skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just typical Telegraph[1] hateful anti-immigration stuff. perhaps somewhere buried in there are a few grains of truthy material; did multi-culturalism cause ghettos? etc.

> Nowadays, though, most of the tills in my local shops are manned by young Muslim men who mutter into their mobiles as they are serving.

How does the author know they are muslim?

> I see London turning into a place almost exclusively for poor immigrants and the very rich.

I know many white British non-rich people living in London, but the author is right that London is very expensive. There is a problem with London being the place where everything happens. Some organisations are doing stuff to prevent this (government departments going to the regions; companies moving to much cheaper towns with decent[1] transport; BBC moving to the North; etc.) Perhaps the Telegraph could move their offices to Manchester?

A recent comment I made had the throwaway line about the UK being a lousy place to live. So normally I agree when people say the UK, especially London, sucks.

> It wasn’t always the case: since the 1890s thousands of Jewish, Irish, Afro-Caribbean, Asian and Chinese workers, among others, have arrived in the capital, often displacing the indigenous population. Yes, there was hateful overt racism and discrimination, I’m not denying that. But, over time, I believe we settled down into a happy mix of incorporation and shared aspiration, with disparate peoples walking the same pavements but returning to very different homes – something the Americans call “sundown segregation”.

Blacks first arrived in England with the Romans. But, if we restrict ourselves to the bigger immigrations of the Windrush era (1950s) - we still had both hateful racist violence and institutional racism over 40 years later (See Stephen Lawrence murder, 1993).

If I could be arsed I'd trawl through the Telegraph archives to find the hateful screeds they've printed in the past. Faced with that level of hate it's not surprising that people prefer to avoid Telegraph writers.
I bought a Macbook Pro with OSX 10.8 already installed, and I am pretty sure I will not have the same problems as sciurus if I buy 10.9.

Dell could offer support for 13.04, or maybe Canonical could work to better support one of the few laptops out there with ubuntu on it out of the box.
Why have you posting this again - you posted it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5889533
I would love to see a book or interactive course that started fairly simple like this, but also had progressively more advanced "second passes" that would go through most or all the abstraction layers of the first project, but with the goal of extending the entire system for some specific advanced feature (like a nice IO model).
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I love how appropriate this is, given the title (and I assume content) of the book! :D
What about over heating?

I tried ubuntu 12.04, and 12.10 on a 2011 macbook air 4,2.
I followed the information here, some of the tweaks weren't needed on 12.10:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2

But the fans were spinning almost constantly. This was with just firefox and vim usage.

OS X seems to do a better job of running Apple hardware at a sensible temperature.
Show HN: Jekyll meets Posterous – Static Blog and Email Posting
Top Tech Companies: You filter on raw IQ, here is how to do it more effectively
Because it regulates foreign surveillance, not domestic law enforcement. Similarly, the Army doesn't need to honor the 4th Amendment when in a combat theater abroad.
What a cop-out.

I am pretty sure you prefer Angular but are just too pussy to say it.

Maybe you think people will think less of you for preferring the framework that is less complex.

I assumed 'not even close' would mean this guy would be siding with AngularJS.

Its sad but many people have the mistaken belief that programming languages and frameworks that are harder to use are more sophisticated and therefore better.

What I think is that deep down people are afraid that others will think they weren't smart enough to figure out the more complex and difficult to use thing.

What I am sure of is that a system that is less complex and easier to use is better engineering.
Customers should be funding your hardware purchases. If you don't have customers yet then go find some and get enough of them to prepay and agree to use your service so that you can afford the hardware, etc. Because, if you're not able to build a list of customers that will prepay then this business is in trouble. Better to get yourself into that "sales mode" sooner rather than later. Since the margin for error isn't great ($3k) you definitely want to focus on getting customers first and leasing servers as the other commenter suggested.
But if you'd want to use an ORM , why not directly use Rails?

An ORM (the only example listed by you or the author) does not a Rails app make. There are dozens of ORMs of all types across every language; DHH did not invent the Active Record pattern and Rails' implementation of it is not the only viable option, even in Ruby (consider Sequel's ORM for example).
For the hardware, I'd assume?
It got flagged for a linkbait title.
"it's based on "think of the children" rhetoric alone."

If I'm reading you right, the .uk cultural outlook is something like pr0n jumps off the screen and gives the kids cooties, so we have to block it like a vaccine? Kind of like how some of our own .us leftward people blame inanimate guns solely for violence, therefore ban the gun... Or perhaps more of a "they'll end up addicts unless we stop them" type thing?

Culturally wrt to pr0n, waaaaay too many "journalist" stories about the self proclaimed guardians of our morality getting busted while combining pr0n with "think of the children" (creepily, I mean it literally) so its awkward enough to totally avoid talking about. Its seen as hyper politicized in that the neocons are simultaneously about 95% of the people both getting busted for the hard core stuff while also being the ones working up an absolute froth about banning the relatively mild harmless stuff. So its very difficult to provide a "balanced news report" if one side makes fools of themselves all the time and the other just sits back and points and laughs.

We (as in .us) generally mostly do the anti-pr0n thing via "Jesus personally told me to force you at the point of a gun to do this because I will judge you, not God, therefore no pixs showing bare ankles" type of thinking, or something like that. There's more than a little hint of "no one believes this, but we're all going to agree to say we do" going thru the motions. I'm not sure how any of that is Christian as I understand it, but it doesn't bother them, so it doesn't bother me, as long as they leave me alone, which they see as a holy obligation not to do, so I guess it does bother me after all... If this doesn't make any sense to people outside the .us, don't feel bad, it doesn't make any sense to us mere consumers either (we used to be citizens, with rights, but now we're just consumers)

When I was a kid (a while ago) there was some "journalist" coverage given to feminist opposition to pr0n WRT exploitation / degrading or whatever, but thats pretty much disappeared from media thus disappeared from consciousness in the .us. We're lucky to spin up any agitprop over actual violent sexual assaults much less merely a picture or two. It was sort of the refer madness approach to anti-pr0n and it backfired and swung the opposite way, I think. Does the .uk have much of that flavor of opposition?
I've just tried it with:

I tried it on some decent-looking HN comments. I am impressed that every "problem" it has found has been plausible, but disappointed that all have been wrong. This checker has one hell of a false positive rate.

No errors / suggestions. I didn't get any feedback that the text has been analyzed and is ok.

(I tried it with the original text and got some suggestions. It's working.)
Eh. They can keep it.

• Average engineering salary in sf: 116K / year [1]

• Average rent for a one bedroom: $2,700 / month [2]

After taxes you're coming in around 72k / year - 32k / year for rent

You'll have roughly 40k to play with. That may sound like a lot but factor in food, health care, travel, energy, internet, phone, and numerous miscellaneous expenses and you'll be hard pressed to save anything over 10k a year. For me it would never work having 2k per month in student loans.

Also compare that to a place like D.C.

• Average engineering salary in D.C. : 105k / year [3]

• Average rent for a one bedroom: $1,392 / month [4]

After taxes you'll have around 68k / year - 17k / year for rent

That's 51,000 per year. About 11k more per year and a place that is significantly less expensive to live in. That can really make a difference and you may miss out on being in sf but you're in a large city with a healthy tech environment none the less.

1.) http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Software-Engineer-l-San-Franc...

2.)http://sfist.com/2013/03/07/map_average_rent_for_1br_in_san_...

3.) http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Software+Engineer&l1=Washing...

4.) http://www.apartmentratings.com/rate?a=MSAAvgRentalPrice&msa...
I think the advantage this has is you have one continuous path from NAND gate to Tetris. Whereas in my experience attempting CS at Cal Poly, we did all these steps but they were disconnected. The output of one course was not used as input to the next.

I don't know if there is any pedagogical benefit from being able to say "I built this whole thing from scratch". But it sure is cool.
So we should just make such agreements null and void until the technology community (us) and the lawyers can come up with a way of breaking these user agreements down into digestible, understandable units.

Which unfortunately destroys the Internet until that happens. Businesses typically don't enjoy the benefit of the doubt and consumer protection laws that their customers usually do when those customers sign up with a standard form contract where they have little if any power to negotiate. If a business offering a product or service isn't able to define reasonable terms to clarify what the deal is then that business can't transact with customers without accepting an absurd amount of risk or without negotiating individually with each customer at prohibitive cost.

When we did the terms for a UK business not so long ago, we were advised that things like hiding potentially unexpected terms away could weaken those terms if we ever tried to enforce them, while if certain terms that are reasonable but not necessarily obvious are emphasized then this can strengthen their enforceability. Also, there are some basic legal standards that any such contract would have to meet, e.g., where consumer protection laws say that certain kinds of term are completely prohibited.

This seems a reasonable fundamental policy: whoever is writing the terms can't rely on unreasonable conditions, and if there's something reasonable but possibly unexpected then it's in their interests to draw attention to it explicitly, but assuming they do those things their terms should be expected to stand up in court if necessary.
I think if you work for a printing outfit, your exposure is likely to be skewed towards the realm of working solutions. My negative experience was always in getting some random computer to work with a random printer. Lets say a friend comes over, or I am at a friends house. If a friend came over, we'll have the joy of trying to find the drivers for the printer for their windows box. If I was at a friend's, it was always "just give me the usb cable."

That said, I don't have massive experience with crashes in Office. I do prefer plain text source files, though. To the point that I have begun using R for basic data analysis instead of excel. (Though, I make no claims that I can more quickly get a chart created than someone just clicking the chart button any any office application. I can more reliably reproduce my results, though.)
Saudi Arabia blocks Viber, WhatsApp soon: wants local server to monitor users
My experience consist of few debian installs back in the day, a lot of life boot CD to risque the data from dead windows laptops with dd nc and currently my main is Arch linux desktop. The occasional persistent mint USB flash for remote offices. And the occasional install and config of testing server environments.

No issues with hardware support at all. But there is very steep learning curve - I think that is the main thing the community must focus on. Just introduce new users to the system gently. I have few requests recently about migrating to linux after the NSA stuff blew up. And sadly have to tell the people not yet unless you like to get your hands dirty.
This is awesome. Been thinking of doing the same with an electron gun (hijacked from an old crt) and vacuum chamber.
Yes. The FAA "Certification" scheme documented in this part of the law is like an SQL stored procedure. If NSA wants, instead of obtaining individualized authorizations from the FISC to surveil individual foreign targets, the DNI and Attorney General can together sign off on a "Certification" documenting the type of surveillance and the measures taken to ensure that such surveillance doesn't target Americans. The FISC reviews that Certification, and the NSA can reuse its structure multiple times by issuing "Directives".
Ok, I get it now, I'm sure I can do something about the vertical space.

Thanks for the heads up about Reader, sometimes I wish there were more than 24 hrs in a day...
This is silly. Although I'm sure it's gotten much better since I regularly used Linux on the desktop, you always had to do some amount of due diligence about what hardware worked well with it and what hardware didn't.

For example, because I use OS X, I can go to any store, purchase my choice of Lexmark printer, and be on my merry way with a minimal amount of checking. The fact that I have to know that there's a "reference platform" is the problem. I don't want to have to think about that crap. I don't have to with my Mac. I want to save my mental cycles for important things, not struggling with which printer to purchase.

Or I can put it in simpler terms. There's a concrete social cost to using Linux on the Desktop. Let's say I want a printer for Christmas. If I'm running the amount of information I need to give my family in order for them to buy me one that works is orders of magnitude smaller than if I'm running Linux.

In fact, I'd sound like some sort of bizarro printer snob when I make my request. "If you're looking at Lexmark printers, these models work, these ones don't. HP is good, but not models like X, Y, and Z."

Now, like I said, it's been several years since I regularly used Linux on the desktop. I'm sure it's better. But the problem is not that there aren't known-good Linux configurations. It's that (1) those configurations are essentially arbitrary and therefore not obvious and (2) they require time and energy to learn (memorize, really).

If it's changed, that's great, but that's also part of the problem. Now I not only have to keep a set of known-good configurations in my head but a rolling changelog, too, to make sure my knowledge is up-to-date.

I switched from Linux to OS X precisely because I decided my mental energy was better spent on other things than remembering, "Oh yeah, the Dell Lenovo X876123 mark 10 is a known-good Linux laptop."

I'll add that I'm sure in aggregate Linux supports a much wider range of hardware than OS X. That's great! That's why Linux is kicking ass in all sorts of non-desktop markets like mobile devices, embedded systems, servers, etc. But there is an inherent tension in an OS that's optimizing for that vs. constraining itself to the desktop and the desktop only.
I've had an Nvidia Optimus + Intel 4000 since Nov 2012 and I never had to reboot, just specify when I wanted to run a particular program with Nvidia (games), everything else would run by default with Intel.

Everything worked out of the box, the only minor issue is that bluetooth audio connection with my jambox is sometimes lost, but i could never even get it to work with a Mac.
Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I've lived in both. This is not to say that parts of London aren't dodgy, but SF is I think both subjectively and quantifiably worse.

For example, London has around 500 people sleeping rough each night. San Francisco has almost ten times as many, between 3-5,000 (mainly because a winter's night in SF is rather more survivable than a London one).

More subjectively, I think public transport in London far surpasses SF, both in terms of safety and quality (...Friday nights excepted, but I think that's par the course of any large city).

[1]: London figures from here (http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/news-and-views/homelessness-fa...), SF figures from here (http://www.sfgate.com/homeless/)
If you mean "better" as in quantitatively more, then yes.

The quality of those drivers are far, far worse than the OSX drivers.

Also, how is it surprising that OSX has few drivers, when OSX is meant for very specific Apple-designed hardware?

Anyway. I'm running Ubuntu on a new Macbook Air (5,1), and both the touchpad and the Wifi drivers are an absolute atrocity on Linux.

A few things just doesn't work, like the keyboard backlight.

The LCD backlight is also broken, half the time you have to unplug and replug the power to get the backlight to light up after automatic dimming, for some reason.

As for wifi, I quote, live, from my syslog:
Jun 16 22:27:45 laptop kernel: [28768.034285] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_c_ampdu_dotxstatus_complete: Pkt tx suppressed, illegal channel possibly 48
Jun 16 22:27:45 laptop kernel: [28768.035618] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_c_ampdu_dotxstatus_complete: Pkt tx suppressed, illegal channel possibly 48
Jun 16 22:27:45 laptop kernel: [28768.036427] brcmsmac bcma0:0: brcms_c_ampdu_dotxstatus_complete: Pkt tx suppressed, illegal channel possibly 48
... etc ...

Constant disconnects, poor speed. Switch to the proprietary driver and bandwidth is 2-3x better and the disconnects disappear, though.

The trackpad issues seem unfixable, even though there are lots of options to fiddle with. The quality is just poor or the driver is not designed to work with the type of touchpad that the Mac has. Tapping causes the cursor to move to a new position before doing a click, left-clicking causes the cursor to zoom to the bottom left of the screen, etc. etc. etc. If the precision of the Mac touchpad driver is index 100, I would give the Linux driver a score of 5.
I was referring to if someone comes to your place and assaults you, or things go missing, etc..
forget about the $3k you have left, what about the money you've already put in? it doesn't look like I can sign up anywhere to get any sort of service, so you have no way to generate a return on your investment so far -- so why would you want to put any more in?

my suggestion is to set up yourself a prgmr-like website, do the administration yourself (by hand), and spend a few hundred dollars trying to get some traffic and signups. if that starts to work out then take it from there. realize that more SSDs aren't going to generate any money; signups will.

a new website would be nice, but you don't have the money for one, and it's not clear it's worth trying to get one at this point. the pure ASCII look could actually instill some sort of confidence that your current website does not.

good luck!
What communist leanings? My understanding is that he had none, and that this was just made up by people who disliked King for other reasons.

Which was a fairly common practice at the time. Anyone expressing a political opinion that ran contrary to the ruling class was flagged "communist".
If a Dell was purchased with Ubuntu pre-installed, I'm sure that a `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` wouldn't bork during installation either.
Yeah, I'd agree with you that The Telegraph isn't the most balanced of sources when it comes to immigration. It's an overtly right-wing paper.
When talking about singles you mean men right?
> The agents and parties affected in the two settings, London and S.F., could indeed be different. Nonetheless, the theme remains the same.

Not really. The OP's theme is simply culture-shock and coming to terms.

Your linked piece is xenophobia and anti-immigration, the complete opposite of views held by most technologist in San Francisco and the wider Silicon Valley.
Linux (Fedora 18) works a charm on Dell Precision laptops, powerhouse machines at that, can go 32GB RAM like Thinkpad 530Ws, and 3X SSD if you're so inclined (probably coming in sub MBP price to boot).

Had some hiccups with previous Sony Z-series laptop, but one nice thing about switching machines with Linux is that X11 config settings for your peripherals (trackball, wireless KB, etc.) all apply to the new machine.

The biggest headache has been Nvidia, forcing max power consumption (and heat generation) with multi-monitor setups (of course, IIRC that affects all laptop makes, Macs included).

Fortunately Dell Precisions have 2X fans (CPU & GPU) so cool & quiet overall, just not a big fan of Nvidia, would have a near passively cooled machine were it not for the multi-monitor max power issue.
What kind of Powerpoint slides are these? Are the spying agencies trying to "sell" their skills for larger budgets, or what?
Kademlia (distributed hash table)
(kernel 3.8.0-25-generic, hardware MacBookAir5,1)
I want to just second every part of Chris' answer.

As for how to spend that $3k? I'd say work on finding a way to articulate your value proposition well enough so that you can convert customers at a high enough rate compared to what your competitors are making.

Don't try to service these customers at first and just hand whomever makes it through over to another party (taking a few percent in reseller fees.)

It seems like you have a small nugget of a value proposition hidden in your site, which seems to be people who are looking for truly high-performance bare metal servers to rent on demand.

I'm pretty sure that for that specific niche a few people/companies can make decent money by having the best combination of SEO/SEM and well converting marketing copy.

If you want to get this company off the ground you'll have to become one of those few people and consistently beat the few other players bound to be trying to dominate this market.

Testing all this costs almost nothing apart from a few dollars here and there to help test your new design/copy a bit faster.

That is what you'd need to make a successful business out of this. If that doesn't sound like fun to you you're probably interested in something else right now and perhaps you should focus your activities around being able to work on the things that interest you...
Well... Many families are also in the suburbs (South Bay or East Bay) as the weather tends to be better and you can have houses with gardens for the kids to play around (also the school system is less messed up there).
Which does not mean that there are not kids-full neighborhoods in the city.
Hence the classification "TOP SECRET STRAP 1" at the bottom of the slide.