skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Desktops? Great compatibility. Laptops? Not so much. This August, in 2014 for those keeping score at home, I had to create a custom LiveCD of Fedora 20 to even get the distro to boot! The vanilla FC20 LiveCD images were shipping a Linux kernel a few weeks to old to work on the new, generic, bare-bones Asus laptop.

The custom spin downloaded all the packages from the updates repository, loading an ever-so-slightly newer kernel that played nice with that Asus's particular UEFI/Intel Haswell combo.

That computer's working great after doing that, but not everyone can be expected to:
A) Troubleshoot why a "should work every time" plain-jane OS image won't even boot--kernel panics in 2014? Who knew, right?
B) Figure out how to create a more up-to-date version of that image

UEFI and secure boot and on and on... It's not ~2005-2011 anymore, laptops are a lot more complicated and more diverse than they used to be a very short time ago.
I love articles on this topic because they're uplifting and hopeful, I hate them because they are unrealistic.

Y-Combinator's expectation for start-ups is that they are to be "all-consuming" (1)

From Sam Altman's "Before the Startup":

"If you start a startup, it will take over your life to a degree you cannot imagine. And if your startup succeeds, it will take over your life for a long time: for several years at the very least, maybe for a decade, maybe for the rest of your working life. So there is a real opportunity cost here."

In my personal experience start-ups are terrible for young families.

If you expect to have a balanced-family-life and still also out-work / out-hustle 20-year olds or 40+ year olds (older kids) that are out for your blood you are setting yourself up for failure.

I've been through this exact grind with young children born 18-months apart and you are FORCED to choose.

That uninterruptable family dinner?

Wait until an investor flys in to SFO unexpectedly and wants to go out on the town.

Being around for more of the "little things”?

Wait until you are forced to marginalize the importance of being there on your kid's actual "birthday" because heck, you'll be at the birthday party this weekend and you need to be in Dallas for a sales meeting.

I am writing those two anecdotes from my own personal experience.

Working up on start-up #XX with plenty of success under my belt, pre-set expectations that I'm going to do this "balance" now, etc.

It's unrealistic, and I have been forced to choose my start-up and my team over my family to succeed, and it sucks.

But that's my path, and that of many others here.

I have incredible respect for anybody juggling y-combinator, a working spouse, and two kids.

But you have to be made of steel to undertake this path and look at the sacrifices you will make as a husband and father in the eye.

(1) http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html
Today we have users voting with their feet: eg I use Twitter/I stopped using Twitter after they pissed off the developer community.

The fraction of users who actually do this is so tiny that they don't make a dent in Twitter's userbase. The vast majority of users don't care about "trust", or "privacy", or ads, or federation, or API limits, or the ability to leave the provider if it turns evil. They care about where their friends are. That's literally the only feature that draws users in the numbers that make a social network last. I wouldn't expect Ello to be able to convince enough people to join and stay without massive, enthusiastic, engaged adoption -- and what engagement it has is coming from the bandwagon effect, not its promise of no ads.

By the way, remember Diaspora[0]? It's an open-source, federated social network that anyone can host, that requires no trust in any individual provider, and with no ads. It still exists, after attracting quite a lot of attention and Kickstarter funding a few years ago. And it dropped almost entirely off the radar, because its selling points have nothing to do with people's friends actually being there.

[0] https://joindiaspora.com/
Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes
Mistakes, Fundraising, and Lessons Learned from Ordr.in, a Techstars Company
Canonical went on a binge hiring Debian developers, which is a reason why these releases took so long.
Looking forward for an android port.
Interesting. The "final revolution" that Huxley describes could also be called "the singularity" from transhumanism. In the end, we all become subservient to "the system" through our own choice. The system need not be run by humans.

The thing is, the indoctrination of children and coordinated use of psychotropic drugs as a means of control would be morally repugnant to a human. But for a non-human ruling class, morality does not apply and the efficiency argument makes more sense.

Obviously, neither of these men could have predicted computers the way they exist today. It is now plausible to think that a malicious AI could undermine our entire system of government without us knowing. No such AI exists today, but if it did, it would have near unfettered access to communications and data globally simply based on today's technology systems. The levers for control are already in place.

Ultimately, when the machines take over, it'll probably be because we willingly hand over the keys. What happens to us after that is anyone's guess.
I believe you are confusing the government's right to regulate behavior with the government's right to regulate negative externalities[0] caused by certain behaviors.

I would argue in that in the case of smoking, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that suggests the activity harms others around you. Therefore, the public has the right to regulate the negative externality that this activity creates -- needless physical harm to others. The regulation of this activity creates virtually zero new negative externalities and is therefore justified.

This is in contrast to the other behavioral regulations you mentioned such as gay marriage, feeding the homeless, or even other drugs. The supposed negative externalities these activities produce have been viewed with more skepticism by the general public in recent years.

For example, the argument that gay marriage would somehow harm the way certain children were raised, has been mostly debunked. If sufficient evidence to the contrary would arise, evidence that was comparable to the quality of the evidence for second hand smoke, then the public would be justified in reevaluating the issue.

Fortunately, from a civil rights perspective, this is not the case.

In the case of non-smokable drugs you have to consider how much harm drug use causes vs. drug prohibition. It becomes clear that the negative externalities from the latter are much larger in scope and scale. Therefore, a conversation in ending drug prohibition is justified.

So, I would argue that whether or not a regulation on feeding the homeless is justified depends on the scope and scale of the negative externalities the activity creates, vs the scope and scale of negative externalities the regulation itself may or may not create.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
How I Tried to Create an Internet Media Empire in Just 7 Days
That wouldn't reduce the number of accidents, but it'd be an excellent method to reduce the number of handicapped (and the inconvenience of accommodating them.) The US military has been suffering from this very real problem due to advences in medical technology over the past few decades. Not treating the wounded (or at least waiting a day or two) should significantly reduce the military budget.
You'd also have to be pretty naive to think that the german intelligence apparatus isn't out there actively attacking and subverting cloud datacenters. Google formerly operated datacenters in Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin, but they're all shut now.

http://www.quora.com/How-many-data-centers-does-Google-have
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/05/15/googl...
I was not surprised at the rise in production, I spent my college years driving by the old rare earth mine at Mountain Pass[1] but what really surprised me was that China totally blew it on this. They had a near monopoly on the production of rare earths, and if they had just moved the prices up slowly, I believe they would have captured far more value before it triggered a ramp up of external suppliers.

[1] Las Vegas to LA and back. Got out to look around once when the workings were basically abandoned but decided against it after seeing all the radiation warning signs :-)
Hustling for Traction and Doing Things That Don't Scale
Which is great, but that's almost not the main issue. In the ipython REPL I can work with my code and data at the same time. It's a huge disadvantage to not be be able to probe your data to create a working process.
XHP classes for Bootstrap components
Sweden Has Its Own Font
Fortunately, from what we know about the case, that information is on the same servers that are alleged to have been hacked illegally by the FBI which would make their contents inadmissible and thus, a boom for DPR.
New York and the Bay Area aren't all that dense by major city standards.

But the real reason for the difference isn't really density. It is government telecom policy. The countries that deployed fiber have, for the most part, either heavily subsidized it via direct subsidies or tax breaks. In Sweden's case, for example, forced state run utilities to build the backbone for the telecoms.

The US expects the telecom investment to be 100% privately funded. That means it has to be profitable enough to attract capital investments.

Unlike say Sweeden, were everyone has to use the single telecom provider's network, in the US there is no such mandate. Verizon's FIOS network has to compete with the cable companies network (which is vastly cheaper). Fios is only getting around 25% of people who have potential access to sign up. The Singapore network probably gets 90% or more.

If you really want fiber in the entire USA. Give Verizon, ATT, Century Link, and the other incumbent local loop carriers huge tax incentives to do it. Otherwise it'll happen slowly when people are willing to pay a premium for higher speed.
Proselytizing is not doing charitable work.
That comment cost me 1/12 of my hard-earned 12 points. So this is what martyrpun feels like.
I was unsure what this had to do with Mozilla. From the site's About page:

The Open Standard provides online news coverage of open, transparent, and collaborative systems at work in technology and our daily lives. Our purpose is to showcase the positive global impact of these systems and inspire more people to seek out, support and adopt open principles of accessibility, participation and experimentation.

The Open Standard is published by Mozilla, a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online. We will disclose and be transparent if we take a position on or promote the products and services of Mozilla or a partner company.

It appears to be an extension of their OpenNews initiative: http://opennews.org/
I admit I'm actually kind of caught up in a potential self-contradiction here, where I'm arguing that people are largely freer than they were before while also pointing out that the government does seem to act in a fairly orwellian way and seems to desire to do so more (both in terms of surveillance and imposition of a prison-driven police state). I think that both these things can be true, but I haven't completely convinced myself of that.

So what I'd really like is an example of a state that undisputably reduced in political and economic freedoms while also undisputably increased in sexual freedoms. Maybe Rome? But I think sexual freedoms probably only increased for the most privileged classes there. I'm not aware of a sexual renaissance in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany or Soviet/American client states with brutal puppet governments.
Why is the catholic church panhandling in this way? Surely they can afford to do it themselves.

They talk about "saving" the documents. Are they going to just let them rot away if we don't cough up?
"The item you tried to buy is no longer available."
So it's kind of like 4Chan?
Same here. Pretty unfortunate launch.
This was true in the early days of hobbyist quadcopters, but at this point even ready-to-fly consumer models are offering FPV and even full beyond-line-of-sight autonomy.

I think this automation unlocks a lot beyond classic R/C flying - yes, people have been flying beyond-line-of-sight FPV for a long time, but certainly not as beginners while using a $550 RTF kit which can fly itself and also offers GPS-based waypoints and a built-in camera gimbal.

I do agree that using the same word for weaponized military platforms and little quadcopters is frustrating, but I think we're far past the "glorified R/C plane" phase of hobbyist flying gear, too.
So...life is pain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqaNi0UfOoI
That's the struggle. And, you've called it out precisely. There will be some extremely tough choices. Hopefully it doesn't come to a choice where the business is at risk due to a family decision (or vice versa). But, you've got to stay mindful of that fact. That's why I liked the juggling "Rubber" or "Glass" balls metaphor from my previous CEO.
Rooms is analogus to Slingshot: both apps are cheap clones of popular apps (Whisper/YikYak and Snapchat respectively) with an extra dose of quirky-and-random to appeal to the younger demographic.

I expect Rooms to see the same success as Slingshot. That is, none at all.
Was your Laptop certified by the manufacturer or distribution to run Linux? Does OSX work on that Laptop out of the box?
The guy wasn't outside harassing people, we were talking a couple blocks away and I asked him if he was hungry.
I am confused. Is the landlord evicting them in the middle of their lease. Example: Landlord signs year long lease with tenant and then evicts tenant mid lease to sell property or are they not renewing the lease at the end of the year when lease contract expires.
Thanks, I hope it can help people learn faster and create cool stuff!
I enjoyed reading this but don't get people to create new accounts just to shill and upvote your submission. You'll be banned pretty quickly.
Whoa, this is potentially amazing.

I always mean to dig into some popular Ruby gems or the Ruby core and read the code so I can improve my style.

But reading other peoples' code is tough - you can usually figure out what they're doing, but not necessarily why. This could change that.

It's like Genius (neé RapGenius) for code. That's a very good thing.
Society has to answer these questions by weighing the rights being curtailed for one party vs. the rights being protected for the other party.

I've always thought that outright indoor smoking bans are a gross in-balance of non-smoker's rights vs. smokers and property owner's rights.

I think imposing mandatory licensing (with fees) of indoor smoking establishments that ensure proper ventilation for the protection of employees and other tenants is the reasonable solution. It can protect smokers and property owners rights while also also protecting the rights on non-smokers, employees and tenants.

In the case of feeding the homeless, I think the ability to give charity is an important right. I think it is more important than the right to have an attractive city center that encorages tourism.

However, the relative importance of these rights isn't important. The available solutions are important. If there is a solution that protects the rights of both parties, it is the proper solution to use.

This is why these cities should be using incentives and support to encourage feeding the homeless in proper locations (near support infrastructure and away from valuable retail or tourist destinations).

We should always choose to encourage proper behavior as opposed to banning improper behavior whenever possible.
It's not a deal-breaker per se, but I need someone to explain to me why, at this point in history, you need to make a choice, at some level, between relational integrity and full text indexing (InnoDB vs MyISAM)?
> Technology can help create newer, more engaging distractions.

Watching how people react to the Occulus, "OMG it's sooo real!" I can't help thinking how badly screwed we are as a species when it goes mainstream. FarmVille addiction, World of Warcraft will look like a walk in the park to Occulus addicts who no longer know or care what reality is. Perhaps I'm just overly pessimistic
Did it get pulled or not propagated correctly ?
I get "The item you tried to buy is no longer available." on US Appstore.
Meet Rooms, Facebook’s semi-anonymous app
Normally when something is in a bonded warehouse it's a storage-only situation. Looking online I can't find anything about indian special cases where this works differently, just the ordinary "store goods here until you sell them, and pay the duty then".
Crowdfunder.co.uk API simplifies crowdfunding integration
Show HN: Stackeo 2.0 is now online
http://stackeo.me

Stackeo is a daily curation on the latest and best coding tools and libraries out there. We've been looking into our community feedback and we've improved our service towards our users requests. Stackeo is now more mobile friendly and authentication it became easier. You can login with Github, Twitter, Facebook and Google. Users can save items in there own Stack and check them later.

Try it out and please give us your feedback.

http://stackeo.me
hello@stackeo.me
Thank you for the kind words and the clarifications Mitchell :)

Tug is a simple tool that I wrote to scratch a personal itch around working with dockerized applications and trying to optimize for startup speed and writing as absolutely little configuration as possible.

I'm hoping to get a few other people to try it out and let me know if it works for them and if it's useful, especially given the existence of so many other tools of this nature.
The Chrome extension example is pretty weak. I don't know why anyone would think you could get something form the Chrome Web Store using Firefox.
Amazon operating in Germany is subject to German laws.

Legally, all asses are covered, and for 90% that's all that matters, regulatory compliance.

Germany, unlike Ireland, comes with the added bonus that if privacy protection is violated, shit will hit the fan. But that's all it is, a bonus.

Most assume the NSA can get to the data wherever it is, and those very few genuinely worried about that look for protection in encryption rather than legal jurisdiction.
The line numbers are messed up in latest Chrome OSX.
BFQ-v7r6 versus CFQ, DEADLINE and NOOP on an SSD
I went through this journey with Tad. Not having a kid myself it's been amazing to learn about the demands of starting a family while simultaneously getting overwhelmed by the challenges of a growing startup.

As Tad mentioned communication has definitely been the key. And often situations where Tad or Kyle's parenting demands seemed like an inconvenience to Tiempo have actually helped remind us all why we are doing this crazy adventure. And we come back swinging even harder the next day.

So kudos to all you startup parents out there. It's a tough road but I'm confident you and your family are going to come out stronger for the journey!
Unfortunately, Racism and protectionism will make sure this will never happen.
Software developer shortage transcends international boundaries
Their app is full of hilarious bugs and hacks. But I guess that money can buy them a real dev team?
This is like GroupMe and YikYak had a child and they decided they needed to add "rooms". I don't see this going anywhere.
I loved body language by Allan and Barbara Pease. It is short, to the point and has nice diagrams.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/0...
Take a Rare Peek Inside the Massive Data Centers That Power Google
Yes, but without these rules, there would be people spamming everyone uncontrollably and wasting resources. Anything with this level of users needs these kinds of rules in place or he service eventually becomes useless.

The oath tokens are there because too many developers don't seem to understand good security practices when storing usernames and passwords
Yeah, that has also been my experience.

Why Intellij instead of Liclipse?
Two Centuries of Productivity Growth in Computing (2007) [pdf]
Thank you, I couldn't have said this better. I live in Houston near one of the areas where all of the church groups with the "white savior" complex would go and do mass feedings. This was in what was once a rough part of town and many of the homeless were killed/robbed/beaten/murdered.
Suicide: An Economic Approach (2004) [pdf]
The CIO’s Dilemma: Designing Networks and Services in the Cloud
As others have said, this is pretty out of touch with the reality of homelessness. It assumes that homelessness is primarily a condition caused by laziness. While that's occasionally true, it's such a small minority that it's an absurd place to start. It'd be like rebuilding your football team starting with your second-string punter.

As a prelude, remember that your proposed system basically exists. Project housing isn't a novel idea. The homeless are by and large the folks that can't or don't want to get themselves into project housing.

In a rather odd turn of events, when I was 19, I ended up staying in a homeless shelter for a week. It was an incredibly interesting experience. For most of a week I stayed there, ate in soup kitchens and had a rather interesting look from the inside.

For the most part, in the shelter I was in, I saw two big categories of folks that were there:

- Folks that were crazy. This included long term drug and alcohol addicts. They were probably a slight majority. The type and severity of crazy varied, but you got the sense that the goal with those types of folks was helping them to the extent possible, but in most cases, they were often going to need assistance for the remainder of their lives.

- Folks that were pretty darn normal, but had two things go particularly bad in their lives at once. This group was pretty surprising for someone from a middle class background. These people seemed totally normal to me. There was one combination of events that was so common that I saw it several times -- people who'd lost their jobs and their wives (it was a men's shelter) had kicked them out at the same time. Some of these people had graduate degrees, reasonably respectable middle class careers, and so on ... but for one reason or another all at once they had no money and nowhere to live.

Neither of those cases would be especially well addressed by your proposal. I'm skeptical that it would do anything other than make rich people feel better about complaining about the homeless, but really, that sounds like what it's designed for.
That is unbelievably far from the suggestions the OP made.

In his version, you get arrested for begging, shipped back to your home town, perhaps the desolate place you left in hope of finding a job before falling on hard times, or perhaps back to a place where your abusive father or partner can find you again.

And you get to pick up litter off the street or whatever menial job is available, not in exchange for money like a normal person, but in exchange for a room and basic food. Until you can somehow find a way to move into an approved place of living.

Not to mention that even in the nice comfortable version of reality he pretends could possibly exist the problems of those homeless people won't simply disappear. Drug addiction, alcohol problems and mental issues will still be rife. The utopian clean and well maintained dorms will soon be more akin to prisons with guards trying to limit the contraband taken in. Obviously that will fail, if the modern prison system is anything to go by.
EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide
yep see http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/about/news/university-of-oxford-team...
On the Security of Containers, Docker, & VMs