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I've been using vanilla Debian w/XFCE as my development desktop for years now, and it has been great.

I am especially fond of the Guake terminal (http://guake-project.org). It is just a translucent terminal that swoops up/down from the top with a keypress.
Agreed, just get a laptop with any of Intel's wifi chips and you're almost guaranteed Linux won't have a problem with it.
While LTS has benefits, there are reasons to running the latest version you can get. Especially with new hardware, there are going to be updates to the relevant drivers which can improve the battery life a lot.

Over the first year after I bought the older X1, my battery life got an extra hour or so because of i915 module improvements. (I was following latest arch kernels)
You are actually wrong about the 15 days. It's actually zero (0) days, according to USCIS: "There is no automatic 10-day or other grace period for terminated employees holding H-1B status, so once the individual is no longer in a lawful nonimmigrant status, he/she usually must depart from the United States." See: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/ombudsman-liaison/practical-immi...

However, if your I-94 is still valid, being out-of-status on H-1B isn't really that big of a deal. All you need to do is fly out of the country and return, in order to fix your immigration status. The new employer can file an H-1B and request consular processing. The only problem with being out-of-status is that Adjustment Of Status (AOS) is no longer possible, so you have to fly out and fly back in, before you can start your new job. (You'll get an I-797A consular processing approval instead of the I-797B AOS approval.)

USCIS does not deny petitions for being out of status, and in general, if any lack of legal status is for a period of less than 6 months. You don't need to get a new visa stamp either, if your current stamp is still valid. But if/when you renew your visa at a consulate, just make sure to disclose that you were out of status on the DS-160, as failing to do so could get you denied for lying. But if your upfront about it and disclose it, they most likely won't even ask you a question about it.

And yes, you are illegal in the country, but if your I-94 is valid, you have "lawful presence" but you do not have "legal status" (I know it sounds contradictory) and you are still within your "period of authorized stay". But fundamentally, you are consider to be illegal despite a valid I-94 due to being out-of-status, and you can be deported, but it is very unlikely that DHS will send ICE agents to your home to arrest you and forcibly throw you out of the country.

I've quit a job while I was on the H-1B, and I stayed while being out-of-status in the United States for 4 months after that. I was feeling a bit burned out, and didn't even look for a job for 3 months. In the fourth month, I created a profile on Hired.com, got several interview offers, did a full onsite in the first week, and had an offer by the end of the week. My H1B visa stamp in my passport was still valid, but I decided to get it renewed anyways, just to be sure, so there wouldn't be any trouble at the port-of-entry.
That doesn't work - that gets you Dropbox's resized and recompressed version, which breaks the effect (likely it strips the ICC profile)
It's been ready for over ten years. I switched in the early '00s.

As well as giving me a reliable* platform to work on, this had the enormous benefit of allowing me to say "I don't know anything about Windows any more, so if you want me to help you with your computer you'll have to switch to Linux" to friends and family. Many switched, and I must have saved myself months of fixing Windows machines.

So I offer a heart-felt thanks to Linus, GNU and the Debian and Ubuntu maintainers every day.

* Last week my xorg.conf disappeared. After half an hour cursing while I found and fixed the problem, I realised I couldn't remember the last time computer problems had impacted my productivity - it has certainly been several years. I obviously have no idea how Windows runs now, but my recollection is that it wasted several hours a month.
I really like the idea and have a couple of build on possibilities (that you may have already considered).
1. I think this would be awesome in a Pinterest style with the graph as the splash page.
2. I don't disquis. I love the hacker news local comment model but do not understand the scope and scale of moderation work that comes with it (thanks dang!)
3. A special flag for projects that git or other hosted source to separate the 'just shiny' from the 'I can learn from the shiny'

Good luck in this space, I think there is a lot of room for a community like this. Also check out datatau for some other story leads that might better fit in your community.
The hell kind of name is Altaba
I came here for the Little Mermaid reference and definitely got some answers. Thank you for writing this!
Can you get one you swallow without chewing? You'll probably have to take about 4 of them, but that might be easier for you.
fpm is a bad example. Sure, it makes .deb or .rpm formatted things, but they are not proper packages by any means. Bundling up something pre-built from another packaging system is not what packaging is about. To do it right you need to build your own binaries from source code using only your own packages to provide the dependencies.
< 15 days if you file for premium processing
All three are excellent choices.
Pessimistically, that name is "Stagnation Hypothesis"

(edit, oops the term Peter Thiel/Tyler Cowen like is "Great Stagnation." See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yJTCDU4uE)
We're still far away for mainstream users. I mean, people on HN still seem to skip the quick component check. A big shift takes time.
> What exactly do you want to accomplish with this comment?

Reduction in unsubstantiated nasty comments. A better conversation.

> Are you really suggesting that we shouldn't analyze and criticize Marissa for failing?

No, I'm not suggesting that.

> Why is it important to you to create a safe space for this CEO?

I'm not.

> And what are this big risks you are talking about?

Attempting to save a company that appeared at the time to be completely unsaveable.

> If you play in this league you dont get points for "good-faith".

Why not? What's different about that league compared to the one you and I play in?
What is unsaid is when a Canadian worker in US gets laid off or just decide to leave (s)he is just moving in first world. Apart from less pay, living standards are pretty much same in US and Canada. But if Indian worker gets laid off it will be drastic change in living standard by going back.

Even very high Indian salary would not buy that US lifestyle. Of course many people will like to couch that fact as having friends' circle in US, kids schooling etc makes it difficult to relocate.
Wiles' original FLT result was first presented at a workshop in Cambridge, although he didn't explicitly state that he had succeeded (sans the gap) in proving FLT, he left that for the audience to infer.
Chalk is calcium carbonate, and so are many calcium supplements. So, no surprise on the chalky taste. I'd say it actually goes best with milk, I guess because it tastes "natural". A lot of milk substitutes are palatable and have calcium added, or likewise it's possible to buy milk with the lactose removed.
Last time I tried a Dell over a year ago I could only install its approved Linux's on it - Ubuntu (and maybe Red Hat or CentOS, don't recall exactly). Likely due to the custom motherboard, but it felt very locked down. Whereas if I spec and build my own workstation or laptop from XoticPC or similar, any distro will work with it. Anyone else familiar with this issue? Is it still a thing?
I should probably take back my claim because I can't find the evidence to back it up and I might actually be wrong. I thought I remembered that there were some important cases where VC++ generated better code for Chrome, and some binary size advantages, but I can't find my references.
Outsourcing results in rapid salary increases in foreign economies, but low wage workers depress US salaries. So they are not apples to apples comparisons.

US workers be they foreign or domestic benefit from US infrastructure like relativly low corruption, clean water etc. Companies want to benefit from that without paying the associated costs.
This post might be hard to read, but believe me I wish to be as respectful as possible and contribute my perspective.

Economy follows the path of least resistance. If hiring a local costs $120,000 but a guy you can message via LinkedIn and interview over the phone can do the same work for $80,000 with less negotiating power and less job mobility, then you do it. If you don't do it, your competitor or someone else will and then use the advantage to beat you in the market. The path of least resistance is also the reason companies move their headquarters to tax havens.

Then, there is a culture issue. Americans are very competitive, even in situations where the best strategy is to collaborate. It can be hard to work with someone who you know will compete at any opportunity even when it makes no sense at all, like getting angry when receiving a suggestion no matter the intention.

Then, everyone is defensive of what is said and how it is said because basically anything can get you sued. The most valuable American management skill is basically how to avoid getting the company sued. Like saying everything on a 1 on 1 meeting with no witnesses or record of it happening.

Then, Americans can hop jobs easily. Make someone angry (e.g: giving feedback, assigning a boring task or project) and that person will quit. Not so easily with H-1Bs.

This creates a culture where it is cheaper to set people for failure and fire them rather than giving them proper feedback, or letting them spend millions in reinventing the wheel with a pet project rather than seeing them go en-masse.
> The main thing we wish Hydra did out-of-the-box is interact with the HTC Vive. We're looking into how to get VR rendering with Hydra and nVidia's dual-GPU VR extension. It may be necessary to do this on Windows, unfortunately.

If you can create a simple fullscreen window with a stereo pair (no lens correction needed), then you can drive a Vive on linux.[0] It's not something you'd want to upstream to Hydra, but it makes for a surprisingly nice quick-and-dirty placeholder.

[0] https://github.com/mncharity/node-webvr-alt-stack (disclaimer:author)

And FWIW, http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Vrui/ is said to also have some support for Vive on linux.
How Yahoo came up with its new name: Altaba
When I was a volunteer firefighter circa 1999 we were forced to learn the definition of fire that would appease a lawyer / court in case we got subpoenaed.

Apparently somewhere else there had been an arson fire and the fire chief was on the stand and the defense asked him what fire was and all he could come up with was "it's hot" or something similar. I don't know if it caused the case to be won or lost but our Chiefs decided we wouldn't chance the embarrassment.

I'll now forever remember that "fire is the rapid oxidation of a combustible material resulting in the release of energy in the form of heat and light".

Still waiting on that subpoena and my chance to put this to good use. Or at least trivia night or something...
I agree, but I think that big shift doesn't happen without big support from somebody.
I'm happy - I use both Trello and Bitbucket. Atlassian bought Bitbucket years ago, and it's only got better since then. If the pattern persists, I think we'll see Trello remain largely as it is, but with added hooks to Atlassian's other products.
Is there a common high-level scripting tool for Gnome, like AppleScript?

For me it's all about the APIs. When I want to do something like:

tell application "iTunes" to return every track whose genre is "Rock" and rating > 3

then I don't want to mess around with API documentation for 10 hours and trying lots of different music managers, then importing my large library, just to lose all the tags.

I expect similar APIs in the file browser, text editor, photo library, contacts, calendar, and web browser apps too. A common API is what makes an ecosystem to me.
I just installed Xubuntu on my mother's aging MacBook. Wifi and sleep/resume worked out of the box (even during installation) and batter life has been good. Plus her internet browser and email are much snappier now.
The other manufacturers also haven't figured out how to organize their models.

As far as I can tell, Dell has just a handful of models (XPS, Precision etc.), but if you go and look at the XPS 15, for example, it's a grid of dozens of SKUs with various specs instead of just a single page with customization options. It's not even a matrix -- with models varying by CPU and RAM and disk and such, you'd expect that at least they'd arrange them visually in some kind of table. It must be a nightmare for non-technical people.

They're all like this, and it becomes hilariously complicated when the manufacturer has, like Lenovo, dozens and dozens of models, and it's impossible to understand what the difference is between them and which ones are targeting which uses. (You have to ask why they're so unfocused, too. Is it an intentional tactic?)

Asus seems to be one of the few to understand this (aside from Apple); their Zenbook site is pretty friendly and focused. Though they still insist on nonsense model names like "UX390UA".

It's not just PCs, of course. It's all consumer electronics: TVs, sound systems, what have you.
Arch is definitely the way most Linux users go once they get in a comfort zone with their existing distro (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc...) and want to get something with better hardware support or even better software support (with Arch's fantastic AUR!). Antergos makes it easier than ever to jump into Arch, too.
> And now I see their latest MBP line with the Esc key removed...

What?! Ha. It almost seems like post-Jobs Apple "innovates" by removing classic user interfaces.
So we shouldn't criticize anyone that does anything other than programming? I don't get your point.
Ignoring the VC++ compiler bug/quirk, the benefits for adding const tend to be small and hard to measure. How do you measure the possible reduction in private pages? How do you measure the productivity gains from slightly fewer corrupted globals.

Usually you don't. You just tag your const globals as such and then get on with your day. Once you develop the habit the cost is zero so measuring the benefits isn't necessary.
Since this might be relevant for some startup founders on here, I have a slight nitpick related to the 15% number. There are still thresholds for employers with 50 or fewer employees.

Total Employees | threshold to be classified a H-1B dependent employer
25 or fewer | more than 7 H-1B immigrants
26 - 50 | more than 12 H-1B immigrants
51 or more | at least 15% of total employees

Note the discontinuity at 50/51 - 8 is over 15% of 51.
SipHash and HalfSipHash Added to Linux Kernel
just like how the guy who made sourcetree is still working on it... oh wait....
Singapore Legal Sector Launches Tech Road Map
Yes, but the performance of OpenGL drivers for complex scenes has improved drastically in the past few years. nVidia is mainly to thank for that.
XFCE can also be configured to mimic OS X enough where you won't really miss anything. It can also be configured to look like windows. In general, XFCE can be made to look like anything that's why I'm such a fan.
Erm... Krita?
Let's hope there will be some real progress in dentistry. I am probably doing the field injustice but there doesn't seem to have happened much progress in the last decades compared to other areas of medicine. When something is wrong the usual response is to remove it, no healing.

I personally hope that one day we will be able to regrow teeth. With all my crowns it's too late to repair cavities.
For the record, this is incorrect. The SEC filing does not indicate she is resigning as CEO. See other comments for explanations about what's actually going on.
My experience matches yours. Wifi has worked for me for ages now, with various chipsets, but battery life has been very hit-and-miss, GPUs are almost a lost cause, and function keys/backlighting/cameras/other non-essentials are hairy.

That said, the sibling comment has it right. Why am I buying laptops that don't support Linux if I'm going to use Linux on them? From now on, I'll only buy things that have Linux support as a first-class objective.
I don't necessarily disagree. I think your third sentence still implies two styles, which is contradicting your first.

Nix and Guix don't work on Windows, right? They're still not close to a solution until they do.
lol? VirtualBox has been maintaining its release cadence since the Oracle acquisition in 2010 (almost 7 years ago!), including 2 major-version releases. It seems to be one of the few parts of the Sun family that hasn't been mucked up yet. I keep waiting for Oracle to give it The Oracle Treatment(tm), but heretofore, that hasn't occurred. The VBox guys must have their cubicles hidden really well. ;)

If you want to see the "major new features" implemented, you need look no further than the changelog. [0]

And FWIW, I've tried VMWare Workstation several times and even own a copy of it, but VirtualBox has been and continues to be the most reliable, simple method of virtualization for me (and several of my colleagues). The VMWare drivers/tools are frequently broken by kernel upgrades, the interface is clunkier and more demanding (including requiring hosts to run a couple of background daemons; VBox operates fine on hosts with just the drivers installed), and the performance, while better in some areas, is much worse in others, making it a wash for general use.

[0] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
To make my own position clear - if their alliance with China does crumble, and if the nuclear danger can be mitigated, I would like to see regime change in North Korea. I'm not one for military adventurism; however, I see the current situation there as more similar to the Rwandan Genocide than the setup to the 2003 Iraq invasion.

A peaceful, East Germany-style transition would be preferable, but I also think it's possible that an invasion to free the current generation of North Koreans could do more good than letting them die under another Kim's boot. Millions live there today in deprivation and fear, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans reportedly living (and dying, via torture and brutal execution) in Nazi-style concentration camps. Needless to say, a successful reunification of the Korean peninsula would benefit future generations of North Koreans as well.

If you're curious, here are the books which formed my impression on the subject:

"Without You, There Is No Us," https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JTC9QBO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

"The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters," https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EWETZW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

"Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea," https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IBYRQ18/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
> xrandr: I knew things would get hairy when I found myself looking up how to dual monitor + rotate on i3wm

I had a Dell XPS 13 connected to a Dell monitor running the stock Dell Ubuntu distro and still had to use arandr with config files when I switched from desk monitor to laptop to conference room.

This was a known issue a couple years ago. Maybe it's resolved now.
Fusion, cheap solar cells, and this.
That's why I did my research, bought compatible hardware, and spend money on software and services which support Linux. Raise the stats, vote with money, write Linux software - what else can we do?
Firefox / Tor of course.
Instagram's value prop was, and is, mobile.
> Even worse, if we continue doing it this way, we’ll start losing our ability to focus.

Is that true? Based on my own anecdotal evidence, I'd say it is, but I'm a sample size of 1...
I believe the author himself said that computation improvements does make it easier to solve general AI. I think in value alignment theory there are still problems that they don't know how to do properly even with infinite computation though.
An Experiment with Bandits
He also said "Most people would rather die than think; many do."

In other words, not all human cognition is "thought", for Russell. So I don't think he's making any claim that implies total absence of computation with a perfect notation. I'd say he's in the clear on this one.
Incorrect, The whole world is heating up except <0.1% habitable area, definitely not enough to make the statement above incorrect

See: http://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine
That's very generous
The money they paid out to Meyer was not a problem for yahoo, even from a opportunity cost perspective. Deciding to only pay someone willing to work for close to nothing would have been really foolish. Not sure what you are proposing other than like bringing back Jerry Yang.
Yes, but the desktop became irrelevant. They might as well be the king of England. They remained king and the rest of the world changed around them.
Running fine under WINE actually means moderately stable with many issues.
Try:

* Vitamin D3 + K2 (in its isoforms MK4 & 7) from food and synthetic

* Toothpastes with low RDA abrasion levels and without glycerine and silica

* Irrigate your teeth

* Take probiotics like Blis K12 bacteria
I've been using Linux on all my machines (desktop/laptop/servers) for years too. I haven't missed any piece of software much, but I would like to express my hate towards Adobe and Autodesk, who don't care about Linux at all.
Death to the Gerrymander
Yeah I'm sure that would fly off the shelves...
What is it that you like about Arch? Maybe I should give it a shot, although with Ubuntu you know you'll have both the solutions and the software available somewhere.
It made sense coming from SGML where you're mostly reading and writing text with an occasional bit of markup. Now it seems some people don't even know that text can appear on a page without first being munged in using the DOM.
>Disagree. First, you don't need an "altcoin" to have a blockchain.

In a public permissionless blockchain the token is a system-native item of value used to compensate miners/stakers/validators for securing the system. If you remove it from the architecture then you need a compelling answer to the question, how is the system secured? I haven't heard such an answer yet, though it may be out there and I just haven't come across it yet. Have you?

Essentially what I'm looking for is an explanation of a tokenless security-model in similar depth as this explanation of Bitcoin's security model:

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-security-model-deep-dive/

Haven't seen that yet.
I don't get this. Except for HipChat, (and I'd argue SourceTree), how exactly does Atlassian kill/destroy things?

I have yet to use another ticket system for software development that is as decent to use as JIRA. I'm not saying I love it, but I've done my time with all the usual suspects and I CHOSE JIRA for my company. I found most people who have really hated JIRA for a good reason actually hated the borked workflow that their administrators put them into.

BitBucket has been a great private hosted Git repository for us, we have at least 150+ repositories- the addition of 'Projects' has adequately solved my biggest complaint.

Confluence is fine as far as intranet wikis go, the fact that it's somewhat integrated with JIRA and BitBucket makes it work fine. We tried using Google Pages- never again. Our documentation is easily discoverable and content authoring is easy. We don't try and run anything publicly so our use case is dead simple.
Call for interest: Haskell in middle school math education
Coincidentally, Australian's can apply for a high-skilled 2-year working visa with the US, the E3 visa (separate from the H1B). Whenever I hear the US discuss visa reforms, I panic a little that they'd alter or outright scrap the E3 visa.