting behavior that would normally be considered illegal and immoral if done outside the domain of IT.
Apple Backtracks On Its Decision To Kill Popular Kickstarter Project
When did I ever suggest storing your SSN in the cloud was a good idea? Had I said that, I would agree, my point of view would be silly, but I didn't.
Wildly underwhelming link if I may say so
Falkvinge on Infopolicy - Discussions on information policy and civil liberties
Exactly. I for one don't have a photographic memory of my issues.
I think my statement wasn't as nuanced as it could have been; I am in total support of what you are suggesting. The problem is funding it, usually by dipping further into "capital" i.e. a wealth tax which the wealthy are probably reticent to pay; even though it would probably be in their best interest.
I would love to know what Google's plan is wrt to Java7 support for Android development. With the fairly minor changes at the byte code level it seems like it couldn't be too hard to support it, but I've seen / heard absolutely nothing to suggest Google will ever update. Perhaps they are too worried about Oracle booby-trapping it somehow, or they have other long term plans. But as far as I can tell right now, Google's plan is to stagnate on Java6 forever, which is sad.
How does one apply for a job doing PR for canonical?
I'm pretty sure even HN people could do a better job.
In the case of theverge that works, but some "mobile-optimized" sites are worse than the desktop site. For example, navigating to extremetech.com from my ipad 1 takes 20 seconds over wifi before the page is interactive. After load, interaction is still slow and unreliable (and downright buggy). If i force it to use the desktop site the page loads faster and interacts more smoothly.

It's amazing but many mobile editions same to only be designed to make a screenshot to demonstrate to management that the site team did something mobile. Doesn't anybody ever actually try out these sites?
Hate it. What are our options for deleting/preventing this?
> This is similar to the (somewhat controversial) idea that adding new lanes to highways can increase congestion

This is non controversial and known as Braess's paradox[0]: changing the graph characteristics alters the Nash equilibrium solution for a worse one (i.e the Nash equilibrium is not optimal).

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braesss_paradox
This is an ancient trolling argument against the ingenuity of humanity.

Every few decades since the beginning of time, someone out there has proclaimed, "Everything has been invented, every idea has been thought, and it's only diminishing returns from here on out. The best days are past us". Except this time it happens to be a WSJ op-ed. How many WSJ op-eds have been written in the past hundred years, predicting the same thing?

It so easily dismisses driverless cars and 3d printing and hypersonic transportation. OK, these are hard problems. Sure, humanity may have given up on "big ideas" for the last few decades while the internet was born (Neal Stephenson's big complaint)

But to say that the best days are past, and that innovation can't bring us to a place that nobody imagined before? Come on. This is just silly.

Or put it another way, we could use the oft-disparaged Donald Rumsfeld quote that actually does make a lot of sense: "We don't know what we don't know".
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Hey all, I saw a huge spike in traffic and tracked it back to HN. Thanks for caring.

Let me summarize a few points. I've tried to reply in-thread.

I recognize this approach isn't for everyone or for frequent air travelers, but I walk everywhere (live in SF) and like being able to take my hack context with me and pick it up wherever, whenever.

Yes there are risks: VPNs could tighten things up.

VIM is very fast, even over high latency.

Offline support is coming. I have an ubuntu running in the chromebook.
Vala does not seem to get much attention. It borrows C# syntax (and maybe Java), compiles down to C and offers nearly symmetrical interoperability as a result. I believe Ubuntu's Unity is written in Vala. Knowing Java, it was easy to acquire the syntax from the tutorial [https://live.gnome.org/Vala/Tutorial] in very little time.

For transparent access to compiled C libraries, external C functions need to be declared in a 'vapi' file and although these were already provided for a large part of the GNOME ecosystem, documentation on vapi syntax was nearly non-existent. Object-orientation and standard libraries are integrated with Gnome's GObject system and Glib libraries which I found unfamiliar and usually better documented in C at the time.
> Having a simple but powerful REPL environment like IPython would be fantastic.

Download and install leiningen (http://leiningen.org) and then you can start up a repl with 'lein repl'.

I wrote a little web app using clojure and when it came to deployment I was really positively surprised:

1) 'lein ring uberwar'

2) copy resulting war file into your tomcat webapps directory

3) you're done

There's also a heroku plugin if you don't like hosting yourself.

Without leiningen clojure is just unusable though. You have to mess with classpathes and wrapping java command line calls in boilerplate.
I live less than one and a half miles from the centre of a major European city. We currently get 0.24Mbits/s download and 0.37Mbits/s upload on ADSL over the phone line. My broadband provider's help line have confirmed no faults on line, or with my router (I've swapped the cables, router, and tried several computers). They think its an automatic profiling change because we are often away from home and switch the router off. I'm battling my way through the help line 'levels' which is proving to be 'interesting'. I may go to a smaller more expensive provider in the new year just so I can run an rdp session and get an interface I can work on.

The low bandwidth experiment has been educational. On Firefox/Ubuntu, you get the little status bar at the bottom that shows the requests. Some pages have a lot of those, and take ages to load. Distro-hopping is feasible (I'm trying out different interfaces), a CD-ROM downloads overnight quite easily. Software updates are a killer (go and have dinner, listen to some music...).

I've started using a command line web client (w3m in my case) to get to the text more quickly. You get to see which sites have 'skip to content' links embedded early in the page and with CSS set to not show them on Firefox. You also get to see which sites provide all content via html and which sites 'wrap up' their content in javascript functions &c.

As many here provide Web content and applications, just try a command line Web browser on your site...
God always wins.

God says...
forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and
shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

9:15 The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and
subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as
through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners
of the altar.

9:16 And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock
of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up
as an ensign upon his land.

9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn
shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.

10:1 Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the
LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every
one grass in the field.

10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a
lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they
went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no
shepherd.
Then how do you prove your copy is legitimately made copy from the rightsholder?
It seems like you are able to "remove" searches but you have to click on all of them manually, there's no "remove all search history"-functionality, at least that I was able to find. Searches seems to go back to september this year for me.
But that's my point: living expenses are not dictated by the supply and demand curves of perfect markets, with perfect competition, perfect information and zero transaction costs. The real world doesn't work according to Econ 101.

As a result, what were supposed to be gains in production efficiency resulting in lower prices with higher supplies all-around have instead resulted in somewhat lower prices, but much higher economic rents.

We're partially seeing a capitalist crisis of overproduction, but we're also very much seeing a reversion to a feudal economy based on rent-extraction and financialized ownership of entire labor outputs.
You can do this with C++ already. Rust's plan seems to be to eliminate or reduce its runtime and give up the entry point. Go doesn't appear to have a plan.
This is not very surprising because such patterns do emerge in various fluid dynamics experiments; especially rotating bucket (like http://magazine.concordia.ca/2008/fall/features/homer.shtml) or hydraulic jump (like http://www.evo.ds.mpg.de/erik/?page=research).
I detect mild arcasm...
If they're selling software which they don't have the right to sell, and not sharing the profits with the rightful owner until and unless confronted, that fact should be communicated far and wide. It is a serious breach of ethics if intentional, a show-stopping flaw in Canonical's Software Center system if not, and illegal in any case.
How is it different from Org mode?
The word "pirates" does not seem to appear in the linked article.
It seems they just wanted some exposure on what Canonical did (aka media justice). They weren't going to sue them or go after them in other ways.

Quote from Ed (http://www.formspring.me/EdmundM/q/406960226210700795):
"its not a huge deal, i just dont like being made to look like an asshole so i made my reasons public."
Plenty of companies pay GitHub multiple thousands of dollars a year for their services. It’s not just personal accounts.
Linux has tc, the command line tool, and some other scripts that sit on top of that, like wondershaper.

On Windows, there's a few mentioned here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-tha...
"His Aunt is buying him a 2nd hand Thinkpad for Christmas - for which he is EXTREMELY stoked."

Thanks for posting this along with the data screen shots, very interesting. He has the right kind of aunt (I use recycled Thinkpads)! I take it you will be providing cloud storage/backup discs &c as well?
No, it doesn't.

The "blogified" version also links to some related tweets that add some important context.

Of course someone interested enough could cobble everything together themselves, but the whole point of linking to a secondary source is to let someone else do the synthesis.
That's really nice to hear! I had actually never heard of the SSL Observatory before.
> VC returns are incredibly power law driven - i.e. they come from the 10-15 companies per year that end up being monsters.

You're almost right. Early stage investing is very much power law driven, later stage (more VC than incubator territory) comes in several flavors, some more relying on outliers than others.

Plenty of VCs won't even look at companies that are not yet capable of generating substantial revenues and profits, they are there as growth accelerators or to diversify founder (and early stage investor) risk.

There are as many risk profiles as there are VCs, you can't just lump them all on one pile.
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> rms is trying to make some topics (e.g., discussing if something could be used as a GPL loophole) taboo even for gnu-prog-discuss.

Might not be a bad idea, since those discussions could be used after discovery as part of a trial.