skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MRI software bugs could upend years of research
I've never heard the opposite. I've switched to OsX 4 years ago after being completely unhappy and irritated with Windows for over 12 years. Now after months of using Ubuntu (unity, xfce) and Mint (Cinnamon) I'm convinced that OsX is best for average (and power) desktop user by a huge margin. Although I would be much more happy with something Open Source.
The lead dev of Dragonfly worked to get it working on:

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-4GB/dp...

That's a sub-$200 Intel Haswell machine. It also means Dragonfly (as well as the other BSDs) work fine on similar hardware.

Similarly, you can put together a modern sub-$300 desktop that will run it just fine.

Also see:

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2016-May/500...
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Haha. I wish HN was more frivolous at times, so we could use threads like this one for some good laughs on how your mother-in-law has already got you squared out.
Congrats btw!

I did my wedding website using wix because she wanted to build it (I did the sysadmin parts of it)
Was thinking about this, it might actually be better, as fewer people are likely to upgrade and discover issues over the weekend, so 15.2.1 can come out early next week with minimal impact...

Also... ~15.1.x if you're really concerned about minor release bumps... React has been far better than most in this space.
I use KDE and can confirm, unfortunately, that (at least on my setup) I have encountered many bugs pertaining to graphics. I also often get PulseAudio issues like the sound skipping when the system is under heavier-than-usual momentary load. I can't run Chrome developer tools without it crashing inside the driver every few minutes. Mounting an NTFS partition works on second try every time. I've used GNOME previously, which was too memory-hungry and often too unresponsive to use.

I love Linux as a developer platform and that's why I'm staying here. But if I could give up the shell, package management, understandable system architecture and the like, I'd move to Windows in a jiffy. Its desktop works flawlessly on my PC.
A substantial proportion of people living in the UK also see it as madness, so I don't know why you think it is a "surprisingly strong opinion". It seems like a pretty average opinion from here.
I have been thinking about this a lot. How were you able to measure the fact you were ranking poorly before making the switch?

We use a .st domain, and whilst it is not explicitly mentioned on Googles generic list there are very few localized .st sites so I am hoping Google is counting it as a generic domain.

Note most of our users are in the US!
What is the casualty count below which it's okay to make something available as DLC? Would it have been more tasteful to have them included in the base game?
Polymer is greatly undervalued. I takes a bit of time to get into it but once you understand all the quirks, it's smooth sailing.
I really like the simplicity of it.

React is good too, but you need the right framework on top of it (or else it can be a bit tricky to setup properly).
Let me save everyone else a google query: http://nypost.com/2014/11/17/the-outrage-machine-insande-ado...

That shirt is 80s AF \m/ I can see how it might not fly at work though, at least not on a big PR day.
This is the same or even worse in Romania. I just sent to Romania prime minister a link to this article via his FB account. I am curious to see if I will get any kind of answer.
This is another step in the wrong direction. Animals are very resource intensive and give almost no resources in return.

The only way animals were kept in the past was by using resources humans couldn't use themselves. Cows and sheep grazing on marginal land that can't be used as farmland. Pigs fed on food scrap and in pannage.
In my field of expertise, which is mathematics, this is certainly possible. My French and Russian is bad, to say the least. I doubt I have a vocabulary of more than 200 words in each, but I have no problems reading, for example, EGA [1]. Also there are entire journals in the field publicising translations of articles, which seems to contradict your claim that bleeding-edge scientific concepts are non-translatable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l%C3%A9ments_de_g%C3%A9o...
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mlpack was accepted into Google Summer of Code this year and there are some really cool projects going on right now:

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5376684740...

See also the project's github: https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack
What happens is they pocket $295k and spend $5k on an actual project.
In Poland a company got ~$150k to make a system to collect and count votes for local elections, it failed spectacularly. It turned out they employed one 23 year old CS student to make everything over about a half year. No public salary data, but I bet they paid her something like $800/month. The saddest thing is she got most of the blame for failure, if you google her name it's the only thing that comes out.
Compression in ZFS doesn't use RAM, dedup tables, the arc and l2arc mapping tables are all that matters with regards to memory usage with ZFS. l2arc is where a lot of newbies end up shooting themselves in the foot, they go toss in a mirrored pair of 512GB SSD's for their l2arc on a system with 32GB of RAM and wonder why performance got worse or it crashed, or they enabled dedup on 24TB of data with 64GB of ram and wonder why it crashed and their zpool is beyond recovery.

If you are using ZFS without an l2arc or dedup enabled even a measly 1GB of RAM is "sufficient", you just won't get the best performance since it's going to have to constantly fetch from disk depending on your active data set (which is literally no different a problem than OS-level file caching in any other operating system).
Wow, just noticed that NYP is some sort of hardcore Trump fan vent hole. My apologies. I can't believe they have the nerve to call the shirt "tasteless", though!
Thanks - clearly I wasn't paying attention as I had not noticed NFtables. Another exciting task to look forward too, then.
ChuckMcM's criticisms seem to be of the X Window System, not of any particular desktop environment. Architecturally, it really doesn't fit with modern systems and has a lot of legacy baggage. It doesn't matter what DE you like, X still powers it, and it's the issue.

Wayland is on the way, which may bring Linux graphics into the 21st century, but I haven't been following that very closely.

Apple's way more on the ball about GUI stuff. While OS X lags behind in OpenGL support, which sucks for games, they nail everything their desktop environment needs to function. But notably, they don't use something like X. They have their own software stack.
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Depends on what you mean by production.

I've been running Gitblit and multiple Minecraft (Spigot) worlds with Openjdk8 on FreeBSD 10 for more than a year and never had any problems (Jenkins worked fine too but I used it only for a short time).

But my userbase is only about 10 people, mostly in minecraft (to get a sense of the main world's scale: [0]), so I don't know if that qualifies :)

[0] https://world.vanwa.ch/
But can you have only a flow of information going from government to corporations? Should you?

If information is allowed to flow from corporations to government, what are the rules?

And "blunt competition" how, exactly?
What's the problem with the speakers?
Mailing customers a "3 click questionnaire" some time after purchase might be enough, it seems to work just fine for e.g. delivery food marketplaces.
I used Linux on the desktop from 2001-2007 or so. Switched to OS X until then. It's no contest: OS X is smoother, more consistent, and lower maintenance. Linux desktops seem to have peaked with GNOME 2.x. I'm not even sure what's going on with Unity.
Sanyo have a pretty bad reputation, however. From all the OEMs making Thinkapd batteries, theirs have the worst life expectancy.
I do not think you can imagine what kind of money (huge amounts) and what kind of software (worse possible you can release) is developed in fraudulent schemes where corrupt governments meet corrupt businesses. Having them by law open spurce I believe it will stop a lot of money to be wasted and quality of software to be much better compared to what is happening now.
> I've used GNOME previously, which was too memory-hungry and often too unresponsive to use.

Maybe you should buy a dev computer instead. Gnome consumes far less memory than the average DE. I always try every DE at every release and as far as I've experienced gnome-shell and cinnamon are the best at customization/plugins/performance.

Edit:

> I'd move to Windows in a jiffy. Its desktop works flawlessly on my PC.

I'm currently at work and I've a windows and an ubuntu on virtualbox - gnome-shell is pretty smooth while windows appends the "Not responding" text to every window's title, the search in the menu is much slower than it should be and the apps are often frozen - it is far from "flawless" for me.
Of course, there's nothing stopping people from using things like pkgsrc or Nix on Linux.
The economy in general and government were quite disjoint for a very long time. This was considered an active goal to be pursued.

The arguments for changing that were largely of a Progressive (by the timbre of the times) nature - trustbusting and all of that. I don't think that genie can be put back in the bottle.
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Perhaps I should have said a capital city or a seat of government.
> Linux desktops seem to have peaked with GNOME 2.x. I'm not even sure what's going on with Unity.

Gnome 2.x is a dead-end - it was buggy and ugly. Gnome 3.x is far better. Unity is just another canonical-outrage.
Probably a lot of people will follow that link. Yikes
This is something I actually like about systemd and firewalld, everything in /usr/lib/systemd/ and /usr/lib/firewalld should only be handled by your package manager, anything you customize yourself belongs in /etc/systemd/ and /etc/firewalld, and they will override the corresponding entries in the 'global' folders if you give them the same filename.
Enlighten me - what's the problem with the linux desktops?
My understanding of cheap off brand batteries (largely 20-30A cells like li-ion 18650s) is that they are generally produced by one of the big manufacturers but were b-grade (and below?) products that didn't quite make the grade but are still considered safe.

It probably doesn't make much difference if you're shopping for triple As for a remote control, but with larger cells I'm always slightly wary of rewraps.

I'll see if I can dig out an article about it if I remember when I'm off the train.
What he's saying is that Mozilla is taking Chrome's API as the base and then adding more interfaces to it, to make it more powerful than Chrome's API and hopefully as close to Firefox's current add-on-capabilities as possible. For example Mozilla has already added an API, so that NoScript can now be ported to WebExtensions.
Walter not that anyone would do this to you, but you can get kicked off an open source project which is equivalent to being fired. I guess you could always fork if you wanted to keep working on the code.
9 years is an incredibly long time in tech.

Aside from a lot of other very good wms, there's always mate if you really like GNOME 2.

http://mate-desktop.com/

Even better, none of those wms will go away just because Apple decided to change things.
n.b - I actually meant Ubuntu bash for Windows, not cygwin and friends
GTK is really turning into an unusable mess. Shame really, GTK2 was much nicer to interface with as an end user than Qt3/Qt4, but GTK3 and its messed up UX and constant theming API breakage just makes it insufferable. (And that's before the "Gnome is the only desktop environment we target, all others can eat shit" political bullshit they're pulling with CSDs and whatnot.)
Xibalba was fun, just beat it at 3 am.
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Based on this thread, I'd say the problem is a lot of people haven't given them the time.

If you select your hardware, they work pretty flawlessly. Certainly right there with Windows or OSX or anything else. In a lot of cases you don't even need to be very selective, you just need to have a modern machine.
But individual banks of no particular affiliation - just "bank" banks - can create all the "currency" you want to the limits of regulation. They're really creating abstract money that can be exchanged for currency.

The story of the Scots Free Banks being busted out by the Bank of England is poignant and interesting, but we simply don't know what would have happened had it gone the other way. The way we use banks now, having a bank go insolvent and all the depositors and other interested taking a haircut doesn't sound very appealing.

Non-monopoly currency is a pain in the neck.
Look at the numbers for 1980, but you're right, it's not a good example.

My thought is that it's established that there's a percental wealth/income gap that's getting larger, not smaller. It might not be very enlightening to classify just 99% / 1% here, though.
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> far behind the "linux desktop"(plugins, performance, menus etc.). Have you tried something else than xfce or unity?

You're missing the point, GP is talking about a level below the DEs, namely the graphics stack, which if unavailable or inefficient makes any discussion about the DEs moot since the GUI may very well be unusable at all in practice.

In that regard the "Windows desktop" has plenty of favorable points and "macOS desktop" is just stellar because it has had a comparatively perfect track record of driver support including a compositor since forever.

With a VESA/OPenGL/Quartz software render fallback many people on the Hackintosh crowd have been using OS X on unsupported cards via software fallback and not even notice they weren't getting the full Quartz QE/CI, which is nothing short of astonishing.

This is the signature attitude that points to the point being missed, what good is conky or awesomewm or ratpoison or xmonad or openbox if I can't make tearing and rendering artifacts disappear nor get proper colour management or sane HiDPI support? (PS: Xinerama, I hate you)

As for the DE experience on other platforms, Windows has had a kinda-tiling WM that regular people do use in the form of AeroSnap, while macOS is now getting tabs-in-the-window-manager, and Exposé+Spaces that evolved into Mission Control has been a positively brilliant experience for years.

Meanwhile on Linux, the very fact that you have to massage it into something useful ever so slightly at every level is, to me, a telltale sign of its deficiencies. Things are getting better (wayland, drm2), but they're getting better on the other platforms too. The best part is that nobody's standing still and things are moving forward (hopefully, as from the outside it looks like Linux people are running in circles these days around, so I hope reinvented wheels are getting rounder).
I've been lucky enough to have managers with a similar approach most of the time. I cannot overestimate the positive impact that has had on my performance and professional growth.
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Linux on the desktop is still full of issues that were solved by Windows and Mac a decade ago. Fonts still look like crap (Ubuntu is an exception), and even with patches there are still problems with Java, old GTK libs, etc.

I could care less about games, MS Office, a d a lot of other things that are deal breakers for some, but I have tried Linux on the desktop and it is still lacking.
I can recommend Polymer.dart, static typing + webcomponent encapsulation + polymer elements gives really good framework for webapps. It's still not in 1.0 but it's quite stable now.
> That's the GPL doing its job.

It also makes it really hard to earn a living with actual software (not services) that depends on GPL.
Bernie's more like the last New Dealer.
It increases the regularity of the syntax (infix is not special) - and reduces $ noise which does not aid readability.

I have been using Haskell for around a decade and hate every infix operator spam I have to throw in there to please this syntax irregularity.

Other than this, I quite like Haskell syntax, but I remember initially hating it. It took many weeks to get used to it.
I should point out that this was running FFOS upon Android ICS 4.0.(3?). Firefox OS uses much of Android's base for getting things working (last I checked).

But, the perhaps bigger issue with Indian phones is the locking down of firmware. Spreadtrum (the SoC in the phone that you're mentioning) has all sources (device + kernel + vendor trees included) for compiling FFOS for the "tarako" board (upon which 3 of the first $35 FFOS smartphones sold in India were based).

However, I'm not sure up to what extent you can modify their firmware. Github user abgoyal (forgot his HN username) had a fair amount of success acquiring the kernel sources for his $35 FFOS device from the vendor ( https://github.com/abgoyal/zen_u105_kernel ), but iirc he had issues with those sources too.

Now, if I want to buy that particular device (since its open) to have a cheap $35 _thing_ to break, unfortunately I can't, since they stopped production.
There's a big increase in the exponent of global GDP growth starting about the time of capitalism - 1790 or 1820 or so.
I would suggest reading (and comprehending) this excellent post for a review as to some of the tire-fire issues of X: http://blog.mecheye.net/2012/06/the-linux-graphics-stack/

DRI2 is an improvement over DRI, of course (which was already about five to eight years behind SOTA for GPUs when it came out), but it's still a rickety, insecure mess--for one, any application can fire messages at any window in the X environment and read input sent to any window, which has some obvious implications for the usefulness of containers on the desktop--that is sorely in need of replacement. This isn't to criticize X when it was developed, mind you--it was fine then. It should have been defenestrated by 2002.

Full disclosure: I get the feeling from your posts that you're looking to win an argument, rather than learn anything, so I'm not likely to respond to you further unless your tone changes. HTH. HAND.
It is obvious, he has studied intuitive biases throughout his career.

However, he himself said that experts make only little difference as compared to the market experts in the stock market. On an analogy, he is an expert but just like any other human. He is fallible.
Our bias on the Oscar Winning - Halo Effect biased us in buying and reading. And after reading and analyzing the content. Now everything has gone to the hindsight.

That is the purpose, concrete analysis of concrete condition based on rationality.
Not OP, but I've had good experiences with La​Te​XTools[1].

[1]: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/LaTeXTools
I used to like GTK back in 2004. I still like the look-and-feel of it, but I'm never coding with it again.
While Mr Rocard did a fantastic job trying to understand the consequences of software patents, he was also a supporter of software patents through the backdoor of a central patent court.

In fact, the directive was rejected at the call of large companies that did not want to see a Parliament voting against their interests. Their argument was to push for a central patent court, which they managed to get only 6 months after the 6 july.

Now we are 10 years later, and their plan is near completion, only the Brexit has slowed down their plan.

But the goal is still the same, validate software patents Europe-wide.
M.Y.O.B. - Mind Your Own Business
Accounts are actually cancelled so no, that's not it.
I have received that email as well. I did have an AdSense account 10 years ago. The email seems legit (came from products-noreply@google.com), the only two links it contains are opening https://support.google.com
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I run a Linux desktop for work (typing on it right now) as a dual-boot with my Windows setup. It is a "modern machine", at least if an i7-6700K and a 980Ti are modern, and I couldn't get X to start with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. And yet it did with Ubuntu 14.04, which is bizarre. My time is valuable enough that I didn't debug it further than that--if I wanted to light my time on fire I'd just go set up a Hackintosh and have a better desktop experience, so for now I'm getting by with 14.04. But that sucks profoundly; it was my first attempt at a Linux desktop in probably three years and I was pretty disheartened by how things have gotten worse for my use cases in that time.

"If you select your hardware," you can definitely have a decent time. But I don't know many people for whom the operating system is more important than what you can do with it, and part of "what you can do with it" is "use your hardware."
There is actually quite a bit of government out there. I don't know exactly why it is the Legislature has all but collapsed, but that's not all of government.

Thing is, w.r.t the economy, what can actually be done? The only thing I know of that isn't pretty disruptive is as higher inflation target - and we cannot maintain GDP growth to hit the one we have.
Would you mind explaining what you mean by outrage? For productivity, Unity beats any Gnome 3 setup I've tried so far. And we're still not talking about the maintenance/security nightmare that is the Gnome 3 plugin system.
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oh man ... furniture stores. The one down my street has been going out of business since the day it opened 20 years ago. Every few months they replace the "We've lost our lease!" sign when it gets too disheveled.

I took some pictures in Portland once of the most extraordinary version of this I had ever seen[1][2]. I thought they had taken it up as a high art, but a few months later, they genuinely went out of business.

[1] https://goo.gl/photos/FvZ3r8mRR9KrtiGm9

[2] https://goo.gl/photos/MktLKzD4E3bqkkaG7
Link to the study "Taking the fifth amendment in Turing’s imitation game": http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0952813X.2015.113...
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I guess it depends on research field and journal - in biology most journals require you to deposit your raw genomic reads to the Sequence Read Archive, this is still sometimes missed by editors and reviewers.

Random example for the requirement of data depositing from Journal of Plant Physiology: "If new sequence data are reported, insert the following: “Sequence data from this article have been deposited at XXX under accession number(s) YY000000.‘‘ http://cdn.elsevier.com/promis_misc/jpp_Instruction.pdf

Another random example from the Nature Group http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/availability.html

AFAIK only few funding bodies require the deposit of raw data...
One of the greatest gifts a musician can have, is to make others in the band sound better. It's wonderful to see Ringo recognized for this gift.
Related discussion on GNU vs. Linux:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html (BSD is discussed here as well)

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html (According to this page, the title of the article should be BSD vs. GNU/Linux, though the latter was mentioned once in the article)