skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is extremely unlikely that this is going to happen so there is no point in even asking for it. It was never one of Ubuntu's stated goals to fill that niche and it is very very unlikely that it ever will be one of Ubuntu's stated goals. There are other distros that aim for what you want, some are even Debian derivatives I believe: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/best-gnu-linux-distributions....

Note that nothing that I have said here implies a value judgement, just that you're looking in the incorrect place for what you desire.
Langford's Basilisk: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Add a setting so that The Launcher can be positioned either on the left side (default) or the right side of the display(s).

- DESCRIPTION: I have two side by side monitors and The Launcher is placed on the smaller monitor off to the right. The Launcher is often in the way because it is in the middle of the displays. I really don't think that this is too much to ask for that there be an option to position The Launcher on either the left or right side of the screen.
STOKE also replaced IMULL with PMULLW and ADDL with PADDW (32 vs 16 bit).
I think we are both right. You explain how politicians misunderstand the public's view. And I explain how the public misunderstands the politician's view. Both exists at the same time.

Of course for us it's most important to get a service level as good as possible. But at the same time if we want to understand politicians we can not just assume that they would care about the same thing. They will use arguments about service levels if they are smart, but that's never their intentions.

From a purely logic point of view, of course the other people's problem is only important to us if we need to influence them. That happens quite often though, and some people could also argue that if we want to be better than the people we critize than we need to deliver on empathy which is mostly what we miss from others.
aptitude package manager in the place of apt.
Or may be pacman
Mouse scroll/wheel acceleration is also sth which gives a very natural feeling on osx but which is missing in Linux. Together with that, pixel-based scrolling, not line based.
While i'm not going to sit here and pretend that this RAT was built for law activity, metasploit payloads don't provide any indication to the 'victims' that their system has been infected either.
Be careful- NodeList/HTMLCollection/etc are not Arrays!

But, it's nice to make something dependency-free if you can.
I used to use Arch and seriously one of my favourite things to see was an update that used negative disk space. Apt has come a long way, but this DEFINITELY needs to be fixed.
How Viewers Experience 360 Video Projections
They don't...
To be honest, new software should not be being developed on the 2.x line, so if it's not battletested now, it should never be.

But thats my opinion of course. We need to move the industry forward eventually and 95% of useful plugins/modules have already been ported.

It's time for py3 as a first class citizen.
Whether bikes slow down traffic is totally dependant on specifics. In a well-designed city they are no issue. But where they must share narrow lanes with cars, the cars must yield and that often means missed lights and slower speeds. Force a bike to ride up a bridge and everyone's commute then depends on that one biker's leg power.

(Happened to me yesturday when roadworks closed the bridge sidewalks. City didnt provide the shuttle vans they normally do in such circumstances and one biker decided to make a point. Or, more likely, the vans were there but he didnt want to wait.)
Oh I totally agree there. I never quite grokked the obsession with JSON these days. But if you go to trouble of writing a query language that /specifically/ targets JSON output ... it seems like it would at least need to be comprehensive. Or come up with another output serializer/deserializer ... but that would put considerable strain on the consumers.
The problem is not 'fake news'. The problem is that it's impossible to have a discussion about the news at all since everyone is experiencing drastically different content directly catered to them on the internet. At least with Fox News we could all point to something Megyn Kelly said and debate whether we agreed or not. There's no way we can even agree upon an information set to talk about with interactive 'fake news' because it differs for everyone and changes rapidly. We also don't have any of the source for these repulsive services, where we at least have some evidence of how MSM outlets are biased.

The idea that services like Google and Facebook are going to use more algorithms to counter the tracking and ad servicing algorithms they developed in the first place is laughable. The solution (if they were actually trying to counter 'fake news') would be to get rid of this harmful technology entirely, but that's all these companies have to bring in revenue so I doubt that'd happen.

'Fake news' is not Breitbart or CNN or one news outlet. 'Fake news' is really the way these internet companies have distorted our collective reality for their own short-term gains. It is irresponsible, dangerous, and in my opinion, not profitable in the long run unless they completely usurp all our species' communication. Which they are actively trying to achieve.
Sundar Pichai is the nominal CEO as Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
Another interesting data point for you about men at work wanting to turn you into a housewife:

https://qz.com/946816/millennials-are-more-likely-than-their...

I hope this doesn't sound too snide, but it looks like it's a generational thing. [creaky old man voice :-) ] Back in my day, we believed in equality for women. Nowadays, all these young adults want women to stay at home, barefoot and pregnant. [old man voice off] Seriously, this study is rather disturbing, but does make sense. As someone a little over 40, and part of the Gen-Xers, I've been wondering for quite some time what all the hoopla about sexual harassment at work was about, because I never saw anything like it in the various different companies I worked at, big and small, except for one weird incident at a very small company in a rural area right out of college (and that was a manufacturing company, and the incident was involving non-college-educated hourly workers). I've said many times I thought it might be generational, but was always told "you don't know about it because you're not on the receiving end", even though many times these stories involve actions that are more overt and really are visible to other employees, and involve a culture of harassment (as Fowler described at Uber, with inappropriate stuff right in a meeting). And the whole "brogrammer" phenomenon is something that came well after I entered the workforce. So this article really makes sense to me and confirms my suspicions: the Millennials are more traditionalist than my generation, and also more susceptible to sexist behavior. So I'm sorry you've had to deal with that crap, but it does seem like things are getting worse in this society in these ways.
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It could be. The clarity I'm speaking about came more from being led deeper into areas that I'd never had a need to explore in my job. E.g. How computers truly work, physically and mathematically, the specifics of scheduling algorithms used in operating systems, the utility of bit masking in assembly... I never had a need for any of that. To your point though, I may not have appreciated it when I was 18-22. I think I might have just gone through the learning motions, like when you learn the fundamental theorem of calculus; it doesn't immediately strike you as how amazing it is unless you've got the mind for that sort of thing (I don't) or you have a teacher that forces you to pause. In any event...
Sure, as long as you don't mind waiting a century or two. Meanwhile, in other nations they fix things far faster.
My opinion is that both are true.
Current Affairs also.
A made a small experiment about this:

https://superdom.site/

It's probably not for anyone to use it, but it was really fun exploring other possible APIs as alternatives to jQuery and with modern ES6+
The computer is already running Windows, there's no need for Wine. Just the ability to launch a Windows program from within a Linux program would do.
It generates meaningless tracking data by doing meaningless browsing automatically. So it sucks bandwidth. That's not a good solution.

Returning fake responses to tracking cookies is more efficient. For phones, returning bogus info to app requests for contact lists and location is especially effective.
I was talking to a co-worker recently about dental work and he shared a story with me about having his wisdom teeth removed with nothing but some local anesthetic. It wasn't until after, what he described as, the worst experience of his life he learned that general anesthesia is common for the procedure.
New Update of Siri will make all Apple devices interconnected
- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Improve Suspend/Wake up

- DESCRIPTION: Most of the time the system wouldn't wake up after suspend, I can't shutdown every time as I've many dev env (IDE's, VM' etc) running.

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- HEADLINE: Add built-in support for a blue light filter.

- DESCRIPTION: Setting up redshift requires bit of work and need to run a daemon to make it start with system.

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- HEADLINE: Improve Bluetooth support.

- DESCRIPTION: It is hit or miss at the moment.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software architect for a bank.
They don't need to be better than a professional accountant. That's not where the value is.

I completed an MBT (Masters of Business and Technology) at UNSW, Australia.

The course programme was certainly slanted towards technical managers, perhaps aspiring CTOs (which I'm not). There were fairly basic courses, for someone with a technical product management background, but there was also some very useful business focused topics. The one module I really learned the most from was Fundamentals of Corporate Finance.

I do not aspire to know more than a professional accountant, but I can now understand what the professional accountant is telling me. I don't just know what the numbers in the budget mean, but also a pretty good idea of how they were derived. For example, I understand, in context, asset depreciation and what it means for my business.

I probably could have picked up these skills elsewhere too, but that module alone made the entire MBT degree programme worthwhile.
That's the problem. He's a brilliant lunatic and you can't tell which way he'll jump. Like his game he's impossible to analyse; you can't dissect him, predict him... which of course means he's not a lunatic at all.
I'm not sure I see where the disagreement is.

I agree that making life better for people today and in the future is what matters most. And I think an important step in doing that is to heed the lessons of history, which includes having sympathy for the suffering of those who've gone before.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Exfat installed by default
DESCRIPTION: Many cameras use exfat for their memory cards. Users should not have to install an obscure exfat-fuse package to handle this.

(forgot that in my previous comment)
I am inclined to agree with you, but man, it still scares me.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Iterate on the design

- DESCRIPTION: Some versions ago, there was a lot of movement in designing Ubuntu. There were general improvements like the new scrollbar, new icons, a new gtk theme, and on the other side a general push to make it more like an Apple desktop. Some of it worked, some did not. But it all feels unfinished, abandoned. Nowadays every Ubuntu version looks and feels the same, all that is changing are the geometric forms of the pink-brown desktop background, and the old issues remain untouched. There is so much unfinished stuff here one could work on:

* Integrate the modified overlay scrollbar fully into the system. It for example never worked with Firefox, despite that being your default browser. Patch FF if necessary to make it happen.

* Fix the remaining UI issues of that scrollbars, like not being able to fully scroll to the bottom if the overlay reaches the bottom of the scrollbar before the window content.

* The GTK themes could use new variants and a general modernization.

* The icon set looks dated now, and Unity does not present them very nicely. It is a great opportunity to improve the overall look.

* Make your design team actually develop a design concept linked to the new version and code name, and not produce another interchangeable wallpaper of geometric lines on brown and purple each time. Remember what you did for intrepid - it doesn't have to be brown again, it doesn't have to be an animal, but at least get some character into the design. And honestly: https://design.canonical.com/2016/04/wallpaper-design-for-xe... was a disgrace for the design community. Our Suru language is influenced by the minimalist nature of Japanese culture. We have taken elements of their Zen culture that give us a precise yet simplistic rhythm and used it in our designs. Working with paper metaphors we have drawn inspiration from the art of origami that provides us with a solid and tangible foundation to work from. Paper is also transferable, meaning it can be used in all areas of our brand in two and three dimensional forms. Sure...

* Make unity better customizeable - all that apple stuff like having window controls to the left really needs to be configurable. That's part of a good design, and something where you dropped the ball (the global menu not being absolute anymore was a good first step). Embrace the linux UI stuff like sloppy focus and windows that can be pinned to specific workspaces.

Edit: In the spirit of the last phrase, a "honor where you came from" could be a great slogan for such a UI/UX design iteration.
I don't know about them, but since they rose up in the companies you usually get an MBA from that company. So the cause/effect relationship is off. I assume they were proper managers (like actual management, not shitty middle management) before getting the MBA.

This is what usually happens to some of the engineering guys I went to university with who stay at companies and do not specialize in anything engineering but want to progress in management.
I'm not sure about having it enabled by default, but I would absolutely love for it to be just installed by default, and with solid control panel integration to manage it.
MBA's add other MBA's so having zero tends to be the better choice than looking for the 'good ones.' Remember, a primary focus of MBA programs is getting to positions of power, so they are great at self marketing.

Further, if the market says X is valuable and you think it's useless then you are better off saving money by avoiding the price premium.
I keep hearing this, but it doesn't jibe with the RAM timings I see. tRAS is usually 50ns or so, and propagation delay is 2ns or so (see below). What gives?

My suspicion is that amplifying the differential voltages produced by femtocoulombs of charge at 100% reliability is a harder problem than moving the DRAM chips closer to the CPU, and that speed-of-light has gotten the blame in "pop architecture" due to sloppy overgeneralization.

2*2 feet is long for a memory bus, but it's partially cancelled
out by the high velocity factor (sorry, "speed of electricity")
of 0.951 in parent's calculations. Instead, I'm going with 0.5*2
feet at a velocity factor of 0.5 for a 2ns roundtrip propagation delay.
Twilio Programmable Fax
False. Bezos was EECS at Princeton, and then went to work in finance for ~8 years before starting Amazon.com
Anyone know of a way to disable that? Just "don't upgrade to Android 6.0", or burning a custom ROM with some parts hacked out?
I'd much prefer wayland over Mir. I know they're already set in their ways but wayland on fedora 25 works beautifully and has a way more reasonable license. It'd also be nice to have Ubuntu's support in continuing wayland adoption.
The real question is: if someone makes a product that deliberately makes it easier to break the law, is he guilty in breaking the law, or complicit? Deliberate is the key word in this case. Complicity depends on knowledge of what they're doing. I think perhaps criminal negligence is all he could be charged with, but I don't know. Sounds like he wasn't an angel, but not totally dubious either, based on how he advertised the product and what it actually did.

Makes me wonder though, the software developed by pen-testers could be stolen and used for nefarious purposes. Do the pen-testers get held responsible for everything they do?

Or are we judging based on this individual's spirit? He wanted to make money, so he enabled bad people to do bad things, advertising on bad sites. Even though this article is framing it like he was an angel because SJWs need fake news to feel like heroes?
Exactly. Your data is a currency. I cannot stress this enough. I(!) should be allowed to spend that currency however I choose. If I am already paying you for a service, you shouldn't get to have my data, too!
Python 3 is installed by default, and Python 2 is no longer installed by default on Ubuntu Server since 16.04.

Both versions can be installed concurrently. Python 2 is available under /usr/bin/python2 if it is installed. Python 3 is available under /usr/bin/python3 if it is installed.

/usr/bin/python points to Python 2 (or nothing, if Python 2 is not installed). This is the upstream recommendation from PEP 394 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/) and I don't see Ubuntu diverging from this unless upstream's recommendation changes.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Windows subsystem

- DESCRIPTION: Windows 10 lets you install Ubuntu as a subsystem and use it without dual booting. In practice, we _need_ windows tools (like WebDeploy) or GUI tools (like Photoshop) at work but would much rather use Ubuntu in general. The compromise (ubuntu subsystem) works but the other way around would be much better. I'm fine with paying for Windows and also CLI tools only would still be a great start.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer. I also introduced a lot of people to Linux over the years for home usage.
> My favourite is when I go back to old code, think "why on earth was that written that way" and then proceed to rewrite it. Then after an half an hour in I realise that my rewrite is worse than the original method I used.

...and remember that the "rewrite" is similar to an even older version that you temporarily forgot about.

As I've matured as a developer, I've taken to commenting much more heavily. However, I focus more on capturing why I'm doing something, which sometimes includes why I didn't do it a particular way.
byobu is basically an abstraction over screen and tmux, letting you use either with some common keybindings for spawning new windows and a common toolbar at the bottom telling you disk usage and load average and the like. I am not sure why purge-old-kernels is in the byobu package, that seems like a really poor placement for it.
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New levels, new devils ;)
> Nobody, in any significant numbers, has ever claimed or believed that there were direct manipulations of vote counts.

Huh?

https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/12/27/belief-conspiracies...

> Half of Clinton’s voters think Russia even hacked the Election Day votes (only 9% of Trump voters give that any credibility at all). Six in ten Trump voters believe there were millions of illegal votes cast on election day. One in four Clinton voters agree with that, though it’s likely that the illegal votes Clinton voters think were cast were quite different from the illegal votes Trump voters see. In an Economist/YouGov Poll conducted a few days after the election, just 2% of those who voted on Election Day said they saw any ineligible voters trying to cast a ballot (and there was almost no difference in the proportion of Clinton supporters and Trump supporters saying this).
> The Hawke Labor Government initially responded to the crisis by asking the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to defer its national wage case. Treasurer Paul Keating was advised to tighten monetary policy, but, with forthcoming by-elections and a state election in New South Wales, the Government opted to delay the potentially unpopular move, which would raise interest rates. Commodity prices dropped and the Australian dollar sharply declined. The Reserve Bank conducted a $2 billion intervention to hold the dollar at 68c but it crashed to 51c.

So the government delayed what would have been a natural increase in interest rates and slowed the unhealthy consumption of capital. Instead the delay resulted in a sharp decline in prices rather than a more gradual one. All for political 'timing' as the tough medicine would have been unpopular. Lovely.

Monetarist policy is supposed to ease the pain of recessions, not make it worse.

> To court the green vote, environment minister Graham Richardson had placed restrictions on mining (notably uranium mining[5]) and logging which had a detrimental effect on already rising unemployment. David Barnett wrote in 1997 that Labor fiscal policy at this time "self-defeating as "with one hand it was imposing a monetary squeeze, while on the other it was encouraging spending with wage increases and tax cuts".

A recurring trend here of politics trumping the economic livelihood of the people.
Are you sure you typed exactly that?

For `apt-get install purge-old-kernels` I get

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

And for `sudo apt-get install purge-old-kernels`, I get

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package purge-old-kernels

But I can reproduce your error by `purge-old-kernels` alone. That is indeed strange.

EDIT: I straced bash by `strace -o bashlog -f -s 10000 bash` and found the culprit to be /usr/lib/command-not-found. Indeed, if you run `/usr/lib/command-not-found -- purge-old-kernels` directly, you get that same message about byobu.

EDIT2: I assumed this was some kind of bug with the database, but now I actually tried installing byobu and it does make purge-old-kernels available.
On a server you are the snowflake with your Python 3 desire. Do you not use venv for applications?
> I'm a major REST advocate (spoken at conferences, written about it in books, etc) and I've been using GraphQL for a few months now and after an initial learning curve I love the flexibility.

It's good to hear that there are some REST people that are open to potential alternatives :)

> I've been writing my APIs as GraphQL first. Then putting a very light wrapper around GraphQL to expose a REST interface. The REST interface is gold standard (HATEOAS, Json-API, etc) yet it is only a few lines of code. I just have a dictionary of REST -> GraphQL mappings and transform the GraphQL result to Json-API.

I'd certainly agree there. This could change in a year or two, but right now REST-ish APIs are still indisputably dominant. If you want to maximize your developers' experience, it's still too early to _require_ that they use GraphQL because there are going to be a lot of shops out there that are just not set up for it. Of course there is still the option of providing your own libraries and tooling for your users to go through, and if you go with that then the API's implementation is much less important.
Very interesting, thanks for pointing out. As far as I can tell nothing was installed by Verizon on my most recent phone. I was using it as a dev device before using at as my primary phone, so I was pretty aware of what was installed on it. This was over a year ago and I think I started with a 5.X version of Android. Will have to see what happens next time I switch phones... welp.
"Littered with buzzwords" and "interesting" are not necessarily mutually exclusive...