skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu is literally link number two above, I realize it's a bit obfuscated

The point I was making is how deeply the connection to Debian is buried on the ubuntu.com site and contrasting it to Crunchbang's approach which is to give back mindshare

As for your two links point, the fastest path I can find is 3:

/ --> /about --> /about/about-ubuntu --> about/about-ubuntu/ubuntu-and-debian

3 clicks, each link with it's own level of prominence. It's safe to say the Debian connection isn't featured for the average user. And I would imagine well over half the website is available within 3 three clicks of the homepage, I have half a mind to crawl it to find out...

EDIT: I looked again and I can't find the word "Debian" at http://www.ubuntu.com/about/, so either my search feature is broken or it's not there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#Endian_modes
Ah, but what about anti-lock brake systems?
You're much more optimistic than me. I could see, maybe, my grandkids ushering in something like the NHS, but now or in the near future? Where the political discourse is split between being Eisenhower style Republicans (democrats) and some insane fascist theocracy (Republicans/Tea party)? Yeah, this not the formula for progressive politics.
Curious, if anyone knows: how exactly are the square brackets in this line helping do anything that wouldn't be accomplished without them?

/^[U][b][u][n][t][u]$/
yes. also another tip I got that worked the last time we did a big family cruise: never take the elevators, always take the stairs. On at sea days we made it a point to walk at least 3 miles on the track outside on the ship. Managed not to gain any weight, which I counted as a win.
Canonical doesn't even really mention the kernel Linux or the GNU project anymore.
Kickstarter charges fees.

These are taken from the kick-started funds.

When a project sees a chargeback that should be repaid by both the kick-start project owner and kickstarter.

Otherwise, Kickstarter is getting free money. (From the kick-start project owner, who is the victim of a crime.)
The maximum liability for a credit card user is $50 but is (potentially) unlimited for a debit card user. Depending on when it was reported, your bank might not have been obliged to make the refunds.

See: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0213-lost-or-stolen-cre...
and
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0093-credit-card-loss-p...

I see bitcoin advocates talking up the fact that chargebacks are impossible, which doesn't make me feel safe about it at all.
It's only the Unity lens, that's why you see people here recommending Ubuntu derivatives like Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
This is one of the cooler things I've seen in a while.
It's possible bit twiddling etc. would be a problem. Need to look at the actual code as used in Quake Live.

Of course stuttering is unacceptable, as you say. But it should not happen. If you see it in a browser, please file a bug.
Prediction: This will be a trend. People are less likely to be married now than they used to be. People increasingly feel loyalty to a culture rather than a country. Internet access on cruise ships will become cheaper.
I am amazed there is real money in printed t-shirts, but there clearly is.
Anti-lock brakes still have a significant electronic component. It's not a direct link like you'd expect.
OK, I have to be that guy. Barcelona to Casablanca is not a "transatlantic cruise".

Anyway, interesting idea if you can live without internet. Technically speaking, if you're in international waters (and not a US citizen, which is a long story), you won't even owe taxes on the work you do aboard.
The Guardian and Glenn Greenwald's success from reporting the Snowden leaks may be helping to spark a revival of truth among the Fourth Estate.
And one could use Teddy and the myriad followup papers to automatically get the 3D profiles:

http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/teddy/teddy.htm
It’s official: Computer scientists pick stronger passwords
Mark Jason Dominus did a quick-and-dirty survey on where usage messages should go: http://blog.plover.com/Unix/usage.html

Most people think stderr (so as not to muck up pipelines when you get the invocation syntax wrong). But then there is also the cleverer option of using stdout if and only if the help is explicitly requested, which seems to be justifiable, popular in the survey, but (I think) not much implemented.
Console + TV in one is still better than having to switch inputs. Also, with SmartGlass, Microsoft will probably do very interesting things combining your phone + tv + Xbox.
This Is How Much Money Twitter Owes You
We need to talk about privacy
I have the ability to eat dog shit, but...
Figured out the answer to my own question: it must be a silly/clever way to avoid having the literal string "Ubuntu" in the source.
As much as id like to work from different places alot, i just cant stand the fact of being hunched over a laptop all day. Most of these places that are not an office, just arent very ergonomic.
Ask HN: Where'd one go to hire someone for a one-off ~hour-long scripting task?
I suspect that someone who knows what they're doing could knock this out in an hour or even 30 minutes. I've written up a specification on github.[0]<p>How would you go about finding someone to implement this? How long would you expect it to take? How much would you expect to pay for it? And is anyone on here interested?<p>[0] https://github.com/kro0ub/script-spec/blob/master/README.md
any doubts you can ask me??? :)
> there's a clear difference between a site critical of Ubuntu using their name in the domain and their logo in the header image versus a passing remark in documentation or code.

IANAL, but as far as I understand US law (it's crazy, but everybody needs to learn it nowadays), the first use is explicitly permitted, while a passing citation in documentation is a more nebulous issue.
I understand your point, but I'm pushing back on it because I don't agree that those other factors are trivial when discussing poverty and inequality. To ignore personal behavior in this discussion is to be begging a false cause fallacy.

At some level we may just disagree about how fair it is to consider us all fleshy robots and how important it is to consider individuals instead of populations.
Ask HN: Where are you right now?
I just read "Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location" (http://tynan.com/cruisework) and was very impressed to read on the HN thread comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6697416) that someone is visiting HackerNews from a hotel lobby as I would expect most of us to be here while we are at the office or working from home. So, I thought it might be interesting to have a "Ask HN" thread like this one.

I am very aware it may not add any technical, monetary or mental wisdom to the community but I believe a lot of us might find it very interesting to see where other people of the community visit from.
So dumb question - have you taken him/her aside and explain your issues? I don't want you to go through each and every issue/problem but have you discussed in private the problems you've had?

I can only tell you what I've seen in the past, but I think best practice is to have a private talk with the person in question and then provide the issues you've had in writing, signed by yourself and HR. I'm not an HR/legal expert, but I believe having those issues documented in writing is important from a legal standpoint.

And if you have not discussed things privately then I would advise to go that route. You did not say if you made these comments (like about being late) in public or private but I would try to minimize the shaming that a public criticism would bring if you did it in front of other people.

I assume you've already weighed how hard it can be to find tech skilled people in this economy and what it will be like to replace them. They're only 5 weeks in so there isn't much tribal knowledge this person has just yet. At the very least write down the issues, tell that person they are doing above average work but the problems they are causing is hurting the team and morale. The "it's not you its us, here is your severance" seems like a smart route as well. But please consider the documentation of issues for legal purposes, and try to get a feel for their response. If it is still hostile or resistant then you might have to let them go.
How is it better than Google Analytics?
Comments actually broke for me yesterday after the Google+ comment integration. I suspect it's because they are now generated by a Google Plus hosted javascript, which is blocked on third party sites by default in my browser.

I don't mind.
I am talking about this instance where Joey Hess is suggesting Debian cannot use the trademark without risking trouble.

I don't happen to agree with Canonical's behaviour in this respect, or believe it's enforceable.
Why would you care about in which currency you are paid?
Does Square usage have any network effects?
Didn't do it for me, must be a specific ad in the rotation or whatever.

I bet if you told sfgate what happened, they'd get the ad removed. So maybe instead of stealing content from a website, you could just not visit that website until the problem is resolved.
Just How Big Are Commercial Hadoop Clusters Getting?
To begin, I'll say I posted this from my bedroom in my hometown, Corfu (Greece).
Already this is a trend, but for senior citizens. Many of them use cruise ships as retirement communities for nearly similar reasons.

http://www.aplaceformom.com/blog/2013-2-2-cruise-ship-retire...

"According to Dr. Lee Lindquist’s 2004 study comparing assisted living costs and benefits to those offered by cruise ships, “cruises were priced similarly to assisted living centers and were more efficacious.” Lindquist claimed that over a 20-year life expectancy, cruise ships only cost about $2,000 more than the cost of assisted living. And, she says, “when you compare that to the $9,000 a month or more charged by some assisted living facilities,” a cruise ship may seem like a bargain indeed."
Finally, a way to stop losing my glasses.
In my humble opinion, this is a shitty idea. There are other quiet places with decent enough bandwidth that don't have the costs or risks of a cruise ship. My favorite one is the study section of the local library. I've also gone out to a cabin in the woods that only had a satellite link. My neighbor has soundproof walk-in closet.

As for the risks of a cruise ship, if something goes wrong, your options are limited. I say this as a navy veteran that's had to deal with multiple things that go wrong on a ocean vessel. (Fire, flooding, engine failure, etc...) As a civilian, I'm very wary of cruises.
Who exactly is buying all these t shirts? I never see shirts like these when I'm walking down the street.
Yeah, definitely aware :) I didn't mention quakejs because I wasn't sure you wanted attention on it yet.

If assets are the last thing missing for you to launch it, what would it take to resolve that (not using the official assets, but something else)? Perhaps I can help or we can find others that can.
>IMO YouTube on its way to be the MySpace of video.

Highly doubt it. Youtube is one of the hardest thing to compete with, even Google search is much easier to go after. Did you read that article about Youtube where Google pays local ISPs to act as a CDN? That is the best CDN money can buy. A competitor without matching performance is going to be largely ignore by both consumers and publishers.
Tech Lobbying Group The Internet Association Comes To Airbnb’s Side
2b) which part of the Adobe Flash EULA prevents you from working on GNU Gnash?
Another example was when Anonymous decided to start outing Cartel members. They kidnapped one of the people involved and Anonymous declared a truce to get that person released.

source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/member-anonymous-relea...
The law doesn't decide what Canonical deem acceptable, no.

However, the law (or more accurately, judges interpreting the law) get to decide whether it's enforceable.
Can't speak for the law in the US, but my impression is that in general, if the company has told you you need to sign something to continue to be employed (or get a pay rise, or whatever), and you continue to come in to work, or accept the payrise, then you've accepted that contract.

What I'm saying is: don't assume you haven't accepted a contract just because the company doesn't have your signature on a piece of paper.
Cost of conversion would be a potential reason.
This looks very interesting, I wasn't even aware that email sucked that much.

* * *
Side tracking:

Is email marketing a good thing? I've never looked at any numbers regarding that. I'm genuinely asking the community here.

My intuition would be that it's not; I really hate receiving any sort of pre-formatted email from any service, unless it's Google Groups or something where I receive a message as a result of a human trying to interact with me, personally.

In that sense, I would believe that more, fancier, mass distributed marketing emails aren't what I'm wishing for in this world. But my intuition could be wrong. I'm also the kind of guy who just automatically recycles all the marketing mail I receive without ever looking at it.

So yeah: how effective is email marketing? On the long term, short term?
Wait, you actually paid money to Google for Youtube?

You aren't the customer. You are the product being sold.
I suspect and hope that you are right.

But if you were in his position would you fancy fighting it?
Replace spoilers with ads like:

"Don't get SPOILED. Use ziplock bags for freshness".
"We’ve re-built that thing from the ground up almost half-a-dozen times over the past few years."

Surely that's not a good thing. Surely.
Well, the original problem wasn't ubuntusucks.com, but fixubuntu.com with the Ubuntu logo. One could make the argument that those two things combined without a clear disclaimer at the very least could be an issue.

I do think Canonical's approach was far too heavy-handed, but this case is nothing like ubuntusucks.com (on multiple levels =)).
I inadvertently posted a shortened URL at Pro Publica - this is the direct link. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9A703020131108
So now every article that contains the 'truth' is potentially HN material?
What is an NFL?

And DVR? Is that like the pirate bay?
Maybe the age of HN is too low to remember, but Gates wasn't visionary. Microsoft's entire business was built on embrace-and-extend strategy. Gates was shrewd and ran Microsoft like the mafia ran Chicago.

All this talk of MS needing a forward-thinking visionary with ideas is just wrong. Just look at the environment these tech companies inhabit. You have Google, Samsung, and Apple all declaring patent war. That's how it has always been. Go back to Sun and Microsoft. Or Netscape. Or what MS did to IBM. It goes on and on. Oh, sure, on the consumer side all these companies appear to be innovating and everything is peachy. But that's marketing. In reality it's a cut-throat, winner-takes-all game they are playing.

Want Microsoft to succeed? I don't think most people on HN have the stomach for it. You like open source. Open standards. Playing fair. When Microsoft was good, they were really bad.
That was my thought exactly. But I can imagine there is room for a "ThinkGeek for designers." Their second site is already a move beyond T-shirts into patches, hats, and other things. I guess they will find out!
I managed to read most of the codes he marked as unreadable in QRReader iOS app. I don't know what he used. But kinda interesting article.
I think you're completely wrong.

I share videos with my friends and family, and seeing their comments at the top of the list of comments on those videos would be great.

Also, I could probably list 1,000 videos that most of us have seen. Never Going to Give You Up. Gangnam Style. The list goes on and on.

And then there's professionally. I know hundreds of people from former and current jobs who tend to be interested in the same work-related videos. Programming languages, stuff related to our domain, technologies we could use, etc.
I clicked on your link, and it turns out that Debian have two logos: an open use one, and a restricted one. The one you probably know and love is actually the open use one, I've never seen the restricted one before.

(BTW, copyright and trademarks are very different things, be careful with your terminology.)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5647
Ask HN: Is accepting bitcoins as payment putting a target on your back?
If I wanted to start using bitcoins as a currency I could either take profits from my SaaS and use them to purchase bitcoins or start taking bitcoins as payment for my SaaS. The later sounds preferable as it would take out exchange costs (assuming I still get some people paying cash to cover my vendors that don't accept bitcoins).<p>My hesitation is that it seems that accepting bitcoins for payments is going to lead to additional (negative) attention from hackers. And if the people whose business it is to protect bitcoins can't do it then what chance do the rest of us have?<p>Basically, is accepting bitcoins for payment more trouble than it is worth?
I don't think that's an issue. What's the company going to do, prove what a great place to work they are by suing a former employee?

I just think that if you're so moved by your experience that you need to write a blog post about it, you should say who you're writing about so others may try and avoid your fate.
That's a pretty interesting point. I don't remember the book well enough to recall astronauts or firefighters getting the vote. I must have projected some later thought on my reading.

In that light, it seems a lot more like the Fifth American Republic (i think that's what they were called) in the Diamond Age. People would be required to show up at a certain place and time and perform some activity. For example, walk in a room, pour poison into a cup, leave the room. Five minutes later, walk back in the room, drink the liquid in the cup. Someone else has the job of emptying the poison and replacing it with water. They never get to see each other, but they build immense trust in their fellow citizens.

In any case, thanks, I thought mechanized infantry veterans who had actually seen combat were the only voters in the Starship Troopers system.
This might also be a sign the copy is focusing too much on themselves, and why they kick ass... rather than why you can kick ass if you use it. A subtle difference.
I would like to know more about datomic from an ops perspective if you feel like elaborating?
> I don't care about inequality (of outcome). I care about suffering.

I subscribe to a different argument with the same conclusion: I care about the inefficiency in the way we, as a society, handle our human resources. Poverty is a morass of catch-22s that conspire to perpetuate the problem rather than solve it, and that's a waste of human potential no matter how you slice it.

The minimum-wage worker who spends 1/3 of his time on his first job, 1/3 of his time on his second job, and 1/3 of his time in a perpetually unrewarding search for something better has no time or energy left for putting himself in a better position to create value for society. He is aware of the problem and he knows the theoretical solution. It is not necessarily a lack of discipline or market insight that hold him back, it's the inability to take on risk in the form of investing time and resources into a new mode of value production that make it an unattractive option. If he tries and fails, food, shelter, and health care become mutually exclusive "luxuries" next month.

HN is full of entrepreneurs who are acutely aware of the importance of being able to take risks, but it is important to realize that we (the software engineering profession) are, at the moment, comparatively well sheltered from the wrath of the market by the fact that we posses a skill that is currently in demand, and even with this shielding many of us opt for risk aversion. If we fail, our fallback plan is a cushy $100k job that we can use as a springboard for our next attempt. Our "punishment" is a temporary stint at helping someone else build their dream. On the other hand, if Sam the supermarket checkout clerk, Mike the aspiring musician, or Anne the academic go into business and fail, their punishment will be far more draconian and far less amenable to taking another chance.

The thing is, we (as a society) don't really want more supermarket clerks, street musicians, and struggling adjunct professors. We want these people to be successful because they will generate 100x the value if they are! But we are unwilling to invest the comparative pittance to cover their base needs to let them try and fail. If we played our cards right, social welfare would become an investment, not a parasitic nuisance. Unfortunately our current welfare policy (to include minimum wage) is filled with so many perverse incentives that it probably accounts for a solid half of the poverty-perpetuating morass of catch-22s I lamented earlier, if not more.

What's funny is that I regularly see people on opposite sides of the socialist/libertarian axis agree abut both the problem and the solution, even if their intermediate reasoning is different. I think you'll take my word about the socialists, but here's Milton Friedman discussing the negative income tax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
Anti-lock brake systems work by reducing hydraulic pressure at a wheel that is determined to be slipping. It doesn't affect how braking is activated.
Yeah. Rather is based off this, which we made EVEN before the 17 year old awesome spoiler chick. http://ilovechrisbaker.com/unbaby-me/
How do you like it so far? Any issues,bugs?
What if there's something I want to get done, and I have the time but I keep getting interrupted? I'll just go off somewhere with fewer distractions. That's what this is for.
Does the NSA do any of that? Does the NSA even run operations at all? Can they do any of that?

Google, Facebook, et. al. can willfully share your information with the US or any other government.

AT&T gets paid $10 million annually for access to your data, and as a publicly traded company, if they don't do that, they're not being fair to their shareholders, to whom they've promised to maximize profits.
They don't have the skill or resources, in my opinion. I've funded a few projects there and it's often a nightmare- pages timing out, extreme load times, outright failures.

While the code for displaying projects seems to work, the actual act of pledging to them doesn't. I imagine they lose a ton of pledges simply because people aren't willing to jump through hoops to make the site work.
And is every other publicly available Linux distro working on the same scale and trying to accomplish the same goals Ubuntu is trying to?

Also, is it just me or do most HN users now do not know what spyware means? Openly conducting a search that is clearly sending that data over the internet is not a covert way of collecting data, quite the opposite it's very much in your face.
What someone really needs to launch is an ad network which can target by desktop os, like MacOS, Windows etc. People would use it to sell desktop apps! Sadly I have never found one.
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In a car with ABS and brake assist - standard features on new cars - software has the ability to completely override your input.
The ability to print circuits seems even more exciting than 3D printing to me.

(now if you could combine the two...)
Meaningless in the face of the law doesn't mean it's meaningless.

It describes under what circumstances they'll send threatening letters and otherwise stamp their feet. Some people are intimidated by that kind of thing. And it can certainly cost you some real time and money dealing with it, and they have more than you.