skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is Tizen different then Android from a privacy/OS perspective?

What will stop Samsung from closing it off when it gets too popular? (And, BTW, it's not like Samsung hardware is the pinnacle of OS design. Exynos is notorious for being hard to make custom ROMs)
Suppose there's two doors. You can't decide. The host opens one. There is no goat behind that one. Now you know for certain.
GNOME has been doing some really cool stuff as of late (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/top-features-in-gnome-3-2...).

Do you really think that? To me, this is just a collection of really old stuff and features that should be a matter of course.

Case in point: "the headline feature" (adjusting the color temperature of your display depending on the time of day) is something that has been around for years one way or the other on all operating systems.

Or take: "Bookmarking webpages in Web now takes a single click." Hasn't that been the case since, like, always? Even if I'm wrong, I would hardly file such a feature under "really cool stuff".
This project came out of some of my contracting work for consultants, journalists, lawyers - people who don't know what a command line is.
I am pretty sure they've been in the black, but not by much, for some time.
One of the managers at my very first job put it best: a good manager is like an umbrella, shielding you in the downpour but somewhere out of sight in the sunshine. Meaning, a good manager isolates the employees from in-fighting in the above levels and takes the blame coming down, but exposes the team to praise when a project is going smoothly.
Properly applying Bayesian inference gives you the correct answer.

Also the answer becomes intuitive once this scales to more than 3 doors (someone below already mentioned).
It may be that they can only see a future of computing-as-a-service. This might even extend to desktop if they see it as another means to access MS sass properties. If that is their only route forward, then this spoonful of telemetry is the tip of a very large wedge.
It did not get any more intuitive for me.
Thanks. I have no plans yet re: open-sourcing. I just made a thing and am asking whether it has a use. Can I ask why it is cool? Could it be useful?
Ah ha, thank you for your advice and summary of the current state of things. It looks like I shouldn't be attempting what I said.
Mostly because Uber's advantage is in being large enough that they can break the law.

But in countries where this is legal, companies have already done exactly that.

In Germany more than a handful of such services have existed for a decade, cheaper and more reliable than Uber.

So, in other words: They are minting money. They're just not what Silicon Valley is circlejerking over, so you never hear of them.

Mercedes (the car company) actually owns such a service.
Ah that's pity. I'm using it for Rhythmbox and Spotify where it works fine.

> It looks like it needs to be hard-coded for compatibility with every app

By using a white-list? I thought it worked with every app which uses the MPRIS DBus interface.
PHP + easy install.

It is cheap to provide PHP hosting and that is why so many people could go with their own installs of Wordpress.

The real truth is probably much more complicated, but this is what I think is the most important factor.
Note that the problem of words being misunderstood when lacking context is not limited to computers. My father - a chemistry professor - was at a conference a few years ago about Free Radicals when he was approached by a member of the public who wanted to know if he could participate...
There are lots of not so serious apps, however. Also on mobile devices there are no keyboard shortcuts, so swipes and time intervals between taps present very natural opportunities for animation.
Why you should follow the robustness principle in your APIs
Heck, I'm not an old fuddy-duddy per se, but I rejected Fedora after 10 minutes with GNOME 3. Went back to Unity. Guess I need to have some more patience.
Dropping Unity means dropping Mir, which is a good thing. Now developers can avoid redundant efforts, and can focus on Wayland. And it's still a huge pile of work for many complex applications like Firefox, Wine and many others, including graphics drivers, GUI toolkits, libraries like SDL and etc.
At least you had a package manager with a reasonable number of packages. My first distro as a main OS was Puppy Linux because it was a small download (remember dialup?) Actually at the time I didn't even have internet in my apartment, so installing software went something like this:

1) Identify a really interesting piece of software, like OpenFOAM, with (unbeknownst to me) lots of dependencies

2) Take a half hour walk to the local library with my shiny 4gb flash drive (89 dollars, a Christmas present to myself).

3) Download the .tar.gz of the software.

4) Walk home.

5) Unpack the .tar.gz and run ./configure. Watch it fail.

6) Walk back to the library to download the missing dependency. Walk home.

7) Goto 5.

I ended up very irritated that configure always fails on the first missing dependency, instead of comprehensively listing the missing requirements in one go. Things did get a bit easier when I learned to scour the documention for any libraries referenced, but of course reading the docs still often required a trip back home to unpack the tarball...
Some companies have built systems like Uber, cheaper, and more reliable.

Just a lot smaller in scope. See Mercedes' ridesharing offering in the EU, it's exactly that.

Only a few dozen devs, yet cheaper than Uber, with similar features.
People accept data collection in part because of the lengths companies go to to hide, obscure, and spin it. Those efforts wouldn't be necessary if people truly didn't care.
I didn't know they paid so much to the winners. I won a NASA competition and we got $0!
Do they no longer have a program like they used to where researchers can apply for direct access to the crawl data?
> easy to use, not-too-resource-hungry interface.

what? unity? has it changed so much in the last 2 years that its defining features have changed from being difficult to use, resource-hungry, to the opposite of that?
Ugh. My first Hackathon we built a little app that we thought was pretty cool. Nothing world-changing but it was something we were proud of for three freshmen. Then they sat us down in front of a judge who was some corporate shmuck that looked at us like we had three heads because we didn't have a "pitch".
Can you be more specific about this please?

Disclaimer, I happily work for RH and today's blog has me ear-to-ear grinning.
"Write a function which produces the prime factors of a given integer."

The kinds of people that I'm tasked with interviewing are not web developers nor user interface types but are generally more back end/non off the shelf solutions type of programmers. I also point out that I realize that it's an atypical programming question and I let them think about it on their own for 5-10 minutes if needed before helping them along if they go astray.

How they react to the question is as telling as how long it takes them to realize that they do not need a function to determine if a number is prime or not.
I agree. They got subverted at one point by an organization they thought was helping them. Their overall catalog of advice is OK in that it's a lot of the stuff readers would hear from people they paid for IT or INFOSEC advice. Just free instead. A good example are the recommendations in this one for small, business owners that don't know anything about INFOSEC:

http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2016/NIST.IR.7621r1.pdf

DISA has the "STIG's" for security configuration:

http://iase.disa.mil/stigs/Pages/index.aspx

The NSA themselves, the Information Assurance Directorate, had guides on hardening various things. There's one for deploying Chrome in the link below that also references STIG on Chrome:

https://www.iad.gov/iad/library/ia-guidance/security-configu...

It would be straight-forward for INFOSEC people to vet the NIST or STIG guides for content accuracy then host that copy on their own sites. Or produce similar guides as some do. Just important to target them at people of low knowledge or competence so they know exactly what they need to do. It's them whose hardware will become part of the next DDOS due to configuration error.
Gnome 2 and KDE 3 were pretty good. Then both shells lost their way. Why do they try to be a bad clone of macOS rather than keep being a Win98 on steriods (KDE 3) or a more simple shell for normal users (Gnome 2).
> Only if you define "better" in those terms.

No, you can define "better" in pretty much any way and still be able to imagine possible worlds that are better than the one we live in. In fact, pretty much the only way you can define "better" that does not admit better possible worlds is to define this world as the best possible one. But that's a vacuous definition.

BTW, you do know that Romeo and Juliet are fictional characters, yes? They cannot prefer anything because they didn't actually exist.
I've seen this behaviour with seals when kayaking. Fascinating to watch, and I swear they were just showing off to us bunch of humans hanging out enthralled by the sight of a large seal slamming the octopus over and over again against the water until it was dead enough to disappear with back into the deep.
> What are your pain points? Because not being able to install most of the apps in the Play Store also applies to Ubuntu Phone.

Mostly being able to find OOTB tools that I want. I use f-droid on my android and I usually end up just going back to the play store to find anything worthwhile.

The Ubuntu phone gives me a real OS that I can just "apt-get install" something, then make a shell-script or something similar to fix my problem. Android's shell-system is a joke, which makes sense as they don't really want it to be usable. Ubuntu's shell system is much better, which means I can fix the problems that I come across myself.

EDIT: I can even use my existing scripts and tools that I have for my desktop on my ubuntu phone. It may be more accurate to say that I want a "Linux" phone, than a "FOSS" phone, but, I'd like it to be both.
Yeah...you could implement 16-bit multiplication/addition as two 8-bit multiplications plus carry... so worst case, if you want 16-bit multiplies, you implement it yourself
https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/opium/opium.shtml
It works, but neither party likes it. If tipping can be avoided, it will be. Ex: UBER
I've used raw android, and quickly gave up. I've used f-droid, and it is OK. Far from "great" though.
Are browser plugins possible on mobile devices?
Some consultant friends asked for help when they got a 60Gb CSV file from their client! Since then, I've also found that lots of tech companies share CSV internally. I've also worked with journalists attempting to look at large public government datasets.
> Red Hat's success was primarily based on the critical mass of support behind it, not because it was the best distribution.

May be true, but they're given so much distribution independent code back, that I'm really glad they made it. It even seems that they contribute more to desktop Linux (GNOME, PulseAudio, systemd, kernel devs etc.), than Canonical does, (they seem to focus on Ubuntu-specific solutions mostly), which is pretty neat for a server vendor.
Bob Lutz on Tesla's failings and why people just prefer gasoline powered cars
>It is parametric over formal systems described in Principia Mathematics. That's it.

No, it is parametric over formal systems capable of describing Turing machines. Period. Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem can be derived from Chaitin's Incompleteness Theorem, which is stronger and is defined, in the first place, over systems capable of describing Turing machines.

This is a computability problem, not a problem where you've failed to write down the right formal system. Go learn logic.
I think the motivation for this kind of thing is "fun project" more than anything practical.
macOS hasn't been. Which isn't surprising, since 1.06.95 switched to GPLv3 (like most GNU projects).
I just compiled Postgresql myself on DO.

I guess managed is easier, but I like full control.

Maybe some ansible scripts or something like that to perform common steps would be nice
Not the Jabber/OTR thing. The decentralized nature of Jabber was pretty overblown, more something she wanted to be true and meaningful than something that actually was meaningful, but: whatever, it's 2011 at that point.

It's the OpenSSL command line that I'm taking issue with.
Say there are a trillion doors and the host closes 999,999,999,998 of them. Which scenario is more plausible:

1) Your 1-in-a-trillion chance original choice just happened to be correct

2) The omniscient host picked the correct door
You can disable the displaying trusted ads, no?
Tell HN: This week is H1B FY2018 filing window week
This is the filing week for H1B petitions for FY2018. No changes have been made to the rules by the Trump administration to prevent H1B abuse.
My mom used to force me drink milk as a kid, simply because she believed the dairy industry marketing and wasn't educated enough to know that vitamin D and calcium could be gotten from many, many other sources.

I have been extremely lactose intolerant since childhood, so those forced milk-drinking episodes were traumatic.

These days I get my calcium from dark leafy greens, sardines, and tofu. I get my vitamin D from sunlight and an easily absorbable vitamin supplement.
Microsoft launches “Who’s In,” a social event planning app for iMessage
Genuine curiosity because I don't have a whole lot of experience with embedded systems: Why not just use C then?

Either way I would argue that using sizeof in that way is a sketchy practise.
Amazon Aurora Under the Hood: Fast DDL
THANK FUCK!
But then you're competing with Docker images. Not that Docker is that amazing, but I just don't see why anyone would want to use Snap instead of Docker?
things started out on shared hosting. WordPress is easy to install on shared hosting, so it took off. It also has a nice graphical install process.

If everything was a shared VPS, that would have been a different story.
RE:DOM dev tools for Chrome published
Canonical ends development of its phone to focus on cloud and IoT
They've done a lot recently to improve their reputation with developers. They don't seem too concerned about losing desktop users.
The biggest strength of Ender's Game is how many of us as a child could identify with it. Before the Internet a bookish nerd kid very often had a very hard time finding anyone even remotely similar. Ender called to us and gave us hope that if there's a book then perhaps there are others out there. Translating this into a movie is near impossible but also the time for it has passed.
Really cool, congrats!

I have built something similar, but to retrieve a backup for one of my dead websites. It was a fun project.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader/
They aren't public, but yes I believe they are valued at 1bn+ too
> My desktop is not just a big phone and people put out some atrocious user interfaces in the name of "convergence".

I agree. Sadly, GNOME's huge controls also seem to be optimised for touch screens. There are several semi-maintained hacks to reduce the padding throughout the DE:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_1QSDkzYY2vc/TbVt04mk52I/A...

It's a mess. I wish GNOME just automatically looked like the bottom screenshot when there's no touch screen connected.
I wanted to make a NASA is broke joke but I like NASA and wish we could fund them a lot more. Kids still dream of being astronauts. Let's make that a priority again.
Thanks - having worked with health data for a few years I can relate. Unfortunately, I don't have plans for a desktop app right now.
Sounds like someone somewhere should be able to run with this idea and commercialize it at very competitive costs. Not necessarily to compete with Uber head-to-head (although this sounds appealing), but maybe to help out a smaller town that's not served by Uber or Lyft.

So what are the most successful examples of non flashy websites running on cheap hosting you'd recommend?
That was OpenSSL's attitude. It resulted in harm to many more users who would've been better off with something else or with its own developers actually trying to prevent security vulnerabilities. A project advertising something to be "uncensorable" based on "crypto" or whatever should be baking security in from the start everywhere it goes. Or it's just a fraud.
I don't use it myself. Never been a fan of those things.
This thing made me think of the japanese-language-only, Sega Dreamcast-only 1999 "Marionette Handler" mech programming game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqcvhR568E

It was something else, at least back then. (I do remember thinking it would be really hard to play without having someone understanding at least basic japanese around.)

The programming screen is shown briefly here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQqcvhR568E&t=188

I found this video from this web page, where there's more text and images: (Chrome with Google Translate works okayish.)

http://sesesega.blog90.fc2.com/blog-entry-940.html
It's very unusual to be someone who specializes in writing about encryption for digital activists. More unusual than you might know.

The rest of it: sure, this is all true. But that's my gripe: this story has little to do with any of that. Ultimately, the only role surveillance played in this story was something for a new couple to bond over. Sure, better that than The Sound And The Fury, which I swear to Christ a teenaged girlfriend made me read, but so what? What's special about OpenSSL here that wouldn't be special about Club Penguin or Overwatch or some other lower-status technological detail?
Yes. A pair of RAID 1 volumes. I dislike losing data to failures I also have good backups.

2x 256gb (512gb, I can't remember; code is tiny and I use less than 100gb) M2 SSDs.

2x 2TB 5400rpm HGST disks that spend most their off. But I have these almost full of video.
I wish they did not make the jump to systemd so fast on LTS. I had to rewrite everything on a recent upgrade.
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Agreed.

But here's the intuition: because the host never opens a door with a car behind it, the fact that he didn't open a particular door suggests that the door in question is the winner. Compare that to the initial door, which was selected blindly.
"learn" once, apply what you learned millions of times...
I thought it was a dead heat between Pen Island, Powergen Italia, and Therapist Finder?
Not sure why I wrote XP. I meant Windows 7. No idea where they brain lapse came from.
STEM OPT Extension Revamp on Cards?
"Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year."

Yes, yes yes! That's fantastic! I hate Unity and I love GNOME. Good choice. Too bad it's going to be April 2018 until then, but this should teach anyone: It's never too late to revert a stupid design decision!
Google, Apple and Qualcomm Tops the 2016 Patent Portfolio
8-10 years from now, I expect we'll see:

"Shuttleworth made it clear that the cloud isn't the financial future of the company. He wrote:
'The <latest-big-idea> story for Ubuntu is excellent and continues to improve.'"

I don't have anything against Ubuntu, but I do have something against chasing the latest fad. I know, the cloud isn't a fad, but mobile wasn't a fad either.
Why bother? Just install some extension that has your best interest in mind.
Good point, I'd like to add another model: "people who want to ship stuff to the customer" vs "people who strive on solving emergencies" vs "people who love to create internal tools"

I.e. the first group wants a feature request and ship it fast in a package (or maybe in small steps, doesn't matter), the second group doesn't really "ship", they are reactive problem solvers - sometimes sniffing out the weirdest edge cases on a whim. And group three prefers to write the first 80% of a solution, like an MVP, improve their coworkers' happiness, but aren't so good at following through to polish the last 20%.
The part about the switchgear vendor deciding to do something a certain way that the customer didn't want because it can cause a rare failure reminded me of something that happened to me. Way back I bought a 1500VA UPS that was not an APC but still a known brand to protect my home server. The decision was based on cost as it was significantly less money.

One night I was near the server when the power went out. So I sat there waiting to see the auto shutdown. Soon enough the UPS told the server to shutdown and it was well on it's way to power off. Just before it shut off the power came back. And the UPS stopped beeping and went back to normal operation... while the server completed shutdown.

And know I have a server that's off and if I wasn't around I would have not known what happened. When I got the UPS I just did one test to make sure the server shut off and the UPS shut itself off without draining its batteries. This meant that I plugged it back in AFTER the UPS powered off. I never considered that the manufacturer of the UPS would botch the power restored after telling the server to shut down sequence.

I contacted the manufacturer about this. I told them that after telling the server to shut down there was only a brief window where a power restored signal would maybe abort shutdown. Once the UPS monitoring program is terminated during shutdown there's no turning back. Nothing came of that.

So now I buy only APC gear. They do the proper thing that if the AC power comes back after a shutdown command is issued the UPS will continue the shutdown sequence. And when the UPS shuts off it sees the power back on and restarts itself and the server comes back online.

Other manufacturers may do it correctly and the one I dealt with might have clued in and fixed it but I'm not willing to gamble anymore.
how many cores and how much memory do you have on that VPS?
"Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago."

I have something I'd like to ask you ...

Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did.

He had no idea and had never heard of us. I felt like I had uncovered an enormous flaw in my outreach and relations efforts if someone at redhat had no idea who we were.

But now I'm not so sure ... I have a feeling that somehow the redhat ecosystem and the people that use it are quite a bit differently focused than the HN crowd and people that are UNIX enthusiasts for the sake of UNIX.

I wonder what you think ?
I ended up installing Mumble in aws because I only need voice.