skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. See also similar ideas for yaml:

https://github.com/peterkmurphy/YPath-Specification

https://github.com/briandfoy/ypath

Traversing and extracting data from a hierarchical structure is a basic task that shouldn't need to be reinvented every time.
Completing it in 5 years rather than 4 just means you have more experience :)
I'm a different data point. I've used nothing but Windows (98, XP and now 7) for over a decade. Lately I've been learning web development (Django) and realized a few weeks ago that to really do this right I needed to do linux. So I used VMware/bitnami to set up a VM with linux/python/django.

It was Ubuntu 12.04 without the desktop. Very hard to get around with the command line so I installed the unity desktop.

Bingo. Very easy for someone used to Windows. I couple minor quirks but I didn't find that any of the above issues bothered me.

I have had issues. But these have been things like figuring out where to set environment variables, learning the bare command line basics, learning how to get postgres going locally, etc. Nothing to do with the desktop, except for the fact that it doesn't provide an interface for everything that can possibly be done with command line - so as (someone learning to be) a developer, I've had to learn all the command line stuff anyway.

I have no idea whether other desktops are easier. All I can say is that the command line had a steep learning curve, while unity desktop took just a few minutes to get started and I was off working.
Arch, with GNOME
What about the way Facebook does it? Short message stating the new feature and a basic tour of what to click.
If you have maildirs, just use offlineimap or isync to ingest the mail into GMail.
Fred Beckey [1] has long been one of my heroes for how to age gracefully - he will turn 90 next month, and still climbs hard.

This article just gave me a new model for aging well. I turned 40 this month, and I feel more alive intellectually than I ever have. It is inspiring to think that I could continue to build on what I already know for another 60 years.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Beckey
None, I was using Ubuntu until recently.
Google really need to sort their support out. When evaluating Google Apps for our organisation, we couldn't even get through to a human. This pretty much killed the evaluation up front.

Chargeback!
Nobel scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini dies
It was closer to 2 million, but it could have been much higher. It helps to also be in a lower cost of living area, and included in that count were support people.
Some stats about HN visitors
So basically the same as in 1985?
2012: The Year in Graphics
I guess there's a few reasons why. A big reason for learning history is learning from exceptional events, and wars are exceptional. Learning how to avoid them (if possible) and win them (if necessary) isn't something you want each generation to learn by trial and error.

Also, wars are kind of interesting. A good guy (us) and bad guy (them) is a fail-proof way to make a story mildly interesting.

I guess there's other lessons we should learn from history (as opposed to trial and error, or observation). Political systems are a good one - there's things we could learn from the Greeks which could apply today (like sortition, as a way to stop career politicians getting too powerful, but still giving the decision makers enough power that they have an incentive to properly study the issue). We could also learn about dealing with natural disasters, resource exploitation, and the history of moral panics.
How big did the overall pie grow in each of these years. They're claiming a massive drop for Microsoft, but wouldn't it be true to say that the total number of devices out there has grown hugely too. I know kids and teens with 2 or 3 "consumer devices" each and adults with 5 to 10. That certainly wasn't true in the 2000 - 2005 period.
It would be cool to have an external source of quests/bounties, such as user stories to be implemented, trouble tickets to be addressed, etc.
Microsoft Warns of Zero Day Bug Affecting Internet Explorer 6-8
> will be missing their whole lives

it seems rather pessimistic to presume that your education is limited to the classes you chose to study at university.
"it's a bit depressing that they couldn't make a decent salary off their best web applications."

As someone who comes from the traditional old school world where you had to do traditional marketing to gain business (pre-internet and obviously pre-social media) one theme I see (which I highlighted in a comment on patio11's post yesterday) is the lack of traditional marketing to move the product.

Specifically I'm wondering what type of outreach Brennan or Patrick have done to gain business? Patrick was thinking about flying to industry conferences which was a step in the right direction although I thought the payback for such a low revenue product wouldn't make it worthwhile and I suggested a few traditional ways to test out (that had worked for me in the past).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4982785

One thing that I see happening is people thinking that the way to build a business is strictly by WOM online by low or no cost methods while there are a host of things out there that work and have worked for years (that people aren't using to push their apps). They cost money for sure but after you are established and have some cash flow the are possible.
When someone says Million Dollar Consultancy I'm guessing that means over 1 Million Gross? If that is the case I'd be more interested in how profitable the consultancy was. 10 employees alone could eat up most of $1 million.
Anyone wiping disks in any of these ways in 2013 is doing it wrong.

Zeroize the keys. Then you don't need to worry about the disk.

If your data is something that would be a problem if the physical disks were stolen, don't store it on-disk unencrypted.
I wouldn't see this as a strength but as a standard. Being emotionally unstable is a weakness.
There is a big difference between being at war and sending peace keeping troops. Defining the use of military in an area to prevent further violence and war as being at war is very wrong.
The set of people willing to use a mouse with their phone is probably a strict superset of those who want to run X, so I wouldn't think of it as problematic.

Also, good on the OP. But X on Android? It's a jfb Hell.
If that's the case, then why did sandy surge to a record?
Please find the demo here - http://sair.am/demos/bootstrap-prompts/index.html

Thanks for the advice. I never thought about it :)
I am under 18, and my bank allows minors to open an account independently. It's pretty common in the US.
In fact, such a use of "while" is supported by both Fowler's Modern English and the Oxford English Dictionary (and others).
I don't think it was intended to be an instruction manual.
How many devices did the average consumer have in 2000 (a desktop PC, maybe a game console, maybe a laptop, a cable box) compared to now (an MP3 player, a smartphone, a laptop, a tablet, an e-reader, a game console, an internet TV box, in car computer, a wifi router, a backup NAS, etc). How many global consumers (think BRIC) are buying devices now that couldn't dream of it in the early 2000s?

Microsoft's share of the pie has dropped, but the pie has exploded in size.
This year I'm going to heavily invest in experimenting with paid advertising.

Surprisingly, about a quarter of my growth comes in organically. People find me through a blog post, research the product, and then buy. Can't beat that :-)
This is a repost from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4980350

(The woman owns both the .com and .net, which is why this wasn't caught as a duplicate by HN itself.)
You're discounting the liability of letting people in to a physical establishment for free (bar fights, medial emergencies, guests not actually there to watch, etc). These are absent from media. There is also the difficulty of variable pricing at the door, where you still want to charge the previously paying customers but let in others for free. This is directly analogous, and while destructive to the content business, is not usually weighed against the public good of greater distribution.
I would highly recommend the following books:
1) Gettings things done (It is kinda plain, but if you stick through it, you will get some great advice on time management techniques)
2) How to win friends and Influence People (Probable the best book on communication and interacting with people that I have read.)
3) Good to great (Great advice on building a company)
4) The 80/20 Principle (Great advice on time management and doing more with less)
5) The millionaire teacher (Great advice into playing the investment market game for people who have never invested before.)
Travel around the world! I'm leaving the 4th of January for India before going to South East Asia, Oceania and South America. I'm blogging about it: http://travelingcoder.com.
I also plan to work on personal projects on the way.
I want to create an arsenal of cool html5 games and hardware hacks. By the end of the year, I expect myself to become close to an expert in both those fields :P
Work: decide on a new main programming language to switch to (from Perl) so we can actually hire more developers ...

Personal: move to a new flat (8 years were enough for the current one, I need new surroundings), stop eating sugar, grains and legumes (paleo-inspired diet), perhaps move to a country that isn't passive-smoking hell like Austria.
From the 17th Dec
In related news, you always hear about drug-related violence but never about all the drug-related kisses and hugs.
Why not run `xcompmgr` and set the transparency with `transset-df`?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
I can turn that around.

STEM graduates got something that 'Liberal Art' graduates will be missing their whole lives: education. Education not in the sense of understand one's culture, but in the deeper sense of how to advance humanity out of the dirt and trees. It is not surprising that the zeitgeist disregards those fields of study.
Ubuntu LTS.
To play devils advocate: Does this mean that customer care isn't necessary for big success?
"that makes me feel weird"

This has been done for many many years in many different industries. Notable are people who give seminars on how to make money in real estate. The truth is making money in real estate is much harder then getting a bunch of noobies into a room at the Holiday Inn and selling them information on how to make money in real estate. Not to say though that one of two people who you enlighten in those seminars might make out ok and the rest might have felt they received a days worth of knowledge and entertainment.

I'm in a position where I've been getting (unsolicited) consulting work helping people buy domain names (startups). I enjoy doing it even though the pay makes no sense (for the hours spent) compared to what I can make with what I know doing the same thing on my own account.

That said there is value in these offerings (just like there is value in a "franchise" system that you pay for that tells you what you need to know to open a yogurt store). It took years by the traditional method to learn what I have learned over the years. It would have been much easier if there were books ebooks or otherwise that you could have triangulated the information needed from.
This list is definitely more interesting to me. I discovered a few of these already this year and have been using them a lot (mtr, pv, curl for inspecting headers) and several others that I know I'm going to start messing with immediately (siege, multitail).

Another VERY useful tool I didn't see on this list is iperf. From the Debian package description:

Iperf is a modern alternative for measuring TCP and UDP bandwidth performance, allowing the tuning of various parameters and characteristics.

Features:

* Measure bandwidth, packet loss, delay jitter

* Report MSS/MTU size and observed read sizes.

* Support for TCP window size via socket buffers.

* Multi-threaded. Client and server can have multiple simultaneous connections.

* Client can create UDP streams of specified bandwidth.

* Multicast and IPv6 capable.

* Options can be specified with K (kilo-) and M (mega-) suffices.

* Can run for specified time, rather than a set amount of data to transfer.

* Picks the best units for the size of data being reported.

* Server handles multiple connections.

* Print periodic, intermediate bandwidth, jitter, and loss reports at specified intervals.

* Server can be run as a daemon.

* Use representative streams to test out how link layer compression affects your achievable bandwidth.

I use iperf initially when I'm troubleshooting poor file server transfer speeds, for example. There's a pretty Java GUI too if you want that.
Ubuntu 11.04, although if I wasn't teaching high school I'd use something different now. I stay with Ubuntu because that's what most of my Linux-using students use.
jgrep?
Apple prides itself on good customer care, so I wouldn't say so.
For the Love of Chocolate
On my desktop, Debian unstable with XFCE.
Checking in is rarely done in person anymore. Checking in online is the norm, and I normally do it first thing in the morning, from home, wearing my bathrobe and sipping coffee. I don't know what practical purpose it serves for the airline, but for passengers it's just a formality you have to complete by a certain time to make sure they don't cancel your reservation. It has nothing to do with being at the airport on time, except that in this particular case I had to check in using my phone because I was in a cab on the way to catching my flight.
Why suicide may be okay
I am suffocating from the weight of nothing. I walk around waiting for someone to say something to me that matters, but it never happens. Over thirty years I have lived in constant agony and torture. I fear nothing anymore because what is the worst, i will die? I understand how those people strap bombs to their backs. You cannot kill me because i am already dead. My life serves no purpose to anyone or anythind and i am just so tired. When I first wake up in the morning for a few seconds it ias okay then it hits me and I wish I had never woken. So maybe it is okay to go. Some say it is selfish but the pain is real and the truth is nobody really cares.
Samsung’s New TV Design Teaser for CES 2013
Huge step up! Love the green color palette with the orange button. I agree with the comment by adventured about the split image on the homepage. Out of curiosity, was this A/B tested thoroughly or just "chosen"?
After using all desktop environments out there, I have settled down with Ubuntu's Unity because Ubuntu is very focused in providing a consistent desktop experience. Yours and Canonical's definition of desktop experience might be different but looking at other comparable interfaces Unity is very well organized. There are no surprising changes in each update like Gnome 3. Notification and system tray are traditional and consistent. I keep open 4 applications that I use all the time and switch between them either by mouse or alt+tab or alt+`.
Not always true.

Agreed. I didn't mean to imply that it was always true. But the fact is that it does happen, therefore it can happen.

There are many counterexamples in the last 100 years, outside of the west.

And what makes those cases different from the cases in which it did happen? That seems to me to be a question worth investigating. One hypothesis: "outside of the west", people who aren't wealthy can't become wealthy by innovating, so they don't bother. In "the west", it's not easy to become wealthy by innovating, but it is at least possible.

you've talked around it a lot and failed to say something definite

I disagree; I've said a number of definite things. I think you are reading some things into my posts that I have not said, and failing to see some things that I have said. I give examples of both below.

You've said that it is as good as money in the rest of the system

Where did I say that? All I said was that innovation creates new sources of supply, which in turn enables new demand to exist that couldn't exist before. How does that equate to innovation being "as good as money"?

Resources available to those who might become rich is much better

Agreed; I haven't said anything that contradicts this.

you cling to the airplane example as though it was a general law.

It's not a general law, because, as I said above, innovation increasing absolute wealth doesn't always happen, and I didn't mean to imply that it did. But the example shows that it can happen. Again, you appear to be reading things into my posts that I didn't actually say.

this straw man argument is much abused in the US at present.

True, but I wasn't making the straw man argument. In fact I explicitly gave a case in which reducing inequality of wealth does not harm innovation: when the inequality in wealth is due to people gaming the system instead of doing productive work.

What if it's got nothing to do with innovation at all?

You agreed that "take away the potential reward entirely" is not a good thing; that means you agree that inequality of wealth has something to do with innovation.
Crunchbang (http://crunchbang.org/). It's Openbox + Debian-based distro with great defaults.
Despite that MS has not had an explosion in sales, the outcome they were hoping for. They probably wouldn't mind a fall in market share so much if their sales had still quadrupled.
The point is that the "there is no scarcity with digital distribution" argument isn't the slam-dunk people think it is. Even with physical services, things usually aren't at capacity. If you have a private lake and charge people to take out boats, someone sneaking in is probably not taking a spot from a paying customer. As a practical matter, digital distribution is not the only scenario in which scarcity is artificial. Yet, we generally believe that people are entitled to charge others for the privilege of utilizing a service they provide, even when the service is not at capacity and the marginal cost is negligible.

You can extend the analogy even to physical products. What you're saying when you argue that you should be able to copy music because it doesn't take anything away from someone else is that you should be able to get the music at its marginal cost of production, which is zero. By this analogy, why don't I have the moral right to get any other product s it's marginal cost of production, even if that is non-zero?
Disruptions: Devices on Planes Are Dangerous Because of F.A.A. Rules
You'd think, but it's not for everyone.
I don't know whether it's true (haven't googled it) but the natives of Tierra del Fuego were reported not to use fire much & to wander around nekkid. The natives didn't survive contact w/ Europeans very long, however.
Android on my phone (you did ask for Linux distributions...),
Debian GNU/Linux on vps'/servers, and Ubuntu 12.10 on my netbook - as I need to be a little closer to the edge for (almost) proper driver support.
I tend to agree, and it's not because of the info products themselves, but because it appears to be so calculated. Nobody wants to see themselves as the target of a sales funnel.

It's also slightly contradictory with the hacker culture, where unlike say 'make money online bloggers,' hackers tend to share for free. That isn't to say that selling information is wrong or harmful, it's just different than it used to be.
The whole "overwrite xx times" is a myth. Overwriting it once with random data makes it completely unreadable. Overwriting it more than that is a complete waste of time.

http://computer-forensics.sans.org/blog/2009/01/15/overwriti...

http://www.howtogeek.com/115573/htg-explains-why-you-only-ha...
Load Carrier: Winner of the Core 77 Product Design Competition
http://elementaryos.org/journal/when-its-ready Still in alpha, unfortunately.
He said isn't necessary, a counter example does nothing to argue against that statement.
Do note that mostly what people go after is what they are being marketed with. If you give multi-million marketing budget to an indie film, do you honestly believe it would fare pale in comparison in popularity against a Hollywood product?

You don't need lots of money to make good art. You need lots of money to make people aware of the said art. As you have noted, commercial art is made for the sake of making money, not for the sake of making art for people interested. This of course conflicts and clashes hard with the way TPB operates, the way indie works operate and the way the whole industry and business operates.
How is Slovenia defined by "party" and the rest of ex-yugoslavia as "Yugoslavia"?

This confuses me greatly.
Just a thoughts - May be they charge these $5 just to make developers value their accounts and not register just for fun or when they forgot their email address. Also, to connect extension author to real credit card data. In case of malware extension - this might be very valuable for LEOs.
"People find me through a blog post, research the product"

.001% of your market (arbitrary to prove a point) reads blog posts. So you have to get to the others who are a virgin market (with no competition by the way) for the same product.

Off the top I'm thinking airports or places where consultants spend time or publications which consultants read where you could write some articles and get mention that way. (As a start anyway). Card packs are good (if they are offered and I don't know they are in that biz.) Maybe even advertise in the inflight magazine (for ads that is) which I did at one time. Back in the 90's I did ads in The Economist, the WSJ (marketplace) and Business Week. (Not saying they are good today I don't know but they did work then I picked up customers who are still with me today..)

Feel free to email me and bounce any ideas/costs and I will give you my opinion.

One last thing. You need a .com name if you are advertising to the traditional world. They are thrown a loop by anything that isn't .com . You can still use .io just get another one under .com.

You might also want to put up consultant specific sites for planscope that cater to specific industries (more targeted) "engineering consultant" "city planning consultant" (with templating) it will go a long way toward getting you businesses in specific areas and making you the go to resource.
This kind of thing is one reason I trust others (eg Apple) more than Google with my computing services.
Taken to an extreme, there should never be more than one paying customer for every piece of digital (or convertible to digital) content ever created

It's easy to forget, but patronage was the primary form of funding for the arts for the vast majority of human history. Commercialized media outside of books and newspapers is probably only a hundred years old. There are many benefits to consumerization of art, but a single paying customer is clearly sufficient.
Why Advertising on Mobile Sucks, From the Marketer’s Perspective
It's an incredibly effective antispam technique. Metafilter does something similar, charging a $5 lifetime fee at signup. Existing accounts were not charged when it was introduced.
This is especially problematic with companies like Quora, which coerce you into downloading their app. They literally obfuscate all answers and tell you to download the app, which is absurd.

Here is the actual wording:

http://cl.ly/image/1n3P0e072m0F
Dhoni showing displeasure over new ODI rules
It should be noted that, on balance, everything except physical health becomes better with age. Outside of degenerative aging, becoming older is so good that people are driven to apologism for the fact that aging cripples and kills them - they conflate being old and being aged, seeing two very different things as one, and a certain confusion arises after that point.

Consider how much better it will be to be older once we start being able to treat the root causes of the degenerative medical condition called aging. If you're not there yet, consider just how good being older must be in order for people to be able to say they are well off even while their health is crumbling.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/uoc--poa12031...