skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it may be the best we can do.

Otherwise, it'd be like telling drunk drivers "Hey it's your call, bro! You just need to wear a seatbelt and carry lots of insurance, 'k?"
I've been using Asana for a while and have recommended it to various companies / customers. I think it is a good tool for collaboration and reducing email clutter, especially when coupled w slack.

One thing that is sorely lacking is the agile / product management piece. You can sort of make it work, but it just doesn't fully cut it. I'm currently using Asana AND an agile tool (not Trello). They overlap in so many areas, but there are some missing features from Asana for scrum/agile work, that if added would make it work for a broad set of use cases even beyond agile development:

a) ability to create categories within categories in a project: With Asana, I can create one level of categories in a given project. Ideally, I'd like to have different buckets like: Backlog, Sprint Todo, In Progress, Deploy. Within each of those, I'd like to categorize by "Epic". E.g. "Backlog -> Reports", "Backlog -> User Auth"

b) ability to show categories horizontally, instead of showing a stacked vertical list: This would be similar to the way Trello does it. (Note that Trello also lacks in other areas, and is not ideal either, but it comes close.).

c) ability to have more options for prioritization / sort order

d) ability to have labels in the summary view for things like tags, epics

People's mileage may vary in how they use scrum/kanban/etc., but the basics are mostly the same. I would think that with the rise of "software eating the world", addressing the agile/scrum use case represents a good market opportunity.

It would allow our teams and many teams to compress their tools from asana + agile tool to one tool. It might also take market share away from Trello for some use cases.
This post has more details http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-and-canonical-partner...

The interesting part is "Ubuntu will primarily run on a foundation of native Windows libraries."

If this is true Canonical is playing with fire. That could be the embrace step of the usual embrace-extend-estinguish script. Think what happens when Microsoft adds some new functionality to those "native Windows libraries" and Ubuntu/Windows is extended to use it and Ubuntu/Linux obviously not. If (when?) the majority of Ubuntu's users will be on Windows Microsoft only needs to start developing its own Ubuntu and cut Canonical out of the loop. If there will be a significant amount of Ubuntu/Windows servers by then, very little will be left for Canonical. Only the cost of Windows licenses can save Canonical on the server. The desktop will be lost given that most of Ubuntu's desktops are born as Windows machines. The more convenient way will be to add Ubuntu/Windows to them and keep a Windows OS for games or just in case you need some Windows native application.

Maybe Canonical is thinking about leaving the desktop and focusing on the server. Still it's a risky move.

Another interesting post of October 2015 http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-conspiracy "The word is that Microsoft is in secret negotiations to purchase Canonical." Maybe they're playing the Elop move without having to change CEO.
screen and tmux don't appear to be supported yet due to issues with terminal emulation. But they're working on it.
But I think we could craft a talking point version of this argument that unsubtle busy people could understand.

"The FBI is trying to compromise your data security,
for the sake of their job security."
Though this is Sam's personal investment, YCombinator has always stated they invest more in teams than ideas; do you have data to suggest a better approach for picking winners?
I was just in Australia and was blown away at the great quality of cellular phone calls. I thought I was on Viber.
Yes, in aggregate the PPP GDP of China is #1, just slightly ahead of the United States, both of which are just below the European Union (which, to be fair, is like the US but with each state having more sovereignty in the federal system).

The picture is complicated by the relative populations though. Per capita, the EU is $25k, China is $13k, US is $54k, Germany is $46k, and India is only $6k. Unfortunately, the PPP calculation is very complicated and controversial so I don't really know how valid or useful these numbers are. Unless we're going for a trivial definition, it also doesn't say much about availability of luxuries, infrastructure, stability of government/economy, etc. so it's not a 1:1 mapping of wealth.
It's true, I wish they had shown us a zero-knowledge proof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof) that they had cracked it.

At least then we would know that this isn't just to escape an unfavorable court ruling.
I am curious; why doesn't Dustin Moskovitz fund Asana entirely on his own? Genuine question. It's not like he couldn't afford it, he's worth around 10 billion. If he truly believes in the company why not put some of his Facebook money into it?
The network is OK? Are you connected over wifi? No packet loss?

And even though it is 3x3 MIMO, copying 20GB vm images is not something you want to do over wifi, so in the end I've got the Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter. Works like a charm, shorted the transfer by more than 10x.

SMB by itself never gave a problem (clean install of 11.0, then continuously updated to 11.4).
My guess would be 50-90%. The v1 was either hidden or private, hence the current announcement.
At least you're not blaming us here in Israel!
You seem to completely miss the point of what they did. It is not a simple Bash recompilation for Windows. It is a way to run Linux (Ubuntu) binaries on Windows.
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> find me a Linux user who doesn't dual-boot into Windoze for desktop apps

I've been using Linux on the desktop for 19 years, and I've never once dual-booted into Windows on any of my personal machines.
So what OS you're going to get when you run an application under this? So if I run this:

node -e 'console.log(require("os").type())'

What it's going to print?
I code in Python and use a step through debugger all the time. It's especially helpful when its other peoples code I am debugging, or when I am digging deep into Django to work out why something isn't working. And its possible to set up debugging on a remote server (though I personally never managed to get that set up and working).
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How did you get into this business? Are there opportunities for small business?
More than anything else, can you please add a distance calculator for the track tool? They had this in Google Maps classic but the new one removed it. I used Google Maps to plan the runs for my running team and the inability to estimate the distance is a huge problem. Google Maps has it as two separate tools now. So now I have to draw each leg of a running route twice: once to estimate where the mile is and another to actually save the route.
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1. Embrace is good.

2. Extend can be good if done openly and collaboratively, as opposed to closed and hidden.

3. Extinguish - Here be dragons.

I'm hopeful the New Kinder Gentler Microsoft stays on steps 1. and 2. (done collaboratively).
Indeed. Perhaps it will increasingly make sense to design software for Linux and then run it on windows via this method. Over time the Windows system calls that are not needed by the linux overlay can be phased out.
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What ever happened to programs? Was there something about that word that terribly offended people? Too hard to type out? Is 'app' soon going to be replaced by some kind of pictogram?

Enquiring minds want to know.
Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

That's some pretty broad power that is enumerated right there.

to ... provide for the ... general Welfare
I would expand that to helping people in general. There's definitely a diminishing marginal utility effect to income once you get to a certain point, but you can sidestep that by using your resources to help someone who's on a much steeper part of that curve.
They never said "Open source", Just "Open"
This is not a case of not being a good fit, in which being diplomatic is the right move. This is a recruiter/company passing a subjective and intentionally insulting assessment on a candidate at the outset. This is a brazen power play to increase the existing imbalance of power further toward the recruiter/company, by devaluing the candidate as the opening move. And there is more the OP said about what happened in the interview. That opening statement was intentional psychological fuckery.

Don't ever let anyone devalue or dehumanize you. Tell them to fuck off every time.
There was also another project I worked with a while back called LBW (http://cowlark.com/lbw/) which allowed some unmodified Linux binaries to run on windows using Internix and some really neat syscall handler trickery.
If you write a command line utility, just putting in ubuntu repo makes it available to all windows user, without even recompiling.
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Windows NT had a POSIX subsystem awhile ago, not sure what happened to it. The NT Kernel was designed to have different personalities like Win32, OS/2, POSIX, etc

It could be an updated version.
He is right. It is a typical thing that masters can't explain why their actions are that good. That's because their brains are just neural networks which are trained by so many iterations of learning.
Couldn't a hash work for immutability? Like an md5 hash of the text?
Adam would say that the difficulty calibration was the innovation satoshi brought, as most everything else existed elsewhere in some capacity
Now I just hope this will also be enabled in the Windows 10 build running on the Surface.
Go is web scale.
I'm excited for native git on Windows. The current Git on Windows versions are damn slow.
apt-get install whatever from any ubuntu repository

Not sure about X11 apps, but whatever.
Largely this makes running a special win32 build of redis for whatever dev you're doing unnecessary.

I'm currently running windows on this laptop, but I have a virtualbox instance running Lubuntu for doing any UNIX specific dev.
Ports and files are shared across windows and linux transparently, which means there's far less need for need for running+maintaining a separate developer's VM.
> just that there are other things you can buy with money that give you more lasting happiness.

That makes sense. But I wouldn't prioritize having those experiences above having money. If having an amazing experience put me under my comfort level with money-in-bank, then on the mid-term, they'd make me pretty unhappy. On the very long term, I might remember them as great.

Or I might remember them as dumb because I wasted money and opportunity cost.

But it's possible that I am permanently biased because I grew up with a very everpresent lack of money.
Relatedly, I'm not convinced Glassdoor doesn't delete or hide posts that are unfavorable to the employer. I've kept tabs on the reviews and scores left on my previous company's page and at least several negative reviews are nowhere to be found.
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This is one of the major reasons I said time travel without information transfer is not interesting. Even if it actually happens, it's not distinguishable from something else.

PS: Quantum entanglement is also less interesting than you might think for similar reasons.
Yeah there were actually a couple of projects along this line at various points, but they always suffered in various ways from not being well integrated into the system. What you really want is for the colocated kernel to have first class access to some basic things about the primary kernel (like file systems -- including page caching and networking) so they're not going through an expensive and awkward translation layer.

Cygwin and things like colinux exist on opposite ends of that awkward divide, but something officially supported by the OS could maybe straddle it better.
> people still love those runlevels

Ts'o has a interesting use case for runlevels that didn't translate well to systemd.

He set up a runlevel on his laptop that was the same as the graphical one, except it stopped various daemons etc to keep battery drain low. He would then switch to said runlevel when he would be away from a socket for an extended period.

When he tried to translate that to systemd, he ended up with all kinds of side effects. One of them being that he lost access to the Fn combos, so he could no longer control the screen brightness etc.
The pluggable transports are for connections from your Tor client into the Tor network, not connections from exit nodes to the rest of the Internet. Cloudflare (or any destination host) would still be able to detect your connection as originating via Tor.
It's almost like a computer that you can write programs on and even run those programs on.
Found this useful for navigating:

;; Scroll line by line

(global-set-key (kbd "M-P") 'scroll-down-line)

(global-set-key (kbd "M-N") 'scroll-up-line)
I just gave this a twirl and already dislike it. I can't even use it unless I sign up. So now I have to give you something before you've demonstrated any value to me.

Also, why is "category" required? Is a global namespace of map names the smartest thing to do? How often do you think people will create a map called "SF" or "Golden Gate Park"? There will be name collision all the time.
It's true, I always have to install some bundle that includes R and LaTeX along with Emacs, otherwise it's a nightmare installing all the different programs individually and making them work together. But still for me the main problem of Emacs on Windows is that the fonts look blurry and horrible.
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Would depend entirely on how you installed node, I would imagine.
"cmd.exe console" means (presumably...) a standard Windows console subsystem window. This is independent of cmd.exe, but it's common to conflate the two. Unix users often get this mixed up, presumably because they don't believe Windows has any kind of layering or modularity ;)
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Yes, I also think that their decisions over the past few years are pointing to a real renaissance within the organization, and they are starting "again" to focus on their core strengths.
To make is discoverable by non steam users?
> For all you know, the one that he removed was just one random one of the goat doors.

The key observation is that the problem states that Monty Hall opens an empty door. It's not clear whether Monty knows which doors are empty, but it doesn't actually matter, since the problem states that he will always open an empty door.

As others have said, your choice as a contestant is whether to take one door (the one you initially pointed at), or to take the other two doors (at least one of which is obviously empty). Stated that way, it's pretty obvious that taking 2 doors is better than taking 1 door.
Spot on. One recipe to become a tech acquisition target is to collection a 'new kind' of user data -- all big companies are hungry for this.

This phenomenon is not at all new; data has been informing investment models forever and access to that data comes from having the right customers, and is closely hoarded once gotten.

Some of the largest companies in the late middle ages were wool buyers -- they weren't permitted to trade internationally, but they used locally owned franchises and market knowledge to corner the market anyway. And many of the largest ag commodities futures traders in this century also own substantial farm acreage. Those capital one guys who were SEC'd for trading options on credit card receipts were leveraging customer activity.

Point being -- you've always needed data to train a good model.
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I'm at a Canadian school and work for a pretty well known prof (well known in my field, at least). The more I've encountered people who've always been in "elite" institutions, the less I've been impressed.
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What kind of distance tool would you use for your running team? We have one built in, where once finishing a track you can save it's length on the right side. It's only in metric units at the moment.

Would you like to have points on each kilometer / mile along the route?
I think of it as advertising tailored and targeted at a small set of specific individuals. The advertiser has to compete for the scarce resource that is the attention of the target, then make an impression sufficiently memorable that it will change future behavior.

As such, the lobbying will take a different form for different targets, based on their individual preferences and personalities. For some, lobbying will actually take the form of accosting a senator in the lobby of their office building to discuss a possibly overlooked consequence of a bill up for consideration. For others, it may take the form of anonymously mailing some blackmail photos. For others, it may be cash in an unmarked envelope.

My impression of lobbying is that it involves anything and everything likely to produce the desired result within the allocated budget. Some lobbyists are better positioned to influence specific issues than others. If you are not allowed to lobby by offering a bribe directly to the person who must be swayed, it is always possible to work your way down the chain of social connections to someone or several someones that can be bribed to carry your case to that person on your behalf.

If you can't bribe the senator, hire their spouse to change their mind. If you can't hire the spouse, hire their best friend. If you can't hire the spouse's best friend, hire the extramarital romantic interest. If you can't hire that person, hire a photographer.

As long as getting the attention of a government office holder is worth more than what it costs to obtain, there will be lobbyists available to purchase it wholesale and resell it in manageable parcels.
> just that they all eventually get consumed

Unless you have some sort of replication or consensus, this is still just best-effort delivery. For example, the message could be acknowledged & fsynced followed by drive death. At scale, this would happen.

However, with asynchronous best-effort replication, broker death would be much less likely to lead to a loss of messages.

In general, it's all about playing the odds. Acknowledged writes can still be lost in the best of systems if the entire DC catches fire.

If you tune Kafka settings, you essentially get this behavior. You have to ensure ZK is up, but it will allow all topics to be published to so long as a single broker is alive.
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The ability to use apt-get is what is truly intriguing.

Will I be able to change the repositories that I face off against?
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Oh, of course. It's all relational power dynamics. With this approach, you can always be diplomatic and stop the recruiter from wasting your time further. It's the obvious move in the game to call them on their bluff, as it's a mild form of trying to put you in a box of "this person doesn't fit our requirements, so we can make them a lower offer and say this is why". But as soon as a recruiter starts saying things meant to insult, devalue, or put you on the defensive, that's where you draw the line.
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See here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htm...

> Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls
Cool! Linux with Viruses :-)
Are posix permissions supported/emulated? Or are they set to 777 for all Windows drives in /mnt like shared folders in a VM?
Basically what Apple did from OS9 to OSX. 'Latest improvement is to add OS9 to NextStep'
The Toyota Prius V is the only rated vehicle to earn a "Good" rating from the tests.

It's great to see the methods they are using to test. I hope this leads to improvements in the future, like the small overlap crash test did.
I came here to make the same comment.

Its ironic (old)microsoft exerted so much effort to put the personalities in place (OS/2, posix etc), then (mid)microsoft systematically destroyed that work under Balmer, and now (new)microsoft are reimplementing the same thing under a (seemingly) completely different system.
It really should be the default shell by now. I don't the see the point in Apple maintaining the 2007 version of bash with security updates when they can just promote ZSH which has near 0 breaking changes from bash
Whatever it prints on Ubuntu I expect. Obviously it's not going to return "Windows", or "UbuntuInWindows" else anything that makes that call that would break.
IMO, you have to be a bit... "spiky" ( as Eddie Izzard might say ) to work independently. It's worth being a bit paranoid about expectations. This means you have to manage expectations, design deliverables very carefully and perpetually review them.

And if you don't hand in progress reports, do them anyway and keep them for audit - you'll need them eventually whether there's any conflict or not.

It's nearly impossible to describe just how ambiguously most people communicate. I've been places where I was in-house and it got to the point where I simply made it a point to be as irritating and lawyerly as possible, not long before I left. It at least communicates "I'm not the one giving up here..."
I wonder how buggy thus is. For example, how do symlinks work given windows doesn't have an equivalent that behaves the same.
One of my coworkers is from MS and worked on the Android apps on Windows project. This comes out of that cancelled work: It's a full implementation of Linux syscalls in user mode that registers a driver to perform kernel-mode tasks on behalf of the subsystem. The NT kernel has always been fairly agnostic and not tied specifically to Win32; it originally had an OS/2 text-mode and POSIX subsystem in addition to Win32. The NT kernel even uses a Unix-like "\\?\" root filesystem where disks, kernel objects, sockets, etc are mounted.

From what I can gather Microsoft is paying Canonical to help with a few user-mode bits and the Windows apt-get stuff uses the official Canonical sources.

As I said to him: "NT is the only major OS I know of that has always had personality subsystems. Cutler’s vision finally pays off after 3 decades of waiting"
Ah, its a weird blur on his blog when he speaks for himself or for YC. But it makes sense if its just him investing and not YC.
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App is shorter than Application or Program. Language evolves as well.
My first inclination upon hearing this situation was to reply with something along the lines of "if you're putting that much stock in my school, that just tells me you're not qualified to judge me by my merits as an engineer, so please stop wasting everyone's time. Good-bye."

I definitely agree a move like that is an abusive tactic, but I guess I feel a simple "fuck off" doesn't cut quite deep enough. A concise, polite, retort that actually attacks their competence is even better IMO. A bit harder for them to mentally write off than "that guy was just bitter that I won the conversation"
As an engineer in shoes of a startup founder, I wish my presentations were half as cool as his.

He ain't the best showman but it's always easier to talk about presentations than actually give them.
This looks like a long-term plan to kill linux. The only way to kill linux is from inside out.