skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems more and more that the actual operating system is mattering less for casual users, which is a big plus for Linux. Pretty much anything you need to do on a computer can be done through the web browser now. As long as it can run Firefox decently the hardware/OS doesn't matter much.
That's right. Details are here: https://github.com/jgrahamc/dash
> almost impossible to sell desktop software to GNU/Linux users.

If you look at the engineering workstation segment, there are companies with hundreds or thousands of seats pooling FlexLM licenses of very expensive software, namely for microelectronics design.

Those seats are typically RedHat or CentOS. If you look up revenues for Cadence, Mentor and Synopsys, most of it is EDA software licensing (remainder is mostly IP and training.)

Not prime time news, but not pocket change either.
One possibility is that the employees are looking for easy money. Maybe they think it'll be easy to shock the jury into ruling in their favor.

I wonder if it makes sense to hire pedophiles to do this job. Especially if this lawsuit holds, pedophiles wouldn't be able to make similar claims. And you already need security measures to prevent them from stealing customer emails and such.

The other solution is to push more of this work onto a computer program, but no matter how well that works they'd probably want to have a human check it before sending customer data to the FBI.

At the very least, if it's a real problem they should probably screen people for having thick skins and make them sign a waiver or something.
Sorry for submitting twice, the former is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13380228

I want to add 'Show HN' to the title. It is too late to edit it.
I'm seeing the title listed on HN as "Africa 'witnessing birth of a new ocean' (2010) (bbc.com)"

Is this something only I can see, or was it edited since your comment?
So the basic problem is that the Jews and/or the democratic country are evil? Sigh... :-(

Arafat got at least two offers for a Palestinian state (at Camp David and once later), with about 91% of the West Bank iirc.

The later offer was when Barak needed Arafat's support of a peace agreement before an election (so the Palestinian side had a good negotiating position).

Arafat didn't accept either -- which was one thing. But there was no counter offer like "Give us XX and YY and customs advantages ZZ and ...". Instead Arafat started a terror campaign.

But there is no blame for all that refusal to even give a counter proposal; it is all a big Israeli conspiracy.

(Seriously, I feel a bit sick when I chat with hateful people.)
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What's so nice about Mac trackpads?
I've heard that argument frequently but when I use my wifes Air and switch back to my laptop (either HP, Dell or Lenovo - not the cheap ones) I don't see a difference, at least when I added in synaptics driver the natural scrolling by swiping up and down.

Right now I think that Mac trackpad has three issues:

* it is freaking cold in the morning (metal case)

* you don't see the buttons (I still don't know if mac 1 one or 2 or 3 buttons :)

* click sound, when you have a child sleeping you don't want to have it so loud or at all (it should make same sound as pushing a keyboard button).
I don't consider Chromebooks a Linux desktop, because normal people don't even know what is Crouton.

They only see a window manager taking care of Chrome instances, with ChromeOS specific APIs.

Google can release a Chromebook without any access to Crouton, replaced the Linux kernel by something else, and no USA school buying Chromebooks would notice.

Same applies to Android, specially after the Android 7 locked on linking to private shared objects.
Shoutout to the Last.fm robots.txt, which contains this:

Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self
Ubuntu is great for me. Easy to set up, didn't have to command line anything to set stuff up (not that I shy away from terminals at all) (you might have to touch a terminal during install if you have a device that Ubuntu doesn't include a driver for out of the box), it's got some cohesive design, and it works for software development and gaming for me.

There's some variants of it that are pretty popular (and use the same software repos but have different desktop environments installed and configured by default), though I half-jokingly wonder if at least some of the popularity of them are from people not wanting to be seen as just settling down on the "noob distro".
I'm on the other end.

Early last year I switched to OSX. In the past I was heavily into various Linux distros: From Ubuntu, to the more lightweight Xubuntu. Fedora. Elementary. I've played with Gnome and Kde.

It is my opinion that the people who seem ecstatic about their switch to Linux are still in their honeymoon period. I don't feel like any Linux distro out there comes close to the stability and elegance of OSX.

I've had so many issues over the years, it's hard to even list them:

- Ubuntu only used the dedicated gfx card on one of my laptops. Never would it settle into integrated. This caused performance issues, overheating, and I ultimately decided it was impossible to use.

- Gnome had so many display, rendering, and performance issues... I still don't know how people tolerate it. Even software listed in this blog post: KeePassX copy/paste never worked for me. Random software that would just blank out and require a full system restart.

- Crashes... so many... crashes. Especially when using multiple monitors.

- Some distros (Elementary, for example) seem to have quite a few hardware limitations. Half the computers I tried to install these distros on would run into errors, a lot of bios chasing, too much time spent on forums to find help... Most of the times you just give up.

- There just isn't enough software. And Wine isn't exactly the perfect solution. Not ONE single good MySQL gui for Linux (just an example). Think about that - and no, Workbench isn't good! It's extremely intensive on resources and bloated.

I moved into OSX because I was fed up. I wanted to work and be productive and not constantly look after hardware and software. At the end of the day I wanted access to bash, pleasant to look at, with plenty of software options. I didn't want to worry about performance, random crashes, and lack of support for multiple displays. It's costly, but the solution for me was OSX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift

and the image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/EAfrica....
That's a reference to an Emerson quote; if I remember rightly it's "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds". I suspect the implication is that only little minds expect consistency... but over and above Emerson being a questionable source for UI design principles, he qualifies it. The quote isn't "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
Well, Heisenburg uncertainty becomes more relevant the colder you get. In this case, [uncertainty in position] * [uncertainty in momentum] >= ħ/2, so something with mass but no kinetic energy would be everywhere in an infinite universe with equal probability.
Implementation of autonomous agents combined with genetic algorithms
Whenever you allow user generated content, there's a chance of people sharing content that violates the terms of service.

I think AI that can identify an activity or situation and flag it automatically is technology that exists to some extent.

For cases where the AI cannot determine what is happening with certainty, it might be able to "pre-filter" the image to make it less shocking.
Alphabet Says It Shut Down Titan Drone Internet Project
Signal is not intended to protect from government surveillance, nor is it able to.
I dont want to be snarky but its literally just using a gui wrapper for WINE called "Play on Linux", google it and just click through a bunch of dialogues its very very easy (and stable!).
Well and the actual cost isn't $1000-$2000. From the website: "The Detroit Land Bank will issue a Quit Claim Deed at closing, which transfers its interest in the property. The purchaser will be responsible for any delinquent taxes, water bills, or liens on the property."

That could be quite a large amount depending on the back-taxes and liens that could have been placed on the property.
Ask HN: Is it the right time for the linux killer graphics app?
Currently you'll see in hn at the rhythm of once or twice a day a post about people you switched/are switching from macs to linux. To me, and I'm the only thing really preventing me from switching to linux is not having anything comparable to Sketch/illustrator/Affinity Designer.
Do many of you feel the same or do you see any other show stoppers?
Contact manufacturer if product allows access to other users' location infos?
Oceanic crust vs continental crust
The version deployed is 20160215.2.142001 (on 2016-02-15, there were three deploys, with the latest build affecting them being #142001). There's your date, which is additionally free of the uncertainty whether you meant mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy. How is that incompatible with semver? (Nowhere does it say that the numbers have to be single digits. Integers.)
Why does a client need to specify an interpreter to run on the master host?

No, the client specifies the interpreter to use inside itself.
Have you tried ONLYOFFICE [1]? I heard that their Office compatibility is better than LibreOffice.

[1] http://www.onlyoffice.com/de/download-desktop.aspx
In some of these examples the Hexagon DSP one detects it first but with a low confidence, and then the CPU detects it later with a higher confidence than the Hexagon DSP one has yet obtained.

If you were using this for a real purpose, would you only consider it identified at a certain confidence? If you did then the CPU one is surprisingly more performant in some of these examples despite taking longer to get to the object at all.
Feder-Vardi Dichotomy proved?
As a geologist this is exactly the sort of timescale we work on.
It seems like what they're saying is that taxation per square inch is higher in poorer areas, and that areas that are doing better have less taxation. Could it be that the areas that are doing better are doing better for that reason?

A land tax instead of a property tax seems to be the way to go. This would avoid punishing people from improving their property.
As I mentioned in my post, Mint (or the Cinnamon GUI in general) is very Win7-inspired and easy to teach to someone who's only used Windows in the past. I personally run Ubuntu LTS with Cinnamon on my own laptop (since I needed a newer kernel than Mint provides), before that I used standard Mint. Since it's Ubuntu underneath, it has the same amount of supported software.

I used to use Xubuntu, which is a cracking OS with a GUI comparable to Gnome 2, but I came to like the Cinnamon GUI more than XFCE.
Or learn Machine learning and get a job in one of these companies: http://torch.ch/whoweare.html
No but the NPC cars do, creating little hard-to-pass blobs of traffic
Nothing in their rambling even remotely supports their argument.

Yes, robots.txt is no magic bullet against ill-behaving crawlers (as proven by ArchiveTeam) but it never was supposed to be that.

You choose to ignore my specific wish not to be crawled by you? Fair enough, I'll return the favour and simply block your useragent

ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot/[DATECODE] (wpull [VERSION]) and not Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/[VERSION] Safari/537.36

In Apache for example

# Remove the ^ anchor in case text gets prepended
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ArchiveTeam
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

and if possible your IP ranges.
How do LEDs slowly degrade in normal use?
A similar tool I switched to from ansible for my personal project is https://pressly.github.io/sup. Ansible felt heavy and restrictive for my small project (lots of abstractions to learn and APIs on top of that for extensibility if those abstractions don't meet your needs).

sup on the other hand has a very small surface area of things needed to learn if you're familiar with shell scripting. I would definitely recommend it for smaller projects.
When I talk about selling software to GNU/Linux I mean the normal consumers, not the enterprise.

The enterprise is relatively easy to sell software to GNU/Linux users, because what gets sold is actually training, support and consulting.

All things that non-technical consumers don't care to pay a dime for, but they usually buy shrink-wrapped software, even if on digital form.
Some, but not all. Also a new Printer/Scanner that is supported by Linux is a lot cheaper than a new computer to run Windows 10 (and will always work with Linux, unlike a printer/scanner that "currently" works on Windows). I use Windows and Linux at home but I've moved my Mum to Ubuntu as I had less worries about her getting taken over with Malware or RansomWare. Only issue we've had is the photo management isn't as smooth but she's used to it now.
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Isn't that good though? It allows competitors to appear with that advantage of having better privacy. I mean, the problem is not the way iOS handles it, it's the way app developers abuse their permissions.
"Linux: None of our drivers work properly."

Not sure why everyone loves Linux so much. It's a pain to work with.
However, this is thing: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/21/microsoft-dont-edit-linux-f... . Half the reason why I'd consider making the switch is being able to keep on using my CLI tools while still having access to sane UI tools.
You are not contradicting my point. He is still going to jail.

The sympathy for due process of terrorists will wear thin in most democracies. Afaik, most countries with continuous terror problems throw out the law book.

This is a quite logical result, since the point of terror is to get a fear and horror reaction from the civilian population to influence them. Scared voters make politicians hysterical, so everything is done to stop the situation. (Democracies seems to be even worse here, since voters are more important than non democracies.)

Afaik, this goes for USA, Germany, Israel, Britain, Spain, etc. (I saw claims from some English guy that they did it different regarding IRA, then some other GB guy contradicted and listed some English laws. Let's call that example uncertain.)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/visionics-introduces...

Systems Requirements for FaceIt PC
-- Microsoft Windows 95.
-- 90 MHz Intel Pentium compatible or higher.
-- 16 MB RAM/10 MB free hard disc space.
-- VGA or higher video display adapter.
-- CD-ROM drive.
-- Microsoft Video for Windows (VFW) compatible video capture system with
resolution 320 x 240, depth: 15 bit RGB, capture rate to memory:
5 frames/sec.
I wouldn't be too dismissive of their claims - see this [1] long article on the subject, and particularly this [2] HN thread.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderato...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11502242
Emancipation: One Young Man Leaves Foster Care on His Own Terms
I do have 10+ year old hardware on Windows, namely 7 and 10 versions of it.

IT only changes workstations when they break down or they cannot fulfill project requirements.
My use case is: I have a Bluetooth headset which works great with PulseAudio, if I'm on the train I use it because it has noise cancelation and I can listen to music or YouTube with it. I'd like to use it to work on my podcasts too which I do in Ardour, but once I start Ardour it wants to start jack and I haven't been able to get the Bluetooth headset to work with jack, I don't know where to start looking.
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How does training the brain compare to running a trained brain?

Can the pre-trained brain (the one in the phone) flip to training mode? Can you teach it something and upload that new training result to the original?

Or for things it doesn't recognise, do you need to add the images and classification to the training data and create a 'new brain' and download it to the phone?

Is there one super organism (cloud based learning) that gives birth to millions of mini-minds. Each mini-mind asking it's parent to help it with things it doesn't understand. In 20 years time what will this say about consciousness? Where would it live? Is this a new way to think about minds, those that are distributed in many physicals devices?

And the precision of the hardware changing thought processes in subtle ways is very interesting. Upgrading a neural net to a new hardware platform would change how it works, how it thinks and makes decisions.
Madagascar and Mozambique may be on different plates but they're actually separated by the Davie Ridge, a transform zone. You can see it nicely imaged in the seismic in this report:

http://www.iongeo.com/content/documents/Resource%20Center/Ar...

Then again, this zone does end up in the East African Triple Junction so you are technically correct.
chromeOS is based on gentoo.
I see. This is really astonishing.

I always preferred using plain SSH and Shell for automatically configuring servers.

That's why I had a look at Ansible, but despite this simple concept, it seemed too bloated to me: too many layers around this simple idea. But I had never thought to be proven right, let alone that this complexity actually translates into 6 scary security holes in a row.

To propose an alternative, this is how I'm currently doing it. I'd love to hear what others think about it, or whether others have tried similar things:

Note: This works best of a relatively small and/or heterogenous set of servers/VMs. So it's not really the full-blown Ansible use case. But then, how many people really do have billions of users and a large set of homogenous servers at their hands? I bet the "long tail" of web applications doesn't need more than a few servers. Or, if your hardware is strong enough, just two servers, where the first one takes all the load, and the second one is a failover system on stand-by.

Use a plain shell and plain shell commands, which has the advantage that you can quickly try these interactively in any VM. Use "set -eu" so it halts on error, instead of blindly executing all following commands. Use appropriate commands, e.g. "install" instead of "cat+chmod+chown". Use "--backup=numbered" to keep backups of previous versions of files, if you want. Use only idempotent commands, i.e. commands that you can run multiple times without changing anything of significance. Prefer portable commands, but use distro-specific code as needed. The time you switch to another distro you'll have a new script, anyway, because you'll have a different system with different requirements. Write everything down in the style of a "copy&paste" documentation (Does this count as "literate programming"?), but put all your remarks in shell commands. Then automate the "paste" part by making it executable.

Example file (executable file "myserver_config"):

#!/bin/sh
tail -n +3 "$0" | ssh -p 1234 root@myserver_ip ; exit
set -eu

# Install packages
...

# Configure Foo
...

# Configure Bar
...

# Configure Nginx
#
# Configure Nginx so that the foo fits into the bar
# and boggles the foobar.

install --backup=numbered -o root -g root -m 600 /dev/stdin /etc/nginx/nginx.conf <<'EOF'
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
events {
...
}
http {
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
...
}
EOF

# Do more stuff
...

Edit this file and redeploy by simply executing it:

./myserver_config

The script may seem hard to read, but with syntax highlighting it is a breeze. And you can easily convert this to HTML, AsciiDoc or Markdown if you need a "real" documentation for your customer or other project members. It's just a few lines of code in Python, or whatever language you prefer.
But why? I think a dedicated interpreter at a fixed address would do.
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Oh no, the idea that this is a rift zone is irrefutable
So the poor commit crimes against each other solely because rich people exist somewhere else and don't interact with them?

Malaysia is oddly anti-semitic for a country with about 0 Jews. I'd expect that if the Jews were causing all the problems, then Jews would actually need to exist in-country. But now you are making me re-think; is it plausible that simply by existing somewhere else, the Jews cause Muslims to engage in bad actions that harm themselves?

I don't understand your general principle. When is it reasonable for one group to blame their actions on the existence of some far away out-group?
Had Adobe been working on some sort of "Creative Workstation" product for Linux / Wayland, they would now be excellently positioned to pick up disillusioned users.
Is "no more Flash in this version" a breaking enough change for an end user to care? https://blog.google/products/chrome/flash-and-chrome/

"That version has Flash, that version does not; doesn't make sense to the user to tell them apart." Riiight.
I disliked Unity when I was new to it, but after learning the keyboard shortcuts I really like it. I think that, and getting used to the idea of searching for things rather than expecting a directory structure for displaying programs/operations, is the main limitation.

Of course, discovery is an issue with this method, and that just came with a few weeks of using it.
They appear to be seeing slightly different scenes. I think the phones are next to each other, and this might explain the difference in what they're reporting.

I'd be very interested to know if there's any difference in the processing that should be taken into account however.
Original topic - Gartner Says 2016 Marked Fifth Consecutive Year of Worldwide PC Shipment Decline.
Mac sales grew a tiny bit in 2016 but that doesn't imply that they are still growing.
I got to the part where the Op says "we are creating custom Linux distributions for car manufacturers, we do UI work, we write Linux drivers, Linux middleware and so on" and thought of course you'll be running Linux. With that kind of work what else would you be using mate?
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RISC-V port submitted for inclusion in GCC
use Redis when you need advanced data structures built in. Memcached is just a KV store.
Or just a custom pacman repository? As far as I remember, packages in official Arch repositories are constantly updated. If you update your system in the morning, then there will be new updates in the evening. So it kind of makes sense to have a custom repo.
Finder here, this is the history:

12.12.2016: First contact with MS
27.12.2016: Answer, saying its not a bug. (Notice the promise that you get an answer in 24 hours)
02.01.2017: Explaining the issue again in more detail
03.01.2017: Opening the ticket, saying I will get more information if something is available.
12.01.2017: No answer from MS, and seeing randomly this post on HN

I hope I will get some details by MS soon so I can keep you up to date guys.
No we have plenty of evidence of previous cycles. It's called the Wilson Cycle:

http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/Fichter/Wilson/Wilson.html

For further reading I can recommend 'Supercontinent' by Ted Nield.
I'm afraid your suggestion that "No real company was affected by this" doesn't bear out with the evidence that I've seen or the experiences I've had in security.

Real companies with real data make some pretty elementary mistakes with regards to security. I'm a security tester and the number of times I've got access to systems deployed by real companies who've really paid money for an external security reviewer using things like default creds is quite high.

It's tempting to think that this is just an education issue and that once people know how to do security well things will get better but personally, my opinion after 16 years in security is that this isn't the case.

Effort spent on security is a trade-off with other things and in many cases people make the choice (either unconsciously or deliberately) not to prioritise it.