skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The minimal CD can be found here:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/raring/main/installer...

Always use that instead of the official desktop CDs, to avoid all the extra programs that I never need.
> There are a ton of reasons to have top-secret security clearances that have nothing to do with counterterrorism or intelligence gathering.

Agreed. I held TS clearance in the Marines for a job that was, bottom-line, 'security guard'.
Poor GPU support (lack of drivers) is still a major deal-breaker for home and media use. As of now hardware should still be selected on the basis of available driver support and it's a major obstacle and the situation doesn't seem to have improved significantly since 3-5 years ago.
I certainly understand to some extent, I'd always like to make more progress on personal projects and side projects and the like, but I don't feel sad when life gets in the way. Hopefully he won't either after a while.
Warning: according to the known issues in the release log [0]:

* Skype won't start (without a fix [1])

* Google Chrome won't install (without a fix [2])

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseNotes

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skype/+bug/1155327

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=226002#c...
They do this so they can remove your contact details and also sometimes they like to add a "cover" page with the details of their agency.
So all Shakespeare's work and yet is awesome somehow. ;)
In general, the rule in film production is to do it with someone else's money. If you think this is unfair -- do you think employees of a company should have their retirement investments entirely in the company stock? A star or director is risking his/her reputation (and time) to make a movie, it's not entirely reasonable to expect him/her to double down with his/her own money.

My issue is that fans aren't being asked to take a risk, or even buy the product on spec -- they're being asked to DONATE.
Spot the python3 syntax:

super(ClassYouObviouslyMean, self).send_response(*a, **kw)
super().send_response(*a, **kw)

Spot the python3 syntax:

def f(x=default_value, y=None): pass
def f(x:arbitrary_object=default_value,
y:this_doesnt_equal_None_y_does=None) -> more_wtf: ...
Richard Branson claims to not understand basic financial statements.
this is not necessarily a bad thing
While it might be nice to be the next wordpress or jquery, if the sole reason you develop is for the 'glory' of course you're going to end up where you are. If you don't find it as a nice way to relax and solve the puzzle, then what's the point?

Like the other comment mentioned, go be with your family and find a hobby that you actually want to do and not worry about what some other random person does or does not do.
Been using 64-bit for the last 5-6 years I think, never experienced any major issues with it. Only weird isses I've had were browser plugins (java and flash), which were a bit dodgy on 64-bit, but that was years ago.
Some incisive analysis here:

http://kellblog.com/2011/06/27/why-palantir-makes-my-head-hu...
I'm on 12.3 with KDE, the only problem so far was making it remember the dual-monitor setup I was using. Apart from that, all good. A nice improvement over Ubuntu 12.04 with which I had a lot more problems.
دكتور شاكر كتاب يناشد المراجع العظام والمشايخ بالتدخل لتحريم القتال
I had some success following this[1], though it didn’t seem to handle transferring lots of files at once very well.

[1]: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/upgrade-to-gvfs-with-mtp-supp...
Recruiter here. Another bigger reason for inserting letterhead is so when the company finds the résumé in their DB 6 months later and revisits the candidate, the manager knows the source of hire (and the possibility of a fee).
Your situation calls for a personal project.
Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Review
Chin up, mate. You're not alone.. Solidarity from a fellow traveller :)
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> How do these people get to their position without being able to do that type of stuff?

Typically by hard work and good fortune. A non-accountant/non-MBA has a good idea, starts making money, hires a few friends, and tada, a person who has never read a P&L, never mind the more arcane reports, is now a CxO.
> AWS and Sustainable Energy http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainable-energy/

> Many AWS customers have workloads with latency requirements that require they be hosted near their customers. [...] we locate AWS datacenters in places that allow companies to get the latencies they require.

> Both the Oregon and GovCloud Regions use 100% carbon-free power. AWS customers who want to operate in a Region that uses 100% carbon-free power can select one of these two Regions. We will continue to work hard on our own, and alongside our power providers all over the world, to offer our services in an environmentally friendly way in all of our Regions.

So if latency is important to you, there's an AWS Region for that. If carbon-free power is important to you (and maybe heroku could pass this through?), there's an AWS Region for that.
All the hardware I purchased in the past several years works with most GNU/Linux distros. There is some minor problems sometimes, but usually they do not force me to purchase hardware specifically for it.
I'm looking for remote ruby work for ~25 hours a week. Anyone have tips on landing part-time remote work?
I think calling yourself a "mentor" gets the response it does because it is like calling yourself "successful"- according to who? It just doesn't fit into the model of western culture of speaking with humility. It risks alienating people- no one would disagree with you if you said "I really listen to people at these events." Aren't you actually suggesting that you try to be a good listener and offer helpful advice.
“That guy doesn’t know shit. Why should I listen to him?"

If you have to ask that question, then you already know the answer.

With a good mentor, thoughts like that would never even enter your mind. Why? Because a good mentor would never just tell you what to do, he/she would share data in such a way that you would learn what to do.

If you don't find a way to turn mentor input into new actionable wisdom very quickly (even instantly) and feel confident about it, then it's probably time to find another mentor.
Ask HN: Package manager for boilerplate code?
Has anyone seen or thought of building a site to catalog boilerplate code projects? I know about H5BP and TodoMVC, but I'm envisioning something with a broader scope.

Say I want to get started building a processing pipeline using the Python scikit-learn package. I know I can probably poke around in Google or the scikit-learn.org site and find a starting example. I would prefer, however, to do what I would normally do using npm for Node modules, or brew for Mac recipies, or PackageManager for SublimeText packages: quickly search on a web site or command line for a relevant boilerplate. Not only would this cut down my time in finding a starting point, the community aspect of it (votes, # of downloads, most depended on, most modified, ...) would provide hints about the quality, something that's hard to deduce from examples cherry-picked from web search.

Concrete examples:

$ boilerplate search "scikit pipeline"

# results here

$ boilerplate fetch scikit-pipeline-boilerplate

# grabs it, unpacks it

$ boilerplate fetch h5bp

# grabs standard h5bp, unpacks it

# etc.
That's about par for the course in my experience. You shouldn't wait around for these companies to get back to you, if you do that you'll never get a job. Apply to as many places as you are interested in.

My own anecdote; I'm already employed but am ready for a change and have been casually looking around to see if there is something interesting out there. At least twice I've done coding quizzes associated with a job posting and then been contacted to setup an phone interview time. Each time they setup a time and then don't actually keep the appointment. In one case they actually contacted me again several weeks later as if it was the first time they had emailed me. In both cases I believe the companies were small enough that the hiring was being handled by the "CEO" and there was no dedicated HR department. No way I would work for a company that does junk like that. Even if you do need to cancel an interview it's easy enough to send a 5 word email, "Sorry, I need to cancel"
I can see where you're coming from. Suicide, and death in general, in someone's youth when they've been very productive and successful seems to immortalize them forever in that moment. Some people romanticize that, but it's illusory. Anyway, just saying I can see your point. I'm hoping most people can look past that and see who he was instead of just the tragic part of it.
I don't use Skype (imo.im works much better, and you don't have to install any programs), so I don't know anything about it, but Chrome seems to work.
you can stop discrimination when there are enough position so that everyone gets to have the same quality education, anywhere (and no one has to miss out).
Salaries aren't as awesome as in San Francisco. As an entry level dev you'll make around 450000-500000NOK (~80k USD). With a Master's or more experience, working in the private sector you get ~100k USD. Cost of living is significantly higher than in the states, but you get healthcare for free, and if you don't eat out every night or buy flashy cars you'll be fine financially.
It was buggy when Cinnamon was new, but now it's really quite stable and proves to be no more or less buggy than stock Ubuntu or any other distro. There were bizarre memory leaks in Cinnamon but those were fixed a long time ago.

There is an ongoing issue with Mint Update, but I'm aware a patch has been submitted. In the meantime I just run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y && exit` every day. (For whatever reason kernel updates get held back if apt-get upgrade is run instead of apt-get dist-upgrade.)

Mint is awesome and one of the better distros out there. Linux Mint 15 looks like it's going to be a decent improvement too.
Ubuntu names...
Pension might not be available when the person get old.
Near-free medical comes with loooong waiting lines just because the company doesn't want to spend money on real insurance.

40 hour work week is a lie. Its a damn lie and is a lie.

Also, you forgot to mention your living costs and taxes.

Then again, I'd take Norway over Sweden just because Sweden is fucked and Norway is pretty responsible financially and is doing well with it's oil reserves.
Writing a REST client in Haskell
no.indeed.com indexes all the major norwegian job sites. I suggest going there and just searching for "python" or "java" in the "hva" (what) field. Also, ARM has a branch in Trondheim and last I saw they were hiring software engineers.
This has been a great idea for almost two decades now. It's just waiting for brilliant execution. Is this the one? Maybe.

I hope it takes off, it would solve a lot of problems with email.

Advice, you guys should try to sign up some celebrities so people can get started right away. For example, I'd like to try it but I don't have the email address of anyone I might want to email.
I use a shell inside Emacs, so I just split my frame.
I already think twice about traveling to the US.
It's actually just poor wording:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/1441/why-does-ubuntu-download...
Responsive localization with L20n
I'm sure that happens sometimes but I've seen lots of CVs coming from recruiters which had new sections crafted by the recruiters themselves like a summary of why I should care about that person, etc. They depend on me hiring that person to get their fee so I expect them to provide me more than the CV itself.
Nice idea. Maybe we should use shame.php and shame.js as well.
Why should the world be expected to use your wheel?

Because it's better. That belief might be incorrect the vast majority of the time and/or in this specific case, but I for one am reluctant to quash that kind of enthusiasm. It's the fuel of progress, even if some (most?) of it is wasted. The disappointment and frustration of seeing "inferior" alternatives prevail are inseparable from the drive to create a better one. It's not about "owing" anything. For many people, it's about wanting to make the (technical) world a better place, being thwarted, and seeing the community as a whole diminished as a result.

Maybe some people don't feel that kind of passion themselves. Maybe they think emotion and idealism have no place in computing, though if that were the case I doubt we'd see so many flame wars. Maybe they've never had an idea worth getting that attached to, though I doubt that's a common factor in a forum for entrepreneurs. Maybe some people are in it for the ego boost themselves, and can't imagine others being in it for another reason. Whatever the explanation, the fact remains that some people do get invested in an idea for reasons besides ego, and it's good for them to do so.
Nothing of merit. It's wasted the time of at least three people. If the OP had kept such a petty thought to themselves, the world would be no worse off. Nothing insightful has been shared...
Just saying something is (GPL/MIT/Apache/…) doesn’t make it so
Multiply by a negative number - and guess what? You get a bigger negative number.
Using Lasers to Find Land Mines and IEDs
I'm a big fan of rust (hence my username), and would like to know if there have been any non-trivial benchmarks of Rust's compilation time, and the performance of compiled executable.

Last I checked Rust took about 40 minutes to compile itself on my laptop. Is it still the case? (I haven't touched Rust for a month or so.)

Also, is anyone using Rust in non-toy projects? (Except Mozilla's own servo.)
And this belongs to?
Thanks for the plug, imo.im looks really cool! Can't believe I didn't know about it before.
A few drivers and Flash used to have issues with the 64-bit versions. Also 32-bit works everywhere, whereas 64-bit doesn't. Ubuntu tries to be n00b-friendly and recommending the 32-bit version stacks the odds in Canonical's favor that inexperienced users will have a better first impression during install and first use.
Stonehenge is clearly the outside of the asylum.
Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" brings KDE SC 4.10 and Linux 3.8
The only problem I have is with the Nvidia drivers, especially Optimus/separate video card on my laptop which doesn't work. :(

But the stock Intel driver works well enough, just don't want to figure out what sort of CLI cargo cult fixing it will take to get it going.
The audience of HN is programmers. Why would you be amazed that someone could code up a success, and then have a bunch of employees and an accounting department before they knew it? I have known Phds that had no experience reading financial statements of their companies. It is not that they CAN'T do it; it is that it has never been a priority.

In any small business (tech or not) there are always many, many things to do.. so my advice is simply about which of the hundreds of reports that your accounting software spits out that you should look at. To be honest, I did not look at Statements of Cash Flows for the first 10 years I was in business. It is less essential to watch SoCF if you are doing Cash accounting instead of Accrual accounting, and if you have positive cash flow it is not as dangerous to ignore it. But when the crap hits the fan, you should know what is really happening. The OPs post was about a business in decline.
In many countries Software Engineering degree is actually Computer Science.

At least it was so when I graduated many many moons ago.
One of my mentors taught me that a company that dies has usually been killed at least six months before it knows it's dead.

He also beat a simple credo into my mind: if you think that there might be a problem, there's a problem.
Time for the cold cyberwar between the US and China
Great post!

I've started a number of businesses over the past 10 years, first of which was when i was 17, i've learned so much over this time, but had dismissed it as general knowledge.

Recently I took part in an accelerator here in the UK and one of the things I enjoyed most was offering advise to other teams, even just on simple things like Tax/Vat etc. I really didn't appreciate that much of the knowledge I've amassed over the past 10 years was valuable to people in the early stage of a new business.

I'm hoping to be invited back to that accelerator as a mentor this year, and I'd hope I can do this for other accelerators too as it's extremely rewarding, I'd almost say I find it more rewarding helping others than building my own startup!
My experience with Mint less than a year ago was that the Cinnamon interface was so bugridden I actually looked forward to going back to Unity. The only real bug I've encountered in Unity is the integration between it and LibreOffice that renders menu keyboard shortcuts inoperative (Alt+F doesn't open the File menu, and so on). It's a known problem but the Ubuntu, Debian, Unity, Gnome, LibreOffice and OpenOffice people all keep passing the buck and nobody is considering it a high enough priority to get in there and fix it.

If Unity had a functional Alt+Tab interface (swapping between open windows instead of open applications) I'd have no further complaints at all. I've grown used to it. Can't wait to see how 13.04 improves things.
Theres a bit of culture of submitting to authority in the asian zeitgeist. This is probably because of that.
Are these the sort of benchmarks (of compiled executables) you are looking for: http://pcwalton.github.io/blog/2013/04/18/performance-of-seq... ?
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How about protocols? E.g. there is a server for Javascript auto-complete running in the background. The editor has a plugin for the protocol and just sends a request for a list of completion options.
Why didn't they just, you know, talk to each other? It sounds as if they were sat next to one another at the same computer...
I hear it is a particular problem for jamaican people as well, with their shall we say, complex relationship to african identity.
You might also want to mention the ISC license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
I'm working in Norway currently. For what reasons could your pension be denied when you become old? (Assuming you are a permanent resident by the time you want to collect).

I've found in the government jobs, the <= 40hr week is pretty much guaranteed. I agree that the waiting times are a little crazy--I had to wait 3 months to see a specialist after a recommendation from my fastlege.
I'm going to Orkney in a few weeks - one of the places we are going to visit is Skara Brae:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae

I find it amazing that this wee village was roughly 2000 years old when Troy fell.

[The Knap of Howar, also on Orkney is even older: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar]
Two Reasons Microsoft Registers Double-Digit Growth As Its Peers Decline
I clearly did not suggest that people should be "forcibly confined in places they don't want to live". I have no idea how you could've even come up with such an obviously-mistaken interpretation in the first place.

The top 20 or so countries (of approximately 200 countries in total) not accepting any more immigrants or refugees would in no way prevent these migrants from moving to one of the other 180 or so countries.

However, when the options are staying where they are, or moving to a country with only a marginally better standard of living, there may not be enough incentive for these people to move. This at least raises the possibility of enough of them helping to improve the situation in their homelands, rather than that not being possible at all if they've left for a western nation.

And I'd like to think that having widespread access to at least a minimal level of modern health care, education, agricultural techniques, water and sewage treatment, and other technology is something that most people would desire. This doesn't happen spontaneously, though. It requires people with education, training and experience directly living and participating in the society desiring such things.
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'the pair had used the computer to have a "silent conversation" to avoid possible surveillance bugs'
Oh, I guess you speak for all of them
Ubuntu backports newer kernel versions and xorg packages[1]. I hope this will land in precise soon. That's good enough for me + the additional ppa here and there. I won't be upgrading to anything non-LTS on any non home machine again. It's not worth the pain.

1: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
I am sorry if I missed earlier but I need some tips about stand alone softwares instead of SAAS. How one can sell them efficiently?
Reflecting on SXSW – 2013
As last year, ProTexting participated in this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) interactive. I wanted to take some time and share a few great things that I saw and experienced this year at SXSW.
I sent him my CV only to be told it "was corrupt and unreadable" and that he couldn't open it. I had to convert my "corrupt" ODT file to a MS Doc file.

Lose this attitude, fast. Do you want to convince recruitment agents to change their word processor, or do you want to find a job?
The article doesn't specify what exactly, is permitted by an unsafe vs. safe function. The Rust reference indicates the additional operations permitted by unsafe functions are:

1. Dereferencing a raw pointer.
2. Casting a raw pointer to a safe pointer type.
3. Calling an unsafe function.

I was expecting something more along the lines of Safe Haskell (http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/safe-...) which is more about trust than memory safety and, as such, explicitly restricts IO.

This isn't a value judgment. I just find it an interesting distinction.
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Seriously, these guys are offering a service you desperately need. Get over the fact they're not as tech-savvy as you; they possibly have the connections you need.

People skills, people.
I have been reading up on sub marine cables lately as the cable cuts in Egypt has reduced our international data transfer substantially here in Bangladesh.

This add from one of the companies in that market got me thinking that TPB should start a fundraiser to establish fiber connection to such an independent island and thereby gain greater independence.

http://www.buysellbandwidth.com/groupbuying/deals_detail.php...
Or you could just use a comment.

I know I can search my codebase for HACK and see all of my greatest embarrassments.
Save the web from another set of Bootstrap buttons
It's a shame they do not accept bitcoin..
"KB" and "kb" explained
In German :

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wirtschaft/unternehmen-und-konju...
Can you please elaborate on what you think is a good mentor, and how one may become a good mentor?

On that note, I've been considering of mentoring entry/medium-level developers for some time now but I seriously don't know what exactly that entails.

My goal is to help people understand and appreciate the importance of well formed, semantic HTML and CSS and unobtrusive javascript.

My belief is that all these different libraries/frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Bootstrap, Foundation, etc etc) confuse new comers and abstract them from actually learning the importance of well written HTML/CSS/JS in developer productivity and application maintenance.

Sometimes these libs make it very easy for developers to focus too much on short term gains at the expense of long-term maintainability and understanding what the code they publish actually does!

If anyone wants to help me become a mentor by mentoring them on HTML, CSS, JS please let me know.