skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it. He sees the light coming from the cellar window and sends his shoots crawling straight thereto: they will crawl along the floor and up the wall and out at the cellar window; if there be a little earth anywhere on the journey he will find it and use it for his own ends. What deliberation he may exercise in the matter of his roots when he is planted in the earth is a thing unknown to us, but we can imagine him saying, 'I will have a tuber here and a tuber there, and I will suck whatsoever advantage I can from all my surroundings. This neighbour I will overshadow, and that I will undermine; and what I can do shall be the limit of what I will do. He that is stronger and better placed than I shall overcome me, and him that is weaker I will overcome.'

"The potato says these things by doing them, which is the best of languages. What is consciousness if this is not consciousness? We find it difficult to sympathise with the emotions of a potato; so we do with those of an oyster. Neither of these things makes a noise on being boiled or opened, and noise appeals to us more strongly than anything else, because we make so much about our own sufferings. Since, then, they do not annoy us by any expression of pain we call them emotionless; and so qua mankind they are; but mankind is not everybody.

From Samuel Butler's Erewhon. (The same chapter that inspired the eponymous Butlerian Jihad in Dune, incidentally.) I don't agree with the conclusion here, and I doubt Butler did either, but the whole book is a great read.

[1] http://www.online-literature.com/samuel-butler/erewhon/26/
Canonical (Ubuntu), and SUSE as well.
Hypothetically. OTOH, someone who scams artists probably has ways of scamming governments.
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I want to always have a new interesting problem to solve.
I want to achieve financial independence ( work because I want to, not because I have to).
I want to make a turn based rpg game
Used to be the goto distro for those who just wanted a "plug-n-go" experience was Ubuntu. Unfortunately, Ubuntu has lost their minds when it comes to the desktop interface. But - you may like it. Try it out (live thumbdrive or such). It's possible to go back to the "old" interface if you want, and it doesn't take much effort - but may be more than you really want to play with.

The other distro I have heard great reviews on that still has a sane interface is Linux Mint - again, try it before you "buy" it.

Virtually every distro except for a few niche ones have Live boot versions, that will allow you to try them out on your system, get a feel for what works, what doesn't (hardware and software-wise), and how the overall system "feels" - before committing to an install.

Your other option (to handle your use cases) might be to keep a windows partition (or on a separate drive) around and use that. Another option would be to use Microsoft's online Office360 suite (I think that's what it is called?). Or run VirtualBox on the Linux system, and run a version of Windows inside that. Any or all of these could be done together, in addition to using Crossover and/or Wine. You have a ton of choices here.

Also - for your documents - you say you are worried about formatting when they go to the client - does the client need to be able to edit them? If not, then dumping them out as a PDF might be able to work for you, if they'll accept PDF copies vs Word docs. The other thing to do would be to take a few of your old copies of docs you have sent to clients, and run them thru LibreOffice or something - see what they look like when you import them, then export them back out to a new file in the various Office formats, and load them back up in Word and see what it looks like. You might be surprised at what you find (you might be disappointed as well). This is all something you can try with the Live boot versions of Linux distros.

Oh - and games - besides using Crossover/Wine - there are a ton of native games available, plus plenty of "old-school" conversions and ports (some quite fun and amazing - some of the Doom/Doom 2 ports are pretty amazing). Also, there are a ton of Steam games on Linux available, too. If all you do is casual gaming, and don't care about always running the latest AAA shooter/fps/mmorpg or such - you'll usually be able to find something worthwhile and fun to play.
Better url for this story: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...
Before yum and dnf, dependency hell is a serious issue indeed. After that it's still a problem if you use multilib (sometimes updates get pushed for x86_64 but the i686 packages are missing) but I wouldn't really call it a dependency hell anymore.
I don't make heavy use of my laptop, but I'll chime in here anyway.

Currently, I have a ThinkPad Yoga S1. I got it because it's thin, light, and powerful and I needed to be able to use it in the field. The multi-mode is actually a useful feature for me; there are times I need to draw some notes on it, or prop it up for easier access/viewing. Adaptability like that is a good feature for my use case.

I like it, but one big warning: keys started falling off the keyboard after a few months of light use, and required a full keyboard replacement (because Lenovo doesn't sell individual replacement keys I guess), which Lenovo forced me to do myself despite having maxed out the warranty options, including on-site service.

I was annoyed but didn't fight this too much because I assumed it must be fairly simple if they allow users to do it, and I know that on my other laptop, the keyboard is the first thing you have to take out. Nope, it's opposite on the Yoga; you have to take everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, out to get to the keyboard, which is at the bottom, not the top.

It turned into a massive timesink, a two-day disassembly and reassembly project because I didn't want my brand new laptop to have missing screws or little issues from being reassembled incorrectly. I hate assembling things in general and prefer to pay someone to assemble my desktops for me, let alone tiny, ultra-tight contraptions like modern ultrabooks. I still feel like I got ripped off on that, and I probably won't buy any warranty options from Lenovo in the future.

Prior to that, I had a System76 17" Bonobo Pro. Basically the polar opposite of the Yoga. This was the top of the line laptop from System76 at the time. It's huge and bulky, but I did that on purpose because I wanted the functionality and the screen space. The build does feel cheap in some places, but it's held up well now for several years.

Unfortunately, I had a bad experience with System76 when that laptop was just a couple of days old. The system stopped POSTing and I needed it for an on-site contracting project that was already underway (that's why I bought it). I begged them to offer an expedited repair and return process, including offering to pay extra for it and to pay for expedited shipping both ways, and they refused to do this. I got the repaired system back 3 weeks later and the system has always had little quirks and hard locks since.

I have 0 interest in buying from System76 again.
Now if they could just abandon systemd.
Damn. From the horses mouth: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cl...

I might be a small minority, but I _like_ Unity 7. I have never used Unity 8, and I thought the Ubuntu phone was misspent effort, but wow. Now I have to figure out if there is a way to style Gnome to look like Unity 7.

I wonder what this means for Mir vs Wayland as well.
Note the protocol has been improved since then, for example by adding revocation features.
That's something the "non-powerful" need to take up with the "powerful" in my opinion. Oh, wait, the "powerful" want to cut back on public education as well? Damn.
>From my experience "symbol X is offensive" doesn't actually help distinguish between malicious and non-malicious people because the thing that makes someone malicious is their actions and views, not the iconography they use to express said actions and views.

I completely agree with this.

I think most content creators make a conscious effort to make their intent known through the work.

For Example, movies like "Inglourious Basterds" or "Downfall" are clearly using Nazi iconography to build the aesthetic of their world without suggesting they support the ideals of the real-world Nazis.

Perhaps a more poignant current example is youtube personality JonTron. The basic gist as I understand it is: He occasionally makes off-color or insensitive jokes that could easily be considered offensive but are generally regarded as OK because the intent is understood to be a place of comedy. Now after defending some racist remarks, his past statements are seen in a new light that makes their original intent less clear.

I do think it's something important to discuss and we clearly can't have a discussion if what we want to talk about is a banned taboo. But I also think it's clearly wrong to treat any hate-speech/iconography as if somehow doesn't have all that extra cultural baggage.
What timeframe are you talking about? I remember it didn't "just work" for me when I first started experimenting with it (V4.2, IIRC). Yes, I was new, but it wasn't the easy-install experience that it now is, for sure.
Blatant propaganda in favor of third-world immigration to first-world countries. Missing of course, is the argument that their problems are our problems, and that massive immigration is good for the citizens of European countries themselves.

>“If not for Italy, I promise, there would be civil war in Nigeria,” a migrant told me.

So the rulers of Nigeria can do as they please, knowing that all of the dissenters are simply going to leave? Isn't that rather unfair to the rest of the Nigerians? Thank god they have these nice European countries to flee to, otherwise they'd be forced to actually try to fix the place they came from.

>In 2010, he demanded that Europe pay him five billion euros per year; otherwise, he said, Libya could send so many migrants that “tomorrow Europe might no longer be European.”

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks it's beyond pathetic that European countries have to pay other countries to protect their own borders. Why can't they just send them back? They have no moral obligation to accept these people.

There is no refugee crisis, or migration crisis. There's only a crisis of European governments being too afraid (or too apathetic) to stand up for their own citizens.
Now if people could only get used to it.
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Page isn't loading, but that's a pity if true :(

I ended up dropping desktop Linux entirely last year, but Unity was the only thing that I thought wasn't matched by any other desktop operating system.
That is what layout managers and logical pixels are for.

You are missing the fact that NeWS offered this kind of control.

"The NeWS Book" - https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_sunNeWSThe_11666863
Dependency hell is why I became a Mandrake and later a Mandriva user. URPMI was groundbreaking.

I didn't give up Mandriva until near the end, when I jumped ship to Ubuntu.
Where I live, in the centre of Copenhagen, is so quiet that people from other cities remark on it when they visit.

Cars drive at 30km/h (at most), and very few have reason to drive past. There aren't any 'fast' roads nearby, the nearest that could qualify is about 1km away.

Most noise is from people talking as they walk past.
Has squatting gotten worse on Namecoin? Squatting is fairly hard to handle in decentralized naming systems in general. Namecoin got a lot of squatting issues mostly because of the pricing function (price of names dropped over x years, and now it's almost free to register names). Here is another paper from WEIS'15 that studied squatting in Namecoin: http://randomwalker.info/publications/namespaces.pdf
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> Aren't they also the only successful free software business in history?

Are you sure you meant "open source software" not free software?
Gnome 3 and systemd are closely intertwined. Running Gnome without it would be a lot of work.
hey don't go against the Google = Good, Microsoft = Evil circlejerk. Google is trendy and half the users here want to work there so there's no way they could do anything bad
Hackathon programmers remind me of tourney knights in the Dunk and Egg novellas by George RR Martin. They serve no lord and don't fight in real battles. Instead, they make their living from prize money earned jousting in tourneys.
Have you ever used Gnome? There is no taskbar :)
Let me say that the only thing I am sad about is Unity 8. I genuinely liked Unity and it's easy to use, not-too-resource-hungry interface. I definitely do not like GNOME as much. It lacks the cohesion that Unity has (I understand why, but that doesn't negate the point).

I will be happy to see if the best parts of Unity make it back to GNOME - GNOME just feels clunky right now. But I will continue using Ubuntu regardless.
I can do both, but I also think that most of those questions are fairly relevant. I'd probably spend some time asking the applicant to translate between a map/flatMap to a for-comprehension block, and walk through their "monadic intuition".

But remember, Scala can be written in many ways. Some of us write Scala like Haskell-lite, and others write it like Java with less cruft.
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Nope, it's lower all-in.

When it happened, about a year ago, the final bill was $10 cheaper. Today it's a bit less, I think $5; they shifted a couple values around.
I agree.

Current trends in software ("agile" in particular), seem to push against allowing this kind of distinction to develop, and give negative connotations to maintaining code developed by another team ("thrown over the wall" seems to be the preferred expression).

Any thoughts on how to structure things so that maintainers and creators can both focus on their strengths without too much tension?
I was part of a startup that put on a hackathon with a 10K first prize many, many years ago. We had a group of presenters who had a polished product and were looking to put our API/whatever into their product so that they could be eligible for the prize, and you could tell that this was all that they did.

I also know that there's a group of people who attend as many hackathons as possible in the bay area for no other reason than living is expensive, and there is generally free food at the hackathons.

Honestly, I'd be a part of one of these again in a heartbeat -- the hours were crazy, but, it was a great way to get your developers, your API consumers, and everyone else in the same room, to validate if it will burst/scale up, and you can solve a lot of really interesting challenges that weekend.
I get that they're moving away from convergence, but what does this ultimately mean for Ubuntu as a mobile OS? In the grand scheme of things, what does this mean for users who want a completely FOSS stack for their phone (let's ignore the baseband for now)?

As far as I can tell, this just means that your only options are Android or iOS. It's not easy to get a Jolla/SailfishOS phone that will work on most Canadian or USA networks, and with this announcement it seems that Ubuntu phones won't be around for much longer. This coupled with the death of Firefox OS means that there's really not much of a choice. Certainly you can run AOSP with no Google Apps, but not having Google Play Services tends to cause more and more problems, or at the very least means your phone is less and less capable as time goes on.

I guess in general we can all celebrate that Ubuntu is moving to GNOME / Wayland and is ditching convergence, but I think the fact that there's no healthy alternative to iOS / Android is quite sad. If Canonical is exiting the mobile space to work on other things, what other alternatives do users have?
IMO the distro that actually made me realize that after some good configuring Linux can just work is Gentoo. After Portage no package manager was ever good enough for me.
The "ready-to-eat food products" meaning surely comes as an abbreviation of "delicatessen-style".

It's a wonky marketing term like "lite".
I just got the Ubuntu phone. It's the first smart-phone that I don't hate. I do agree that Ubuntu needs to stop with their NIH syndrome when it comes to desktop, but the phone market is just flat out terrible.

I would be willing to spend a lot of money for a decent FOSS phone, but there just isn't anything out there. Ubuntu was my only hope |:(
They should just have a rule that you can't win a prize above a certain level if you've won another hackathon prize in the past N months.
> Microsoft employees are well-meaning individuals with good intentions

Then let me disable this telemetry completely, I'm fed-up with people that know better than me what's good for me.
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They might be teenaged dolphins that do things on a dare. They're smart and they get bored.
Wow, strange to see this here. I created a photo series with a very similar title ("Love in the Age of Strong Cryptography"): http://freezine.xyz/0/love-in-the-age-of-strong-cryptography...
Surely, not SuSe. Novell didn't really handle that well.
Does that mean existing resources that Canonical is putting in Unity will be diverted to GNOME?
Firefox, WordPress, Drupal, and Wikipedia may also fit your definition.
Actually, she was the one that pointed this out to me long ago. It was frustrating and eventually I emailed Google and got them to fix it.
There's a ton of them. Many of them are smaller players consisting of core developers providing feature additions for money, or support contracts, or selling an "enterprise" wrapper/hosted.

scala, mail servers come to mind quickly
Counterpoint to complexity: Simple CPUs (scalar, in-order) are likely less complex than the TPU. E.g. here's a super-scalar in-order core: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US6311261B1/US06...

> I believe that the term ASIC itself is quite overloaded.

I think we're arguing the same thing, just from different angles :)
Super excited for this. I hate Unity's interface and was instead using Fedora solely for that reason. About 5 months ago I switched to Ubuntu GNOME and have been loving the stability of Ubuntu with the advanced interface of GNOME.
The death of unix right there
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Spoiler: Costco doesn't sell dolphin.
I think posguy is making very fair points for a time a bit ahead of this story. If Uber were to take on even a "minor" city, all the problems they're bringing up would be prescient.

To solve a specific engineering problem though, it couldn't be hard for Uber to create a SMS Uber call system, right? Txt a number, give em an address, have a card reader in the car or take cash. If Uber wants to get into public service, they have to broaden their surface area of coverage. Because what posguy was saying is true - people rely heavily on even the crappiest public transit.
From where I am sitting, going from upstart to systemd just seemed like an exercise in inconvenience.
In Academia, it's not necessarily a Burmese Python. If you write a better dissertation, you'll get a smaller snake to face off with.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-port...
I'd classify it as a deadly sin - because I can't see the content.
There's always the *bsd family.
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Well, it says:

> When residents book a trip to one of the following destinations, they will pay $3 to $5.

If there was surge pricing, they'd be paying a lot more than $5, therefore the answer to the first question would be a lie. Seems unlikely.
> ...and I particularly remember that an ad agency that wanted our business once shipped us a box containing a burnt red hat (!).

Now that's a great ad agency.
They would've taken over the world!
Not this summer, but thanks for checking!
But Shearer et al have an odd situation where they can't perform as Spinal Tap without Vivendi's permission (and hand in the till). They can't even perform the songs without paying a mechanical/performance royalty to the copyright holders.
I am happy about this. I hated Unity
I don't use laptops. I use a desktop, because desktops are cheaper than any comparable laptops. I also don't have any desire to work for my employer outside of the office, and when I have to they have an awesome VPN / remote access setup that allows me to connect to my desktop from anywhere.
Not sure if you meant to laugh at a serious question. I am fully aware of my ignorance of the space.

Since it appears you're in the deep learning hardware business, what would be the impediment to using eDRAM or similar? eDRAM is too costly at those sizes for general purpose processors, but I imagine the reduced latency and increased bandwidth would be a huge win for a ridiculously parallel deep learning processor, and would definitely be a tradeoff worth making.
I once built a license code scheme that occasionally generated obscenities in the middle of the code. Once we realized the problem, we had a fun few hours building a blacklist with every obscenity we could think of.
> Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem is parametric over formal systems, with first-order Peano Arithmetic being one of the weakest, most standardized systems in which it applies.

It is parametric over formal systems described in Principia Mathematics. That's it. It doesn't take into account other possible types of formal systems. At least I didn't notice this when reading actual proof.

> That operator is called a Turing Oracle

I think it may be very different thing. I just gave you a quick example. That operator can be something very different. You can set measure on space of proofs, and derive concept of asymptotic proof, and say if proof is asymptotic, then it is proof. There can be many variations around possible formal systems.

> and it's physically impossible

This is very strange argument. Turing machine contains infinite amount of memory, and likely is physically impossible.
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It most definitely is.. LEAD and LAG are about all you get, and they are painfully slow. SQL was made to be order agnostic, and attempts to make it most order-aware don't quite work. A good time series database is build on table order and lets you exploit it. SQL is abysmal for any time series work.

And temporal and bitemporal databases (despite the name) are orthogonal to the aggregation and windowing issues that make time series difficult in SQL or a row-oriented database. The are just a couple of timestamps and where clauses to support point-in-time queries.

Maybe this is why so many time series databases fail. People making them often don't seem to fundamentally understand the issues, Very few, such as Kx and KDB, seem to understand them.
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TBH this doesn't really give you anything about best practices though. It's a bunch of base theory without anything about timing analysis, etc. It's nice to know information but I don't think it makes you a better 'secure' programmer.
You have a point, but you oversell it with the hyperbolic commentary and it makes me want to disagree with you. I don't like agreeing with people who exhibit such sloppy thinking.
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