skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite servers, but I used to work in a lab where we used mostly RHEL/CentOS for our scientific computing work.

I found myself gravitating towards RPM-based distros during that time.
Not really. These things are hard to get right and stick to for prolonged periods of time. This requires practice and discipline.

Ordinary people (and even trained professionals [1]), get sloppy and make mistakes. Thus, this line from the presentation is golden:

"Amateurs practice until they get it right, professionals practice until they can't get it wrong.

[1]: Another excellent essay by the same person - grugq (of +HCU and Fravia+ fame) on the major OPSEC fuck-up by CIA in Lebanon and the factors that likely have lead to the full compromise of a big informant network, and possibly the deaths of a number of people [2]: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/03/12/anonymity-is-hard/

[2]: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/pizza-cia/

added: even small things like complaining about freezing your ass off due to the cold weather, accidentally linking two nicknames, emerging at regular times (synced with a specific timezone) could be used to uncover your identitiy. As evidenced, slip-ups like could get you in jail. You can check the discussion from a few weeks back about the hassles of creating a truly anonymous page on Internet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5638988
I have to wonder if the biceps size is correlated with something like geography, which in turn is correlated with political affiliation.
A 9th Grader Takes a Leap that Terrifies MBA Students
Ask HN: Where can I find good freelance opportunities?
Hi,

So I'm a student who's graduating college in a month, and I'd like to freelance until I find a job. Ideally, I'd like to work with JavaScript and Node.js. I don't have a ton of experience with Node, but my degree was pretty hands-on and we learned several technologies that have given me translatable experience.

I have written code in C, C#, VB.NET, PHP, Python, Java (Android/Web), JavaScript, and Ruby. I am also familiar with Drupal, Oracle and MySQL. I am by no means an expert in all of these technologies, but I do believe that I can ramp up in a reasonable time frame in a given technology.

I've tried ODesk and Elance, but my experience so far has been that most of the jobs there favor freelancers with the most experience and the lowest bids.

So where can I find some decent opportunities that will help me to grow quickly? I'm open to any ideas! At this point its not even so much about the salary, but I just want to be able to put my coding skills to good (paid) use.

Cheers,

A.
I use Gentoo, on a bunch of servers across many providers (RackSpace, AWS, Linode, &c) Like memset I had some issues with waiting for compiles - especially when I started using Gentoo on both the desktop (Chromium!) and server. In ab out 2006 I configured a nice build system - All servers and desktops come from this same BINHOST. Amazing how stable a known, predictable, repeatable environment can be :)

I still laugh when my associates complain about their issues with CentOS, Ubuntu or Fedora - like not having latest versions or when some upgrade breaks things. Haven't had those issues since about 2007.

On the downside, I do have to maintain a few lines of shell script and a cronjob - and every now and then delete an email from root@calcium if there is a hiccup

Gentoo Binhost: http://praxis.edoceo.com/binhost
Ubuntu is a nice choice. It's easy enough, it has huge amounts of software available, commercial support is available, etc. The user generated support is variable in quality. There are a lot of people who know just enough to give the wrong advice, which can be frustrating.

There are some problems with Ubuntu. There are some political things about the benign dictator, and about contributing fixes, and about the direction it's going. These might not be at all important for you.

If you ever decide you want to leave Ubuntu you could chose Mint, which is popular (and they're doing interesting things). Mint should be as easy to use as Ubuntu. Or you could chose Fedora. The Fedora community is lovely! If you want to learn more about Linux and fancy a challenge you can try Arch. The Arch documentation is excellent, and is recommended reading even if you're not running Arch.
Lets see, amongst the poor, blue collar workers (doing manual labour) tend to be more conservative. Amongst the wealthy, feelings of entitlement are correlated with time to go to the gym. Evolutionary psychologist: if you keep publishing nonsense like no one will take your field seriously.
You don't need college to develop critical thinking and learn how to learn. In fact, by the time students reach college, it's already too late: the main complaint I hear from acquaintances that teach at private colleges is that students don't want to work for the knowledge; they expect an extension of high school with a diploma at the end.

And no matter how enlightening this experience is, we can't ignore the financial side. A young person saddled with $50,000 in debt and no prospect of a high-paying job is in effect a serf. Add a mortgage a few years down the line, and you are ensuring that this person will never be free.
Theft is unlawful taking. Tax isn't unlawful.
Right, and no "Driver and Passenger Seat Airbags?" Come on...

And now compared against the Signature Performance.
http://autos.nydailynews.com/compare/1528-1606-1613-3976/201...
I understand your point of view, we saw an avalanche of competitors since Google Reader death announcement. Some projects will emerge as the new leader of this market.

I have launched other projects such as Pikacode.com (Git/mercurial hosting) which is "yet another GitHub" but running since 2008 for thousands of users. So my work can be seen as a side project but with true conviction and dedication for quality and support over time.

Work can be achieved to push the limits of RSS technology. Building offline contents from feeds, mobile readers, media aggregations (for example magazine build from RSS articles)...
I think the key here is -> "It is able to record the revenues in Ireland because the UK company is deemed to drum up new business, with sales staff in Dublin executing all deals."

If the business was initiated in the UK, but executed in France, guess who'd get the tax money -> France. This doesn't seem particularly swarthy, and frankly doesn't really warrant an article or any sort of hubbub unless you're interested in being a Google hater. I'm fine with being a Google hater, I don't use Google search/ads/gmail/etc because I don't like their privacy practices/etc...

Anyways, what sort of services are we talking about here? If we're talking about Google ad network deals, you buy ads and they get displayed all over the world, you do not pay taxes everywhere the ads were shown.
Companies are made of people. People should know to act morally.

However as companies are made of people, not people themselves, corporate personhood is very, very dodgy law. Hope that clears it up for you.
We already had a fully featured RSS reader supported by a large company not lacking in money or resources. It got closed down because the company had lots of money and resources: it wasn't a strategic product, and any contribution it could have made to revenue would have been immaterial.

In the medium term, I think canning Reader has hurt Google amongst the technically literate. It certainly has pushed Google from the 'creepy but mostly good' to just 'creepy' for me. It's a notch above Facebook now, and no longer worthy of a logged in session - relegated to a secondary browser, I can feel free to block all Google-related third party requests.

As for a Reader replacement, I'm currently going with Ino Reader. Free and unlimited (thus far). I don't know if or how it will make money, but it's been the best replacement I've tried yet.

And "there were already a ton" of readers? No. Almost all readers had to differentiate themselves from Reader, because it was so good. There's a massive gap in the market, such as it is, right now. It should and will be filled by a small company, probably a lifestyle business.
At some point this has to bite us in the ass as a society. If the bulk of the economic reward is going to three-card molly finance bullshit, ad-clicking, and photo filters while cancer and material science researchers have to switch fields to eat, there has to be a day of reckoning.
I read the article, and while it did not say how she made her "Invention" , it sounds like a graphene based super capacitor.
Here is one video about them: http://focusforwardfilms.com/contest/84/the-super-supercapac...

There is lots of promise in this field, but I doubt that this young lady has jumped out in front of the pack.

That being said, I would be delighted if she made me eat my words.
>Nintendo has been "dead" a few times now, but they've been going since the 1800s or something when they made playing cards. They also have the capacity to come up with crazy new stuff nobody ever expected. Maybe they're not doing well right now, but I have a hard time believing they're "dead."

Yup, 1889 to be exact. [1]

They made "Hanafuda" cards, which are a very old, traditional set of cards, sometimes used for gambling. Comparing it to poker I think is a somewhat inaccurate yet simultaneously fair comparison [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda
Though it shouldn't go without saying that "in the state of nature" the planet's carrying population for humans is far below 7 billion.

Regardless of whatever fine tuning is needed for long term sustainability, the solutions that have already allowed so many humans, with a good portion of them even having an excellent quality of life, are not possible through the naive exercise of brute force.

Of course, that all goes to reinforce the idea that complete independence and self-sufficiency are unrealistic—the planet can handle far more humans living in communities and cities than it can handle humans as hunter gatherers or humans farming for themselves without trade—and that no one today is successful independent of the economic environment where they find themselves, but it doesn't mean that there is something "unnatural" about people other than warlords having the most influence and power.
How different could be the results from linked_lists tool compared with Google results for a specific topic? Are they more close to what a developer needs?
This is different.

The double Irish is legal for sales taking place in Ireland. The news article is alleging that the UK Google salespeople are making sales in the UK, in which case UK tax is due.
The physically strong are giving up the only thing that can be termed as akin to a natural right: their ability to use violence to take what they want. They do this because society as a whole recognizes its better for most everyone to have a different set of rules. But the only basis for that state of affairs is the social contract.

But in a sense you're right. Under our system someone who might be a warlord is stuck bagging groceries. Whether he still benefits is a philosophical question. He may be better off in absolute terms in a society with modern medicine, even if he is a grocery bagger in that world. But psychological research shows that humans perceive prosperity in relative terms. Better to be a warlord in a primitive society than a peasant in a modern one.
Xmonad + GNOME (with GNOME Do as launcher). I like the GNOME utils (wifi UI, panels, panel applets, desktop switcher, notification area, etc), but prefer xmonad's tiling behaviour, keyboard-centricity and configurability.

This used to work wonderfully in the Gnome 2.x days, but Gnome 3 is more monolithic - you basically have to use the whole Gnome Shell, window manager and all, or drop to Gnome Classic, which is an incomplete and buggy reimplementation of Gnome 2.x using the new (and backward incompatible) versions of the libraries. I'm using the latter at the moment, but not deliriously happy about it.
That's an odd thing to mention. In the UK, being a "devout Christian" is definitely an odd thing, if not outright vaguely suspicious.
Except code duplication destroys performance because the instruction cache isn't infinite. I think we can agree that the relooper isn't the optimal solution to this problem...it's a compromise that works pretty well, but its a compromise nonetheless. It also means that you need to involve the LLVM toolchain anyway, just like in pnacl. I don't know if pnacl is a better solution or asm.js, but what I do know is that both are compromise and both have advantages and disadvantages.
> (...) it is a fitness error for weaker contestants to attempt to seize resources when they cannot prevail and for stronger ones to cede what they can cost-effectively defend

I call bullsh* on that one.

How can biceps circumference relate so strongly with evolution when nowadays bulging muscle is largely a result of gym training and nutrition (which, btw, costs money, biasing this study even further)?

I would say it's more about ego relating to muscle mass than the other way around. Egotistical rich men are more likely to be focused on their appearance and willing to turn into gym rats.
I recommend using a reliable, reasonable bookkeeper for keeping up with entries (mine charges $40/hour), and a CPA for tax returns and consulting in hopefully rare major events. Your business bank account should provide enough detail for most transactions and most have accountant read-only access account support. It'll only be on you to keep receipts archived in case of an audit and answer a few questions about items that can't be deduced from the bank records.
FTA:

"These associations remained significant even once the researchers controlled for political party."

This seems to rule out the correlation coming from manual labor being associated with conservatism.
The argument that only the egotistical care about physical fitness is hilarious.
N.B. the headline does not match the original article

better:

'men's biceps predict economically rational self-interest'
Pick one ad get moving. Nothing proves you wrong like doing things.
Bicep size is probably far more closely related to high body fat rather than strength. It's much easier to put on fat than muscle.
I used Sabayon and I will back this statement 100%. It was absolutely a pleasure to use, and surprisingly more slick than I expected.
Ah, you guessed my next paper :) I have done a little informal analysis on the top 10 results from linked_lists vs the top 10 for that tag used as a Google query. They are quite different, almost totally different actually. But this is not really surprising if you think of the developers curating the links posted on Stack Overflow. I know there was an attempt a few years back to build a search engine based on the SO data set, don't know what happened to that.
Few people realize the value of a blog.
You own't be disappointed. It's extremely pleasant to use (and fast).
Any word on the price of the assets in terms of figures?
My username on HN is not tied to my personal identity. The difference is I can jettison this persona, and all comments associated with it, at a moment's notice. It is difficult to do the same with my real identity.

That's what I mean when I say anonymity comes with the promise of zero responsibility.
Paypal or Bitcoin - though only a small number of businesses accept Bitcoin as payment.
CINC. Willingness to fight and larger muscles are both a consequence of higher testosterone.
>> If the tax law says if you do Foo with shell company Bar through subsidiary Baz, then you get more money, legislators wrote that there for some reason because they wanted to encourage or discourage some behavior.

But the law doesn't say that. It says if you don't have any profits then you don't pay tax, so the company sets up another company in another place and charges the initial company all of its money for "branding services".

This was very clearly not the intent of the law, it's a dodge and the people doing it know it's a dodge.
Can you enumerate the ways in which Microsoft is "just as bad or worse than Google when it comes to privacy"?
I've been through Redhat, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, OSX, and Arch over the past decade. Arch seems to be where I'm staying for a long time, for a few reasons.

First, it is a great distro for tinkering. I (obviously -- by my list) enjoy shaking things up and trying out new things, and Arch doesn't get in the way of doing so. Neither does Gentoo, but the compiling does get old after a while.

Second, I really enjoy the rolling-release system. It is nice to spend a few minutes every day updating the system to the latest & greatest rather than going through the 'big upgrade' every six months or so.

Finally, I feel like I'm the target market for Arch. OSX and Ubuntu are more general computing platforms. They are certainly usable, elegant, and outstrip my Arch/i3 setup for multimedia. But they don't scratch my particular itch. Arch does, and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.
The way I remember it from Date's db book way back in the late 70's, is that first there was QUEL which stood for QUEry Language. The follow-on improved product was SEQUEL which stood for Structured English QUEry Language and attempted to be more like grammatical english (following on from the concepts of COBOL). The intention was that management (probably accountants) would be able to use this query language themselves to check up on what the programmers had put in the DB. This was then commercialized under the name SQL partly because it was a follow-on improved version of SEQUEL and partly because TLA's were very marketable. Somehow it ended up being used as an interface language for talking to DBs and management never used it at all.
I say SQL, of course.
Yes. This.

I had a more "radically libertarian" view before I "settled down" (bought real property, got married, made a child). I've increasingly bought into the idea that paying a fair fee for the services that society offers is a reasonable bargain. Paying the fee isn't the issue for me anymore. Rather, the uncivil political discourse and refusal to make reasonable compromises to deal with disagreements about how that money should be spent (and how government, defense, and social service programs can be sustainable) is what irks me. Living in the US makes me feel like a large part of my taxes are nothing but throwing good money after bad (even though I know it's really not as bad as I think it is).
Some people love to provide grammar / spelling / etc fixes.

These comments are usually useful and helpful, but not interesting.

HN has "Showdead". Could HN have "ShowMinor", with a user selectable "this is a minor post" checkbox?

"I enjoyed this post! Here's a few things I spotted: you use your instead of you're, and you use it's instead of its" [X]MINOR
What people are getting at is that if at the same time as the dilution the market places a greater value on shares (due to what they think a company can do with the money). Then they don't necessarily have to lose value over the short term.
If you want to freelance successfully you really need to learn basic prospecting, sales, and networking.

ODesk and Elance are bad mojo unless you're dying for some grist for that portfolio.

Speaking of which, establish a solid web presence that you control (not just github) and start building up a reputation for being good at something in particular.

Also you just listed off 8 programming languages, a CMS, and two different databases. I and anybody like me who could potentially be interested in hiring a freelancer would rather know what you're actually GOOD at. Don't do that resume stuffing garbage. Case in point, can you even use function pointers in C? No? Then drop it off the list.

Start building up a portfolio of Node.js projects, then you'll build the necessary expertise to work in the stuff you want to be doing. Do contract work in whatever you're actually good at until your Node skills catch up.
> If you are a YC founder, your username will show up in orange to other YC founders to enable these entrepreneurs to recognize and meet each other.

Silicon Valley is supposed to be this great meritocracy where it doesn't matter where you went to school or who you know, all that matters is how well you can build and "make something people want."

However, it always amazes me how much cronyism (for lack of a better word) there still is in Silicon Valley. Even Y Combinator is not immune to it. To their credit, PG et al are great at pattern recognition and identifying what separates good/great teams from the bad, but I feel like there is still too much cronyism, personal bias, and subjective judgment in their model that excludes a lot of entrepreneurs who don't fit their "type".

Given how influential PG's essays and YC's model have been on other VCs and angel investors, I wonder if it's becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy and/or vicious cycle in the industry where because YC prefers a certain subset of successful founder, it causes many/most investors to also prefer that subset, which makes it easier and easier for this subset of founders to quickly get funding and access to critical resources and networks, while it becomes harder and harder for new subsets of entrepreneurs to break through this walled garden.

DISCLAIMER: I really like YC and I read HN every day. I just think that if e.g. Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins were VC 1.0 and YC was VC 2.0, a new VC 3.0 that addresses the shortcomings of the current model is way overdue.
Yup. That's one of the reasons that voting as a decision mechanism is largely worthless. It's good for tie-breaking and for moving things along when they're otherwise deadlocked, but in practice it's used for quantity over quality, in both positive and negative aspects.
hahhahaha, maybe he wiretapped Mark Zuckerberg to get that info :D
For the people who actually sign up for this and are learning rails -- ie have done the M. Hartl tutorial but might not have seen many projects live -- take a look a Rails Best Practices.

Its definitely doable within a weekend.
Same here. Using 12.04 currently, but with the recent release of Debian Wheezy I'm considering using it for my daily work and getting more involved with Debian as a whole.
Ubuntu has gotten me started on Linux thanks to the simple/low-hassle install process, and enough polish to be a bearable alternative to OSX or Windows. Now that I'm getting the hang of things, I'm beginning to prefer it in spite of the issues. I also like distros using Gnome 3+ but Ubuntu is ubiquitous enough that I defaulted to it.
> Do you know of any workarounds client-side?

I don't think there is one. You can't even compile a custom Chromium because it doesn't have h264 codecs. I even spend a day reading the Chrome source code, hoping there was some combination of headers that could trick Chrome into using the media cache, but I didn't find anything. I probably should have just spent the day finding a better CDN.
What does CINC stand for?
Why not link them the other way? The article claims that individuals who are stronger physically will try to claim socio-political highground, but it seems much more realistic to me to observe this data and say that people who aren't as competitive or interested in gaining from others don't have the bent to exercise their biceps.

A better experiment for this hypothesis would be to take these original subjects and have some of them adopt an exercise system and others to abandon one. Then test if ideologies actually change as a result of physical strength.
I'm not sure it's a lie, per se: they're comparing to the $50K model which doesn't exist anymore. But even the current low end model at $67K doesn't include navigation.

EDIT: No, looking further at their database, they have no data at all for Tesla, and everything is pretty much wrong. Total fail.
My guess is "Correlation Is Not Causation".
Ugh, that's too bad. Thank you for the reply.