skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ZFS is the drop-in FS for /root to allow this. (btrfs et al are not production ready).
OK, we've made that update to the submission title.
> was forced on the people

When?
Voice assistance.

Per app assistance i.e "how do I do x in vim", displays combo.
I'd disagree pretty strongly with this. Here's a couple of NYT examples:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/international-students...

After reading this article, do you think colleges overall are seeing a significant drop in international applicants, a significant increase, or it stayed about the same?

Or here's another example: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/upshot/free-market-for...

After reading this article, what do you think about the general views of economists on school vouchers?
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sudo shutdown -h now

Immediately halts the OS.

sudo shutdown -r now

Immediately reboots the OS.

sudo ip link set eth0 down

Immediately bring down the network interface (eth0).

I'm actually curious how you are using and administering Ubuntu Server without knowing these things. Or at the very least, not stumbling across the "shutdown" or "ip" commands--ever.
It's a distributed search engine deamon with a nice search + management web frontend but not a browser too?
> used as a slur for real news

There is spin and editorial bias all around...

read between the lines and investigate the editorial and philosophical slant and you will see this very quickly.
+1 I recently had this issue. I have Ubuntu on my machine (not dual boot) and I installed with all the default options. I hardly installed any heavy applications and it started saying it cannot install updates as /boot is full. Thanks for bringing this up.
- FLAVOR: Desktop
- HEADLINE: printing
- DESCRIPTION: if you print to pdf from Firefox, you'll notice that the page numbers are not at the end of a page. Not sure if there's anything Ubuntu can do about it.

- FLAVOR: All
- HEADLINE: simple switching between core, desktop and server.
- DESCRIPTION: core + install some packages => desktop / server. Desktop / server - remove some packages => core.

- FLAVOR: Desktop
- HEADLINE: add more features to the trackpad.
- DESCRIPTION: libinput knows the size of my laptop trackpad. Is there anyway to tell it to accept touch as click only in a particular area at a particular position on the trackpad? Not sure if Ubuntu can do anything or only libinput's author can do it.
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Calling him a "racist hick" makes several claims. One is that he is a racist. Another is that he is a poorly-educated rural dweller. These are frequently paired because some people think that rural dwellers or the poorly educated or Southerners or whatever are all racist (sure, there's a correlation).

Being schizophrenic is a serious problem, and his technical achievements in the face of them are notable. But it's not a free pass for everything. We can distinguish, for example, between people with mental health problems who are danger to themself and others and those who are not.

It's one thing entirely to rail about aliens, because aliens aren't real. It's another use racial invective and epithets against racial and cultural minorities, because Jews and black people are absolutely real.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
HEADLINE: Make the witch to wayland
DESCRIPTION: The linux community seriously needs to ditch X as a default, it has been causing too much pain.
"Peer-to-peer web spidering for a crowdsourced search engine would create socially responsible end-user value."
I miss those forums. My portable GameCube never got finished
What is the official, generally accepted definition of “lightweight crypto”?
Windows scaling should auto configure and work in any modern application. It always works like that for me, and I only have issues for software written in 2003 in Java or really old versions of QT.
It is true that Autotools offer some nice standard options to use when building and installing software. However, for whatever reason, the ability to figure out portability differences seems to be the selling point to many programmers ( http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257 , https://varnish-cache.org/docs/4.0/phk/autocrap.html ).
> (I had to google it and then modify some configuration file somewhere)

I even had to do this with Chrome [1]. It's crazy how obscure this was when I was setting things up. Other apps, like Gimp, still look like shit because I can't find a way to do the same thing; their GUI just rends at a tiny scale and is difficult to use.

[1] https://superuser.com/a/1120078/103402
Are bankruptcies the right metric to measure a CEO? For example, startup founders as a cohort probably lead a lot more companies to bankruptcy (or disbandment) than laundromat owners. Yet probably the average startup owner is producing companies of higher value than laundromat owners (adjust for the right startup cohort to prove this point, like YC startups).

Wouldn't you want to run a fair horserace like:
- Randomly select MBA CEOs and non-MBA CEOs in a vintage year like 2000.
- See the average earnings growth during their tenure, or stock price appreciation, or employee satisfaction, etc.

He does cite two academic articles, but the first looks only at CEOs that have been featured on the cover of magazines, and in neither studies are the output variables the ultimate metrics that matter. (E.g. earnings management is fine if there are enough other positive qualities to redeem the CEO -- like getting long run growth for example).
FLAVOR: Ubuntu Core

HEADLINE: Allow rollback/snapshot of any change of system settings or package installs/purges

DESCRIPTION: It would be great if Ubuntu had an undo mechanism for any operation that changes the system settings, or the installed packages. Also, being able to snapshot system directories like /etc, /usr and /var would be great. Perhaps this can be implemented by running Ubuntu on top of a snapshotting filesystem like Btrfs. Of course, in that case, any system tools should be able to deal properly with background changes of the filesystem.
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It's via friends I made in SF. If you want to do something similar I'd recommend doing a long stint in SF first. Get any job you can and then switch once you know some people. I try to keep anonomous in general so no portfolio.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Better options for mouse scrolling

- DESCRIPTION: One personal pain point is mouse wheel scrolling. I want to scroll fast when I swipe the wheel fast. Usually I end up having to use the scrollbar (which seems to shrink and get harder to use every year) to scroll through long documents. I'm also a fan of middle-click scrolling in applications that support it, although I don't know if that's something you could provide globally.
This would be fantastic. This problem has no official or easy solution for non-technical people and delays updates which could cause security issues. Please, please provide a fix for this!
I'm a big fan of postgrest (https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest/).

It creates a RESTful HTTP API out of your existing postgres schema. It practically eliminates the need to write a CRUD backend.
macOS just got it too in 10.12.4
Yeah but anyone who actually opens a discussion on hackforums will realize it's a forum made for skids.
They voted to stay in the UK on the expectation that the UK would remain within the EU.

A second Scottish referendum is absolutely the right call to make and the only reason I can figure that English people are so against the idea, is that this time they expect to lose a member of the union.
I'm hacking at an article repository for that, bloody difficult... Maybe I should try with https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
In my area, there is an ongoing resurgence of ground-level storefronts with residential over.[1][2]

In both cases, at least one of the rows of homes is actually large condo units on top of ground level retail space. The homes in both developments are selling quickly and in the first, the retail spaces are also condo (owner operated, or whatever you'd call it). It appears to be a mix of light food (coffee shop), retail, a fitness studio, and some small professional offices.

1 - http://www.crescentplaceleesburg.com/img/Waverly_Insert_Apr2...

2 - http://builtbytradition.com/development/developmentcurrent/j...
That's like arguing that because cows are vegetarian, so is beef. Portable means that any system implementing the standard interface can use it; secure_getenv isn't part of the standard, therefore it's not portable.
You know you can actually improve year-over-year without chasing a new fad.

(I'm saying this as someone who's been coding in C++ for over two decades, while still finding lots of room for improvement in my older code.)
-march=native shows interesting results too
The noise of motorcycles is a problem when you live in cities. I'm afraid most city-dwellers would not be faborable of more motorcycle-friendly cities because of that.
As an Ad-nauseaum user my beef with it is that certain web pages will peg the CPU at close to 90%. Otherwise it seems to be good at juggling system resources.
It's quite possible that exterior damage was covered by the insurance of the homeowners/building association. I'd love more information on this case to see if that's true.

If that's the case, it's another example of negative externalities from AirBNB being dumped on the neighbors of a host.
It doesn't imply any particular licensing, but it is trivial to view the source of a chrome extension.

You can do it with curl or similar to download it, but there's a chrome extension that does the work for you: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-s...
This website reminds me of the KenM post where he suggests that he's getting back at Papa Johns by not tipping the pizza delivery driver.

Generating click fraud on your favorite web comic's website or other small websites you may be visiting is pretty sad. Adsense bans for life.
Maybe I am being too naive, but could someone explain to me why just using a VPN would not be good enough to hide your traffic from these companies / governments?

I understand that perhaps they _could_ ask the VPN provider to give logs (depending on the provider, if they keep logs or not). But that would not work for the algorithms used to target you as an individual.

Could someone please explain that to me? :-)
"what we see on the screen is competing with the version that exists in our heads."

Greg: "Bill, I know there is a bug in this code block, the output is transposed. I've been staring at it for an hour and I can't see it."

(8 second pause)

Bill (pointing at the screen): "You left out the second '+' in your incrementer."

Greg: (dumbfounded silence)
Agreed on globals. I learned to code making a huge Java + OpenGL game engine some years back, right when scripted web frameworks were really blowing up and people were becoming test-obsessed. Every new article said that global variables and static anything were a deadly sin, so I did some really ugly things to avoid using them. Now I think global state is significantly simpler for certain systems, better than trying to pass that state around when it'll never be instanced.
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Desktop]

- HEADLINE: handle GPU driver update better

- DESCRIPTION: Updating GPU driver can be a pain especially after a kernel version upgrade. Common issues you would see includes a black screen (kernel module incompatible), the login screen stuck in a loop (unity or compiz problem).

on notebook, this could be worse, as some notebooks have 2 gpus. and linux gets confused at which one to use.

I hope you could work with notebook hardware company to fully test a notebook product with a discrete gpu. given how popular deep learning is these days, developers really need a linux notebook with gpu computing.
This is great - Finally something that clearly highlights the implicit editorial bias in all news sources..

Thanks for share.
Funny thing is GraphQL isn't a graph query language. It returns lists. I'm working on a similar concept for a project right now, but that actually queries graphs / trees. (Sorry, not open source). As I've been working on this, it's struck me as odd how much query technology is built around tables and how hard it is to fit graphs and trees into it with reasonable performance.
In-memory datastores like Redis. They are also the ones who benefit the most from faster XMP DDR4.
Yeah "left" is not the way I would describe papers that dishonestly hyped the invasion of Iraq etc. For readers-by: try Jacobin or Dissent
FLAVOR: Desktop
HEADLINE: Pick an official laptop for the release.
ROLE: End-user, Sysadmin, Developer

I would love for Ubuntu to, with each release, pick a laptop vendor and a laptop and just Make It Work.

All the components. Out of the box. As near perfect as one can get it. So when I'm in the market for a new laptop, I can just buy that one. And I'm not talking about a pro gear like the XPS. Just simple, cheap consumer stuff.
What's the risk adjusted expected portfolio performance accounting for a fund manager with undiagnosed dementia?
Latency is limited by the speed of electricity which is a large fraction of the speed of light, so unless you move DDR closer to the CPU it physically can't get 2x as fast... ever.
light speed * 0.951 (electricity) / 2 (round trip) / 2 feet (CPU to furthest RAM chip along a wire) ~= 250 million cycles per second.

However, cache is now huge. So, it's latency is usually less of an issue than sequential reads/writes and total size.
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This trial might be a good thing ultimately to set good laws. Similar to the times they tried to sue tobacco companies and gun manufacturers for the deaths of people. Those cases rightfully died in court and set precedents to block future wasteful cases.

Even using the gun analogy this wasn't even selling a full gun just a part of one - as this tool is useless in isolation in terms of hacking - and probably one of the easiest parts of hacking. Getting access is typically the expensive risky part.

There's a far better case against zero days being sold but even that has plenty of legitimate use cases for red teaming. But it's still closer to selling loaded guns and needs to be carefully sold, not so much with this case, just from a social good perspective not even regulations (which I think are a bad idea, such as the one regulating zero days in europe).

It's just too bad this guy has to go through hell for this cause. Hopefully he sets up a legal donation page to get the best team he can. Gun/tobacco companies typically have legal teams. This is just a small time ISV, so this still makes me very upset it's being done to such a vulnerable person, which could very likely create bad laws.
I'm adding +1 to this.

Got a Yoga for 3-4 months now, but still haven't managed to find some time to play with its configuration properly. What I've figured out so far: the laptop sends a special "key" (as in, special char is "pressed") when rotated over 180 degrees. This can serve as a trigger (but unfortunately, that key is different depending on the model of the Yoga). I have no idea how to make the screen rotation work. Making HiDPI options integer-only makes me still unable to set scaling properly and I have to resort to a "hack" (maximum resolution and then scaling all the interfaces using the tweaks tool). onboard package is a stability mess as a touchscreen keyboard.

I'm not forced to dual boot because of gaming. I'm forced to dual boot because I can't get the damn tablet experience for light browsing.
This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing the link.
That is the premise, and you agree with it?

"We have a strong hunch as to why traveling faster might not generate more satisfaction with the transportation system. Faster travel is often correlated with lower density, and longer travel distances to common destinations, such as workplaces, schools and stores."
This is a big part of why I moved away from Ubuntu. I know this is a difficult situation - whenever Ubuntu tries to find a better solution it gets flak for dividing the community. But here it would have been great to have Ubuntu with an alternative to the disaster that is systemd.
I got an MBA. Going into the program, I was super excited about it. Coming out, I was pretty frustrated. I felt like it gave me a lot to think about without teaching me how to do any of it. I was not an master of administering a business.
This exactly. Where I live (suburbs large city SE US) the school district created redlined school clusters to group the dispersed apartments towards one HS/MS/ES cluster and high priced single family housing to another. The result? What you expect - the disparity between the 2 HS is shocking. The apartment schools are older, in disrepair, have higher crime/drug rates, etc. The SF HS has a big new stadium, fancy street front LED signage, and lots of tech. Single moms and low income families are just where you expect - many cannot participate in the discussion due to work, inability to understand what is being discussed, and the other foibles of lower class life in America.
If MBAs often come with a particular ideology and attitude that you want to avoid, then it makes sense to not bother trying to find the good ones. A successful miner wants to focus on the rich ore.
LEO in most cases decay by themselves as for small amounts of air still being present. This means that LEO trash will burn in the atmosphere sooner or later.
We should mass-report RATs like TeamViewer to the FBI. It's not fair that some get a taste of democracy and others don't.
They also screw over the neighbors of the hosts, too.

> During the party, the unwelcome guests overflowed out of his unit into the entire apartment complex, where they partied to blaring music (they came with a professional sound system), urinated all over, fought (with each other and the neighbors) and took drugs to the point of passing out in the stairways, hallways, courtyard and other public areas. Neighbors called the police five times and some partiers left, but most remained and locked themselves inside to continue partying.

This is why I hope the governments throw the book at AirBNB and their executives for every single law they've broken.
When the bias is so strong it clouds the understanding of events, it's pretty darn close to fake..

Witness the fact that noone is talking about all countries attempts to influence the US elections on all sides, despite the fact that this is almost certainly the case..
I mean, there is such a thing as ethics. A programmer writing software with malicious intent or with the explicit purpose to defraud, undermine, or otherwise harm another person and/or their property should absolutely be held responsible for the code they write.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Set vm.swappiness on install based on machine ram.

- DESCRIPTION: The difference in responsiveness can be remarkable if it's lowered on systems with more ram. Most laptops and pc's these days have 4gb on average but the ones with hdds will be very slow on ubuntu because of default vm.swappiness vm.dirty_ratio vm.dirty_background_ratio etc that are set for older machines. Adding this feature will make ubuntu a better experience for most nontechnical people.
The 7-11 block on MSNBC is unabashedly opinionated. They aren't even trying to be subtle about it.
dr_faustus needs to learn actual Javascript before embarrassing himself here :)
It's sloppy biased shorthand. How you summarize things has huge consequences to how people think about things. "Hacked the election" makes it seem like the results are illegitimate. Informed people know the difference, but the average person is watching like 5 minutes of a news a day and reads the headlines and maybe the lead.

For a profession that is so cautious it'll throw the world "alleged" before someone who is caught on camera murdering someone, I think it's a pretty big sign of some bias.

I'm sure the right wing bias'd papers have found a term that minimizes the hacking too.
When people say it's no big deal that Android is hard fot the user to compile, control, and modify, remember this.
I know that business people are all about "one neck to choke" when it comes to software (Hello, Microsoft!) and we could debate merits and demerits, and motivations (laziness) of One Neck to Choke all day.

But an Oracle/Accenture combined golem would just give you One Neck To Avoid At All Costs, no?
That's because the SJ VTA is a terribly-designed transit system trying to traverse a region built almost entirely built around automobile travel as opposed to walking :)
If they are happy and fulfilled, they are successful.

Until recently where startups have turned into a strange variant of hedge fund, many successful entrepreneurs were frankly oddball types who needed to work for themselves.

One of my cousins is a prep-school/Harvard MBA/Columbia Law school type who is flipping goofy startups instead of closing factories or doing investment banking things. Startups aren't startups anymore when organization men are attracted to it.
Possibly the difference he's noting is using wooden studs vs. metal studs? which definitely feel more hollow.
It's more natural to deal with collections and other data structures using RPC. REST works best with single items. As soon as you need to start generating reports, it can be complicated to create sane REST endpoints whereas it's trivial with RPC.

REST:

GET /api/item/1
GET /api/item/2
POST /api/item { name: foo, collection: 1 }
POST /api/item { name: bar, collection: 1 }

RPC:

GET /api/items
POST /api/items [{ name: foo, collection: 1 }, { name: bar, collection: 1 }]
for now, i am nice and cozy in my iOS walled garden. The advantages of doing business with hardware companies is that it's much more clear that i'm paying them scads of money for a handset, instead of any other financial transaction.
FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Lightweight by default - don't follow the Windows/Mac crowd

DESCRIPTION: GNU/Linux - X'ish desktop environments systems in general and window managers in particular - used to have a certain way and freedom to be able to do things. Around 2000-2005 I was quite happy with FVWM, KDE3 etc. The window managers allowed me to do things that weren't possible with Windows or Mac. (Focus follows mouse, configurable behavious, handle many windows with ease...) I wish Windows or macOS won't be considered as ideal solutions and GNU/Linux just being a bad copy of that. If that's really the best thing, then it's a better idea to actually use MS Windows or macOS - I use the latter since 5 years almost exclusively. Just recently I started using Linux (Xubuntu) again privately on an older computer and at work as well. (At work we don't have Macs)

Please come up with your own ideas - nobody except "computer experts" use Linux on the Desktop anyways. You could go from there. Also looking at Xubuntu, it's a cool system. I really like it because it's fast, I can work with more than 5 windows comfortably. Unfortunately its bluetooth config is worse - recently I had to login to Cinnamon to make my Bluetooth mouse work again. Same goes for multi monitor, it works okay. ;) That means: when I disconnect my laptop from the external screens, open the display and go to the meeting it's black. I have to shut it down if I want to use it. (Power button or SysRq...)

So yeah, if Windows gets got enough (read: they finally get rid of all these freezes and things that just stop working) and they Opensource even more stuff, why not use Windows? I must admit, I'm no Opensource prophet so my primary reason to start switching to Linux around '98 was because Windows was mega buggy, slow and not nice to use on average hardware when the installation was more than a few months ago. IMHO true Opensource people use Debian, Arch or some unusual combination - like Windows as main OS with Emacs and Arch in the VM like a friend of mine.

Again is a time with so much potential for Ubuntu Desktop because devs are increasingly unhappy with macOS.